Back to the Basics

Have you ever wondered how successful men and women could retire early, sit back, relax, and just watch as the world ages?  You would probably think its about their retirement plan.  Close but not exactly.  Its all about their investments — about making their money work for them and not the other way around (working for the money).  This has hit me hard.  Very hard.

So here I am thinking of investing.  I have done my research.  But alas!  I don’t have the money to invest!  My salary would not be enough if I want to make it big as soon as possible.  A sideline would be the most appropriate action instead of robbing a bank…

And so I did.  Influenced by some of my colleagues in the office, I joined Top Coder.  Top Coder is an online competition for programmers — Java and .Net.  Yikes!  Programming!  I haven’t done a full-blown programming task in more than a year!

Thus here I am, still awake, trying to figure out the basics.  Trying to recall everything I have learned about Java.  And browsing through all these APIs.  Hopefully I can still make it to the deadline and with a little luck, win.

Oh well, before anything else, back to the basics.