Sports Day Around the Corner

Well its the sports day of our office on the coming Sunday.With the company growing to around 700 Employees we are having very few events for the whole company,Annual IFS night and the sports day being the only two occasions where the whole company get together.The sports day is held after 3 years and unfortunately participation isn't that high.There are four teams and surprisingly I'm the leader of one :).
Well its not something that I was hoping for but somehow or the other I became the leader.Luckily I got a great team to co-ordinate with other so the things should go according to plan.With 150 in a group I guess its a bit surprising that it was hard to find 7 gals for netball , I guess sports isn't a girl thing. Other than finding girls everything seems to be going fine so and the draw for events were also a bit favorable for our team.With a bit of luck we could be the champions :).
Tomorrow we are preparing the decorations for the tents and finalizing the details of the Mascot , One of our group members Shifana did a great job of creating the Mascot so we might win the Mascot event as well.

IPL is giving me headaches

I'm sure most of you are watching IPL , but aren't you all a bit confused about who to support ? When its Mumbai Indians vs most other teams I support Mumbai Indians because Sanath is on there side.Same when Murali is playing for Super Kings and when Sanga and Mahela play for Kings XI. Problem comes when Mumbai plays against Punjab or something similar like Chennai super kings against Punjab. Finally I decided I will support Kings XI punjab. They got two Sri Lankan players , has a great batting line up , a more than decent bowling line up , fields very well and best of all they got Preity Zinta :) , Thats one cheer leader you can't find everywhere in the world.

How the times have changed

There was another bomb threat recently and I was amazed at the reaction of some of the people , it happened during the lunch time and people just played carom and etc without any concern about the bomb threat.Only the people who were near the windows bothered to go somewhere else and other were business as usual.This reminded me of the bomb blasts just a few days ago , although our office was not badly damaged there were few broken glasses here and there.Yet almost everybody came to office and the ones who got late and the ones who didn't come were teased.My first recollection of a serious bomb blast was the LTTE attack on Kollonnawa and I think we got a holiday of around three months at that time.Of course we were school children then but I remember how everyone was shocked and sad.Now nobody even bothers much about a bomb.How the times have changed .............

Sri Lankan Blogs

Compared to the rest of the world the presence of Sri Lankan blogs in the blog sphere can be negligible. But feed readers like Kottu have come up and more and more Sri Lankan bloggers are coming up.SLBlogs.org is another great feed reader like that with where you can get your blog syndicated.There are not many blogs submitted yet so chances of your blog getting some exposure are pretty good.An excerpt from the original post is shown with a link to the blog post , so your bound to get visitors if you write good enough articles.So all you Sri Lankan bloggers why don't you head to Slblogs.org get some exposure for your blogs.

RSS - Let the news come to you

The last article in the blog , SLIIT wins another award at NBQSA attracted a lot of attention. Got more than 200 visits in the last two days and had 10 comments for that post , which is the highest for this blog. Sad part is only 5 people voted in the poll ( Firefox is still leading :) ) and only 5 subscribed to the the RSS feed even after I put a big box asking them to subscribe. So I thought I'll give some details about RSS and hopefully more readers will subscribe to the feed.
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. It uses XML which is a markup language like HTML.If you really want to know more details about RSS you can read it here. You need a RSS reader like Google reader to subscribe to the RSS feed. The great thing about RSS is that News comes to you , so you don't have to waste time looking for news from your favorite sites. This video gives a great description of advantages of RSS.So why don't you let me send the news to you. Enter your e-mail in the big box below.

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