New job.....

As I told you guys earlier, I was employed at Dialog Telekom PLC for the past nearly 1 year..... But I had to resign last month. So from this month I joined Suntel Ltd. which is a fixed wireless telecom providing company in Sri Lanka, where I had my intern training in 2006. So let me tell you about the last week at Dialog and the first week at Suntel.

First of all, it was very hard for me to leave Dialog, for many reasons. It was my first job and the people I met their was, I think fantastic; speically my friends in our department, i.e. Core Network Development Services. In our devision we had 29 and 7 of us had to resign and I don't want to tell you all, the reasons......... I'll just skip it...... Ok.. the rest of the guys gave us a big farewell on the last day, 24th April, and it was heart-breaking for me to leave them. I got my birthday presents form them also, (oh.... by the way, my b'day was on 26th April..... I think I forgot to tell you all....) which I never expected. We had the last dinner with them at Fawas's place (our Manager) before leaving them.......

On previous Wednesday (22nd) we got another farewell. That is from our university friends. Ah...... I can't remember whether I tell you all about them before..... Ok let me tell you now.
From the 1st day at Dialog, I met with some great friends, 2 of them are new and others I knew from University time.... Gayan, who works in my division from peradeniya uni (UOP); Shamal, a friend of Gayan, also from UOP; Rangana, Anuradha and Braveena from our uni. (UOM). 6 of us spent that 10 months time as close friends, where we will remember it for life. They truely are great friends..... I can't explain it in words.... let me quote something which was shown by Gayan extracted from the film "Lord of the rings"

"When you see people do wrong everyday, when you get sick of it, Its really nice to know that there are good people like you. It gives a will to fight for the good. There's good left in this world and its worth fighting for. Whenever you feel down, think about that. You belong in the good lot."

Well, that's how my friends are. They are good, more than good..... So leaving them is hard, very hard. But Gayan, Shamal and me had to leave the others until we meet sometime later. So we had our last party at ExcelWorld. Here are we........


(from left : Gayan, Braveena, Anuradha, me, Rangana and Shamal)

So from next Monday onwards (27th April), I joined Suntel. There I work as an application engineer in the IT division. I hope I'll make some good friends there also. Good luck to me......

Pirith Pinkama.....

Last weekend was a tough one for me. I hadn't been able to sleep, that's why..... Anyway last Friday and Saturday nights I attended two Pirith events that took place in two of my friends houses. In there I met some of my old friends. As usual, these kind of events, we use them to meet each other, although the pinkama meant to be totally religious.

Following are some of the pics I took during those days.......

This is the Pirith Mandape, the place where bhikkus get in and chant pirith. They do it all through the night, starting at 9.00 pm, till next morning, probably around 6.00 am. Of course not by single person, they have a cycle. At first they start the pirith with at least 8 and to continue it, they use 2 at a time. Both of them chant pirith for one and half hours and give the position to another two to continue. This goes on until dawn.
So the others who are there to listen pirith have to support them in any case. We, the boys, mainly control the transpotation of bhikkus from temple to the house and vice versa. But we had the time to chat......

Here are two of my friends, (from left) Chamal and Chinthana malli.

There were some people who couldn't resist the temptation of eating although we had a very heavy dinner........ and some can't help with the sleep. He likes to sleep on any place......

This is (from left) Pic.1: Amal and Charith...... Oh boy, they eat a lot.......
and Pic.2: Kumudu (Richa), deeply in sleep........

But above all I had 2 great, memorable days. It's good to meet the old friends........

(from left) Hashika, Richa(Kumudu) and me

So as a result of not having sleep, I slept continuously for 15 hours (oh my god, I can't believe it, from 3.00 pm to 6.00 am) last Sunday and recover myself....... Phew, that's a relief.....

Office.......

Hello everyone, although it is too late, let me wish you a happy and healthy new year because this is my 1st post for 2009. Well..... this year looks a little tough, I didn't have a rest for the last 2 weeks......

Last Monday, I went to Aluthgama, that is a town in the southern part of the country for some office work.......... Uh to be exact, to a new site......... And on the way back me and my friend, Harshana, stop at Beruvala beach and have some fun.......

(me and Harshana)

So this is going to be an interesting year............
Hope to face and enjoy it...............

Friends.....

Today is a kind of busy day for me. We have a temple nextdoor and I am a teacher at the dhamma school there. So I spent every Sunday morning there, with sharing my knowledge on Buddhism with my dear students.

So today, the temple had it's Katina Pinkama, which held every year. As I am a teacher there we participate and help it for success.

Let me introduce some of my fellow staff there and some of my friends,

(from left : Puvasala akka, Dilup Kumari, Disna akka, Madhushan malli, Pushpakumara aiya and me)

Those are some of my fellow staff @ daham pasala, they are really very good friends and we feel as one family when we work together. Following are some other friends of mine,

(from left : Oshan, Indika and Sujeeva)

So all of us, with the help of others held the pinkama successfully, and at the end of the day we were very happy as you can see from the pictures.

I feel so lucky to have those friends with me......