“ Wow ! Its a saffron draped team streaming on gentle feet, into the playing field. Hey are they Aussies ? They wear yellow too ! Nay, they, Aussies have some green patches on their shirts. Ah yes ! They wear shirts, pants, caps and cricket boots. Wh…
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It was only yesterday that pro LTTE media and Eelamists celebrated the shooting down of a SLAF supersonic jet bomber. However, DefenceNet can confirm that no fighter aircraft of SALF were neither lost nor damaged due to enemy fire or due to technical f…
sri lanka freedom party unveiled its proposals to aprc yesterday(30th). no doubt in the coming days various people will assess them (and other proposals from others) in detail. some will say they do not go far, others that they go too far, in offering …
Today is Vesak. The day on which the prince siddhartha became enlightened (and was born and died on as well). Buddhists all around the world commemorate this day.Some time back I remember it was news that Vesak was made a global holiday. But my friends…
I recently spoke with a Muslim girl who prefers to wear a headscarf. We were talking about stuff, and i asked her whether she has ever been asked if she could not wear it within office premises (at interviews). And she said yes… and a lot of girls are asked that question.
The other day, i […]
Went to Cafe 64 last Friday for lunch. The pastries there are very good, and the price is pretty reasonable when you consider other options near by (for pastries / rolls that sort of thing); i would go far as to say that they are probably cheaper (defined as quality / cost) that Perera & […]
I’ll let the screenshot speak for itself.But just in case your wondering this is Gentoo GNU/Linux running the beryl Window Manager (WM), on top of KDE desktop environment, with screenlets as widgets/gadgets, kiba-dock for an OSX like dock and kbfx with…
Nocturnal greetings to you all. As you can see I have emerged from a pile of revision and plunged myself into another pile of angst.Without meaning to sound melodramatic, all things on the revision-front appeared to have ground to a halt thanks to the …
Architecture can severely harm you and the people around you. Architecture while pregnant can hurt your child. Architecture can lead to clogging of arteries and heart attacks and strokes. Architecture can damage the spermatozoa and decreases your ferti…
So, if you need to know more about us, we suggest you check our website at www.equal-ground.org. Now this may look like just another way for us to advertise ourselves, but the truth is: we would really like to hear from you!
In the wake of Mr. Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew’s staggering comments regarding homosexuality, which […]
I sit beside youI sit in silencewathching you,waiting,for a word,a breath,a touchsuppressing the impulseto grab youand kiss youlike there was no tommorrowi long to hug youto feel your breathupon my hairto smell the fragranceof sweat mingled with muskbu…
It’s not exactly the way I planned to write this post, but anyway the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 is officially concluded by now. Congratulations for the world champions for the 3rd consecutive run, Australia.While my favourite Sri Lanka ended up being …
The best part about the sri lankan out look on cricket is that were NOT:a. Cocky (Australians)b. Extremist (Indians and Pakistanis)c. Non existent (Bermudian!?)Our first reaction to losing the world cup wasn’t ” machang get the torches…lets go burn s…
Will this be the turning point of my life?Last Friday, one of my old buddies gave me a call, saying he want to discus a business matter with me. (Even though I call him buddy, he is much more elder than me). We had a general conversation over the phone…
all about the bad side to CricketWait a minute! There is one? Yup, Im afraid there is – just as much as there is a bad side to anything and I actually went deep into thought on the subject last Saturday night.Have you noticed there is nothing like electricity cut to get one really philosophical? […]
Prabath and I joined Virtusa on the same day. All this time, both of us had been on the same project. We started as associate engineers and came a long way since then. There were ups and downs and we managed our way through all of them.Recently we rece…
It has been revealed that Adam Gilchrist had a squash ball in his bottom hand to improve his grip. I wonder whether anyone would consider this to be cheating? Isn’t it using an unauthorized object/device to aid in his grip?Batting gloves are made to a …
Every one was curious what was Gilchrist signaling to the dressing room, (pointing to his left batting glove) shortly after he reached the century.
Frankly I thought at the first instance, he’s giving a “green light” to rest of the batting order about the pitch 
Then a TV commentator quickly said “He’s signaling here. He’s signaling to some one at the media box”. Then I thought, he was
I wrote this article to a newspaper as a reply to another article. Got to go to buy the newspaper to check that if they got it on it.
As I was thinking before the big game; if SL win the toss there will be 75-25 chance of winning but if Aussies did it will be just 10-90 chance. Nevertheless we started well and Aussies couldn’t do much - they only managed to score their lowest score i…
The Peace building and Development Institute in Sri Lanka in partnership with Peace building and Development Institute – International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division of American University has arranged a week long training on “Youth & C…
I was brought up here in England, by Sri Lankan parents. So, my life has been a mixture of Sri Lankan traditions and customs and British ones too.One of the truly great Sri Lankan things that I have got used to is “dropping in”. I suspect that hardly a…
Vesak is coming. Police is ready. Alcohol is ban in the Vesak week in Sri Lanka. We are ready to hunt down anyone who sell or transport alcohol in Vesak week. We are ready to Vesak.
This whole thing puzzles me a lot. Why we ban alcohol especially on Vesak week? Is that because of 5th precept? Even though 5th prospect is not a rule should oppose by the police, why we only police that? How about
To say the least, it was a weird final.First, the start was delayed and then the match reduced to 38 Overs, and then that explosive Gilcrist innings followed by a spirited run chase by Sanath and Sanga, during which the LTTE decides to send one of the …
“The LTTE hijacked our campaign!” Oh my god did they?? …. Poor you, you little baby…. I am so sorry that happened… Didn’t mummy teach you about naughty terrorists that say one thing and do something else? 2 weeks after the FAILED AI campaign “S…
Before anything else… what if Sri Lanka won the toss? and what if Dilhara managed to clicng on to that low return catch from Gilchrist? What if umpires called for covers before the pitch got wet? What if it didnt rain at all? Would Sri Lanka have wok…
It got louder then.
I live in Kotahena and my room faces the west where the harbor is. As I walked into the room, I noticed orange flares above. Everything after that was a blur. Frantic calls and text messages were made. My sis called then. In the background, I could hear absolute panic. Maybe […]
We made our way to the new rendezvous point. The guys weren’t keen on going out to watch the match because it was raining. But they didn’t have a TV antenna – “yet” – and I wanted to kick Shanjei’s testicles.
The “yet” comment calmed me down a bit so I sat back. Match hadn’t started […]
After the euphoria following the semi-finals, I guess I was due for a bad day. Yesterday was close to being the most surreal day of my life.
It started quite well: met friends, watched the Ninja Turtles, had lunch together, stepped into work for a few minutes to check if everything was in order, went to […]
Talk about strategic corporate movements and emergent strategy… Dialog TV must be the best game plan I have ever seen a large corporate come up with in Sri Lanka since Lanka Bell launched its advertising campaign few months ago…with Airtel moving i…
Shattering all my hopes Australia has once again proved they are the undisputed world champions by convincingly beating Sri Lanka in yesterday’s world cup final. Here is the picture taken just after the match showing the victorious 2007 Australian Cr…
Ranjit was under the impression that the 1996 World Cup final was affected by rain, and decided based on D/L. How he fails to remember such a memorable final, until the other guy corrects him, I don’t know.Another thing pointed out by SG:”In the Final …
Australia have become the World Champions third time in a row after beating Sri Lanka in the Final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 which was played at the Kensington Oval, Barbados. After the rain delay the game was restricted to 38 overs. Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. Ruthless Adam Gilchrist didn't waste any time as he thrashed the Sri Lankan bowlers all around the park. He scored his century in just 72 balls. He ended up scoring 149 in just 104 balls. His innings included 8 sixes and 13 fours. Australia ended up scoring 281 in their alloted 38 overs losing 4 wickets.
Sri Lanka in reply lost the wicket of Upul Tharanga when the score was on 7. Jayasuriya and Sangakkara got Sri Lanka to a good position adding a quick 116 run partnership for the second wicket. But losing Sangakkara and Jayasuriya let Sri Lanka hopes down of winning the World Cup. The target was revised to 269 in 36 overs due to rain. After few incidents based on bad light, Sri Lanka managed to get only 215 for the loss of 8 wickets in 36 overs. Adam Gilchrist was named the Man of the Match and Aussie paceman Glenn McGrath was awarded Man of the Series for his 26 wickets.
So that was the end of a long World Cup. Aussies stood unbeaten throughout this World Cup and that was their simple formula to remain as World Champions for the third time. Sri Lanka on the other hand put up a great performance during this World Cup. But Aussies were too good for them at the end.
Did we let the world cup slip through our fingers? Unbelievable…dilhara….which ass put him on the team…and has our bowling ever been that bad?? We gave the Ausie’s so much of confidence that they ended up pounding 6’s for Malinga’s balls…and th…
Now I can imagine the disappointing experience of Indian and Pakistani cricket fans when they saw their teams been eliminated from the world cup in the first round it self. How ever, I feel more fortunate than they do, because the team that I backed up in this world cup, was eliminated from the tournament at the very last game of the tournament. And they gave a good fight, even in the last match.
well i have a posh way of tying that in- but first, its basiocally a very tumultous period in any brown persons life. What with Sri lanka losing the match yesterday, buying dinner at CH and having stuff on your credit card you dont know how you are goi…
I was almost in deep sleep last night when I heard this sudden noise that woke me up. I felt like it was thundering so I kinda got up and sat half asleep and thats when I heard the sound of a plane. It clicked to me immediately that what I heard was not a thunder but an explosion so I rushed towards the front door. When I opened the door I saw fire been hit towards the sky. The electricity was cut off as well. It was pitch black and I heard people were shouting all around. It was not revealed as of what could have happened and rumors were spreading across. It was total chaos at that time but in about 10-15 mins the firing towards the sky stopped. It was one hell of an experience in that time of the night.
It was revealed to us in the morning of what actually happened. Read Full Story
The sheer weight of the input of bloggers on the impact of the incidents of the night of the 28th is perhaps an accurate indicator of the effects of the chaos that reigned briefly on the night. It all went horribly wrong right from the outset – for Sri Lankans that is – from the […]
I was in Colombo during the weekend. We went over there for the delivery of our sister-in-laws baby. It’s a beautiful baby girl. All family members were happy to see that both mother & baby were doing well.When I arrived at home today, I found that I h…
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