Imporatnce of Parents

I grabbed this short story from in my mailbox and felt its worthwhile to bring out here.

An 85 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"

The Son replied "It is a crow".

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"

The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?"

At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he raised his voice and said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow".

A little after, the Father again asked his Son t he 4th time, "What is this?"

This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Whats wrong with you? Are you crazy ? Are you not able to understand this?"

A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-

"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time h e asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".

While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and whentoday the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.

Design First!

I found guilty (all my team mates too) for not documenting the design specifications prior to start coding. What we believed is this documentation is an additional burden as well as a time consuming task when we have to meet tight deadlines. So what we did was first do the code and then update the design docs :-) The top guy @ my office reproached us for the consecutive second time on this as I was unable to hide the truth at a weekly meeting held yesterday. Even though I wanted to be inline with these procedures I had certain facts against.

If you are anything like me, you too love to get your sleves rolled up and race into the coding. But its better to stop! Taking time to think through the design process will save you some serious heartache in the long term. That’s what my boss says and that what the truth is.

Songs i can't live without...

This might be a stupid post :-) The hits in my play list these days are:

• Shawn Colvin - Sonny Came Home
• Rascal Flatts - What Hurts The Most
• Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Hoobastank - The Reason
• Audio Slave - Like a Stone
• CCR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
• Bryan Adams - You love a woman

Hey it’s not leaning towards Razor’s and Casper’s fashion, they do such listings very frequently.

Dress-up Day!

At my new office Friday is declared as ‘dress-down day’ and people are allowed to wear casual outfits on Fridays. Ok, that’s something usual among private firms, but has anyone heard of something called ‘dress-up day’? :-)

Beginning from today, Monday is declared as ‘Dress-up Day’ here… Then we have three types of days in a week. Dress-up, Dress-middle and Dress-down. Eh Eh…

Sudda says "Balagena!"

This is an interesting thing really happened to my team last week. We had this British customer who came down to Sri Lanka for a discussion with us with relate to a project, which we are doing for him and for his other business activities.

The meeting went on for more than three hours and my colleagues used Sinhala to converse between team members at certain points as we thought the foreigner doesn’t understands the native tongue. We did this when we wanted to hide our slip-ups during the presentation.

At the end, as we understood that the fellow knows quite a lot about Sri Lanka and one of our guys asked the sudda, “hey do u understand Sinhala?” answer was “yes, balagena”

Luckily we didn’t blame him.

etickets.lk

This is an addition to something I have seen on Merill’s blog. It’s all about http://www.etickets.lk/ , a place to reserve your seats for happenings around Colombo. They charge an extra Rs. 25.00 service charge and you have to get registered first by paying a joining fee of Rs.250.00

As Merill mentioned they have given a promotional offer to join without an initial cost for a limited period of time and the good news is this offer is extended now. Hurry up lads! Sri Lanka is going online!