Jack Frost Cometh

The little white flakes are starting to fall now, covering everything with a fluffy white blanket. Yep, and I’m officially starting to freeze.

It’s a mystery why people want to live here, without moving to the tropics :). Ah good ole SL, how I miss thee…

Themes for Gmail

Google has done it again, by introducing some funky themes for gmail. There’s a themes tab under the setting. Have fun customizing :)

Santa Clause Diaries

Dateline: Bermuda

I can’t believe its bloody November again. How time flies eh? Another few weeks and its back to work for poor old me. Back to Ho Ho Hoing.

Oh well, no complaints, it’s been a bloody good 11 months, I’ll give you that. Ah…I love Bermuda. Although I admit, things were a bit rocky in the beginning, what with me yacht going up in flames. Man I should have never invited those Olsen twins for the party. They were always on the nice list when they were kids, but now they’ve gone just plain whacky. Them and their crazy drinking games. Anyway who brings a bloody flame thrower to a party? Ah shit, I can’t blame those gals, it was one heck of a party though. As always my man Snoop D came through for me. I mean that weed he brought was so fucking good man. I was high for days afterwards. No wonder I never knew the boat was on fire. When they were yelling “The boat was on fire” I thought it was a fucking new dance step, ho ho ho, bloody hilarious. Well, not the burnt out boat part, but still, it was funny.

Ah loved that boat I tell ya. “The White Witch” served me well in all my voyages, and it sure beats that bloody sleigh. It was my little nickname for Jadis. Ayi she was a feisty one, and I admit it, I loved her very much. Broke my heart when she got blown to smithereens by those so called freedom fighters. Bah… I mean, she only wanted to be the absolute ruler of the Narnia. I see nothing wrong with a bit of dictatorship. Well no more toys for fairy kiddies, I can guarantee that hmph…

Well the silver lining on the whole affair was that it gave me a very good excuse to get me hands on a new boat. Ayi, and what a beauty she is. Nothing fancy, just a nice little 250-footer, Ho Ho Ho. That’s more than enough space to have a rocking good time. Took the advice of Snoop and decided to name her “Bootylicious”, after all, this baby has seen more booty in her lifetime than GW has seen WMD’s in Iraq, Ho Ho Ho Ho… No less than 20 Playboy bunnies helped to christen this baby, and what a party that was. Those gals are definitely getting very nice goodies in their stocking this year around. Aaah… good times, bloody good times. Oooh…that reminds me, must send Hughie something special too along with a nice thank you note for sending them bunnies over. Now where the heck did I put me iPhone, hope it’s not gone overboard like the last ten.

Well.. you may wonder who's doing all the toy making while I'm off gallivanting around the world. The Elves? Hah...those lazy bums haven't done any toy making since they unionized. The keyword here is Outsourcing. I'll let you in a little secret. Know all those big toy companies? Well I have shares in them. I get humans to make the toys and give them back to their own kids. he he what a sweet deal. The elves are limited to wrapping the toys and checking the naughty and nice list. Well that's not much of a job since we computerized the system. Oh yeah, we are moving forwards with the times up there in the North Pole. I knew I was doing the right thing when I gave that Gates kid a Electronics kit all those long years back.

Hey, what's that noise? Oh dammit. Rudolph's gotten himself stuck in the mast again. How many times have I told that boy to NOT fly when he's drunk. Oh yeah, he's got a bit of a drinking problem, and you probably thought his nose is red due to some magical cause. Hah I wish. Well I'll have to start him getting sobered up before the big day, otherwise we'll get stuck in Timbuktu like in 2004. Geesh that boy never learns. Oh well, I suppose I better get him down now.




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My apologies to the purists, but couldnt resist myself. :D I mean haven't you ever wondered what the Fat Man does rest of the 364 days?

O' the joys of work!

Oh man it’s been a busy busy week, and I’m really looking forward for some boring days :)

I got straddled with a task to develop a mini site for the client in 7 days. The design was not that bad, but there some complicated look and feel functionality that needed to be scripted. Me and my friend put in some 10 hour days and managed to deliver, so kinda proud of that. The rest of the team was very appreciative of the effort we put in so that makes it ok. The site is here. It doesn’t use flash, and the fading effects are done through the Adobe Spry framework. Ok enough technicalities :D .

I hate working on tight deadlines, especially when it could have been easily avoided. The design for the site was done by a third party design agency and they usually take their sweet time delivering the design. Then again you can’t fully blame them either because there are numerous discussions with the client that happens, since clients are well known for their difficulty in making up their minds he he. So things get dragged on and on and time decreases on what is available for development. They finalize everything a week before the site is meant for launch and expect us to work miracles. That really gets my goat :)

Designers also come up with fancy designs without really knowing development limitation. Most things can be developed, but sometimes you just need more time and sometimes much research is needed too. Then they hand over the design at the last moment and expect us to deliver the good on deadline. That is one reason why the same developers aren’t recommended to do designing, because the developer will design keeping in mind that he/she will have to develop it and will make it an easy one. I can’t speak for others but I’ve certainly done it when I have to do both the designing and development. Take the easy road, so to speak he he. So when third party designers are used, the quality of the design is higher.

In the end, it’s the project managers’ job to get everything properly organized, but sometime, things just do not go the way they are supposed to.

The other irritating part is to make site compatible with the different browsers available, especially with older versions. Sometimes sites that look great with one version might not be the same with older versions. Hopefully users will learn to stick to one browser or version, making our job easier :D

Sadly a wonderful weekend is over and it's back to dreary old work from tomorrow onwards, and the cycle continues.

Adios and hope y'all have a great work week :D

Fashion Sense

They call it hip hop fashion-low hanging pants, but does anybody else think that guys wearing their pants lower than their butts is a bit silly. I don’t get it. You get a pair of pants too large for you and then wear them hanging off your butt, and keep grabbing your crotch to make sure the pants don’t fall off. Why?

Then again why bother with the pants? Skip them all together and go around in your undies. Much more easier.

According to US critics of the fashion says it was popularized by ex-convicts, whose prison clothes came without belts, meaning their pants often sagged below the waistline.

I've seen some them going around over and I’ve seen lighter versions of this walking around on Sri Lankan roads as well. It’s very rare in SL, but it’s there. Hopefully it won’t catch on with our buggers.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it hilarious, but man... some people a plain craaazy. Oh well, each onto their own insanity :)

Note: the pics are not mine, took them off google :)

Man it’s getting colder…brrrr…

The cold is not a big thing, but coupled with the wind, it’s not that great. The temperature was down I think up to 5C during the past week. This wouldn’t bother me much but the only hassle is getting up in the morning is next to impossible to do. He he. All you want to do is curl up inside the blanket and sleep till the sun shines on your back. At least at home mother dearest would make it a priority to kick my lazy ass out of bed and out of the house. :D My roomy’s in the same boat as me. I’m the one who has to wake him up most times. In the end, we usually walk into office around 10:00. Luckily nobody’s keeping time he he :D hmm it’s an easy guess what it’s like during the weekends eh.

Still haven’t had time to do any sight seeing in Toronto, but we’ve managed to go around Mississauga for the time being. Must really do some sight seeing before winter comes a knocking.

Halloween night is nigh and the ghosties, ghoulies, witches and goblins all come out to play. I hope I won’t get gobbled up by one of the undead. Although becoming a vampire is not such a bad deal is it. People seem to be getting ready for it with fervor. A lot of horror movies on TV to keep me entertained :D

Heard the sad news of the death of maestro Khemadasa, a truly gifted musician who has brought fame to our little island. A great loss to the country. Doesn’t it always seem that people who are worth something to the world keeps dying off and the worthless shits just keeps hanging on and on? Karma or whatever you call it, I don’t know.

Leaf covered path

Lonely Tree

A nice place to relax

Getting ready for winter

A green carpet

Oh Canada...

Distant cousins of Daffy's

Stylish bugger with a punk hairdo

Mini muscle cars

Mini muscle cars

Hmm I just noticed, I do take a lot of pictures of tress…and don’t like taking pics of people…Oh well :D

And yes… I bought toys…no correction, scaled models :D

Life… so it goes on…

Well it’s been two weeks in Canada, and so far so good. We got a nice fully furnished 8th storey apartment with a cool view, with plenty of space. So living it up at the moment. However the apartment is not that close to the office so we have a commute, which is not bad coz there’s a good bus service in town.

Buses go in a strict time table, which is great, unless you miss the bus. They don’t have hundreds of buses racing with each other like in good old SL, where you can catch any old bus any old time. You miss the bus here and you have to wait till the time the next bus comes. Buses are really not for emergencies. It’s really nice to see ordered roads, straight as the eye can see, something we dream of in good old SL.

There are two of us in the apartment and living with someone needs a bit of getting used to, especially for a loner like me. A bit of new territory for me, but luckily I seem have a knack for adapting for anything. May friend is also quite ok and so far no problems.

Had a long weekend, which is quite a rare thing. When there’s a holiday, people take and max out of it. Friday night the two of us had a bit of a booze session and slept till very late both on Saturday and Sunday. Monday went to the T20 finals. This happened coz a friend who lives here called up and invited us out, otherwise me go for a match? Never would have happened he he :D . The whole place was full. Man, there are a lot Sri Lankans and Pakistanis over here. The parking areas were full up, so the cops must have made a nice haul by giving tickets to all the vehicles parked on the roads.


Anywhooo...some more pics.

Cheers!

View from the apartment

Apartment Building

Buildings in Town

Another view from the apartment

Square One Mall

Cruzing on the Highwaaayyy...

Colors of Autumn

Golden leaves

Colours of Autumn

Gates to nowhere

Journeyman

Things do change a lot in short time period. I’m out of good old Sri Lanka at the moment. Office has packed me and another collegue off to Canada for training / working program for a project that we are working on. Will be gone for about 4-6 months. Yipee, lucky old me. Since our parent company is Canadian, our people are regularly sent to Canada for work.

Left SL at 00:15 hours on the 29th to Dubai, where there was a four hour transit. From there, straight on to Toronto. I tell you, being stuck on a plane for 14 hours straight is NOT a fun thing to do. Luckily it was a daylight flight, so at least could enjoy the view.

Nearly 24 hours after leaving SL, and thanks to the rotating earth, landed in Toronto at about 4:30pm on the 29th. We get a nice apartment courtesy of the office, so getting settled in at the moment. The weather at the moment is like Nuwaraeliya in December, overcast most of the time. Winter is coming soon so must brace myself for that. Hopefully I won’t turn into a frozen human popsicle.

I’ve put some pics for now, more will follow later.

Adios

Dubai Airport

Snow Capped mountains of Greenland

Miscellaneous Pics :)

Long time since a post :D. Been a very very busy coupla weeks and my brain feels like a fried Tomato :P. Really can’t think of anything to write, so thought I’d put some pics for now.

This is my best side

You cant see meee....

Contemplating Life

Ok dude...U'r seriously getting on my nerves

I'm going to start charging for these now...


Iron Man on the Prowl...


Nothing is too big or heavy for me


My kingdom for a ton of Iron


erm...pink flowers...

True Spirit of the Olympics

Whatever the critics say about China, I say that they did a bang up job of the Olympics and showed their colors to the world. They managed to beat the US of A with the highest number of gold medals, 51 ranking 2nd in the total medal count with 100. Sadly we didn’t get a medal, but hey, there’s always the next one. I’m sure that there’s bound to be a Sri Lankan champion in the future generations he he

I’m not what you call the sporty type, but I am a fan of the Olympics, coz it shows what the world can be if humans can just do away with petty things like hate, greed, etc.

This month’s Readers Digest carried a nice article about the true spirit of sportsmanship, so thought I’d put some excerpts of it here.

Lucien Duquesne – Amsterdam 1928
A Finnish long distance runner by the name of Paavo Nurmi carried a stopwatch to pace himself and during a qualifying race of the 3000m steeplechase, he fell down and lost his watch. Frenchman Lucien Duquesne stopped and helped Nurmi on his feet and even helped to locate his stopwatch. Nurmi ran the rest of the race along Lucien and even offered the finish line, but Lucien has declined.

Ralph Hill – Los Angeles 1932
In the finals of the 5000m, Ralph Hill of the USA came from the last place to challenge the reigning champion Lauri Lehtinen of Finland and twice tried to pass the Fin, but was blocked. Lehtinan won by centimeters. Even though Hill could have made a formal protest for being blocked, he chose not to, saying that he did not believe that the Fin would purposely cheat to win.

Shunzo Kido – Los Angeles 1932
This Japanese equestrian team member was leading the steeplechase event, when he noticed that his horse was fatigued, and rather than risk injuring the animal, he dropped out of the race.

Anton Josipovic – Los Angeles 1984
Josipovic of Yugoslavia won the boxing gold by a technicality because Evander Holyfield was disqualified after winning semi finals. During the medal ceremony Josipovic invited Holyfield onto the top of the platform to share the glory.

Larry Lemieux – Seoul 1988
During the one man sailing completion, Lemieux of Canada was in second place when he spotted Joseph Chan of Singapore who was competing in another race get into trouble after capsizing his boat. Lemieux came to Chan’s rescue, sacrificing his own medal chance, for which he was awarded the Pierre de Cobertin Medal for sportsmanship.

Bjornar Haakensnoen – Turin 2006 (Winter Olympics)
In the cross country team ski race, Canadian Sara Renner’s left ski pole broke in half, but she pushed forward. Suddenly a man came forward from the sidelines and handed Renner a new ski pole, ultimately giving Canada the Silver. Renner’s helping hand was given by Bjornar Haakensnoen, the coach of the Norwegian team, which came in fourth.

Are these just in the past or would we such actions these days, with all the doping scandals and all. Already the US is trying hard to prove that the Gold medal wining gymnasts from China are under aged and to disqualify them.

I think Haakensnoen comment says it all about what the true spirit of Olympics is all about.

“The Olympic spirit is the way we try to follow. If you win, but don’t help somebody when you should have, what win is that”

Canadians hail Norwegian coach's sportsmanship

Laughing you head off

Man, some funny stuff, and some very talented entertainers. I’ve only posted a sample; you can search for more on YouTube.

Nina and Monk





Achmed the Dead Terrorist




Ron Lucas and Scorch




Terry Fator

Of Bird’s Nests and Water Bubbles

After waiting for four long years, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are just a four days away. I’m not what you’d call the sporty type, but I do look forward to the Olympics. It’s nice to see people from all over the world in one place and not trying to kill each other :D.

To ensure that things go off smoothly, China has been making preparation since over 4 years. The mainstay of these preparations is the two new Olympic stadiums. They have some very cool architecture for these.

The main stadium is known as the Birds Nest, coz it actually looks like a bird’s nest, with twigs running crisscross all over it. It will hold all the main track and field events. Actually construction started back in December 2003 to a cost of USD 500 million. Total capacity is 91,000.



The Bird's Nest

The other one is the national aquatic centre, also known as the water cube coz it looks like a big ice cube stuck in middle of a city.



The Water Cube

These two are probably the weirdest looking stadiums built for the Olympics ever. The Chinese really want to show the rest of the world who’s the boss.

However there’s also a lot of controversy about the games being hosted in China too. Things like Human rights violations, pollutions etc.

One report says that officials are pushing their athletes over the limit to get more medals than ever so that China is at the lead of the medal tally. Saw a report on CNN this morning where kids as young as 6 are put through tough training regimes, I doubt even US Marines go through, and for what, a Gold in 2018? The look on that kid’s face was not a very happy one. The parents encourage this, even though they admit that the kid doesn’t want to do it, coz they believe that this is the way to prosperity for the kid.

Sadly Olympics have also become another “who’s got the biggest dick” competition for the powers that are. Hopefully the competitors will be the winners in the end.

Anywhoo, all the best for the Sri Lankan contingent, make Sri Lanka proud and bring back few Gold medals :D. Even if you don’t win, show good sportsmanship, coz that’ll go a long way.

ඔලිම්පික් තරගය සදහ යන අපෙ කට්ටියට ජයෙන් ජයම වේවා

Links
Bird's Nest
Water Cube
Beijing 2008 Official Site

Breaking the Language Barrier

Pic from uncyclopedia.org. It's worthwhile to go through the site, many more funny stuff available.

Cheers

Your very own Iron Man suite

Wouldn’t it be cool if we can borrow the Iron Man suite for awhile and wreak havoc around the place? Well the a Japanese scientist by the name of Yoshiyuki Sanaki from the Tsukuba University engineering facility has come up with, what I’d like to think of as Iron Man suit stage I :D.

Actually this is old news, and I first saw this last year, but forgot about. Came across it suddenly some days back so I thought I’d put it here.

Named HAL 5, it’s basically an exoskeleton suite that will enhance the body’s capabilities. It can allow a person to lift up to 10 times the normal weight capable by that person. The real use for the suite is to provide mobility to paralyzed people. Other uses include in nursing, factory work and disaster relief.

It’s just in a frame like suite for now, but add on some bullet proof armor and some jet packs and woohoo, instant Iron Man suite. Tony Stark you better watch out. He he.
Isn’t it great that what someone dreamed of nearly 40 years ago are slowly become a reality? After all Iron Man first made his appearance way back in 1963, and what imagination the creators must have had to come up with the concept.

Must start saving now itself, might be able to get one when I’m 50 at least :D

Hal - 5

Well I’m still alive and kicking he he.

Been a couple of busy few weeks at office so haven’t had time to check out interesting and weird things happening around the world. Although I’ve been keeping up with my fav bloggers :) Work wise things are getting back to normal, but me’s got some exams coming up :(. Luckily finished off the assignments so have to hit the books now. Ayi caramba… there’s soooo much to go through.

Read some really moving posts about Black July experiences by Cerno and David Blacker. I was lucky enough to be too young to remember any of it. Can’t really imagine what the victims must’ve felt and gone through. A lot of meaningless violence and destruction. It’s sad really that we humans only needs a very little bit of encouragement to revert back to the levels of the wild animals.

I leave you with one of my all time favorite songs



Peace y’all

What Your Desktop Says About You

Cerno has asked bloggers to put up a post with a screen shot of the desktop.



Well this is mine at the moment. Surprise Surprise, it's a Harley :P

Desktops never stay the same. Changes with the mood of the user. However they do give a glimpse into the interests of the users.

I've had desktops ranging from Garfield, to motorcycles, cars, fighters, and metal bands. On the other hand I'd never put one up of a bunch of flowers, or babies or things of that nature. Cats, yes, but not kids :P

I've had this one for couple of months now, so guess it's high time to make some changes :)

Namal Perera: Media Security in Sri Lanka - Appeal to the Sri Lankan Blogsphere

This is a re-post of Dinidu's post as requested by him. The original post is here. Please feel free to re-post this and link it back to the original by Dinidu. :)

Cheers to all...

As you might be aware, senior journalist and media person Namal Perera was assaulted yesterday evening on his way home from work at the Sri Lanka Press Institute. This comes as a severe blow to the media industry in Sri Lanka, and the freedom of expression of the Sri Lankan people. Namal is currently undergoing treatment under police protection at a private hospital. Daily Mirror carried the story as today’s lead.

A demonstration is organized tomorrow (2nd July) at 12:30pm, at the Colpetty Junction as protest for the continued war against the media in this country, and calling for increased safety and security for the country’s journalists, and for action to be taken against the perpetrators of these crimes. Too many of these things are going unsolved.

Please try to make it for the protest.

As a personal favour, I’m appealing to the blogsphere of Sri Lanka to please repost the above in your blogs, and mail it to your mailing lists. And please link back to this original post so we can keep track of how many people viewed the post. Thank you.

Why do bus conductors charge fares from clergy and not from cops?

Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Guess that’s the way we are programmed. Suck up to authority and be safe. After all, the policeman can make trouble for you, while what can clergy do? Damn you to hell? Most people are already there so it won’t matter to them.

It’s very rarely I’ve seen a bus conductor not charge clergy. Saw it yesterday, hence the post. On the other hand, never have I seen a cop being asked for money. Bus conductors who normally shout at passenger “Salli ganna, salli ganna”, gets partial blindness when cops get in. Ok most of them are probably cursing the coppers at the end of the day, but if they can let them ride free, why not clergy? I guess it depends on the moral standards of the bus conductor. Unfortunately it is non-existent in most of them.

5 Non Blondes

This is a cool mix up of Eminem and the 4 Non Blondes :D

Enjoy

The Chersterfield Hotel and LankaZone.com

** Launch of new site **

I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that a friend of mine launched a hotel in Nuwara Eliya, called the Chesterfield Hotel, and finally the web site is online. In addition to information about the hotel it offers information about Sri Lanka and about some other hotels in the country, and basically to promote Sri Lanka tourism to the world.

www.lankazone.com

So the next time you are planning a trip to Nuwara Eliya, make sure to check this place out.

Cheers!!!

Can People be this Stupid?

A conversation that happened in a Liquor store in Hawaii

Cashier: “Aloha, how are you today?”
Tourist: “Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t speak Spanish. Could you talk in English please?”
Cashier: “Hello, how are you today?”
Tourist: “Fine, we just flew here from America today.”
(The cashier rings up the tourist’s few items.)
Cashier: “That will be twenty five dollars and eighty five cents.”
Tourist: “Do you take American money here? I only have American money. I have not been able to get to the currency exchange yet.”
Cashier: “Ma’am, we are in the United States. We take dollars here.”
Tourist: “Oh really? You take this money?” *holds up her $20 bill*
Cashier: “Yes, ma’am, those are dollars, and being a US state we do accept those.”
Tourist: “Well that’s very nice of you to accept foreign money.”
Cashier: *puzzled* “Mahalo, have a great day!”
Tourist: *under her breath* “I told her I didn’t speak Spanish!”

Conversation between a Pizza parlor and a customer

Customer: “Hi, I ordered a pizza from you guys a while ago, and they delivered the wrong one.”
Operator: “Oh, I’m sorry! What was your order?”
Customer: “Mushrooms and green onions… the one we got had sausage. We can’t eat sausage! We’re vegetarians!”
Operator: “Okay, do you still have the pizza? We can come by and switch them for you.”
Customer: “No, we ate it.”
Operator: “You ate it?”
Customer: “Yes! Now, I’d like to get my money back. It was the wrong pizza.”
Operator: “So… you want me to give you your money back… for a pizza you already ate.”
Customer: “Well we didn’t LOOK at it, we just ate it.”

Tech Support

(Back story: the customer was getting a blue screen of death on their computer.)
Operator: “Hello, thank you for calling tech support. How can I help you today?”
Customer: “I was wondering if you could tell me who general failure is and why he is trying to read the C drive on my computer?”
Operator: “Ummm…excuse me?”
Customer: “I said that some guy named General Failure is reading my C drive.”
Operator: “…How did you come to this conclusion?”
Customer: “When I booted up my computer I get a big blue screen that says “General failure reading drive C,” and I demand to know who this person is!”
Operator: *stifling laughter* “Okay, if you don’t mind I am going to place you on hold for about 10 minutes while I do an investigation as to who this person is…”
(I placed customer on hold and told my co-workers. We laughed our asses off for 10 minutes.)
Operator: “Thank you for holding. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is I was able to find some information for you. The bad news is that I wasn’t able to confirm who this ‘General Failure’ is; I am sure he doesn’t work for us. The other thing is that your hard drive is fried, and I would advise you to try to pull any data you can off the drive and invest in a new one. Is there anything else I can do for you today?”
Customer: “Um…no thank you.”

In a Supermarket

Customer: “What the f**k, you shortchanged me!”
Cashier: “Ma’am, I gave you the exact amount of change that is on the receipt.”
Customer: “BULLS**T! YOU SHORTCHANGED ME YOU STUPID LITTLE F**K! I DEMAND THAT YOU GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK RIGHT NOW!”
Cashier: “I’m sorry, ma’am. I will go get a manager for you right away.”
Customer: “F**K YOU, YOU LITTLE PIECE OH S**T! I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS. YOU WILL PAY!”
(At this point the customer began to storm down the aisles. She lit a cigarette and began setting merchandise on fire. Afterwards she ran from the store because she realized that she had in fact had gotten the right amount of change!)

This were real conversation that had happened between customers and shopkeepers. There’s a whole site dedicated to these called http://notalwaysright.com/, and I seriously suggest everyone to go through them. :) It’s a great pick me upper when those blues kick in.

http://notalwaysright.com/

Cheers

Equation for Men and Women

Got this in email today. It’s true aint it? :)

----> Equation 1

Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy
Donkey = eat + sleep

Therefore,
Human = Donkey + work + enjoy

Therefore,
Human - enjoy = Donkey + work

In other words,
Human that don't know enjoy = Donkey that work

----> Equation 2

Men = eat + sleep + earn money
Donkeys = eat + sleep

Therefore,
Men = Donkeys + earn money

Therefore,
Men - earn money = Donkeys

In other words,
Men that don't earn money = Donkeys

----> Equation 3

Women = eat + sleep + spend
Donkeys = eat + sleep

Therefore,
Women = Donkeys + spend

Therefore,
Women - spend = Donkeys

In other words,
Women that don't spend = Donkeys

----> To Conclude:

From Equation 2 and Equation 3
Men that don't earn money = Women that don't spend.

So, Men earn money not to let women become Donkeys! (Postulate 1)

And, Women spend not to let men become Donkeys! (Postulate 2)

So, we have?
Men + Women = Donkeys + earn money + Donkeys + spend money

Therefore from Postulates 1 and 2, we can conclude

Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!



Donkey Image: Rick Roach

It’s One of Those Days

Yep, one that right royally screws you up early in the morning.

I take the train in the morning coz I’m a fan of riding the rails, and I usually take the express coming from Matara, since it only stops at two of the stations out of the eight between where I get on and off. It’s about 15 minutes faster than a slow train. As I came to the stations it was announced that it will be 15 minutes late, which is not unusual. So there’s a slow train that goes right after the express and it came and left, then out of the blue another slow train comes up, with no sight of the express in sight. So a lot of the usual express crowd get on that one, including me. When it stopped at one of the stations, where the express also stops, some of the people got down saying that the express was right behind. If this is the case then the slow train is held up until the express passes, so thought why wait and got down. Five minutes go by, ten minutes go by, but still no express in sight. After about 15 minutes it slowly makes it way to the station, by which time the previous train, the one I got down from, so that I can go faster, might have already reached its destination. So what else to do but get on the late express, and what happens, the bleeding engine gives up and the train doesn’t budge. Yes how wonderful.

The thing is that if I had stayed on in the earlier train, then it would have been definitely stopped to let the express pass on, but since I got down, oh no everything has to go wonky. Mind you this station is about 2.5 km’s from the Galle Road, so you have to take another bus to get to the Galle raod. Waited for another half hour in hopes that the engine will start and we’d be merrily on our way, but no such luck. Because of this fiasco all trains coming behind are also stuck.

I wait for about half an hour and decided to take the bus, and guess what happens after the bust starts to go. Yep you are right, the broken train starts to move. I tell you my timing is way off today. Apparently they’ve brought in another engine to push the broken down one from behind. Well what else to do but go ahead in the bus, with all the traffic and all.

These railway people need to be taught a lesson in information dissemination. Would it kill them to let the passengers know if the problem is solvable or not, and give some kind of time estimate? Whether they are even trying to solve the problem or not?

Anyways wasted 3 hour on the road on what is normally a 1 hour commute. I usually come to office early so it didn’t really matter, still managed to come as same time as others. Luckily the office doesn’t have strict working hours and we can waltz in any time we please. :), but what about the other people who have to get in before the “Rathu Ira”?

Normally something like this would have really pissed me off, but funnily enough I was highly amused by all this, and laughing to myself. Two conclusions, either I’m becoming more Zen like or I’m totally losing it, and I sincerely hope it’s the first one.



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Sieben

(Ok couldn’t think of a witty title so Sieben = German for Seven)


Aiy caramba…been tagged again, to write up 7 weird facts about moi. Aye, such brutal honesty stuff makes me feel like I’m running nekid through a crowded street. Oh what the heck eh?

I’m supposed to display the rules as well. Don’t ask me why.

- Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog
- Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
- Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
- Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

Hmmm here goes…

- I have this imaginary fantasy world, a cross between LOTR and Star Wars (go figure), where I can have my own little adventures. I usually go there when I pissed off at the real world, which I find myself doing quite a lot recently.

- I’m not much of a talker. Talking bores the hell outa me, especially idle chit chat. What annoys me is that people mistake that, coupled with shyness, as being a stuck up snob, which I’m not. It’s just the way I am. However, come up with an interesting subject, and will talk for ages. Otherwise get me drunk as a skunk.

- I’m not comfortable with letting people get close to me.

- Had a thing for tattoos since I was a kid. Wasn’t until recently that I was able to get them done. Already have two, and the number will definitely go up.

- I have a feeling that even though the body is growing the mind stopped growing somewhere around the age of ten.

- Fascinated by mythology, the occult and the dark side of things. The light side is so overrated and boring.

- Most of the time I feel disconnected with the rest of the world, and funnily, it doesn’t bother me either.

Ok there we go. A selected few ;)

I’m going to be the evil one here and will not tag anyone else, not because i dont care about you, but mainly coz everyone I know has already been tagged and secondly, I want to see what curse will befall me Mwuahahaha…

I invite any one who wants to write up some facts about themselves and take up the tag.

Cheers y'all

Tom, Dick and Harry

Disclaimer: This is NOT a review!

It’s been awhile since I went for a play so thought I’d drag my lazy self to see the “Silent Hands” production of Ray and Michael Cooney’s Tom, Dick and Harry at the Wendt. If I’m correct this is not the first time they are doing it, but this time it’s for some worthy causes. The proceeds of the first night, Friday the 30th of May, went towards the vehicle fund of Methodists College and the Saturdays performance was in aid of the Welfare fund of St. Peters College. Don’t know about the third night :)

Well it was just what the doctor ordered to drive away the blues of a depressingly wet day. Laughed my head off from the beginning till the end of the show. It was a hilarious script, and wonderfully delivered by a great cast. Credit for Jehan Bastiens and Neidra Williams for a great job in adapting it with a local flavor, and directing the play.

A big round of applause for all the guy and gals for putting on a great show.

Cheers!!!