Meer Ali and I left the sea-breezy Mount Lavinia around eleven in the morning and had a sumptuous meal at Burger King at Dehiwala. There is nothing wrong in having some fast food or cola drinks once in a blue moon, but definitely not as a habit. Then we rode to Galle Face Green, a beautiful seafront open space ...
On August 11, 2016, Meer Ali and I woke up early and headed to Yala National Park. We hired a safari jeep and traversed the park. Didn’t see as many wild animals as I used to see in Wilpattu National Park which is close to my village, Mahawilachchiya. A couple of wild elephants, wild boar, wild buffaloes, deer, crocodiles, ...
On the third day of our motorcycle journey, August 10, 2016, Meer Ali and I left the guest house in Nuwara Eliya around 9.00 am. The Lake Gregory nestled among the misty hills was beckoning and we rode towards the Lake Gregory, enjoyed the beautiful scenery and the cool breeze for a while, before getting back on the road ...
Meer Ali and Nanda Wanninayaka in Nuwara Eliya We started from Naula and bypassed Kandy as it is an utter waist of time to go through the city. So, we went via Katugasthota to Peradeniya, then to Nuwara Eliya via Gampola. The road was amazing and the vegetation was so green and beautiful. It was colder when we reached Nuwara ...
Nanda and Meer at Basawakkulama Reservoir, Anuradhapura Day one was not that difficult as we mostly rode on flat terrain. Both Meet and I took turns while riding. Meer did not have an Indian bike license with a Sri Lankan attestation by the Department of Motor Traffic in Sri Lanka but the police never stopped the bike while he was ...
Meer Ali and Nanda Wanninayaka at Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka In August, 2016 I finished a 5-day-long motorcycle journey with Meer Ali, the first volunteer for Horizon Lanka from India. This was the longest sojourn I embarked on a bike so far. It was high fun riding the bike through all those cities, towns and villages with Meer Ali, my ...
Chandika Hathurusingha (I wrote this piece before Chandika Hathurusingha accepted the coaching role for the national team by Sri Lanka Cricket. I forgot to publish this for some reason but since I still think my arguments still stand, thought of publishing this as it is.) Chandika Hathurusingha batting Chandika Hathurusingha was a mediocre cricketer who had a comparatively longer stint ...
Unrequited Love I know I am not a professional on any form of arts. I love drawing, music, singing, dancing but never had the luxury of having a proper teacher for any of those fine arts. I did the drawing above when I was 23 years old. The girl in the drawing, I met in my early 20’s whom I ...
Nanda Wanninayaka on Bajaj Pulsar 200 (A file photo) I have been riding motorbikes for over 30 years now. It is the most fascinating pastime for me, maybe next to horse-riding. (It is too early to take horse-riding a pastime because I don’t own one, not yet.) I started motorbike riding with a Honda C70 model motorbike my eldest brother ...
My existing bike, the Bajaj Pulsar 150 I am an avid bike hiker. Astride my bike, I have been to all the cities in all districts in Sri Lanka except Jaffna. The planned Jaffna trip had to be postponed after the freak bike accident I met with last September. But that accident won’t dampen my spirits and I will go ...
This appeared in the Sunday Times Plus Section on September 10, 2000. By this time I was the computer instructor of this project launched by LAcNet. But I quit the project to take up a new job at MAS Holdings in late 2,000. By Kesara Ratnatunga (10th September 2000) The computer screen was their window to the rest of ...
Melissa Schmitt and I at Gnanikkulama, Anuradhapura at the beginning of the tour to Dambana Melissa Schmitt, a girl from France and I were on course on rusty old Bajaj Boxer motorcycle to Anuradhapura by the evening today. It was around 6.00 pm but it was pitch-dark due to rainy weather. All vehicles were moving with lights on. We were ...
