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In Chicago, surrounded by good old friends

Anuradha Uduwage — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:36:48 +0000

I have lived in Minneapolis for more than 6 years, but never really visited Chicago to actually see the city and hangout with my good old friends. So, Finally, I decided to visit Chicago during thanksgiving and so far i am having a blast.

More pictures of Tour De Tonka

Anuradha Uduwage — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:06:06 +0000

Finally had sometime to clean up pictures from my Android and uploaded them into picasa.

Live from Sri Lanka

Anuradha Uduwage — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:50:13 +0000

After 24 hours of flying finally I am home and this time its special for the first time there is no war in Sri Lanka. Coward Prabakaran is dead, Sri Lankan Army Crushed them. From the time I landed in Colombo Airport, I saw in everyone’s face that there is hope. Hope that this country will be peaceful place and a develop country without no LTTE.

Also for the first time i was able to surprise my parents. They had no idea about my trip and I wanted to do this for their wedding anniversary. So far I am on track, they were so surprise that when I rang our door bell my mom thought I was a thief.

Microsoft Interview: From Seattle

Anuradha Uduwage — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:46:47 +0000

I landed around 11.00am in Tacoma, Seattle airport. Unfortunately Avis rental car computer system was down so there was a very long line. Microsoft had a reservation for me at Hilton hotel in Bellevue. I must say Microsoft really take care of the people they bring into town. I checked out the restaurants in the area and found out few good Sea Food places. I normally like to check out local joints when I got to a new place. I believe that’s the only way you find out the real taste of the town. So its time to step out side and check check out the area.

Microsoft Interview – All set for the take off to Seattle

Anuradha Uduwage — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:40:17 +0000

Sometime in November I saw email which I never expected. Recruiting Organizer from Microsoft email me to find out possible dates for me to fly to Seattle for the Microsoft onsite interview. Her name was Tejpreet and I must say that she was really helpful. When I contacted her, she said that she will be the person who is scheduling my interview dates and other arrangements during my trip to Seattle.

Over the past month or so, we had to over come few confusions related the position that I was planning to apply interms of Internship or full-time position. Only because Microsoft wanted to setup appropriate interview. Once we clear that out, we had to clear out few scheduling conflicts. But Thanks to Tejpreet, all those conflicts were solved and changes were made to satisfy both the parties.

So Yesterday, I got the ticket and hotel details and its final that I will be flying to Seattle Microsoft Office to get interviewed by the Giant in Software World.

One more thing, My recruiter told that I will be getting interviewed by two teams within MSSQL team.

Finals are done, handed the first draft… I am heading home…

Anuradha Uduwage — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:28:29 +0000

Its 4am in the morning and I just finished up the first draft of the publication to my research adviser along with some results of my program that i wrote to handle the nicknames issues of my research. I told my adviser that I will make an attempt to do work on my program while I am in Sri Lanka but I am afraid if I can really promise on it… hahah
I am so glad I am flying home (Sri Lanka) in about 8 hours… ooh god… feels so great… The breeze, the beach Sri Lanka I call it Paradise…