Foot deep snow crunch under our feet as we walk down the wooded path to the river. The merciless cold bite through the thick winter boots and two layers of thermal socks. The crisp chilly morning air hurts the lungs. When I turn my faces up towards the watery sun which is shining relatively brighter today, I feel the ...

He loves animals, specially dogs. And the dogs seem to unconditionally love him back. Wherever he goes strange dogs around used to come looking for him. Unfortunately, in the country he had to spend his childhood in, displayed a sign at the airport which listed dogs as contraband in addition to fire arms, dart guns, idols of worship alcohol ...

From Smartcracks Collecton On Our Son.Hirusha and the Ethiopians In an effort to make our children think twice before wasting any resources, we always took the less fortunate ones than us like the homeless people, the children in Somalia, and Ethiopia, etc. as examples.“Hey don't waste food. There are millions in places like Ethiopia dying in starvation at this very ...

They say evidence given by a child is unconditionally accepted in the court of law as truth. I don’t know whether this is just an urban legend but it better had to be as I know how much we lied as kids. Or are they really so naïve not to have heard all the tall tales we used to ...

Thilaké is a bit senior dude than us. Anura (ACR) and I used to call him Carlos Santana because his long wavy hair reminded us of Santana. He used to wear his wavy hair which reached the small of his back in a pony tail when going out. And he stuffed the whole ponytail under his shirt ...

She was having her first baby. As was the custom those days it was a home delivery. Dudes I mean not in a hospital, child birth at home. The top ranking gynecologist attending was actually a family friend of the husband who was a high ranking diplomat who has served in many European capitals. The ...

It was the peak times of the Women’s Lib Movement. A group of activists went to see The Creator to submit a petition. It said that the women strongly felt that it was very unfair for only the women having to undergo the labor pains. It was a miscarriage of justice and they wanted the ...

Once a newly married young dude who was so deeply in love with his pregnant wife wanted to share the labor pains she was going to have at her first child birth. The gynecologist who listened to the d

After the teacher training we were assigned to the compulsory difficult area service. Some dudes who had connections in high places said very confidently that they were not going to do any difficult service and they were going to get it changed. We poor dudes who actually had no such connections, accepted the death warrant. And we also wanted to ...

Is it real Dude? I’m a big time movie fan. One thing baffles me all the time when I watch these Hollywood blockbusters especially genres like cop shows, detectives, crime and espionage. It is the ability of those characters to memorize phone numbers or security access code or a password or whatever it is, just ...

I met this dude McKaa at the Peradeniya English Teachers’ College. We were buddies in the same batch, same group, same class and also the same hostel. He was small built, short and also short sighted with a halo of curly hair. He either peeped over his glasses with the head tilted forward or squinted through them ...

I used to be a customer at the People’s Bank, Queen Street Branch which occupied the ground floor of that famous landmark The Ceylinco Building. That was before the Central Bank was bombed and the whole area became a high security zone. Then the bank was moved to another location. Even though I used the ATM for withdrawals I used ...

I’m not an automobile safety expert or anything like that.This blog site is not meant to feed you with safety rules or anything either. These are just things I couldn’t help but noticing and was itching to tell.“I don’t wear the seat belt because it crumples my shirt.” That’s what one dude said when I asked him ...

Here I am! A blogger at last! No more waiting for the papers to publish it! No more wastepaper baskets to gobble up my creations. A blogger at last, dudes.. a BLOGGER at last!! I'm gonna open a parallel blog in Sinhala, too. The problem is typing it out in Sinhala. Still I'm working on it. Hope to link it ...

I couldn’t make up my mind to write anything because the passing away of my beloved mother. If you don’t mind reading my blog post "වැරදි දවසක අප හැර ගිය අපේ අම්මා" about that in Sinhala this is the link. These three isolated incidents took place in two countries. Today, two of us were walking home after school when we ...

All the way from home to the unknown...Hey Dudes, Isn't Posting the 50th post on the Blogoversary, a cool coincidence? These were my stepping stones.· Hey Dudes· Buckle Up Dudes· Mckaa – Dude Of A Kind· Those Cool Security Dudes· My Ram And Cache· Deepa, Please Don’t Ask What Happened ToThe Tomatoes!· Dudes, Ever Watched A 7d Movie> Not3d! Wow!!· ...

Foot deep snow crunch under our feet as we walk down the wooded path to the river. The merciless cold bite through the thick winter boots and two layers of thermal socks. The crisp chilly morning air hurts the lungs. When I turn my faces up towards the watery sun which is shining relatively brighter today, I feel the ...

I saw you lying there on the side of that lonely stretch road in the beam of my headlight, dude. There’s no denying that! I saw you were in trouble, maybe badly injured, maybe dying. Or were you already dead?My foot came off the accelerator and hovered over the brakes for a moment… just for a single moment. Indecision. Hesitation. ...