Forums for Gossips! OMG

While wondering around the nabble, I found this forum Gossip Girl Forum. Which is a forum for gossip girls!! I don't know and don't want to know whose idea is that.. but that was one hell of an idea! Finally they have brought it up online... I won't be surprised if FB comes with a gossip widget in future! :D

Convocation

Finally we graduated! :). General convocation for University of Moratuwa for degrees completed from last years convocation was held at BMICH (as always) with presence of Chancellor and other academia on 25th June 2008. Here some of the pictures taken from my phone and Sithara's Camera. Gee that GHOST suite was funny!! :)

Communicasia Singapore from June 17-20

I got the opportunity to be at Communicasia 2008 which was held at Expo, Singapore. I together with Niranjan, and Shehan were there representing the company. Communicasia is regarded as one of the largest exhibitions in the telecommunication domain in our region. We left Sri Lanka from BIA on 17th Morning and was at Changi International Airport, Singapore by 6.30 am local time. We were staying at Golden Land Mark Hotel.


In Singapore almost all the things are defined. So nothing to worry about. If you get into a taxi they are all metered and have the rates written down in shutters. So nobody can cheat. But fairs are little high :). Also there are sign boards to get to anywhere and if you are thinking about violating any signs better have some money with you, as fines are quite high!

Golden Landmark hotel was little far away from Expo where exhibition was at. So we usually took the train from Bugis to Expo, via Tenah Merah interchange. Train service in Singapore known at MRT is quite efficient and cheap compared to Taxis. Ticketing system is completely automated and train service was nothing but great.

At the exhibition there were many leading vendors for telecom software and hardware as well as handset vendors. Exhibition halls were huge and there were about 4 of them. You could imagine the trouble of walking though all of them! It took us 3 days to cover most of them. Some of the coolest things that we came across was jeep mounted satellite disk and 3D tv. You can see some pics below

Sampath Bank - Leaps ahead in customer satisfaction

Last week I was trying to increase the credit limit of my Sampath Bank credit card. I called over to bank and informed them my requirement. Then I had to write a letter of request and fax it to the bank. As soon as they got the fax, I've got not just credit limit increase but also upgrade from Silver card to Gold. My new gold card was ready 2 days after that.

Yesteryday I went to collect the card from Sampath Bank HQ at Sir James Peiris Mw, since it's the closest to my office :). When I signed the card, it happens to be that I have signed while it was upside down. I was so curious why they would mind that! According to the bank it's general practice to verify the sign with card with proper side up! If you signed it upside down store might reject you or worse you might get charged for credit card frauds. Since it would cause problems they wanted to issue another card instead of it. But I was worried that it will take sometimes(another 2 days may be). But to my amazement they said they can issue another card in 2 hours! It was SUPER FAST! I must admit that I'm really impressed with the type of service offered by Sampath Bank and would recommend everyone to get the same treat!

Yajith's party @ Queens Cafe - Duplication Rd

Yajith with many reasons decided to throw us a party someday in Feb. As a part of the it ,he gave us the opportunity to play pool. Honestly I don't nothing about this game and even not sure abt it's name. All I knew was that I had to take a stick and hit the white ball. As *they* say all that followed was history!!! :)

Here are photos....

Martin Wickramasigha folk museum

Just off Koggala free trade zone from the Galle side, in front of Fortress Hotel you can find the Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Museum. It is quite wonderfully built in a really wonderful environment. Cost of a ticket as I remember is about Rs. 40, which is quite cheap and there are quite lot of things to watch.
Actually it will take about 4 hours to cover all the things. It's open 6 days a week and only closed on Mondays. Based around the life and environment talked in the books of Martin Wickramasinghe, the museum will give a brief insight into the life at that time. In my view this is a must visit! Here are some photos....

Visits to lamda's home

Wow!! it was once again a marvelous trip to far far away to City of Kekanudura. As usual Lamda and Banda had arranged a dedicated Langama bus for the trip. Journey was nothing but filled with the trill and excitement. I'll leave comment about the food and bus ride to Sibba, and Gav. Here are the photos...