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Ha ha ha here Obama doing Gangnam Style (fan made)

Sometimes it’s very frustrating to see propaganda being used in Facebook. Most of the time this propaganda is being created out of nothing but who ever create it arouse the feeling of Sri Lankans by using nationalism, race, religion, culture and heritage. These attempts vary from Nolimit’s attempt to crush Sinhala population by using toffee to a latest attempt where a girl wearing Sri Lankan National flag and causing national disaster to our culture and heritage.

I blacked out the faces to save their identity

Above picture has caused lots of controversy among my FB friends. They are sharing it as if the girl has done crime and caused a national crisis. Guys, Seriously???

There is a code of conduct when using National Flag, how many of us know exactly what mentioned in the code of conduct? How many of us are following it? But then why ganging up on this girl who supported her country?

I have seen many people including Americans, British and even Canadians wear their national flag on their underwear. I’m sure the girl meant no disrespect to this; she was only supporting the country in my humble opinion.

Besides everything, aren’t there any other burning issues in this country? Are we all turning blind to real issues of the country and rushing behind controversial topics just to get some likes and shares in FB?

For god sake, shall we stop being emotional and start to think rationally when handling such sensational issues? Common Sri Lankans lets grow up, such narrow mind set going to guide us into dark black hole. Anyway that is where our country is kind of sliding into.

Thuppaki is an upcoming Tamil movie featuring Vijay. This is one of the most hyped movies for this Diwali season and expected to release next month 9th. (November 9^th)

There was a time HSBC was the prestigious bank in Sri Lanka. At least that is what I thought so. Recently we always hear people complain a lot about HSBC and their professionalism.

Recently I had to open an account in HSBC as my employer made it mandatory. Over a year I’ve been ok with their services and products. Recently I come to know what it is about being treated unprofessionally.

One day my debit card suddenly stopped working at any HSBC ATMs. When I reached the customer care I was asked to refer the number of the receipt. Later my card was declared a failed card by the call center guy. I was told it was due to Magnetic stripe failure.

But magically it works in other bank ATMs. I have no idea why HSBC ATMs are over sensitive

Later I placed a request for a new card as I won’t’ be able to survive without an ATM/Debit card. Again the smart (most of them are self-declared) call center agent told me that it’d take 7 working days.

You might imagine my hard time during end of the month without debit card and during weekend banks also closed. Last week I called them and the lady on the other side said they’ve given the card to courier service.

I decided to take up all pain and hold up for 7 working days. In the other hand I was happy as I received my ATM pin number last week.

After all the hard time, today I called the smart customer care call center and it took about 15 minutes for them to answer the call. Then the lady on the other side said, sir you have called Credit card center. I’ll transfer the call sir! (Though the menu says its personal banking). After waiting another 5 minutes someone else answer the call. After verifying my details she told me the funniest thing I ever heard very recently.

“Sir! You have not placed a request for a replacement ATM card. You have placed a request for an ATM pin reset” duh!!! Seriously!!!!!

I was so pizzed off and totally disappointed by the way their call center agents handle people. Probably the guy who took the request for me for a debit card replacement selected the wrong menus on the screen and ended up with PIN RESET.

I told her “I want to escalate it to your manager. How to do this?”

She transferred my call and I had to wait another 10 minutes. Later again she picked the call and said, sir leave me your number I’ll ask my supervisor to call you.

I told her, I know you guys will not call me back. Can you give me your word?

She said, “Yes, I’ll make sure they’ll call you”

By the time I hang up the phone I was on the call for about 30 minutes. Wasted my mobile bill.

Let’s see the professionalism of the supervisors at call center. Will they ever call me back? I doubt it!!!!

This is the biggest harassment ever to happen to me in the service industry. I too work in service industry, I can’t even think of treating the clients this way!!

Finally Miskin’s Muhamoodi movie was released in theaters world-wide. It is told that movie doing “OK” around the world despite critic reviews.

One of the hit songs from the movie is “Vaaya Moodi Summa Iruda” (Just should your mouth and mind your business). Here the video song. I love the visuals but could have done better I guess.