The clicks below (in this journal it is above) are two parts of the same photograph. When I posted the original photo, my eyes were on the larger Tusker, so the elephants all around did not get a look in. I stumbled upon this again, and on a second look, got three for the price of one! If you ...
To Americans brought up under the Second Amendment Rights, that permit citizens to bear arms, guns are part and parcel of the culture, where one can even purchase guns with minimal screening in places like Walmart, with 5,000 stores that sells almost everything everywhere in the USA. WHICH CAMP ARE YOU IN? There are three distinct actors in this ...
There is trouble brewing in Kashmir and India has asked all tourists to vamoose, as their security cannot be guaranteed and they are pouring in troops to this disputed region, in order to quell a potential uprising. The world is silent as they don’t want to get involved and have their own problems and even the well-known rather unbiased ...
Sri Lankans are left wondering about the incomprehensibility with which the US Embassy issues a travel advisory for Sri Lanka on 2nd August warning people to avoid public places, just in case, where as in the US packed store was open season for a homegrown terrorist to commit mayhem, or a restaurant where normal people also gather as another ...
http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Illicit-alcohol-consumption-up-by-300-percent---WHO-survey/108-170268 Frankly, I am shocked out of my mind at these statistics in the article. If true, I am simply lost for words. It is a clear indictment that the nation is headed for disaster, especially if illicit alcohol is 40% of the total alcohol consumed. Where is the police on this? Surely, they must know the moonshine distilleries ...
I can see clearly, why can’t you? The real battle is common sense against nonsense, and at present nonsense is winning. If you watch or listen to news you are part of the nonsense crowd and if you read a paper and are able to pick and choose what you wish to read, then you may just about have ...
The plight of the daily paid quarry workers The minute the Easter Bombing happened the Government immediately banned the sale of any ammunition or gun powder or dynamite constantly used in Sri Lanka to blow granite for the rock quarrying industry. This meant that industry came to a standstill and granite rock became scarce in the market place for ...
Change for the better, right. Otherwise change is of no use, but then how do we know it will improve, we merely embrace it in the hope it will improve, whatever it is that we want improved. In a Country where the Prime Minister comes even to open a multistory car park in the heart of Maharagama, when they ...
Who is kidding whom? http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Oman-denies-it-has-agreed-to-invest-in-SL-oil-refinery-project/108-164241?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook All the newspapers are full of a full page advertisement taken by the GOSL trumpeting this investment of Rs 720,000 Million or in effect Rs 720Billion as the largest FDI ever! In includes the Oil Refinery referred to above with a company by the name of Silver Park Petroleum Private Limited and another investment ...
Background to the present malaise There is no argument that we in Sri Lanka must restructure our Human Resource Capacity, the real driver of our economy to meet the needs of the future and in this context 20202 and beyond. There is also no debate now that we SHOULD HAVE made a visionary decision when Three Wheelers were introduced ...
Spice Gardens are very much on the tourist trail, and are of different quality, one compared with the other, dotted around spice growing areas. Their whole objective is to entice the tourist to purchase product after seeing some spice plants and to a limited extent demonstrations on how they are processed. The reality of the farmer faced with growing ...
“Diyawanna We have a problem!” – The peacocks are rising, and of course you have not noticed, as you don’t care, there are too many deals in the offing One only needs to travel around the Country and observe. Peacocks are everywhere, they are in greater numbers than before, and they are crowding out other creatures, because their natural ...
Even a baby is outraged and you are not! Shame on you! An organization calling itself 'women for justice' has both desecrated women and justice at the same time in making this prostituted statement, at the behests of the PIMPS! Is it any wonder that the Wonder of Asia, is simply rolling in its own garbage, when no one ...
In a scenario akin to “Nero fiddles while Rome burns” the present impasse of A LACK OF LEADERSHIP BY ANYONE! is keeping us awake at night, wondering how to meet payroll at the end of the month. The photo of me @ my desk at 7.30am this morning (I could have been here an hour earlier, had not been for ...
Stop referring to niceties of the Constitution, either you agree with the Coup or you don’t. If you do agree with it and say so openly, one day everyone who does, can be prosecuted under the law for backing the coup, and all the leaders, like MS, MR and the fake cabinet will be prosecuted and if convicted have ...
Look to the left, look to the right, look ahead and all I see is destruction of the forest for no sustainable purpose! I have lived in these parts in the Ampara District for the past 25 years that is on the dirt track between Maha Oya and Rathmalgaha Ella which is my stomping ground. I have seen ...
Its Treason now that the Coup is flop, a matter of time only, unless they surrender now! President is intransigent to foreign pressure to call parliament and end the stalemate, tweeting he is acting constitutionally! What a selfish bastard, when the country is wallowing in uncertainty, while we wait for MR to buy more people, the going rate now ...
Fear has instantly gripped the nation, and law of the jungle has arrived, where the law does not hold water to those in power, as witnessed by the Presidential offspring’s behavior, behaving as if they own all Govt. establishments and NO ONE DARES TO STOP IT, remember the good old days guys? The job was in Namal baby’s palm ...
This was when I went to Sigiriya with a person who has the funds to buy it up, but refused to go even to the gardens as there was no special disabled facilities Is there any doubt that it is the under 35 traveller, not tour groups, more like back packers and student and young people, whose ratings and ...
So now the secret is out, that there is a phenomenal demand in the UK and other Countries for Jack Fruit, what are we going to do about it? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6300921/Soaring-demand-jackfruit-driven-UKs-3-5million-vegans.html Let’s face it, there is a surplus of Jack Fruit in Sri Lanka, and unless someone cleans it and prepares them for consumption or cooking, these fruits are left ...
