Picking up the pieces, And then came Hope... Book Launch: "Picking up the Pieces" by Marilyn Wouters Venue: Black Cat Cafe B&B 11, Wijerama Mawatha Colombo 7 Date and Time: 11 December Sunday 11am-5pm To order the book locally: email Wouters.marilyn@gmail.com or call 0778 002136. Internationally available from Amazon.com Find Marilyn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mwouters By Chandrika ...
(Art courtesy Daily Mirror ) Its been up on two years now but the guilt of it has kept me silent so far. Even now I will not tell you who I am, for your author, dear gentle reader, is guilty of having broken the law, violated the penal code and /or acted unconstitutionally to boot and what's worse now ...
Im 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 my mind.WARNINGS If ...
- those horrible family activities you thought you had seen the end of… Photo from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/445786063088678182/My darling daughter, in answer to that email of yours…Im 36 years old. that means Im 21 years older than you,. Admittedly its not much but theres a whole two decade of experience that you can draw on from me that you don't have to ...
(old article written 7 years ago and guess what Im still running around! Photo from http://zenchick.com)Last Sunday, I slowed down.I mean, seriously: I was fed up with running around, beating deadlines, meeting schedules, pleasing other people and doing my duties like a perfect person – I went on a small discrete personal strike and took a cruise down the highway ...
My Ideal Tropical Non Agenda… I have always wanted to spend a day on an island, in the sun, with nothing, absolutely nothing to do, but laze..No deadlines at all… by Chandrika6 And so it was last month that one simple happiness I have dreamt of for perhaps years now, came true, for me. Perhaps I'm a person of simple ...
An appreciation of Grand Master Hassan Khalid founder of Fei Quan Do International It was with the greatest sorrow I heard of the sudden passing away of our beloved martial arts Master the Grandmaster Hassan Khalid founder of the Fei Quan Do international school of karate in Colombo. He passed away last Thursday at a ripe age of ...
Greetings and warm regards from Purradise. It is I, Peachy the 23rd, descendant from a long line of regular backyard cats, distantly related to Serious the 48th, who was a rather foreign I hear having been brought into the country on a Portuguese galleon in the time of the Kandyan Kings. Knowing her character though Im sure ...
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 ...
By Chandrika GadiewasamIn Sri Lanka which boasts some of the highest snakebite deaths in the world, where snakes are hated and feared, one man daily puts his life on the line to save any snake he can. He has given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a deadly Indian cobra and he keeps a saline solution and aloe vera tub to help heal ...
Chandrika GadiewasamSome of the deprived sad food my whole family has been forced to eat due to my diabetes. Ok you know Im being snarky (Photos courtesy Nadeesha Paulis)Some years ago, when I was hovering on the magical brink of becoming a symbolic 39, I went in for my annual overall check up and the reports came in with a ...
Chandrika Gadiewasam 2008 DIAS-PORAS They are cleaner, shiny and their luggage smells good. Their kids speak alien tongues and burst apologetically into delicate pink bubbles in the evenings, on principle. You know who I'm referring to, it's the Diaspora. That's those Returnees, kalu suddas, pita-rata-kattiyas or in other words the sweet friends and relations of ours who have managed ...
To write the last bit of this book I took a bit of leave from my human rights NGO office and stayed in our village, at my house Jungle Library, surrounded by fields, tall old trees, 3 rude cats, and three thousand books. You can google "Jungle Library Sri Lanka"and see photos of this place and the surroundings (there are ...
by Chandrika Gadiewasam ● Cyber crime a serious emerging threat to young women ● Sri Lanka's legislation to protect women comparatively strong ● Women often do not know their rights ● Sri Lanka as a prime tourism destination could be tarnished by GBV It is estimated that one in four of Sri Lankan women are victims ...
On a side note serial bigamy though rarely heard of is lucrative in Sri Lanka as reported by one of the inmates, an ex-army chap who proudly told Keju Ayya about his handiwork. Being merely somewhat good looking and coherent,and also with the automatic veneer of heroic respectability that army personnel were automatically imbued with after the defeat of ...
Another wierd link I stumbled on when researching that story...http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/08/soldiers-view-part-two.html And here is the text of the clip which I wanted to findPolice in Anuradhapura have arrested two suspects in connection with the rape and murder of a pregnant woman.The victim's body was found hanging from a tree near Kandy Lake on July 27.The 40-year-old, who was mentally unstable, had ...
This book of mine, which begs to be written, begins with a Dastardly Murder and Rape (not mine and not in that exact order) but I admit it shook me up. Remember the land I told you I bought, in Hanwella. It made me so happy...according to the UN or something, only 1 per cent of the worlds land is ...
Wellampitiya… rocks! No seriously, I'm not saying this because it happens to be my home town, and I want to help 'jack up' the land prices in the area. Its just that I find it one of the most colorful, interesting, downright adventurous places to live in .And its not that I have lived here all my life, no: I ...
Tovil for Soma (part 2) By Nadeesha Paulis. Dusk merged into intense darkness as the bright lights and the rhythmic beating of the drums soon drowned out the horrified gasps of on lookers. The Kattadiya and the broken white clad figure on top of the roof continued their arguments. Under the control of the evil entity, the eyes reddened, ...
THE DAILY MEWS 2009 January 1st Had a terrible night with all the explosions. I saw Shabby, the mad pooch next door, trying to get inside the filing cabinet -he was practically gibbering with terror at the cracker sounds. Apparently its human people who actually do this and they consider it fun. Can you beat this.. January 3rd Such violent ...
