It only struck me a couple of days ago but Sri Lankans have very little in the way of entertainment or leisure activities. For the kids, outside of sports and tuition classes, there is little to nothing in the way of entertainment. For the adults, we are left with nothing but bars and restaurants (no wonder Colombo society is getting ...
The US involvement in Asia has come about with the ever growing presence of China. From the 1950s onwards America has shown an unwillingness to return to their old ways of “isolationism”. The Cold War being the biggest attribute to this. In the 21st Century the Cold War, I believe, is still going strong only the theatre has changed. We ...
Sri Lanka, and the government, is at crossroads regarding its future. On one side we have a path that could see us coming under a new regime with an unknown leadership, while on the other side there is a path that will see the Rajapaksa government strengthen their already iron grip over the politics in the country. However, sadly it ...
The government is preparing for the Victory Day parade, which is scheduled to be held on Saturday. For some people in Colombo they have chosen to criticise both the armed forces and the government with sentiment such as “why should we be celebrating a war” or “this is just another opportunity to pump up the forces”. I personally do not ...
Today I was greeted with the news that Sarath Fonseka was going to be released, sources confirmed the news. Personally this was depressing news, not because I in any way support the govt. but because I feel that he emphasises the Sri Lankan way of turning a blind eye to something provided we get what we want. When I returned ...
So Mother’s Day is today, and most people are looking to spoil their mothers with lunches/dinners or flowers or cakes and chocolates. For our mothers, this is a day that they can look forward to being spoilt by their families without having to worry about any work afterwards. I myself only found a place to take my mother out for ...
For those who have not noticed Sri Lanka’s diplomatic service is a joke. You just need to look at our recent record at overseas events to see what I see. The worst part is, we werent always like this. For a long time (back in the 60s-80s) we were a shining example for many countries. Of course like so many ...
I went to see Vesak the other night and really couldn’t recognise it. The crowds were massive, the lanterns and kuduwas numbers and for some reason everybody was wearing masks. I would really like if somebody could explain that part to me, last year when I went the crowds were big but the number of lanterns and kuduwas was higher. ...
A few Friday’s back the media and activists in Sri Lanka was caught up in the “Dambulla Mosque” incident. For those who do not know, it basically saw a group of near a thousand, headed by the head priest of the Golden Temple, storm a mosque and demand its demolition. They claim it was built on sacred land, the Muslims ...
Australia’s ongoing test series in South Africa has been far from what Michael Clarke would have been hoping for. Coming off a series win in Sri Lanka, being one-nil down and struggling to win the second test is not a step up. The one thing this series has shown is that Australia is still a team in transition, and that ...
Sri Lanka will learn their fate on Friday in regards to the hosting of the Commonwealth games, and I certainly hope that we do not win the bid. But of course there are many about who are arguing that Sri Lanka should win it that it will ‘help our economic growth’ and ‘the commonwealth games will make Sri Lanka a ...
My last article on the Indian Grand Prix was attacked by an Indian the other day, and in his comment he mentioned that I was biased when it came to India. I feel I should set the record straight, I am biased when it comes to Indian sport. So why do I have this biased attitude towards Indian sport? Well ...
The Indian Grand Prix was held today, and as an F1 fan I can promise you it was the last race I would want to see on my calender. For those who do not I am biased when it comes to India and their sporting events. This grand prix lived up to its expectations, and those expectations were pretty low. ...
People are more often than not inspired by greatness seen in mankind’s history, they will look to match it and live by its lessons. When does the time come that people stop looking back and start looking ahead? For me personally I have realised that all you can take from the past is lessons, but what you can take to ...
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is taking place this week in Perth this week, and personally the whole summit seems to be a joke. Barely a month has passed since the UN summit in New York, and now the ‘worlds’ attention turns to this. Of course to make stuff interesting the summit needed some controversy; the UN summit had ...
I drove to Dambulla today, and for those of you’ll who know me you’ll will know how much I hate the traffic here, and today I realised how much the roads of Sri Lanka have in common with a Formula 1 race. Just like a formula 1 race if you want to get to your destination on time, it’s important ...
So Mohammed Gaddafi is finally dead, or so the Western world will say, in only took several months of fighting and a serve bombing campaign by NATO to achieve this ‘feat’. On Thursday I spent the evening watching the news which continually showed scenes of, what they described as, ‘jubilation’. What I saw were crowds of men all carrying guns ...
I watched Transformers 3 recently and it was not half bad. Of course when I told people they looked at me with disgust, comments such as ‘OMG the story line was so lame’ or ‘how can you like that it is so unrealistic’. Well, yes, it is an unrealistic film and for a cartoon adaptation the story line will not ...
Sri Lanka’s reaction to the elegant Colin Cowdrey Lecture delivered by Kumar Sangakarra has crossed the boundary of pride to overkill. Sri Lankan’s in and outside the country showed their support to the lecture by quoting sangakarra on Facebook. A trend that has taken an upward surge in recent years. Media poured out accolades to the former skipper, complimenting him ...
Hello everyone, it has been a long time since my last post. Courtesy of my girlfriend I have been pushed back into my blog. So I will use this post as a small re-cap of what I have been up to. Well back in October 2010 I was offered a position at a local newspaper as a journalist and grabbed ...
