Today while commuting in the MRT I just realized how predictable and monotonous we had become. If you take a typical day of a person in IT we stare at big screen for at least 5-7 hours per day. Then in case if you are in to watching TV then you would spend another 2 hours staring at another type ...
Interestingly the above video appeared on my Google+ stream with a comment from a 'friend' which read as - "Perhaps a Steve Jobs in making". The comparison of the legend made me watch it. Interestingly in my current mind set I started to read beneath the surface of the presentation. Let me say this the presentation was purely awesome - ...
While Murali was playing a youngster by the name of Ajantha broke in to international limelight, few critics of Murali claimed that he was a road block for the next generation of spinners and another few suggested that all Murali's records would be broken by this new phenomenon. At that time I can remember Sangakkara diplomatically threw caution to the ...
While at the university irrespective of whether if its to study for an exam, a tutorial submission, assignment submission or a presentation I have had this habit of waiting till the last moment and then to stand on the head in the eleventh hour and getting it done. I had observed that this is a shared habit mostly among guys. ...
When I visited the Indra Gandhi museum in New Delhi I took this picture. Its been there on my machine but until today I didn't bother to read the content of this news paper cutting. Interestingly its a news item on Ceylon's one time quest for a fully nationalized import and export industry.Interestingly, at that time in history Ceylon has ...
In the train I heard a familiar voice announcing, "katata sarata rahata miris ekka ulundhu wadei". He is the same guy who inspired me to write a post on sales skill. Whenever he is around I pass a glance to see what he is up to. Today he said he has only 6 wadei left. So people hurried to get ...
I was forced to read a legal contract document and it had the term "Force Majeure", which drew my attention and made me to read that section in full. Interestingly I found that there was a legal term "act of god". The definition says that,"Act of God is a legal term for events outside of human control, such as sudden ...
Its almost been 210 days since I vowed to make a daily blog post for 365 days. When I started, I expected to fail due to any of the following reasons including travel, work, lethargy, sickness etc. Little did I think I would have a serious threat from technology. But today I realized that technology is the major factor which ...
View Larger MapRight at the heart of the Kandy City resides the Udawattakele National Forest Reserve. It's just right behind our School and while being at school we found hundreds of excuses to go there and loiter, we were really creative in our excuses, sometimes even for drama practices! God forbid us ;)Last week, Nipuna , who had come down ...
When I was about to set off for my first consultancy assignment I was trembling within me. While I was doing my final preparation I got a call and was asked to come down to meet my CEO, Dinesh. He wished me and said, "I have full confidence on your skill level and knowledge, the trick for you to successful ...
At large when we try to analyse problems we look at it from our own perspective, we feel its right but at times we do not have the holistic picture. In decision making having a holistic idea of is very important. Also its important to acknowledge and empathize the fact that different people can and will hold different opinions due ...
My 'friends' Sach and Nee had created Google+ page for their blogs so out of curiosity I decided to create one for me too :-) Just to compare I created a page on Facebook too for the blog.Interestingly they had linked Google Hangout to pages. Seems like we can do web casting through that to the community. Interesting development. Specially ...
The cops at air ports have the peculiar ability to ask funny questions, ok the term funny might not be appropriate but since I have a limited vocabulary I will leave as it is. Today I stumbled on this Ted talk Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am! | Video on TED.com about how the FBI picked up someone with a ...
There is a Tamil idiom which says ""குரங்கின் கை பூமாலை"" when directly translated it says "when a garland is in a monkeys hand". Today I almost felt like a step slower in evolution when I had a nexus google S phone in hand. Started playing it with and ended up playing with it for well over two hours. It was ...
The web is full of pretenders. Two of the best type of pretenders who never cease to provide humor to the reader are the Tamils who try to pretend to show them off as Sinhalese or Sinhalese who try to show themselves as Tamils. Both sides try their best to write with a pseudonym from the other community and they ...
If I am not mistaken the first English movie I watched was "To Sir, with love". Having access to watch movies was one of the hidden benefits of obtaining British Council membership. So one day I made up my mind to go and ask the librarian whether I can also make a reservation to come and watch a movie there, ...
I am seated here thinking at midnight how long can delayed gratification can take. Almost all the lifetime we had been told study well its useful in future, and then when we wanted to enjoy, people would say hold it for today so you can enjoy much more in future, when we want to spend people would say save it ...
