Colombo has become cleaner. That is a fact. One has to accept it. But a long way to go too. This is not sufficient. We are better than Indian cities but there is no point in comparing with the worst and boasting. But this is a good start. We don’t see the empty yoghurt cups, milk packets, shopping bags, etc. ...
Julius Caesar Julius Caesar is one of the tragedies William Shakespeare wrote. I studied it from Mr. Mahendra Illangasinghe, my former English teacher. Julius Caesar is full of power struggles, violence, betrayal, suicide, revenge and war. Though the play is called Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the most prominent character in the play since he happens to die in the ...
The Secret DVD Cover The Secret is a 2006 documentary film by Rhonda Byrne. It consists of a series of interviews that tell us by continuous self-suggestions to ourselves, we can attract the things we need. Be it money, fame, love, etc., we ourselves can gain them by thinking positively. The film was followed by a book with the same ...
I was first introduced to Refresh Colombo meet up by Udara Dharmasena in 2010. RC invited me to do a presentation on Horizon Lanka. It was a good idea for the twitter community meet in person and share knowledge. I attended yesterday’s RC meeting at Royal College Skills Center. There were around 100 people. Majority was the Muslim boys. There ...
Angels and Demons Dan Brown’s “Angels & Demons” is the first full e-book I read. Having read Brown’s “The Da Vinchi Code” earlier, I had tasted the blood. Brown writes in such a way that you don’t feel like stopping reading even for a meal. The book is such exciting. The main character of the novel is Robert Langdon, who ...
Page 1 Page 2 This is an article written in Sinhala about Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio. The article was scanned from the Sevilla magazine (1963) and uploaded to this blog. Enjoy!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban I just finished reading J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This is the first book I read of the series. You can enjoy this without reading the prequels. Every character that appears comes with a brief introduction so that you don’t have to depend on the prequels. Language is ...
A Tale of Two Cities The epic novel, “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens is about a triangular love story between Lucie Mannette, Charles Danay and Sydney Carton which takes place before and during the French Revolution. Both Sydney and Charles love Lucie but at the end, Sydney sacrifices his own life to enable Charles to marry Lucie. ...
Dracula – Bram Stoker Dracula was the first English novel I read. I won it from a competition Sunday Time’s Mirror magazine held those days. I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the package I received from the Sunday Times through regular post. It was a period I was wasting time after the teacher training I had, without a job ...
Abhi by the birthday table My son Abhilash’s fourth birthday fell on September 16th. It was celebrated with a limited budget of 5,000 LKR but Abhi enjoys it very much. He didn’t know how to enjoy his previous birthdays as he was too small for it and it was only during this birthday he could blow out the 4 candles ...
I was given a copy of “Why Worry?” by my friend Ranil Dissanayake at a time I was bogged down a series of problems in both personal and professional lives. I didn’t feel like reading the book due to the stress. But I was forced to read it since I didn’t have anything else to read. It was then I ...
Page 1 This is the story of the world’s first photograph and the inventors of the camera. The story was taken from Sevilla magazine (1963) and scanned and uploaded.
Suvisal Pethum (Great Expectations) M. D. Gunasena publishers have done a commendable job by translating 24 abridged world classics into Sinhala. I already read few of the translated classics and am satisfied with the quality of the translations. The covers and the drawings of the books are bit to be desired though. I also had a chat with the able ...
Keeping Mum Poster Keeping Mum is a British movie that uncovers the disorganized family life of Walter Goodfellow, the vicar of a small village (Little Wallop) of 57 people in rural England. Walter, an unsuccessful preacher tries to better his sermons while his family goes disarray. His wife Gloria is involved in an illicit love affair with her golf instructor ...
