Happier times in Sri Lanka As I start typing there is something like a dead body trying to fight its way out of my freezer, and my house smells very much like the scene of a homicide where the murderer has tried to hide the evidence but failed. But as far as I'm concerned this is one of my good days. ...
WHERE ANGELS FEAR PROLOGUE "I remember the mountains in the morning. They caught the sunlight when it first appeared. The tips would become orange and then red and I would shiver because I remembered the meaning of life. The location was somewhere in Central Asia – I cant tell you exactly where, arid , heart-rendingly beautiful and cruel. It won't be any ...
Curious* was discovered by a local garbage dump, weak, hungry and crooked, one soggy July evening in 2005 . Numerous unpleasant incidents with our growing menagerie mean, that we try not to see or hear stray orphans as we walk or drive around the streets of Colombo, but this one hit my eyes, solidly and firmly although it probably ...
So my friend Zeeny sterilizes stray cats. Regularly. Obsessively. And persistently. She is happy that I told her how to go get them operated. You just have to grab them, starve them a few hours before, and make an appointment with a vet and take them over and then look after them for a few days afterwards till they heal. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It is now more than seven years after taking 189 million rupees in debenture funds from members of the public, but Vajira House Builders (Pvt) Ltd has not repaid these in spite of a court order to do so in 2009. In 2007 the company issued debentures promising to pay 22 to 25 % interest for public deposits taken as ...
Its six months since Operation Munchkins, when we ran after a little stray heifer for 4 hours in a tropical thunderstorm, trapped her, jumped her and got vets to cure the hideous nose wound made by a rope that was eating into her flesh.We didnt know where she was from - there were two theories that she was an escaped ...
Remember the lockdown of March 2020? When things started to happen to you and you had no control over them unless you were rich and influential? Where regimes did things to people that were too absurd to comprehend but you just had to agree to their cruel tyranny? In Sri Lanka we were told that we could not take a ...
photo from Morten Morland TimesIm sure the IT Crowd who developed it will have lots to say about this. Trust me I welcome a debate on it. These are just a few of my experiences over the space of 36 miserable hours trying to upload a proposal to help starving third world communities. The more evil memories have been suppressed by ...
image aptly titled "our packages" from chandrapanagoda.lk I didn't know till recently how much a coffin costs in Sri Lanka, it hasn't been that high in my "need to know" list. But this year I found out that it can be anything from 20,000 to 400,000 LKR.,and at each end of the spectrum the damn things look the same! They are ...
Chapter One CHUBSWhat would drive a man to cut off his dead lover's head? Its not easy. That is the thought running through my mind as I race to meet my writing deadline at the Weekend Financial Review.I am frustrated. "No, you cannot interview the wife, because she is just too tired to talk anymore," says my editor. I stare angrily ...
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Twenty years of messing with proposals and deadlines and an uncoordinated head office- but this is officially the last straw that broke the camel's back.So last week my office told me they were all working feverishly on a deadline to submit a bid to the United Nations supplier portal. You just have to upload it, they said. It will be ready ...
….ie more of that rahu/ kethu/ aturu dasha crap Its about two years since I last wrote for WOW officially and may I say I'm glad to be back. Quite a lot has happened in my life in these two years and you can be sure I will be updating you about it, in occasionally painful detail. Now where ...
Last week I made my regular pilgrimage to the weighing machine in our central pharmacy and was pleasantly surprised by the large digital computer which spewed out a small note reporting that not only had I reduced two kilos in weight– but that I was also of “IDEAL BMI”.I know its sad to be reduced to worrying about the opinion ...
THE MAGIC OF BREATHWORKsIn July 2019 after ten years in a tumultuous relationship, I picked up the courage to walk out. I thought I would be devastated. I had loved him for more than a decade, he had rescued me after my first marriage completely broke down. It seemed to me that I desperately needed a man and needed love ...
FAA AGAINSo the next day I took the toy motorbike and gave to Nuzrath. I was feeling maybe that it was for his kid, Muad, but later I found that wasn't the case. Nuzrat didnt let me get away, he made me sit down and showed me how he had taken Amor's lost sock and sewed it onto the plastic biker ...
