A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an organization.

Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange.
When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.
When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, 'Why the spoon?'
'Well,' he explained, 'the restaurant's owners hired Mckinsey & Co., to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour.. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 115.27 man-hours per shift.'
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare. 'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.'

I was impressed. I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, 'Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?'
'Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice. 'Not everyone is so observant.That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the bathroom. By tying this string to the tip of you know what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the bathroom by 76.39 percent.'
'After you get it out, how do you put it back?'
'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'


MORAL: And be careful, the next time you visit a restaurant.
Many thanks to HPR .Goonawardana

Sri Lanka Parliamentary General Elections: Opinion Poll second round result

The second round Opinion Poll (Monday to Thursday), launched on which party is popular and to what extent as Sri Lanka goes to polls on April 8, completes today.
The format is: the Poll will be on for four days every week—Monday to Thursday; and result will be announced on Friday. And the scheme is to go until General Elections in Sri Lanka. On the election eve there will a grand sum total of weekly polling.
In the second round, a good response has been seen; more than 1000 registered.. However the poll percentage is the same.
Here’s the results of the second round:
There were 1069 who came forward to express opinion in the second round.
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) polled 87% (927 votes);
United National Front (UNF) polled 6% (64 votes)
Democratic National Alliance (DNA) polled 5% (55 votes)
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) polled 2% (20 votes);
Others polled 0% (3 votes)
It can be seen the UPFA was still leading and far ahead even of main opposition party.
However, the third round starts from Monday (March 22). Wait for the third round.
- Editorial Board - Asian Tribune
Fri, 2010-03-19 05:24 — editor

http://www.asiantribune.com/category/categories/saarc-countries/sri-lanka"

Mr. Ban Ki Moon – Why Sri Lanka? Why not Gaza

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Nihad Issa - Ramallah, Palestine
Ramallah, Palestine, 10 March (Asiantribune.com):


Ban Ki Moon is now dictating terms to Sri Lanka As friends of Sri Lanka, Palestinians find it extremely difficult to keep silent when we hear of the sinister manipulations and arm bending tactics practiced by the heads of influential organizations like UNO and Human Rights Commission and also by some leaders of UK and the European Community to destabilize Sri Lanka and reverse the newly gained victories and freedom after defeating the terrorists.

We are compelled to come to the conclusion that these organizations are fostering terrorism so that they can sell arms and ammunition to all parties.

Palestinians has been following the Sri Lanka’s struggle against the terrorist group called LTTE who were trying the divide this small friendly country on ethnic grounds with the help of some western countries who were interested in the oil deposits in Sri Lanka. We are also aware that international arms and drug traffickers lost their sources of income with the defeat of this terrorist group LTTE.

Now Sri Lanka is developing its infrastructure facilities and there is a steady flow of tourists to Sri Lanka. We are happy to note that President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is a close friend of Palestine was elected as President for a second term with a majority vote of 1.8 million.

Palestine is one country that is highly concerned about the wellbeing of Sri Lanka and is worried about the unwanted interventions of the West to bring back the terrorists and harass Sri Lanka with unfounded allegations of human rights violations etc. Palestinians strongly feel that West and many international organizations dominated by West are going beyond their limits with no respect or regard for the sovereignty of Sri Lanka or its right to defend its territory.

West and its friendly organizations have failed to realize that Sri Lanka is no more a colony of any former colonial master. That is past history and no more valid. In this regard we in Palestine question the double standards practiced by West and other international organizations when it comes to Palestine. When Israel bombed Gaza for 22 days, killing over 1500 Palestinians including over 500 children and injuring thousands, these compassionate world leaders failed to intervene in spite of the fact that Palestinians are no match for the Israeli army.

Mr. Ban Ki Moon who is now dictating terms to Sri Lanka visited Gaza and saw with his own eyes the destruction caused to life and property but he has in fact failed to take any action against Israel or to re-build Gaza in spite of the fact that Goldstone Report clearly shows all what happened


Asian Tribune

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/03/10/mr-ban-ki-moon-%E2%80%93-why-sri-lanka-why-not-gaza

Obituary Notice

"O" Cracy - The death occurred under tragic circumstances of D.E.M O'Cracy, beloved husband of T.Ruth, loving father of L.I.Berty, brother of Faith, Hope and Justitia. Interred on 26.01.2010 . Araliya Medura, Panagiyawatta, Anduruwala.
matahaka bana 08.04.10


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Posted By sorrowless

Monky Talk

Once in Brazil a plane crashed, only a monkey who was traveling in the plane was left alive. Fortunately the monkey was intelligent enough to understand our language and reply in actions.

The officials went to see the monkey in the hospital and had a talk with the monkey.

Officer: "When the plane took off what were the travelers doing?"
Monkey: "Tying their belts"
Officer: "What were the air hostesses doing?"
Monkey: "Saying Hello! Good morning!"
Officer: "What were the pilots doing?"
Monkey: "Checking the system"
Officer: "What were you doing?"
Monkey: "Looking for my people"

Officer: "After 10' minutes what were the travelers doing?"
Monkey: "Having beverages and snacks"
Officer: "What were the air hostesses doing?"
Monkey: "Serving the travelers"
Officer: "What were the Pilots doing?"
Monkey: "Handling the steering"
Officer: "What were you doing?"
Monkey: "Eating & throwing"

Officer: "After 30 minutes what were the travelers doing?"
Monkey: "Some were sleeping and some were reading"
Officer: "What were the air hostesses doing?"
Monkey: "Make up"
Officer: "What were the pilots doing?"
Monkey: "Handling the steering"
Officer: "What were you doing?"
Monkey: "Nothing"

Officer: "Just before plane crash what were the travelers doing?"
Monkey: "All were sleeping"
Officer: "What were the pilots doing?"
Monkey: "Handling the air hostess"
Officer: What were you doing?
Monkey: Handling the steering!!!!

many thanks to HPR Gunawardana

Hell is better than heaven

An old lady dies and goes to heaven.

She's chatting it up with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates when all of a sudden she hears the most awful, blood curdling screams.

Don't worry about that,' says St. Peter, 'It's only someone having the holes drilled into her shoulder blades for the wings.'

The old lady looks a little uncomfortable but carries on with the conversation. A few minutes later, there are more blood curdling screams.
'Oh my Goodness,' says the old lady, 'now what is happening?'

'Not to worry,' says St. Peter, 'She's just having her head drilled to fit the halo.'

'I can't do this,' says the old lady, 'I'm going to hell.'

'You can't go to that nasty place,' says St. Peter. 'You'll be raped and taken advantage of.'

'Maybe so,' says the old lady, but I've already got the holes for that

Sri Lanka's economy will grow 5.5 percent in 2010

COLOMBO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's economy will grow 5.5 percent in 2010 due to improving domestic demand and potential export growth after the 25-year war ended in 2009 and as global recovery takes hold, the IMF said on Wednesday.

However, the International Monetary Fund said there were concerns about the country's fiscal deficit which needed to be addressed.

The $40 billion economy, which was hit by a balance of payment crisis early last year, has already received two tranches of a $2.6 billion IMF loan and the third is due soon.

"We continue to see growth around 5.5 percent in 2010," Koshy Mathai, the IMF director for Sri Lanka, told Reuters in an interview. "The global environment is still not very strong as recovery is slow. On that basis 5.5 percent is a good number."

http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINSGE6170JW20100210?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401&sp=true

He was challenging the government to arrest him

Retired General Sarath Fonseka is one of those tragic Shakesperean heroes who is doomed to dig his own grave through a fatal flaw in his character. In short, he was virtually asking for what he got last night. He was challenging the government to arrest him if they have any charges against him and when the Military Police went to arrest him he resisted. He had to be dragged out initially though he walked the last steps to the van in which he was taken to quarters at Sri Lankan Navy.

The irony is that Fonseka who was challenging the government to arrest him was reluctant to walk out like a gentlemen and an officer to face his accusers. This is typical of Fonseka. He should have honoured his own words and, knowing the law, cooperated with the Military Police as there was no point in resisting arrest. He may have been ...........
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http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20100210_05

Half of the sun to mahinda's son

Mahinda Vs Sarath Boxing

BALAWATH shokaya

three wheeler parked on the rail track at Maharagama