Career changing decision

I decided to change my career path from Network Engineering to Economics.
After lot of thinking decided to persuade my post graduate education from the field of Economics.I think although I had been studying for engineering for long time my passion is social science subjects like Economics,Politics,History etc.
Although I quit my current full time job, hope to stay as a part time engineer.

CCIE LAB resources

I already moved in to ccie lab exam preparation after passing ccie written on June 23rd.
I would like to share my preparation resources with anyone who study for ccie lab exam. This exam is not an easy task hard work is absolutely nessasary .
Here is the link for various ccie lab resources

CCIE written

Yesterday I scheduled my ccie written exam on 24th of june. Now I am doing my final preparation using testking and quick reference guide. Finally hope to quick look at pass4sure as well.

Journey to CCIE start

Today I start my CCIE journey.I was thinking of persue CCIE VOICE track earlier but I realised that starting from CCIE Routing and Switching track would be more valuer and easy to learn. There are lot of study matarieals on routing and switching track but for voice track it is limited.
First hurdle is to pass ccie written exam and then the real evil battle start.

Another bomb exploded in srilanka

At least eight people were killed and nearly 95 others admitted to the National Hospital, following the suicide bomb blast targeting a police bus in Fort, this noon.

Student fights in Sri Lankan universities.

I just saw a nice cartoon from today's Divaina.It is nicely explained the sad situation in Sri Lankan universities.As a SL university drop out I know that all these clashes start with student politics. In most of the srilankan universities there are two groups.First group is called raggers.Other one called anti-raggers.Raggers who support ragging and anti-raggers are against it.Universities like Kalaniya,Jayawardanapura,Peradeniya,Wayamba majority of students are raggers.But there are some anti-raggers but in small in number.In University of Colombo and Moratuwa majortiy are anti-raggers.
In universities with majority of raggers , student councils are runed by 'Anthara wiswa widyala shishaya bala bandale' aka 'anthare'.Most of the anthare guys mainly support one political party.They used ragging to get students to thier political agendas.Most of them are furious over anti-raggers who are mostly come from city areas. The fights start with this raggers and anti-raggers conflict.Most of the time those clashes ended up with several people injured and universities close for several months.

Seniors lost but juniors won

Just read the news Sri Lanka beat Australia by 5 wickets at the under 19 World Cup in Malaysia. Australia was all out for 172 runs in 49.3 overs and in reply Sri Lanka reached the total comfortably in the 37th over with 5 wickets in hand.
Hope they will continue thier form and give a lession to SL senior cricket players.

Inflation rate in Sri Lanka

It has been said that inflation rate in Sri Lanka tops whole South and South East Asia.It is up to over 20% now. I think there are several reason for this.
1. Rising oil price in world market.
2. Escalated war.
3. Bad economic policies.

The first one is out of Sri Lanka's hand since Sri Lanka doesnt produce oil.So it is highly crusual factor for inflation.Every time oil price went up ,prices for public transport goes up.Not only that every other items including vegetable prices are going up too.

Escalated war is 2nd reason.Because It has been said that government has to allocate lot of money to war.Those money are not productive by economy wise.Although one might argue that those are short term expenditures but no one garantee when war will be ended near future.

3rd reason is government bad economic policies.Printing money to cover up budget deficits directly caused high inflation. It has been said that new notes value over 49 billion rupees printed by central bank.

Microsoft's TOB for Yahoo

I just read the news of Microsoft bids 42 billion dollers to buy Yahoo. What will will happend next?
Will Yahoo accept the bid? For me this is the tough time since yahoo has been in trouble situation in these days. Their stocks prices slummped and plan to cut 1000 jobs etc. Share holders may want their prices up and settling with microsoft means that thier stock prices going up for sure. This will be huge bonus if microsoft succed this deal since they could challenge with Google's monopoly in the web business.

Srilankan peace proposal

Another power devolution packege has been introduced by SL government. It is based on 13th amendment which was done in 1987. But governement says that they will fully implement this time which couldnt fully implement in 87 due to oppose of sinhala extremist parties.I still remember the incident that Rajiv gandhi was attacked by one of navy soldier although I was 6 years old in that time. That incident shows that some sinhalese feeling on power sharing proposals giving to tamils. Most interesting part is president mahinda him self against 13th amendment in 1987. But seems that now he believes SL national problem whould have ended If 13th amendment had fully implemented in 1987.

ITIL exam

Today I took ITIL foundation exam. It was foundation examination but not that easy to score higher marks. Pass mark for the foundation exam is 65%.My grade was 77%. I was very nervous to press the button to confirm my score since I had a doubt about my score.It was great relief to see my score was over the pass mark.

War comes to south

Now 4th eelam war has been officially started after governement abrogate CFA from 16th of January onwards. LTTE responded with brutal attack on civilians in buttala ,monaragala.
This is what happend in every time goverment troops succeed in attacks in north east. LTTE starts to attack innocent civilians in south. In our history we have lot of examples LTTE guerrillas responces when they come under heavy millitery pressure. Attacking innocent buddhist monks at Aranthalawa , bomibing temple of tooth at Kandy are few of those attacks.

First for 2008

This is first post for the 2008. Although I started this blog 2 years ago didnt update much.Hope to add post regularly.