උමතුසං වරුසාවට තෙමෙන්න එපා.

උමතුසං වරුසාව එනවා. තෙමෙන අයගේ මහ වැස්සට සිහි විකල් වී පරල වෙනවා.

පිස්සන් රජ වුනත් එකයි, රජුන් පිස්සෝ  වුනත් එකයි.

කාගේ ගැනු කාට ගියත්, අපේ නමට ලැබෙයි ළමයි.

• by Somapala Gunadeera for the drama ‘උමතුසං වරුසාව’

People who vote for Maithripala do not know who is the king and who is the actual ruler. Everybody will say I am the king… I am the queen and I am the ruler. When they start their work you can see various opinion that not match with general norms. When results are out no one is going to held responsible specially if something goes wrong. No one knows who is responsible either. Eventually, the result is owned by you because you are part of it.

Presidential Election 2015

Finally, the main opposition UNP field a man from SLFP. This is the second time they field a hired candidate. Shame on them.

Two time failed, bankrupt Chandrika is trying to get the power again. Her productiveness was zero during her regime. She guided to achieve a bankrupt Sri Lanka in late 90s. This time her puppet is Maithripala Sirisena.

Ranil is planning to be a powerful prime minister from the shoulders of Maithripala Sirisena. He is always cunning man. If Maithripala win, he will be the powerful Prime Minister. If Maithripala fails, he can retain UNP leadership and the Opposition Leader position. So, at the end Ranil will be the winner.

Changing the constitution will be a long process. If someone says target time is 24hrs or 100 days, it won't be a realistic value. So, this common candidate does not have proper aim and only armed with set of political words. How can Maithripala change every thing when power vested with Ranil. If they win my country goes very unstable period.

Is this Mahinda Rajapaksha regime truly corrupted or inefficient? Or is it the most famous government we ever had? If the present government is most corrupted then any of opposition candidate can easily topple the government. But they are not doing that. Instead they hired a man from corrupted regime. So, my guess is correct.. This is most populous and attractive government we have ever had. 

There are more factions are waiting for Rajapaksha regime change. Western powers and Tamil diaspora are the leading figures behind this aim. So, they will give their maximum for this campaign as well.

This cornered former minister and former SLFP general secretary try to find a shortcut for his destiny. Four years ago Sarath Fonseka did the same thing. ' අනේ පව් මෛත්‍රී’ my true expression in my mother tongue.

Power of Hybrids

Lot of Hybrids vehicle are in Sri Lankan market now and numbers are increasing everyday. Shall we have a look on power of these hybrids widely used in Sri Lanka.

Vehicle	Electric Motor power	Engine Power	Total output power	Full Hybrid/Mild Hybrid
Third Generation Prius - ZVW30	80 hp	1.8L  98 hp	134 hp	Full Hybrid (can electric motor and engine independently). It is called Hybrid Synergy Drive
Second Generation Prius - XW20	67 hp	1.5L  76 hp	110 hp	Full Hybrid
Toyota Prius C (Aqua)	60 hp	1.5L  73 hp	99 hp	Full Hybrid
Corolla - Hybrid NKE165	60 hp	1.5L 73 hp	99 hp	Full Hybrid
Honda Vezel	130 hp	1.5L 30 hp	132 hp	Mild Hybrid
Honda Fit - GP5	130 hp	1.5L 30 hp	130 hp	Mild Hybrid
Honda Insight	13 hp	1.3L 73 hp	98 hp	Mild Hybrid

Horsepower is a unit that is used to measure the power of engines and motors. One unit of horsepower is equal to the power needed to lift 550 pounds one foot in one second. This unit has been widely replaced by the watt in scientific usage; one horsepower is equal to 745.7 watts.

Why a company needs Enterprise Software?

For a company this would be a thousand dollar question. Will the Market competence or Globalization dream or enforced legislation force you to make reasoning for having an Enterprise Software. I believe it is not.

Market competence challenges only to your product domain knowledge. As you aware, innovations in every aspects of your product life-cycle make you more stronger than the rest. ERP software may guide you but would not lead the way.

Globalization should to be every entrepreneur’s dream. Your market is opened from physically defined boundaries to logically defined boundaries. Your seamless market generates seamless information to handle. Even that context, ERP software may guide you but would not lead the way.

Enforced legislations may hinder your progress temporarily. The faces of this challenges might be new international certifications, environmental safeguard factors and import/export restrictions. To overcome these obstacles and move forward with your business domain, you need to find answers within your product knowledge. ERP software may guide you to find, but would not lead the way.

So, ERP software needs to be a close friend in your business process rather than fellow-waster.  Finding a close friend is very difficult, time consuming and cumbersome task. No difference when selecting suitable ERP software as well.

Why Enterprise Software? Because you need to have trusted, close friend in your business process to look after sea of information and guide you in troubled waters.

Sri Lankan Power generation sector and our electricity cost

If you can analyze the power generation pattern with the attached image, it seems that Norochcholayi coal power plant is generating 600MW.

It means that its second phase is also fully functional. And I don’t think that we will experience any drought period for near future as well. Our reservoir capacity also get increased with onset of monsoon rains, expected in during midyear period.  

If this pattern continues at least for another three months (without interruptions from coal power plant), there is huge possibility government will reduce electricity charges considerably.

Surely they can do it.

 

Temple & Devalaya

if your mind is rich enough to understand the Lord Buddha’s teaching, then we can clearly imagine what a great person he was. But, when we visit a Sri Lankan Buddhists temple in Sri Lanka, can we imagine greatness of this dignified person? Simple answer is no.

Just imagine, in Lord Buddha’s days, how was it look like Jethawanaramaya, Weluwanaramaya and Isipathnaramaya. Thousands of Bhikkhus could have moved here and there.

But, now a days, if you visit Sri Lankan temple, what we can see is a temple with so many Devalayas. I have read that this ‘Devala’ culture begun in Kandy era, just to facilitate Indian Queens (yes.. most probably Tamil queens) to worship with the King. In addition, from time to time, there were persons emerged from the society with special powers and special capabilities. Eventually, they were honored by the society by naming them as a god and venerating them.

So, we are continuing that practice even though there is no requirements to facilitate indian’s queens.

I asked one of our chief incumbent of our village ‘Why you are interesting to build so many devala at the temple premises?’. His immediate answer was ‘Otherwise people won't come to the temple and we don’t have enough money to develop the temple.   

They are using very cheap, popular tactics to ‘develop’ the temple. This is the very sad reality. Instead, they need to popularize these places  by adding novel concepts that suite for new knowledge era. For example, cleaned and landscaped premises, isolated rooms for meditation, programs for dhamma discussion etc...