Though kept a virtual secret with only a minor news item in a pro-government newspaper, our Minister of Housing and what else, Hon. Wimal Weerawanse did go to the UN to pontificate on Buddhism on UN Day of Vesak. He then participated in a protest gathering of herded together SL mission persons; after which he [...]
Never was a truer word said than Romesh Abeywickrema’s in this paper last Sunday. He boldly proclaimed: The Only Thing ‘Thriving’ Is Corruption. And the said Romesh A. substantiated his pronouncement with statistics and facts emanating from no less an authority than the Gallup Polls. Gallup surveys classify countries according to the wellbeing of their [...]
Menika returned from a jaunt on Monday (or was it Tuesday? Days are getting all jumbled with May Days and Royal Weddings and signature collecting that ole Menik’s head is spinning like the Mussalman’s thoppiya). Well anyway, as Menika was saying, she returned from a jaunt when Dingiri, her old domestic, literally pounced on her [...]
Menika’s curiosity was piqued with this REPORT everyone’s talking and writing about. So she kept her G&T aside and read a bit and decided Menika too had better write about it, at least make mention, for otherwise she will be damned non-patriotic etc etc. When what I write is read, I will certainly be tarred [...]
Mercy me! Some good things do happen in this island home of ours. The latest is that laws are to be introduced to lesson noise pollution emanating from vehicular traffic. A Gazette notification will be published next month to announce the laws. Never too late is what Menika chanted since she for one wished from [...]
Menika has been lying around coiled on her sofa, feeling far different from sexy Cleo; her coiling being python like and induced by her pigging on kavun and athiraha. She knew she’d feel this way but went ahead muttering damn to lethargy and shoot to cholesterol. The Sinhala and Tamil New Year comes but once [...]
Just as Menika was deciding between throwing herself in the broiling sea off romantic Mt Lavinia or boiling some niyangala yams and eating it with katta sambole, our cricketers lost the World Cup match in Mumbai and brought Sri Lanker great honour. They did not carry a Cup home but they came loaded with praise, [...]
O-o-o-o A-a-a-h! What a blithering bore! What a big yawn! I’m recounting the week on Thursday 17th as political party members belligerently march to the polls and the Elections Commissioner conveniently closes his eyes to violation of election rules so he can pronounce at the end of the day a free and fair election. Honestly, [...]
Menika gasped and held her head in consternation when she read that the opening ceremony of the Mahinda Rajapaksa Port in Hambantota, originally meant to be very appropriately named Magampura Varaya, cost you and me and the poor woman who buys the smallest packet of milk powder to stop her infant from crying its empty [...]
Oo la la! Walls have been knocked down around the city with no Humptys crumbling to bits. A mite naked some places look, like the Cinnamon Gardens Police Station and the Thurstan College sports field along Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha. The pavements are being redone with a particular kind of tile and strips of light pink [...]
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