March 29, 2007

what a match.

Yesterday Sri Lanka narrowly lost to South Africa thanks entirely to the stupidity of our captain. He does not like leg spin. So one of the best leg spinners in the world, Malinga Bandara had to sit out the match...
Posted by raditha at 1:12 AM

March 27, 2007

Gimme some light

It's now more than a month since we applied for a connection to the electricity grid. The form is in Sinhala but you have to fill it up in English! then you have to get it signed by an official...
Posted by raditha at 11:11 AM

March 26, 2007

Air port attack

Less than 24 hours have passed since the attack on the Katunayake Air Force Base by the LTTE air wing. Yet hardly anyone is talking about it. Everyone's mind is on the death of the Pakistan cricket coach thousands of...
Posted by raditha at 3:03 PM

Time for anti aircraft guns.

Thanks to mahinda chintanaya it has become well neight impossible to live in Colombo. Bombs go off with alarming regularity and the government's futile attempts at a cure is worse than the disease. Their remedy is to have a checkpoint...
Posted by raditha at 1:12 AM

March 23, 2007

Journalist released.

Three months ago the government arrested a Tamil journalist and accused her of terrorist links. The real reason for the arrest was to suppress the press and freedom of expression. She was held in detention for three months and now...
Posted by raditha at 3:42 AM

March 20, 2007

MP detained

It's several days since former minister Siripathy was remanded. The charge against him is not returning a state owned vehicle he used sometime back. Misuse of state property is a charge against which you cannot usually get bail. In the...
Posted by raditha at 1:16 PM

March 19, 2007

Bully Boys of Cricket.

Indians are the bully boys of cricket. Yesterday they were given a merciless bashing by the Bangladeshis. Indians usually give out such thrashing to the minnows but they themselves get thrashed mercilessly by the other teams. Or at least they...
Posted by raditha at 3:30 PM

March 18, 2007

Minnows, Crickets, Tigers and Lions.

A cricket is an insect but the same name is used for a sport that is played in the Commonwealth of Nations. A Minnow is a bird but the same term is used to describe the weaker teams in Cricket....
Posted by raditha at 4:34 PM

March 17, 2007

Brickwork and Moles.

Finally on monday, we started brick work on the house that I am building. It has taken us a good six weeks to get to this stage. Having a somewhat complex foundation was the primary cause. We decided to go...
Posted by raditha at 2:55 PM

March 12, 2007

Going back to Galle.

Yesterday by aunt from Galle came to visit. She suggested that we return to Galle the place that we left in 1984. Thanks to Dialog Broadband it might in fact be possible to return to Galle after so long. Of...
Posted by raditha at 1:30 AM

March 10, 2007

Good things come to those who wait for them.

Some months ago, when I took my daughter to the Vihara Maha Devi park with her bicycle a homeless child came upto us and asked if he could have a ride. My daughter refused. Children are like that. She couldn't...
Posted by raditha at 7:01 AM

March 6, 2007

So who is a tiger now?

Rajapaksa Bros Ltd. became owners of Sri Lanka because the people of Jaffa were prevented from voting at the last presidential elections by the LTTE. Before the elections Rajapaksa brothers appologists accused the UNP of having secret links with the...
Posted by raditha at 4:18 AM

March 2, 2007

LOTR, A Connecticut Yankee, and Ceylon.

It is said that Mark Twain wrote a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court because he was disgusted with the American political system and disenchanted with technology. Disenchantment caused by numerous failed investments leading him to bankruptcy. It was little...
Posted by raditha at 2:15 PM

March 1, 2007

Too much news.

The other day there was an attack by the LTTE on a group that included the US ambassador and the minister of WTF. Then yesterday there was an attack by the Sri Lanka Navy on an LTTE ship carrying a...
Posted by raditha at 3:12 PM

 

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