In the new project !!

Yesterday I was informed by my project manager that I would be in the Eagle project which is the newest development project at IFS. I had good time working for product support I guess it was a good time to move on to something different. I have being in IFS for close to 6 years and I was always in the support team. This is the first time I went to a Product development team so I'm pretty exited. The first phase of the project is more of a quality improvement thing so hopefully it will be challenging and interesting at the same time. I'm assigned to look into a commit and rollback issues and according to the new PM it's a tricky area. Well wish me luck :)

Worst bowling performance

Last Sunday I went to the race course grounds for a cricket tournament. Although we managed to win one match it was a horrible day for me. They were four ball overs and I manged to give 26 and 24 in my two overs in two matched. Althought it was supposed to be fun I was a bit dissapointed about my bowling. One or two bad balls are ok , but to bowl four bad balls in a row was very dissapointing. Better luck next time

Second Againa and cheated again

We recently had our Sports Day in office and since I wasn't involved in any event other than the tug of war I was able to enjoy it much more than the previous one. Cricket was the main event but there were some fun events too to make it interesting and enjoyable to everyone. I especially like the fun relay , although I doubt it would have being fun for the participants. Our team "Marisi Panda" got disqualified in the fun relay otherwise we could have won easily. Well better luck next time

CEO comes for a visit

Last Thursday our CEO came for a visit to Sri Lanka and we had a nice presentation in a near by conference hall. Most of us were eagerly waiting to hear what he have to say because of the recession and the current global market situation. Fortunately for us ths sectors we are mostly providing solutions are not effected that much so we are doing ok. If we are doing so ok maybe they should have given a bonus for this new year ;) but they might be saving it expecting tougher times.

IFS confirmation treat

Well finally we gave our confirmation treat , We have being in IFS for four and a half years but the first four years were spent as trainee students , so we only got our permanent employee status at the begining of this year. The treat was a grand affair , around 600 people were invited to the event and by the end of it the hands were aching from all the handshakes. Since we were there for around four years every one was expecting a grand treat so we decided to give a big Mac , Cornetto and drinks.
Sukitha was in charge of organizing and he did a good job organizing it. Guess he learned a lot from managing us in the last year project :) . In the end there were some left overs and I think I had two big Macs and around four Cornettos.
I guess one person that I would have liked to come for the treat is my former PM Chintha , she migrated to Australia and she was very helpful and understanding when I first started here at IFS