Nisadas unstructured. thoughts.

And this is why I should buy a diesel vehicle

Passing along the highlevel road, I thanked my stars that the tank was full. Although, I might’ve just as well been better off with a diesel vehicle…

The vehicles belonging to these good people were probably the same ones parked along the road right upto Police Park.

Clearly, LIOC was doing better off than these guys…

Pot calling the Kettle Black

I know I really shouldn’t get hung up over this, but it just beggars belief.
See my post on how Daily Mirror has no clue about copyright, or even the Creative Commons licensing terms.
Now read what they have to say about the PTI allegedly copying their stuff:
The Colombo based reporter for the Press Trust of India [...]

Daily Mirror doesn’t get it

So there I was feeling all upset that my crappy photo made it to the front page of Ada Derana without my being credited.
But why stop there? Turns out the people at the Daily Mirror (http://www.dailymirror.lk) aren’t very original either.
Barely a coupla days after my photo turns up on Ada Derana, it turns up on [...]

Delusions of Journalism

The Island recently published an apology for stealing David Blacker’s interview with Dayan Jayatillake, misspelling the URL from where they had purloined it.
In the same paper, there was a Reply from a high ranking official in the police (I forget the rank) calling into question the authenticity of one of their articles on Sri Lankan [...]

Chilli Parota

Right above that Nalaka wheel alignment/tyre merchants joint in Colombo 02 is another branch of the famous Food Waves restaurant. This one’s called “Thiru Kumaran’s Food Waves” and it’s a vegetarian restaurant that serves South Indian food. Good food for good prices – enough reason to like it.
The reason that I wanted to blog about [...]

The end of privacy?

So recently I get a photograph in my mail of President Barack Obama checking out a young lady’s behind. While I’d normally shrug this off as instinct getting the better of the man, a friend also sends me the link where the situation behind it all is cleared through a youtube video, which proves Sarkozy [...]

Traffic in Dehiwala

Anyone who’s taken the Galle road will know how much fun Dehiwala can be. Used to be (haven’t taken the route in some time) that the traffic would extend somewhere upto Ratmalana in the mornings (to Colombo). Evenings are no better on the way back. The best advertisement for travel by train could’ve included photos [...]

Happy voting day!

A fruitful day of voting to all of you voting in the Western Provincial elections today!
Just make sure you know who you’re voting for, what symbol to vote and wear your glasses!
A few years back a friend of mine listened intently to my impassioned speech on why the JHU should be voted into power. Entirely [...]

Demons and Angels – Part II

I was reading Seth Godin recently on Demonization. Whilst he writes  what would be interpreted as a marketing-centric post, he makes a very valid point.
The closer you get to someone, something, some brand, some organization… the harder it is to demonize it, objectify it or hate it.
Reading through Achcharu today, I also came across some [...]

Proposal for future Indian ODI tours of Sri Lanka

The glorious thing about the internet is that even non-experts like myself can plough on and put forward silly notions on any variety of subjects. Therefore, allow me to present my proposal for future ODI visits by the Indian cricket team to Sri Lanka:
In future, there will be no need to fly in all the [...]