Visit to Linkoping Sweden

My last post was about how I blogged from the airport and I was hoping I would find similar service in other air ports as well. Well other air ports do have the service but you have to pay for it. So my plan of blogging my journey all went wrong. I thought the Sweden trip deserved its very own blog but since hub pages have a better chance of out performing blogspot blogs I decided to write some hubs about different places I visited while in Linkoping. One thing you can't miss when in Linkoping is the cathedral so my first hub was about the Linkoping cathedral. Then I made a hub about old Swedish town Gamla Linkoping. I did put some effort to make them nice so I hope you guys enjoy them.

Blogging from the airport

At the airport now and have some time to kill , so was looking for some thing to do and found a free Internet booth. The check in process went smoothly , the guy at the counter knew some of my friends at IFS so didn't have much trouble getting in and he helped me out as well. The place is almost deserted , I wasn't expecting huge crowd but I surely expected more than this , already missing people back home , but at least I'm traveling with two others which is a comfort. If all goes well I'll be going to Linkoping railway station by mid day tomorrow. Mom has packed plenty of winter clothes and don't know whether I'll be really needing them , better safe than sorry I guess , there will be a transit in Doha , maybe they also have free Internet access :)

Shopping for winter clothes in House of Fashion

With the visit to Sweden getting close I suddenly realized that I haven't actually brought winter clothes. I tend to do things much better when they are done at the last moment. So put aside everything and went to House of Fashion to buy some winter clothing. Lucking there was a list of things to buy so you don't have to worry much about figuring out what to buy. It has all the kinds of clothes you hope to buy so didn't have trouble buying everything from there. The best thing was it was relatively cheap as well , I was hoping that it would cost me around 20k to buy all the stuff in the list but I managed to do it in around 12k , that is after buying some T-shirts and shorts for my brother as well. This is my first time going out from Sri Lanka so I'm exited about it but at the same time I'm a bit nervous as well. One good thing is my Manager in Sweden seems to be readying everything for me from mobile phones to bus passes. Well just two more days to go :-)

Getting fed up with questionnaires

Being in a software company with a huge staff I usually get a questionnaire once every two weeks or so. I don't mind answering a questionnaire especially if its relevant to myself but some people just doesn't know how to prepare a well planned questionnaire. Its either too long or printed in dark bold so you have a hard time looking at it let alone filling it. There are plenty of guides on how to prepare a questionnaire and if you want a good response to your questionnaire then at least follow some steps mentioned in them.

Getting a passport in Sri Lanka-its easier than you think

I got a sudden opportunity to go to Sweden and I had to get the passport in a hurry. With all the horror stories about inefficient government service I went to the Department of Immigration and emigration with a bit of worry about the time I will waste. Instead I found the system at the passport office to be very efficient. First of all there are direction signs all over the place to guide you where you want to go. There are people at most entrances to guide you to the specific counter and there is a ticket system to efficiently manage the issuing of passports.My form is looked at in about 1o minutes everything was approved and I was told to come around 4.00 PM. I went back there around 4.10 PM and it was ready. All in all I must have spend around 20 minutes inside the office to get the passport which is pretty efficient for me. If you have your documents in order getting a passport is very easy and definitely very efficient.