The Queqe to Hell

Hello all,

Read this and guess what this is.

I see the old class room ceiling which was full of holes... as bright beams of sun light came through them.

I see the road besides the gate, which was fixed 3 months ago but now its worse than before.

I see a child crying as her mother struggles to be in the queue... who knows why the baby cries.

I can feel a cold wind in this fresh morning but no one seems to feel it's freshness.

I see a bus passing by as bunch of men jumped off because it didn't stop.

I see some army men petrolling with some smiles in there faces as if they were one only people who could feel.

I see some men, each of them wearing different colored dresses as the dishonest grins could hardly fade off their poverty.

I glanced at the sheet for one last time, and threw it to bin after tearing for pieces, as I let the queue to mark their way off to hell.

P.S
Well, I'm not good in grammar and I'm not a poet as well. Please bear with me for that and enjoy.

Dear Press People, Stop the Bloody Copying!

I saw some posts listed on kottu regarding an issue of copying blog posts (gedi pitin) and publishing on so called national newspapers without adding proper references. I have seen this several times and also It's becoming an issue. Not only they copy from blogs but from several places such as Wikipedia as an example.

I wonder why these reporters or writers or whatever they call themselves cannot make something new? Why can't they be creative? At least when they copy something, can't they give a reference? Why Sri Lankan media is acting like this? Just because that you can find any damn thing from the Internet, you should not use this like toilet papers. By the way, we would rather like to surf the net, than reading newspapers with printed version of our own blogs.

It is not the first time this happened and it's not in the other countries too. Most foreign newspapers have there own newspaper blogs. There were incidents that some of these newspaper bloggers have done the same thing that SL media people have done.
Links :
1) Can newspapers do blogs right?
2) Washington Post Blogger Quits After Plagiarism Accusations

I suggest there should a separate editor or a censoring board for every newspapers who's responsible of getting the reference information right. The person would have good computer/internet media literacy.I'm not blaming all media people out there, but for one's who copy stuff and paste as if they created the whole thing. I bet now all bloggers would add a Copyright notice on there blogs.

One last thing to say with a warning! "Stop the Bloody Copying", if you aren't going to say from where you copied the stuff. It's good for both you and me.

Fire Sale - 3 way Systematic Attack

A 3 way Systematic Attack on United States Government, Transportation and Economy in the basis of "Everything must go". John McClane is going to stop it this time. It's Die Hard 4.0. The best in the series so far as I see. Also in United States it's a PG-13 rated movie since Die Hard 1,2,3 were rated R or smiler as I remember. Good story, good action, good camera and special effects.

I don't want to put the plot outline here as you can find it from IMDB. Anyways as a summery it's a great action + techno thriller film for me. The film will attract groups of fans including good old Die Hard fans, Action fans and Tech / Science Fiction fans. It's a possible thing that could be happened to any country which heavily depends on Technology.

Why you are still waiting? Watch it, wait and try to compare with big hits; Transfomers and Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.

Choise of Sri Lankans

A propaganda is building up against current government of Sri Lanka. Some people are on Human Rights Violations and some people on Economy Downfall. Both are crucial for a country and not very well managed here in Sri Lanka as far as I feel.

Even all of us accept the fact that Politicians created and fertilized all these problems in Sri Lanka, we still hear their voice, we still accepts and believe what they say on media, we still applause and support them and after all, we go and vote for them. At the end of the day, same thing repeats and country towards dead pool.

In fact, Politicians are unable to;
- Control the economy
- Control Terrorism or Continue Peace process
- Do developments that truly helps people
- Work without any smuggling or underhand commissions
- Strengthen government work force to compete with private sector
- and so much said and unsaid issues...

Just think, Does a man working in a private sector company as an executive or smiler job, would ever be safe with his job, if he fails to do whatever he is appointed/assigned to do? The very next day, he will be fired. Thats the way it is happening. But, politicians can smuggle people's money, destroy what works well, encourage terrorists and violence, break their own promises and still be in the same position after the next damn election. Why people can't understand this. On the other hand, they can jump from/to any place. They have no permanent opposition. When they are attacked or when they see an opportunity, they Jump like the Monkeys and people accepts them like Hero's.

Statistics shows over 90% Literacy rate for Sri Lanka. Most of the countries in that range are well developed. Well we are not there yet. Why? because of people's bad decisions. It's a shame that we have to choose the best next to worst political parties now. We do have choises, but all are worst cases. We have to choose who is the best from a pool of idiotic parties.

Stop being bulls and think about the future. Erase all the politicians who you think is not up to the standard. Give the opportunity for anyone who is actually willing to do good to Sri Lanka. Only we can save Sri Lanka. Not politicians. So act accordingly and responsibly.

The relativity of an ultimate feeling

Kings, Queens, Presidents, Ministers, High ranking officers, CEOs, Managers, Engineers, Executives Regular office workers, Clerks, Janitors, unemployed bachelors and simply, any animal that has a brain functioning correctly; have a diverse range of expectation(s) of there Lives.

Why I listed a bunch of designations, is to stress out the point that all of us are having the same kind of needs from our lives regardless of the status, wealth, prestige, or any other issue. Think of a President whose responsibility is to take decisions that would take a country to a better state. Think again, of a Gatekeeper who is doing his repetitive job everyday. Now can you think of a difference on these two human beings? Yes that’s simple. Both are in two different extremes where president is the top most civilian in a country and the gatekeeper is just a 1 in thousands of normal workers. But both have a common feeling. That is "Expectation”.

I have heard people say “Hey, see that guy. He is a millionaire. But he’s just useless and has no life. He doesn’t enjoy as much as we do. Because, you know? He’s not like us. We do know people, be with friends, party and spend time with all of the guys. But just look at him! He doesn’t know anyone, hasn’t got friends, no parties and no nothing men”. Well that would be what you see from outside. Maybe he would be enjoying his work, more than we do. Maybe he would be having fun with people that he’s dealing with, more than we do. Maybe he’s a happier man than any other.

All this is because he has achieved what he really need. His expectations are accomplished. It is impossible to judge a person by his external outfit or behavior. Never judge people for no reason, unless your profession is to recruit personnel to an organization.

The lesson of the day is to;

• Have expectation in life


• Plan how to fulfill them


• Happy when you are successful


• Never be jealous of people because of
  
  
  
  • They have met their expectations
  
  
  • For not being able to meets your expectations

Expectations cannot be compared. Don’t apply theory of relativity to this. So think again, without wasting your precious time of reviewing, commenting, and researching on other’s pros and cons. Remember that you are given two eyes to look at anything in multiple views. Because a thing that is good for you isn’t be the same for another.

Everyday Man and War in Sri Lanka

A lot of things happen in a day of mans life. Some are for good and some are for bad. No one knows next one's kind. It's up to the Man to solve things out. Now, these things would sound just sense useless for someone. But believe me, most of them are very small things that people misses to understand which cause big problems.

Man always faces wars. Life itself is a one big war. Your Skills are your Weapons. Your experience is Your Intelligence. Your Friends are your Re-enforcements. Your loved ones are your commanders. The additional part here is that, you do some of work for your commanders and some for yourself. The decisions are on your hand.

Planning will make you win more easy. Neither your Commanders nor your Intelligence could win the war. It's only the right mixture of Weapon selection, Use of Intelligence, Right decisions and re-enforcements on correct time makes you win the battle.

Of course just like in wars, sometimes you need to take hard decisions. But you must help yourself out to make good decisions. Hard and Easy differs from Good and Bad. Think about that!

You must rule yourself if no proper commanding is there for you. Chances are there sometimes that re-enforcements units are not available. Can't help! you must survive somehow. Perhaps re-enforcements units needs some of themselves to hold on. Help out them in every way you can.

Do not think that your weaponry is enough forever. Add more everyday. Keep track of your intelligence. Never under/over estimate it. Always listen to your commanders. They would sound inappropriate. But remember, they have gone through the same war more than you have gone.

Anyway just to warm things up, we'll talk about something else.

War in Sri Lanka makes no sense. What? makes no sense? no! it does makes sense. But you know, if something is done over and over again, it gets normalized (Not the correct word though). So the war is just another part of every man. There are clashes everyday, people killed in double figures. Nobody cares. One could ask, what should we do? Yeah! true. There are only few things that we can do about that. The politicians have to do something. Because it's there JOB. Just like what every man/woman do in offices, politicians job is to manage, administrate and handle country's issues. I wonder how many of the cabinet do these.

Terrorism. Business. Politics. They are not inter-related. Huh! But yes it is, in Sri Lanka. It's all related. The so called ethnic problem is made up of these three ingredients. No need to mention how these are related here, as I do not won't to attack anyone. But truth hurts.

However, my last hope and kind request from all of the government/ non-government/ terrorist/ non-terrorist people out there is:

"Please do think of the future! Don't make our next generation blame us. We all die someday, So do good as long as you live! Because it will make the next day more beautiful! The only nationality is the human-kind."

Dear all my Friends in E-Solutions

Dear all my Friends in E-Solutions,

I really do appreciate all the support that you all gave me during this time and for the present that is quite memorable!

Hope to keep in touch, even though we aren't work in the same place.

My special thank goes to the management of E-Solutions and E-Nitiative and more specially;

Nuwandika - Who supported me in the best way one can do (what else to say?).
Janesh - Who assisted me so well and being a very good friend :P.
Gert - Who is a good friend and assigned me great no. of new events :P, that gave me all the experience.
Fred - Who is a good friend and not much events but bigger ones. :D

I'm going to miss you all very much as this was one of the best times I've had ever.

Best regards and thank you all again!
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe