I smoke like hell on every 31st December because of my usual new year resolution to quit smoking from 1st of January. I stick to the plan the whole day on the first day and maybe the second. Somewhere between the 3rd and the 60th day I want to check if I’ve really kicked the habit and have smoke, ...
They were the final few days of our December vacation. The traffic lights were suspended overhead on this modernized stretch of Galle road between Kollupitiya (Colombo 3) and Bambalapitiya (Colombo 4). We were driving slowly looking for an address. Suddenly the cop who jumped in front of us blowing his whistle, flagged me down. As I was stepping out ...
This is the Cop Story #2 “NICE TRY, DUDE!!”Polonnaruwa , Batticaloa Road. It was 5.00 P.M. The Honda Civic Hybrid in front of us grabbed our attention a because of its foreign plates. Just because the Honda was almost crawling and the solid white line, which prevented us overtaking without crossing it, was there all the way since we left ...
How long can you use a LPG cylinder?Three weeks? One month? Well, if I say we use our LPG cylinder for one or two years would you believe me? Well it may sound like a little farfetched tall tale blown out of proportion to you, but it’s true. The reason for this is when we come home for the ...
This is the teachers’ speech I made this week at the school assembly. This is not a poem, but written in stanzas so that it would be read with more effect as a speech. This is not a school in Sri Lanka. But you can check if it relevant to your place. SHIFTING THE RESPONSIBILITYWhether you go to a government ...
The number of accidents reported on our E1 Expressway is astounding. It beats me how the vehicles equipped with all the safety devices imaginable, driving at 100 km.p.h., on an almost straight wide road, meet with so many accidents. Generally, the majority of accidents on a freeway are pile ups. But, here that’s not the case. This is the mere ...
If you thought the Sri Lankan drivers are the worst drivers in the world, you are not alone. Almost everybody seems to share this popular opinion. Join the club. I’m one of them. Those who haven’t been to Sri Lanka believe the Italian drivers are the worst. There was a post on the blog වෙදගෙදර about an incident where ...
I think Sri Lankans those who have emigrated and those who work abroad are a much neglected species in their own land. They are bound by several invisible bonds. I wish to discuss about them in future blog posts.One of those most important bonds is to be back on the scheduled date. As lot of things ride on that, ...
An evergreen hit series of Sri Lankan Yarns is "Us Vs the World". Almost all stories belong, more or less, to the same formula. After the typical cynical American, Russian, Japanese and the others dudes fail at the given task our Sri Lankan dude achieves it , no sweat!! Example: The Grabber Croc in the Lake.With these Tall Tales, whether ...
I promised to write part 2 of HOME SWEET HOME, HERE WE COME, when we really got home, but things really didn't work out that way. Now the vacation is over and we are back to reality.I had a long to-do-list. You'd have known if you visited my Sinhala blog as I suggested. Well, like any other to-do-list, we couldn't ...
This is a story from the country I'm currently working as a teacher. Here the student prepare for the Cambridge IGCSE. They have a Reading and Writing paper and also a Listening paper.One day I was doing a writing task with them. The task was to write on, the topic, 'If your house is on fire what item would you ...
The students in that Dehiattakandiya school, in Ampara District of the Eastern Sri Lanka, which I had mentioned in Teasing Tomato Dudes, were not very much motivated to learn. Absenteeism was common and those who showed up didn't show much enthusiasm to learn. I think this was a result of being an agricultural community. Before the harvesting time they had ...
By the time you read this post, we 'll be on the final leg of the transit, on our way home to Sri Lanka. This passage consists of travel by land, sea and air. Though this is supposed to be an eagerly awaited joyful event, the airline ticketing agencies or a bank or some other body makes sure to take ...
I've written 6 Narrow Escapes Stories. With this it becomes seven. Looking back I can't help but wonder that four out of seven of those incidents involved vehicles. Saved by the shoestring, Faulty Starter Motor, Stuck In The Rail Crossing and The Erratic Driver all involved vehicles. One was actually a bomb blast and the other a train. Then I ...
My wife and I were returning home along the Kandy Road in our Toyota Townace Van. Only two of us were there that day because our two kids had preferred to play with their cousins as they rarely get that chance. And we had left for Dambulla around 5.00 am and it was 155 km trip one way. So on ...
I was stunned to see the 'stranger' standing in the doorway. Gamini, one of my best friends, standing right here in front of me at the bachelors' quarters of the school in Ampara where I was doing my first year of teaching, on the other side of Sri Lanka! This dude, now a Wildlife Ranger,for the Department of Wildlife has ...
DON'T DRINK AND D r I v E. Dudes, I interrupt my Narrow Escapes Series to make way to this important message which I received through email. I think it deserves at least that much. I gave it a new heading. Author unknown.I went to a party Mom, I remembered what you said. You told me not to drink, Mom, ...
Seevali had migrated to UK when he was 9. After about 12 years he returned to Sri Lanka with his dad. Mom stayed behind in England. We became buddies while both of us were motor engineering apprentices in a company which imported a luxury German automobile. We found him to be a cool dude.It was his birthday and he ...
Mine was four door version of this.My small red Fiat hatchback had begun to irritate me. The starter motor had grown a mind of its own. It had developed this nasty habit of sticking and wouldn’t turn when I most wanted it to do so. It let me down when my wife wanted to be rushed to the hospital ...
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