MIA is to sing with Maddona at the 2012 Superbowl. MIA (Maya Arulpragasm) has come a long way since her days at Summerstage NYC and the Mermaid Festival. MIA at Mermaid Siren Festival BrooklynIt looks like has MIA has quietly dropped her misplaced political activism and has become more and more part of the establishment. Even though her music is ...
Recently had to attach an old laptop thru a HDMI port to a large LCD TV. Had issues with bad sound and also erratic movie picture (Netflix) and sound. Searched the Internet and there was no comprehensive location to trouble shoot the problem. So a post with what I had to do to get the Laptop HDMI output to work ...
The Nation reports that 4 people have died and 578 have been diagnosed with Influenza. The symptoms are fever, dry cough, muscle and joint pain, tiredness and extreme exhaustion, prolonged headache or sore throat.Meanwhile there is a Novel Corona Virus (nCoV) that has been affecting Gulf Countries and has also spread to UK and France.The Center For Disease Control (CDC) ...
A set of FB posts arranged oldest to newest. There is a thread connnecting dotsHouthi Drone/Missile attack on Saudi Arabia FB post on 2019/09/16The oil and gas conditioning plant in Abqaiq is the largest of the world. processes 6.8 million barrels of crude oil each day. More than two thirds of all Saudi oil and gas production runs through it. ...
I guess a warning to to Sri Lankan students out in the US, dont cook with pressure cookers. A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police.Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah* and was carrying ...
This was meant to be part of a post of travel by tuk-tuk along the East Coast, from Paranthan-Mullativu-Kokilai-Pulmoddai-Trincomalee. However, there seems to be minimal information about how to get across Kokillai Lagoon. (See Facebook comments for places to stay around Mullativu)For those who are thinking of traveling by bus/bicycle/motorbike along the East coast of Sri Lanka from Mulativu - ...
Traveled yesterday on a CTB bus on the highway from Pettah to Negombo. Very comfortable, full air conditioned,no standing passengers and the bus seats 60 people.There are two Buses one to Katunayake airport and the other to Negombo. The Katunayake bus makes one straight run from Pettah to the Airport. The Negombo bus makes stops once it exits the highway ...
Maybe we all should do something like this even if its 10 perch plot.Jadav “Molai” Payeng started his project 30 years ago when he was still a teenager. Then, in 1979, flood waters washed a large number of snakes ashore on the local sandbar in Jorhat, some 350 km from Guwahati. When the waters receded, Payneg (who was 16 at ...
The main reason for this post was more about Otters in Sri Lanka. I know there are Otters (Diya Balla) in Sri Lanka. They are supposed to be found around lagoons and mangroves. If you talk to old timers who live near the Negombo and Rathgama/Dodanduwa Lagoons will say that Otters were quite common when they were growing up. That ...
This is a great kitchen made completely with Earth (matti in Sinhala), Not only is it eye catching it is cost effective and very functional. The kitchen was built by Mr. Dayananda and his wife Sumana by themselves. Mr. Dayananda's wife runs a medium scale plant nursery out in Wanathavillu (on the old Mannar Puttalam road).
This blog post was inspired by Richard Simon's: Ceylon Tea: The Trade That Made A Nation. This is about an employee of the tea trade who had descendants who ended up in S Thomas College and eventually as academics.Thillainayagam Tambypillai(probably late 1875)Thillainayagam Tambypillai was the Head Clerk of the New Dimbulla Tea Company, Ltd in Agrapatana. He had a couple ...
This was from 2009 which I saw via SepiaMutiny. Looked it up again.Comment on SepiaMutinywhat I appreciate about her is her refusal to be categorized. So much of the polarization of politics in Sri Lanka and the diaspora hinges on the desire to categorize. One is either considered pro-Tamil or a patriot. One either loves Sri Lanka or is considered ...
A couple of FB post in one place predicting if there is a war with Irana) Gold will sky rocket USD 1,700/oz and above is a high probability (USD 1,400 on June 20)b) Will Trigger a Financial Crash bigger than the 2008 becausePossibility of Oil pushing USD 100- USD 150That will trigger trillions in derivatives and the dominoes fall Gold ...
I got this Letter thru email and the saw that it had been posted on a blog as wellExcerpts from the emailDabur plan to make 280’000 cases (1 litre x 12 per case) of fruit based beverages a month. So we are talking about a minimum of 280’000 x 12 = 3’360’000 litres of liquid per month.Kamy Melwani of Neo ...
Michael Douglas, was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2010, says oral sex was the cause. He went on to add that if you have it, oral sex is also the best cure.So are Michael Douglas's comments medically correct.So excerpts:There are more than 100 variants of HPV, otherwise known as the human papilloma virus, and they appear in different parts of ...
Many here in Sri Lanka happen to think that the West is more moral and less corrupt than Sri Lanka. Yes, they appear to be moralistic with us poor folk in Asia and Africa. Thats because the money involved is peanuts and we are/were dependent on handouts. No different from the upper class in Sri Lanka who used to screw ...
The UK's school leavers are among the least literate and numerate in the developed world' with millions of Britons no better at English or maths than a 10-year-old.Standards are so poor that England is the only developed nation where those approaching retirement and the middle-aged are better at English and maths than those about to start work. .Spending on education ...
Kalpitiya, a spit of land two hours north of Colombo that boasts one of Sri Lanka’s least developed stretches of coastline, is flanked by the Indian Ocean on the west and the emerald green Puttalam Lagoon on the east. Now, before large resort developments at the peninsula’s tip come to fruition, is the time to visit. Base yourself at Alankuda ...
Fantastic article by Satyajit Das on how businesses refuse to spend a few cents more per garment to end labor exploitation. The first excerpt is the last sentence in the article and is a quote from George Orwell the author of Animal Farm.“… we all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that ...
Saudi Arabia is now on UN Commission on the Status of Women. SA is also Head (or is it Behead) of the UN Human Rights Council..Twelve other countries were also elected by the council in Geneva to serve for a four-year term, ending in 2022: Algeria, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Iraq, Japan, South Korea, Turkmenistan, ...
