In light of the World Cup that starts tomorrow and lasts for almost two months, I wonder whether offices in Sri Lanka will be efficient until the tournament comes to an end. The matches are expected to start at around 7 to 8pm and will end at about 3am the next day and this will mean that many will come to office nodding and may end up working rather slow and also less efficiently. There is also going to be a sudden increase of the number of people who sleep in public transport during the next two months. Hopefully no accidents involving people at the wheel falling asleep.

Employees may turn up late into office but I figure state institutions will be worse. It is already difficult to get any work done in them and we may have to avoid going there in the morning because many will be coming to office late. Who knows they even take a nap after lunch called “The World Cup Nap”.

There is surely going to be a surge in electricity usage too and not to mention higher electricity bills.

Things will probably be worse on the day after a match involving Sri Lanka. So this World Cup is going to have an affect on all walks of society and will alter the sleeping patterns of people of this nation and surrounding nations too since we are not alone in this. Cricket lovers in this part of the world will become Nocturnal for the next two months.

I for one have not decided what to do, I want to watch the matches too but I want to be able to work properly the next day. Any Suggestions please? How are you folks out there going to do it?