𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

Scene No 1. We all take our kids on our marketing trips. Put them on a trolley cart and act as if we are on a race track. I hit an old lady from behind in the aisle, then whisked past, cursing her without even an apology. Stop near the "fruits and nuts" section and throw a few of them in your mouth before stuffing a few more in his or her mouth. Sure enough, the toddler can’t read the notice posted over there. "Eating is not allowed." But he/she was just happy about the freebies Papa or Mama had stuffed in his/her mouth. Scene No 2 One day, we go to see his or her choir practice session and find him or her standing inconspicuously in the very last row. What happened? We ask him/her while heading back home. The teacher says I am too tall to be in the first row. The next day, the child is sent off to practice with a few cookie jars in a nice reusable bag that we brought on our last overseas holiday. Don’t forget to give it only to the teacher’s hand. Pick up time in...

ඇ මිස්ටර් සිල්වා, ඔය ඇමරිකාව පැත්තෙත් සමුපකාර එහෙම තියෙනවද? මොකද නැත්තේ මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා, මෙහේ තියන ඔය හැම එකක්ම එහෙත් තියෙනවා මීට වඩා ජයට, අනේ එහෙනම් කමක් නැහැ මිස්ටර් සිල්වා, මොකද මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා එහෙම කිව්වේ? නැහැ මම හිතුවේ ඔය ඉල්ලන ඉල්ලන එක පරදින හිලරී නොනාටත් ඉතින් එහෙම එකකින්වත් ට්‍රයි එකක් දාල බලන්න පුලුවන්නේ මිස්ටර් සිල්වා.

After years of neglect, it is a welcoming sight to see the efforts are taken to relay the Katubedda – Piliyandala road. Traffic has come to snail pace and lots of inconveniences to commuters and many have to re-adjust their schedules due to the unpredictable nature of the traffic density and the speed it flows during peaks. One thing baffles me, every time when I travel on this stretch of road it this. The work site has a big board proclaiming  “Safety is First”. To go alone with the slogan perhaps, most of the workers who are involved in relaying the surface have been given a glow-vest and a hardhat. But sadly, they all work either barefoot and or with an old pair of rubber slippers. The workers would have been better off, if they have been given a pair of gloves, safety shoes and a proper face mask, instead of hardhats or glove vests. Many Overseers and even Engineers there are playing Blind eye to this blatant violation. Over to you, if any RDA guys are reading...

Pada Yathra (the protest march) and the costs associated with it. Social media are reporting different numbers and some are obviously exaggerated. Assuming that 100,000 people have attended the march, here are the costs and you do the math later. If every person’s Man-hour worth is LKR 100 per hour, they have spent nearly six hours daily and for almost a good week walking. I leave it to you to do the math and that was what the country lost in terms of GDP. The creation of traffic jams led to vehicles burning more gas than usual. The public who commuted on those have lost valuable time as well. We again lost in terms of GDP and our Forex will be strained because we need to import more gas from aboard. The members of OPEC are the beneficiary. Vehicles will have excessive wear and tear and we are a country that does not produce any car parts. Again the hard earned currency will flow away to another country, thanks to this stupid march. The only local product that was...

The man who took a banned terrorist organisation's flag to a highly venerated religious place in another part of the world yesterday is now claiming that he would not allow outsider to create religious disharmony in the country. Those who have helped terrorists and their supporters to slip through the border posts and claim political asylums in another country by taking brides have now become patriots and pledging to protect the country by all means. Man who has done so much to the Sri Lankan Cricket is now being branded a traitor by some who have not done anything to uplift the game in anyway, because he has agreed teach a few foreign guys a few tricks with the Cherry. Men who sold the country’s World Cup dream for money and favours are being branded as Heroes; where the whistle-blower is being branded a traitor because he refused to play a few matches for the country due to a well know injury. Those who have looted billions of wealth from the country are being treated as heroes a...

අපි ඉස්කෝලේ යනකාලේ අපිට කිව්වේ, " ආච්චිගේ මළ ගෙදරදාවගේ " කියන්නේ පොඩි ලමයින්ට ඉතා සන්තෝස දවසක් කියලා. දැන් බලාගෙන ගියාම මේක වැරදිනේ. ආච්චි දැන් හිටියනම් අපිටත් ඔය කොහෙන් කොහෙන් හරි ඉඩම් ටිකක් අරන් දාන්න තිබුනා. වෙලාවට උන්දැ මලානේ ඔක්කොටම කලින්.

Nowadays Social Media is galore with thousands of Animal Lovers in different forms.  That is fine with me because I love all living beings. However, when one steps out onto the real world, one would see more and more Meat shops being opened in every nook and cranny in the country. The problem is that most of these so-called Animal Lovers' attention is always one-directional. Once when I posed this to some of them to explain, what is their standing on the Horse driven carriages being used by some royalties to parade in ceremonies, Bullfighting etc, and I found they were dumb silent. There are many police forces around the world that have mounted police units in their amour. What is their real standing on those issues, not only a tusker being used to carry around a venerated religious symbol? What do these So-called Animal Lovers really want? The Sooner we find out, the better for all.