She was a small town girl with a big heart. Born to a very poor family who didn’t know when their next meal would arrive; she was the one shining light that helped her family forget what they were going through. Her parents called her “Sudu Duwa” (Sweet Daughter), and her little brother called her “Sudu Akka” (Sweet Sister) but ...

For me , Life has always been about choices. From the days I started to understand things , I always tried to use the power of choice I had to the best of my abilities in order to gain success. As I grew older , the choices became wider and wider and then making decisions was not ...

I never wanted my life to be this way. I always wanted to live a normal life ; just like all the inhabitants that exist in this plant we call earth. During my early years of life, I thought I was the same. But, as time passed every second..every minute..every hour; I knew I was ...

When you feel you are down..When you feel you have lost all hopeYou think of giving upAnd letting go..You tried so hard ..To get what you want But then you realize.. That you still have far to go You think its worthlessYou think you are not goodYou feel you should trySomething new.. But then you understand Nothing works for you ...

That is what we say don't we ? well most of us do; when officers in higher ranks than us call us and give us instructions to carry out tasks at work. Sometimes it is a good thing; but there could be situations where it could become a headache and annoy you a bit.As people ...

Last week, I got the chance to attend a training program organized by SLASSCOM and ESI for Business Analysts. The program was named " Revolutionize Your Business: The Power of of the Business Analyst" and was conducted by Glenn R. Brule who is a Business Analyst himself and does carry out training programs regarding business ...

Ideas are something that comes to us all the time. it is generated through the normal thought process and comes to us through experience (visual or text ) , knowledge and communication. Ideas that come to our mind could be vague and abstract at first; but by developing the idea, it can be made to ...

We have been best friends from the first day we got to know each other. Though at times I felt I was a nobody , you never treated me that way and always took care of me as I was one of you .We had our good times, we had our bad times and you ...

I was on the way home in the bus today where a small kid in the front seat was telling his mom of his dreams. He was telling how he will grow up and earn a lot of money and get two cars for him and mom. How he will buy a big house and ...

Dear Sanga ,It's been a long time since I have written about you . If I am right, it was when the Viva advertisement and also the Hutch and Dialog advertisements you posed in created a lot of buzz among our tv viewers . Today, I am going to write something different about you. I know this is bit of ...

I was going through the Cricinfo website today when I saw that, the upcoming series between Sri Lanka and Australia will not feature the Umpire Decision Review System. The news really got me thinking and after reading about Daryl Harper the ex aussie umpire blasting MS Dhoni for his remarks regarding him ; I decided ...

How does it come? How does it go away? There will be numerous answers but isn’t there an exact one? Some are lonely when they don’t have any one to love, some when they are depressed, and some who shows they are happy and glad from the outside; but deep inside, they miss something ...

Hacking has been one of the most talked about stories in the current world of Information Technology. The story of Sony where hackers took over most of their products including their play station network to Fox news where hackers hacked the company's news network and declared that the US president was assassinated on the Independence ...

Hi Everyone .Just want to let everyone know that I have moved this blog to a new location. The new url of this blog is as follows.http://chamindrah.wordpress.com/You can still check out all the posts I have posted here in the new blog as well . Do check it out as I have some interesting posts coming up in the new ...

Its always a dilemma isn't it ? where you have dreams from childhood to do something or be something that you love doing but somehow there is no opportunity and you decide to pursue something that you think is awesome. Later, you find out what you thought awesome is done by everyone else and the future of ...

Its been for a while now and seems like it will not end very soon. Creating super hero movies seems to be the trend these days and most of the directors in Hollywood are joining the bad wagon of taking a comic book and making it to a movie. The latest one is Green Lantern ...

Last Monday at around 7.30 am my beloved grandmother or as me and everyone used to call her our Atthamma passed away.. you might remember how I used to tell that she was not well during the past few months and last Monday it reached the end. Luckily for her and to everyone all her children were there with her ...

A few weeks ago, one of my cousins gave me a call asking for some advice. She has just done her A/L's in medicine and didn't get selected to the medical college. So, she decided to go after a different career and was seeking advice from me about suitable universities where she can pursue a ...

I always relied on you to build my life. I always used your advice , your light and guidance to carry me forward during the happy and darker times. You always showed me the path to success and though it was a path filled with difficulties and challenges, you made me believe that its the ...

Programming and Quality Assurance are one of the key areas that is essential components in the world of IT. To build a superb IT application, it is important to have good programmers who has knowledge about the business domain and more than that; about the technology they are using to create those applications. After the ...