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when I was young, I loved to stare at the sky. I always was fascinated by the millions tiny little flickering lights that hung over us. When I read and learnt about all the theories about the universe and its immense size, I used to screw my brains off trying to think in to the infinity... I used to stare up and wonder what the hell am I? Time has gone by since then, I couldn't see stars when i looked up at colombo, all u see is the orange haziness!! even here, u only can spot venus and a few other bright ones through the smog!!!.. but I still find myself wondering, what the hell am I???Most ...
Centre for Monitoring Election Violence
Media Communiqué on Election-related Violence
Eastern Provincial Council Election - 2008
10th May 2008 - 2.00 am - Media Communiqué 1
Batticaloa District
Intimidation of voters in Padirippu
Armed TMVP cadres reportedly intimidated voters in a number of houses in Kaludawali Village, Padirippu, late evening l. The TMVP cadres had taken the polling cards of the voters.
CMEV contacted Kalawanchikudi Police Station who informed us that a complaint had been made and that mobile teams were investigating the incident. PLOTE Leader Sidharthan confirmed that the TMVP cadres had been involved in taking polling cards from Kaludaweli Villagers last evening.
Intimidation of SPO at Kalladi
A Senior Polling Officer from the Kalladi ...
Nuwanchinthaka's Weblog
Everyone should protect the Environment. The most important thing you can do is to leave the Environment the way you find it.When you want to throw something away.You ought to find a garbage can.The peroson who leaves litter behindois worst kind Of traveller.Always carry a bag with you to put your litter in.This is the best way to protect the environment.
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Kasundisanayaka's Weblog
Butterfly is an insert.It has four legs.It has no bones.Butterfly has the teeth.It has two pairs of wings.The wings of the butterfly are very beautiful.There are eyes all over the wings.Butterfly is a harmless animal.It collects nectar from flowers That is this food.Butterflies are mully coloured.They look like flowers.Butterflies are becoming less and lessin number every yesr.They are extincting insects.we must protect those harmless beautiful butterflies.moths are ofter mistuken to be butterfiles.
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Kasundisanayaka's Weblog
We went to kandy perahera in last august. It was very beautiful. There were so many people. There were many foreigners, too. the whipcrackers led the perahera. there were drummers, flag bearers , kandian dancers. Nilame and elephants. The maligawa elephants came with the casket on it’ s back. The kandyan dancer and the maligawa elephants were very colourful.
Kasundisanayaka's Weblog
Sri lankahas been famous gemstones fromthe earliest times.It is an important export trade today.Many areas in the sabaragamuwa province are well known for gems.Rathnapura is the most important region for gems. Rathnapura means the ”city of gems”.It has gem museums displaying the wide.range of gems,available inthe country.The Blue sapphirre is the king of sri lankan gems.The 400carat blue sapphire called.The ‘Blue bell” which adorns the british crown is from sri lanka.Rubies,cat’s eyes,alexandrites,aquamarines,tourmalines,spinals,topazes,garn ets and amethysts are some of the precious stones found in sri lanka.The cutting of gems is a specialized job.gems are cut and polished before they are set.Different regions inthe country have different ways of making jewellery.gems are generally worn for their beauty.people also believe that gems ...
Kasundisanayaka's Weblog
Madduma bandara is the name of one of our national heroes. he is a child hero.he lived during the reign of sri wickrama rajasinghe. the last king of ceylon. his father was one of the king’s ministers. his name was ehelepola. ehelepola didn’t obey the king’s orders. he fled away and hid in a remote place. the king was very angry.he ordered that ehelepola’s family be killed. they were brought to bogambara by the king’s men. it was madduma bandara’s elder brother who had to face death first. but dared not to come forward. thus the name of madduma bandaraq was written in our history.
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Kasundisanayaka's Weblog
Baseball is the most popular sport in the united states and is often ca lled its national pastime . it’s a game played with a hard ball and bat between two teams of nine players each. the play starts when a player called the pitcher from one team throws a ball towards the batter, a player on the opposing team . if the batter strikes the ball , he runs around a series of bases before a player in the field can put him out. the baseball game is very similar to a popular game called ‘ elle’ played locally
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the curious monkey
Now that must come to a total surprise to those who living the ostrich life. By ostrich life I mean with their head stuck deep deep in the ground.
Anyone who at one point in their lives were adolescent’s knows this as fact but someone still decided to spend the money to conduct a research into this very fact! The BBC has an article that talks about this very research conducted in Britain and other European countries. The findings [surprise, surprise] stated that young folks were getting drunk and taking drugs to increase the chance of having sex.
pyschoactive drugs
Anyways, I just though it was a total ...
The Simple Theory of Relativity
For the past several years, the US bee farmers faced a major crises in the form of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) . The bee colonies started to collapse quite suddenly. If would’ve watched Seinfield’s Bee Movie, a person can understand the structure of a bee colony. (Discount the ridiculous parts-bees carrying planes, died trees given a boost of life by a spray of pollen….) The colony’s mere existence is based on its structure. If it is tampered with, the colony collapses.
The exact causes of CCD are unknown. However, as one news feature on ScienceDaily states, mites, viruses or pesticide contamination might be the cause.
The damage on the Bee industry is tremendous. Around 36% of Bee colonies have collapsed. ...
Deane's Dimension
Comes from the Daily Mirror :West responsible for cyclone in Burma.How fitting it was a direct quote by Champika Ranwaka. Do check out the comments section, this is confirming my increasing cynicism of democracy, I mean forget an informed electorate, doesn't democracy at least require a not-retarded one?Meanwhile in other news BBC reports that, Great tits respond well to warming. Hallelujah[links sent by NM and via IU respectively]
Centre for Monitoring Election Violence
Media Communiqué on Election-related Violence
Eastern Provincial Council Election - 2008
9th May 2008 - 2200 hrs - Media Communiqué 1
The major incidents of election violence reported to CMEV are highlighted below. Other complaints alleging the misuse of State resources, distribution of state benefits, intimidation of party workers and other civilians were also reported to CMEV.
Ampara District
Explosion in Ampara
An explosion took place at City Café, Main Street, Ampara Town at 5.40 pm this evening. CMEV was at the scene of the incident. The Ampara General Hospital told CMEV that 12 people have been killed in the blast and 30 have been injured, some seriously. The identity ...
Random thoughts on tech and other matters
Online, real-time tracking of Twitter posts with their points of origin plotted in a Google Map. Have a look :)By the way, the base platform is the WSO2 Mashup Server, the Free and Open Source Mashup Server. If you want to learn how to make Mashups similar to these, register for the free Webinar by Jonathan Marsh coming up next week.
CyberTrix
The second generation iPhone, you know, the one that will soon come with 3G connectivity, might be cheaper than the first version, the EDGE-only one. This will be possible thanks to AT&T, the sole
carrier who can currently sell the iPhone in the US (apparently, it will be the only one selling the 3G version too).According to Fortune (that quotes someone “familiar with the strategy”), when the 3G iPhone will hit AT&T stores, the double-t carrier will subsidize its price, bringing the 8GB edition to only $199, from $399, and the 16GB edition to only $299, from $499. This discount will only be available to customers who also want to sign a ...
groundviews
It was a busy afternoon on the Galle Road in Moratuwa and I stopped my vehicle at a pedestrian crossing to allow a few women and children cross the road. The vehicle on the left lane also stopped and the people were now more than halfway across when a Matara bound Leyland bus squeezed through the left and overtook both vehicles along the curb, barely missing the people crossing the road. The bus then cut across to the right lane and nearly missed another bunch of people about to cross at another pedestrian crossing and sped away. The above scenario is a common site on our roads, but no one takes any action, so the unsociable behaviour from the bus ...
Clown Syndrome
Straight hair seems to be quite the blaze these days. At last I see the common factor between the sixteen year old school going s*utty personality and the sixty year old ‘i wannabe young’ grandma next door.
And it’s all the same. They don a super tight pair of jeans that bulge out at all the unnecessary parts accompanied by a super tight black tee. One which hightlights their other vital organ(s). Digusting really. Especially when you’re in a bus and is unfortunate enough so as to stand next to one of these.
One lift of their arm and oooeee, my eyesight gets blurry and my senses are gone. What? you say. Oi, it’s the underarm odour. They have successfully completed ...
Websites at risk
The Sri Lankan Government launched a new website to showcase its work in the East called Eastern Revival. May go down the same path as Regaining Sri Lanka.
To download the entire site, click here.
Note that the Gallery section does not work on the original site either.
ROCKFUSE
As you can see, I’ve stopped running Google AdSense on my blog. I knew sometime back that I’d be forced to stop running it somewhere down the line but never thought it should be this soon. And if you’ve observed the fact, many blogs in the same niche as mine do not run AdSense at all.
Although AdSense can be highly effective in some niches, in some, like mine, it can be fairly useless and a waste of resources. The objective of this blog post is not to tell you guys that “AdSense sucks!”, because it doesn’t. The objective is to show that putting all your eggs in the AdSense basket not ...
Clown Syndrome
There is no point in stereotyping me for saying this. I wasn’t raped or anything as a kid and I live a completely normal life. On the outside. Inside, I am somewhat disturbed. I can’t bear the presence of females. Misogyny is not the real explanation and yet I’d rather not go there right now.
That being said, let me move on to the topic. Death. How do you see death? For me it has always been something that I am waiting for a long time. Suicide is just not good enough.
Buddhists see it as the start of another life. Given the fact that the dead person was not enlightened at the moment of his passing away. Islam/Christian views are somewhat ...
MAYUonline.com
You drive round a corner and you see a village which has literally been wiped off the map. People are scavenging around, trying to get bits of corrugated iron to rebuild their homes, trying to get some shelter.
For now they have no food and no shelter. Their water supplies have been contaminated.
A full six days after the cyclone slammed into this country, there is so much aid sitting on the borders; there are so many needy people. And the two are not getting together. (Via BBC)
Aid Myanmar (Via Yahoo)
So bad these people are suffering from this natural disaster, I know how it feels bcz once I have witnessed the TSUNAMI.
Hope they’ll get relief ...
Rumbling Lankan
If you are using RSS and especially if you are providing a full feed RSS like me chances are others might be publishing without content without your consent and most importantly without any reference to the original blog post.This could lead to your blog being penalized by Google for duplicate content and more importantly you could be missing out on lots of potential readers for your blog.Don’t get me wrong , there are plenty of sites that read other blogs feeds , but they mostly provide only an excerpt of your post ( avoiding duplicate content penalty ) and they always points to the original post so if the user liked the excerpt he will visit the site to read ...
සුදාරකගේ අන්තර්ජාල සටහන
අද (2008-05-09) සවස 5.45ට පමණ අම්පාරේ මහජන හෝටලයක් තුල බෝම්ම පිපිරීමක් සිදුවී ඇත. විද්යුත් මාධ්යයේ වාර්තාවන පරිදි 10දෙනෙකු තුවාල වී ඇති බවත් මේ වන විට තුවාලකරුවන් රෝහල් වෙතට ඇතුළුකරමින් සිටින බව ආරන්චි වේ.
මූලාශ්ර - දෙරණ හා ස්වර්ණවාහිනී
මේ අතර මාස්ටර් ඔෆ් නිවුස් වෙබ් අඩවියේ වාර්තාවන්නේ අම්පාර බස්නැවතුම් පොල අසල අධි බලැති බෝම්බයක් පුපුරා ඇති බවයි.
වැඩිදුර විස්තර බලාපොරොත්තුවන්න…
යාවත්කාලීන වීම (රාත්රී 7.00) - පුද්ගලයින් 8ක් ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත්වී ඇත (මූලාශ්රය ස්වර්ණවාහිනී)
Dinidu de Alwis
And big time. I was going through my stats the other day, and the highest number of hits I got was on the day that I wrote about sex education in Sri Lanka. So now it’s official: anything to do with sex, sells.
Me & me blog
…this.
It’s as if they read my mind.
Dialog TV Forum
According to information being received a message was send to all Dialog TV subscribers that reads as "DTV Services will be interrupted for schedules maintenance on the 10th and 12th midnight till 6am on 11 and 5am on 13th".This information was conveyed to all subscribers via SMS (those who have registered for programme alerts).We hope that all pixelation problems are sorted out thereafter.
Mad As A Hatter!
Scrumpy the daughter, the sister, the best friend, the close friend, the ex-girlfriend, the acquaintance, the reliable friend, the funny friend, the crazy friend, the I-don't-know-you-but-find-you-really-easy-to-talk-to "friend", the "lend me some money" friend, the pushover, the emotional one, the clever one (!), the outgoing child.....I have been described in all these ways BUT who is Scrumpy the blogger?
Theena Kumaragurunathan
Anthropologist/metalhead Sam Dunn’s follow-up to to his groundbreaking 2006 documentary ‘Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey‘ will be coming out soon, and I am excited as a teenager on the brink of losing his cherry to his favourite pornstar.
The new documentary titled ‘Global Metal‘ takes a look at the extreme metal scenes outside traditional metal hotspots in the US and Europe.
Friends of mine who were at Iron Maiden’s show in India last year were lucky enough to meet Dunn when he mentioned the idea for the follow up documentary. They were in awe, buying the bugger beer and whatnot. I was a tad envious as you can imagine. Seeing his documentary was inspirational; it was when metal ...
santhoshi
This is not about the Myanmar disaster relief. Although my problems are no where near what the people in Myanmar are going through right now. We should all help in whatever way possible. In this short span of life I cannot stop but think what would those villagers have been thinking when the cyclone hit them? It’s really sad that such natural disasters do have to occur.These disasters in my life have taken a greater turn with my mom and sister running into the rescue with an astrologer. (This must be like the 15th that we have seen). So anyways I completely refused to go with them but then in the end with my mom doing ...
metalcracker.com
Local axeman Andrew Obeysekara(Stigmata) once told me,if there’s one band he can listen to 24/7,it has to be “Lamb of God”!Not suprising really,I mean Lamb of God are one of those few acts who’ve been able to redifine the term “kick-ass” within a genre that naturally kills plenty of ass.
I am not going to brag about Lamb of God anymore,because I know all of you reading this know your shit and know how awesome Lamb of God are.
They’ve released the album artwork for thier forthcoming DVD-Walk with me in Hell,and that’s what you are seeing now.I tried to watch the official trailer myspace video for this,but myspace was ...
kanabona.com
if you receive an e-mail titled "Think of them next time you throw the cafeteria food saying, its not tasty!!" - thats a hoax
i tried calling 1098 off dialog and slt lines and the numbers are invalid
the hoax e-mail reads:
If you have a function/party at your home in Sri Lanka and food gets wasted , don't hesitate to call 1098 (only in SL) - child helpline. They will come and collect the food. Please circulate this message which can help feed many children. PLEASE, DON 'T BREAK THIS CHAIN,
'Helping hands are better than Praying Lips'
thinkfree
The Kid Chronicles – Shortened Skirts
As mentioned in a previous post, from the time the kid was three years old, a habit that is now a custom, I drive her to school every morning. This obviously has continued in London, when I am here that is. Which now is most of the time.
Anyways, over the years I have used this as a way of bonding and spending quiet time with her. She and I both enjoy
Risk Faliure To Archive Sucess
So it has been a long while since the last post. well had too many work to deal with.
In the past time too important events past. One was the sinhala and hindu new year which I’m planing to write a separate article and the other was the Google summer of code.
Speaking of the Google summer [...]
ඩනිෂ්කගේ දිනපොත
පසුගිය දිනක දුටු පුංචිපහේ වැඩසටහනක තිරපිටපතේ තිබුනේ IE සඳහා 80% ද FF සඳහා 20% වෙළෙඳ පොළක් ඇති බවයි. මේක ඇත්තටම අසාධාරන කතාවකි. මන්ද MSFT විසින් ඔවුන්ගේ Windoz සමඟ IE බලෙන් බෙදීම නිසා ඉබේම Windoz සඳහා ඇති වෙළෙඳ පොළ ඉබේම IE වෙත ලැබීමයි.කව්රුවත් IE හි ගුණාත්මක භාවය ගැන කතා නොකරන්නේ ඇයි දැයි එක් ගැටළුවකි.Firefox සඳහා සම්මාන http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/awards.htmlඇයි අපි Firefox භාවිතා කළ යුත්තේ http://www.switch2firefox.com/whyswitch/
The Missing Sandwich
The general reply to this regular outburst of mine is generally - uh… I’ll just call you Charlie. I love the reactions that come before though. Its generally an outburst I have when I hear shocking news. It’s something I’ve stolen from my best friend who is full of witty phrases like that. God I miss her. She’s been the only one who can pull me through my depression. The only one who would slip into that dark abyss and stay there with me when I’m not ready to face the light of day as yet. She’s literally thousands of miles away from me. Too much money away from me. I have to wait until December. Too long. Way ...
Ramblings of an Insane Mind
Hmm… not a lot of work today so was browsing the net to fend off boredom, and came across these.Ok ok I was drooling over them. *sigh*. Check out the links for more…Enjoy------අද වැඩ අඩු දවසක් නිසා කම්මැලිකම යන්නත් එක්ක අන්තර්ජාලයෙ පොඩ්ඩක් සැරිසරන කොට මේ ටික හම්බවුනෙ.ආතල් යතුරුපැදි ටික. අනේ ලන්කවෙත් මෙවා තිබ්බනම් Harley Davidson – All hail the kings…MGS Custom BikesCustom Bikes of LauderdaleThunderstuck Custom Bike...
Ephemeral Ruminations
It was another night of tripping out when the conversation meandered in the direction of karma and the kind of metaphysical clap-trap that we so often indulge in to exercise the old brain cells, when The Cherry Lady, just back from an extended sojourn in Sunny California where she was threatened – first by floods, and then more recently, by bush fires - steered the conversation in the direction of ‘death’. And I could see that Java, who was more than a little thrilled to see Cher return, was hanging onto her every word. Now although more than one of our friends have had their suspicions of how strongly Java feels about Cher, he has always maintained that they ...
Sannasa.org
අද (මැයි 09) සවස සවස 5.45 ට පමණ අම්පාර නගරයේ “නිව්සිටි කැෆේ” හෝටලය තුල එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ත්රස්තවාදීන් විසින් සිදුකරන ලද බෝම්බ...
Messiah of madness
Having a little extra time on my hands I decided to experiment with a few mediums I hadn’t tried before.
First off, meet Eugine!
Mediums used- light charcoal, 6B and 7B pencils
I sketched him having got my hands on a charchoal pencil. The concept of which I thought was rather neat! Imagine this- a slender piece of charcoal, instead of the lead in a pencil! (Oh alright!!! At least I found it interesting….*kicks a stone and shuffles feet*…)
Medium used- Soft pastels and a black crayon.
Demon hands lifting the head off of a minion… long story. Had pictured it differently in my mind but… it turned out like this ...
Dares to be different
I was astonished to find PAFFREL Executive Director Kinsley Rodrigo’s comments Pillaiyan and his terrorist group was not carrying weapons in their election campaign in the current Eastern Provincial Election campaign. We surely have a very blind man here.
I myself have seen Pillayan’s gunmen at Tirukkovil on last Sunday (May 4) while passing the town. [...]
thinkfree
The tired old Elephant ☺
In the early 1990’s a tired old elephant was tethered down Wijerama Mawatha. Soon this elephant was transformed into a raging young bull, running around Sri Lanka, winning the hearts and minds of all Sri Lankan’s.
The multinational dynamic ribbon and the other multinational tried in vain to stop this rampage. Soon this Elephant was the proud leader of the pack.
A
Times Eye
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LIRNEasia
There will be a Colloquium held on tuesday, the 13th of May that will review the SMS module within the Disaster Management Project. This Colloquium will be conducted by Natasha Udu-gama.
We welcome all those who are interested to join us virtually through our online blogging. There also will be a Skypecast conducted of the event. However this will be a private Skypecast, so those who are interested in joining please send an email to alawattegama@lirne.net and the link will be forwarded to you.
We hope you will join this Colloquium and share your views on the subject.
aljuhara
here, for the benefit of all good Colombites are two things I learned yesterday1. It IS possible to collide with a crow. I used to think that the kamaikazi dives they make into the middle of traffic were precision timed foreys of daring skill, but it turns out they are just greedy dimwits like the rest of us and if they see some food speck on the road they go for it with wretched single minded concentration , and that not on the traffic. I dont know if this has happened to other people but I tangled with a CROW near the General Hospital mortuary and the only reason its lived to fly another day is that I ...
මලින්තගේ සටහන | Malinthe's Note
සිංහල බ්ලොග් මැරතන් එක දවසෙ ඔක්කොම එක තැනකින් කියවන්න මැරතන් සින්ඩිකේටරයක් හැදුවා මතක ඇති. දැන් මැරතන් ඉවර නිසා ඒක පැත්තකින් තියලා එදිනෙදා බ්ලොග් කියවන කටයුතු වලට ‘සිංහල බ්ලොග් කියවනය’ කියලා එකක් හැදුවා. ඒක මෙතැනින් ලබාගන්න පුළුවන්: http://blogs.sinhalabloggers.com
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Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka
FMM expresses its concern government’s attempt to bar foreign media from covering provincial council elections in the Eastern province which is scheduled for 10th May 2008.
Military authorities turned back journalist Ravi Nesman and photographer Gamunu Amarasinghe of AP insisting that they need a special permission to cover the election in East. Associated Press reporter Ravi Nesman and photographer photographer Gamunu Amarasinghe were stopped at a checkpoint in the eastern town of Valaichchenai and ordered to leave the province and head straight back to the capital, Colombo. Apparently all check points on the main road was informed of the incident and license plate number of the car they were traveling. On their way back they were warned at every check ...
