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South Korean Dramas (Kpop) and the Sri Lankan Fangirls : An insight to the Chaos

2014-11-21T19:30:00.000+05:30

I have refused to watch South Korean TV shows for a very long time. The sudden excitement over Korean stars was a bit too much to handle. I couldn't comprehend the fandom which emerged out of no where. One week you hear about a new TV series called 'Sujatha Diyani' (Jewel of the Palace), and the next week you can't set foot outside without seeing or hearing something about Changumi. And later on I heard of so many different 'diyanis', I lost track of the whole thing.

Few months later, when I mentioned about the American sitcom named Full House to some of my friends they misunderstood it for a Korean TV show under the same name. It was a bit disturbing at that time because I took extreme pride in going against the Korean mania. Also, the story-lines of those two shows were extremely different, I almost felt sorry for them.

So, like that I was able to keep my distance from the Korean TV frenzy and continued my atypical life thinking I'm so cool..... *BOOM*! That was until one day I was talked into watching Heartstrings (AKA "You've Fallen For Me") by a friend. I agreed because there was nothing else to watch and I was tired of repeatedly watching the old movies I had with me.

After watching the first episode I was amazed, because I hadn't started hating it already. Instead I found that it's music was really good (It's about getting ready for a musical and the lead actor is a singer in a K-Pop boy band IRL, so there's plenty of good melodies in that drama)

Enchanted by (mostly because of the traditional and western music mash-up ^) Heartstrings, I started to believe that the Korean dramas are not so bad after-all. So naturally, I started watching another one named "Playful Kiss". It was horrible, I couldn't believe that a girl could steep so low to win over a rude, ill-mannered, big headed jerk. Few episodes later, I started understanding the Korean TV show fandom in Sri Lanka. That craze is not about the storyline, not about the morals or values. I don't think people can tell the plot of two Korean stories apart without getting confused for that matter. But it's all about the following things;

HUMAN DOLLS
People in Korean movies-specially guys-are freakishly flaxen and well-groomed. I'm not being racist here. But I think this is a key point.

KISSES and SKINSHIP ARE NOT AWKWARD
Rather than Hollywood kiss scenes, K-drama kisses are more endurable for the Sri Lankan culture.

FANCY LIFESTYLE
The lead and the supporting characters basically look like the Asian versions of Ken and Barbie with their designer clothes, fancy accessories and high-end hair styles.Who doesn't want to watch that eh? It's like virtual window shopping ;)
And those houses and their rooms... and really really expensive vehicles...

DAMSEL-IN-DISTRESS
The female lead is depicted as a clumsy, weak, stupid girl who is always prone to accidents. And no matter how much of a jerk the boy is, he always comes to her rescue at the right time. (In both the dramas I saw, these situations are in-fact the only scenes where the boy acknowledges the girl's presence) I bet this is super romantic to most people. Actually even I was relieved watching those scenes, as I was feeling so bad about the poor girl constantly getting humiliated and ignored.

CUTE
Pastel colours, teddy bears, romantic landscapes, making hearts with their hands... need I say more?

NICE, WELL-MANNERED PEOPLE & NO VIOLENCE
Korean dramas always depict the characters as refined and well mannered people. This may not be the case in real life. However, even the villains in K-drama plots knows how to show some courtesy. So at the end of each episode, the viewers are not burdened with hatred depicted in the drama.

It's fantasy and unrealistic and a totally different genre; but if you hate that kind of stuff you always have the option of staying away from the k pop paradise. But I'm telling you K pop or K dramas are a nice resort if you want to take a break and escape from the reality for a few minutes :)

Best of Mean Girls Quotes (GIFs)

2014-11-11T04:21:00.000+05:30

Mean Girls (2004) is one of those rare chick flicks which actually has a good storyline. Tina Fey basically calls out all the complex high school - girl drama in this brilliant teen comedy, in a very realistic manner.

And if it's good enough for Jennifer Lawrence to mention in her Oscar acceptance speech, it certainly is worthy of a post in my blog. So I put together some timeless quotes from Mean Girls in this article. You'll understand them better if you've actually seen the movie... ;)

1. Don't change your personality just to feel accepted by someone else.

2. And then there are those super sacred girl rules :P

3. #wisdom.

4. Karen Smith, the ultimate dumb blonde...

5. Rules of feminism are simpler than I thought :D

6. People are not always what they seem to be...

7. Mutual respect among girls is key, if you want the guys to respect us back!

8. Secret of big hair, they are full of secrets ;)

9. Some people cannot grasp the idea of apologizing :v

10. How to take an insult like a boss!

11. Cady Heron figures out life during a "mathletes" competition.

12. Last but not least, invention of the word GROOL (great + cool) ;)

End of post. Ok bye!

It's not just epic! it's a Masterclass Twitter Win!

2014-11-09T01:00:00.000+05:30

This is part of the conversation that went down b/w Mahela Jayawardena and two Indians...

We are in Ahmadabad now. Disappointed with our last performance. Will work hard on our mistakes. 👍
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) November 4, 2014

@MahelaJay u lost to India A side LOL
— Abhinav (@abhiverma842) October 31, 2014

@abhiverma842 so if we beat India that means your A team is better than them? 😜
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) October 31, 2014

Upto this, it was just a friendly banter and a good comeback from Maiya. And then this stupid Indian pops out to degrade his country.

@sacanushka @abhiverma842 @MahelaJay will u shut the fuck up #BunnyTeam?
— Aviral Ashok (@AviralAshok) November 3, 2014

@AviralAshok please don't use foul language on this Twitter handle. You are not funny!
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) November 3, 2014

but @aviralashok keeps going on and on and on with his worthless 'less than 140 character' insults. So Maiya does what he does best, he shows his class by tweeting this...

Please don't brand all Indian fans like @aviralashok . They are good intelligent people. Let's move on from this. 🙏
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) November 4, 2014

LOL just LOL

@MahelaJay listen mate. I got mine own own grudge agnst SL. U r free in world to block me. Does it matter me? Not in d world mate..
— Aviral Ashok (@AviralAshok) November 4, 2014

@AviralAshok I haven't block you mate! With every tweet you are making a fool of your self. I can't stop you from doing that... Good luck.
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) November 4, 2014

Respect!

Things I've Learned at the University

2014-11-06T17:43:00.000+05:30

So, I've spent nearly 9 months at a campus and it turns out every important thing I've learned here are mostly social-skills. :D I know that I'm not experienced enough to write a blog post on University Life or Life in general. But I'm just going to state the obvious ;)

Special Note : All of the following "lessons learned" are about the society and it's ways and in no way connected to any person living or dead (or any particular institution.) Basically I'm talking about "stuff" in general...

1. Copying is the most important survival skill. (and Einstein approves)

Ability to produce an original answer with the use of material stolen from other people and the internet is of vital importance if you are ever going to make it out alive from a university. Apart from that one has to figure out several things in-order to pass exams - which I will not mention here in the fear of losing my life, (yes, university people are tough! ;) ) and mostly because I haven't figured them out myself.

2. Judges! I see judges everywhere...

People judge you based on every single thing that they see when they look at you. Yes, even the most down-to-earth person secretly judges you based on your shoes, hair, outfits, bags, type of people around you, the shops you visit and even by what you eat and what you don't. Zero value is given to the personality and you character is determined purely on your looks and your gossip profile.

Also, you can either turn yourself into a hero or a villain just by a carefully choreographed procedure of pretense and over-reactions...Because people think with their eyes and ears yall! XD

3. There is nothing you cannot learn by yourself.

There, I said it! :D

*pause for reaction*

I think we can learn anything and everything by ourselves if we have a will and determination to learn it. Therefore, eliminating the need to attend educational institutes. (Just saying... I'm not serious ;p ) And yes, it will take time and effort rather than just by-hearting the lecture notes, but it'll be so worth the trouble.

Einstein thinks so too...

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

-Albert Einstein

(If Einstein was alive today, I think we would've been great pals! ;) )

4. People expect you to be different while pushing you to the same mold they used to create the others.

*no comments*

5. Respect is a major issue.

Up until now, I have closely worked with at least 10,000 people who are senior to me in so many different levels. It always came naturally to me to respect those who deserve. But I never knew that earning respect and paying respect required such a lot of work and false effort until I stepped into the society. I guess this has to do with people growing up and abusing their minds and grown-ups being bad and not going to the temple and world coming to an end and stuff... (Don't worry aliens are on their way to remove the disrespectful scum off the Earth)

6. Talking to a Good Friend solves half the problems in life...

...and after the conversation you realize that the other half does not even matter anymore. Because no matter how hard life tries to get you down, you'll always have the love and support of the ones around you. And at the end of the day - even if everything else goes wrong - you still won't be a loser. You'd be a loser with lots of loving friends...

7. Give.

At the end of the day, all that matters is how much you give to the world. It may be just a smile to brighten someone's day... or giving your lunch to someone who needs it more than you do... it's the thought behind what we give that's important. For me, doing something nice for someone else always feels so nice, that I'm almost addicted to it. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a 'people pleaser'. I know when to say 'no'. But it's so great to be able to do something good in a world so full of vices. As Mahatma Gandhi puts it;

"Be the change you wish to see in this world."

BlueStacks : Use your favourite Android apps on your PC or MAC

2014-07-06T09:59:00.000+05:30

I'm thrilled to find out that I can play Clash of clans and Temple Run on my PC. Apparently this has been possible for quite some time now. But it's new to me, so here comes a blog post!

Coolest of programmers have created a thing called Android Emulator called BlueStacks that allows us to use or test android apps using our computers. This is awesome because the steps are so easy, even a newb can manage the installation process without any problem.

Step 1 : Go to BlueStacks website using this link : http://www.bluestacks.com/app-player.html

Step 2 : Download the player. (If you own a PC click the green button and the mac users should use the silver one)

Step 3 : Click on the downloaded file and Install the player.

Step 4 : Open BlueStacks player and search for the app/game you would like to use.

It's that simple! :)

I'm sure most of you might know better or similar alternatives to BlueStack. (I've heard of www.andyroid.net too.) Feel free to mention them in the comments box below.

Good bye for now, because I have a Programming quiz today evening! ;)

Why we are proud to be Sri Lankan

2014-02-04T11:16:00.004+05:30

©sakshatoonsrilanka

It's been almost a year and a half since I last wrote a blog post. I thought today would be a good day to start over as it's the 66th Independence Day of my beloved mother Sri Lanka. First I started writing this in Sinhala, then I changed my mind and decided it's better if this could be read by the visitors from other countries too. (as they are the majority of my small audience ;) )

Sri Lanka is a country with a recorded history that spans over 3000 years. Over the years our small island has gone through a lot; and yet we've managed to come this far because of the sacrifices of our brave national heroes and the Sri Lankan Armed Forces. So on this Independence Day I thought it's better if we can remind ourselves the real reasons behind the pride of being a Sri Lankan.

1. LEGACY : Today marks the 66th anniversary of the victory of hundred thousands of national heroes who rose against the British empire to free our motherland.

2. STRENGTH : The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the home to a brave nation that defeated the LTTE terrorists: who were named as the Most Dangerous Terrorist Outfit in the World by FBI at that time.
Many heroes of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces sacrificed their lives to save this "land of the lions" and we are forever grateful towards them.

3. PEACE AND HARMONY : We are not ready to destroy the legacy and the identity of our nation under the pressure of extremists! But we respect equality more than anything. From the ancient times, our island has been the home of people belonging to various religions and races. We lived in harmony: and most importantly, we lived happily with each other. The blend of cultures increased the value of our country. We learned to respect the differences and the diversity of each ethnicity. Sri Lankan lifestyle has a different rhythm that allow the Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Muslims and people belonging to many other religions to co-exist. Many of the

4. HERITAGE : Our country is peppered with ruins of ancient glory, which are still capable of providing lessons for modern engineering. Among them, eight places have been declared as UNESCO World Heritage sites. (Namely, the ancient city of Polonnaruwa, the ancient city of Sigiriya, the Golden Temple of Dambulla, the old town of Galle and its fortifications, the sacred city of Anuradhapura, the sacred city of Kandy, Sinharaja Forest Reserve and the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka.)

5. ACHIEVEMENTS : Being Sri Lankan, I cannot end a list without a Cricket reference! ;) Our national cricket team is one of the best teams in the whole world. Sri Lanka has blessed the world with many veteran cricket players and I must mention the victories and the fame they've bought home over the past few decades.

sources : www.defence.lk , en.wikipedia.org

Samanala Sandhawaniya/සමනල සනධ්වනිය - Butterfly Symphony බලන්න හේතු 6ක් :D

2013-10-13T11:27:00.000+05:30

I should be the last person to do a movie review. But it's already been done, so now u have to read it (else ignore) :D

Samanala Sandhawaniya/සමනල සනධ්වනිය - Butterfly Symphony බලන්න හේතු 6ක් ;

1. "මගේ නොවෙන දේකට, මගේම දෙයක් " වගේ සලකන අය චිත්‍රපටියකින් හරි දකින එක හොද නිසා.

2. බොළද දෙබස්, මෝඩ fights, ගස් වටේ නටන සිංදු නැතුව පැය 2ක් දිග ලස්සන කතාවක් ගොතන්න හැමෝටම බැරි නිසා.

3. අඩ නිරුවත් / අසභ්‍ය දර්ශන නැති නිසා සහ ඒවා නැතුව හොද චිත්‍රපටි හදන්න පුළුවන් බව ඔප්පු කරන චිත්‍රපටියක් නිසාත්.

4. ප්‍රබල චරිත කිහිපයකටම ඇත්තේ දෙබස් 0ක් හෝ දෙක තුනක් පමණක් නිසා (හැගීම් ප්‍රකාශනය අති විශිෂ්ටයි!)

5. චිත්‍රපටියේ ගීත සියල්ලටම තේරුමක් ඇති තේරුමක් තියෙන නිසා.

6. කතාව හිතට දැනෙන්නෙ නැතිනම්, සංගීත ඛන්ඩ ටික අහල ආවත් ටිකට් එකේ ගානට(ත් වඩා) වටින නිසා.

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
― P. B. Shelley

‘‘ එකකට එකක් සම්බන්ධ එකක් පස්සෙ එකක් ගමන් කරන දේකට මිනිස්සු කියන්නෙ ජීවිතය කියල.... එකකට එකක් සම්බන්ධ නැති මෙන්න මේකයි කියන්න හේතුවක් ද නැති දේට මිනිස්සු කියන්නෙ ආදරය කියල... ”

~සමනල සනධ්වනිය~

♫♪♫
ඉකි ගසා හඩන අතීතයක ...
කදුලු එක්ක ගනු දෙනු කරනා ....
මට මගේ නොවන මගේම ආදරයක් තිබුනා ....
♫♪♫
හීනෙන් හිනෑහී තුන්යම මා රවටා ....
මැදියම් මහ රෑ අදටත් හිත ඉගිලෙනවා .....
නින්දෙන් ඈහෑරී කලුවරේම යලි සොයනා .....
මට මගේ නොවන මගේම ආදරයක් තිබුනා ...
♫♪♫
රිදුමක් වාගේ කිසිදා සුව නොවෙනා ......
සුසුමෙන් විතරක් නිරතුරුවම පිරි මදිනා .....
උහුලනු බෑරිතෑන උනු කදුලුම වගුරුවනා .......
මට මගේ නොවන මගේම ආදරයක් තිබුනා ...

Artist : Amarasiri Peris
Music : Darshana Ruwan Disanayake
Lyrics : Amila Thenuwara
Music Video Edit : Susith Prasanna Andradi
Movie Edit - TVT/Ravindra Guruge
DOP : Ruwan Costa

Cast
Yashoda Wimaladharma ,Uddika Premarathna , Pubudu Chathuranga , Wilson Gunarathne , Punsiri Dayaruwan , Buddhadasa Withanachchi ,
Roger Seneviratne , Chathurika Peiris , Damitha Aberathna, Sandun Bandara , Dimuthu Chinthaka, Uditha Gunaratna

Produced by
Palitha Gunawardane,Ruwan Jayasingha (Ruoo Cinema )

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2456330/

Six minutes to save the earth - This is like the greatest speech I've ever heard from a child.

2013-05-22T06:05:00.000+05:30

In 1992, 12-year-old Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki spoke at the Earth Summit in Rio. With eloquence and passion, she appealed to world leaders not as politicians but as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, reminding them they were there not to protect Earth for the sake of economics or politics, but for those we love. Severn moved her audience to tears and shot to fame as an icon of the environmental movement. Now known as "The Girl Who Silenced the World for 6 Minutes”, the video clip of the speech is still making rounds on YouTube, continuing to inspire youth all over the world – many of whom don’t realize it’s two decades old.

Here's the full speech of Severn Suzuki;watch the video if you can. It sounds better when you hear her speaking in-front of all the world leaders :)

Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. - The Environmental Children's Organisation. We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future.

Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. We cannot afford to not be heard.
I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day - vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!

You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or politicians - but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles - and all of you are somebody's child. I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all share the same air, water and soil - borders and governments will never change that. I'm only a child yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal. In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel.

In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter - we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for two days.
Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. And this is what one child told us: "I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection." If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?

I can't stop thinking that these children are my age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born, that I could be one of those children living in the Favelas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India. I'm only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this earth would be!

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us: not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures to share - not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're doing this for - we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying "everything's going to be alright', "we're doing the best we can" and "it's not the end of the world".

But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My father always says "You are what you do, not what you say." Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki

Top 10 Daily Habits That Can Damage Your Brain.

2013-05-06T11:12:00.000+05:30

This list was too important not to share...

1.Skipping Breakfast or No Breakfast at all.

People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2.Over eating.

It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3.Smoking

It does not only harm the lungs however also the brain. The nicotine in cigarettes also contain some substances that causes multiple brain shrinkage. If this may continue, you might even get an Alzheimer’s disease.

4.High sugar consumption

Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Exposure in air pollution

The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Lack of sleep or Sleep deprivation

Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping

Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness

Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts

Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely

Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.

source : http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2012/08/top-10-daily-habits-that-cam-damage.html

Happy B'day dear Google!

2012-09-27T14:56:00.000+05:30

Larry Page(39) & Sergey Brin(39) : Founders of Google

Today is the 14th birthday of Google! Over the years Google has become a must have for the net surfers & It's roughly estimated that about 300million people use Google per a day. I, of course is a huge fan of many of the Google products as they are free, user-friendly, up-to-date and super cooool :) Alexa lists the Google.com site as number 1 in their "internet's most visited websites" listing while many other Google owned sites are within the top 100 of it. So let's take a peek into the interesting success story behind this massive multinational enterprise.

The founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin have met at the Stanford University in 1995, as Sergey was assigned to show Larry around the campus - who was considering the university at that time. Eventually they became friends and started working together on a search engine called BackRub as their research project, on Stanford servers. In 1997 Larry and Sergey renamed BackRub as Google after the mathematical term Googol, which stands for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The domain name google.com was registered on September 15, 1997 and they started their company, Google Inc., on September 4, 1998 at a friend's(Susan Wojcicki's) garage in California, USA. (after 2005 they started celebrting the bithday on a more convinient day than the actual one. ex:sept 27th)

{That friend - Susan Wojcicki - is currently a senior vice president in charge of product management and engineering at Google, and was 16th on Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2011.}

Google.inc branched out rapidly, while introducing new services, expanding offices and attracting investors. By 2000, Google was available in 15 languages and AdWords and the Google Toolbar were officially launched along with many other mini projects.

Today Google is one of the most stable businesses in America offering hundreds of individual products and services to the community. Google has more than 30 000 employees worldwide, and many silicon valley veterans and multimillionaire investors provide a strong base to the company.

That's it about the b'day boy/girl :) (for today)

At the end all I can say is that Google deserves to be called as a strong company with values and bonds that is looking good enough to last for years and years to come...making our lives easier....

Top 10 Most Visited Websites of the World: Their details and some more amazing facts!

2012-09-21T11:00:00.000+05:30

This detailed list of top 10 most visited websites of the world mostly includes search engines and social networking sites as you can see. It shows us that the global villagers have understood the value of sharing, knowledge and connectivity... And here you may come across many interesting and not-so-popular facts on your most favourite web sites!

Stats obtained from

Alexa Web Ratings.

(dec 23rd - 2011)

1. Google • google.com •

Google creates custom logos to celebrate significant people and events.
(here we have Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street)

♣ founded in : 1998

♣ founders : Sergey Brin, Larry Page

♣ services : Search Engine, Advertising(Ad words), Productivity Tools, Enterprise Products, Translation Service, News, Mobile phones, free wi-fi access (US), Web Browser(Chrome-open source), Email Service(Gmail), Social Networking(Google+), Photo organizing and editing (Picasa), Instant messaging (G-talk) and many more...

♣ subsidiaries : YouTube, DoubleClick, On2Technologies, Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob, Zagat, Motorola Mobility

♣ officers : Larry Page (co-founder and CEO), Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman), Sergey Brin (co-founder)

☺ Google Inc. (US) was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they were attending the Stanford University for their Phd- in 1998.It has grown in leaps and bounds since then.

☺ The name Google was originated because of a misspelling of the word "googol", which depicts the number "digit 1 followed by 100 zeros."

☺ Google hosts the #1 search engine at present(Google) and is the proud owner of two more websites in this list! (YouTube-#3 and Blogspot-#8)

☺ The company says : "starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world."

"Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

2. Facebook • facebook.com •

♣ founded in : 2004
♣ founders : Mark Zukerberg, Edurado Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes
♣ services : Social Networking, Information Sharing, Chat, Advertising, Games...
♣ users : over 800 million (sept-2011)
♣ officers : Mark Zukerberg (co-founder and CEO), Chris Cox(VP of Product), Sheryl Sandberg(COO), Donald E. Graham (chairman)

☺ Mark Zukerberg created thefacebook.com while he was a sophomore at the Harvard University with the help of few of his college friends; Edurado Saverin (capitalization and co-ordination), Dustin Moskovitz (progammer) and Andrew McCollum (graphic artist)

☺ "Thefacebook" was later changed to "Facebook" as per the instructions of the founding president of facebook; Sean Parker (co-founder of Plaxo, Napster, Airtime and Causes) [Sure calling it fb is much better than calling it tfb ;)]

☺ Throught out the years Mark Zukerberg has been accused by many people and institutions including the Harvard College Administration Board.

☺ First he was accused for violating copyrights and individual privacy while creating Facemash(which later influenced the concept for Facebook) and years later came the world famous case filed by the Winklevoss twins(Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss) and Divya Narendra saying that Zukerberg intentionally misled them and has used their company's concept for building HarvardConnection.com in building Facebook. Many cases followed claiming for the shares of the company but somehow they have all been settled successfully.

☺ The site has been portrayed in many movies and books all around the world. Among them the book written by Ben Mezrich, titled The accidental Billionaires : The founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal (2009) was special. Edurado Saverin (co-founder fb) has been assisting Mezrich's book.

☺ The Social Network(drama film-2010) directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook was adapted from Ben Mezrich's book. However Mark Zukerberg has stated that the film was inaccurate. But it's worth watching it. BTW "who can get to 800 million friends without making a few enemies..." (partly quoted from the movie itself) ☺

☺ Zukerberg says : "When I built the first version of Facebook, almost nobody I knew wanted a public page on the internet. That seemed scary. But as long as they could make their page private, they felt safe sharing with their friends online.Control was key. With Facebook, for the first time, people had the tools they needed to do this. That's how Facebook became the world's biggest community online. We made it easy for people to feel comfortable sharing things about their real lives. "

3. YouTube • youtube.com •

♣ founded in : 2005
♣ founders : Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
♣ services : Video sharing / hosting
♣ slogan : Broadcast Yourself
♣ officers : Salar Kamangar (CEO), Chad Hurley (Advisor)

☺ YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. They have all been employees of PayPal at that time.

☺ The youtube officers claim that over 48 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute.!!!

☺ YouTube has been blocked in China, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan and Libya. Several other countries like Thailand and Iran have also temporarily blocked it for certain periods of time due to various cultural and political reasons.

☺ Now YouTube operates as a subsidiary of Google.

☺ The company says : "Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small."

4. Yahoo! • yahoo.com •

♣ founded in : 1995

♣ founders : Jerry Yang, David Filo

♣ services : search engine (Yahoo! search), web portal, Yahoo! mail, Yahoo! news, Yahoo! groups, Yahoo! directory, Yahoo! answers, advertising, Yahoo! maps, video sharing (Yahoo! video) & ...
♣ subsidiaries : Yahoo! has over 62 subsidiaries.

♣ officers : Roy Bostock (Chairman), Tim Morse (Interim CEO)

☺ Yahoo! was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo when they were studying as electrical engineering graduate students at the Stanford University.

☺ The term Yahoo was meant to be an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."

☺ Yahoo! provides a personalized service as My Yahoo! which allows users to combine all their favorite Yahoo features and information to one page.

☺ New York Times has reveled that Yahoo collects far more customer data than any of its competitors. It is said that they can build a profile of approximately 2500 records per month about each of its visitors. They retain search requests for a period of 13 months. But as per the instructions of the European Regulators, Yahoo scrambles the last 8 digits of the IP addresses after 3 months, leaving the visitors partially anonymous.

☺ The company says : "We are committed to winning with integrity. We know leadership is hard won and should never be taken for granted."

"We believe humor is essential to success. We applaud irreverence and don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate achievement. We yodel."

"We respect our customers above all else and never forget that they come to us by choice."

"We are flexible and learn from our mistakes."

"We appreciate the value of multiple perspectives and diverse expertise."

5. Baidu • baidu.com •

♣ founded in : 1999

♣ founders : Robin Li, Eric Xu

♣ services : Internet search engine, Baidu map, Baidu post bar, Baidu news, Baidu MP3, Baidu Space(social network), Baidu Encyclopedia(Chinese), Baidu Love, Baidu Games, Baidu Youa(e-commerce), Baidu Anti-virus and man more services...

♣ subsidiaries : Baidu.inc(Japan)

♣ officers : Robin Li (Chairman and CEO)

☺ Baidu (pronounced as By-doo in English) is a Chinese web services company.

☺ Baidu.com is available in Chinese and Japanese languages.

☺ The name "Baidu" was quoted from the last line of Xin Qiji's classical poem "Green Jade Table in The Lantern Festival" . (In ancient China girls had to stay indoors and lantern festival was one of the few chances that they could meet their lovers once a year. "..hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood." Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal. ~ quoted from baidu overview)

☺ Baidu is the number 1 search engine in China and controls 63% of China's market share as of 2010.

☺ The company says : "With our goal of best serving the needs of our users and customers with intelligent and relevant solutions, we look forward to a robust future."
&
"We provide our users with many channels to find and share information. In addition to our core web search product, we power many popular community-based products, such as Baidu PostBar, the world’s first and largest Chinese-language query-based searchable online community platform, Baidu Knows, the world’s largest Chinese-language interactive knowledge-sharing platform, and Baidu Encyclopedia, the world’s largest user-generated Chinese-language encyclopedia, to name but a few."

6. Wikipedia • wikipedia.org •

♣ founded in : 2001

♣ founders : Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

♣ services : Free Encyclopedia

♣ sister projects :

♣ owner : Wikimedia foundation (non profit org)

☺ Larry Sanger has come up with the name Wikipedia by combining the Hawaiian word wiki (meaning 'quick') and the English word encyclopedia.

☺ The concept of Wikipedia was born while Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger was working on a similar project called Nupedia. (Nupedia had a system of peer review and required highly qualified contributors. Writing of articles was slow, so the Nupedia project was abandoned later.)

☺ Currently Wikipedia is available in over 270 languages.

☺ The company says : "Anyone with Web access can edit Wikipedia, and this openness encourages inclusion of a tremendous amount of content. About 91,000 editors—from expert scholars to casual readers—regularly edit Wikipedia."

Ten Things You May Not Know about Wikipedia... →

7. Windows Live • live.com •

♣ founded in : 2005

♣ founders : Microsoft

♣ services : e-mail (Hotmail), Groups, Password protected online storage (SkyDrive), Messenger, Photo Gallery, Search Engine (Bing), Movie Maker and etc...

♣ owners : Microsoft

☺ Windows Live is the services and software platform of Microsoft.

☺ The company says : " Windows Live is a way to extend the Windows user experience. "

8. Blogger • blogger.com •

♣ founded in : 1999

♣ founders : Pyra Labs

♣ services : Blog publishing services

♣ owner : Google.Inc

☺ Blogger was initially created by three friends who were engaged in the business of doing contract web projects for other companies.

☺ A single user can create an unlimited number of blogs using blogger.A single blog can have up to 100 blog authors allowing group blogs.

☺ Blogger allows its users to generate revenue through their blogs by using Google Ad Sense and via Amazon Associates.

☺ Blogger is available in nearly 50 languages.

☺ The company says : "Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit. (Unless it was other people's free beer.)"

&

"We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What we were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm... that's kinda interesting."

9. Amazon • amazon.com •

♣ founded in : 1994 (went online in 1995)

♣ founders : Jeff Bezos

♣ services : Online shopping

♣ subsidiaries and products : A2Z Development, A9.com, Endless.com, Lab126, Brilliance Audio, Alexa Internet, Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Studios, Amazon Web Services, Audible.com, Endless.com, IMDb, LoveFilm, Zappos.com, Woot

♣ officers : Jeff Bezos (chairman, CEO and president)

☺ The name Amazon was given after the world famous Amazon river. It was selected mainly because Jeff Bezos wanted the site to be a massive exotic and a different one just like the Amazon river. He had also wanted the site to begin with an 'A' so that it would appear early in the alphabetical order.

☺ Amazon.com is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian, Italian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese.

☺ The company started as an online book store and today it has become the world's largest online retailer selling books, DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food and toys...

☺ The company says :

" At Amazon, we're constantly looking for ways to further reduce our environmental impact. "&

"At Amazon, if we do our job right, our greatest contribution to the good of society will come from our core business activities: lowering prices, expanding selection, driving convenience, driving frustration-free packaging, creating Kindle, innovating in web services, and other initiatives we'll work hard on in the future. "

10. Twitter • twitter.com •

sources :
☼ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
☼ http://www.alexa.com/topsites
☼ & all the ten sites mentioned above

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2011-11-27T16:34:00.000+05:30

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පළමු අධිවේගී මාර්ගය, එනම් කොට්ටාව සිට පින්නදූව දක්වා දිවෙන දක්ෂිණ ලංකා අධිවේගී මාර්ගය අද දින (නොවැ.27 ඉරිදා) සුභ මොහොතින් ජනතා අයිතියට පත් කරන ලදී. එමගින් ගාල්ල සිට කොට්ටාව දක්වා පැයක පමණ කාලයකදී ගමන් කළ හැක. එය කාලය ඉතිරි කරගැනීමට, රථ වාහන තදබදය නැවැත්වීමට, ඉන්ධන වැයවීම අවම කරගැනීමට, සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ දියුණුවට මෙන්ම යුධ ගැටුම් වලින් පසු ලංකාවේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන දැවැන්ත සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති උදෙසාද අතිශයින් වැදගත් ආයෝජනයක් වන බව ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයින්ගේ අදහසයි.

Image credits - AFP : Ishara S. Kodikara

පළමු ප්‍රවේශ පත්‍රය අතිගරු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිදුන් අතින් ලබාගත් අතර එතුමාම අධිවේගී මාර්ගයේ ගමන් කළ පළමු වාහනය පදවාගෙන යාමද සුවිශේෂී අවස්ථාවක් වුණි. විවෘත කිරීමේ උත්සවය නැරඹීමට වර්ෂාවද නොතකා අතිවිශාල ජනකායක් රැස්ව සිටිනු දක්නට ලැබුණු අතර පාසල් සිසුන් මෙන්ම රංවල ජනකලා කේන්ද්‍රය ඉදිරිපත් කළ දේශීය සංස්කෘතිකාංගයන්ගෙන්ද උත්සවය විචිත්‍රවත් විය.

කි.මී. 96ක් දිග දක්ෂිණ ලංකා අධිවේගී මාර්ගය මං තීරු 4කින් යුක්ත වේ. මාර්ගය අතරමැද සියලු පහසුකම් වලින් සමන්විත සේවා ස්ථානයක්ද පිහිටුවා ඇත. ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු වලින් 95%ම ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ඉංජිනේරුවන් යටතේ සිදුවී තිබීමද මෙහි ඇති තවත් විශේෂත්වයකි. අද පස්වරු 6 සිට අධිවේගී මාර්ගය ජනතාව උදෙසා විවෘත කෙරුණි.

වර්ෂ 2013 වන විට මෙම මාර්ගය මාතර දක්වාම ඉදි කිරීමට දැනටමත් කටයුතු සිදුවෙමින් පවතින අතර පසුකාලීනව එය දීප ව්‍යාප්ත අධිවේගී මාර්ග ජාලයක් බවට පත් කිරීමටද සැලසුම් සකස් කර ඇති බව අද දින ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදී.

කෙසේ වෙතත් ස්වභාව සෞන්දර්යයෙන් පිරිපුන් ලංකා දිවයිනේ කෙත් වතු, නිල් ගොයම්, පොල් රුප්පා වැනි මනරම් දසුන් මැදින් දිවෙන දක්ෂිණ ලංකා අධිවේගී මාර්ගය ලෝකයේ මෙතෙක් බිහි වූ සුන්දරතම අධිවේගී මාර්ග අතරට එක්වන බව නම් නොඅනුමානයි... එය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට "ආශ්චර්යයේ පිවිසුමක්"ම වී, දූෂණය වංචාව දුරලා සමෘධිමත් රාජ්‍යයකට මං පෙත් පාදන, වාසනාව කැන්දන, අපතේ නොයන ආයෝජනයක් වේවායි යන්න සමස්ථ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ගේ ඒකායන පැතුමයි!

Hope

2011-11-22T10:26:00.001+05:30

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

~ Martin Luther King, Jr ~

HOPE

Hovering over the darkest of nights...

Obstructing the woeful, sober plights...

Passing through the valleys of time...

Eternal hope rings a charming chime...

Hope rules the minds of all,

Healing the wounds of despair...

Hope makes the world go round,

Making our lives more fair...

Hope for love,

Hope for peace...

Hope for a smile,

That's never to cease...

Hope and dream,

Never lose faith...

Hope for better,
For a better end...

SKG

Overcoming Challenges

2011-11-22T09:11:00.001+05:30

There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself...
~Michael F. Staley~

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.

~Martin Luther King Jr~

Challenges are unavoidable when you live in a society. They come in various forms; everyday...every second. Mainly, the challenges fall under two categories; as the ones you should accept, and the ones you shouldn't ! Most important thing is identifying them and understanding the way you should face them.

no copyright intended ~*~ photographed by SKG @Ratnapura, SRI LANKA

Humans have faced numerous challenges all through the past years... and have succeeded in squeezing his way up to the present. Many of them ended in failure and many turned out to be successful, but each and every one of those challenges have paved the way for the rapid advancement of the mankind for sure. Likewise we should also think of a challenge as a blessing to polish up our lives. It may be hard, and in some cases may need a lot of courage and tons of self discipline. But its worth doing so rather than giving up and leaving behind what you wanted to achieve.

Wining a challenge is not a must!!! Facing it bravely is what matters the most. When you have really done your best to get something, win or loss makes only a little difference... If you win someday!!! ~*~()#$*$celebrate it... (know your limits)*~*~*! But if you lose it... remember, your endurance will be tested once again... and passing it is also a challenge!

More often, challenges are easily dealt with when you are in good spirits rather than when you are in a gloomy mood. Independence, common-sense, self consciousness, trust and faith are few more things that could contribute to the course when handled correctly. But more than everything you've got to be realistic, so that you that you are more prepared to what you can achieve or expect at the end...

So never lose hope... and keep making yourself more suitable to receive what you want... as hopes and courage are the greatest weapons from nature - for us, humans - to fight the battle of destiny...

~*~ "Believe in yourself and everything becomes possible" ~*~

Let's make Friendship Bands using Beads and Ribbons.

2011-11-19T10:26:00.001+05:30

Upside down text and ASCII art for facebook, twitter and e-mails.

2011-11-10T21:40:00.001+05:30

Simply copy (Ctrl+c) and paste (Ctrl+v) these funny upside down messages and text art into your facebook account, twitter or e-mails! I created the upside down msgs using a software which exchange the typed characters to their upside down flipped character. It's fun! Google "upside down text" and you'll get many interesting links. And also I've used some of the amazing pieces of Text Art available on http://fsymbols.com/text-art/ here. You can use http://fsymbols.com/generators/carty/ to crate your own text art!

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke - a British citizen with a Lankan soul...

2011-11-03T19:01:00.000+05:30

My father has this age old plus worn-out poster put up on a wall, and it is about a prediction of Sir Arthur, quoted from his book; The Deep Range. After noticing this for several days - and having read that wonderful novel several times - I decided that I'm still not late to express my gratitude to this greatest futurist of our times... And I must mention that I'm mesmerized by his art of writing and his excellent, incomparable inventions.

Arthur Charles Clarke was born on 16th of December 1917 in England.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke near Sigiriya , An ancient rock fortress in Si Lanka-
photo by Rohan de Silva (his personal photographer)

from nalakagunawardena.com

*Also read...

My vision for Sri Lanka in 2048

Sir Arthur C Clarke

http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/03/22/fea01.asp

Why I hate Chemistry, though it's an interesting field of Science

2011-11-01T13:02:00.000+05:30

[this is just another personal opinion :)]

When it comes to ALs, chances of obtaining an A or a B pass for Chemistry entirely depends on how well one can by-heart all the books and notes. I'm not telling this only because I'm so sure that I'm going to get a 'F' for Chemistry this time :P, but because I really sense that there's something terribly wrong with the Chemistry paper... at least for those who follow Maths subjects ;)

I really don't care what was wrong with the Plum Pudding model of Thompson, as long as I know he has no sensible proof for that. Another weird thing about Chemistry is that it is full of 'assumptions' from beginning to the end! I have millions of things to worry about, even without thinking of all the Scientists who went mad trying to convince people that this universe behaves just as they suppose it would.(I'm not trying to underestimate or humiliate the great scientists :-o) When we look at the founding principles of Chemistry, one can even say that it is entirely fictional ! But even I admit that still there's no other subject that could explain some things better than Chemistry.

Chemistry becomes a little more reliable in the Physical Chemistry section. But Inorganic part is a nightmare and General and Organic parts provide you with heaps and heaps of meaningless stuff to by heart! Hope I'm not being too hard on Chem... :)

By now you may have clearly understood that I'm writing this based only and only on my own horrific experiences :D There are people who still love Chemistry, despite it being so confusing and boring... It's obvious that Chemistry is the most colorful subject of all, and I must not forget to tell you that I'm the biggest fan (ah! next to Hansika of course ) of Chemistry during the practical periods!! :D

So, you all.... friends and foes of Chem... feel free to add your ideas and experiences on Chemistry!!

thnx!