After the recent Lasith Malinga fiasco, I have identified some big loop holes in the local media. They like to create hype through unnecessary stories which are not beneficial in any way to the local public. They like to talk more about politicians. Highlight and sugar coat all the stuff they do each and every day. Never talk about ...
ශ්රී ලංකාව බොහෝදෙනා හදුනන්නේ “ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ මුතු ඇටය” ලෙසයි. එවන් නම්බු නාමයක් ලැබූ මෙවන් සුන්දර රටක් දශක කිහිපියක් තිස්සේ කුරිරු යුද්ධයකින් ඇවිලෙන්න විය නමුත්, අපි එම අභියෝගය ජය ගත්තෙමු . ඒ , අපේ දේශයේ මුර දේවතාවන්ගේ ශක්තිය හා ධෛර්යයෙන් මෙන්ම රටක් වශයෙන් අපි සැවොම එකෙක් වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ නිසාවෙනි. දැන් යුද්ධය නිම වී තිබුනත් අපි තවම සිටින්නේ මුල් සිටි තත්වයේමය. ...
ඉහත වචන පෙළ මා උපුටා ගත්තේ මිට දශක කිහිපයකට පෙර අපි අතරින් වියෝ වූ මොහිදීන් බෙග් මාස්ටර්ගේ ඉතා ජනප්රිය ගීතයකිනි. විවේකයක් හමුවූ වෙලාවක මා මෙම වචන ගැන මදක් සිතන්නට වීමි. එම වචන වලින් කියවෙන තේරුම අද කාලෙට කොතරම් ගැලපෙන්නේද කියා මට තේරුණි. එය එක අතකින් සතුටට කරුණකි. මන්ද , මම එවැනි මිනිසුන් හදුනා ගැනීමට දැන් දන්නා හෙයිනි. එය අනිත් අතකින් දුකට කරුණකි. ...
මෑත කාලයේ බොහෝ ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් දිවයින අතහැර යාමේ ප්රවනතයක් දක්නට ලැබේ. මින් බොහෝ දෙනා ඔස්ට්රේලියාව බලා යන අතර සමහරෙක් වැරදි මාර්ගවලින් යාමට ගොස් අසුවී නැවත පැමිණ ඇත. මෙම ප්රවනතාවය රටක් වශයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ගුණ නැත. නමුත් වෙන කරන්නටද කිසිම දෙයක් නැත. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අද පවත්නා සත්ය තත්වය එයයි. මෙම ප්රවනතය ඇතිවීමට හේතු කිහිපයක්ම බලපා තිබේ. එකාදිපති පාලනයක අදුරදර්ශී ක්රියා පටිපාටිය . ...
Image Source Earlier this week, I noticed that Facebook has done some change with the emotions its users can use when posting comments. I later realized they have revamped the emotions they had and have come up with some new ones which looks pretty cool if you ask me. Personally, I love the new emotions it gives more meaning ...
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Yesterday (June 30th) was a special day to all Social Media enthusiasts. It was the day where the whole world celebrated the emergence of social media; a concept started by the popular website Mashable, to promote social media all around the world.The city of Colombo also joined the bandwagon and celebrated “Social Media Day “in grand style at Park ...
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Image Source Memes have become one of the hottest new trends in the world of social media. Many social media enthusiasts have started creating and sharing memes and have used social media streams such as Facebook and Twitter to spread their creations to other users. Sri Lanka even has its own Facebook Page dedicated to Memes. So what is ...
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Kids who participated for the program at Udubaddawa. Kuliyapitiya I got the chance today to go on a special trip, a trip where I volunteered to share my knowledge on blogging and social media with a group of kids at Udubaddawa, Kuliyapitiya. I was invited to the program by Udara Dharmasena , who is the Mobile 4 Development Project Coordinator ...
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Hello Everyone, It has been a long time since I wrote my last post. It has been a busy month of February and it is already gone. As the third month of the year dawns upon us. I got some great news to you . I have added two new blogs to BuildingMyBrand The first one is for inspiration.Anyone ...
Image Source Summary: Public Speaking is considered the second most feared thing by humans next to “death”. Yet, anyone can overcome this fear by frequent practice and remembering a certain set of rules. This post tries to points out these rules through 5 tips which if obeyed correctly, would help anyone to overcome this fear and become great public ...
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