About Me...

I am a software engineer living in Sri Lanka, a beautiful South Asian Island. My full name is Parana Widanaralalage Dileepa Chiranthana Jayathilake; just to show how descriptive Sri Lankans are in using symbols. I was born in a beautiful small village located in the southern coastal part of the island where I spent the first ten years of my life. I had my primary education in Devananda Vidyalaya in Ambalangoda. Then I moved to Colombo which is the economic and political center of the country for my secondary education. There I attended to Nalanda Vidyalaya. I did well in the GCE advanced level examination (which may be the most competitive examination in the world – only the best 2% gets selected for government-funded university education) to be placed the 5^th in the island. It opened me the path to the best engineering academy in Sri Lanka, University of Moratuwa.  After being graduated as a computer engineer I entered the software industry where I have been doing stuff for past 7 years.

As a student, math was my first love, and you know, the first love is special. Though I do not get much math stuff in my current professional life I still have a hard on for it. I am a bit worried that current day software engineering is too distant from computer science where math plays a major role. I love low level programming, algorithm tuning and formal software design where I can at least do something like math. I am pretty much interested on computer languages and natural languages too. I have done some work in these areas which I will be explaining in this blog later on.

In the spare time I love to do gymming, dancing and swimming..and I put my best effort to do them regularly. I like to enjoy with friends occasionally (well, this word is subjective) and sometimes find myself trying to go to extremes on those occasions. Apart from that, I enjoy reading short stories, novels and poems and watching stage plays, operas and movies. My favourite author is Franz Kafka and the local best is Ajith Thilakasena. I enjoy reading Nishshanka Wijemanna, Samara Wijesinghe and many others too. I have my taste on David Lynch, David Cronenberg, krzysztof Kieslowski type directors’ movies. The best ones I have watched (well, there are quite a lot) are Mulholand Drive, Lost Highway, M-Butterfly, Crash and Blue.