Dear Department!

www.doenets.lk is the official website of Sri Lanka’s Department of Examinations. To my knowledge, this is the site most people are visiting these days, and it’s also the site that gets blamed and cursed the most. This is because of the stupid/false announcements made by Mr. Anura Edirisinghe, the commissioner of the Department of Examinations (DoE).

The results of the G.C.E. A/L exam 2006 are about to be issued, and students who sat for the exam, including myself and Chanux, are anxiously waiting to see what will happen to our future. But this so-called “commissioner” of the DoE seems to be playing with the heartbeats of every A/L result-pending student in Sri Lanka. We all remember what that nerd did last time (in the 2005 A/L results) and how he tried to hide his misdeeds by blaming those “good old” computers, like a cat defecating on a rock. 😆

Even this time, proving he hasn’t changed, he announced to the media that the A/L exam results would be issued on Saturday, 30th September. We checked the website the whole day and saw nothing. Then he said, “Oh, I forgot about Jaffna, so Monday will be the day, kids!” On Monday, we heard another announcement that we’d have to wait until Wednesday. And here we are, on Thursday, 5th October, at 2:45 AM, still checking the site (www.doenets.lk), which hasn’t been updated since April 2006.

Is this behavior suitable for a commissioner of a government department? especially the DoE?? I don’t know, because I’m just a 20-year-old guy without much experience in life. But believe me, I know enough to say that even a 13-year-old dumb kid would be far better for the post of Commissioner of the DoE than Mr. Anura Edirisinghe.

Anyway, dear Mr. President, why don’t you leave this position in the DoE empty? It’s far better than keeping this joker in the post. 😆

C.J.