Sri Lanka’s International Eye Bank (Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society) is one of the world’s biggest, human eyes donor, restoring vision to people in as many as 57 countries, including Japan, Thailand, Egypt and China. [Read More]. According to the Manager of the International Eye Bank, there is a huge potential to collect donor eyes in [...]
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Sri Lanka Eye Bank, World’s Biggest Human Eyes Donor
Posted in Buddhism, Happy Planet, Sri Lanka, The 10 Perfections, tagged Sri Lanka Eye Bank, Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society, The Perfection of Giving (Dāna Pāramitā) on June 28, 2010 | 67 Comments »
Google Transliteration
Posted in Google Inc., Google Transliteration, Happy Planet, Sri Lanka, tagged AJAX Language API for Transliteration, Google Transliteration on April 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Google Transliteration allows you to type phonetically using Roman characters. Simply type a word the way it sounds in English and Google Transliteration will convert it to its local script. This currently supports 22 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, [...]
11 ways to be a Happy Employee
Posted in Happy Planet, tagged Job Satisfaction, Work Life Balance on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eleven little tips for you to be happy at the workplace: 1. Plan your week on Sunday night 2. Undertake activities that you are passionate about 3. Do not indulge in the blame game 4. Communicate more often in person 5. Know what is happening at Ur workplace 6. Participate in Organization-level activities 7. Have [...]
The Colour Test
Posted in Happy Planet on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are 8 screens, and on each screen you are given a word and 2 buttons to choose from. Select the Colour of the word, not the word! For example if the word is “GREEN“, but since its letters are in BLUE, you have to select BLUE. Take the Test. Thanks Ashanth for forwading me [...]
Miss Sri Lanka 2009
Posted in Happy Planet, Sri Lanka, tagged Happy Planet, Sri Lanka on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gamya Wijedasa will represent Sri Lanka for Miss World 2009 Pageant will be held on December 12, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Domestic flight services to ANY destination
Posted in Happy Planet, Sri Lanka on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Sri Lanka Air Force has now commenced domestic flight services to any destination departing from Katunayaka and Ratmalana. The general public can now seek any air route to any interested local destination. The new service is also available from Katunayaka International Air Port enabling passengers arriving at the airport to take an air route [...]
Costa Rica is the World’s Greenest Happiest Country
Posted in Happy Planet, Sri Lanka on July 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the happiness of their citizens. Britain (UK) is only halfway up the Happy Planet Index (HPI), calculated by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), in 74th place of 143 [...]
