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if putha likes racing, just change the country's budget. Its become that simple isnt it This reminds me of Emir of Khemed in Tintin and the Red Sea Sharks who wanted passenger planes to do the loop-the-loop to please his beloved sons fancies and ended up with a civil war. And I thought this was only possible in illiterate tent dwellers of Arabia, not sri lanka.

Well, there's no doubt he's very talented. But it all ended up in a bit of a gaudy mess

Its like you know.....Picasso drawing a painting of Shihan Mihiranga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=369h-SEBXd8#!

.....then one day the people decided enough is enough. "What the Fukc men" they said. When the king and royal family saw the hordes marching up the Castle, the King shouted frantically "yako ara race padina car eka ganing eliyata, okey negalawath yamu ithin dan"

Where did I say it would be success???? Posting a news item doesn't mean you agree with whats written on it. Personally I think Micro's gotta pull up their socks first if this is going to be anywhere near "successful", let alone the bureaucratic bungling of the ruling idiots

Possibly, one factor is that state banks are have greatly restricted giving out purchasing loans, because they have to now fund the (empty) treasury from here onwards. End of the state banks too, the way things are going....

wow man. just wow! fantastic thread!

Wildcard! Wildcard!!! WILDCARD!!!

Bunch of incompetent moth-eaten sloths wanted only a salary increase. nothing else

*Nostalgia*

The quality of our lecturers. tut tut mediocrity breeding mediocrity and the mediocrity wants more!

in that case, you must have surely been one of my lecturers

That's exactly the point me and the entire country is trying to say here, but you seems to lack the ability to comprehend. Let me put is very simply and plainly. 1. Most university graduates today are of poor standard. However that doesn't meal ALL graduates are unemployable. Graduates that are employable usually find good jobs, but the majority are unemployable and end up holding placards in front of Fort station 2. They are unemployable because those who teach them, the lecturers themselves are mostly unemployable, outdated and unproductive (just imagine can someone like you teach a graduate, when you can't understand what's written in an automotive forum!), 3. They teach outdated courses, that are of very little use to the country or the private sector. They have shown no intention to reform themselves or their courses. We are producing excess of useless arts, business and science students You are an example of our university system. Its all about "me me me!!!". FUTA wants this FUTA wants that. No admitting that the lecturers themselves are at fault. FUTA wants the country to pour more money in to a bankrupted unproductive system. This country cannot afford to bankroll's more unemployable graduates on unproductive courses

I agree. Medical faculty is an exception. That's because they do research out of need, not because some unemployable graduate wanted to get his research paper published

Jeeze...looks like hell hath no fury than a demonstrator pissed off! Why go in to lengths of argument..just compare a demonstrator (or even some poor idiot left nothing to do but a Mphil, with a graduate (or even a non-graduate) working in to good private company and see the difference. Those who are employable are quickly absorbed in to the corporate sector and those left behind hold placards in front of the fort station demanding jobs (few lucky get to be like the above gentlemen : a demonstrator ). Of course its a generalization. its a generalization because this is what usually happens in our universities. I stand by my statement...a lot of phD's in our universities do not have high impact publications. There are a worthy few of course, but majority are just tuition masters. Our universities would not be in this state if otherwise

Problem is our university set up is that the more bright and employable students find jobs and leave as soon as they finish their degrees. Those unemployable hang around as demonstrators and boot-lick to their way as asst. lecturers and then get PhD's schols to go abroad. Upon completion of their phD's they come back to the universities (obviously too unemployable even to find foreign jobs) and become something less than a tuition master, doing nothing but worthless unpublishable "research" which is not worth the piece of paper its written, and back stab any one who actually does some quality research once in a way. These "tuition masters" have their own favorites which again starts a circle for breeding more "tuition masters" in to the uni system. and this goes on and on like a vicious cycle. So after generations of "selective breeding" in our universities, we have a lot of tuition masters in our universities and very few genuine "lecturers/researchers" A lot of senior lecturers and Prof's only have a handful of published papers in high impact journals, BTW

Dont you know the saying machan, Heaven is : Chinese food, British cars, American salary and an Indian wife Hell is : Chinese cars, British food, American wife and Indian salary So congratulations in buying a piece of hell Next time you see something Chinese or Indian, you'll just run away from it (except Chinese food and Indian women of course)

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

oh NO! Not the "P" Word!!! Dont ban the "P" word!!! No! NooOOOOOO!!!

Fantastic! A fight to stop all fights

good choice

LMAO!!!!

Because of the high labour costs, traditional tea industry is in its last legs. But a career as a planter in value added tea, such a organic farming, white tea farming might be better options.