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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Feeling a bit homesick…..sunset @ Habarana
Archive for August, 2008
theater: timeless echoes
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
- Dates: Saturday 30 Aug 2008 & Sunday 10 Aug 2008
- Location: British School Auditorium, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka
- Time: 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
- Choral Direction: Migara Luvis, Eshantha Peiris, Geethika Cooray
- Theatrical Direction: Jerome L de Silva
- Guest Artist: Safra Deen
- Lighting by: Rohan Jayatilleke, Romesh Devanesan
Photos from Aug 28 Young IT in the Pub
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
The Young IT in the Pub in Melbourne on 28th of August was a great successful and well attended forum where we heard from Scott Evans, the guest speaker and also had the opportunity to have conversations with like-minded people from the industry.Some p…
Young IT Workshop – 3rd September
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
The next Young IT workshop will discuss about the IT Career Paths. It’s held at the Tea House, 28 Clarendon St., South Melbourne at 6PM. It will teach what you need to do to develop/get promoted and where your IT career might take you in the future. …
What Hurts the Most - Boyce Avenue (another different view)
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Another song from my wife’s favorite picks, end up in my most wanted list. “What hurts the most”, a country song, with that breathtaking violin part, I feel pretty much close with country songs now, I guess this is because of my bond with acousti…
Longing for you
Friday, August 29th, 2008
The Tragic Phenomenon of Permanent Refugees
Friday, August 29th, 2008
By Rajan Hoole The pledge of government leaders not to leave the problem of terrorism to the next generation might have carried credibility, were the different components to a rational strategy in place. One should have been a federal settlement that …
We can all make a difference!
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Sometime ago I challenged the claim as to whether one man could really make a difference. In that argument I stated that it would be impossible for a single man to make great changes, especially without the support of a large group. Every great histori…
Spies Among Us (continued..)
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Rant
I wrote the article The spies among us inspired by something that happened to me.
One of the guys here had parked his car on the kerb and one of the stoolpigeons had called the cops about it. The cops came and talked to me and things went downhil…
The Goons in Green
Friday, August 29th, 2008
I hate traffic cops…I hate traffic cops with a passion! I hate traffic cops so much, that should I get immunity from the laws of this country for just one day I would drive around Colombo, in a big bad pickup, music blaring, tanked up on enough alcohol to kill a small bull elephant and [...]
Thank You
Friday, August 29th, 2008
I passed. In spite of all the drama, alcohol, tears, stress, office, money worries… in short, the roller coaster life I lead. Can’t say that I passed well, but looking at everyone else, I guess you could say that it’s ok. At least I have the relief o…
Hello.. Do you have Reduce Fat Fast?
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Walking to Visakhamals.
Creak open the door.
“Hello, Do you have Reduce Fat Fast?”
Girl arches eyebrow. Why, yes. yes we do ma’m.
Eyes me critically
Bitch!
Hands me the oh-so-not-discreet bottle
Screaming headlines
“REDUCE FAT FAST!”
AS SEEN ON TV!
YES! I think, joining in.
Girl is still arching
I am undecided. Hmm…
Girl is bored. Picks her ear
Right.
To buy or not to buy…That is the sad
All I Have… Confessions of a Typical Twenty Something
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Twenty something years ago I was born in to this world naked, weak and of cause crying… my birth would have given new hopes to my parents, they would have had flourished with joy. Maybe, because they got a baby boy in to their family…. Well that’s what I think. Coz I really don’t know what exactly my parents thought about my arrival….was it a blessing… burden.. trouble… joy… Contentment…. Mistake…. I don’t know… but I do see some happy faces on my photo album… maybe they were happy…What ever it is… Here I am updating my blog after very long time… When I was born I had only two eyes.. Well its not that I have three now… but I couldn’t open and observe the world then.. Even if I did I don’t know what I observed…..I cant remember….I know that I had two legs but I’m sure I wouldn’t have walked.. I also had a brain .. a little one… but I cant remember anything …. But now I have a big brain… a spoiled one.. A complicated one which I never use wisely… those are the only things that I brought in to this world during my birth…my soul and body.. Everything natural…. but now its different.. I have a lot…a lot of artificial stuff.
I have a spectacle on my face… I have a watch on my wrist.. I have a mobile in my pocket… … so I was just thinking what and what I had.. What and what I inherit throughout these twenty something years … for my surprise the list became longer and longer. Bigger and bigger. But do I really want them in my life.. How can I look at the world without my spectacle.. Everything would be blurred… how am I suppose to live my life without my mobile…I would be lost … I want all of them… but didn’t I come to this world all alone…so Can you guys help me on this…
Let me tell what and what I have… I have three mobile phones… one that I use now and the other in my cupboard… I have two packages.. But I only use my dialog connection right now… I have 172 contacts in my phone book.. 32 msg’s in my inbox. 14 in my outbox.. 21 in trash… I don’t know whether to delete them or not… I have three different e mail accounts.. But I only use my Gmail.. I’m a member in six different social network sites but I’m only active in facebook.. I have 227 friends there where I barely know them as friends.. I have 3 blogs under my name but I promote only this one.. so far I have written six short stories… But I haven’t published them as yet..
I have one permanent job.. Which I’m not happy with…. I have one computer… one mouse.. One keyboard.. Two files…one manager… fifteen coworkers… sixty seven items to complete… two new mails to reply… one call to make… one mug and two plastic cups on my desk and seven papers to shred.. Two more hours for my lunch break… seven more hours to go home.. and five more hour to attend a meeting…… I have one brother abroad..One sister at home… and wish I had none.. Just kidding… wish I had more siblings to fight. I fight with my only sister twenty four seven.. i have one TV at home and thirteen channels to watch… I have three TV remote controls.. One on my hand the other two missing.. I have three radios at home.. Two walkmans.. One i-pode… two hundred tracks.. Fifty in my play list… one track that I love… I have a large CD collection … I have 31 CDs.. 21 VCDs.. 45 DVDs.. But I don’t have time to watch them.. I have all three seasons of prison break saved in my PC.. All four seasons of desperate housewives missing..
I have one closet. I have nine pairs of shoes but I use only two of them to office… three of them our sports shoes.. I have seven denims which I barely wash.. I have twenty six t-shirts… twenty nine shirts.. Five belts.. Five kurtha tops… nine caps… eight shorts.. Fourteen Trousers… sixteen under garments… fifteen pairs of socks.. But I cant find any of them right now.. I have two washing machines at home.. One is broken.. The other filled with my cloths, but I don’t have time to wash them.. I have one mother who always scolds me for my irresponsible behavior… I have two wrist watches and eight wall clocks and one grandfather clock at home but I never work on time… I have one bed.. Two mattress.. Three bed sheets and five pillows. But I don’t feel sleepy.. I have one breakfast table… one glass of water… four plates… one napkin.. Two boiled eggs.. One sandwich.. One glass of milk.. two oranges and one bun for breakfast,, but I don’t feel hungry….I have three wallets.. One in my pocket… two lost in the bus.. I have 3 debit cards four credit cards but my account balance is zero… I have 46 books in my book shelf.. 10 which I bought from my own money 12 from my sister.. 20 from my friends which I’m reluctant to return, 2 robbed from my cousin and the balance from the library… but so far i have only read 4 novels completely… do you believe.. Well that’s me….
I have one house.. Two storied.. Three rooms.. One garden… one garage.. no car ….one bike… two jack trees… 37 flower pots that I never water… but its raining now… finally the plants are getting water.. I need to go out … I have three umbrellas but I cant find a single one now… I have a lot.. I don’t know whether you have more….. Having all this what on earth have I achieved… nothing… trouble, mess, clutter, tension. Complication….chaos… Sometimes all this make me stressful…tension… nervous.. Anxious and restless … so finally I wish I had nothing.. Only my body and soul….Wish i was a baby again… naked… but strong and smiling this time…..
Tuktuk
Friday, August 29th, 2008
A Tuktuk in Sri Lanka
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Bathiya & Santhush
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Bathiya & Santhush Biggest Names in the Sri Lankan Music Industry as well as Worldwide.Visit Bathiya & Santhush official website www.bnsmusic.com, is a nice website with a huge Fan Club and a Forum. See BNS interview on BBC
Dream Attack
Friday, August 29th, 2008
I had the strangest experience last night. I got home a little after midnight and settled into bed. I dosed off in the midst of the repeat of Friends on Star World. Then began a dream that I really didn’t want to have.
In my dream I was in the future. From the looks of it, [...]
The spies among us
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Rant
Yes, this is real. No, I’m not being paranoid.
But first, a story.A long time ago - but not so long ago that most of us can’t remember it - there used to be an Evil Empire. An Empire so evil they were the target of anger, fear and gallows humour…
Killing thyself for a lost love
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Depsindacopus,sexindafocus,lostinthejokus,leftinthelurchus.Mixing the thought train,fixing the left brain,ditching the heart,and slicing the blood vein.Feeling the death pain,screaming the next name,for the first name is cause,of this suicideFeeling th…
pictures: time by pure passion jewelry
Friday, August 29th, 2008
the 2009 collection at Facets ‘08
Time: a thematic collection of exclusively handmade Sterling Silver jewelry that breaks the norm and screams luxury. This collection interprets time as an art form and uses jewelry as the medium.
This is So Cool….. The Dark Knight - Kids Version
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Here’s the original for comparison
Breakfast Porridge with Topping
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Kola Kanda, and don’t even know if that’s the best way to spell it — is a kind of Sri Lankan (Sinhala) breakfast porridge. Its made of some kind of green leaf that’s good for you, (krapincha, gotukola, valpenalla etc.,) red rice and coconut milk, all boiled down and smoothened. I don’t even make this, but its an all time ‘traditional’ favorite and Chandra the kind person who cook in the apartment now brings in some kola (leaves) and makes it ever so often; she uses a blender, not sure of the more traditional steps!
My twist however, was to add fried gram (badapu kadala), which is salted and crisp, as a topping. I didn’t know they would float, but the did, like croutons! The crunchiness was a wonderful contrast to the comforting liquid and soft chewy rice base.
Try it some time!
Want to run Apache Axis2 behind a proxy ?
Friday, August 29th, 2008
If you want to start the axis2 server behind a proxy, it is very simple. All you need to do is add the following entry to axis2.xml, the server’s configuration file.<axisconfig name=”AxisJava2.0″> …. <parameter name=”Proxy”> …
UN POEMA Y UNA MANGOSTA
Friday, August 29th, 2008
ODA A LA MANGOSTAEn Abidjanun hombreme trajouna mangostaa casa.Quisecomprarel roedor,guardarlocomo mascota.Mi esposame negó,le negóa la mangosta.Ahorame quedosin esposay sinmangosta. –…
Journalists assaulted near Colombo University Medical Faculty hostel
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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Watching a child grow
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
We are experiencing an interesting time these days. Our little girl is starting to speak English and has come to a stage where she is picking up everything that is being said around her. She also seems to understand the meaning of what has been said. Accordingly, she has also learned to express her desires [...]
Intimidated
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I am intimidated:By his formidable intellect,By the curves of her body and the twin depressions on her back.I am intimidated:By his success and self-assurance,By the eloquence of her words and the popularity of her prose. I am intimidated:By his soft m…
Cricket - What’s up with us?
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
So, I went for Sunday’s match, we lost. I watched a bit of yesterday’s match. We lost. Now, before you think… Hmm it must be you, NO! I’m not the bad luck charm because I didn’t watch the Dambulla match, and we still lost!1996 - stuff of legend. Made…
Hilarious Video of Hillary Clinton takes a crap in her pants
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Hilarious Video of Hillary Clinton takes a crap in her pants "I Got a Crush On Hillary" says Obama
Funny Video of Barack Obama
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
barack Dolomite very funny video Funny Video Hillary vs Barac Obama Important Issues for children Funny Video Barack Obama Hilarious Video of Hillary Clinton takes a crap in her pants from YouTube.com
Driven out but determined to fight back
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Farmers of the Uva province having been the targete of recent LTTE attacks, and driven from their land and livelihood have now resorted to arming themselves in the possibility of future attacks.
The Uva province once considered as the major supplier of rice and vegetables for the whole island is now compelled to allow its [...]
Puttalam Teacher
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Twenty five year old Prasadi Purnima Jayamanne is the youngest in a family of four.As she displayed early signs of academic brilliance her parents were keen to give her every opportunity to further her studies. After attending the village primary school at Pambala Chilaw she moved on to Sugathananda Secondary school in Karukkuwa where she [...]
Plea for help to restore the Walewewatte Maha Vidyalaya
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
The Walewewatte Maha Vidyalaya school is situated in the Hambantota District. This school was opened in the 1950s by the then Minister of Agriculture, M.D. Banda.
Begun with only one building which was a wattle and daub hut and a cadjan thatched roof, the structure was constructed with the labour and money of the farmers [...]
හොන්ද නම්බර බලාගෙනයි
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
රජයෙන් අලුතෙන් ජංගම දුරකථන සදහා හදුන්වා දුන් නීතිය නිසා දැන් හැම ජංගම දුරකථන සේවා සපයන්නෙක්ම තම ග්රාහකයන් නැවත ලිපාපදින්චිය පටන් අරන්. හැබැයි ඩයලොග් හැර. මොකද එයාල ඉස්සර ඉදන්ම තම ග්රාහක විස්තර විදිමත්ව තියාගෙන. දැන් අනිත් තුන්ගොල්ලන් දාගෙන ලියාපදින්චිය පටන් අරන්. කාර්යාල වල මාර සෙනගක්. හැබැයි ටිගෝ වගේ නෙවේ මොබිටෙල්ලගෙ සේවාව හොන්දා.
ඒත් මේ තුන්කට්ටියගෙ හොන්ද නම්බර තියන අයට තමා ගැටලුව. මොකද සිම් එක ටික වෙලාවකට හරි කාට හරි දුන්නොත් එයාට පුලුවන් කිසිම ගැටලුවක් නැතිව තම නමට හරව ගන්න. සිම් එකයි තමන්ගෙ ජාතික හැදුනුම්පතයි අරන් යන එක විතරයි. අඩුගානෙ කෝල් ගත්ත නම්බරවත් අහන්නෙ නෑ. ගිය ගමන් ලියාපදින්චි කරනව.
හැබැයි ඩයලොග්ල ටිකක් වගකීමෙන් කටයුතු කරන්නෙ. මොකද එයාල වෙන කෙනෙක්ගෙ නමට නියම හිමිකරැගේ ලිපියක් නැතුව තුන්වන පාර්ශවීය පැවරීමක් කරද්දි නියම හිමිකරැට ලිඛිතව දන්වනව. ඔහු අනුමත නොකලොත් පැවරීම සිදුකරන්නෙ නෑ.
ඒක නිසා මොබිටෙල්, ටිගෝ, හච් තියන අය බලාගෙන
Impromptu
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
There is a lot to be said for impromptu days off. By now you may have gathered that I dislike my job. So much so that I even considered leaving without not having another job to go to (drastic I know but needs must.)!Yesterday, my manager wasn’t in and…
3 some at BMICH
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
in fact its a 4 some… pixed this at BMICH few weeks back…
The devil and me
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
just this morning , I almost sold my soul off to the devil. almost.