I remember sometime in September 2009 when news filtered out that the London Stock Exchange had concluded arrangements to acquire Millennium IT, a Sri Lankan software firm that had just developed and deployed what was at the time the world's fastest financial trading platform with the ability to process about 1 million orders per second for about 18 million pounds ....Sterling.
My excitement knew no bounds. For the next few days it was practically all I could talk about.
So much so that it prompted my then colleague Sogo to ask me:
" O boy why this thing de trip you like this? , in fact....wetin de power you ?"
Which in plain English roughly translates to:
"My friend, why is this news exciting you so much? In fact...what drives you? What are you passionate about?"
At the time I really could not give him a straight answer. I just knew that I was very excited. At the time I told him that the reason for my excitement was manyfold.
