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 ...
The Sleeping Dictionary poster I had bought The Sleeping Dictionary movie DVD long time ago. But I didn’t like watching it as its name was… well… too academic. But few weeks ago when I didn’t have anything else to watch I thought if watching it. I felt like knocking my head against the door for not watching such a beautiful ...
Dushyantha with Wife and the Kid When I first met Major Dushyantha Yapa, an amazingly courageous totally blind soldier it was somewhere in 2007 at Ranaviru Sewana, Ragama. Some friends of mine from Australia and the USA had arranged some donations to Ranaviru Sevana and I was introduced to Dushyantha at one of the visits I made to Ranaviru Sevana. ...
A Walk to Remember poster A Walk to Remember is an American teen romantic film made in 2002. It was based on the romance novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film was directed by Adam Shankman and the main cast includes Shane West and Mandy Moore. Rebellious Landon Carter (Shane West) and bookish Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore) ...
The Bachelor of Arts I thought of reading R. K. Narayan’s “The Bachelor of Arts” as it was prescribed for GAQ exam at the Sri Jayawardenepura University. I had the privilege of reading its Sinhala translation as well. The Bachelor of Arts is the second book of a trilogy that began with Swami and Friends and ended with The English ...
Rambutan Seller It started with 20 fruits for 100 LKR. Again it was reduced to 25 fruits for 100 LKR. Now it is 30 fruits for 100 fruits. That was how the price of rambutan went down during last few weeks. Last year, a fruit cost around 8-10 LKR. But this year, due to abundant harvest, the prices are going ...
Cornerman Book Cover It was a fascinating experience to read ‘Cornerman – Stories from the life of Dian Gomes’ few weeks back. Dian Gomes wanted to do a book on his boxing journey to inspire a new generation of boxers and administrators. However, the authors convinced him that the role of Cornerman that he played was not limited to boxing ...
Shanthi Vihar Closure Shanti Vihar, a famous South Indian restaurant in Thummulla Junction, Colombo closed its operations in 2010 and now is reopened and runs under a separate name, the Sri Vihar. The 35 workers who served the restaurant were asked to leave immediately on the eve of New Year 2010 and the restaurant was closed suddenly. According to the ...
Set of Encyclopedia Britannica Oxford Dictionary I thought of writing this after reading in some blogs that Encyclopedia Britannica has stopped publishing its printed version and will focus more on its digital version instead. Both Savvy365 and Aruni Shapiro had blogged about it. I too have read few pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica set at the Anuradhapura Public Library in ...
A Place in the Sun cover page Dian Gomes, the CEO of Slimline Pvt. Ltd., a leading multinational garment factory in Sri Lanka sent me a copy of “A Place in the Sun” few years back. The stories in this book are written by Slimline employees, or better say “Team Slimline.” I read a few selected stories in the book ...
I reached Colombo by bike on Sunday as I had to start work in my new workplace from Monday onwards. The place I got to stay at in Colombo is very satisfying for me. The house is owned by my friend Ranjith. House has ample space and he offered me a room and all the ‘five-star’ facilities he has got. ...
Mahawilachchiya is a rural village 45 kilometers away from Anuradhapura town. It is situated in the boundary of the Wilpattu National Park. You would be surprised to hear that the children of this distant village excel in computers and English with the little resources they have with their educational institute, the Horizon Lanka. Horizon Lanka Foundation www.horizonlanka.org has been serving ...
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 ...
In 2004 March, I went to Qatar for a teaching job at an international school with the help of a very good friend (Kumara Badhuge) who was working there. I arrived in Doha International Airport during the day and my friend took me to the school and the formalities were done there. My friend had already arranged me a room ...
Sri Lankan supporters supporting the SL team at Gabba, 2010 There are a lot of talks by various concerned people about some of the Sri Lankan Muslims supporting Pakistani cricket team and some of the Sri Lankan Tamils supporting Indian cricket team against the Sri Lankan team when India and Pakistan visit Sri Lanka. Some go to the extent calling ...
I was among the millions of happy cricket fans when it was announced that the Sri Lanka’s Bangladesh cricket tour was going to be telecasted live on Channel Eye for the simple reason that Channel Eye has clearer signals than Carlton Sports Network (CSN.) In addition to that, we were not happy about the unusual circumstances that resulted CSN grabbing ...
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 ...
Jurassic Park Book Cover It did not take too many days for me to finish reading Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. It is so interesting you can read it at a stretch by even ignoring meals. Though it is a fiction, the author has done a lot of reading related to paleontology that you don’t feel like it is a fiction. ...
The Element – Book Cover I listened to the audio book The Element by Ken Robinson (with Lou Aronica) after Rehan Allahwala of Pakistan recommended it. So far his recommendations have not disappointed me. The book was mainly on finding oneself. There are a lot of convincing anecdotes throughout the book. The book is narrated in the audio version by ...
