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Gender Related Topics are Facinating Research topics

Anuradha Uduwage — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:10:37 +0000

Gender gap is an interesting topic and it gets more interesting when you narrow it down to different domains. Since women have a extra-chromosome they should be the dominating gender in the world but in most areas that’s not the case. I am currently working on research publication and things that we found blew my mind off. Some of our research questions turned out to be way different that we predicted. I ll promise to put more information once the paper get publish. Till then stay tuned.

Hope to wake up NMA…

Anuradha Uduwage — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:59:24 +0000

Last night Minneapolis got some crazy amount of snow, then again its not a surprise because its Minneapolis. And I am thrilled that our Mini Cooper S cuts through 6-7 inches of snow like butter. I was suppose to fly out from Minneapolis at 5.50am and with half hour my flights go cancel, and I got pushed to 8am flight, then 1pm flight finally it stopped at 3.30pm. I managed to talk to American Airline and get me into one of their partner carrier flight USAirways which was scheduled to leave at 6.45am. But when I got to the airport that flight was delayed until 9.30am. I went back to American Airlines counter and ask if they can put me in any flight so thanks to the weather they can put in any airline as long as they have enough seats. So they put me 7.25am Delta DIRECT flight to D.C which is a fantastic deal. So, I never thought I would say this, I like to thank the snow storm. Hopefully, I get to wake NMA…

Snow God just unloaded the first batch for this season

Anuradha Uduwage — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:15:09 +0000

So much for the hope of getting another week without snow. Until last Friday night Minneapolis had a great fall weather. Mild, no snow but then sometime mid night that white slushy thing started to fall from the sky. Looks like snow god decided that Minnesotans got enough nice weather and I am going to show that I still exist and you can’t do nothing about it. I love Minneapolis, I love Gopher State, I love my alma-mater but I can’t wait to get to a place where I get less snow and much longer fall. I had my share in Minneapolis and its time to spread my wings somewhere else and build a nest.

I know one Googler who is not going to get the 10pct raise

Anuradha Uduwage — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:01:59 +0000

2 Days ago there was a new article (Google to give 10 pct raises to entire work force)about Google planning on doing a 10pct raises on their entire work force. But unfortunately they found the guy who leaked the new and fired him. So for sure we know that this poor Googler is not going to get his 10pct increase at all…

CEO Lying, can also apply to others

Anuradha Uduwage — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:33:58 +0000

Yesterday I was reading New York Times Opinion section and stumble upon an interesting article. If you ask my opinion it doesn’t have to be the CEO. In my experience I have seen that many people use similar vocabulary and after reading this article it made me more sense about those situation and the words that goes along with it. Example, You are working hard to come up with a solution but comment on it saying it is good, but is saying that to make other party happy people will tell, its good. So the question is how are we going to find out if someone truthfully saying its good or trying to just make us feel better? I think there are ways, because before words come out from the mouth they travel through the body while igniting other body part that provide the truthful meaning of that word. So I would try to pay attention to them.

Protected: Yeah, who needs principals in life…

Anuradha Uduwage — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:05:56 +0000

White X’Mas in Minnesota, more like White Storm

Anuradha Uduwage — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:12:03 +0000

It started snowing last night and when I got up today morning snow had accumulated more than half a foot. Entire state is getting its fare may be more than its share of snow. According to news, it will snow till end of tomorrow. Fresh snow looks very pretty. Out side my apartment looks like a post card.

Bill to Volume Down loud TV adds

Anuradha Uduwage — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:52:50 +0000

I always wondered why the TV adds are way too louder than than the regular tv programs. Also its very annoying to hit the volume button up and down every single 15min while you watch a movie or a program. But good news is very soon we don’t have to do that at all. Today US house passed the bill to make sure that all the TV adds should aired with the same volume of regular programs.

Warm November

Anuradha Uduwage — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:02:24 +0000

Blame it on global warming but I ll take this warm weather we are having in any given day. As we all know, when it comes November, Minneapolis is not known for warm, sunny weather. Normally by this time we get ready to bundle up before getting out from house. Also, its not unusual to see couple of inches of snow on the ground. But, its almost mid November, and I still can drive my car with windows rolled down. Simply unbelievable. So far we had July weather in June, June weather in July, October weather in November and November weather in October.

We have so confused mother nature and she can’t figure out which month should get its respective weather. Hopefully she will stay in this state of mind till next spring.

Penalize for being responsible, APRs are skyrocketing

Anuradha Uduwage — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:34:10 +0000

Penalize for being responsible. Isn’t it against to what we learned from the day we came out from our mothers belly? Indeed, all our lives we learned to be responsible, truthful simply because thats the morally and ethically correct way to live your life. But thats going to change.

If you haven’t heard about it yet, banks (Citi, Bank of America, etc) have decided to increase the APR of customers who are happened to be responsible. Yes, if you always keep your balance zero, if you don’t carry considerable amount of balance, or if you haven’t used your credit card for a long time, there is a good chance that you already have a mail from your credit card company in your mail box. I would like to warn you before opening that mail because if you satisfy above conditions your APR could go sky rocketing.

Lets switch gears. Banks begged in-front of us asking money. And we (Gov) jumped in and bailed them out. But why cant the government jumped in when it happens other way around? I have heard from somewhere, that government is there to serve its citizens. Government sure served all these cunning banks, and when its effecting regular joe all the law makers have decided to turn their head other way and plug they years with ipods or something.

Where is Obama, I haven’t heard anything from Obama administration related to this matter. It might be hard to speak against giant banks that fueled his campaign. I need to be clear, as an international person, I cant vote for any party so I don’t care who rule the country as long as they serve for the people of that country.

Yes its true that being responsible have hurt in this situation but this shouldn’t be an excuse to live your life irresponsibly. Many other areas in our life required responsible behavior, it just happened to be using credit cards are not one of them.