One of the peculiar abilities of the people in this Island, is to keep our selves entertained with jokes even in the worst of situations. While all the panic and chaos was raining, the social networks were with its own share of comedy but I guess the best comedy was from the metrological department itself.When daily mirror tweeted this,Out of ...

Some times walking around Kandy we do not realize how big the Bogambara prison area is. It just takes a view from one of the hills to figure out how big this place is and what kind of space its taking up in the center of the city!The Bogambara ground and the adjoining Bogambara prison A zoom in of ...

Dalada Maligawa and the mini Island in the middle of the lakeView of queens hotel

In local exams for failures the grade given is"F". For some weird unknown reason "F" is usually called as"light post" in local dialect, on second thoughts probably due to the resemblanceof the shape of the light post to the letterF. When I am not studying properly for exams, I had been asked countless timesby my mother on how many light ...

If I do not write a tribute to this, I would rot in hell. Its one of the most important things of my life. At university it was almost a synonym with my name or rather the object that symbolized me. Was part of my daily attire till I started to work at which I was reluctantly compelled to learn ...

For once we have a weekday which is a leave in many countries! So to 'celebrate' that we would do a online requirements modeling session. We would start at 3PM Indian standard time and will go on till we are tired and down, being old limbs I am guessing that it would go on till about 7PM. The objective is ...

One of my friends today has today run in to an issue where his MySQL db has run out of synch and giving an out of synch error. When exploring it and checking MySQL documentation I came across an interesting comment in the documentation.If you want triggers to execute on both the master and the slave—perhaps because you have different ...

Last weekend was one of those movie night weekends after a long time. Muppozhudhum un karpanaigal was one of the movies I watched. It was a psycho thriller and I actually liked the movie. But after watching the movie more than the movie what I remember is this particular song from the movie.Its just out of the world. Something really ...

April fool, go to school and tell your teacher that you are a fool!The above is a famous line we keep on muttering while we were in Junior school after pulling each others leg on the April Fools day. Usually we do have extended April fools' days and irrespective of the date, when we pull a trick we just keep ...

Sayy's 365 was started with the intention of making a blog post on a daily basis for the next 365 days. Today when I am on the 354th post and 11 away from the self set target mark, I decide to quit and accept defeat.Its been a whole pile of rubbish that I had been putting up here and whether ...

For some weird reason although I had been listening the songs of the film Kandukondaen kandukondaen on a daily basis, till today I haven't watched the film. Better late than never so I watched it today. The opening scene of the movie, could have been easily made in to something else, but the director chose to have a totally unnecessary ...

The shades of Hantana ranges

The internet giant seems to be doing some impressive work. They might have been doing these for some time but I got to know them just today. Today I started off the day by reading about the tech city campus set up in UK by Google. It just the type of set up we dream about in having in Jaffna. ...

Some times, we the people in the industry have scant respect for academics perspectives. We try to equate them for being people who are stuck with theories. We at times do not even believe that there is a mutually beneficial association which can be formed with them. If you observe carefully, a larger part of Sri Lankan industry doesn't actively ...

Totally randomly I got to watch the movie vaagai sooda vaa. Although I was not in a mood to watch a movie at that time, the script was good enough to keep me engaged. It was a nice period film ( I guess set in the 50s - 60s ). The sets the effects and the story line were simple ...

Akbar bridge, gym, pool and parts of arts facultyGalaha junction, Gala road and Science faculty

One of my recent favorites. As in the case of most of my pictures, this view I accidentally noticed while I was laying down on the floor.

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In the last few months by some strange coincidence I had been reading books which has association to death. The names include death by meeting, Steve Job's biography, Tuesdays with Morrie, who will cry when you die and the add to that illustrious list now I have, Killing Lincoln. I just saw that it was a book on history but ...