Stage Fright

"The day that I will not hear my heart beat in front of an audience when I am performing, will be the day I will start loosing".

The above comment was made by one of the great performers in Sri Lanka. The point to be highlighted is, it is not something unusual. Even the most admiring performers have the stage fright, not only you and me.

Stage fright, performance anxiety is the fear, anxiety someone might be having when speaking in front of an audience. Glossophobia is the scientific name for this. The main reason for this would be the feeling troubling the presenter that "Others will think I am stupid". Other than this there are some other reasons as well.

Lack of confidence

Trying to achieve perfectionism

Past experience

Avoidance

In order to avoid this problem, there are many ways of controlling. The main factor i would say is improve your self confidence. Because it might affect very badly if necessary actions were not taken at the proper time.

Practicing is another method which will reduce the stage fright. There is a very common saying that "Practice make you perfect" and it does. Breathing exercise also would help to get rid of stage fright as it makes u focus and build up the self confidence.

Most importantly while working towards loosing the stage fright, a person must understand that when you are performing, it's you who is presenting. Others are there in the audience but you have the control. And this is not something only you are having but most of the people around the world.

BnS, THE band created brand..

BnS, a band or a brand?? This is a question to be answered. As for my opinion BnS is a band which created a brand, purely because of the commitment, dedication and hardwork in bringing up sri lankan music to the world class. As a proud sri lankan I can say both of them and BnS family are pure Sri Lankans.

Reason for this article was their new album launch, "Sara Sihina" which was held in Sirimawo Bandaranayaka Memorial Exhibition Center yesterday (14-09-2010). I felt extremely privileged to be there in the grand album launch which i enjoyed every moment of it.

Bhathiya, classically trained singer and a piano player is a wonderful performer on stage. He actually knows how to entertain a crowd with his absolutely superb voice. The Anadian, convers his strength in to powerful imagination on stage, with all his talents, which was an unforgettable experience.

Santhush plays the emotional part of the song with his so powerful emotions, adding life to the music with his vocals. If anyone looking at this Royalist face while he is performing, seeing itself is sufficient to understand the meaning of the song. He is such an expressionist.

The challenge these guys have undertaken, which was an enormous risk, i would call it, is impressive. It is worth if anyone could reset his mindset to two unemployed guys just after schooling, step in to music industry without knowing what they are going to do.

About one year ago these two young lads came in to our university for a enhancement lecture. In that they showed us a nice presentation about how they built up the brand, BnS. I still can remember they were explaining one slide, a pyramid more than half an hour. It was basically awesome. Even though we thought these guys have done a good work of reverse engineering in showing us these slides. But it is not worth considering even whether they were lying or not. Because they have proved it.

Mentioning about the best song in the whole event was "Kawada ho". It's about an experience what most of us has experienced at some point in life. It was simply awesome. I was scared to close my eyes while listening. Was that powerful. I never thought a song can do something like this. Again it was awesome.

Talking about this album "Sara Sihina" it is a great collection of songs plus some of the great songs from their previous albums. One of another important thing i noticed there was the selection of songs. It was really good. And as usual, as they do in every concert all the people who should be thanked was thanked in a proper manner. It is something all of our other artist should be noted down. Specially not to forget the start.

Special thanks to my friends who invited me to this absolutely fantastic event. Thanks people and my last words "I enjoyed every moment of it, specially "kawada ho"".

Sleep Sweet Sleep...

On average everyone of us spend one third of our lives sleeping.

The above statement shows how important the "Sleep" is for a human being. If age of a particular person is 60, 20 years of his life is spent on sleeping. People tend to use the phrase "waste time on sleeping" specially the ones who don't have a clue about what sleep is about and how important it is for humans just like oxygen.

There are many consequences of "Problem Sleepiness" which occurs in day to day life. As everyone of us, having experience about a day that we coudn't have a proper sleep, we know how it feels like. It reduces your productiviry, efficiency, effectiveness, concentration, energy, memory and also might cause emotional instability and lethrgy. In one of the surveys conducted in new york about car crashes, 25 percent of the drivers have fallen some amount of time on the steering wheel. This shows the size of the impact of problem sleepiness in day to day life of people.

There are many misconceptions in the society about sleep. As for the information from certain researches about sleep, they have found out that most of those, do not have any validity.

"Sleep is a time for the body and the brain to rest" is one of the misconception which is not true at all. Because during the sleeping time most of the cells in our body functions as we are awake and some more, specially inside the brain. In one of the book, authour has mentioned that there are particular kind of rays emitting from people when they are at sleep which is different from when people are awake.

And "Sleep does not get accumulated" is also another one which is not true again. If you dont sleep properly, it gets accumulated. Bt eventhough u can pay off your sleep debt, it won't be fully recovered as such.

Another one is day time sleep can pay off the missed sleep at night. This is not particularly right too. Because inside the human brain there is a biologica clock which keeps track of the day and night. So rest of the functions are organized in such a way that, it follows the output from the biologica clock which is totally out of our control. For a simple example, if u turn off lights in a room to create an artificial environment to demonstrate night at a daytime, sill your brain would recongnize it as day time. You wont be able to have the exact similar sleep you have at night.

There are many more misconceptions and consequences of "Less sleep". I have listed only few. As for the general recommendations, it is adviced to sleep at least 5 hours per day at night. The recommended time for to sleep is to from 10pm to 6am. There are many ways of sleeping too. Aganin the recommended method is to sleep, turning to your right side. The underlying logic is you should sleep in a way that your heart positions on an upper level. It will lead to proper blood circulation.

Even though we are aware of the facts about proper sleeping sometimes we might not be able to follow it with the shedules that each one of us has. Anyway it is good to educate people always about the right thing.

Sportsmanship

World has became a competitive place where everyone is trying to survive. But in this race almost all the people have forgotten the basic needs of human beings.

Sportsmanship is not something that anyone should be doing. It is not a must. But it helps a lot in the process of building a complete man. It is not only about sports. Its a well known discipline for fairness, ethics, respect and sense of fellowship.

Even though lot of students nowadays consider doing sports as a waste of time with the race that everyone want to win, as for my opinion sports is a must which will eventually lead them to the victory. It is not about winning, but it is about courage, dedication, commitment and patience. As for a very simple example a student might be thinking the time that he spend on sports could have been spent on something which will add value to him, studies. But the question is what is value?? Is it the academic life? Academic life or sports is just one part of life but not everything. Winner is a person who strike a balance between everything.

There are two sides of every story. There are people who have achieved a lot by following it up to the extreme. Sports or studies or anything. But still the question exist. Is he/she successful by going in to an extreme of one field. Well this is bit vague. Some one might interpret this as YES answer while someone says this is NO ans. Me being on the NO side, sports help building a perfect man, but it only helps. Can not do it alone.

Is Antimatter the real wealth?

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver – Mahatma Gandhi.

Even thought the above two words, gold and silver, of the statement of Mahatma Gandhi should be replaced by the word "antimatter" which is roughly around 1750 trillion USD per ounce, it is worth arguing the question, what is real wealth. As for my opinion Mahatma Ghandhi was perfectly right which is also said by lord Buddha 2554 years back in a different manner, "Arogya parama labha, santhutti paraman danan".

Common cold is one of the diseases which is less lethal, but severe in returns. Viral Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (VURTI), the common cold, is a viral infection as it is stated there in its scientific name. It has many symptoms including runny nose and pink eyes which are physically observable facts along with the cough and fever sometimes. The normal average lifetime of the cold is roughly around 7 to 10 days which is subjected to extensions if not properly manged. Common cold must be clearly distinguished between other influenza like diseases which involves lungs whereas common cold does not. This is said to be the most frequent infectious disease among humans.

According to the sources there are about 200 viruses which causes the common cold and this viruses spreads in many different ways including through the air. When there is a person who has a common cold near by it increases the probability of people around him/her getting it.

Mentioning about the painful side of common cold, it simply just totally stop your work. With a runny nose nobody would be able to carry out the routine work as usual or else to to be exposed to dust. Third world countries like ours naturally has high amount of carbon dioxide and dust particles in air rather than in other countries. This might be an positive factor for the increased frequency of the common cold in Sri Lanka. And the other factor pink eyes would not let you work. Specially for the activities such as reading, driving and computing, gaming this will have a very negative effect.

When a normal working person is considered, with his/her routine the most probable reason for the common cold would be the careless management of the disease. As for my view it is again a problem with no solution i would say. Spending the day inside an air conditioned office, breathing the air which is artificially altered, bathing late which will eventually makes water to be deposited on the head for a long time, will make the situation a lot worse but not better.

The most important piece of information which made me to write this article is "There is no cure".

We live in an era where people are getting ready to sit back and relax at home letting machines to do work for them. We live in a world where man produce genetically altered living organisms. We live in a world where man basically do everything he wish for. But still no medicine for viral infections. It is worth discussing the reasons for this and probable solutions for the above matter.

Barriers to IT adoptionin SMEs in Developing and Less Developed Countries

Abstract

Every Small and Medium Enterprise(SME) will have to use Information Technology(IT) in order to sustain in the business with the increasing size and the growth of the enterprise. Yet in their efforts to adopt IT in the company, they face many barriers specially in developing and less developed countries.

This thesis analyzes the Barriers to IT adoption faced by the SMEs which are situated in developing and less developed countries according to previous written literature. Even though the categorization of developing and less developed countries exist, it would not make a much impact on the barriers which would affect SMEs. But certainly there is a significant difference between in barriers to SMEs in developed and developing and less developed countries.

Mainly these barriers are identified as Internal, whereas the barriers are controllable by the SME itself and External in which the SME has a less control or no control of. These barriers include Managers resistance, Resource limitation, Staff resistance, Organizational culture, Government's influence, Customer pressure and National culture. Anyhow most significant barriers are Attitude of the people in these developing and less developed countries and Less IT experience.

Most of the existing literature is on barriers to IT adoption in developed countries but little based on researches carried out in developing and less developed countries.

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