Dialog eTeacher I am working for Dialog Axiata on a short term basis contract on Nenasa education channel. I was interested in newly launched Dialog service, Dialog eTeacher and thought of taking a course or two. I started from the basics. Rather than asking Dialog for a free ride, I myself subscribed to the eTeacher service paying the regular fee ...
A Pulsar 200 bike I am a motorbike lover. I like to ride long distances. The longest distance I have ridden is from Mahawilachchiya to Kahathuduwa, Piliyandala via Colombo. I have ridden between Colombo and Mahawilachchiya many a time. Road is very good via Puttalam and it is fun to speed up along the road. The other long trip I ...
Though I felt some physical exercise would do good for me I was not kindled for it till Lionel Balasuriya, my online friend in California, USA asked me to walk few miles a day. I started it towards the end of the last year, first by completing a smaller circle around the neighborhood and then enlarging the circle day by ...
Richmond Castle Richmond Castle is not yet a popular tourist destination. When we went there, there was only one bus with local tourists. There is no wonder why tourists don’t go there. Main reason being it is not added as a tourist destination in the tourist brochures and websites and the Richmond Castle is not being maintained well. The roof ...
Little Miss Sunshine Poster Little Miss Sunshine, a 2006 American comedy road film, was the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The movie stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, and was produced by Big Beach ...
It was with great pleasure I went to Ja- Ela during weekend to see Abhi, my 3 ½ years old son after about a month’s time. He too was delighted to see me and was with a broad smile when I entered home. I wanted to cuddle him at once but had to have a good wash first as it ...
School Uniforms in a High School There was much talk about a politician forcing a female teacher, a disciplinarian of the school, to kneel down before him for advising his daughter not to wear shorter uniforms to the school. That was the story the media provided us. There might be unheard incidents that were related to this story. You ...
Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was my favorite politician when I was a teenager. He still is. In fact I should have been on the other side and made Mikhail Gorbachev my hero as my late father was a hardcore socialist. I did like the baby face Gorbachev but Reagan was my hero. He was very handsome and had a great ...
My New Year resolution for this year was to start morning walks from January 1st. I am happy that I could wake up by 5.45 am without an alarm clock and could start my morning walk at 6.00 am. Of course I had to read the New Year greeting SMSes in the phone and New Year greetings on Facebook first. ...
It was widely published that the makers of the movie Sri Siddhartha Gautama spent a colossal sum of money on the epic film but I am confused as to what areas in the film the money was spent. Film looks like a low budget miscarriage of a movie rather than an epic movie. I regret the decision I took ...
A friend of mine recommended me The Buddhist radio station. I have watched The Buddhist TV both on satellite and terrestrial TV but was fed up with repetition of programs that appear former Chief Justice. I never liked the channel and did not recommend it to anyone either. When my friend recommended me the radio station, I didn’t expect ...
This time I saw Abhi, my son, after two months. It was a long wait for both of us. I went to Mahawilachchiya to see him and by the time I reached there he was at his Montessori. He didn’t come to me when he saw me as he felt very shy. It took a little while for him to ...
World is Flat I was given a brand new copy of ‘The World id Flat’ by the CEO of Eurocenter DDC, Mr. Mano Sekaran. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman. It was very interesting to read as it describes how technology and communication ‘levels’ the world by ...
Madol Doova “Madol Doova” is a Sinhala children’s novel written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe. It was first published in 1947. There is some similarity in the approach of the novel to R. K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends which was written prior to this. I read both the Sinhala Modal Doova and its English translation by Professor Ashley ...
