My future ambition is to be a teacher. Because I think it is a great service. On the other hand my mother and my father both of them are working as teachers.
Now I am a student in grade nine. There are many teachers teach me. I like to learn specially from lady teachers. It also [...]
our grand father’s name is tikiribanda. he age is 65. he is a good farmer. now he can’t work but he lives happily.
he is innocent. he doesn’t harm others.my grand father is very good.
my grand father is a good story teller.children are very fond of his stories. he is fair.he is very kind. he [...]
MY grandm mother name is podimanika. my grandm mother age is 60. my grandm mother vileage is gonagama.my grandm mother is very good.
she is fair. she is very kind. she speaks pleasant words. she never gets angry. she has a smile on her face always.
she tells us stories. she cooks tasty food and observes sil. [...]
Only a Week TO GO !Lets see if you footy fans out there really know your stuff!Thought I’d give this a go. You get to design the kit! You have a budget to choose players so its complicated to pick.Sign up herehttp://en.fantasy.euro2008.uefa.com/I’ve cr…
you’ve done it all. felt bad. depressed. wanted to kill your self and blogged about it. I have done that too. ( refer : Denial/I envy you/The releif of loneliness/borderless sucks…etc..)
but there comes times when nothing makes it right.
you know you have been there, done that, come out of the whole drama, even managed to shurg your shoulders at some point and be ok.
but there comes times
We are in Department of Chemical Engineering University of Moratuwa doing great academic and industrial research projects. We have our own limitations with financial support comparing to some foreign university research budgets. But we are doing our best to deliver our professional works to world.
But sharing student and there research information is lacking. Today world is getting closing and we can share information with people anywhere in world. WWW is great innovation in previous century and it is becoming stronger in this century. In 1990s .com boom explore the business potential of WWW. Before 1990s scientist established proper way to share research information among each other.
Let us found out way to share our information at least now. I know there is academic paper publications, conferences and many more tools to share our research activities. But why we go behind them and waiting their approval for publishing them. They can reject our whole research publication because of single grammatical mistake or spelling mistake. But according to my view we do not mind about petty mistake and allow that idea to play major role in Industry.
As example if a student come up with proper alternative system. We need such ideas with out any delay and make them to happen in industry. I think rather going behind foreign scientists to approve our research papers we can share it among each other and come up with industrial scale solutions.
I think building up chemical engineers’ network on web as alternative to break barriers in information sharing. I have build up chemical engineers’ network and it contains more than 200 chemical engineers and we can share our research and industrial knowledge among each other.
I have a four members in my family.My mother is miss,indrani.She is 32 years old. Her village is Kandy. She lives with us in Nikawewa. She is a good house wife. She cooks very tasty meals for us. She look after us well
My father is mr.eakanayaka. He is 55 years old. My father is very good and kind. His village is Nikawewa. He likes to read news paper and various book.He has five brothers and two sisters.they work in offices. My father loves us.My sister is binrianupama.she is 12 years old. She likes to read book and news paper.She is very kind.She learning to the English.I Love my family.
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Yes I have returned.Its been quite a busy/exciting couple of months for me and finally I get a little breathing space so I thought Id blog about it :)Six&Out had to battle an American who refused to give his rent deposit, search for a new place to …
T20 cricket is getting very popular all over the world right now. Now we have reached the semifinal stage of the IPL. That tournament was a real success. Last year T20 world cup was held in South Africa and India won that tournament under the captaincy…
I have read many books in my leasure time. Some time I read Sinhala, Tamil or English books. Village by the sea is the book most favorite foreign novel I have read in my life.
In my fourteen’th birth day my father gave this book for me as a present. Village by the sea is Anita [...]
The central question of whether ICTs do any good, is discussed in relation to always-on broadband connections in the OECD. The question is, of course, of even greater importance in developing countries.
The OECD released its latest report on May 19th. It surveys the broadband landscape to December 2007, and tells a warm [...]
Today’s a great great day for me. A day, I would remember through out my life. A day I have been waiting for so long. A day that had kept me worrying as a sincere brother. Wow!!!!!!!! This is really happening.My little sis is getting married today! Seriously,I can’t believe this is happening.
I’m soooooo happy and at the same time very very sad as well. I need not tell how happy I am. But I wonder why my parents never kept me in the loop regarding issues at home, especially about the marriage stuff. Seriously they never told me a damn about it.
I knew nothing and still I do not know much. I’m not kidding. Two days back I was informed that she would be getting wed today to an engineer from Aus whos currnetly working in Ireland.Oh yeah, the grooms name is Raiz. Thats all what I know.
I wana go home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want be there when my sisters getting married.Come on,its once in a life time occasion. I seriously want to be right next to my sis when she’s wed.
But now its too late. I wont be able to make it. Guess they will have to move on without me.I want ever again get to see her in a red Saree.
I can’t help crying.Words aren’t coming to my mind either.I’m winding up.:(
I wish I was a robot.
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My blog has been discovered by someone in New Zealand who had googled the rather nifty little phrase above. I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or nod knowingly in a Joey Tribbiani thinking about breasts kind of way.Was it a slightly perverted Kiwi look…
[TamilNet, Saturday, 31 May 2008, 02:45 GMT] TamilNet: LTTE Little Empire Braps Little Empire is more than just a music group. It’s a movement spearheaded by five Canadians of Tamil descent committed to raising awareness about the 100% credible u…
Research to practice is the central preoccupation of LIRNEasia. We differ from conventional researchers in our fixation on how to convey our research to policymakers, regulators, senior managers of operators and to the symbolic universe they live in. We choose our research questions and methods with this end in mind and we conduct our research [...]
As reported elsewhere, Harsha de Silva and I had a productive time at the Mobile Preconference organized by Rich Ling (http://www.richardling.com/) and others. One of the outcomes was that LIRNEasia has undertaken to organize this event for the next two years, in conjunction with the ICA conferences scheduled for Chicago, May 21-25, 2009 and [...]
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When Linux calls, I answer. Or something like that anyway. After all, I now have a Reputation with a capital R as the go-to guy for Linux events. It may have something to do with the fact that I do these events for free. or at least in exchange f…
Did you ever think of your blog’s search form as potential tool to give your presence on Social Media some exposure? To actually go beyond the boundaries of searching within your blog and present interesting matches from your StumbleUpon account…
“…gazing into those blue-green eyes i wonder at the depth of the soul i am peering into… the astonishingly old soul in one so young takes my breath awaysuddenly i am conscious of the ease with which i am drawn from the self made confine in which i …
I took this picture walking around Cupertino in Northern California. Having moved to North California a few months before winter hit the rest of the country, I looked at the greenery around me and though that this must be what it would be year round. Everything looks so lush and green compared to the east [...]
Help set a record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours through a monumental worldwide event known as Download Day. Here’s how you can help: Host a party to download Firefox; you provide the people and we’ll provide the party favors. Get the word out; tell your friends, your neighbors, your grandma, [...]
සතියක දෙකක විවේකයෙන් පස්සේ ආපහු බ්ලොග් එකට ලියන්නයි මේ හදන්නේ. මේ දින ටිකේ මුකුත් ලියලා තිබ්බේ නැති නිසා වැඩි දෙනා කියවන්න ඇවිල්ලා තිබ්බේ නැ. මේ දවස්වල ලියන්න බැරිවෙච්ච හේතුව මොකක්ද කියලා නම් මටත් හිතාගන්නඅ අමාරුයි. (එක්කෝ බ්ලොග් අඩස්සිය, එහෙමත් නැත්නම් සා.පෙ පීඩනයද දන්නේ නෑ ) මේක ලියන්න හිතුනේ ඊයේ තිබ්බ අපේ නේවාසිකාගාරේ 11ශ්රේණියේ සහෝදරයින් [...]
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There are only three Geography students at Notre Dame, the rest are all Environmental Science students but most of the classes each group takes are the same. Out of the three I am the oldest but the second in line, started a group online a couple of days ago. He had an idea about disseminating information about sustainability and the issues surrounding through a popular medium that university students would use.
Of course naturally, I end up being an enthusiastic supporter of this endeavour. But how easy is it to live a sustainable lifestyle while being an university student? When I first started studying here, I was a bit nervous about this. I was studying Geography therefore it seemed expected that I would fully endorse environmental principles that I was learning about in my personal life as well. It didn’t seem like I was living a very sustainable life. It didn’t seem that I could afford to live a sustainable life. Most things organic or sustainably produced or marketed as such were (and still are to some extent) very expensive.
The principles themselves are not that hard for me to accept and endorse. I don’t like the way we view our world in such an anthropocentric fashion. I don’t regard people as being more valuable than animals. Far as I am concerned all species are equal and if cats can eat mice and sheep eat grass then I can eat beef. Because it’s the natural way things work - things eat other things. But I also understand that that’s my personal preference. I have vegetarian friends - I cook for them and we get on fine. I care about things though - about people, about plants, about animals. On the one hand I accept that as a human I can eat meat and choose to do so and am therefore killing something but on the other hand I want that to be managed to minimize unneccessary harm to anything else if that makes any sense. I don’t like the idea of using pesticides and fertilizer to grow grain to make flour to make bread to feed me because that harms humans, the soil, the micro fauna and flora and fish. So organic seems to be the way to go.
But what does sustainability mean? It’s not just one’s diet is it and the potential ramifications of that. It’s about consumerism - ethical consumerism. Being informed about what you buy, what you use, what you eat, waht you do and how you do it. It means minimal harm to anything else around you. And despite all the stereotypes to the contrary, you don’t have to live like a hippie to achieve it.
It does however mean you have to learn a lot about how the world works around you. If you live in a city you can’t be ignorant as to what goes on in the countryside or the rest of the world for that matter. It’s not a lifestyle for the intellectually lazy.
One of the first and easiest things to do was to switch all my lightbulbs to energy efficient ones. One of the reasons for doing this was simply because I have very tall ceilings and I prefer not to have lug a ladder up and down the staircase once a month just so I can change lightbulbs. Changing them means I use less power which means I am contributing less to fossil fuel consumption and the problems associated with that. This coupled with the fact that I am now turning every light off whenever possible means I have a lower power bill. I have also started switching my appliances off at the power points when they are not used which is frankly about 95% of the day. The flatmate gets annoyed by this whenever there is a TV show on but I am very good at ignoring protests.
Another thing I started to do was to dump all my cleaning products in favour of white vinegar and bicarbonate soda which frankly cleans anything and everything more efficiently and is less hazardous than any bleach. Bleach fumes used to make me want to pass out which meant that I kept having to take a break every so often when cleaning. Now I have more time on my hands as well. And vinegar and bicarb soda are really cheap. I have also started watching what goes down the drain. Once you pick a brand of environmentally friendly soap or bath gel or laundry detergent or dishwashing liquid - you only need to look for it again on the supermarket shelves when you run out. It isn’t that hard.
As an university student, I don’t have a car. My flatmate does but we end up walking everywhere, catching buses or riding on the train. It saves on fuel costs and I feel a little bit validated for refusing to give in to my family’s requests of getting a license. Not until they design and build a environmentally friendly Jeep Wrangler with a hydrogen engine or similar. Which will probably be in about twenty years time.
When you are renting however there is only so much you can do to be sustainable. I cannot for instance, install new glass in the windows or change the plumbing. I did attempt to have my own vegetable garden but that dies not work when the only spot you have is on top of some aluminium roofing that slopes at a dangerous angle. I donate to Greenpeace but frankly I have my doubts about that. Why do we want to save certain species? They always say that I’d want my children to be able to see them. That’s a selfish reason for wanting to save species. Species are species - some die out, some don’t, some evolve and become something else. If you told me you wanted to save a species in order to maintain the equilibrium in an environment I’d like donating to such a cause better. Species don’t need to be saved - they need to be maintained - the pressure we put on them needs to be minimized. You might not want to decimate a species but you can’t elevate it above others either because then you’d find another species disappearing pretty fast. Things eat other things people - you need some sort of balance.
It’s not nice for Geography students to make Greenpeace volunteers’ heads explode in the street when they start accosting you and talking about the future generations. I am not anthropocentric - I’d cheer if you said the entire human species was to die tomorrow. Children might interest me but I’d rather save a species because it meant we all have air to breathe rather than because it’s pretty and sits there and everyone loves to look at it. Greenpeace volunteers are lucky I am a nice person. ( I do donate but I always have grave doubts about how efficiently the money is spent and how good the science and logic is behind the principles).
And money is not easy to come by when you are an university student. So you have to spend it wisely. But there are ways. You need to organise yuorself sufficiently so that you have a regular shopping trip once a week when you can carry canvas bags and hit the asian stores and the town markets. It’s even easier when you live close by. Grabbing cherry tomatoes from Fremantle Markets is one of my favorite things to do snack-wise. Kakula’s Sisters are specialty food store around the corner from me and is where I buy my rice and dhal. There is a Kakulas Brothers store in the city, Fresh Provisions in Claremont and South Fremantle and then the Subiaco Markets. There are bakeries and one of the best places to buy fish is at Sealanes in South Freo just a free bus ride away. Most of these are local and are therefore more sustainable. A lot of produce sold at Kakulas is imported but sustainable and cheap. And you can always venture down to Wray Avenue which is well known for the cheapest local produce around.
But there are a lot more things that I’d like to do. I’d like the city council to make it easier for me to recycle. I’d like to switch to a cleaner energy source for electricity but I can’t afford it. I’d like all my appliances to be more energy efficient. And most of all I’d like a lot of people to start coming up with ways that university students and people who rent their accomodation can live more sustainably.
Which is why I applaud what my fellow student is attempting to do. By enabling the topic to reach a wider audience and allowing university students to discuss it, maybe we can come up with more ways to make our lives more efficient and the whole of the human species a little bit less of the disaster it seems to be turning out to be.
And now I am thinking of cherry tomatoes. Damn.
- Marisa Wikramanayake.
Yo wassup yo! im gone hom in a little while and its all downhill from there. the ride is long and fast and inexplicably dangerous. the whistling of the breeze will bombard my eardrums and my eyes will be dry from the bashing. yeah im crazy i know, the …
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
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Almost every blogger has a blog roll but very few are making money from it. Although buying and selling blog roll links is not a new thing they were private affairs and there was no common market place for them. Well Blogrolled.com is here to change that.The service is pretty similar to Text Link Ads [...]
So all of us know Deane right? From Deane’s Dimension? Well, at least you’re heard of him cos I keep on going on about him.
Turns out, this guy called Gayan knows him as well. He knows Deane so much, they practically think alike. For example, when Deane says this about the Eastern elections,
It seems the [...]
Imagine the horror our colleague Aruna had to go through, when he tried to access the Google search engine and instead found something else.Well I suppose it could happen to the best of us…
Statement by National Peace Council of Sri Lanka:
The silencing of journalists by killing and intimidating them has become a major problem in Sri Lanka. The National Peace Council condemns the killing of Paranirupasingam Devakumar who is the ninth journalist to be killed in the past two years. We are appalled at the brutal manner of [...]
Dreams.. I love to live with my dreams…. It makes me feel better, gives me everything and all what I cant get in my reality… I have no fear of loosing anything.. I dream the way I want because its my sleep… In case something uncontrollable happens in my dream I can always [...]
On the eve of another weekend and I’m feeling so goddamn down. My finals start on Monday and I’ll be done by Friday. Imagine that eh, one and a half years of dedicated work and now I am finally wrapping up my dip. But Friday will also be the day wh…
බුදුන්ගේ සිරිපතුලෙහි පිහිටියේයැයි සැලකෙන දෙසිය සොළසක් වූ මඟුල් ලකුණු දැක්වෙන “මඟුල් ලකුණ” නරේ…
Don Boudreaux has an interesting explanation :
Women are more decent than men.Fewer women than men itch to lord it over others. Also, women are less willing than men to perform the countless asinine stunts and soul-shriveling pandering necessary to win political office. [link]
Hmm. It’s a question I’ve often thought about, why is it that men vastly outnumber women in politics almost everywhere in the world? frankly, I don’t know for sure. But I’ll try..
It could be that the conventional wisdom is right. The world is less cosmopolitan than we comspolitians think and women in most societies are expected to stay at home, and therefore there’s less of them in most professions. Political representation works on a regional basis, where there’s a greater likelihood of people getting into the politics (running for public office) from non-urbanized, more traditional areas than any other profession. More traditional means, there’s more of a chance that women are expected to stay home or be in more “acceptable” women-roles rather than running for public office. This results in fewer women getting into politics overall, lowering aggregates significantly.
Note that Hillary Clinton is a senator from New York, not Texas. Although Mayawati, the Chief Minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh, who is also from a lower caste, is probably a counter example.
I guess it’s a question for the freakonomists.
I just can’t seem to get my head around the new Colombo Traffic Plan. For one thing there was absolutely no warning yesterday morning, when we were redirected the wrong way in front of the Museum and had to take an almost complete circle to get to pass Town Hall. (Thankfully that was rectified this morning). Then we were rudely turned away yesterday evening towards Dharmapala Mw. when we were trying to Gall Road. (Thankfully the police had at least enough sense and told the Bus drivers and they were on the right lane).
I did feel sorry for the person who had no idea about the interconnected roads in Town Hall/Colpety area who had to take direction from a cop every five meters.
The real question is will this new traffic plan really reduce traffic? I don’t think so. It’ll most likely waste a lot of our time going in circles. We’ll have to take the long way in front of the Library while Dharmapala Mw. stares in our face. But then again I remember the last time people were grumbling a lot about going one-way but in a couple of weeks the Traffic was reduced a lot (especially in front of Campus and RC, and Maharagama).
May be the plan will succeed.. Maybe not.. But I wish the cops at least informed the people. Well I guess the last time people were hopelessly lost even after informing I guess they just couldn’t be bothered..
Next I’m sure the cops will make Nugegoda and Havelock one way and we’ll be on our way….
Images From the Daily Mirror
I must say, today was much better, than the chaos and pandemonium encountered yesterday. Why? Because motorist knew what to expect. So my question is.. is it too much to ask for these darn cops to let the motorists know abt the changes they are going to adopt, before hand rather than letting them experienced [...]
Budget airlines suck. Fair play to them for trying to take on the giants of the aviation world but they are really just not that cost effective.This would be the perfect time before I start ranting to tell you that I’m having another holiday. Lucky for…
ගොඩ දවසකින් ලියන්න බැරිවුණා. හේතුවක් කියන්න අමාරුයි. ලියන්න ගොඩක් දේවල් තිබුණත් ලියාගන්න බැරුවයි හිටියෙ. දැන්වත් මොකක්හරි ලියන්න ඕන කියලා හිතුවට මොනවා ලියන්නද කියලා හිතාගන්න බෑ
ම්… දැන් බස් ගාස්තු වැඩියි. අපේ පාරේ කලින් රුපියල් 14 දැන් 17ක් වෙලා. ටවුමට ගිහින් එන්න ගියාම රුපියල් 34ක් වියදම් වෙනවා දැන්. අන්තර්ජාල භාවිතයත් ප්රශ්නයක් වෙලා. මේ මොබිටෙල් එකට යන වියදම [...]
“I subscribe to the theories on nationhood set out by great theorists like Marx - who is an internationalist and says that a worker has no nation - all the way down to Benedict Anderson, who has described nations as imagined communities. I have no t…
Didn’t want to say anything until I did it, but I was interviewed on MTV today on Good Morning Sri Lanka. Brandix was the host this morning, along with Vraie and I was their guest, asked to speak on my experience as someone who lost their virtual identity. In case some of you don’t know, [...]
Udu can’t stand Sunday school, but his brother Siri doesn’t have a problem with it. So one day in Sunday school, Udu thinks, “The hell with it,” and decides to go to sleep. The teacher sees this and asks Udu a question to keep udu awake.
“Udu, who created the heavens and the earth?”
Siri, who is sitting behind Udu, pokes him in the butt with his pencil. Udu wakes up and shouts, “God almighty!”
And the teacher says, “Yes. That’s correct, Udu.”
Udu goes back to sleep and the teacher asks him another question.
“Who died on the cross for our sins?”
Siri pokes Udu again. udu wakes up and shouts, “Jesus Christ!”
Once again, he goes back to sleep. This time the teacher asks, “Udu, what was the first thing Eve said to Adam?”
Siri pokes him again. Udu wakes up and shouts, “If you don’t stop poking me with that thing, I’m gonna break it off!”
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