Satisfaction...

Job satisfaction is an achievement that not many people get in plenty. But the profession of teaching has made me feel that rare opportunity. Its such great feeling that keeps the fire of motivation when you see the attention, the feedback, the simple nod of a head from the students. You feel the importance of yourself being in that position.
I became a fan of the movie Freedom Writers which says such a motivational story. Hence hope to share. I feel like being a Ms. Erin Gruwell who can toast for change one day.

Watch 12 parts of it at youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=freedom+writers+part+1&search_type=&aq=0&oq=freedom+writers++-+par

A ship

There are so many ships but not as amazing as this ship
The ships can be built of diamonds and platinum
But this ship made of hearts is so delicate and smooth
A ship that rocks in harsh winds of life
A ship that lulls in calm water
A ship that saves when you are drawning
A ship that carry you when you are alone
It is a ship that evolves
Hey my friend
It is your friendship
The best ship I have ever travelled...

A secret

Last Monday there was an inspiring talk by Mr. Lal Chandranath, the Managing Director of DMS Electronics, Sri Lanka to a bunch of engineering students in the University of Moratuwa, who were newly entering to the stream of Computer Science and Engineering. I was quite impressed and inspired as well. He was so old with grey hair yet the audience could see at a glance the energetic and dynamic youth inside him when he talked.
The secret behind a successful engineer as he elaborated based on the famous book 'Secrets of success in 8 words' was simply the 8 words: Passion, Work, Persistence, Ideas, Focus, Practice, Serve, Push.
Passion is loving what we do. Work is to do things really hard. Persistance is never giving up. Focus in one thing. Have smart ideas popping up. Practice to be really good at something. Serve the world by adding value to what you do. Push, is simply push, push, push yourself, never let you down.
Is your job so passionate to you? do you work for money or work because of love of work? We must fall in love with the work just like we fall in love with a girl or a boy.
Don't you feel so bored when you keep away from work? Can you ever lie on a bed for hours doing nothing. Oops! just think of such a day you spent like that.
These 8 words together makes a value added person who ultimately leads him/herself to success.

I found this short clip of another talk on same line:
http://www.plijnaer.nl/weblog/2008/05/ted-secrets-of-success-in-8-words-3.html

The Narrow Escape!

I was watching the beautiful sky sitting in the veranda of a two storied apartment in a serene morning. The sky was blue, except for few wool-like whitish clouds.
In a little while a small aeroplane, coloured in white and red rose from the nearby air port like a bird. It took off into the blue sky. I kept watching so leisurely that I enjoyed the fly of this artificial bird into the blue.
That attractive scene didn't last long proving once again the undeniable truth that everything is uncertain. Do you know what happened to that aeroplane?
It hit against a huge cloud. Cloud was like a sponge and the aeroplane got thrown back. Oh! it was thrown towards me. The huge bird was just going to blast me into ashes. Luckily I got up from my weird sleep :)
Hey, does anyone of you know what this weird dream say?

World for his kid...

Today on my way home in the small passenger van, along the narrow road I saw a certain incident which captured my heart. The road though small was crowdy and full of small vehicles, three wheelers, motor bikes and pedestrians and so on and so forth.
Among the crowd a motor bike came towards my way, which was heavy with a big bundle at the back and a small kid stting in between father's lap. The car driving in front of this father's motor bike suddenly disposed a cloud of black smoke. This poor father, despite the concentration on balancing the heavy load, finding way through the crowd, despite the disturbed eye sight offered his hand to close his kid's nose, to protect him from inhaling that black smoke.
How many such fathers worry for seeing a world where their kids have at least a bit of pure air to inhale...

එළඹෙන වසන්තයට.....

එරබදු මල් ගහ මුදුනේ කොහා හඬනවා
බක් මහ මල් වැස්ස වැටී ගම හිනැහෙනවා
අවුරුදු කුමරු වඩිනවා.....

කුසගිනි නැති අවුරුද්දයි
වැරහැලි නැති අවුරුද්දයි
ලතැවුල් සිඳ සිත් අරණට
අවුරුදු කුමරු වඩිනවා....

Are you in a Complex System?

A Complex System as I learned recently is a highly unpredictable and uncertain system in which parameters change with time not only by value but also in number. Such system can be modeled as a multi agent system where agents communicate with each other. These communications lead to sharing, reusing, and discovering knowledge. Knowledge here is not something pre-stored but something which emerges and evolves within the system.

Quantum Physics and Spellbinders

Co existence of many parallel universes or "multi verse" is a fundamental idea of quantum physics. Every object even i myself living on this earth in this universe is supposed to have counterparts in other parallel universes. Those counterparts of me are supposed to behave differently yet interfere with each other which is said "quantum interference". While I was going through this idea of Hue Everette (proposed in 1957) I felt the famous science fiction "Spellbinders" captures the same idea.

The questions are:

1. Are parallel worlds that Spellbinders talk about and the multi verse in quantum physics the same?
2. Is there any possibility to travel between the universes in the multi verse?
3. Quantum computers - will they be a reality?

Practising Buddhism in day to day life

Buddhism is not to close your senses to the world. But open up mind wider and understand all what we see, hear, feel, think, and smell in their real form. Then we will find out that all what we sense is changing, we don't own them and not much to grab in greed.