Date is first of October 2024. Never had any intentions to publish another post for a very long time. But I suddenly caught the flu and was lying on the bed just trying to scroll through to avoid focusing on pain. And I stumbled upon the old tri forces advertisement "api wenuwen api" which reminded me that I am one of the many Sri Lankans who are not supposed to be alive. So I wanted to let it out. So here goes nothing. More than half of my life I (we) lived through an actual war although many people seem to have forgotten now. An actual war with suicide bombers and all that. People died.A lot of people died and in most brutal possible ways. (According to the UN during the last 5 months of the war the number of casualties is 147,000. Imagine that for 34 years)You don't know the person sitting next to you in the bus/train is carrying a bomb. I remember when our family used to go somewhere we don't take the same bus. Half of the family takes a second bus so that if one
Todays topic was requested by one of my readers and I hope this will help many of you guys and thank you for suggesting this topic! As I mentioned before in one of my previous posts, I used to finish exams very quickly and in A/Ls chemistry paper I even did an extra essay question (both of physical chemistry questions + organic chemistry). Now how do I do that? It's through practice. There are certain skills that you need to have to be able to finish quickly and give correct answers quickly at the same time. In an exam people waste most of their valuable time by thinking which questions to do. By the time you figure out which questions you are gonna answer, you have already spent more than 10 minutes. First thing is to avoid that. Especially in exams like A/Ls you know what are the essays that are going to be there. So pick your questions at home! not during the exam! For an example in a chemistry paper I always answer organic chemistry que