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My Ground Rules for Ordering through PickMe Food and UberEats

In an earlierIn an earlier post titled “Ground Rules for Using PickMe and Uber,” I shared eight important guidelines for using the two most widely used taxi-hailing services in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Those tips were drawn from my own experience as a regular user of both platforms and aimed at helping others make the most…

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My One Wrong Email to 85 Wrong Recipients!

Miley Cyrus, best known by her stage name Hanna Montana, sang in 2008 “Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days…” That song is known as “Nobody’s Perfect” and is still a hit after thirteen years. Today in the spirit of making mistakes, I want to share with you a few life-transforming lessons I’ve learned from…

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How to keep conflicts at work to a Minimum?

In my previous post titled “Do You Fall Asleep at Work? Me Too!” I discussed five strategies I used to overcome my proclivity for dozing off at work. Today, I’d like to share with you a few tips for minimizing workplace conflicts. While we cannot prevent conflicts altogether, there are things we can do to…

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Do You Fall Asleep at Work? Me Too!

I firmly believe adequate sleep is essential for a disciplined lifestyle. A disciplined lifestyle helps to win at work and succeed in life. Excessive sleep however is a curse especially if you fall asleep at work. It’s humiliating, counterproductive, and could derail your career. Trust me. I know because I used to fall asleep across…

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Ground Rules for using PickMe and Uber

The introduction of transport Apps has made life easier for all of us. They are convenient and budget-friendly. Much more efficient than random “tuks”. At the moment PickMe and Uber are the most popular taxi-hailing apps in Sri Lanka. (Unlike Uber which operates only in Colombo and its suburbs, PickMe operates in Negombo, Pilliyandala, and…

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Oppo A12: What I Like, Dislike and Miss

In my previous post titled “Dialog: What I like, Dislike and Hate” I wrote about my love and hate relationship with Dialog Axiata. Today I want to tell you what I feel about my new Oppo A12. There was a time I used to say ‘appo!’ (a Sri Lankan expression of hopelessness) every time anyone…

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Dialog: What I Like, Dislike and Hate

I first began using Dialog products in the year 2012 when I subscribed to their Dialog TV Pearl Plan. That marked the beginning of a long journey with Dialog Axiata. Within a few months of enjoying the service and its value, I added two more Dialog TV subscriptions to my household. Later that same year,…