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Clown Syndrome
So what reaction does it trigger when they keep dragging the child to religious festivals in the most dilligent way possible? Of course ‘it’ grows up hating whatever the religion that is.
And what happens when that child grows up?
It becomes a clown. A mad one.
Shit I hate religions. I hate all forms of organized religions that are nothing but discrimination and prejudice personified. So what the fuck if your neighbour is not of the same religion as you? they’re still human right?
And all them sanctimonious pious pricks that keep preaching about how inferior all other religions are, why can’t they just shut the fuck up and preach their own bullshit? Or just die? Instead of boring the whole world to death ...
DefenceNet: Defence News from Sri Lanka
10 people were killed and a further 95 were injured today when a LTTE suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle into a bus transporting Police riot squad personnel. Among the dead were 8 policemen. 30 more police personnel were wounded in the blast. There were soaring civilian casualties in the blast with over 50 civilians being injured. Another police bus and several three wheelers parked nearby sustained damages in the blast. Meanwhile Sri Lanka Army's 57 division conducting operations in the Palampiddi region are progressing with increased success. Tigers in this region have begun to feel the pressure of the army offensive since the army captured a key bridge two weeks ago. Three 8-man teams of the army captured the Palampiddi bridge ...
කල්පනා (Port of Thoughts)
අඩ නින්දේ පසුවුන මට කව්දෝ ඔලුව අතගානවා වගේ දැනුණා. ටිකක් වෙලා ගිහින් පියවි සිහියට ඇවිත් එකපාරටම බලද්දී අම්මා මගේ ඔලුව අතගානවා.
එකපාරටම මොකද කාරණය කියලා කියන්න පුලුවන්ද? මම හිතනවා ඔයාගේ අනුමානය හරි. අද මගේ උපන්දිනය නිසා තමයි අම්මා “මගේ පුතාට තුරුණුවන්ගේ පිහිටයි” කියලා ඔලුව අතගෑවේ. වෙනදට වඩා ටිකක් උදෙන්ම තමයි අම්මා මාව නැගිට්ටෙව්වේ. ඉතින් ආපහු නින්දට [...]
ජීවිතේ කතාවක්... මගෙ පස්සෙන් එන්න
25”යමු අමුත්තන්ට තේ මේසයක් ලෑස්ති කරල තියෙනවා. එන්න ” ජීවක ඇතුලූ පිරිස අනුත්තරා පසු පස ඇදුනි.”ජීවක , මම හිතුවෙ නෑ ඔයා එයි කියලා, එ්ත් හිත ඇතුලෙ පොඩි බලාපොරොත්තුවක් තිබුනා ” අනුත්තරා තම උපැස් යුවළට උඩින් ජීවක දෙස බලමින් පැවසීය.”මොනවද තොරතුරු අනූ ?””මම ඉතින් ඔහේ ඉන්නවා, පේරාදෙණියෙ කැම්පස් එකෙත් එක්සිබිශන් එකක් (ප්රදර්ශනයක්) තිබ්බා, ෆැකල්ටියේ ඔක්කොමලා වගේ ආවා,ආරණ්යා මොනවද කරන්නේ ? ” අබා දෙස බලමින් ඈ ඇසීය.”ම් ආරණ්යා අපෙ ෆැකල්ටි එකේමයි” එවර පිළිතුරු දුන්නේ සමීරයි.”ආ එහෙමද ? ජීවක නුවර ආවෙ නැද්ද ලඟදී ””අර මොකටද ? ” ජීවකගේ මූණ පුරා ඇඳුනේ නොපහන් බවක්.” මේ කේක් නම් මරු, කොහෙන්ද ගත්තෙ ” ඇතිවෙන්නට යන දෙබසේ නීරස බව දැනුනු නිසාදෝ සමීර කථාව වෙනතක හරවන රිසියෙන් පැවසීය.” ...
Where the Lions fans gather..
Sanath Teran Jayasuriya | Mumbai Indians 2008Watch on YouTube
Dance In A Triangle
is apparently National Piercing Day. So happy piercing day to fellow addicts Pissu and Sach, and here's to many more!Image from hereOk back to work. Sigh. Exams how I hate thee.
Chitrangi's Weblog
On March 9, 2008, at about 11:30am, a police officer attached to the Hakmana Police Station came to Ms. X’s house (name withheld for security reasons) to inquire about the complaint she had made earlier regarding a land dispute with her neighbours.
The officer entered her house and sat in the hall to take down details of the dispute. She told the officer that as a result of the land dispute her neighbours had damaged her plantation and had thrown stones at her house causing the tiles on her roof to break. The officer recorded all these details and gave her a note instructing her to come to the Hakmana Police Station on March 15 for an inquiry. The officer ...
Where the Lions fans gather..
COLOMBO, May 16 (Reuters) - Veteran Sanath Jayasuriya has been recalled to Sri Lanka's one-day squad for the Asia Cup in June.Jayasuriya, 38, was dropped for Sri Lanka's West Indies series in April after a lean run that included a highest score of 41 in his previous 20 innings.However, the opening batsman won his place back in the team after smashing 114 from 48 balls for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, an innings that included 11 sixes and nine fours.Opener Upul Tharanga was axed to make room for Jayasuriya who will open the batting with Mahela Udawatte, who made his debut in the West Indies.Sri Lanka also included ...
Chitrangi's Weblog
Media has reported Lanka dissent news website cannot be accessed due to hacking.
The chief editor of the website Mr. Indika Gamage in a letter urges Free Media Movement convenor Mr. Sunanda Deshapriya to take this issue in serious manner and urgently.
The full text of the letter follows.
We wish to bring to your notice for immediate intervention, the new trend that is silently but swiftly developing in the Sri Lankan media.
During the past few years, we were witnessing the bashing up of the print and the electronic media, where the journalists were physically targeted. Some had to pay the price with their lives, some with brutal assaults and injuries and some with numerous threats to life. As we all know, ...
Dilly-dallying
these pictures are of a municipally sanctioned garbage dump in a residential area in the outskirts of colombo. right opposite it, across the road is a large Arpico Super Centre. the stench is unbearable and the sight is pathetic. from what i gather, the dumps been a fixture for quite some years. don't the residents care? if not them, atleast a big private corporote company like Arpico should. considering it's right across the street. i guess as long as the big glass windows seal out the stench and the ac is working they don't give a damn. or maybe residents ...
the Blacklight Arrow
“So what do you like?” has always been a great ice-breaking line on first dates. It gets the chick to talk (I seem attracted to the talkative types), and hides the fact that I can’t think of anything to say at first. Usually, they come up with the regular stuff — chocolate, Sex & the [...]
සුදාරකගේ අන්තර්ජාල සටහන
ඇති යාන්තම් ඕන්න අද තමයි අපේ ගෙදරට ඒ. ඩී. ඇස්. ඇල් ලැබුනේ. කියලා වැඩක් නෑ දැන් නම් පුදුම සනීපයක් තියෙන්නේ. ටෙලිකොම් එකට කතා කරලා කරලා කටත් රිදෙනවා. කොහොමහරි ඉතින් ප්රතිළුල සාර්ථකයි නේ. කෝ ඉතින් කට්ටියම සුභ පතන්නකෝ! නෑ! නෑ!! මට නෙවෙයි! ටෙලිකොම් එකට. මාත් ඔවුන්ට සුභ පතන්න ඕනේ මාස 4ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයක් තුලදී මාව තම්බ තම්බ ඉඳලා අවසානයේ ස්ථාවර දුරකථනයයි. ඒ. ඩී. ඇස්. ඇල් සම්බන්ධතාවය ලබා දීපු එකට :D
Lost Landscape
Just wanted to share this one. Shoba Sakthi He is sooooo important. Don't miss this one out, will discuss later:An Interview with Shobasakthi:Translated by Anushiya Sivanarayanan‘My identity as a militant, the minute I left the country, became that of a refugee. When I began to write, it became one of a traitor….’As a Srilankan LTTE child soldier, Shobasakthi fled the country to protect his life from the terror he faced every night wondering if he will live to see the crack of dawn. For five years he wandered and made his way through various countries such as Colombo, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Laos. Those five years saw him staying as a refugee ...
Ramblings of an Insane Mind
I should say the most important day of the Buddhist calendar, and for Buddhists all over the world, celebrating the birth, the enlightenment and the passing away of Lord Buddha. Even though I’m not a Buddhist, I greatly admire the teachings of Buddhism. If lived according to its teachings, it is the ideal way to live. I personally believe that no matter what religions there are, the most basic truth of them is “to be nice to your fellow man”. Ok maybe not in the same words, but it’s do. If we can follow that, then this world would be a much better place. Unfortunately not all humans think alike. For some people it is “as ...
About Sri Lanka
Just only two more days before the Vesak Poya Day a ruthless LTTE suicide bomber has targeted a group of policemen near "Sambuddhaloka Viharaya" in Lotus road- Colombo. Vesak Poya day is one of the Buddhist's most sacred poya days which they celebrate birth, enlightenment and death of Lord Buddha.
6 policemen and 3 civilians have died so far from this incident and more than 90 people
Udurawana Gets Internet
Wife : You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why?
Udu: When there is a problem, no matter how impossible, I look at your picture and the problem disappears.
Wife : You see, how miraculous and powerful am I for you?
Udu : Yes, I see your picture and say to myself, "What other problem can there be greater than this one?"Powered by b2evolution.
A collection of pics from my various escapades
Watched iron man over the weekend & I think it made me sick for the past 3 days ….. (Seriously I was sick puked me guts out! hmmm come to think of it Iron man was not that bad hmmmm - must one ponder these thoughts like these when one writes shit like this he he he) anyways All in all I think the man in full metal speedos didn’t impress me much at all…..But I must say the annimation was impressive (at times) but what pissed me off the most about it was the gallery humour cooorny… well anyways that said I must catch up on the 3 days of work Iron man made me miss ...
Saffron says...
I think this game of tag that’s getting everyone to list 10 things that make them happy is really cute! I quite enjoyed putting my list together although it was hard to decide what to include and what not to. In any case this is what I’ve come up with…
1. Cute chubby/fluffy babies and puppies ~ come on they’re similar enough to put together right?
2. Candy Floss ~ just looking at it makes me happy let alone eating it!
3. Flowers ~ they’re beautiful, they smell like heaven and I love having them around me, they add colour and cheer to my life! I do my best to ...
Dares to be different
Of course, dismal scenes like this was not seen anywhere during the two year UNP rule under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. That was the time of pece and prosperity. Anybody could have walked in the Colombo city during that period without the fear of becoming a victim of a bomb blast. That is the difference [...]
vikalpa
සුනන්ද දේශප්රිය
1. අම්පාර දිසාවේ මුස්ලිම් ජාතිකයින් සඳහා ඉදි කැරෙන සුනාමි නිවාස නතර කරන සේ ජාතික හෙළ උරුමය ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට යයි. පොදු පෙරමුනේ බුලත් කොළය යටතේ මුස්ලිම් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සහ හෙළ උරුමය නැගෙනහිර ජන්දය සඳහා තරඟ වැදුණේ එකට ය. මැතිවරණය අවසන්ව ගත වූයේ දෙදිනකි. හෙළ උරුමය තමන් සමඟ එකට තරඟ වැදුණු මුස්ලිම් පක්ෂයන්හි ව්යාපෘතියකට එරෙහිව [...]
The Missing Sandwich
Does anyone know a right way to begin a relationship? Please note that I didn’t say “the” because I honestly think there’s possibly more than one way. And I guess there are a series of wrong ways in the process as well. What strange thoughts keep me up at night these days. Tsk! Tsk! Here I am pattering away on Lulu again in the wee hours, listening to Wuthering Heights and thinking of how relationships begin.
My specific point today is about the first move. Who makes it? Screw the Sri Lankanism aspect of it, but I really want to know what the male species thinks of women who make the first move. The obvious answer would probably be “hell ...
Dares to be different
At least eight policemen have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, the army says.
More than 70 people were hurt when a man on a motorcycle rammed into a bus carrying policemen near a five-star hotel in the central business district.
The army has blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for the attack.
Fighting [...]
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Navin: mara drama
me: what’s the scene?
army headquarters?
Navin: bomb at the checkpoint near the hilton
me: oh fuck
Navin: i sent you a txt did you get
me: nope
12:39 PM yeah
Navin: abu txted he is ok
me: What about the others?
12:40 PM Navin: nicole is online
she says everyone she knows is ok
and shanaka online saying same thing
12:41 PM nicole says she was there 5 mins before
me: big bomb?
Navin: we heard the noise and saw the smoke
all the way here at office
so significant
12:42 PM me: ti’s big then
how much of smoke?
Navin: nicole says they were targetting army bus
quite a bit
we saw from across the river
me: ok
12:43 ...
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Image of Fort by McKay Savage
Near Lakehouse. That’s literally all I know. Someone in WTC said the place shook, but that’s friend of a friend. From what I get on the News Alerts, 90 people have been admitted to hospital. Which is a shitload, so this must’ve been a big one. OK, now LBO has something. Apparently a suicide bomber on a bike rammed a police bus near the Hilton roundabout. Which is a busy round-about, being the main way in and out of Fort. And also very high security. But that’s what it is. There must have been an awful, awful lot of explosives in that bomb. Bloody shame, innit? The LTTE continue to be ...
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Suicide bombing at Sambodhi Viharaya in Pettah at 12 noon. Sirasa/MTV News reports 6 dead and around 75 injured. Ada Derana News cites 90 taken to the National Hospital.
Court Jester
There was a loud explosion a little after noon today in Fort. People passing by have seen smoke and flames erupting close to the temple opposite the Hilton.Some others say it looks like its coming from the railway track below.Probably a bomb.
Chaar~Max Returns!
Just heard news of a Bomb Blast in Pettah. No news at the moment, except this. Will keep you posted.
Update :
Blast has occured supposedly close to the Sambodhi Temple (Opp Hilton) in Fort. A smoke screen is reportedly visible to the Top floors of Trans Asia Hotel. (Don’t ask me how I know this). Phones are jammed, and Daily Mirror is down, coz it can’t support all the Traffic. Just pray that your loved one’s arent around. (Selfish thought). Pray that nobody is hurt(Impractical Thought). A quick recovery to those who are injured. As there would have been a lot of people around that area since it was lunch hour. Not sure whether the explosion occured from below ...
Gutterflower
Do you remember... How we used to play hide and seek in your grandmother’s living room? When she called us, we would pretend we didn’t hear and escape upstairs. The way we used to ‘cook’ sand and leaves in coconut shell pots. At least I cooked; you would sit afar and tease me When we sat under the maara tree and ate achcharu. You know the kind. Ambarella, with lots of chillie and pepper and just a hint of salt. How I laughed at your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bed sheet, and then went home and begged ...
PEACE LANKA
இருபது வருடங்களின் பின்னர் பிரிந்த கிழக்கின் தேர்தல் எதிர்பார்க்கப்பட்டது போலவே ஜனநாயகத்தை குழிதோண்டிப்புதைத்துவிட்டு நடந்து முடிந்துள்ளது. முஸ்லிம்களைப்பொறுத்தவரையில் இத்தேர்தல் முடிவுகள் பல்வேறு உண்மைகளையும் படிப்பிணைகளையும் விட்டுச்சென்றுள்ளது. ஒவ்வொருகட்டங்களிலும் நாமும் எமது அரசியல்வாதிகளும் தொடர்ந்தும் படிப்பினைபெறுபவர்களாகவே இருக்கப்போகின்றோமா என்ற பெரிய வினாவுடன் இப்பத்தியை வரைகின்றேன். கிழக்கின் தேர்தல் முஸ்லிம்களின் உண்மையான பலத்தை வெளிப்படுத்தும் ஒரு அரிய சந்தர்ப்பமாகவே எமக்கு முன்னால் வந்து நின்றது. இலங்கையில் முஸ்லிம்களுக்கும் ஒரு இருப்பு இருக்கின்றது, இனப்பிரச்சினையில் முஸ்லிம்களும் பாதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்கள், முஸ்லிம்களும் ஒரு தனியான இனமாக, தனியான தரப்பாக ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளப்படவேண்டும் என்ற கோஷங்களுக்கு செயல்வடிவம் கொடுப்பதற்கும், அதனை தேசிய சர்வதேசிய ரீதியில் நிருவுவதற்கும் கிடைத்த அரிய சந்தர்ப்பமாகவே கிழக்கின் தேர்தல் எதிர்பார்க்கப்பட்டது, ஆனால் எமது தலைவர்கள் என கூறிக்கொள்ளும் சுயநல வியாபாரிகளின் செயற்பாடுகளினால் எமது சமூகம் மீண்டும் ஒரு அரிய சந்தர்ப்பத்தை இழந்து நடுத்தெருவில் நிற்கின்றது. தேர்தலுக்கு முன்னமே முஸ்லிம்தரப்பு குறித்த தேர்தலில் எவ்வாறு பங்கேற்கப்போகின்றது என்பது குறித்து பலரும் பல கருத்துக்களை முன்வைத்திருந்தனர். ஒரு சிலர் முஸ்லிம் தரப்பு அரசுடன் இணையவேண்டும் என்றும், ...
ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)
Ernest Thiessen has relaunched his Smartsettle website. It is one of the most beautifully designed websites in the ODR field I have seen to date. Smartsettle itself is not a web based solution (more on that later) but the new website presents information on the system clearly and in a very engaging manner. Enough to make a potential customer even out of someone skeptical of ODR and in that sense, very nicely done.
I do however have some deep reservations on some of the content on the site from the perspective of someone deeply interested in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) applications for peacebuilding / conflict transformation and with significant experience in the design, real world deployment and research on such ICT ...
The Shoat Statements
I think I'm going to stop calling people losers. Because I have realized that I too am a loser. Why? Because I consistently lose. I seem to end up consistently batting for the wrong team. I must be doing something wrong, right?When parents say that they love all their children equally, does anyone really believe them? More importantly, do the kids believe them? No one can love any two (or three or four) people equally. Let us be honest - they love the one who catches their fancy the most. Usually, they end up picking the wrong damn kid. And because of that, the right kid who gets left behind also goes wrong. It takes a ...
Dragons Of Eden
This calls for a celebration!!! I am officially the most unfit person to “walk” this earth…and even walking leaves me breathless if I do that for more than 20 minutes!! But that’s not even the funny part…the funny...the most hilarious, and comical element of this situation is that I decided to run...and by god I shall never do THAT again unless I’m suicidal or I am forced to run to actually preserve my pointless little life!Being unfit is an amazing thing, especially if you consider yourself “formerly athletic”. You see one tends to believe that fitness is forever and you can just wake up, grab your running shoes and do a 400m sprint in just over a minute ...
eVillage - Sri Lanka
Source http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/05/15/fea01.asp
The address by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Oxford Union on an invitation of the Oxford Union and the Sri Lankan Society of Oxford University on Monday.
I wish to speak to you on a subject of much interest to my country at the present time. That is the empowerment of the rural economy, a central theme of my development strategy for Sri Lanka.
Our development strategy towards empowering the rural economy of our country, where majority of our people live, has now become relevant to the global economy itself in the context of the emerging world food crisis and environmental challenges to ...
Nytryk
An effective idea to attract customers :)
among my swan
“So you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus”
Powerful.
Slotter's Slot
1. Petrol Dansela
2. Bread Dansela
3. Coconut Dansela
4. Vehicle permit Dansela
5. School Grade 1 admission Dansela
6. Fruit Dansela (Heard that an ad agency is doing one with apples, wonder why apples, shouldn’t it have be wood apples? Or mangoes? Or durian? …should go there if I have the time… supposed be somewhere down Bauddhaloka mawatha… will parking be a bummer?)
7. Pirate DVD movies Dansela
8. Shoe Dansela (That’s for my wife)
9. Sari Dansela (Again, for her)
10. Foot massage/Head massage/Back rub Dansela!
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groundviews
The Island newspaper in Sri Lanka is already known for its Editorial blunders. Yesterday however, it sunk to a new low when it published the following in the children’s section of its daily edition (Page 2, The Happy Island).
Cerno
Truck pictured below is typical of traditional Sri Lankan vehicle graphics. Our indigenous version of the more extravagant “Jingle trucks” of Afghanistan. The designs follow a certain “classic pattern. From the window like landscapes in the upper doors to the 3 late “3D” lettering on the lower flap. Deshan has a better picture of another classically teemed truck with a beautifully carved rear wooden “fender”. There’s more in my collection of Sri Lankan graphic design posts.
Travel themes seems the trend lately - particularly after the splatter of road trip posts of the ...
Chaar~Max Returns!
Ok after some “off time” my feet are actually working with my body now, and not complaining. For the best part of the day after and a bit more, each time I kept my foot on the ground, I felt like it was on a bed of nails. All courtesy of the fancy shoes I bought for the engagement that I didn’t get a chance to break em. Well I certainly broke my feet. Praise and Kudos to all you women who pull off those High-heels, especially those stilettos. I can honestly say “I feel your pain”, coz my extra broad (not to mention loong) feet were squished inside a conical shoe. Ouch. It was all good, except the ...
Sannasa.org
අද (මාර්තු 16) දහවල් 12 ට පමණ කොළඹ ලෝටස්
පාරේ සම්බුද්ධාලෝක විහාරය අසල මරාගෙන මැරෙන ප්රහාරයක් සිදුව ඇත.
මලින්තගේ සටහන | Malinthe's Note
Got tagged by Dili Hmm lets see now:
Music. Oh yeah, lots of music. Don’t have a specific taste though, can listen to (almost) anything. U2 and Iron Maiden are my favorites these days. Here’s my Last.fm Music Profile
Internet. I love it and can’t live without it.
Movies. I really like to watch movies but hard to find new stuff these days (on DVD’s) and I don’t have the ability to download ‘em.
Perfect Weather. I hate extreme heat and I hate extreme cold. But I do love the perfect weather. Not too hot, not too cold.
Getting to know new stuff. Well mostly new software and such. It’s a really nice experience. ...
Leaving it for later
Drama should be forcibly limited to when there are people acting. Which, of course takes place with or without a stage, costumes, lighting, a set. All very well, as long as its carefully put into one of those sealed isolation units in alien movies - monitored, any sign of leakage swiftly dealt with preferably in a method involving permanent separation. Basically, I fervently wish it would stay
Sleeping with the enemy who isn’t one
Reviewed by Salil Tripathi
According to the film director Jean-Luc Godard, a story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end-but not necessarily in that order. Godard had an important point: reality is messy and making sense may require connecting the dots, as we do with this first novel. [...]
Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka
15 May 2008
SRI LANKA Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam (m), journalist
Journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam (J. S.) Tissainayagam was
granted access to an eye specialist on 9 May. The specialist
has said that his condition needs m onitoring and he needs
new glasses because the conditions of his eyes have changed.
The specialist needs to see him again in a month to reassess
his condition. J. S. Tissainayagam was also granted access
to his lawyer on 14 May, for the first time since 21 March.
J. S. Tissainayagam however remains in Terrorist
Investigation Division (TID) detention in Colombo, where he
is being held without charge. He was supposed to be brought
before a court on 12 May, in compliance with the Sri Lankan
Emergency ...
Sannasa.org
මීට ටික වේලාවකට පෙර කොළඹ කොටුව ලේක්හවුස් ඉදිරිපිට
එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. මරාගනෙ මැරෙන බෝම්බකරුවෙන් විසින් පොලිස් බස් රථයක් ඉලක්ක කර
ගනිමින් බෝම්බයක් පුපුරවා හැර...
