The last few days have been pretty strange. Friday I managed to get a fever, which I thought was just some light food poisoning from something I’d cooked(more on this later. much more).  Sunday had me at a doctor’s office, sitting in the chair flashing my torso at her. As I was leaving, the nurses clung to me screaming “But ...

You can't get a newspaper up there, but you _can_ get 3G. I know I lead a fairly comfortable life. I mean, I’m not living out of a thatched hut somewhere in the hills, foraging for food. It’s not like I live in Kandy. For Sri Lanka, I know I lead an above average lifestyle in terms of creature comforts. ...

The dogs constantly mocked our stamina. Over the long weekend, we decided to finally head over to Lakegala in Meemure, a sort of remote village somewhere in the knuckles range. It’s pronounced Lak-gala, apparently. Indi managed to think it was Lake-gala (lake-rock, literally). A bus and a van journey later, we wound up at Meemure village near the temple where we ...

I’ve had a list of pet-peeves and full-grown, wild peeves about a few corporate entities for a while now, just never got round to jotting it down. "Send people anonymous text messages professing your love!" - That's exactly what Sri Lanka needs more of. Dialog Spam: Why oh why do I have to put up with Dialog’s constant text messages advertising ...

I recently watched Warrior, starring Tom Hardy and Joel somethingsomethington. It was probably one of the best movies I’ve watched in the past year. It was so good that I went all over the internet reading about it, and found it compared to “The Fighter”, another movie featuring two brothers and ass-kicking. So then I watched that. The Fighter has ...