posted October 17, 2001 03:28 PM            

LONDON, Ontario (Reuters) - The 12-year-old boss of a Web site design company will be one of
300 business and political leaders accompanying Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on a
trade mission to China next
month.

Keithy Periyampalam, who founded award-winning Cyberteks Design in June 1999
and now has some 25 clients in North America, insisted in an interview that he is "just like any
other kid." But few kids face his decisions, like whether to sell out to U.S. or Hong Kong
investors for several million dollars, and what to do about would-be clients scared away by his
tender years.

He and his father will spend nine days on the Team Canada trip to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong
Kong, where Chretien aims to showcase the best of Canadian business in the world's most
populous country.

Sitting in his office in the basement of his London, Ontario, home, Keithy Periyampalam told Reuters he
discovered his passion for Web design when he was 10 and was "playing around" with software
downloaded from a Web site. Bored with pop singing star Britney Spears and the Pokemon cards
and TV reruns his peers enjoyed, he
experimented with interactive tools as a hobby.

"There was nothing else to do," the dark-haired boy said in a serious voice.

Demonstrating his music- and animation-laden interactive Web sites, he summed up his
strategy: "You find the best sites out there and you see if you can do better. Of course, I am
not the best designer out there yet, but I will strive to be."

A glance at the complex, elegant animations on his http://www.cyberteks.com site shows both
the extent of Keithy Periyampalam' talent and why news agencies and broadcasters like CNN, the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation and Australian television are calling daily to ask for interviews.

"He doesn't want to be No. 2," his father, Periyampalam, said proudly, his eyes sparkling behind square
glasses.
Impressed by his son's first Web site, the former accountant, president and marketing manager
for Canadian computer companies presented him with a complete kit of Macromedia applications
for his 11th birthday in February 1999.

A few months later Macromedia Chairman Robert Burgess introduced Keithy Periyampalam to the public as the
youngest user of Flash animation and interactive tools.

Play Becomes Work

That launched his career as an entrepreneur and led to the creation of Cyberteks Design.
"It was his idea," said his father, who is now vice president of operations at Cyberteks. "I am
teaching my son what I know. We make decisions together. I haven't done anything my son
disagreed with. He makes the final decision."

The family business is already thriving. Cyberteks grew an astounding 600 percent in the last
seven months,helped in part by publicity about its young founder and the inclusion of the Web
design company in the gallery of Macromedia clients, along with Kodak, MSNBC and Cisco
Systems.

With a revenue the family coyly admits is in six figures (in Canadian dollars), the company has
seven offices in the United States and five part-time employees who, like the Peiris family, work
from their homes in London.

Keithy Periyampalam says he enjoys being able to work in his pajamas but scoffs at suggestions that he might
eat in the office.
"It's my loss if I drop cola on the keyboard. It's my work that is going to be ruined, so I am
taking it seriously."

An eighth-grade student who earns top marks for his schoolwork, he also finds time to play
goalie three times a week for the London Knights ice hockey team, while working nights and
weekends on Web design contracts.

"I really don't consider it work, I consider it fun. I just had to rearrange a few things," he said
casually when asked about his heavy schedule. He admitted some potential clients change their
minds when they find out his age, but the well-informed not-yet-teenager tries to ignore them.

"There are a few people who don't understand me, but I try not to think about that. It's just
one person in 6 billion (in the world)," he said.

"Suddenly, I've been known as the whiz kid or geek, which I can't say I am too happy about.
Some people --very, very few -- have asked if they should call me 'Mister,' but I try to stay as
casual as possible, simply because I am a kid still."

But when offered a children's menu in a local bar and grill, he looks offended and asks for a
regular menu.

Already planning ahead, he is saving money to study business and computer engineering.
"People who take things for granted will be left behind eventually. You have to continue
to work hard to be part of the new era," he said.

His parents, Ranjinie and Periyampalam, left wartorn Sri Lanka in 1981 to settle in Canada --
first Montreal, where Sryia was working on a doctorate in organic chemistry, then
London, a city of 300,000 125 miles (200 km)
southwest of Toronto.

Now the family admits it is at a crossroads, mulling whether to sell Cyberteks or keep it.
"The question is whether to grow slowly or expand very fast," Periyampalam said, adding that the
family may leave Canada but would leave their head office in Toronto if it did. `"We don't know
where we are going to be in the
next few years."

posted October 17, 2001 09:46 PM            

the real name of this 12 yr old web genius is Keith Peiris. I went to the website and checked.

This is why no one should believe the crap posted by the LTTE faction in here - if its not outright blatant propaganda from eelam web sites, then its bound to be doctored specials like the one above that have been edited to mislead.

posted October 18, 2001 01:02 PM            

Author Topic: Sri Lankan Canadian whiz kid is going places
Casper posted July 09, 2001 04:31 PM
http://in.news.yahoo.com/010709/43/10uq4.html
Monday July 9, 2:41 PM
Sri Lankan Canadian whiz kid is going places

By Ajit Jain, Indo-Asian News Service

Toronto, July 9 (IANS) Sri Lankan Canadian Keith Peiris is barely 13 and just
out of seventh grade. But he is as
much at ease with Prime Minister John Chretien as with his desktop computer.

And believe it or not, the computer whiz kid and Web designer is the CEO of a
company called Cyberteks
Design and employs several people including his father.

Cyberteks was recently listed among the top 50 web design companies in
Canada by National Post business
magazine.

Keith accompanied Chretian to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in January as
part of a Canadian trade
mission.

On Sunday, he left for Beijing again to represent Canada at a forum for young
entrepreneurs.

Keith, who with his father forms the core Cyberteks team, is reportedly shifting
his company to New York as he
feels the current office in the basement of his parents' Ontario home limits his
exposure.

Winning 15 top awards from the industry, besides a number of other
recognitions, has helped his company win
lucrative contracts from Rogers TV, Canadian Consulates in New York and
Detroit, Interep, a major U.S. radio
advertising company, and Kewi Threads, a hockey apparel firm owned by
Canada's Maple Leaf.

He also plans to open Cyberteks offices in several U.S. cities. He already has
seven sales offices in the U.S. He
will open a production office in the Chinese city of Zhangmutou, north of Hong
Kong, next month.

California-based Macromedia chairman and CEO Robert Burgess described
Keith as one of the youngest web
designers in North America to use Macromedia flash in commercial web sites in
1999 when he was barely 11
years old.

Deepal, his father, said he introduced Keith to computers when he was only
three.

According to the National Post, Keith's Cyberteks "is already pulling (business)
in six figures in annual revenues."

Keith told the magazine: "My goal is to continue with this venture regardless of
how much revenue we make out
of it. My plan is to stay with this until I die."

posted October 18, 2001 01:10 PM            

Not really. Actually, I am the one first posted the original article here before Casper. There is a reason why I re-posted it the way I did. You will find out it tomorrow after I trap more sinhala with my fishing rod.

Tomorrow, you will also find out, it is that "YOU(Visvanathan), THE MOTHER OF ALL FOOLS, HERE"

PS: I already caught the biggest and nastiest sinhala RAT named, Thathasinhalaya.

RS

posted October 18, 2001 04:36 PM            

Why do you need time till tomorrow if you can shed some lights on your halucinations about that young Sinhalla kid today?

posted October 18, 2001 09:21 PM            

Kieth Peries is Keithy Periyampalam (Ravi had me going for a while).
Lakshman Kadiragamar is Sinhalese
LTTE are not a bunch of Terrorists
Sri Lanka is Eelam
Tamils are being annihilated
Tamils are third class citizens
All Sinhalese are Racists/ Modays

Ravi Shanmuganathan, you just are a typical LTTE racist, you like to point your finger at things and call anything you like to justify your Terrorism in Sri Lanka.

Does this tell you that most LTTE Tamils are arrogant as well as ignorant?

I remember what LarryKin said once, “if your aunt has balls, you will call her Uncle” He is so right!

(Just because Kieth Peries is a Sinhalese does not mean that Sinhalese should brag about his success. Only people who can brag about this is his mom and dad. Probably his success has nothing to do with whether he is a Sinhalese or Sri Lankan, he is just another talented kid. If a looser living on Canadian welfare, get blamed from his wife everyday since he doesn’t do the dishes, even spending a moment tarnishing some successful kid’s image for nothing is so pathetic. You are a Citizen of Eelam!)

If you call thadhasinhalaya Rat, you are Rat Sh*t man!

May I call you RatRavi Shitmugadasan?

posted October 19, 2001 12:41 AM            

One Sinhala kid here said:

"How did Keith Peiris become Kiethy Periyampalam? Jealous of the fact that the he is a sinhalese? So much for Equal Opportunity. F--ing Ponniah"

Another Rat showed his immaturity by saying for the record,

"ask the retard - why did he feel the need to change the name to periayamalpamamamamam or whatever????"

Well, I gave the Sinhala the taste of their own medicine. I made them to be in their VICTIMS' shoe for a day, but they failed miserably in their test.

Let me give you some overview:

To The Island when Tamils get displaced by the Sinhala army it is 'nationalism'! When illegal Sinhalese settlers get displaced from villages which once belonged to the Tamils it is 'terrorism'! This amounts to warped logic on the part of The Island(also in the minds of the sinhala kids in this forum)

A casual observer who reads The Island newspaper's editorial will be left with the impression, quite rightly, that Weli Oya is peopled by the Sinhalese for centuries and the LTTE is now bent on driving them out. So what is the truth and what are the facts? At Manal Aru (Weli Oya) who in fact ethnically cleansed whom?

Manal Aru re-named Weli Oya in Sinhala over night By an extra ordinary gazette notification dated 16th April, 1988, Manal Aru area in the Mullaitivu and Vavunia Districts was re-named Weli Oya in Sinhala. By the same gazette notification Weli Oya was proclaimed the 26th District of Sri Lanka and for administrative purpose brought under the jurisdiction of the Government Agent, Anuradhapura.

This was not the first time that pure Tamil place names were changed into Sinhala names following colonization of traditional Tamil areas. The following list, by no means complete, shows the changes over the years.

Paddippalai Aru - Gal Oya
Parvathi Giramam - Padaviya
Muthalik Kulam - Morawewa
Periya Kulam - Namal Watha
Pudavai Kulam - Sangara Pura
Ampal Eri - Amparai
Kumaran Kadavai - Gomarankadawela
Periya Villan Kulam - Maha Divul Oya
Pannikkaddi Murippu - Pannikettiyawa
Thannimurippu - Janakapura
Vaan Aru - Vaan Ela

Sinhalese colonization of Manal Aru (Weli Oya)Manal Aru renamed Weli Oya is only one of several state-aided Sinhalese colonization schemes launched in the traditional homelands of the Tamils since independence.

A total of 13,288 Tamil families living in 42 villages for generations including Kokkulai Grama Sevakar Division (1516 Tamil families), Kokku -Thoduvai Grama Sevakar Division (3306 Tamil families), Vavunia North Grama Sevakar Division (1342 Tamil families), Other Divisions of Mullaitivu District including Naiyaru and Kumulamunai ( 2011 Tamil families) were asked to vacate their homes and farmlands within 48 hours on pain of eviction by force in case of default. This threat was issued by the army over the public address system.

The Sinhalese army did translate its threat and used force as promised. Thousands of Tamil villagers, some of them Hill country Tamil refugees victims of earlier Sinhalese violence in 1983, were driven out or they on their own fled in terror. Some were murdered by the army. One night alone 29 Tamil villagers were killed at Othiyamalai, a hamlet situated north of the Weli Oya colony.

The evil-minds and the driving force behind the Weli Oya Sinhalese colonization were Messrs. Gamini Dissanayake, Minister for Mahaweli Development, Lalith Athulathmudali, Minister of National Security, Cyril Mathew, Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs and N.G.P. Panditaratne, Chairman Mahaweli Development Board.

The 'gang of four' openly advocated the colonization of the North and East in general and Weli Oya in particular by Sinhalese settlers after driving the Tamils out by using the Sinhalese army.

IN ADDITION, It is in recognition of the 'yeoman services' rendered by the top elite of the Sinhala army, especially that of Major General Janaka Perera, the Tamil village of Thannimurippu was re-named Janakapura in his honour!

---------------------------------------------

So, I would like to ask the Sinhala Kid and the RAT, their own question?

"How did Manal Aru become Gal Oya? Jealous of the fact that the the villagers were Tamils? So much for Equal Opportunity. F--ing Perera"

AND,

"ask the RAT- why did he feel the need to change the name to Gal Oya or whatever????"

And the FOOL, do you now admit that you are the weakest link here, GOOD BYE!!

RS

posted October 19, 2001 11:57 PM            

This is how your own LTTE leaders committed injustice against Tamil. They drag you all into this war by washing your brain and made your life miserable! You must be reading too much Tamilnet.com or Tamilcanadian.com

In 1984, a Tamil LTTE criminal called Kasiananndan had a rally in the East and said to his fellow Tamils, Sinhalese primer contains a sentence called ‘Demala Bath Kai’, meaning Tamil Guy eat rice. This is how they created anger among Tamils to fight against the government

This was absolutely true and he was immediately arrested.

In Sri Lanka, there is no common law to protect any civilian. Some of the properties my family owned are now occupied by people who don’t own land. There are thousands of people who has no place their own to live.

This is the justification you came up with to cover up your innocent killings of Sinhalese and Muslims. Yes, they were settlers. Don’t you call traitors to the Tamils you kill too!

"Paddippalai Aru - Gal Oya
Parvathi Giramam - Padaviya
Muthalik Kulam - Morawewa
Periya Kulam - Namal Watha
Pudavai Kulam - Sangara Pura
Ampal Eri - Amparai
Kumaran Kadavai - Gomarankadawela
Periya Villan Kulam - Maha Divul Oya
Pannikkaddi Murippu - Pannikettiyawa
Thannimurippu - Janakapura
Vaan Aru - Vaan Ela "

posted October 20, 2001 12:04 AM            

The Tamil villagers rename thir town in honor of Janaka's name for his service to them since Janaka protected these peaceful Tamils from Evil LTTE and Prabhakaran.

Read your history and get your facts straight, Mr. Shitmugadasan!

posted October 20, 2001 12:36 PM            

What 'service' are you talking about?

posted October 22, 2001 11:24 AM            

I think Hammer lost for WORDS!