I attended the staging of "Chaos at the Vicarage" at the Lionel Wendt last Sunday. It is an English comedy directed by Jith Pieris. It was ok... Nothing too special.It is the typical English comedy where everybody is confused and running around. Everybody in the play thinks that everybody else is somebody else or they are having ...
Rowan Atkinson is back at it as Johnny English. Just a picture of him makes me laugh. I cannot fully remember the first movie in the series but this one appears to be funnier than that. The entire movie was a nonstop laughing session from the get go.Johnny English doesn't disappoint as he comically defeats all the terrorists who are ...
I was in utter shock when I woke up this morning, logged onto my laptop and went to CNN.com to check today's news. I did know that he was not all well and that was a big reason for him stepping down as Apple's CEO. But I didn't know he was this close to passing away. If ...
On my recent visit to Singapore, I couldn't resist thinking the wonders a subway system would do to Sri Lanka. We spend so much time getting from A to B especially during traffic hours. We also cannot predict easily how long a trip would take.There are so many more people in Colombo or coming to Colombo for ...
What is it with the Sri Lankan selectors? Samaraweera has an average of over 50 in tests and they just drop him after a couple of sub-par outings? He has performed extremely well in tests recently. He also was the highest run getter in the last Pakistan series, scoring two double centuries.He is also the 2nd highest ...
anything.lk appears to be winning the battle of the Groupon copycats in Sri Lanka. The contenders are anything.lk, maradeals.lk & smartpola.lkLooks like anything.lk has gotten off to quite the start after partnering with the Thai group. One of my friends said that the site has been around for some time but only recently took off after the ...
This happened to one of my friends in the Colombo 5 area about a month ago at night. Both of the side view mirror assemblies were stolen from his Axio by a gang that came in the three wheeler. He heard a couple of lound noises. When he peeped out of the window, he saw his car ...
How will privatization kill free education? Higher education is only limited to a few due to the limited number of students accepted after the A/L. There will always be students vying for these slots. So I fail to understand how privatization will kill free education? If medical degrees granted from foreign universities can be recognized by Sri ...
This move is based on a true story. The LTTE massacre 57 people in a village which has a few untrained security personnel. The story is about a brave female school teacher's efforts to convince the Army Major of the near by camp to train men from the village to protect them against the next LTTE attack.I ...