The FLEXPERIENCE !!

ADOBE FLEX BOOT CAMP 2008

I was sick and tired by the regular things happening in my life. I needed a change .. I wished something unexpectedly cool to happen in my life!!

People say, “Be careful what you wish for .. Because sometimes wishes come true!“

I wished for a CHANGE and that’s exactly what I got :)

I walked into my class on Monday morning (3rd NOV) and hemanth dragged me to the last bench. He told me about some camp being organized by a company where they’ll teach us some software in one day and we’ll have to create a web application in 8 hrs. That info was too much for me .. he didn’t make sense, my mind was not working properly in the morning, I was still sleepy. And I asked him again what was it about. That’s when he said ADOBE is organizing a competition and the grand prize is 30K !!!!!!!!! Okay now that’s a lot of money and ADOBE is a super cool company !! The next question on my mind was When and where ??? he said MSRIT and I didn’t even bother to ask for the date .. I said, “Let’s goO !!”

I went online that day and registered for the event on their website http://msritflexbootcamp.eventbrite.com I like the whole concept of the “event brite” website, online registration for live events is a brilliant idea. I had to print the receipt (ticket for the event). we asked a couple of people in our class to join us and immediately Syril, Suhas, Monish were ready for the event !! we had the teams ready, Me and Hemanth, Syril and Suhas, Radhika and Monish !!

On November 7th we all met at Banashankri @ 7.00 .. Monish started cursing me .. WHY ?? Hemanth was late and since hemanth is in my team—monish said it was my team’s fault for the delay. I tried my best to stop him.. But the words just flew out of his mouth .. I bet no one can stop him from doing that!!! It’s a natural gift!!!!! Finally after 15-20 mins, hemanth reached and we left at 7.30 from BSK. We reached majestic and took another bus to Mattikere. Everyone were hungry so we decide to have our breakfast in some hotel. We found a good hotel and filled our tummy with some yummy poories :)!!!!

We still had to walk a little distance from the bus stop .. After a 5minute walk, we made it to MSRIT, The oldness of the college was definitely visible through it conventional pillars. I cud have taken the photo but the watchman was staring at us. What if he confiscates my mobile, I can’t afford to lose another mobile. The last one was the best mobile-set ever ..  Anyways, after getting inside the INFORMATION science block -- we were really surprised to see the breakfast being served there .. DAMN we just had those hard Pooris on the way. And now they were serving some nice food .. I was full and there was no way I could eat anymore. The others said the same thing but as always monish had to complain about this. He joined the line and had some more food lol !! We then went around the building-- checking out the usual, we don’t have this and we don’t have that in our college .. One of the volunteers came to us and told us to have something and they’ll start the registration procedure @ around 9.(I guess her name was Divya). We told her that we finished breakfast and thanked her for asking.

Hmmm we continued our survey, found a Chemical engineering class .. Now THIS we don’t have in our college for sure !!!!! we also found this -->The M.S.Ramaiah idol !!!!!!

We finished our little tour and came back to see a packed crowd registering their names. We found our college counter and got the registered .. they gave us a nice yellow label to stick it on us shirts, ADOBE also gave us a text pad and a pen(lol.) 

APOLOGIES for tearing the label -- I took this photo yesterday, while removing it from the shirt – I tried to remove it quickly and it got split into two halves Oops!!

We didn’t waste anymore time and went inside the auditorium and occupied the center seats. I had a clear view from the center. The blue window screen and linux penguin at the left .. very clear !!

Anyways J we waited and waited for more people to walk in and start the event .. we saw a lot of changes on stage, wires being dragged, mikes being verified, lamps being placed . we still had time .. I thought I should go back and have another coffee but just then our host for the day - Meghana came in and announced that the event is gonna start in a couple of minutes.

Ok the moment of truth, everybody settled down .. huge rush .. within a hour the room was filled with people, I turned around to see the crowd, the room was overflowing not able to handle the strength. Meghana asked all the MSRIT’ians to leave the room and sit in the next auditorium. They got up and left, now the situation settled to some extent. Almost everyone got seats. On a few had to sit on the steps, but they were late so it was their fault. Lol!! they were running out of time, they had to start the event 30 mins back, the event was delayed due to some technical glitch, well that’s what meghana said. Around 500 people were present for the event, that makes 250 teams and out of which only 100 will be selected!!!!

To start with we had a session on WEB2.0 -- “RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS”—By Anantharaman (IISC), now that’s a perfect start for the event. I completely Loved the way he spoke and to add to that the PowerPoint presentation on the background was rich with colors, perfect blend of photos with text. He gave us some real time internet applications, the instances were very clear and I was familiar with the example that he shared, - “Googlemaps to describe the route and use flickr or Picasa for displaying the  photo of the destination.” How simpler can it get ??? he also presented the adobe version of the STOCKS called STOCKFETCHER.

He wanted to show more interact-ability of the ADOBE FLEX 3 applications, so he introduced us to Ms. Nisha who happens to be a student of Christ college. She wanted to buy a mobile fone and hate to go out and buy. She wanted to get one online. So Mr. Anantharaman suggested the flex store to buy her fone – here’s flex store for you guys — check it out – FLEXSTORE. Go to products section to experience the effects and smoothness. She also gave a demo on the insurance application of flex. This was pretty cool I must say.  I couldn’t get the link to this app. But I have this that I enjoyed the most !! visit this place and select you fav apps !!

He explained further about ADOBE AIR (integrated runtime), the vector graphics in Flex due to which it has an advantage over the Ajax. He ended his session with a quote which I made a note of he said “USE THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE RIGHT APPLICATIONS !!” with that he wrapped up his session and we were all completely impressed with the start and he was ready for the questions. The first question came from the person sitting right next to me. Guess who it was?? Well no prize for the right guesses, Hemanth shot the first question of the day and with that he started his account and I incremented my count by 1. (HEMANTH = 1 question.) since the apps were all online .. one has to download all the required resources.. and by the look of the rich content .. there must be a lot of files to download for the grand look.. he questioned about its bandwidth consumption. And the delay for each interaction?? And due to this, are there any performance de gradations ?? Valid question!! Mr. Anantharaman answered him by splitting his questions into parts and took one at time :) – all the files will be downloaded at the beginning so the user have to just get the data while interacting and these values are just small nuggets of data and hence there wont be much delay in the apps.  BRAVO sir !! UR flex is reasonably impressive !! a couple of other questions were fired from different parts of the rooms, well I was busy messaging on my mobile so I couldn’t catch the questions .. I continued my messaging and the questions went on for a while but just then Meghana interrupted me and them, “ we are really sorry for this but we have no time for anymore questions since we started late we have to reduce the time length of this session to fit our schedule, you are free to ask questions during the lunch hour……… Thank you.” That’s when I checked my watch to realize that it was still 11.00 and had loads of time for lunch and didn’t understand why she said that… just then she thanked Mr. Anantharaman and introduced ANIRUDH SASIKUMAR, Technical Evangelist, ADOBE SYSTEMS. Oh another session before lunch, I didn’t have the event list. 

Introduction to flex by ANIRUDH SASIKUMAR, Technical Evangelist, ADOBE SYSTEMS. Syril and hemanth told me that they have seen the video tutorial of him on YouTube. Now this guy was so fast that we didn’t know what just hit us and passed by, he was definitely making sense but he was on fast forward mode. He was just like a Ferrari F1 car which just travels 380 kmph. I’m not exaggerating or anything but he was seriously too fast for us. He gave an insight into the frameworks, the MXML that is used in flex and the action script. If I have an option to choose a video or a live session of him. I prefer the video tutorial instead of a live session. Atleast I can go back and replay the video multiple times till I get what he’s saying Lol.  And before we knew anything the show was over !!!!! And it was question time again, I heard a voice from my right and without a second thought I increment my count (Hemanth=4, yeah he asked 3 question to him.)

To be contd ..

VERY sleepy,

Prashanth P

EVERYTHING you need to know about me !!

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*Name : PRASHANTH    
*Nickname(s) : Mac, Poprash :)
*Single or Taken : single
*Sex : male
*Birthday: december 14th, 1987
*blood group: 0 -ve (rare blood group)
*Sign: sagittarius
*Siblings: one elder sister -- she's married now---she is 4 yrs elder to me
*Hair color: black
*Eye color: black
*Shoe size: 7
*What are you wearing right now: t-shirt..sweater..and shorts !
*Where do you live: Btm layout, Bangalore, Karnataka, finally India


Have You Ever:
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*Given anyone a bath: nope
*Bungee jumped : I wish--- I’ll do that someday
*Broken the law : yup
*Made yourself throw-up : hmm no don’t think so
*Gone skinny dipping : no
*Been in the opposite sex's bathroom : yep, it was 8 yrs ago
*Eaten a dog biscuit : hahaha yeah .. LOL 
*Put your tongue on a frozen pole : yeah. Not one of my brighter moments.
*Broken a bone : no
*Played truth or dare : yes
*Been in a physical fight : yes
*Been in a police car : no
*Been on a plane : not yet
*Been in a hot tub : yes
*Swam in the ocean : no, actually i dunno how to swim LOL-- i know i cud die very soon !!
*Fallen asleep in college : yes, right in front of the teacher(s)
*Cried when someone died : yes, Grandpa !! he was so silent without troubling anybody--he died on 87 !
*Flashed someone : no
*Lied : of course (if you say no to this, you’re lying!)
*Laughed so hard you fell off your chair : all the time, especially when I’m watchin FRIENDS LOL
*Sat by the phone all night waiting for a call : nope.
*Saved e-mails : more like I don’t bother tossing them
*Wished you were someone else : yes
*Wished you were a member of the opposite sex :  nooo
*Been rejected ? : no
*Used someone : another of course, we all have
*Been cheated on : no
*Done something you regret ? : oh ya !


First Thing That Comes to Mind :
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*Yellow : smiley -->
*Blue : orkut  
*happy : lol
*Autumn : bursts of color - golds, oranges, warm browns, and reds
*Cow : MILK ? ofcourse COFFEE--EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!! i'm addicted to coffee !!

Have you ever had:
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*Chicken pox : yes'h
*Sore Throat : er..yeah
*Cold : same as above
*Stitches : hmm---ya---its not visible now--- i had 3 stitches on my fore head---this happened when i was 8 yrs---i jumped off from the dinning table and fell on the chair -- steel chair --my mother says that i lost a lot of blood 0ooo !! 
*Bloody nose : nope
*Sex: nope !!

Do you:
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*Believe in love at first sight : no, just lust or some sort of “connection” – love is based on knowledge of character, trust, and friendship :) * i'm HONEST *
*Enjoy parks : yes, there are lots of kids around ... u can tease them and make them cry !! yes'h i'm mean =)
*Like picnics : yep---i miss them now
*Like school : yes---i miss them too
*Hate anyone : nope – don’t believe in hate--life is too short to hate someone !!

Who:
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*Who is the last person that called you : Hemanth
*Makes you laugh the most : Chandler binG LOL
*Can make you feel better no matter what : My imaginary friend lol
*Was the last person you touched ? : Dad
*You hugged? : none 
*You yelled at : wow, I don’t remember…probably my parents? 

Do You/Are You:
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*Do you like yourself? : ofcourse i like ME -- yep -- haha love this question LOL
*Do you dye your hair? : no
*Have piercings below the waist? : 0ow. no. LOL nice question eh???? =)
*Stolen anything over $50---OK i'll convert RS:2,250 PRECISELY : NOPE :)
*like ice creams: yes'h
*which is ur fav flavour : i like chocolate ofcourse
*like cold coffee-- : the usual @coffee day -- tropical iceberg !
*Smoke: no0---i don't smoke *HONEST*
*beer : no0---*HONEST AGAIN*     
*Obsessive : yeah I guess so…about certain things. Lets see --- orkut are constant rite now , deepika padukone !!!
*Compulsive : hahaha, oh yeah
*Depressed : nope---not rite now 
*Suicidal ? : no---life is too precious to throw it away like some crap !!

Random:
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*prized possession : Ipod, Sony Cybershot 730, LG Kp 220 LOL =) 
*Last thing you said : “Barack Obama is damn Impressive !!”  
*What is beside you : pen drive -- clock-- ruffle's LAY'S--mobile--and ya MOUSE is in my hand :)
*Last thing you ate : chips
*ARE U Right HANDED or lefty : right
*Fave song : there is absolutely no way to decide -- OK himesh's naam hai terra terra--reason is very simple --THE VIDEO HAS DEEPIKA PADUKONE BABY YY Y Y Y Y Y  =) I LOVE HER 
*Worst thing that has happened to you last year-- The feeling I got when I had to write my semester's final exam on my BIRTHDAYY  DAMMIT @#$#$#  :(


*Time started: 11:14 PM

*Time finished: 11:40 PM 

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Prashanth P

GOD .. WHO .. WHERE ??

What happens when two passionate people discuss about GOD in the core of the night. This conversation is between two individuals who have different beliefs, this happened in just ONE NIGHT !!

A conversation about GOD in the middle of the night,

Well this sounds like one of Chetan Bhagat's book, rite?? LOL!!

It’s not like his story, but we have two guys here.

One who says god doesn’t exists and the other demands the proof for god’s absence!!

Presenting Ravi with “Man created God !!” &

Presenting Hemanth with “God created every single thing!!”

It was 10.00 in the night, when Hemanth logged into his gtalk as a routine, but minutes later Ravi logged in and changed his status to a very controversial statement ----- “Man created God!!”

and that’s how the discussion about god began,

10:10 PM

Hemanth: hi

Ravi: hello

Hemanth: Do u believe in the saying nothing can b created from nothing ?

Ravi: i would think so .. matter is conserved

Hemanth: science says that every creation must have a source .. u think science is true?

Ravi: by and large

Hemanth: so was the universes created from nothing?

Ravi: no, the universe wasn't created

Hemanth: hmmm...so it was just there is the space...just like that is it

Ravi: please rephrase

Hemanth: if the universe wasn't created...how is it existing?

Ravi: it existed as a singularity .. And we don't quite know what it was before it was or became a singularity

Hemanth: so u urself is not clear about Ur philosophy?!

-- On the first day, man created God

Ravi: yes, man created god being the part to be noted

Hemanth: On the first day, man created God....and on the second day he came to know the truth that he made a typing mistake ...it was GOD who created man ...after this enlightenment he learns to type

-- If man created GOD ...who created MAN?

Ravi: if god created man, who created god?

Hemanth: a person who is not created by anyone nor destroyed by anyone is called GOD he is the infinite power, energy, he is energy

Ravi: and lo and behold all the talk about everything needing a source goes straight out the window

--I can measure energy

--Can you measure god?

Hemanth: i can feel god ...hope u feel ur energy

--can u measure infinity ?!

Ravi: no, but i can tell you what it means

Hemanth: so u can measure infinite energy called god

--logically u can prove anything

Ravi: actually, you can't

Hemanth: it all depends on ur base or seed assumptions

-- if ur assumptions are wrong so is ur logic

Ravi: quite true

--Your assumption that everything needs a source is obviously wrong

Hemanth: dry logic fetch u nothing ...don do logic about what cant be prove by logic

--see ill give u an ex

-- if u see a good pot in a shop .. You will ask good art work .. Who made it?

--and if i say .. no one made it .. it happened by itself, then ??

Ravi: haven't we been through this already?

Hemanth: i know u have a gr8 memory

Ravi: thank you

Hemanth: and i still remember u didn’t say anything that day

I do remember that ;)

Ravi: So, who created god?

Hemanth: hmmm ..

coming to ur question

if someone has created god he will no more be called god

he created himself

10:48 PM

Ravi: your assumption is that everything needs a source, a creator

I don't agree

but i will engage you in argument nonetheless

if you say that everything needs a creator

god needs a creator

whatever you call god needs a creator

if you don't think god needs a creator, you basically shot your own argument down

Hemanth: god needs a creator and its himself

its a self loop

i said there must b a creator

for a creation....

Ravi: so by that logic, man created himself

Hemanth: but he is infinite

Ravi: the fine piece of artwork painted itself

Hemanth: he is in the other dimension ...where time and space cant measure him

its for mortal, its a mortal ex .. but god !

Ravi: yes and i have a friend who is a pink unicorn with purple spots behind his ear

he visits me every alternate Saturday

Hemanth: sorry was that for me

Ravi: was “your god is from another dimension” stuff for me?

Hemanth: of course

*can u scientifically prove god doesn't exists *

*can u scientifically prove god doesn't exists *

Ravi: can you prove that my unicorn friend who visits me every alternate Saturday doesn't exist?

Hemanth: yes

Ravi: please do

Hemanth: ill stay with u the few Saturdays ;)

Ravi: he only visits me on the Saturdays when i am alone

Hemanth: sorry u didnt mention that

ok ...ill put a cam in ur room

Ravi: i'll put a camera on you, and you can show me a tape with god in it

Hemanth: ok ill not feed u for a month can u show me hunger ...can u show me pain ....can u show me taste ...can u show me smell...can u show me ??

Ravi: i can show you pain .. hunger .. taste and smell !!

Hemanth: u need to feel it my boy

Hemanth: r u schizophrenic....are u seeing it all?

Ravi: smell can be quantified

so can taste

so can hunger

so can every other physiological sensation

Hemanth: see I’ll give one red chilly and make u eat and u should make ur other friend to feel the taste ...without he eating anything, can u?

Can u show him the taste

Ravi: on a computer screen .. sure

Hemanth: come on

he should feel it

the same feel

Ravi: he should feel sensation from my taste buds ?

Hemanth: yup

if u r hungry

He should feel it

Ravi: and if he can't, god exists

Because you can't taste the chilly i bit two seconds ago, god exists

Hemanth: and if he can't .. it implies that there are many things in this world .. which must be felt not seen ,measured or prove to exist and u still didn’t scientifically prove god doesn’t exist

Ravi: i did scientifically prove taste and smell

Hemanth: scientifically prove god doesn’t exist

Ravi: and i also proved that god exists in the god’s centre of the brain .. no where else

Hemanth: there where u see god ...good atleast you found god in the brain's center which is god's creation again .....good i salute u

Ravi: something that exists only in you created everything that was here when nothing even remotely similar to you existed

_somehow_, i think there's a flaw there

10:53 PM

Hemanth: sorry bad network

i missed ur msg .. i saluted u .. you were typing and pufff net went down

Ravi: something that exists only in one part of your brain created everything that was here when nothing even remotely similar to you existed

Somehow, i think there's a flaw there

Hemanth: something that exists only in one part of my brain is the reason i m typing and is the reason ur brain is reading wt i m typing ....when its gone everything is gone

Ravi: so basically, animals and plants and everything else don't exist

Hemanth: yes ...and that something is called god ...u may call it life ....call it cell ...atom....anything ...but all in all i see god in it ....i even see god in u

thank god i blv in god

Ravi: animals and plants don't exist

and you believe that

and you thank god you believe that

Hemanth: i read it as they exist

So basically, animals and plants and everything else don't exist...y did u say tht ?

Ravi: if god exists only in your brain, how the hell did it create you?

Hemanth: i said u r seeing god in my brain

thts good

he is there everywere

Ravi: there is a pain in my room

Hemanth: i didnt say only in my brain

Ravi: only, i don't know where it is

I said it only exists in your brain

because that is where it does exist

that is only where it exists

Hemanth: but if it exists everywere ?

it's there forever

its there eveywere

Ravi: you argued that god is like smell and taste and hunger

which is the reason god exists, right?

i can't feel your hunger

and similarly, i can't feel your god

your hunger and your god are similar

they are both psychological responses to stimuli you are exposed to

Hemanth: first of all u should be hungry to feel my hungry ...u have closed all ur paths from where i can make u hungry to feel ur own hunger

Ravi: further reiterating the point that god is a psychological sensation

we're agreed, then god could not possibly have created anything

Hemanth: ur hunger is different from mine ...but hungry the feel is same ..u may feel eating rocks and sand will fill ur stomach and make u less hungry ..i feel eating rice would make me less hungry ...u find ur solution for ur hunger based on ur quality...all this talks are embedded in ur quality...which is been reflected by the ultimate power

Ravi: Brb

Hemanth: ill wait until o r back :)

11:17 PM

After 7 minutes

Hemanth: * u r back

Ravi: i stopped reading after the first two sentences

ur hunger is different from mine ...but hungry the feel is same

Hemanth: r u typing?

ravi: no

Hemanth: until u read the whole book ur review is not valid

Ravi: you are building your argument on 'your hunger is different from mine, but hunger is the same'

I don't think it will be any good

Hemanth: but being hungry is true i mean .. i didn’t say but hunger is the same

but being hungry is true i meant .. read it full

Ravi: please continue to explain the rest of the paragraph

Hemanth: We both are hungry ..u may feel eating rocks and sand will fill ur stomach and make u less hungry ..i feel eating rice would make me less hungry ...u find ur solution for ur hunger based on ur quality...all this talks are embedded in ur quality...which is been reflected by the ultimate power

Ravi: and what this has to do with the non-existence of god would be...

Hemanth: brb

11:37 PM

Hemanth: Similarly...u r programmed to prove god doesn’t exist and I’m to prove he exists ....but u still failed to prove scientifically..with proofs that god is not there ....or atleast man created god ....i liked that line ....u blv god is there bcos u must blv ur creation .....after all u say man created god so u say he exists good...thts how i see it

Ravi: ignoring the fact that that twenty line outpour lacks a single comma, i have to question your definition of god

if you are prepared to call pig-dung god from tomorrow, i will definitely agree that god exists, in that i agree pig-dung exists

Hemanth: GOD only reflects the qualities...in each and every entity..it may be sandalwood or pig-dung … he just reflects the quality ...and he is not affected by tht quality ...just bcos he is showing u the quality

Ravi: define god .. we can go from there

Hemanth: hmmm lol

to get a phd u work so hard work for years starting from ur puc .....and u need definition of GOD in few lines or few mins how fair is it ...its not as easy as u google for some ethicist articles

Ravi: what have you been blabbering on about all this time, then ?

Hemanth: i was first trying to convince u that there is a path to understand god

first say god is there then ill define it

Ravi: you've done a phd?

Hemanth: yes a phd called life

Ravi: so you are qualified to define god .. please do

12:01 AM

Hemanth: to define god.. I need u to agree god is there first .. then only ill define !!

Ravi: why does a definition need acceptance of existence?

Hemanth: bcos i m giving the definition and u r in need of it

u need to signup to gmail to get an email account

same way here also

Ravi: you really think i am in need of a definition?

Hemanth: if u reject to accept the definition

its clear for me u have failed in proving ur philosophy

u urself know 0 about god and u say he is not there

u r proud of ur ignorance

gr8

Ravi: in the fiber-optic network called the internet that transfers data from you to me is a mirror somewhere .. please find it

Hemanth: for a person who takes things literally from his brain ...but not his heart sees only wires and light ....but for the one who sees GOD see him in everything

Ravi: my heart is a collection of muscle that pumps blood to my organs.

Hemanth: so wht is the difference between u and a machine ...say a fridge which takes in air compress and also decompress ...so can i call u a machine with muscles and blood and no feelings ...if so how and y do you express them

ravi: your fridge has blood running through it?

can your fridge call your last statement idiotic?

Hemanth: it cant right

ravi: can your fridge explain quantum mechanics to you?

Hemanth: so stop thinking only in one direction

learn to close ur eyes

cos its a big barrier for ur vision

u open ur eyes u cant se beyond ur wall

close it u can see anything

Ravi: with your nose open, you can smell only what is in your room

close your nose and you can smell it when i fart

oh wait; actually, if you close your nose, you'll choke yourself and faint

so don't

Hemanth: if u close ur nose ur mouth will open to taste from where the smell came from so dont

i can make u blv in GOD if u do what i say

without questioning

till end

then u can throw ur questions

12:23 AM

After 7 Long minutes

Ravi: you want to convert me to theism?

you can try

Hemanth: i m not on a mission like ur called convert someone to other than wht he is ...no one can do that ...except the person himself ... i can just show u the way you need to walk to find the truth ... !!

No one knows what happened for the rest of the conversation .. they probably just went offline to find out the real truth ..

Ravi with “Man created God!!” &

Hemanth with “God created every single thing!!”

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That’s All Folks !!

Good NYTE !!