I wish the sun would come back! And small wonder they worshipped Him in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia and killed for Him in South America, what with sacrificing virgins yada yada.- I keep wondering what it would take to get rid of all that drippy weather - it really gets to me this time. Yes, it is that ...
October is the month of my wonderful liberating divorce, and I remember it with such mellow happiness, you might consider it rather shocking. The truth is, hardly any anniversary makes me so inexplicably happy!! Perhaps obscenely, I have many times wanted to propose divorce parties and I know if I was a minister or something I would host large-scale nationwide celebrations with ...
(Unrelated artwork by Chandrika Gadiewasam) Scandalous, I know, but I have concluded that if it wasn't, the human race , which put man on the moon and invented Velcro, not to mention, outwitted the smallpox vaccine, and the bubonic plague, would have done something about it …so all I can conclude is , there must be some people out there who support ...
In my thirty sixth year , so the planets dictate, I am to publish my first book. Now that's big news I just cant ignore, as fanatical as I am about the whole subject of reading , books and the Written Word.I have to then grudgingly acknowledge that many of the milestones in my humble life have in fact been previously dictated by the ...
I dont have a degree in Communications. Neither does my daughter Nadeesha. But we have been published for a number of years in leading newspapers, written two columns and been co- authors of a book, not to mention becoming co-founders of popular online forums with thousands of members. My writing has shamed a big company into doing the right thing. ...
Moonlight across the dunes. Gentle, ululating expanses of sand. This is the scrub desert surrounding El Thebsi and there is a soft breeze in the air and the muffled sound of hooves in this sand.A lone horseman accompanied by a lithe desert Saluki gallops towards the vast red fortress on the horizon. He is smiling in the moonlight beneath his shawl, ...
The Mad Witches of Modera In a modern Colombo suburb, three long-suffering housewives decide to punish and reform their errant men using black magic, a daring plot that has unpredictable results. CHAPTER ONE Resting Witch Phase Really-what kind of man can cut off his dead lover's head? It's not easy. You need muscle. Your arm aches for days afterwards. The ...
PROPHESYTime stood still, three centuries away in silent jungle glade in Northern Xhindavia and a gutted white war horse thrashed in dying agony and the Princess Aria gasped for breath and turned to look into the eyes of her killer. Here as she looked death in the face, instead of the world around her paling in comparison, suddenly it throbbed ...
Horrible Histories: The Sinful SinhalaTheir name means "People of the Lion" because their race began with an Indian princess who mated with a lion (dont try this at home!),- they have been around for more than 3000 years and they have history books to prove it ! ..the Sinful Sinhala had a long series of Kings who became king by killing ...
Love. Pain. Life.Hope- sometimes you need a bit of encouragement to go on.When I return to Ceylon, no matter how old I get there is one place I must see.And no it is not an endangered archaeological site or a famous land mark, since they are around and will be taken care of by the authorities and I do not ...
I've known Harry for three years now. He is one of my closest confidantes and "advisory committee members", my " cheer-er up", and my honored partner in crime; we screen each others partners, SMS each other at unholy times of the night and we know so much about each other that should we fall out, blackmail would not be a ...
About two month's back, in the course of duty I was instructed to visit Ampara.I've seen many photographs of this dusty outback territory and these always seem to give the impression of stubborn survival amongst rather desperate odds and a desolate environment. I have sat and painted the barren landscapes and dusty ruins I saw in some photos and I ...
The tsunami struck Matara at 9 23 on the morning of Sunday the 26th December 2004. I was in a small 30 seater inter-city bus on the coast, with my beloved father and a dear friend named Dieter. There were perhaps 3 minutes between us and a monstrous, 30 foot high, wall of destruction ploughing directly towards us at the ...
June 4 2007I will not forget Dieter, in many ways he made me who I am. . He was different, so different and although he touched my life only comparatively briefly, he made impressions that will never be lost. To say that I owe a lot of what I learnt in life to him, would not be enough. I owe ...
Fifteen years ago, in this serene month of June, and for my birthday I suppose, I was blessed with a baby daughter. Red in the face, cherubic and complaining loudly in the harsh lights of the nursing home she had pushed me into, she was placed swaddled in flannel on to a table near me, and I stared at her in ...
Cats plague me. They greet me with loud vibrating purry meows when I get home, hunt me excitedly around the house tripping me up, when I'm desperately looking for my sandals, spray my motorcycle jacket cheerfully with nauseous civet musks and drop suddenly out of the ceiling onto my dining table when I'm entertaining important but cat averse guests….I look ...
This is not a technical article - tekky advice you can get from just about any guy you know who rides a bike, or from the friendly salesmen at joints selling them. What follows are the kinds of tips you won't hear from the guys: stuff like how to choose road friendly feminine underwear and what parts of your riding ...
Two years ago, around this time of the year, I bought myself a shiny new Chinese moped from a very user friendly joint in Kohuwela. There was, I recall, a significant amount of family opposition to the idea of me riding a "motorcycle". Notably most of the negative attitude was feminine. My best friend, a lovely, most lady like creature ...
