January 31, 2007
Jumbo Cabinet.
In Sri Lanka bribery is illegal but most politicians usually get away with it because the comission to investigate bribery and corruption is inactive. Worst still there is a clause in the act that says it's an offence to make...
Posted by raditha at 9:23 AM
January 29, 2007
Water Supply.
Water. You cannot do anything without it but getting conneced to the mains water supply in Sri Lanka is harder than finding an oasis in the desert. As with any government department they ask for all sorts of useless documents....
Posted by raditha at 1:38 PM
January 28, 2007
The Religous Right
The religous right is at work again they are trying to pass new laws to make it illegal to 'misuse images of the buddha'. Imaging the can of worms that will open up. Really if that law is to be...
Posted by raditha at 2:09 PM
January 26, 2007
House Building
I have started off on that long and dangerous journey of putting up a new house. I started packing the bags nearly six months ago when I contracted an architect for the design. He laboured for many months over it...
Posted by raditha at 3:37 AM
January 24, 2007
The Violent Enemy.
The Violent Enemy by Jack Higgins is another good afternoon read. Like Alistair Maclean, he started of really well. I particularly liked To Catch a King (under his real name Harry Patterson) was good, but the more famous he became...
Posted by raditha at 8:05 AM
January 21, 2007
Breakheart pass
After writing HMS ulysses, Alistair Maclean should have quit. He never wrote anything to beat his first novel. Some of his later work like the Guns of Navarone are very readable but not in the same class as the HMS...
Posted by raditha at 4:10 PM
January 18, 2007
End of summer
Evidence at the Bentota Rest House, of Mahinda Chintanaya's devastating effect on tourism...
Posted by raditha at 4:02 PM
January 17, 2007
Mahinda Chintanaya's devastating effect on tourism
Mahinda Chintanaya has had a devastating effect on tourism. Come to think of it Mahinda Chintantaya has had a devastating effect on most things Sri Lankan but it's effect on tourism has been terrible. Sri Lankans have been fleeing the...
Posted by raditha at 1:12 PM
January 12, 2007
Peeping tom.
Peeping through the windows at the Great Western bungalow....
Posted by raditha at 7:24 AM
January 8, 2007
Fortune Teller's Crystal Ball?
Fortune Teller's Crystal ball? no! Campbell-stokes sunlight meter....
Posted by raditha at 1:25 PM
January 4, 2007
English Service Only.
The 'english service only' Christchurch by the Castlereagh lake. (sorry about the highlights)...
Posted by raditha at 1:33 AM
January 2, 2007
January 1, 2007
A new day.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long - Led Zeppelin...
Posted by raditha at 1:17 AM
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