I am very much influenced by the books I read since my small age. Apart from my education, books play a big role in building my life. In fact, writers are my heroes!Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky has written, probably the best, book on the role of a writer; their responsibilities and commitments. Book is called Golden Rose. This book has ...

As US is the most powerful country, British Petroleum is the fourth biggest corporation on earth. Now both are two different faces of same entity. This Video reveals about special kind of armed people who never say to whom they report. This is not a movie!Can we even think of democracy, if the fate of most powerful ...

Exploring Yala block two is a very nice experience. Not only is the wild exploration, four wheel driving experience too is amazing. I enjoyed it very much and really want to make it again. In order to make it, you are advised to use two four wheel drives with more than two backup wheels. You will be ...

While I was in Akka’s place I noticed that the wall colors are artistic in the guest room I am provided. Also I saw some rhythm in the tree like figure used to decorate the cover of the pillow. So I took a photo of it with background of the wall and it became so beautiful and ...

We are the victims of marketing! It has different shapes and different scales. Most developed countries are having more developed (say so) market systems. Again they have better legal frameworks to maintain some levels of marketing and to protect consumers from extremes. Anyway, due to big competition their marketing and branding is becoming more and more creative. Billboards, name boards ...

I have been writing about bird migration and related experiences bit often. Even the last post was about another birding experience. Anyway, I feel I didn’t urge that much about the conservation of these birds and what threats they face. In the worldwide context, biologists and ornithologists are talking more and more about the conservation of the migrating birds. ...

When I heard that the winter is so critical this year, I simply understood that we are getting a better chance of observing migrant birds in Sri Lanka. As I assumed, we could see a lot of migrants this season.We suddenly decided to do some birding in Annaiwiludawa, not only to observe migrant birds, but mainly our friend ...

We have number of “days” for different reasons. People criticize this because, we allocate days for objectives where we really don’t work for it. There is a women’s day for men who never treat women with the right respect. Peace day is important for people who put the seeds of war. It is high time we need to think about ...

Many people has slammed the US saying it has blood on its hands after a shocking video showed a US aircraft firing indiscriminately towards civilians in Iraq killing atleast 25 of them including two journalists.Please watch this video.Now western media together with other intellectuals has started to discuss the impact of existence of the media like Wikileaks in terms of ...

I recently encountered two bugs in Microsoft VS (2008 in my case). I will share it here since someone else too could spend hours of their valuable time on them.1.Same name, different case variables Theoretically, we can declare two variables with same name, if they were declared in different cases as below; Variable1 : MemberidVariable2 : MemberIDAnyway, better don’t do ...

I was so shocked to hear the demise of Piyal Aiya. Mr. Piyala Parakrama had finished his crucial role in Sri Lankan environmental conservation arena, on early this month. It is always sad to hear deaths of good people in times they are needed most..I first met him when I was a school boy while organizing ...

Upath Diyamba Gala is a new diving site in Hikkaduwa and we started this seasons with diving in to it. Site was average by every means. Even though visibility was not that favorable we managed to notice some fishes.Malfunctioning diving gear!Anyway, I was not happy with the dive at all because I had to start the dive with ...

We all were quite amazed to explore Nuwara-Gala when we saw it for the first time. I revealed about it in one of my past posts. We decided to have an excursion again in November 2009, after the terrorism problem is over in the area.As usual we left Colombo very early in the morning and head to ...

This is the second version of my blog! Actually this is nothing much but a better user interface. (I believe so!) Actually, I was bit of hating the previous appearance and started to find a new one, but unfortunately I found I was so choosy in that exercise. Anyway, I am still struggling with converting this to exact thing I ...

Officers of the government sector are being hammered by most of the media and people due to their inefficient working pattern and lack of positive attitudes towards the duty they got to perform. Department of wildlife is only one such government department which is being criticized by so many ways. While I started to hang around wild places since I ...

Jayantha Chandrasiri has started a massive cinematic task. He is going to take King Dutugemunu’s character to Cinema. It’s going to be a challenge definitely. Apart from making the film, he is also facing the challenges of critiques already. I wonder this is the first time in the history in Sri Lanka; someone has encountered this kind of criticism even ...

Most of the people who called themselves as journalists today are not journalists! But Sunil Madhawa Premathilake is a journalist. He is a sensitive person and he had a limitless love for the country and man-kind. He was brave enough to fight against powerful capitalist governments on behalf of liberty of the community. Most of all, he knew the ...

Once I was passing Galle, I saw a large gathering who is watching some different kind of a game. I identified both local and foreign players playing elephant-polo with assistance of mahouts. That game seemed funny, because some of the elephants were not aware what was going on but mahouts had to drag them to the ball and do according ...