July 28, 2007
A nation of tree haters.
I have often said that Sri Lankan's love dirty politicians and hate trees. Take for example the beautifull jak fruit tree that was on the land adjoinining mine in Battaramulla. It's gone now. They had chopped it down while I...
Posted by raditha at 6:01 AM
July 25, 2007
Sigiriya
The last weekend was spent at Sigiriya. This being my first visit to Sigiriya in six years. Took my new Sigma lens with me but didn't get much opportunity to use it for shooting birds primarily because we spent the...
Posted by raditha at 6:11 AM
July 16, 2007
Baron's Cap.
Baron's Cap, Thoppigala as it's known in Sinhala is a piece of jungle in the eastern province whcich fell under the shadow of th terrorist control when the former president CBK in one of her many acts of idiocy moved...
Posted by raditha at 1:38 AM
July 14, 2007
Night without end
Most people are always complainging about the poor fair on Television but they will rant and rave if you try to tear them away from it. I am some what like that when it comes to bad books; at least...
Posted by raditha at 4:26 PM
July 11, 2007
An Ice Cream war.
Finished reading 'An Ice Cream War' by William Boyd. It's like a breath of fresh air after the trashy novels by the likes of Gerald Seymour that I read just a few weeks ago. This and the hobbit are two...
Posted by raditha at 7:04 AM
July 9, 2007
A school at last
Finally managed to find a school my elder daughter. Getting your child into a good school in Colombo is something you have to work really hard at and even then it doesn't always work out. So we were really pleased...
Posted by raditha at 7:54 AM
July 5, 2007
University of Colombo.
Yesterday, I Stepped inside the University of Colombo for the first time in 7 years. How the place has changed. Every square inch of ground seems to be covered by new buildings. The Computer Science department that used to occupy...
Posted by raditha at 3:49 PM
July 2, 2007
A glimmer of hope.
A drowning man will clutch at straws and for all optimistic Sri Lankans there is now a glimmer of hope created by the actions of a couple of notorious politicians. A couple of years ago, it would have been hard...
Posted by raditha at 6:54 AM
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