An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned since my Deliverance out of Captivity – Book Cover Robert Knox wrote an excellent account of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka.) He was an English trader and sailor. He was captured and taken prisoner by the troops of the then ...
Terminator 2 – Judgement Day Would you believe that today’s Colombo kids are still in love with the Terminator franchise of movies? Yes they are. I teach 3 groups of Colombo kids and – there are kids from Grade 1 up to Grade 9 – and all of them, irrespective of their age levels, love to watch Terminator on the ...
Benjamin Pages (Ben) was the first French volunteer at Horizon Lanka. I went on a road trip with him to Badulla via Polonnaruwa. It was a great ride as both Ben and I could take turns in the ride. To be honest, I did not think I would be comfortable when he rode the bike as I doubted his ...
The reload machine In addition to my postpaid Dialog mobile phone connection, I have a prepaid Mobitel connection as well mainly for my friends who call me from Mobitel phones. I never took Airtel, Hutch or Etisalat seriously hence not worried about their connections. Recently I wanted to reload my Mobitel connection and I went to a small communication shop ...
Raghu Sharpening a Knife My wife has a big problem with knives. No matter how good the knives she buys they become blunt within few months. There are around 10 knives gathered in the kitchen and there is no point in buying new ones as well because they too will have the same fate as the old ones very soon. ...
Leslie Varghese with Rambutan from Malwana Leslie Varghese an Indian national from Kochi, Kerala visited Sri Lanka after seeing a blog post I posted last year about rambutan season. Leslie wanted to buy some rambutans of the Malwana variety from here. In fact he has a farm in Kochi called Homegrown Nursery & Farms. And he wanted to take some ...
Lolita (1997) poster I watched Lolita 1997 version after watching Stanley Kubrick’s black and white version of the film which was released in 1962. New version is sexier than the old version and it is in color. Lolita is younger, sexier, naughtier and more rebellious in this version. This film is more faithful to the novel than its earlier film ...
Lolita 1962 Poster There are two movies based on the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. I prefer the Stanley Kubrick version of Lolita which came in black & white in 1962. Not that I loathe the Adrian Lyne’s version of Lolita which came in 1997 but I just prefer the older version as it is more artistic. Lolita is a ...
Eyes Wide Shut DVD cover Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. The following films can be mentioned as a few of his work. ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe Photo Credits http://www.chatter.lk: Nanda Wanninayaka Ranil Wickremesinghe was never my hero. He wasn’t anybody’s hero for that matter I guess, especially those of his own party, the United National Party (UNP.) Politics was never his field of expertise or his field of interest. I have read somewhere when his uncle, the late president Mr. J. R. Jayewardene (JRJ) ...
Fools Rush In DVD Cover I watched “Fools Rush In” few years ago. The only reason I was interested in the movie was that my favorite Hollywood comedian Matthew Perry was in it. But when I watched the movie I understood it is more than Perry. It has a beautiful, reliable story line too. Fools Rush In is a 1997 ...
Coach Carter Poster The movie Coach Carter is based on a true story. The movie was released in 2005 and directed by Thomas Carter. Samuel L. Jackson portrays the character of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter. Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results. The students and ...
The Crush Poster There are several movies that share the same name, Crush. “The Crush” is a 1993 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Alan Shapiro, which stars Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone. This is Silverstone’s feature film debut. It was filmed in Canada in 1992. Writer Nick Eliot (Cary Elwes) arrives in a new city after finding ...
I am an admirer of Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem “If.” First I read its Sinhala translation while I was a schoolboy and I felt it was exclusively written for me! Later, when I came to a stage I could understand the original English version; I just fell in love with the poem. In fact, I use this as the ...
Book Cover Ever since I watched the movie Charlie Wilson’s War, I wanted to read the book the movie was based on. Luckily, last year, my longtime friend Asela Atalugama from Florida, USA brought me a copy when he visited Sri Lanka on vacation. I was thrilled to get hold of the book and I consider it as one of ...
Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; a long running science fiction comic strip, The Trigan Empire; adaptations of famous works of literature into comic-strip form, such ...
