Paternoster at CEB Headquarters, Colombo I visited the headquarters of the Ceylon Electricity Board at Sir Chittampalam A. Gardiner Mawatha to meet an official there. This was my first visit to the institution and after the affairs at the reception I was asked to go to the 6th floor. I went searching for the elevator but I found a strange ...
The Whole Ten Yards Poster What do come into your mind when you hear about Bruce Wills? Guns, bombs, asteroids, what not? Have you ever heard of a comedy where Bruce Wills plays the lead role? Well, when he gets together with Matt Perry, it has to be a comedy. The Whole Ten Yards is a 2004 American Comedy film ...
This happened some 15 years ago. The government sent a bulldozer to clear and flatten the playground (Deepthi Grounds) in Mahawilachchiya. I was not at the ground when this happened. This is what had happened. While flattening the ground, some clay artifacts had been unearthed by the bulldozer unexpectedly. The children and the youth gathered there had taken them home ...
The Flower with Seven Colours – cvetik semicvetik I read හත් පෙති මල, (The Flower with Seven Colours – Cvetik-Semicvetik) the famous Russian children’s story as a kid. It was so mesmerizing that I longed for reading it again after I became a grown-up but could not find a copy. (When I was a kid we had ample access to ...
Rasavahini It is always exciting to see how advertisements evolved through the years. Compare these advertisements in 1960’s from the then popular magazine, Rasavahini. Look at this Austin Countryman car Austin Countryman Car Bata advertisement in color. Bata A Bush radio from Walker’s Sons Ltd. Bush Radio Cardinal Polish Cardinal Polish Cow & Gate milk products Cow & Gate Milk ...
With my Bajaj Pulsar 200 I had decided not to sell my Bajaj Pulsar 200 motorbike before I use it for 5 years. But suddenly I decided against it and sold it when it reached 3 years and 8 months. Emergence of www.ikman.lk also was a reason for selling the bike. I wanted to test the site. I uploaded a ...
Gandhi Poster Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film which dramatizes the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi was the leader of India’s non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the British Empire’s rule of the country during the 20th century. It stars Ben Kingsley in the title role. The film starts with Gandhi’s assassination and subsequent funeral. Then we are taken ...
Think and Grow Rich Think and Grow Rich is a world famous motivational and personal development self-help book written by Napoleon Hill. The book was published in 1937. By 2011, over 70 million copies of the book had been sold worldwide. Hill repeatedly brings in success stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his ...
I am Malala I was impatiently waiting for Malala Yousafzai‘s book to come to the market. I saw a copy at a small bookshop in Ja-Ela and had no money to purchase it at that moment. The same day I searched the Internet and I was surprised to see both the PDF version and audio book was available for free ...
The Sunday Times Web Interface At last the Sunday Times has got a decent web interface. The ST has been my favorite English newspaper since 1995. I used to collect ST since 1995 for 4-5 years. I loved it that much. But I don’t buy it anymore as reading it on the web is easier. But I was worried that ...
Colomboscope Logo This is for those who love arts. The Standard Chartered Colomboscope 2014 is held from 30th January to 2nd February 2014 with the theme Making History. As the Press Release they issued gives all the information necessary, I will just publish that here. You can also visit their website and the Facebook page for more information. The links ...
India Unbound is a 2000 non-fiction book by Gurcharan Das. It is an account of India’s economic development and policy changes between the period of 1942 to 1999. The book tells us the period between 1942 to 1965 in its first section, ‘Spring of Hope,’ the era of Prime Minister Nehru and the backwardness of the economy that affected the ...
Bhava Thana, An Autobiography, Volume 1 – Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne Title: Bhava Thanha, An Autobiography, Volume 1 First Edition, 2001 Pages: 496 When I visited Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne once, (somewhere in 2007?) he gave me his autobiography, Bhava Thanha Volume 1 (English) as a gift with his signature on it. For some reason I did not read ...
Nanda Wanninayaka:A blog post written by me in 2012. Re-blogging it as it is relevant to the recent disgusting incident happened at Premadasa Stadium in the 3rd ODI between Sri Lanka and our adorable visitors, Pakistan. Originally posted on Nanda Wanninayaka: Sri Lankan supporters supporting the SL team at Gabba, 2010 There are a lot of talks by various concerned ...
