With my Bajaj Pulsar 150 I sold my Bajaj Pulsar 200 through ikman.lk a week ago and bought a new Bajaj Pulsar 150. This is cuter, lighter and cheaper compared with Pulsar 200. This consumes less fuel and easy to handle. I haven’t ridden it faster yet as it is advised not to speed up at least till the second ...
I read the book “What the Buddha Taught” by Reverand Walpola Rahula last year. It is a book that explains the core of the Buddhism in a simple language. The Reverand Rahula discusses The Buddhist Attitude of Mind, The First Noble Truth: Dukkha, The Second Noble Truth: Samudaya, The Third Noble Truth: Nirodha, The Fourth Noble Truth: Magga, The Doctrine ...
Linchpin – Seth Godin Linchpin is written by Seth Godin. It became an instant bestseller. The book brings all of Seth’s ideas together. Linchpin is his 12th book. The linchpin is indispensable. In the same way one has to be a linchpin in a workplace to be successful professionally. The book is about how one can become indispensable in a ...
Anna Karenina poster Keira Knightley looks striking in new Anna Karenina posters featuring Jude Law and Aaron Johnson. Anna Karenina is set in late 19th-century Russia. Keira plays an aristocrat who enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The movie is likely to be released in cinemas later this year. The 27-year-old star appears in the lead ...
Guru I don’t usually go to cinemas to watch Hindi movies. I buy the DVDs and watch them at home. But when Mani Ratnam’s Guru came to Colombo I went to watch it at a cinema with my wife. Because I had read on the internet that Guru is such an entertaining and inspiring movie. Besides, I am a big ...
The World Is Flat – A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman The CEO of EuroCenter DDC in Sri Lanka, Mr. Mano Sekaram gave me Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat as a present after I made a presentation at his company. I read the book at a stretch as the book was full of information ...
I had decided not to visit Deyata Kirula exhibition though it was held in my area (Oyamaduwa, Mahawilachchiya) not because that I am against it but simply because I don’t like to mingle with large crowds. But when my wife said that my 3-year-old son, Abilash is interested in seeing it, especially because of the train and the airplanes he ...
Map of Singapore I finished reading ‘The Singapore Story’ by Lee Kuan Yew few days back. It was nearly 700-page book. But I could read it at a stretch since it was an inspirational story and it is written in a very simple, yet effective language. The book is about LKY’s childhood, youth and how Singapore became an independent state ...
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 ...
Cafe Che, Colombo I don’t know how you feel about this but there is a restaurant named Café Che in Colombo. I happened to be there last Friday for the farewell party of my colleague at Dialog, Kishor. After all, having seen all the stickers, T-shirts, tuition posters with Che’s images, you can’t blame someone for opening up a café ...
Nihal Ekanayaka Nihal Ekanayaka is 54-year-old farmer from Mahawilachchiya, Anuradhapura. He was a hard working farmer and served his family of 5 daughters by cultivating his paddy land for all these long years. He earned a name as a fierce volleyball dasher when he was young. All his daughters are also very talented in sports. Three of them are married ...
The Guide I read “The Guide” by R. K. Narayan last year. It was as interesting as any other books by R. K. Narayan. The usual setting, the town of Malgudi is where the novel is based on. The protagonist, Raju is originally a tour guide and later becomes a manager of a dancer and then a hermit. The ...
How to Win Friends and Influence People was written by Dale Carnegie and published in 1936. By now 15 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide. This is said to be the first self-help book ever published. I listened to the audio book only a few days ago. What an excellent book it is. This should have ...
Last Friday (25th of January, 2013) I went to Jaffna with Nirrosion. Er.. it’s not a spelling mistake, that’s how he writes his name. We started from Ja-Ela at around 10 pm in his car and I don’t remember anything beyond Nochchiyagama till I reached Nallur in Jaffna as I fell fast asleep. It was around 6 am when ...
I just finished reading The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux. Honestly, I started reading the book for the simple reason that I had nothing else to read. But after the first few pages, I was glued to the book and finished the book within two weeks. It is that interesting. The Pillars of Hercules is the third travel ...
Lakbima is a good newspaper. Its Sunday edition is the best with Sundara Nihathamani de Mel as the able editor. But its web edition, right from the inception of it, sucks. First it brought a theme with “panels” – a format used in the very beginning of the websites and it continued until recently. It didn’t allow a reader to ...
Homagama Base Hospital Website’s Homepage While searching for the telephone number of Homagama Base Hospital, I was directed to its website. I was surprised because not many government hospitals can be found on the Net. I had a good look at the Homagama Hospital’s website http://www.homagamahospital.org/ and found much useful information available. They have lined up contact information, clinic schedules, ...
I read inside two days. (Apparently the author also has written the entire book inside two days.) It is a short but inspirational novel written by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. It was first published in 1988 and originally written in Portuguese. As of September 2012 it has been translated into 56 languages and sold 30 million copies worldwide. The book ...
