COLOMBO SCOPE 2014 - " Making History"

Eat M &M’s, sleep, and pray, sit, yawn, travel or groan may be. Cross boarders, enjoy the foreign cuisine, enjoy some exotic sex with a stranger, have encounters, meetings, make love and break affairs, learn life lessons, sob, empathize and even talk and sniff. No matter where we are, in which part of the world we live in , what race we are , what  sex or age , our actions are more likely the same that revolves around the world. But there is one thing that make every society unique and to talk proud of themselves. It’s the culture. Today...

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SAWASDEE THAILAND

( Written while in Chaiyo District , Ang Thong Province , Thailand  on the 21st Jan 2014) It was my second time in a Boeing, the UL 886. I wasn’t quite excited unlike for the very first time I traveled in the airplane. Yet a window seat will never fail to amaze me when flying in the air. Why? I get to see many things. Different kinds of landscapes when the plane takes off. I believe there is always something beautiful to be discovered out at the window. The sun rise and the sun sets are my favorite. The gigantic mountains, meandering...

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එලඳ වරුණ නාරිලතාවයී ..

( Written in early 2010) සේද වළා අතරින්  නැගෙනා ලා හිරු කැන්  නුබ සරසන්නී .. බඹරිඳු හඬ අතරින් පල බර අතු පතරින් මුදු හඬ ආවායි .. මදහස පාමින් බඳ  තාලෙට තබමින් පය  එළඳ නටන්නී .. නීල වරල සමගින්  පින්බර නෙත් දෙපලින්  මියුරුලතාවයි .. ගිගිරි වලලු සමගින්  ඉඟ සුඟ නලවාමින් නිතර රඟන්නී .. දුටු සත පිනවමින්  ගෝමර හැඩ පාමින්  තොස වඩ වන්නී .. සබඳ අසනු  එලඳ වරුණ  නාරිලතාවයී .. ...

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PLANS, PLANNED AND UNPLANNED DAYS

“Anwar, you beauty! Wonderful strokes at a stretch, five sixes for the over. He does that really well. He reads the game carefully. Pakistan needs him now  ...” A midst the papare sounds, the loud whistles and the noisy applauses of the live cricket match that came out of the television, I faintly heard my phone vibrating far on the table. It was a viber call. Interestingly the number was too long. It had more than 10 digits. Quite pleased with the general education lessons, I knew +69 was the country code for Australia. The phone rang twice...

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“KNOW THE WATER IS SWEET BUT BLOOD IS THICKER”

It was a Saturday morning. I was called out by one of my best friends for a spend the day.  Appachchi promised to drop me at my friend’s house. We were travelling in the car. Unlike the other days, there was something strange inside the car. It was the radio channel!  Perhaps the usual Sinhala classics were switched to English. But the ones I heard were all modern. What if I'm far from home? Oh Brother, I will hear you call What if I lose it all? Oh Sister, I will help you out!  Oh! If the sky comes falling down! For you there’s...

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