Archive for the 'Sri Lanka' Category

Oi! WTF?

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Oi Flickr!, In English, Japanese or Sinhalese? This brought a smile to my face. I like Flickr greeting me in different languages when I sign in. But shouldn’t we be more careful in deploying things like this in internationally used applications? “Oi” seem to have a similar meaning to English in a lot of other [...]

Friday Night Movies

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Yep. On YouTube. Pathetic. :) Was watching Jayantha Chandrasiri’s Guerilla Marketing last night, which screamed about the relativeness of reality, all the way through. Best Sri Lankan movie I have seen lately, after Prasanna Vitanage’s Ira Madiyama.
Was actually quite better than his first movie Agnidahaya. Interesting plot. Though I thought there were few weak points [...]

Back from home…

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Didn’t mean to forget you Budzy, but suddenly life became bit busier than it used to be. Yes, I went back Home (Sri Lanka) for a little vacation, where nothing had changed much for last one and half years, except that people seem to smile little less in Colombo. It was fun, though had [...]

Happy New Year!

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Election night…

Friday, November 18th, 2005

… that’s one thing I really miss about Sri Lanka. Politics, Elections and election nights!
I don’t know if there’s any other nation where people are this much sensitive to politics. In the election season, where ever you go that’s the thing to be talking about… Everybody has got something to rant about and get involved [...]