Beautiful Kandy Its Sri Lankan Heritage

Its my 200th post...enjoy the pictures

Old Age & Death [part-1]

Have you really thought about death? The NO MORE scenario of yourself. Soon you’ll start loosing your what ever looks you have. You might try to improve yourself, provided that you have lots of money, but you will still degrade. It’s unstoppable, irreversible. One day you’ll look at yourself in the mirror and find out that you look terrible. Forget about the looks. Just think about your physical condition. The saddest thing is that it would be the same mind trapped inside the old body. Or is it? Does our mind get old too? I haven’t seen old people complaining about being old except for the people who keep them. Maybe they get used to it and accept the way it is. Recently I was thinking about the things that I should be doing when I’m 60. Guess what I couldn’t’ think of anything and it wasn’t a good experience. Here I’m at the age of 29, almost spent more than half of my good life, not knowing what to do when I’m really old. Any ideas?

Mervin in Madura dictionary

Absolutely hilarious.............

Warren Buffett

Think about a person without a cell phone or a computer, can he be the richest person in this world? Well Warren Buffett proved that he could. He still lives in his three bedroom house bought 50 years ago which he claims to have everything he needs, drives his car himself to office and travels in commercial planes (he owns the largest Air Line company). He firmly believes that people should not spend money for unnecessary things. At the age of 6, he bought 6 coca cola packs from his grandma’s shop for 25 cents and resold them for nickel to gain 5 cents profit. Five years later he invested some money in stock market which taught him his first lesson of investments. Since then, his voyage to become the richest man on earth was unstoppable.Recently he gifted 31 billion to charity, biggest gift ever to be given. The most beautiful thing about this man is not his simplicity but his generousness. He has planned to give away 85% of his wealth for those who need it more through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its not his money that made me write this article, its his beautiful heart. There are angels among us, he's one of them. Some interesting facts about Warren Buffet.

The Kandyan Wedding

Sometimes I feel proud of being a Sri Lankan. Well, when you consider the current situation in Sri Lanka, it’s a rare feeling. This is one of those moments, the kadyan wedding. I felt very proud of becoming part of that culture. It’s a wedding full of flowers, glittering traditional dresses, and unique ceremonies. The Sri Lankan wedding is so beautiful!, oh ,by the way its my wifes sisters wedding.

Outlandish, Look Into My Eyes

Listen to this song its beautiful.Closer Than Veins is Outlandish's third album. The first single was "Look Into My Eyes". The song's lyrics are based on a poem by Gihad Ali, a Palestinian who wrote the piece when she was a teenager; the poem expresses the plight of those suffering from America’s foreign policy with regards to Israel and Palestine. The video is based around the fairy-tale Little Red Riding Hood. It portrays an Israeli soldier as the Wolf and the Palestinian girl, wearing a Kaffiyeh, as Little Red Riding Hood.

Holy Books & Blind Faith [A Zen Story]

All over the world, people are struggling to adopt family planning, and some religions object to it. They say that children are a gift of god and if god gives, we must accept. Why is it necessary to drag religion into this family planning problem? Religion has nothing to do with this social activity. If we depend on our holy books for everything without using our commonsense, we may get into trouble. Let me tell you a story to illustrate this.

There was a religious teacher who had a few thousand followers. He was very strict and insisted that his word was law. He had written down all the instructions in his holy book and he warned his followers not to do anything without referring to his holy book. One day when this guru and the followers were crossing a narrow bridge, the guru slipped and fell down into the river. The followers remembered the instructions and wanted to read the holy book to determine what he had decreed and what to do when the guru fell into the river. The guru was shouting for help, but the followers said, "Wait, wait, we want to see what you have written in our holy book about a situation like this." Of course the guru drowned, before they found the instruction.

This text was extracted from an article written by ven Kiribathgoda Ñānānanda

Naked Women Ride( bitchcruiser)

You can buy it in e-bay for $2,303.81, looks very creative, but i don't wan't to ride one myself....

Train Through Bangkok Market

Some times you have to accept life as it is!

Monk and the Wooden Statue [A Zen story]

I heard this Zen story in a TV show, gives a deep message about the teachings of Buddha. The original version may differ from what I write. Just try to understand the message it conveys, why did the monk do such a thing at the end? you have to think beyond the conventional thinking.

There was this monk who had so much respect towards Lord Buddha. The monk was determined to attain enlightenment (realized the truth). He used to sit in front of a wooden Buddha statue in the temple and meditate. So many months passed, but he kept on meditating. He didn't reduce his effort for even a moment. Finally he attained enlightenment, it was the winter, and everything was so cold. So he chopped the statue in to pieces and made a fire.

Spielbergs Social Network ,Ghost Town

This network is mainly for people who want to share their experiences in paranormal & extraterrestrial activities like ghosts & UFO's. Steven Spielberg always loved to create stories related to this subjects, some of his famous movies are The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Casper (1995), Men in Black (1997), The Haunting (1999), War of the Worlds (2005) and the upcoming Interstellar (2009). He claims to have some paranormal experiences himself( seeing his dead relative many times) which made him to create this website.A team in Los Angeles is working to launch it in the next few months. This web site could be really fun,a team is working to launch it in the next few months.Ghost Town, we are waiting!

Surviving Office Politics

Doing a job is not that easy, it’s not always about being qualified for the job or doing it right. There are other factors which could affect your carrier and its future, this often originate around the water cooler, and it’s called office politics. It’s very important how you handle different characters associated with office politics. So how to handle office politics, these are some of the factors that I’ve noticed during the brief history of my carrier which could improve the way you handle politics in your office.

Surviving Office Politics

1.Always try to be Professional.
2.Try to listen, but try not to talk.
3.Secrets always spread faster than memos
4.Avoid criticizing your boss with others.
5.Enemies can destroy your confidence & peace of mind, try no to make any (A heart full sorry could make a huge difference).
6.Sometimes, accepting the mistakes could stop spreading it further than denying it.
7.Stop complaining too much, it’s a big headache (to the boss).
8.Making others look bad doesn’t make you look good( and vice versa)
9.Constructive criticism is always better than criticizing people.
10.Don’t disclose everything to everybody.
11.Try to think relatively, try to think how you feel if it happens to you.
12.Keep your image clean.
13.Be cool, laugh & joke.
14.People change, so keep your personal things to yourself.( Thy use it to blackmail you).
15.Time can solve problems too, so give some time.
16.Those who climb higher using dirty tricks comes down faster, so b patient.
17.Be firm, but not aggressive.

The Death Report - Who Died on Your Birthday?

137,041 People

Chek this cool web site which shows you how many people died the day you were born( even includes names of famous people), or how geek are you. Please click on the image to visit.

site says,

Birthdays are awesome. There's cake, presents, and party hats - don't let
finding out how many people died that day spoil the fun.

well in my case its Mark Twain who spoilt the fun :-)

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