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VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2
30TH AUG, 2010
Special points of interest:
 Electronic Commerce—
Benefits and Threats
 3 Google Tricks when you
don’t know what to search
 LOTA Flashback
 How to implement Strategic
Plans
 Foundation of ones life
based on their parents
 Good—Average— Bad
Inside this issue:
Editorial
Good ~ Average ~ Bad
LOTA Flashback
How to implement Strategic Plans
Google Search Tricks
Bamba Heads East
Foundation of life based on Parents
Ifthar Programme
Breakfast Donation
Tittle Tattle in Blue
JUNIOR CHAMBER INTERNATIONAL SRILANKA BAMBALAPITIYA
Electronic Commerce - Benefits and Threats. Do these threats pose serious for
business operation? A perspective view of E-commerce threats and control measures
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) defined
as the way of doing business electronically
was just a concept few years back. There
were concerns on how this could be
achieved without the manual interaction
between 2 parties concerned.
But today, we see that dream achieved and
how businesses make huge profits when they
push their business into electronic commerce
environments. E-commerce simplifies the way
we do business. Rather than, doing every-
thing manually, this concept paves way to
do things at 1 click and bring down the time
taken to finish tasks, the legacy way.
As known, every technology has its weak-
nesses. So does E-commerce. If the basic
foundation is not robust, even corporate
firms could collapse within no time. The rea-
son for this is due to the complete automa-
tion the E-commerce environment holds. But
then we could also say, nothing is impossible
so, creating a robust, threat free environ-
ment is also possible. It all depends on how
firms design their electronic networks.
Whatever said , E-commerce is the way of
doing business since it has simplified the
2 way we do business. From checking your
Australian bank account in Norway and
depositing money to Sri Lanka from Swit-
2
zerland and purchasing an iPhone in Amer-
ica while residing in Cambodia is all achiev-
able only through E-commerce. If it was not
3 behaves. Every time a virus is released,
for this, just imagine the difficulties we
would face when it comes to International
4 affairs.
With that said, let us review what are these
so-called threats and why business need to
5 address them effectively. E-commerce is
doing business over Internet which is a
means of communicating worldwide without
6 any barriers. The Internet is an unregulated,
unmanaged and uncontrolled medium and
therefore posed to severe threats. The en-
tire business depends on this technology and
a tiny mistake could create havoc. Threats
could come in many ways as viruses, frauds,
internal sabotage, Trojans, eavesdropping
or even as DoS attacks.
Let us review some most common threats.
DoS (Denial-of-Service) attack, targets a
legitimate system to limit entry to its service
even to authorized users. This is achieved by
sending large data packets into the system
which ultimately reduces the bandwidth of
the system used to serve its clients and may
even completely halt the entire system.
Eavesdropping which is listening and captur-
ing data that is sent across a network. This is
why, companies encrypt confidential data
before sending it over a network.
Another major threat is website phishing
which means a hacker creates an exact
copy of a genuine website and make sure,
customers access this rogue site and enter
their information, which the hacker can later
retrieve and use it to perform transactions.
But virus attacks are currently the most
popular internet threats up-to date. A
hacker writes a code to create destruction
to a particular network or any network. This
destructive program can be harmless like
slowing down the computer and dangerous
like deleting anything it finds and physically
destroying a system.
This is the world of E-commerce and how it
companies dealing with virus guards, imple-
ment new security measures to detect those
viruses and clean them up. And this fight
between the two parties and the end cus-
tomer continues to grow and remain active.
Jc. Imtiyaz Gaffoor
Director International
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EDITORIAL
„All that we see or seem;
Is but a dream within a
dream‟ - Edgar Allan Poe
All of us as individuals have
dreams. It is the fervor of
these dreams that define
who we are. JCI teaches us
to nurture these dreams
and create a positive
change within the commu-
nity.
“It is vain to talk of the
interest of the community,
without understanding
what is in the interest of
the individual” - Jeremy
Bentham
Interests of individuals once
nurtured is a positive direc-
tion would definitely impact
the business community and
society in a grand way and
invariably create a positive
change.
As Jaycees we are the
agents of change. This sec-
-ond issue of BAMBABITES’
theme is „You are the KEY
to the Future‟.
I would like to say a ‘BIG
THANK YOU” to all who
spent their valuable time on
the articles included in this
issue.
Jc. Angela Thayalaseelan
Editor

Musician Elvis “The King” Presley was awarded the

TOYP award by the US Jaycees in his younger days.
It was his most prized possession. He carried it every-
where; on tour, vacations and more. Still today it
stands in Graceland for all to see.

GOOD ~ AVERAGE ~ BAD ???

I would like to bring to your notice of a segment in society which is not captured by most of
the nonprofit organizations and the local governments. This segment is not about disabled,
poor or any other needy people. Let me explain through an example…
Think about your school days. We can categorize school students into few segments. The first
segment the intelligent, the second are the average and the other poor in knowledge.
If you have noticed the attention paid by the school teachers, majority of it would be towards
the intelligent students. This is due to the fact that those categories score very high in their
examinations, and end of the day the teacher get credits for those who score high. But the
reality is those students are born intelligent and do not need much or extra attention. Those
who need are the student category of average and poor in understanding the subject. Unfor-
tunately these are the groups who are ignored from the schooling in our society.
If you analyze this situation closely; from the school days group 1 is motivated and the rest of
them are de-motivated, and those are in society they come up with the negative attitude of
achieving things.
Personally I have experienced these kind of students are capable of thinking very creative
and highly energetic; but they need guidance, advice and direction.
People always forget that everybody doesn’t have the talent to be doctors and engineers. If
one could not get through his studies may be he is good in skillful jobs like fashion designing,
graphic designing etc.
Through JCs we can conduct more career guidance training and reduce this gap which helps
the mother land to have a more productive and innovative work force.

Jc. Zarook Sajid

Immediate Past President JCI Bambalapitiya
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LOCAL OFFICERS TRAINING ACADEMY
The first NOM / LOM pro-
ject for the newly formed
chapter, was LOTA 2010.
Subsequently, it was time for
the appointment of the
“LOTA - Chain of Command”
unanimously given to Jc. Faraz
Farook and Jc. Imran Marikar.
Many a night was spent in
collaboration with the Na-
tional Board the guidance for
this project, planning every
detail. The National Board
headed by Jc. Azard Ishak and
his crew consisting of Jc. Sec.
Gen. Radhika De Silva, GLC
Jc. Sumedha Alahakooon, VP
Jc. Charitha Bandara, Execu-
tive VP Jc. Zulfer Hassen,
Executive VP Jc. Suranga
Edirisighe and Treasurer Jc.
Shehan Wijewickrama all
combined their heads together
with the Bamba crew consist-
ing of Jc. Anushly, Jc. Faraz,
Jc. Imran, Jc. Kavita, Jc.
Shamry, Jc. Jananki, Jc. Su-
mangaly, Jc. Riyaz, Jc.
Waasique, Jc. Faathi, Jc. Imti-
yaz and Jc. Angela to plan for
the breakthrough project
LOTA – 2010.
On the dawn of the 20th and
21st of Mar 2010, we saw the
JCI spirit in full at the
“Olympic House – Colombo
07”, a crowd of approximately
50 participants, where major-
ity of the active chapters had a
well balanced representation,
were gathered. The singing of
the National Anthem kick
started the gala event on the
morn of the 20th a Saturday.
After the lighting of the “oil
lamp”, the Course Director
and Facilitator, also the Imme-
diate Past National President
JCI Sen. Bimal Liyanage
launched the training schedule
for LOTA 2010.
The first speaker was none
other than the renowned Dr.
Upali Mahanama where he
steered the new LOM officers
on an enjoyable discussion of
the “Power of Professionalism
& Leadership in Manage-
FLASHBACK
ment”.
It was time to get introduced
to your “Buddy” and the letter
system in place to convey any
message across to anyone
during the course of the two
days. We are still not sure of
the outcome of this process –
Good? Bad?
After a tea break and a stroll
in the grounds of the Olympic
House’s atmosphere for learn-
ing, it was time for under-
standing the “Duties and Re-
sponsibilities of the LOM
officers” by JCI Sen. Bimal
Liyanage and the NOM.
Groups were formed based on
JCI designations for this pur-
pose. After an effective brain-
storming session it was time
for lunch after which the pres-
entations were held.
The LOM officers seemed to
have a partiality to animals;
and the Olympic House was
turned into “Old Mac Don-
ald’s Farm” when the grouping
for the next events took place.
There were the Sharks, Geese,
Energizers, Monkey-Booz,
and the Bold. Well needless to
say the fun began with the
various “Haka’s” and “Motto’s”
where quacking sounds and
monkey dances were the high-
lights. National President
Azard’s and Jc. Khalil’s Ener-
gizers were an essential part of
keep all awake and geared up
till the end of day 2. Next
came the very informative
session by none other than the
executive vice president, Jc.
Zulfer Hassen on the “Tools
for successful Personal Effec-
tiveness and Organising”. This
saw the end of Day 1.
The 21st was another eventful
day, having mingled in and
fallen into the trend of LOTA
the Jaycees were now more
relaxed and ready for fun.
This day was on the serious
topics namely “Financial Mat-
ters -voicing the theme who
are you?”, “Parliamentary
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procedures” and “Mastering
the Constitution”. These were
conducted by Former NOM
treasurer Jc. Shimron Samson,
Jc. Jamael Jabbar, Jc. Malika
Amasekera.
It was time to have lunch and
a little fun with the ducks in
the garden. They seemed to
correlate with certain mem-
bers of the “Geese” team and
had planned out a strategy for
attack. Well there was no
stopping the Geese with such
minute attacks and they were
ready for the next team play.
We were given the “Big Pic-
ture” by none other than Na-
tional President Jc. Azard
Ishak who later evaluated the
projects Plans based on theme
“Climate Change”. Next came
the inspiring session by JCI
Sen. Prasantha Lal De Alwis
on “JCI career for Good Cor-
porate Governance”. Finally it
was time for the graduation
Ceremony for the LOM offi-
cers of LOTA 2010. The
Chief Guest for the evening
was none other than JCI Sen.
Prasantha Lal De Alwis a
prominent figure in today’s
commercial environment.
The two memorable days had Organising Team Bamba
with Facilitators and Chief
to come to an end and it was Guest
time to call it a day, in his vote
of thanks Jc. Faraz thanked all
who contributed big or small
to make this event the success
it was. The NOM, and the
“LOTA - Chain of Command”
Jc. Faraz and Jc. Imran, along
with Captain Jc. Anushly man-
aged to maneuver the vessel
and its crew impeccably
through the rough seas and
LOTA pa rticipants a t th e end
present a very successful and
of th e session
truly Jaycee Gala Event con-
ducted in style – LOTA 2010.
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CHECKMATE
“Treat people with the
same respect you expect
from them. And you
will enjoy the 29
percent greater return
than non-strategic
planning companies”
Full and Active Executive Support
for Successful Stra tegic Planning
Jc. Faraz Farook
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How to Implement STRATEGIC PLANS
The strategic planning “How
to?” question strikes at the
heart; how to make changes of
any kind to happen in your
organisation? Start by answer-
ing „Why your organization
might want to be one of the
organisations in which the
employees understand the mis-
sion and goals?‟ They enjoy a
29% grater return than other
firms. This seems like a good
reason to start Strategic Plan-
ning to me. How about you?
Keys to Strategic Planning
Success
These are the keys to effective
strategic planning for your busi-
ness:
 Full and active Executive
support
 Effective communication
 Employee involvement
 Through organisational plan-
ning and competitive analy-
sis and
 Widespread perceived need
for Strategic Planning
If you are implementing your
strategic plans in an organisa-
tional environment that is al-
ready employee-oriented, with a
high level of trust, you start the
strategic planning process with
a huge plus. An additional plus
is an organisation that already
thinks strategically.
Unfortunately, the implementa-
tion of strategic planning most
frequently occurs as an organi-
sation moves from being tradi-
tionally reactionary to strategic.
So, often, learning to think
strategically is part of the strate-
gic planning learning curve.
Full and Active Executive
Support for Successful Strate-
gic Planning
Successful strategic planning
requires commitment from
executives and senior managers,
whether the strategic planning is
occurring in a department or in
a complete organisation. Execu-
tives must lead, support, follow-
up, and live the results of the
strategic planning process or,
the strategic planning process
will fail. It's as simple as that.
Without the full commitment of
the organisation's senior execu-
tives, don't even start strategic
planning. Participants will feel
fooled and misled. A vision
statement and a mission state-
ment, along with this year's
goals, filed, unimplemented in a
cabinet or computer is a serious
source of negativity and poor
employee morale.
Senior leaders can do the fol-
lowing to create a successful
strategic planning process.
Establish a clear vision for the
strategic planning process.
Paint a picture of where the
organization will end up and the
anticipated outcomes. Make
certain the picture is one of
reality and not what people
"wish" would occur. Make sure
key employees know "why" the
organization is changing.
Appoint an executive champion
or leader who "owns" the stra-
tegic planning process and
makes certain other senior
managers, as well as other
appropriate people in the or-
ganization, are involved.
Executive support in strategic
planning is critical to its suc-
cess. Executives must lead,
support, follow-up, and live the
results of the strategic planning
process. These are additional
ways executive leaders can
support the strategic planning
process. See the first part of this
article for more ways that lead-
ers can support the strategic
planning process.
Pay attention to the planning
occurring. Ask how things are
going. Focus on progress and
barriers for change manage-
ment. One of the worst possible
scenarios is to have the leaders
ignore the process. Sponsor
portions of the planning or the
strategic planning process, as an
involved participant, to increase
active involvement and interac-
tion with other organization
members.
If personal or managerial ac-
tions or behaviour requires
change of the vision statement,
mission statement, values, and
goals to take hold in the or-
ganisation, "model" the new
behaviour and actions. (Senior
managers must walk the talk.)
Establish a structure which will
support the move to a more
strategically thinking and acting
organisation. This may take the
form of a Steering Committee,
Leadership Group, Core Plan-
ning Team or Guiding Coali-
tion.
Change the measurement sys-
tems, reward, and recognition
systems to measure and reward
the accomplishment of the new
expectations established through
the strategic planning process.
Develop within you and your
team to communicate, reinforce,
and provide a structure that
supports the articulation and
accomplishment of the strategic
planning goals.
While every person in your
organization cannot make their
voice heard on every issue
within the strategic planning
process, you must solicit and
act upon feedback from other
members of the organisation.
Integral to the strategic planning
process must be the commit-
ment of each executive to dis-
cuss the process and the plans
with staff members. Too often, I
have experienced executives
holding information closely and
consolidating their own dys-
functional power within the
organization at the expense of
other company employees feel-
ing - and acting - excluded.
(And then they ask: how can I
get my staff to "buy-in" to these
new expectations?)
Recognize the human element
inherent in any change - the
change from reactionary to
strategic thinking is a huge leap.
People have different needs and
different ways of reacting to
change. They need.
If training is part of the strategic
plan, senior leaders must partici-
pate in the training that other
organization members attend,
but, even more importantly, they
must exhibit their "learning"
from the sessions, readings,
interactions, tapes, books or
research.
Lastly, and of immense signifi-
cance, be honest and worthy of
trust.
Throughout the strategic plan-
ning process, treat people with
the same respect you expect
from them. And you will enjoy
the 29 percent greater return
than non-strategic planning
companies, predicted earlier.
With your vision statement,
mission statement, values,
strategies, goals, and action
plans developed and shared,
you'll all win, both personally
and professionally. humanre-
sources.about.com
Jc. Faraz Farook
Public Relations Officer
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3 Tricks When You Don’t Know What to Search For
More often than not, you have
to try dozens of various search
phrases to accidently come
across a good result.
Today‟s short search tutorial
will show some Google search
tricks you can use to search
when you actually don‟t know
what you are going to find.
The tips will turn useful in a
number of cases:
 When you are looking for
random inspiration and
thus have no idea which
words to use to search
(actually what you really
need to get inspired is to
know those words);
 When you topic is broad
and you are unsure which
one of the related words
and synonyms best de-
scribe your question;
 When you have found a
page, can‟t define it prop-
erly but need more of the
kind (especially, if you
have landed on some
wicked tool and want to
know if there are more
tools like this).
Now, let me share the Google
search operators that will help
you in any of the above cases:
Bamba Heads EAST...
Eastward… Bamba decided to
head out of the safe zone of
Colombo and suburbs and
create value in Batticoloa.
The training session con-
ducted by none other than
Jaycees Anushly and Suman-
galy for present and future pre
school teachers on effective
handling of the students and
communication skills was
what the session was on.
The outcome and feedback of
the participants was tremen-
dous and many were the re-
quests for future sessions of
sort.
The trip coupled with a get
together of the chapter mem-
bers for a time of fellowship
was an eye opener to us in of
the various blessings we
1. Wildcard Search Operator
Search engines may treat a
wildcard (*) differently.
Google substitutes it for one
or more words that would
normally occur in the phrase.
Thus, if you, for example,
search [“reliable * provider”],
search results will include:
“reliable television provider”,
“reliable webhosting pro-
vider”, “reliable VoiP pro-
vider”, etc.
Possible Usage
Thus two of the most obvious
ways to take advantage of the
search operator are:
 Use it when you remember
the phrase but can‟t re-
member the word;
 Use it to research various
combinations with one or
more base words (for key-
word research or language
learning);
2. ~ Synonym Search Opera-
tor
The Google ~ operator allows
you to broaden the scope of
your search to related terms
and synonyms.
Possible Usage
possess as individuals and
living in a community barely
touched by the effects of the
war. As per our goal we made
this the initiation point to plan
out the future projects that
could be accommodated to
this community. Bamba is
resolute in its goal of remain-
ing active citizens of Sri
Lanka in par with JCI.
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The operator may turn particu-
larly handy when:
 Your search term is very
broad and you are unsure
which of the related words
is used to describe the phe- Google Search Engine
nomenon. How to use i t effectively
 You went to research re-
lated terms excluding the
one you use (e.g. [~search-
search]
3. Related: URL Search Op- “Google substitutes
erator
(*) for one or more
The related: search operator
allows to find more similar words that would
pages to the provided one. It
used to be strictly based on co normally occur in the
-citation: it looked for more
pages with the same set of phrase.”
back links to the above one.
But since then it has been
noticed that it also applied
some thematic relevance.
Possible Usage
It is thus clear that the search
operator should be used when
you need to find similar pages
(especially when you can‟t
formulate the contents or de-
fine the concept of the current
page).
Jc. Imran Marikar
Director Individual
Breakfast Donation
A child permanently bereaved of
his parents at a tender age where
he is unable to support himself in
this highly competitive world suf-
fers in numerous ways unthinkable
to some of us. Bamba decided to
bring a smile on the faces of these
children at Sri Lankadhara Society
Orphanage situated in the midst of
Colombo. It was a time of fun and
fellowship with these children as
they enjoyed the meal provided by
us and games that followed after
which it was time for school. The
3rd of Aug officiated in enlighten-
ing us on the innocence kids and
how we could help spread light in
their darkened world.
The foundation of one’s life
based on their parents behaviour ...
Parents are a significant
influence on how their
children turn out in life. If a
child is brought up in a
grouchy home, the child
may grow up to become a
querulous adult. This is
expected because, the
child spent the growing
and formative phase of life
with parents who have
shown no better way to
live. Parents are a child’s
first role model whose
behavioural patterns they
copy. Even if they do not
like certain attitudes, they
still find themselves behav-
ing as such because they
know no better.
Children have a little frame
of reference and the world
they live in is small, center-
ing on themselves and
their families and their
limited exposure in life,
they think everything that
happens is directly related
to them. Of course this is
so, but not in the way that
a child thinks.
When parents fight, re-
gardless of what the par-
ents are fighting about,
many children blame
themselves, thinking that
somehow they might have
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been able to prevent the
blow up, even when it
wasn’t triggered by any-
thing the child did or did
not do. If it is pre-empted
by a situation involving the
child or even a discussion
about the child, they think
that if only they had been
“good,” their parents fight-
ing wouldn’t happen. Chil-
dren internalize the prob-
lem and develop anxiety
when parents fight and
they begin to suffer from
low self-esteem.
Children learn behaviours
and norms from the peo-
ple closest to them—their
parents. But if a family is
dysfunctional, they will
also learn that dysfunc-
tional behaviour. When a
child grows up with par-
ents fighting all the time,
they either come to think
of that as “normal” and
become fighters them-
selves—frequently bullying
other children or needing
to have control in their
other relationships—or
they recognize that it is not
normal and will do any-
thing to avoid it. In the
latter case, they become
children who are alto-
gether unassertive, giving
IFTHAR PROG
In line with the fasting period
that is followed by our Muslim
brothers and sisters an ‘Ifthar
Programme’ was organized on
20th of Aug. A special guest
speaker was invited and shared
his thoughts. It turned out to be
a very successful event and an
informative one for all partici-
pants getting more insight into
the day to day aspects of life
and its various commitments.
Hats off to Jc. Huzaifa Farook for
his leadership role in organiz-
ing this event.
in whenever there is a con-
flict or disagreement about
anything, because they
would rather keep the
peace at all costs than risk
an argument.
If You Watched Your Par-
ents Fighting, You Learn
Fighting—Or Peace Keep-
ing.
Even in families where
parents fighting is not an
extreme problem, parents
should remember that
what they do and say, and
more importantly, how
they act toward one an-
other, influences their
child, their child’s self-
esteem, and their child’s
short- and long-term emo-
tional health, as well as
their future relationships.
(Some contents have been
extracted from the inter-
net)
Jc. Krishani Kodikakara