My Karapincha

With much intensified hopes and expectations, a 109 strong Sri Lankan delegation flew to Guangzhou to take part in the 16th Asian Games on the 11th of November. The same number returned to the island with shattered hopes and neither a single medal nor record breaking performances, in their respective events.  The Sri Lankan delegation which took part in the Asian Games with 44 other Asian countries is wedged into this ‘sorry’ situation, perhaps acting as an eye-opener for the Sport Authorities in the island nation.  'Hope', 'Shattered Hopes', The Biggest 'Dilemma in Sri Lanka Cricket' and many more... READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE

If you are a regular online enthusiast, you may come across various characters, stuff and many interesting topics to discuss and share upon.  Now I'm gonna share one of those 'believable' set of information, I received via email, just two hours ago.  It is recommended to share this amongst your loved ones and spread the message whenever possible.  A s received Importance: High Worth Passing On! Sad, especially if you are inclined to 'help' people... While driving on a rural end of the roadway on Thursday morning, I saw an infant car seat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it. For whatever reason, I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head. But when I got to my destination, I called the Police and they were going to check it out. But, this is what the Police advised even before they went out there to check.... "There are several things to be aware of ... gangs and thieves are now pl...

The year 2010 started off by giving the incumbent president HE Mahinda Rajapakse a landslide victory over his former Army commander Gen. (Rtd.) Sarath Fonseka. At the aftermath of this Presidential Election came the General Election for which almost half of the registered voters, were boozed out and had almost forgotten to cast their votes! Then came the price hikes on oil prices, bread, gas, essential items, etc, those branded as ‘colloquial affairs’ for a typical Sri Lankan. Experts panels were appointed, Death fasts were laid down (and laid off), protests and ‘work to rule’ programs had been flooding the Sri Lankans’ mindsets, not allowing them to have a proper sleep, sometimes. Amidst all these complicated issues. Our dear Murali said goodbye to the game through which he was made the golden factor of the Sri Lankan spin battalion, after adding just one more wicket which totaled upto 800 test wickets, a spot one should think harder of reaching. Complications Interestingly, this ...

Almost after two months, I was thinking of writing a post on the 'much anticipated' Bradby Train & the Second Leg of the Bradby. However, thanks to the load of presentations, mid terms and assignments I not only missed the golden opportunity to get into the Bradby Train which was railed after 20+ years, but missed the Bradby at Bogambara. Despite all these hardships, I managed to take my grandma to the temple on June 25 (Friday), marking the Poson day. The temple was a popular one among the pilgrims all around the island. On the way to the temple we had to buy the necessary stuff such as ‘handunkooru’ and ‘pahanthira’. (I seriously don’t know the English terms for these, I have heard some calling handunkooru’s as ‘some’ sticks).   There was this grocery which had a massive queue, mostly due to a 'Manioc dansala' being underway at its immediate next door. With the greatest difficulty, I crept through the crowd and managed to stand at the 5 th place in the queue....

A ride in a “Langama” bus is always a thrilling, unmatched fun. I have reasons to count on the above statement as the 55 year old uncle who is living by my house recalls his memories as a school boy where they were given an old, red TATA bus as their school bus. However, a problem arises as to what extent this elated moments are being experienced by the present generations. We need to understand the broader perspective of the word ‘fun’ & badly need to appreciate the fact that the higher majority in our similar age groups fail to enjoy in public transportation. Enough preaching: Needed to tell what I felt over the parental population in this country. Especially who are travelling with their kids in public carriages! The mother was in her 30s. Her small boy was around seven/eight years old. These judgements were made by looking at the way they behaved, their appearances, etc. Both were dark. The mother’s hair implied of a low income family. The brownish, damaged hair with some grey ...

I hardly go through my Reading list which appears at the bottom of my dashboard. As the number of blogs I follow falls less than the number of fingers in both hands, without much effort I could track certain stuff posted in those blogs. Interestingly, when I scrolled down on my dashboard today, this particular blog post which carried an interesting title appeared and it was strong enough to catch my eyes and redirect me to the blog site! It was ‘Boondi’, a collective effort of a group of young troublemakers, who eventually holds a different insight in their work. One of the contributors had come across this strange guy who had been standing in the Dehiwala junction on the day the parliament’s inaugural session took place (April 22). This lonely attempt of yet another single Sri Lankan, evidently proves the perception of the countrymen towards its politicians. Ask yourself: What have they done since 1948? So, is there a better way to address them? Read the original article here: h...

We Sri Lankans celebrated yet another New Year! For Sri Lankans, the traditional new year dawns, as 'the sun' makes the move from Meena rasi to mesha rasi, giving fresh thoughts, ideas full of prosperity, to the well being of the society. This year too, having the above ‘prosperity’ part in the back of our minds, we Sri Lankans, all the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and other national and religious communities were preparing themselves to celebrate ‘the new era’. Those who want to make political advantage, even from a single fart will obviously make this an opportunity to stressfully state, it is because of them, the Sri Lankans this time would celebrate the New Year in a country with no war and no terrorists. The week before the ‘avurudhu’ week, I myself visited several fashion chains to get myself equipped with 'new clothes'. There were thousands of people, who were seeking new clothes, and I found it difficult to pick the designs and colors which I was ex...

Developing a sensitive analysis for multiple production companies is initially difficult. But, if the person involved in the development process is concious and carries certain concentrative qualities, the process would be less burden. Still, its hard. (After all there is nothing we could get without tiring our asses and butts). There were eight of us, inside the lab (as usual), concentrating on their individual parts with their left hands or right hands stuck on to their heads and thinking, just thinking. Our objective was to finish his off and get home asap. Then entered the most wanted 'Che Boy', with his latest Nokia 5800 Music Express phone on his hand. The bugger is one real lucky fellow as he jumped off to this after using a BlackBerry! Mind you, t he Nokia 5800 Music Express is Nokia’s first touch screen phone and its just awesome with its glazing outfit. A few seconds later entered 'Lahiru', one of the office boys, to check his FaceBook. As he sat down, he ke...

War does not achieve any good, even with whatever good reasons to start one. (examples: religion, ideas) In other words, there are no good reasons to wage a war. But there are certain parties who remain with broken hearts, as others finish off, these types of "beggars' wounds". They feel like getting the utmost revenge out of them who had given a cure to the "wound". I like GreenDay, not only because they got tattoos all over their skins, they got sexy and 'tiny thighed' models in their videos, they use mastered video effects to add value to their videos. But they talk the truth. They sing the truth. They try their level best to make others understand it, using a powerful medium, and that's MUSIC! Enjoy.... Sing while your watching. Sing for yourself, don't worry about your listeners, coz they won't give a shit as they don't get the meaning.... Do you know what's worth fighting for? When it's not worth dying for? Does it take your...

Yesterday, I got a chance to browse the web since the 6th of February. It was pretty irritating to stay away from the cyber network, BUT the exams and several subjects kept me out of the network. So, yesterday, I started browsing several news websites (as usual), to learn about the issues that had broken out within the past couple of days. I had four of my friends around me, using their computers in the computer lab. Suddenly, the guy who was sitting on my right hand side grabbed my right shoulder and dragged me into his monitor. It was this picture on the right (Pic. 1) that appears along with this post. In the next second, the other two surrounded us and comments were flowing despite their political view point. There was this one girl, who gave her insights about this picture. He said, "I think those are red colour dye on that man's neck"! Well I just turned to her, thinking she would tell something more, adding to her first comment. At that point I understood how the ...

The posters do spread a message! Well, that's the whole idea behind pasting those papers and covering every possible inch of others' walls. Before the 26th of last month, the goats, the cows and others who loved to taste the ink of the print were having a great time. They were not worried of 'eating a candidate' appearing on any wall. No police guy was interested in removing the animal from doing that 'deshadrohi' activity. Now that the things have come to light. In fact, the things are getting darker and darker. Not only because of today's attack that took place in front of the Aluthkade Magistrate court, injuring around six people. Following are three major incidents that took place since 26th of January 2010 up to date. HE the president left to Russia soon after attending the opening ceremony of the 'Deyata Kirula' exhibition in Pallekale, Kandy. He was awarded by a Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Peoples’ Friendship University (PFU), formally know...