Feather life

Up In the Air

2010-05-07T05:47:00.000-07:00

I don’t want to write about every movie I watch and just fill in dozens of articles on this blog. And then there is a time factor as well. But UP IN THE AIR made me to write this.

First I must tell you that I'm a fan of Clooney (who isn’t?). His work is just wonderful. A skilled actor with a capacity of range or characters. That’s why I like him.

The movie is about a person name Bingham who work for an agency who fires people for a living. That indeed sounds like a weird job to start with. He travel almost 365 days a year and have nearly a 10 million fly miles! Which proves his lifestyle almost. A person who works hard, has less friends, no family life at all!

The story is trying solve his life and bring in new hope with involvement of Alex (Played by Vera Farmiga) (Oh she is nice). And its all about finding new relationships, polishing up the old one and changing for good. I want to you watch the movie so that I don’t have to spoil the ending.

I simply love it. Not because it has a fancy story line or just good actors but for the way it makes you feel. We all are victims of our own loneliness and solitude no matter how involved we could be with the outside world. Bingham on the other hand is practically that lonely person who does not know that he is lonely. That’s where the real story is.

Good cinematography, script and editing all the way. A drama which makes you warm.

Terminator Salvation

2009-11-23T23:28:00.000-08:00

Directed by MCG (We are Marshall, Charles Angels)

STARRING
Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jane Alexander and Helena Bonham Carter

Being a big fan of Terminator from childhood I never thought I would be fortunate to see more coming from this superb series of movies. After the final Terminator – Rise of the machines the movie was sure to change the story line and it sure did made big hope in minds of all terminator fans around the globe.

First of all I want to say that I'm not disappointed. Maybe the movie have places to improve but as a whole this sure does kept me on the edge of my seat from the beginning. Speaking of stunts and visual effect this sure is a one big joy ride. Starting from the very first battle sequence which brings down some real big helicopters smashing in to the ground like dead birds, up to the final battle which reminds me of the battle in the second terminator movie (Terminator 2- Judgement day) the action is wonderful. One of my favorite is the car chase sequence which actually a high speed motorbike like thingy (Robot) chasing Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) and Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin).

Speaking of the cast there are no two words that Christian Bale rocks as John Conner. He is the sole of the battle and the story both which put him in a very impossible yet thrilling place. His previous action roles such as Bat Man have proved his rugged willingness to play such action characters and yet again he stables himself strong. And I was impressed to the see the role played by Anton Yelchin as a Soldier in the front against Sky Net machines after his mild yet heart breaking performance in Alpha Dog in 2007. It seems like Sam Worthington got a good break portraying a strong character as well which is a novel yet interesting addition to the series.

As I mentioned the places which this movie needs improvement is the story. For instance its seems like it’s little too easy to get in to the Sky nets HQ for John Conner. As if the machines does not have limitation of access levels programmed in their system. That’s a little lame for a high-tech movie such as this.

Overall I loved Terminator Salvation. I wanna think of it as another memorable Terminator chapter and nothing else. Since the war is not began and more big things yet to happen all I can do is to watch the next movie when it hits the screen.

Who killed THE UNIT?

2009-11-16T23:24:00.000-08:00

I haven’t seen much of US action tv series to date but this just made me glued to the screen for a long time. THE UNIT is one hell of an action ride with lots of entertainment in between. I may have kept a note about UNIT last year when I was watching the season 2 or 3 and from there onwards it just got better. Only few TV series can do that wonder and make me really say it.

UNIT was different from other action series because even though it had individual stories which filled the daily 42 minutes it had a more solid and touching story line running underneath. This story which is not severely strong and filled with action but had the ability to keep the viewer wondering for its next turn. It maybe involving the top ranking officer and the wife of the soldier in the field, or it maybe about the struggle which another soldiers wife put to be with her children. Maybe it’s about a soldier who repent his action when he believe that his time is up. This made me wonder beyond the day to day action which shows on TV and take a step forward toward humanity. And I’m sure many who loved this show felt the same.

Sadly CBS has decided to cancel this show and confirmed that Season 4 is final. I hardly get why it turn that way because the show had a good audience and it was going on well with ratings as well. But the ugly part is that they didn’t make an official ending on the TV. The story seems to end somewhere leaving some pieces behind which yet to be solved.

So this will be the last words about THE UNIT. I hope it will return.

Taking of Pelham or Wasting of time??

2009-11-15T23:33:00.000-08:00

It’s of no purpose of this blog if I don’t express my critics over the recent movies which I came upon. Due to my nature of ‘good copy good view’ I tend to watch some of the box-office record breaking flicks somewhat after few months from most of you does. But I don’t regret any thing. I prefer to gasp the most of directors original work in its perfect condition. For a film maker there are several aspects which he would give an extra attention when it comes to serious work. Lights, sounds and clarity is among them. When I watch a movie if any of these elements are missing or not up to standard I rather not watch it. It happens mostly with the pirate copies you get these days. Either they come with 2.0 flat sounds or pixel visible heavily compressed images. So finding a good copy is kind of hard and takes time. But when I watch that movie on my 42” plasma wide screen with 6.1 DTS sounds thumping each corner of my room the wait worth’s a million.

Ok moving on, I will write modestly about “Taking of Pelham 123”. I read a little disappointing reviews before buying this movie but went ahead because I love the cast. I thought the combination of Denzel Washington and John Travolta cannot go wrong. Sadly that was wrong. No complaint about the acting but the story line sucks big time. A subway train-jack (I don’t know if that word exist) in the big city led by a brutal killer (Travolta) and a train control room supervisor (Denzel) captured in the middle as the hostage negotiator. The story line want to make Denzel looks really intelligent and know what he is doing but its quite overrated. Travolta’s role seems to fit him but at the end he dies like a two cent crook. Big plan A with no backup plan. If you like to watch some little shooting action watch it. If not watch CNN world report. It has more touching stories than this.

PC fixed and firing away with post processing

2009-11-15T21:10:00.000-08:00

My home pc was busted for the last few weeks ( I think I should say months since its being more than 6 weeks) and was on repair. I have to admit that I was not putting much effort to fix it as well for reasons even I don’t realize clearly for some extent. Maybe I was giving more priority for my office work and had no time to find a good service person and then at home I was too busy watching movies and Tv series which took most of my free time. And now its fixed at last.

So the last two days I was glued to it post processing some of the photos which I took in the span of last 3 months. I managed to finish up pictures from 2 body building shows and the left of the photos from the Heritons Ahungalla. Heritons was a commercial shoot which gave me an opportunity to go at architectural and interior photography. Guess I have burst over some 2000 shots on that 2 days. The shots have come out exactly the way I expected so feeling pretty good about it.

CHANGE

2009-11-12T22:47:00.000-08:00

What a coincidence. I thought of reopening this blog and just realized that the last post was done exactly an year ago in November 2008. PHEW!! That’s a bit scary in a way. Or maybe as I said before it’s just a coincidence.

With time there is only one thing is certain. That is CHANGE. So we change with time and along with everything around us. Some times change is good and acceptable. But sometimes it seems like eternal stability is what’s more comforting. Why I stumbled upon change all of a sudden was that from recently I realized a trend of change within myself. Some may call these as ‘growing up’ but I think it’s just about life’s natural way of observing the surroundings and coming to its own conclusions. Take a thing you like for example. Maybe Lego toys or video games(boys stuff). You pretend like you never liked these stuff after you became an adult which you literally went crazy over as a child. It’s simply not because you don’t really like them but the fear or reluctance to experience how will the grown up society will accept your behavior.

And some likenesses remains just as solid for a long period of time yet the perspective towards it changes. Take movies for example. The taste for movies over a long stage changes as well. When I was a teen I was more a American pie dude but now I may invest more on stories which actually shows the bitter dark side of life. And take woman’s breast for example. As a child what was our perspective about it and what’s now?? or what will it be again in future?

And I don’t see anything wrong with it. But what’s wrong is becoming all of a sudden mature and staring to criticize the very own things which you once thought was ‘cool’. I most of the time pity people like that. Some pretend that they just fell down to earth from the sky. I admit we all become that miserable irritating person some times. But having more comprehension and insight about our own self would save you from being one all the time.

p.s
One more thing about this work CHANGE. Obama used it cleverly and successfully in his presidential campaign. And guess what who have adopt the same bright idea. None other than Ranil of course. I saw yesterday that they have launched their new campaign for their brand new political alliance. Hmmm

CRIMINAL MINDS - QUOTES

2008-11-12T00:49:00.000-08:00

Almost every episode of Criminal Minds begins and ends with a quote. This is a comprehensive list of the quotes from Season 1

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad

"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Try again, fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see."
Winston Churchill

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner

"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for."
James Reese

"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."
Jacques Rigaut

"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"
Rose Kennedy

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
Euripides

"With foxes, we must play the fox."
Thomas Fuller

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
Carl Jung

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind."
Robert Oxton Bolton

"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?"
Albert Einstein

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Evil is always unspectacular and alway human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table."
W.H. Auden

"What is food to one is to others bitter poison."
Lucretious

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Confucius

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal."
Albert Pine

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
Mahatma Ghandi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."
Mahatma Ghandi

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."
Francois de la Roche Foucald

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
Elbert Hubbard

Light

2008-11-05T22:35:00.000-08:00

I go to sleep,

before the devil wakes and I wake up,

before the angels take all my worldly desires,

all my yardsticks of fear,

all my secrets untold,

all my motives unclearhanging down in the fire,

burning them higher,

won't take them away from here

and long after we' re gone the light will stay on...

And if you bury me,

add three feet to itone for your sorrow,

two for your sweat,

three for the strange things we never forget

and long after we re gone

the light will stay on...

-By the walkabouts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpjcYqGjhw

“Machang” an anecdote of triumph

2008-11-02T04:44:00.000-08:00

Even though I’m Sinhalese I must confess that the number of sinhala movies I watch compared to English is seldom. The reason being there is less Sinhala movies on the shelves of DVD stores and even less movies in theaters. Out of the ones shown in theaters there is only very few which make a spark of desire to go there and spend few hours and extra bucks.

As you may all aware by now (or you will be after reading this!) there is a movie now showing in theaters in Sri Lanka called “MACHANG”. I watched it an hour back at Regal Cinema (which is a poorly facilitated theater compared to the big English movie showing theaters in Colombo). Despite the conditions of the theater and its location (Which I have experienced before) I took the gruesome decision of actually showing in there yet again because I felt that “MACHANG” is worth the risk.

And just as I expected the movie was worth every rupee I spend on it including the most precious time & petrol!!!!!

The first good thing about “MACHANG” carries the tag ‘based on a true story’ which is very rare in sinhala cinema. And even it’s a true story the passion to make it screen worthy is even rare. This story is not magic or sci fic or extra thrilling. Yet it speaks to a deep corner of our hearts and minds which are day by day becoming polluted by influences which flows in from the so called western societies and our own mulish media.

“MACHANG” is based on little over a dozen individuals who belong to different races who live in the city of Colombo with problems, dreams, responsibilities just like we all have. Yet they have one dream in common. That is leaving SL and start a fresh and new life in Europe. Which in this case they choose Germany. “MACHANG” is the remarkable story of courage of these individuals who choose an illegitimate technique to slip in to Germany as Handball players in 2004!!! Starting from the first set of scenes to the end of it it’s a journey “MACHANG” keeps the viewer wondering what would be the next move of this gang. How will they jump over the next hurdle which they face? Are they really up for this kind of risky plan? Do they have the knowledge to behave as they should be and will they have the mindset to escape the unexpected?

Apart from the script “MACHANG” is a worthwhile movie to watch in the making. When I sat in the theater I thought I will see lots of Europe in “MACHANG” and some similarities to “Mille Soya”. But to my amazement “MACHANG” is packed with breathtaking sceneries of unseen Colombo. Life’s that we see on the road everyday unfolded in a true cinematic style giving a meaning and depth to Sri Lankan culture, life styles and its beliefs. Further more it plants a small seed in our minds without our knowledge that our mother land is great and its cultures and sports are great and so do its people.

“MACHANG” is packed with a large yet unforgettable cast and unseen humor than most of the sinhala movies. For some “MACHANG” can be a comedy and for some it can be another well told story of life. For me it’s a mix both worlds. And a true celluloid expression which will last in my mind for many years to come. My sincere wish is that Sri Lankan cinema to be blessed with more of such movies which breaks the boundaries of cinema and minds of the viewers.

Fragile...

2008-10-29T21:45:00.000-07:00

Life and memories and dreams stuffed in boxes.

Intentionally concealed so as not to ache anymore.

Traumas palpable, others not as much. Everlasting kisses.

Venomous, malignant, abysmal.

Souls fragile. Misused. Inflicted.

"Caution: handle with care" he pled…But she…She would not recede…

Extracted from http://starlit-sky.deviantart.com/art/fRaGiLe-101953674

pls visit the original.

Max Payne for Children

2008-10-26T21:59:00.000-07:00

I was missing from the blogg scene for quite a long time. And friends yes I apologize for not showing up for like a ....errrrr year (gosh that’s a long time). Don’t ask me where I have being and what I have being doing coz I strongly recommend you to let the past be past and move on. Ok lets here some welcome trumpets pls.

Ok now that’s said and done let me tell you why you should be more careful of the stuff you watch on TV and theater if you have any underage children accompanying you. Specially living in a 3rd world country (who ranked us there actually??? Does any one know??) Could make it a less bit easy to access to material which are considered to be adult or rated. I’m not talking about movies which we so call as adult movies here. Maybe it’s the only thing that comes to your mind when we say rated!!! But hay there are so many other things which the children should not see. Some thing ‘simple’ like shooting any one on the head or inhaling a dose of dope. Does these things seem so natural to you?? Ok stop right there. Think again for a minute. There is nothing natural about killing another human being or taking a does of drugs. They are violent acts which are not permitted by law and not considered to be humane by a regular peaceful community.

So next time when you take a movies home, play a game or go for a movie with your kinds please make sure that it is appropriate for a underage person to watch and “Observe”. Because kinds don’t look and forget like we adults do. We have some much stuff going on in our heads so we just take a movie as a movie and forget them. And that’s how it should be. But kids may live in it for a lot longer time than we think.

The whole point that made me ponder on this was last Saturday when I went to watch “Max Payne” to the theater. There was a family who came with 2 little kids. Maybe the oldest was 4. And this family actually does not seem to be so dumb after all. The mother and the father look like reputed people than people who drop in to see a movie once in a decade or some thing. And who don’t know that Max Payne is not violent? You got to be kidding me!!!! Come on its all over the wall of this movie. It starts and ends with blood and guns and drugs. Any fool who saw the damn trailer will say so.

So my friends. Don’t do the same mistake. Let your children to remember you as good parents, brothers and sisters who gave them the best of what they deserve. Not some gun slinging piece of paranoia.

Some recent updates

2007-10-18T00:02:00.000-07:00

I had to struggle for a week to take my wrecked car out of the police since there was a court case due to the death involved. Finally on last Saturday I towed it out and obtained the condemn report

My friend who drove the car ended up in remand prison for 5 nights and now out on bail. The court case is on.

Since I was not feeling so great I hanged out with my friends till late nights last week. Dining here and there and wasting time.

With this incident I realized the value of friends who was there for me in many ways

I was totally out of my routine for over a week and now things are getting back to normal.

CRASHED!

2007-10-08T22:46:00.001-07:00

I never thought that I have to put this blog post right after posting about my new car. Well as you can see its history now. Sadly on last Saturday the most unfortunate thing had happened and it got hit by a train at a suburb place to Colombo. Since I was out of town it was driven by one of my friend which ended up pretty bad. There were 5 passengers in the car and one lost his life proving the fatality of the crash and the immense force which the train brought upon the metal cage. The other 4 passengers were taken to hospital and 1 remains in a bit serious situation until now. The vehicle is condemned and still held by the police which will take some time to release.

When I heard the news I was stunned and took some time to actually realize the gravity of the situation the most tiresome steps which comes as aftermath of the split second mistake. There are so many things to do and many procedures to follow just to recover the loss of the vehicle but more than that the lost life and the ruined family pressure my mind than any thing. This situation is not some thing which I expected to happen in any way and now since it had there is a great deal of damage in every direction I look.

CAR!!

2007-09-27T21:31:00.000-07:00

Yes. This is the most anticipated launch of my first car!!! Papara paaam paaam paaaam!!!!!!!!!

Even though it’s my first car I wanted to lay my hands on some thing elegant. And some thing which suits my personality. Guess I found one. A Honda Civic Ferio –EG8. This machine comes with a 1.5L V-Tec engine and 4 discs ABS with LSD gear box. I’ am quite sure that I will not be using much of its features for some times since I’ am still getting used to controlling its basic functions on the road LOL.

Chak de driving !!!

2007-09-23T19:17:00.000-07:00

The gone week was a pretty hectic. But the good news is that I managed to get my driving test through Hurraah!!! It’s was a bit of wasting time there at the RMV but the driving tester who was allocated to me was some what professional and a nice guy. On that day after a very loooong time I had to live my lunch with some pastries since I was waiting for my test eagerly and had less time to walk about. But at the end of the day I was through and got the long yet important temporarily license document. And that was a sigh of relief.

Seems every thing is going as planned these days. The car that I was interested in is almost purchased. There are some little things to get done related to transfer and the payment check and within another two days I will be smooth riding on my Honda Civic EG8.

And I went to the Formula plus motor show at BMICH on Saturday. Damn there were some thundering classic cars there. I think over 100 of them. And mind blowing new vehicles too. My most interested areas were the Mercs , Jeeps and Peugeots . As you can see below are some very interesting vehicles which my friend have got attracted and captured on lens.

And on Sunday I went to see "Chak de - India". A diverse kind of a Hindi movie which kept me well entertained. Hardly a movie which has a different theme comes out from India. And even it does hardly one gets popular. And now this one was lucky. It’s a movie with a sports theme (Hockey) which is almost like a popular Hollywood sports flick. But there is much more Asian value in it and a message embedded so deeply that you can’t stop to rejoicing at end of the movie. Well done Shahrukh and the new set of girls.
U rock even though u don’t sing or dance in this one. Do u hear me loud and clear??? There are no dance in this movie!!!

I recommend it and its showing for a limited time period only in SL.

The UNIT

2007-09-12T05:21:00.000-07:00

As I said I got some information on the latest TV series that I’ am watching currently "The UNIT"

-The ratings are from TV.com

Amazon.com said

"They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command. Whether stateside or aboard, these heroes are on the frontlines protecting U.S. citizens and foreigners alike, slipping in under the radar and risking their lives to save the day then leaving just as quietly without any well-deserved credit or thanks. Starring Dennis Haysbert and Scott Foley, this riveting, action-packed drama is as realistic and pulse-pounding as it gets.

Full of action, intrigue, and espionage, The Unit offers a dramatic, fictionalized look inside the military while also giving viewers a peek inside the private lives of the elite squad. Conceived by the critically acclaimed David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, House of Games), The Unit is an elite, covert Special Forces team that operates outside the military chain of command. The first season's 13 episodes offer insight into the characters without revealing too much about the men who make up the operation. Are they extremely patriotic, or are they adrenalin junkies who have to be in danger to feel validated? The answer probably falls somewhere in between, and the viewer gets the feeling that as much as the men love their wives and children, it's their jobs that give them their true reason for living. Led by veteran Jonas Blane (Dennis Haysbert, 24), the Unit deals with terrorism, rescue missions, and assassinations quickly, discreetly, and efficiently. If all goes well, someone else gets the credit. If things go awry, it's their necks on the line. "

I personally think that UNIT is an interesting series. I have seen dozens of military and covert ops themed movies but this is the first time I’ am watching some thing on TV which is on a much longer scale. The cast is good and so do the stories in each episode. Some are quite way beyond what I expected to see in a military entertainment such as Sere training ((Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion). I thoroughly enjoy The UNIT and recommend it.

DISTURBIA

2007-09-09T19:33:00.000-07:00

Aaahhh it’s another lovely Monday morning! While I was idling in the yahoo answers I saw some guy have asked this question. “What’s your favorite day of the week?” I answered that it’s Monday. There are few reasons for that.

I like to get busy.
Too much holiday makes the brain numb
I want to work and do some thing productive
Since I don’t drink I don’t have the issue of waking up hard or hang over on Monday morning like most my friends do LOL

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I managed to hunt for DVD’s yesterday and found some really cool once. Out of the set I watched ‘Disturbia’ last night. Check out the preview of the thriller. I loved it.

“After his father's death, Kale becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled -- so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. But, are his suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and his overactive imagination? “

Genres: Thriller and Teen

Running Time: 1 hr. 44 min.

Release Date: April 13th, 2007 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality.

Studios: DreamWorks SKG

U.S. Box Office: $80,050,171

What I liked about this movie is that apart from being a mere serial killer thriller it has a story line which runs way before the suspense starts to boil. A teenager and his background and how he copes up with his emotional distress and being house arrested for punching his teacher on the face. The movie kind of starts as a family drama and turns in to a teenage flick after few minutes, then in to a horrific blood boiling suspenseful thriller just after an hour. The main character is done by Shia LaBeouf who is well talented and a new comer to the movie industry after his Emmy winning appearance in a popular kids TV series. You may remember him doing the main character in the popular Transformers.

And I laid my hands on another, yet action packed military TV series. ‘THE UNIT’. A deeper look in the unit in my next blog entry.

DVD collection

2007-09-02T19:25:00.000-07:00

This is my personnel collection of DVD's. I have to take a count again but I think its over 1000 in disks now. But in titles it could be around 700-800.

* view full to see the details.

Water fan

2007-08-29T23:26:00.001-07:00

I took this shot at Tissamaharama. Iso 1400 and burst mode. Canon eos 350d with 54mm kit lens.

2007-08-29T05:11:00.000-07:00

Did u watch it yet? NO??? Don’t miss it. It looks simple. Yet will make you hit the roof.

It’s a thriller with a little bit of murder and a whole load of legal facts in it. It’s a story of a prosperous, intellectual, mature man (Anthony Hopkins) killing his wife after finding out her illegitimate affair with a police investigator. And he gives him self up to the police and confess. Happy ending!!! Is the story sound straight forward to you? Well it sure does for the first half hour of the movie. Find out how the twist is made and the real deal takes place with creative story telling.

Genres:Drama, Thriller and Crime/GangsterRunning

Time:1 hr. 52 min.

Release Date:April 20th, 2007 (wide)

MPAA Rating:R for language and some violent content.

Distributors:New Line Cinema

U.S. Box Office: $39,004,700

Whats my favs

2007-08-28T20:22:00.000-07:00

When I was just waiting sitting in the bus for it to start moving (Well it’s a long wait!!) I figured out some thing !!! Some thing about my self which I was not quite sure about for the past few decades. Which is that I don’t have favorites of most of the things which others have. For example food!!! I tried hard to come up with some food which I would call as my favorite. But honestly I can’t. Some mite say its pizza or chocolate or even pancakes. But for me I don’t know. I eat any food (except meat/fish/egg items) actually but I won’t crave for a single for as such. From time to time my eating pattern change.

And then my favorite color. Again I don’t have any. I see beauty in most of the natural colors and even when I draw I don’t want to select a specific tone for it. Maybe it’s my artistic background which made me this way. Its really really hard for me to say this it better than that !! Kind of weird. And then again I can settle down to most of the stuff which other dislike because of the color. That’s a good thing.

And my favorite movie type? I’ am a movie addict that’s for sure. So I will have a list which will run a mile for this. But I don’t have a favorite movie ‘type’. Drama, action, animation, horror, thriller, humor what ever it is it’s just the same for me. I don’t choose any thing over a type.

And it’s the same for me when it comes to cloths, actors, drawings, photographs, music, number, and many other things.

But here are few which I think I know my favorite.

Movie – Lord of the rings
Travel to – Knuckles via Hunnasgiriya
Theater – Majestic
Game – Splinter cell chaos theory
Console – Xbox
Body part – Biceps
Software – Photoshop
Drink – Plain tea
Workout – Cycling
Woman – Jolie
Man – Hrithik
Sitcom – Friends
TV series – 24
Dream destination – China
Website – Deviantart

Where there is energy there is power

2007-08-26T20:44:00.001-07:00

The world is developing at a mammoth phase right now. Being in Sri Lanka we may not feel it much but by looking around I feel a bit of gloom in me. Why are we stuck??
Well personally I don’t consider my self as stuck. I have a clear path and I will work towards it. But as a nation where are we?? And this is what I don’t get

We offer free education but where are the once who really learnt some thing?
We offer aid to the poor but where are the benefited ones?
We live in a religious country but where are the real enlightened ones?
We are a free country but where is the real freedom???

I’m not a negative thinking person at all. I always try to see the small even promising light some where. But in the subject of Sri Lanka I see a very faint light. I would rather
Try to give some thing other than waiting for some one to give some thing to me.

Development is not only tall buildings and subways. It’s not only a handful of money or luxury. It’s more than that. Yet I believe that most of the so called enrichment is here even way before the concept of development was pressed in to our brains. We are developed in many ways already. As a family and as a nation in some ways. But that development is not worth enough when competing with the other nations is it? What do we really want? Does having few vibrant night clubs and luxury apartments mark any thing? There is no doubt war is to be blamed for too. It’s the core issue. And not worthy to mention that it will not end soon since it benefits a few but powerful individuals. So the rest of the people’s fate hangs on some foreign aids and the real but very little money which remains for an honest and beneficial investment. That’s where we are now. When the biggest nations in the words run after energy we are running after power. These two goes hand in hand now but without energy will the power in hand can do any thing effective?

The truth is out there. Where there is energy there is power. How long will it take for us to understand it!!!

How high Hollywood can fly

2007-08-21T19:11:00.000-07:00

With 4 movies breaking the 300 million dollar mark this summer, the movie industry is headed for a new record this year. Pirates, Transformers, Spiderman III and Shrek 3 all grossed over 3000 million.

For better or for worse, the record-breaking run at the summer box office has dramatically raised the bar for just how high Hollywood can fly.For the first time ever, four summer films have broken the $300 million barrier at the domestic box office: "Spider-Man 3" ($336.4 million), "Shrek the Third" ($321 million), "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" ($307.6 million) and "Transformers" ($303.7 million), according to Rentrak.Including these four biggies, a total of 13 summer titles have shot past the $100 million mark in a surprise surge.

Complete story is here http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970302.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Some stuff which happened over the weekend

2007-08-19T22:16:00.000-07:00

Some stuff which happened over the weekend

1. I was at home on Saturday. So managed to clean up the place and have some looong day time naps. And I was awake till late night watching super star.

2. I got my DTV connection reconnected. I was fed up with Digital tv for some time but now I’m craving to watch some new discovery programs. So now there are over 35 channels which I can blame on when I’m bored at home LOL

3. Watched Uppalawanna at Regal on Sunday morning. Believe it or not the place was crowded. And the movie was good. I liked the story line and the sheer message given out. My Buddhist background helped me a lot to enjoy it. Movies like that are seldom these days.

4. In the afternoon played another few rounds of NFS – Carbon on pc and developed the awaited dizzy feeling J then had a small nap.

5. The evening was spent well with “BREACH”. A good movie I must say. Movies based on true stories interest me big time. The biggest were “Catch me if you can” and “Schindlers list”. Breach was up to my expectations. A slow moving but highly effective scene after scene and line after line movie. Watch it!! And u mite like it more than “good shepherd”

6. Super star again at night. One of the highly expected contestant sent home. Well people do
crazy things some times!!!

Some random things

2007-08-16T20:23:00.001-07:00

I watched few movies recently. Here’s what I think of them

Simpson’s the movie – Good.
I’m a Simpson’s fan so there was much entertainment in it. There is a bit from many characters and a good story too.

Premonition – Better than Good
Good thriller after some time. Made me wonder of how life and death is. Keeps the viewer wondering till the end.

Contract – Good
Not a huge action packed movie but managed to grab me. Interesting story.

Transformers – Awesome
Well u have heard a lot of this movie by now. I said it’s awesome since I enjoyed the animations like hell. I love animations and special effects.
As a story its nothing much. The usual cartoon stuff.

My spine is recovering pretty well so I think I can jump around again pretty soon LOL. I want to do some trips and get some good photographs.
My camera is in the bag for too long now. Its being a year since I had my spine screwed up.

The restructure stuff in the company I told about earlier seems getting delayed due to some issues. These things never come easy. There is so
much to look in to. But I’m working on some subsidiary work take over these days so spending my time among lots of process flows and policy changes
most of the time.

And here’s a photo I took last year. Enjoy.

Movies list

2007-08-12T19:11:00.000-07:00

Well after 2 long weeks of watching 4400 I’am back on to my normal schedule now :) Now that a great feeling. I don’t feel like to watch movies when I’am in the middle of a TV series.
So I have a list of movies to start watching. These DVD’s are already with me so its only a matter of starting. Check out the list (view full)

& these stuff I don’t have the posters to show.
Big nothing
Contract

4400

2007-08-01T02:39:00.000-07:00

Yes here comes the big news about 4400.

Plot: 4400 people who got abducted within a span of 100 years returned back to earth in one batch on a one fine day. FBI starts it investigations and after few weeks these people are released from quarantine. The story evolved around few of the ‘returnees’ and their lives. Ultimately the medical researches find out that the brain activity of these 4400s is abnormal and some show signs of unusual abilities. Telepathy, seeing the future, destructions by mind, healing diseases, spreading viruses are few. The world starts to panic at some but FBI manages to keep it course and pushes the limits to get things back in track. How ever later it’s discovered that these 4400s are not victims of any aliens but humans from the future. They say that 4400s were taken & changed & returned to divert the course of man kind from its unpleasant fate which yet to occur in the future.

I have already watched 2 seasons of this superb TV series and will step in to season 3 today. And its really addictive. Good thing is that the story does not hang in one place for a long time. The viewer is promptly rushed to the next level which makes it interesting. I’m sure if this was directed by the guy who is doing “MHAGEDARA” Im still watching the 4400 in the quarantine area. HAHA.

If you got the time and resources go for it. I’am becoming a pro in TV series so don’t let down my advices LOL

Today is a wet day!

2007-07-24T20:49:00.001-07:00

Yes when I woke up it was every where. There was a little rain and lot of noice on the roads. I like to sleep when it rains just like every one else does. But hay I have things to do in office so here I'am. Today I got a bit late to come to work. Usually I come around 6.30 but today at 7.30. So I lost an hour (sigh).

I'am watching the first season of 4400 these days on DVD. Its a very interesting sci fic plot. More details will follow when I get to the season 2. So all I do now at home is that !!!

And here are few of my photography work. Best is when viewed full. Enjoy!!!

Avissawella

Hanwella

Sithulpahuwa

Learning to drive

2007-07-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

At last I have started it!!! Yes now I’m learning to drive. Untill last year I never wanted to learn it. Thats very strage actually. I was always interested in vehicles. All guys are. But never wated to own one or drive one. Even that creeps me out when I think about it LOL. I actually wanted to do it last year but as soon as I got the interest I had my spine issue so there goes the driving mania down the drain.

But now I thought I’m quite recovered to try it. Well I wont be able to drive long hours for some time but I can do short distances. And I should find a little car too LOL. By yesterday I have finished my first 4 lessons and learning it fast. And luckily I get to drive after 4.30 pm. That means in the raw afternoon traffic. Well that’s quite a challenge but that’s what I always wanted to do. So by next month I’ll be having my license and by another two months will drive my own vehicle (hopefully) J

Long time no C !!!

2007-07-05T20:46:00.000-07:00

Hell yeah its me. Im back. And guess what ??? I'am the same lol

Well I was away from the blog for a couple of months. I was quite busy in office and most of the time had to visit remote locations for my work.

And I was concentrating more on my Deviantart account since that place has changed my way of photography and drawings. I must say those guys have inspired me to work hard.

There are some major changes and structure reorgs going in the company so I'am handling a part of it from my area. So there are some serious thinking and unpleasant arguments and backstabbing happening around. Well its the corporate world. I don’t blame it. I just try my best to stay out of trouble and so far Im good.

Hope all my friends are doing fine here. Sorry for the disappearing act ha ha

And uploaded here with is a photograph I took at Embilipitya last year. I got good feedback about it recently.

Quick stop

2007-02-08T02:16:00.000-08:00

Im busy as hell still so dont have much time to spend on the blog. 2 quick points

Movie recommendation : Watch "Apocalypto". Why ??? Beacause its not a movie to be missed damn it :)

Check my latest art works.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47891058/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48311477/

Thants it. Take care all.

Surviving work!

2007-02-01T17:22:00.000-08:00

Hmmm again I have got behind on the blog. Actually not only in this but in most of the things I had to postpone due to my busy schedule. The long awaited long lasting projects has started at last and Im in full time swing. I have signed an agreement already stating that I will stick until the project ends and that would be some where like March next year (2008).

So I don’t have much of a free time now and don’t get to work on my seat in office. I have to visit few places for meetings, discussions and workshops and then come back and gather requirements from the set of people allocated to me. The good thing is that I enjoy doing this stuff. Or else how can I survive ha ? lol

Past few days I didn’t get much time to draw also. I did some here and there but couldn’t do it over an hour or so. I got used to sleep early around 9.30-10.00 at night lack of time at home too. How ever I managed to find time to Watch some good movies!!! Check out the list and what I think of it in one brief.

Material girls - Average
Devil wears prada - Awesome
Gridiron gang - Good
Texas chainsaw massacre the beginning - Good
Guardian - Awesome
Employee of the month - Good
Pursuit of happiness - Aaaawesome++
Flushed away - Above Good, below awesome
Little miss sunshine - Above Good , below Awesome
Night listener - Good
All the kings men - Above Good , below Awesome
Beyond the sea - Average
Invincible - Awesome

And finally the latest art work of mine. Since the image uploading error is still there in my blog kindly check it here. I know u will like it.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47689700/

Brain freezes over

2007-01-22T18:33:00.000-08:00

I wonder why my brain is freezed these days. I have lots of things to do at office but I’m like a robot. Nothing innovative comes to my mind at work. OMG am I becoming like a government worker?:?? lol Hope not. Few days like this can be natural. Well I can’t be thinking my brains out every time any way. I need a break. There are people to take care of things. So I will just monitor them for the moment.

I’m working on illustrations about 2 hours a day now. That means usually I can finish one painting in about 4-5 days. I like it that way. Im getting more and more patience and that helps a lot.

There is a freaking error in my blog and I can post any images. So kindly visit the below link to see my latest art work. Hope its better than my last so comment on it ok? I know u guys will he he.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47158237/

By the way that site is a great place to kill time if ur in to arts and photographs and stuff.

2007-01-16T18:45:00.000-08:00

My apologies for being away from the blog for few days. There were some technical issues + I was getting busier and busier in office. There are few stuff to be attended and new projects for the year. Last week was a blast. Because

1. I managed to finished few of my long standing projects and now they are on the UAT stage

2. I finished watching 24 Season 5 on DVD and that kept me going the whole week. I know its currently showing on MTV but my way of doing it is not on local TV ha ha. And that series is just amazing. The ending is so shocking that U really wont like it. I mean its really awesome but not a happy ending. So I bought the 24 Season 1 & 3 also last Sunday.

3. I got together with two of my friends and had a ‘Prison break’ marathon at my place. It took us two days to watch and finish the 18 hour series (oh yeah) Luckily Monday was a holiday!!!!

4. I finished my first ever digital portrait. And here is it. This is my girly. Done using an original sketch over. Start to end in Photoshop cs2. Approx 7-8 hours of work.
With this art I learnt a great deal of drawing and painting a face. Specially eyes and lips. It’s a long and tiring process but I’m happy with the results. I know I can and will do better in the future. Maybe tomorrow I can upload some step by step progress images of this. So you can get more in depth idea of it. And please view full befor commenting :)

It was 2006 ...

2007-01-08T03:40:00.000-08:00

Thanks have inspired me to look back at my year and see what had happened. So my life story of 2006 goes like this.

I changed my living place. From wattala where I stayed for 5 years I shifted to Kotahena just 4 km away from office. After that my whole day schedule changed. I started to go to gym in the afternoons and wake up a bit late.

My Plasma got screwed up with some heat error. So I had to shift it to repair 3 times and it came back with the same result. So I got in a war with ABANS and at last they gave me a new one. Luckily for that I got the idea to AC my place J

I upgraded my camera equipment I went for my first SLR and LENS kit.

I upgraded my pc and went for some power which I wanted for a long time.

My traveling and photography went for a peak. I had about 10 main long distance trips and 1000s of photos within few months.

My long standing back pain turned in to nightmare and I ended up in hospital for 8 days. Life was never the same after that. My traveling stopped and with that the photography too. I didn’t step in to the gym after that and it’s over 5 months now. It struck me too much. I wonder if I can ever be normal again.

Being at home for longer periods inspired me to get back in to drawing after a long time. I got my second but a good graphic tablet and stepped in to business right away.

No significant changed happened in love life. I got the interest to settle down and invest on a property. Mite happen in 2007

By the street

2007-01-07T21:49:00.000-08:00

My latest piece.

Media : Digital watercolor.
Software’s: Corel painter 9.5 & photo shop cs2.
Duration : 10 hours

View full, enjoy and comment pls.

New sheriff in town

2007-01-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

My latest art work. 7 hours in Photo shop CS2. View full pls its big :)

Prison break

2006-12-29T21:34:00.000-08:00

I was also facing the common problem with the SLOW internet in the Asian region for the last few days. Some days I completely forgot that internet exists. Maybe its one step back to the Stone Age but I felt like my life has got empty for some reason. Well today it’s quite ok. I don’t know if it’s just a temporarily patch done but the connection speed has come back.

Today just like always I checked some news (Saddam is gone forever) , Browed my favorite photo and art sites ( Deviantart, Caedes) , read some reviews and gossip on movies and stuff to come and boy Im glad that the web has gain its normal speed again. Thanks for who ever who did that.

Last week was fun. It’s the last week of the year so I thought to stay at home on a weekday and have some time for my self. All the projects im involved has come to a pause since most of the people are on annual leave and the office is like a grave yard some times.(Not actually. People here are very much alive but they are gone missing)

I bought “Prison Break” season one on last Sunday on a friends recommendation and it was a 6 dvd set 18 hours long. But to my amazement by Wednesday I have completed it. 18 hours of tv in 3 days ?? Gosh! Im a tv freek for sure. But this is the most important thing. The series is awesome. I don’t know if it’s the correct word. Maybe its grand, breathtaking, splendid, remarkable or some thing like that.

Here is some info of it as per Amazon.com

Tangline :Most Men would do anything to get out of Prison...But Michael Scofield would do anything he can to get in (Season 1).

Plot Outline: Due to a political conspiracy an innocent man is sent to death row and he's only hope is his brother who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out from the inside out.

Plot Synopsis: An engineer (Wentworth Miller) installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to help his brother (Dominic Purcell), a death-row inmate who insists he did not commit the crime for which he has been sentenced to die and help him escape.

Now why are u waiting??? Run and grab it. I wont say twice.

Spirit of the season(s)

2006-12-24T01:20:00.000-08:00

My spine ache has started to reduce with the ongoing treatments and the exercises. At last there is some relief. But I have to be careful the same way as I was last few weeks for a long time. Or else now I know that I will screw up. Some physical problems are not solved even though there is no pain. Got the message last time.

Colombo has panicked and getting ready for xmas tomorrow. Im at office after doing some shopping in the morning. The places are crowded and chicks every where. Its kinda hard to focus on the road hak hak.

Shops are filled with various gimmicks sold for lesser prices than they used to. People buy stuff which they never wanted to buy and stacking them at home. Maybe they will not be used a single time for its purpose. Some are just for the show and some are just for pure desire. The message of the season has turned in to money in every corner and selling with a sigh board called “Sale”. Some wait for this season for months. And some just want to get the thrill out of it. Not like in the western countries we have quite a lot of festive seasons. In another 3 months it’s the Sinhala new year. And oh ya it’s the time to shop and get crazy. Spend all the savings and get noticed at last. After that there comes the Muslim new year!! Another great “SALE” season. The community runs like mad. The biggest problem is how to spend the little amount of money in hand when there are so many things to buy !!! Well in between these there are some more few occasions to shop and go crazy like the Valentines day and the mother day and fathers day and all that. Well all those “DAYS” are just perfect from the business point of view. Huge plans are already raised and massive budgets are already allocated and immense profits are already expected. That’s the spirit of the seasons to come.

Im gonna go home now. There will be huge sounds of crackers in the night. Some thing I hate but cannot stop. Another businessman’s dreams coming true is a pain for my ears. Wish every one a happy holiday season!

D2 rocks

2006-12-17T17:52:00.000-08:00

It seems like there are some issues at the bloggs these days. Some times its not easy to log on and some times some functions are gone missing.

I had a good weekend. Slept a little more than I used to and did some drawing work too. Out of the movies I watched last few days I think Doom2 and can be highlighted. Yep its Indian and filled with little little unrealistic action sequences and stuff but its a good movie. Unexpected turning points and awesome glamouring and glittering hot cast. This time is has 4 or the hottest in the industry at the moment. Hrithik, Abhishek, Aishwarya and Bipasha.

And another drawing of mine has come to and end. Enjoy!! Roughly 5 hours of work.

Akeelah, Hooligan and the Reborn

2006-12-13T18:36:00.000-08:00

These days are like mad days. I don’t have time to sit and work in my seat because of ‘This workshop, that meeting and all that’ shit. But hay its only for few hours of the day and the rest Im almost free. My therapy is coming to an end today. I still have a slight pain and I think I have to stick to exercises for that. Let me tell u 2 movies which u can watch to feel good about ur self.

Akeelah and the BEE

A story of an 11 year old back girl living in a disturbed neighborhood and a screwed up collage who is brilliant in her studies. And how she fights for the ‘Spelling BEE championship” amidst all the obstacles and pressure she faces. A story of courage and determination filled with hope. Watch this u might find scribble very interesting :)

Green street hooligans

An expelled Harvard journalism student (Elijah Wood) comes to Britain to see her sister and to get a way from his routine. There he meets a young gangster ( or a hooligan in this case) and gets in to a gang who are huge soccer (oops football) fans. How the life change for this young man and how he become the center of attraction is the bottom line of the story. Im not gonna say what happens next coz its worth to see.

Oh and here is the latest piece of my photo-manipulation work. I call this "Reborn. Remember to watch full size. Comments well appreciated.

Shock

2006-12-11T17:54:00.000-08:00

Whooopie!!! Im so happy today. Guess what?? This is my very first completed attempt to create a digital illustration. Starting from pencil it’s done by me. Concept, Pencil, Inks, Coloring, Effects and every thing is done by me and it took about 4 evenings for me to finish this. (Maybe because I’m not at all experienced in the digital drawings) Comment pls. I demand you lol. And oh he is a nice guy with some electricity ok.

Life on “Pause” again

2006-12-08T18:48:00.000-08:00

Just went the things began to go smoothly my spine ache emerged from the deep and started to give me trouble again. I know I should have taken the doctors advice seriously. He told me not to be seated for long , Not to travel over an hour, Not to go in 3wheelers , not to lift things etc etc. But I think at some occasions I have broke the rules.

Some times when I’m in to graphics or drawing I tend loose my posture automatically and be seated for hours at a stretch. I know its bad and Im suffering now. Went to see the doc few days back and he scheduled a week long physiotherapy session. Damn Now I have to go every day and get my spine straightened with few treatments and glad to say that I’am feeling a little better after 3 days now. But its just worries me I don’t know. Hay its natural right. When u cant sit or bend or do any shit that u used to do normally who will not worry ???

Im having some long projects starting from Tuesday and there will be very long work shops and discussions sessions to come. I don’t know how Im gonna survive them with this. Now I have to carry a little pillow ( Baby pillow as many knows it) in my bag when I go some where so it feels really good when I keep it behind when I sit. Maybe I have to take it to the project sessions too. Gosh who thought that this will happen to me hak hak.

I can and I will be

2006-12-06T17:51:00.000-08:00

From recently Im gaining a hell of a lot of interest in comics. Specially the DC and Marvel stuff. I might sound a bit funny there but seriously these shit makes me go crazy because of one thing. The creativity and the arts. What more there can be to inspire a guy like me ha. Im practicing on sketching and stuff these days and long hours on coloring techniques. Luckily there are a great number of help awailable on the net.

Below is one attemp that I did to sketch and color a charactor. This is done from the scratch by me. Pensil and then ink to scan and color every bit. So its hell of work so far. Im thinking to complete this pieace. I know its not perfect on the art but I have done some change to the line art later on. So the end result can be more symatrical than this and detailed. This is just the original line art and basic render. And this is a photo taken right off the pc screen from my phoone camera so the ogirinal is much bigger and sharper. Await !!

Lizy

2006-12-05T18:51:00.000-08:00

Oki Doki. Finished at last. Here is the latest out of my photo manipulation work.
Kindly view full and comment pls.

Stocks from http://anarasha-stock.deviantart.com and http://kittyd-stock.deviantart.com

2006-12-04T18:17:00.000-08:00

Ok Im gonna tease Lo$t $oul Big time !!!!

Its was a long week end for every body and a week end which was just made perfect to watch some good movies. For me it was these movies - The Departed, Kurulu Pihatu (In theater) Final Fantasy vii-Advent Children (re watched), & Black Dahlia.

And here I will comment on One and just only one FYI

The Departed
If some one who miss this movie I think deserved to be hanged!!! Let me start this way. The cast is Matt Demon, Leonardo De Caprio, Jack Nicholson & Mark Wahlberg. Isn’t that a fucking awesome Cast which gives enough urge to watch this piece? And it doesn’t stop there. It’s a movie by Martin Scorsese. Yes u heard the name. He the BIGGY who bought Aviator and Gangs of New York.

I don’t wanna run through the story here coz its just awesome and that’s all u need to know. Simply saying it’s a story of 2 undercover cops. When I say cops both of them aren’t really. (Just watch it its hard to explain) One ( Caprio) who works for a major drug dealer (Jack Nicholson – Expect him to be really fucked up and nasty) in his business and one (Demon) work in Police. Now why the hell some one works undercover in the police it self??? That’s where this movie gets the edge out of all the other movies of undercover cops and FBI and all that shit.

So now get ur running shoes on and go to the nearest Pirate DVD shop and catch this one. There is a good promotional ( I mean really good. DTS and all but bad subtitles) copy available on the stores these days.

And oh... Dont forget to thank me after u watch it.

Weeks movies in review (short!)

2006-11-30T17:33:00.000-08:00

Ok this goes to Mr. Evil.

Annapolis
A ship worker , boxer (James Franco) who looks for a better way out of his unsatisfied life joins Annapolis the marine force academy and the hardships he face and the clashes between him and his team. His survival against the best and the brightest of the country in this academy and again the tough captain (Tyrese Gibbson) who is determined to send him home for good.

This is not a movie about war or what people usually see in side an army academy. But it’s a story about courage and determination. Guys watch it its for you. An expect Tyrese Gibbson to be a real asshole.

Shooting Dogs

The heart shattering and mind boggling true story from the Rwandan genocide in 1994. This movie is a must watch for any one who does not appreciate what they have and that means it suits mostly every one.

How would u feel to live 50 meters away from hundreds of people with hatchets and knives who Is waiting to kill u the very moment they get ??

How would u feel to know that ur children will be chopped and killed in front of u very soon???

How would u feel that ur death is so near and the only person who can stop it has just abandoned u ????

I think those are few good enough reasons for you to watch ‘Shooting dogs’. There is a lot of blood and gore so girls and weak hearted be ware. The movie is an award winning masterpiece.

Sweet November

Im sure most of u have watched this movie already. I happened to miss if for a long time and got the DVD at last. It’s a nice warm love story filled with life. Its just all about life. What life any way?? Watch to find out. Keanu Reeves and Charleze Theron does the magic.

Whats new??!!!

2006-11-29T18:17:00.000-08:00

What’s new this week so far!!!

New movies added to my DVD collection
John Tucker must die,
Scoop
Don
Dead or alive – DOA
Ant Bully
Departed
Clerks ii
You me and Dupree
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Movies watched recently
Annapolis
Shooting dogs
A new world
Dead of alive
Sweet November

Sketch working on

New software’s acquired
Corel painter ix.5 (Thanks Thaks its great)

Eagle hq stock photos DVDs 1-5

New Hardware acquired
HP Scanjet 2400

Music listening to

Ashanthi- Sanda Wathuren

Flowerina

2006-11-28T20:05:00.000-08:00

Another pieace of my creativity. Lotus from my own photo gallery and the rest of the stock by http://lisajen-stock.deviantart.com

Kindly view full :)

KARMA

2006-11-25T00:23:00.000-08:00

Do I believe in Karma ?? Yes I do. It’s a universal law. U can call it destiny or gods will or what ever. But it’s a precise power or energy collected around a person which has negative as well as positive reaction and changes from time to time. It’s connected to the energy of the mind of the holder and multiple by it self and generated other equal or powerful streams of actions, which some times recognize and combines with other self’s karma. I know it’s a very vast subject. We as layman should not try to understand it other than the basics of it. Even in the Dharma its says so that trying to go deeper and deeper in to it will just make u more confusing.

My technical and science fiction mind see it like the internet. Places of massive storage and links created by others to it. Information passes via thin and thick cables passing these memories and eventually result a reaction to every action. An online account where all the good and bad things what we do get stored and recorded for future references. This account some times grow with interest and that too is positive and negative. More positive the account is it can reduce the effects of the negative side and vice versa.

Why I came to this point is to understand where I’am now. What’s the status of my account? Obviously positive at the moment and the negatives are just hidden some where. What am I filling my account with now this life time?? Obviously the positive ones. But is it enough to keep the negatives lay low for long. That’s some thing to think about. When the positive which I collected before runs out where I will be. Or ……WHERE U WILL BE??

Tablet At last !!!!!

2006-11-23T18:11:00.000-08:00

Here ye Here ye !!
I got my Wacom intuos 6”x8” graphic tablet. And it’s fucking unbelievable. This was my second experience working with a tablet first being the screwed up cheap “Genius” one. After using that I gave up the idea of drawing in pc coz it just sucked.

But this one OMG I can’t believe my fingers when it’s in action. It has such accuracy and control. I thought it will take some time for me to practice and be accurate with it but It didn’t take over and hour to master it. I can even write and sign on my drawing just as I do on the paper exactly the way it is. And the touch and feel of it is awesome. I have worked for few hours with that last night and I was thinking why the hell I didn’t buy this few years back and what a time I have wasted with the mouse. Here are some pics of the stuff and my very first drawing done with it. Don’t criticize it coz it was done just for fun and to get used to the tablet

And the stuff came with Corel painter essential 2 and some other photoshop plugin softwares. And there are some good tutorials and tips and tricks documents too.

** I recommend u to watch this full screen to understand the pen works better.

Dead mans chest lost!!

2006-11-22T17:48:00.000-08:00

Let me keep a not of two awesome stuff I did this week.

“Pirates of the Caribbean dead mans chest “is one of them. It’s an awesome movie which I think is a must watch. Not to be surprised that it grossed the highest box office collection around the world this year. I think it better than the first one. Watch it or regret later.

“LOST 2” yes u hear me saying it. I don’t know what to write or where to start when it comes to LOST. I was addicted to the season one from the very first episode and thanks to the government lost touch in between the season 2 due to the CBNSHUTDOWN!!! And now the original DVD is out and we here get to see the pirate copy of that (How fucking fortunate we are). If some one who have watched lost previously will understand why I’m so glued to it. Its just heroin baby. Here are some facts about heroin!!!

1. Heroin is an addictive drug, and its use is a serious problem in America.
2. The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose.

Now doesn’t that sound like LOST.

Sri Lanka series

2006-11-19T18:39:00.000-08:00

After working my ass off on the weekend I finished my 4 pack of Sri Lanka wallpaper collection. All the shapes are created using my own photographs.

I wanna

2006-11-15T19:32:00.000-08:00

These days are kind of hectic for me.

1.Some new major product developments and implementation are due and im in the middle of it.
2. It’s the end of the year so the annual evaluations and stuff is rising.

3. I have doubled my staff this year so I will have double the work that means.

4. And it’s gonna triple next year.

5. Some insurance guy is after me with a plan and I’m trying hell to avoid him.

6. My tummy feels a bit ‘enlarged’ coz I didn’t work out for 2 months now

7. I’m sleeping very late and coz I’m doing lot of image editing stuff at home.

8. So I’m sleepy most of the day time but don’t know what to do about it.

9. There is a new coffee machine in the division so I’m taking the full use of it.

10 Some times the fucking blogg username of mine plays havoc. I can't post new stuff or keep comments.

11. Some times I feel like I want to give up this job and find some thing more creative.

12. But I want money and I don’t like changes.

13. I wanna reduce the coffee and tea intake. I’m afraid of diabetics.

Monster SUV

2006-11-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

This is my attempt of another ‘photochop’. Created using photo parts from Toyota RAV4, Bentley Arnage, Dodge Charger, Range Rover, Porche Carrera, Porche Rainspeed vehicles.

CARS

2006-11-09T20:23:00.000-08:00

I was feeling totally sleepy yesterday coz I slept bit late on the previous two days. So I went home at 3.30 and slept till 7 in the night. Well its not some thing I do usually but I really needed it. And then I watched CARS.

Im a big time animation fan. I don’t think that I have missed any major animations for the last few years starting from Lion king. Some of my friends think animations are for kids. So I simply tell them to fuck off. For me there is an artistic aspect to It than the story or what age is the target audience. Every year I get amazed by seeing the ideas and the precision of quality the animator come up with.

When Finding Nemo came out I thought “wow this is amazing. How can they do such shit”. And then the Shrek 2 came and I thought “Damn these animators are awesome. How natural they have created these characters and textures”. And now I watched Cars and thinking “Fuck man. How amazing the animators have given life for some thing like a car which we never think it’s possible. And how the hell did they did it”

Watch Cars its amazing. I don’t know what u will think about the story. But the animation is huge. I mean HUGE. I know very little about 3d animation but I know it’s a hell of a lot of work and imagination plus talent to render a single scene perfectly. And that’s where the real commitment lies.

Employee of the month

2006-11-07T01:45:00.000-08:00

Goldy Jlo

2006-11-07T00:28:00.000-08:00

My creative blood is running wild these days. Since I’m almost stuck at home and cannot travel far I’am concentrating more in art and photo manipulation. After my recent experience and activities at Caedes.com and Deviantart.com I thought to try out some thing new. Even though I always wanted to create and manipulate only yesterday I sat down seriously and came out with some thing like this. I have posted the manipulated image and the source files for better understanding of what I did.

My name for this car: Maybach Goldy Jlo concept.

Manipulation done in PS Cs2

Sources from: Brabus Maybach 62, Cadillac STS-V (2006) and Bentley continental flying spur (2005). If some one want to point out the mistakes in this pls do so in detail coz Im a baby here who's trying to crawl. I and seriously recommend you to watch it full size.

Source files-

If you want to see a bigger file than this pls visit

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42630192/

Ask the dust

2006-11-05T18:34:00.000-08:00

Since Im back in my good health and ‘senses’ I experience like it’s an overwhelming to feel so. The dimensions of the things I see are back to normal. I have a sense of speed and balance as used to be. I feel interested in things which I loved doing and can keep on doing them.

Watched a couple of movies in the last few days and bought some new stuff too. The list of new stuff I bought goes as this:
End game
Superman returns
Pirates of the Caribbean- dead mans chest
Shadowboxer
Edmond
Black Dahlia
Little man
Cars
Groomsmen
Wind that shakes the barley
Shooting dogs
Sideways
Urban street bike warriors (Documentary feature)

I rarely get romantic movies which I feel like its good to speak of and keep in mind. ‘Ask the dust’ is one of them. Main characters played by Collin Farrel and Salma Hayek and the story unfolds in 1930s. A writer (Arturo Bandini – Wait a sec… This guy reminds me of Thakshila hak hak) who struggles to make a living and get famous hits a town and hit the bottom of his pocket after some time. And he finds this interesting Mexican woman ( Camilliaa) and the story goes on. It’s a love story filled with expectation and collisions between hearts. Its simply a classic worth spending 120 mts on.

Watch it your self & you will love it too.

Truth hurts

2006-11-03T01:48:00.000-08:00

Just floating...

2006-11-02T21:18:00.000-08:00

My bitching fever has gone down and im almost back to normal. But some times I loose my attention on things still. Feels like I can’t concentrate on some thing for long and suddenly feels like just stopping it. Maybe it’s the medicine or maybe its still under my skin an my body is fighting the damn thing. Any way compared to the some stuff what my friends went through I think this nothing so I just keep on coming back to work.

Vibrations guys called me and said they got down the Dhoom2 track so I collected it plus some cd (Best of ) of Snoop Dogg. I’m feeling kinda hip hop these days. Luckily the AV thing was completed before my sickness and its on show tomorrow at the grand convention. I don’t think that I’ll make it there. I just wanna lay low at home.

Ane machang!!

2006-11-01T22:14:00.000-08:00

Dont know who did the honours. But its damn right.

Whats more important ??

2006-10-31T07:52:00.000-08:00

Things went from bad to worse last night. My cold turned in to fever and I suffered from night to morning. The temperature was going up and down time to time made me go almost insane. I couldn’t get up in the morning and I wished there were some one to prepare some hot cup of tea.

I managed to get up and went to Suleiman’s (its close by to where I live) and got some medicine. That place was screwed up for few reasons. There was no number system so the patients were sitting here and there. And there was no proper sign boards presented so it took me some time and help to find the OPD. Doc said that I’ll be ok in another 3-5 days and gave some weird looking huge orange color set of tablets.

I didn’t do much today. Didn’t call office even to say that I’m not coming, coz when I came to my senses it was already passed half day. Watched few Simpson’s episodes on DVD coz the fucking TV don’t have any shit except for poor quality music videos and age old Hindi movies at noon. Half an hour in front of the screen started to double to headache so I was sleeping most of the time. The fever came up time to time but after the medicine I think it’s controlled now.

Its really fucked up to be alone when you’re not well. I seriously felt like I wanted to go home some times. But I know this is how it is every time. When life start to suck all the things you achieved begin to collapse in front of you. There is nothing compared to good health ha.

Well its night again and things are coming to a still. I hope I can sleep well tonight.

Jaan-e-maan lets fall in love... oh crap

2006-10-30T04:35:00.000-08:00

Another Monday another day. Things didn’t start pretty well coz I’m having a bad cold. Dudes say that there is a new flu in town ( well there is one every day) and to be careful with it. What the fuck im suppose to do any way?? Hide under the bed ??

I watched Jaan-e-maan the new Hindi movie on town yesterday. I’m not impressed of the script or the songs of that but boy I’m impressed on the sets and the superb cameraman ship and the story telling style of it. It’s a huge investment after all. Oh and the DON is doing pretty well overseas and it has become one of the biggest box office Hindi hit to run around the globe. Records say that it has earned 750 million Indian rupees already!!!! (That’s huge) Check out the stats here http://www.indiafm.com/news/2006/10/28/8110/index.html

I went to Vibrations today looking for some new Indian material and had some hip-hop stuff too in mind. Well eventually I ended up buying ‘Curtain call – eminem’ and ‘‘gangsta’s paradise ‘(collection of some good hip hop hits from 2000 onwards). And guess what I got the Launch show of the Sirasa super star on DVD. Well ya it may not sound that interesting but I got lucky that night coz I got 2 tickets to see it. Well I’m not talking about the grand super star show but the cd launch show of Ajith B and Shehan. It was a well executed show done by B&S productions so it was really cool. So I thought I should keep the show with me u know as a memory.

My nose is fucked up at the moment and I feel like standing on my head.

Training

2006-10-27T19:50:00.001-07:00

The glorious rainy Saturday morning has turned on to be a beginning of a training day for me. Let me think I can’t remember the theme of the training. I think its developing team work and supervising techniques or some shit (fuck that what ever).

I actually don’t hate training sessions. I know the company spend a hell of a lot for them and all they want is to pump some sense in to our brains. But “it’s the same shit, Different lecturer” is what I don’t like. And honestly speaking I hate role plays. They make me feel so dumb. If I was such a good actor I will find future in the tower hall or at Elphinston for that matter.

Poseidon vs Waist deep

2006-10-25T04:36:00.000-07:00

So I decided to cover up my movie backlog in the coming few weeks. Since I keep on adding about 10-20 movies every months that’s some target for me. So last two weeks I watched a movie every day and some days 2. But sad to say that I still have a pile pending on my racks to finish. From the very recent once I watched Poseidon and Waist deep took some attention.

Poseidon is a story about a luxury cruiser filled with millionaire people getting hit by a giant wave on the eve of the New Year in the middle of some fucking sea. It’s a story of survival and courage which keeps the viewer on the edge of the seat. Even though shipwrecks are not a novel theme for movies (Especially after the Titanic) this one still manage to light some interest with a story completely runs in a ship which is UP SIDE DOWN after the tragedy. That’s makes the sets of the movie interesting and a challenging one to show. Can give high marks for the technical and graphic achievement of the movie since it’s very well done. Apart from that the sounds are well synced and executed (That’s where the real DTS 6.1 thing comes to play). So the final verdict is that it’s a entertainment which worth spending some time and money

Waist deep on the other hand is a story about a gang beaten, drug raisin disturbed neighborhood and an ex-con who is forced to go back outside the law after his son is kidnapped in a carjacking. Story with a little twist but eye full of violence, blood, gore and ear full of the fuck work. It’s not a major achievement for Hollywood but I liked it. But movies like ‘Running scared’ ‘Get rich or die trying’ and ‘Hustle and flow’ made the theme more powerful. So comparing to those ‘Waist deep’ is a weak movie. But Tyrese Gibson and Meagan Good inject some tolerable acting to it.

Corporate S.H.I.T

2006-10-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

I got loads of stuff planned to do today onwards for an annual project. Once or twice a year some shit comes my way and that’s called a “Divisional-corporate AV”(AV stands for audio visual if your wondering). Let me enlighten on some steps of it

1. Come up with a script,

2. Show it to the management a few times and get it chopped and re-designed to suit the allocated duration.

3. Do a story board and most probably a graphical one

4. Show it to the management again and straighten it up a bit more. (Man this part is a pile of huge shit)

5. Coordinate with the AV guys and get dates and times for the shooting and editing

6. Find the models or rather characters.( Mostly these guys are friends so I practically beg them to come on the day that I want)

7. Find a narrator and give him the script to go through

8. Shoot the relevant out door footage. (This can waste a whole day or more. Some times visiting the branch offices and crap)

9. Shoot the studio footage including blue screen

10.Get the narrator guy down to the studio and finish the recording

11.Sit next to the editor and get the stuff edited (This can stretch like a chewing gum under the boot. Once I had two 24 hour shifts over this)

12.Show the final version to the management ( Another fucked up moment in my life)

13.Re edit the section to suit the management recommendations

14.Finalize the AV.

15.Show it on the BIG day. Some times it’s a corporate event, a convention or some other crappy get together.

Well this year any way I’am trying to get some assistants to work on this coz I don’t have much time to attend to each and every step of it. But when the thing is done and it’s on the huge screen its haven baby. The sweeeeeeet success!!

Food for the mind

2006-10-23T21:19:00.000-07:00

Even the tittle sounds serious the content is not even close haha. Since the festival season is coming up why not try these super foriegn foods for a change

Are u a DON?

2006-10-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

I know for most of us Monday is a bad day. But hay it's another day of the week just made serious by putting two holidays in the front ah? So keeping that in mind I would like to take some of the happy memories of the weekend a bit further by making a note of what I did. Just as planned I went to see DON and the review is a bit below. The nights are completely soaked due to the monsoon as every one knows so nothings special in that. I have made a few nice friends on the net and did some visiting here and there with use of 'stumble upon' thing (pls see the lo$t $ouls latest posts 'idle' comments for get to know more of that) apart from the stuff in office.

From the last 48 hours I have spent 15 hours to sleep and 9 hours to watch movies. So I watched Da Vinci code, Poseidon and DON. Regarding Da vinci code I won't comment coz it’s just another story for me with some religious background to it.

But DON is well ahead of what I expected to see. Yes I recommend it. Big time. For people who think Indian cinema is just crap lay a hand on this one and see. But take my advice before watching it!!

It has songs, dance and stereo type coincidences (like, getting to know that your son is alive after many years of gone missing and to ur amazement he is being watched by your ultimate adversary!!) usual crap but hay that the signature of bollywood. It's where the fun is. Until the first song hits the screen honestly I forgot that it's a Hindi movie which I was watching all this time. The film is well executed with much jaw dropping action sequences and the stunning performance of the big man his self, Shahruk. If you think you have seeing him enough wait till u see this. DON has few mind blowing turning points and that's where the story plays a big part. At one point the story gets so twisted that I lost few seconds thinking how the hell this movie is going to end. I think when the final twist arrives the audience was least expecting it since the whole theater went silent at once. Believe me when I say it. DON has all the glitter and glamour including top notch designer cloths, fast and furious sport cars and sedans, super luxury apartments and last but not least the hottest babes (Oh yeah ). As reviewed by Indiafm.com it's a well polished remake of the 70's DON. And it has a well made soundtrack which suits the theme and that's money and power. I got the OST few weeks back so I' am very much familiar of it. Sssso the movies will be on screen for another few weeks and will turn the box offices all round the globe as predicted. Tell me how it is after you watch it. I' am sure there are things which we do not agree.

Dedicated to Mr. Evil

2006-10-20T00:21:00.000-07:00

The first of the Three Pure Precepts is "Cease doing evil." Not so simple in today's world. What, after all, is evil? Evil conjures up all sorts of things, the least of which is Halloween masks or Tales From the Crypt. Evil is something we too often see as very specific. War. Violence. Cruelty. Evil has a face we believe and more, a face we are all apt to both see and agree upon.

I'm not so sure. I suspect the true face of evil is much more subtle and difficult to see.

Evil causes harm, it erodes life, kills, causes us to suffer. But, then, so does good. Choosing even in the affirmative always negates something. Perhaps it isn't the actual choice so much as choice itself? To choose one person over another for a transplant. One country over another for our aid. One battle instead of another. Or not to fight at all. So what is evil? That which causes harm? Everyday we cause harm. Is it a matter of scale? Or intent? Or consequence?

Is it enough to be aware? Enough to translate that awareness into some sort of action? I don't know.

I think my questions are important, terribly important. I think we do not think about them nearly enough and should talk about them often. We certainly don't pay much attention to them as we live out our daily lives. But, on the other hand, that's why we practice zazen, isn't it? To raise our level of awareness? To get mind, body, and environment in sync and on the same page?

hope so. I really do. Be well.

Rev. Harvey So Daiho Hilbert, Ph.D.
http://www.zencenteroflascruces.org http://daihoji.blogspot.com/and http://360.yahoo.com/buddhist99

Sirasa TV and LTTE

2006-10-19T22:54:00.000-07:00

A matter open for discussions.

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Subject: SirasaDate: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:52:31 +0100 (BST) Dear Sri Lankans.....Please take 2-3 minutes of your time and readthis.Read till the end.

> Rajendran Raja Mahendran who owns Sirasa, TV, MTV, Sirasa Radio ,ShakthiTV and radio lives in Sri Lanka even though he is a holder of dualcitizenship. When one carefully analyzes his activities it will not be asurprise to assume that he is directly or indirectly helping theseparatist terrorists.

His business empire was nourished by the then Government under JRJ andRanasinghe Premadasa. He was also close to the President Chandrika . Hispresent wife and children live in the UK and therefore Raja Mahendrancan be considered as a Sri Lankan citizen only for business purposes (?)His sister's husband is N.Satyendra who is a lawyer living in the UK. Heis a LTTE activist and his home in London is well known as a centre forLTTE activities. He is a senior legal advisor to the LTTE. According toinvestigations by the financial authorities in Sri Lanka Raja Mahendrancredits 20% of the profits earned by him to an account maintained underSatayendra which is presumed to be a front of the TRO according to theinvestigators.

It was according to a master plan of the LTTE that the Maharajah tookaction to get into the media industry in Sri Lanka. It's role was tocreate a mindset to accept the LTTE terrorist outfit and to popularize'peace' with the LTTE .At the last Presidential elections Tamil sectionof this media group supported the TNA and Rauff Hakkem's politics anddid their best to paint Sri Lankan major political groups as enemies ofthe minorities. The group gave a lot of prominence to the Norwegianpeace merchants and their efforts to equate the LTTE and the Sri LankanGovernment. Raja Mahandran, the owner of the group acts like a terroristwho is always attempting to change his living quarters and also the appearance.

His next major move is to start a channel to broadcast news throughoutthe day. He is trying to use a frequency he obtained during Chandrikagovernment. He is planning to import and use a helicopters for thispurpose. With his leanings to the separatist terrorist movement it willpause a direct threat to the national security if this man and the groupis given the approval to air a 24 hour news channel.Recently when a Police Officer was released by the LTTE , it was onlythis group who was able to broadcast the incident. In reporting therelease Mahendran's outfit did their best to white wash the LTTE We haveto ask why did the LTTE provide this facility to Maharajah group or whydid the LTTE extend a welcome to this media group.? In the finalanalysis the objectives of the both institutions- the LTTE andMehandran's media- are found to be identical in that creation of aseparate state for 8% of the Tamils in Sri Lanka under Prabhakaran getsthe top priority.

With the use of vast funds in the group the Mahandran had been able tohave his henchmen in many Government organizations including the PoliceDepartment. Very often when the Police organizes raids always the Sirasaor Shakthi media is there to cover the events live and tell the viewersthat their media is the first to cover important events.Recently in the Parliament Mr Wimal Weerawansa bared another ruseoperated by this group of using their contacts in the Parliament staffto air live proceedings of the sessions and special occasions withoutdue approval.

It will be useful to investigate whether Raj Mahendran's group isoperating with the funds of their own or is receiving funds from othersources?

>Have we investigated the circulation of billions of rupees owned by theLTTE and their fronts in Sri Lanka? Isn't the attempt by Raja Mahendran to practically monopolize the mediain Sri Lanka connected to the LTTE agenda ?

Should the country allow the terrorists and their supporters to make useof country's broadcasting rights to exploit the hearts and minds of SriLankans? Should the Government allow this organizations to put up transmissionfacilities in every hill top , some located in strategic places?

Are we blind to allow this media organization to mislead our youngpeople and make them an easy pray for the LTTE political ambitions?

Please circulate so we can inform all Sri Lankans who loves theircountry what's going on..Please do your part to save Sri Lanka from Traitors and corruptpoliticians

Good Morning Sri Lanka

2006-10-18T20:21:00.000-07:00

GOOOOOD MORNING SRI LANKA !!! Its a bright and sunny day here in colombo and I wish you all a happy and a joyful day ahead. Lets do some thing to make this place a better place. Even small water drops can fill a bucket with time.

This picture was taken by me at Hunnasgiriya and later on enhanced using few adjusment layers. I would like to call it as "Super natural nature". A piece of our nation.

Good day every one!!

CLICK

2006-10-17T21:14:00.000-07:00

I’am getting terribly disturbed by the current situation in the country. This week has being a hectic week for the whole nation and the losses are becoming vaster day by day. I just wanted to mention this but don’t want to keep on talking of it coz we all are children of war for over 2 decades now.

I watched an awesome movie yesterday night. (It was raining so I had to meddle with the volume a lot). The name of the movie is CLICK. Starring Adam Sandler (One of my favorites in Hollywood actors) and Kate Beckinsale. Just when u hear the name of Sandler, comedy and humor is what comes to our minds. But Click has a deeper truth and a meaning to it that some real good laughs. In short the movie is about a remote controller which can control the user’s life. Rewind, fast forward, slow motion, chapter skip, commentary and all that stuff. Its sounds a wacky idea is it. But how the directors have executed it is the real glory of the movie. I recommend it for every one. Watch it enjoy it and learn some thing. The message of the movie is so strong that you will be amazed to see a comedy which fills your eyes with tears.

Live to be good to others

2006-10-15T23:59:00.000-07:00

Isnt this what you want others to be ?? Taken from a web source.
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We live to be good people. Yet sometimes, I think we slip into just living, not even just living, but a sort of existing that includes going through the motions of eating, talking, working, sleeping, with no attention on what each moment of being is for us.

How do we live to be good people? What is required of us? Do we need to be superheroes? Heroes? Do we need to be Great Buddha’s? Jesus? Moses? The Prophet?

When we walk along the sidewalk, we notice an ant and step over the ant. When we notice there is no toilet paper on the roll, we replace the toilet paper. If someone is angry with us, we listen. If someone needs us, we are there. These are nothing really special, nothing extraordinary, yet so often we are so asleep that we step on the ant, leave the bathroom, blow off someone’s feelings, and turn on the TV. Modern life has many exits.

Attention to the world within us and without us: we are neither engaged nor disengaged. Whatever is there is there and we are with it 100%. Our body is upright; our mind is upright; our heart is open. Practice.

Rev. Harvey So Daiho Hilbert, Ph.D.
http://www.zencenteroflascruces.org http://daihoji.blogspot.com/
and http://360.y!
yahoo.com/buddhist99

6280 Migration

2006-10-14T21:16:00.000-07:00

I got to write about this!! I changed my phone. I bought a 6280 last week. I was using a 6600 for some time now and thought its time to move on. And before writing this I used 6280 with its full set of features for about a week now. So here are a few little factors (Without technical specs) about it if you’re getting board of reading long reviews on Cnet!!!

Looks -Looks awesome. Not so small and not so big this makes it very handy.

Screen -Screen thin but tall than 6600 with boost of clarity. The contrast and the saturations are well balanced. Pitch resolution quality. (Impressive!!)

Key pad -Handy keypad on the top part. The slide out key pad has enough space too but some times a little confusion can come up with cancel and clear buttons since those two are aligned right in beside each other.

Camera -2 mp with white balance, zoom and flash. No autos focus option.

Reception -I use dialog and it’s pretty good. Some times the signals drop out in some place where my previous phone was not.

Speed -Not Symbian so it’s damn pretty fast. (I used Symbian before so I feel the speed baby)

3G -Works well.

And finally this is how it looks. Oh no don’t get confused that hand is not mine!

Audits and drivers.

2006-10-13T01:32:00.000-07:00

Well I'am pretty board now. There was an audit meeting today morning and it went till 12 noon so I didnt get to do much of usual work.

Audits are good. It gives me a clear idea how my area is running and how my people are performing. Well I do have to evaluate them and give them promotions at the end of the year so I should know if they really up to the standard. Some guys hate audits but I dont. If there is some thing wrong its wrong. Who got it wrong is not the problem. It has to be solved. When there are problems and if some one is hating the audits I think they are equal to the Sri Lankan drivers. If you have exceeded the speed limit and why blame the cops for writing a ticket?? is'nt it funny?

Well let me share some fun that I saw in my email today.

2006-10-12T04:29:00.000-07:00

The sweetest article I read this month!!!

Bitches that ruin company reputations ??

2006-10-11T21:18:00.000-07:00

Some thing suddenly struck my mind when a colleague of mine mentioned a woman’s names and a company name together. And he said "…...." Company is full of sluts and woman out there are all bitches who is looking for f.. all the day.( Oh wait a second. I can remember I got an email once with some pics taken with a hidden cam saying it’s a scene from this so called company)

Now let me tell you this. There are bitches in every company and ever organization in the country. But some dudes wanna take some shameful fun out of attaching a company name in to this kind of incidences and make a huge fun out of it. Why ? I know one or two reasons. Some dudes go crazy over seeing these babes in short skirts and how they hang out at clubs and stuff but sooner get to know that reaching them is not as easy as it looks. So they hook up that woman with some Jon Doe and start out a interesting rumors (Some can be true but its others business any way). Kind of taking revenge or fulfilling some sexual desire I don’t know but that’s what happens mostly.

I once received some porn pics saying “Sri Lankan girl from australia”. But that mail came to a wrong man (me) coz I was a veteran in porn and knew most of the famous porn stars by the name. So I instantly identified that woman is Aria Giovanni the famous Italian porn star who now lives in America. And then once again a set of pics came saying what happened inside a call center of a famous telecom company. Some guy and gal making out in a small tiny cubicle capture via cctv. And guess what it turned out to be footage from an Indian cyber café which I later on saw at some other web site.

There are maniacs every where. But I personally don’t like when people attach company names in to a woman’s misbehaviors just because she works there or not. I have seeing better things happen in theaters and beaches for that matter.

Power Fish!!!

2006-10-09T22:36:00.000-07:00

This is fun!! from funlk.com

2006-10-09T02:20:00.000-07:00

I’am feeling kind of board right now. The office was busy as usual in the morning and managed to finish some stuff in a lightning speed. (Me flash?)
Nothing much to say about the weekend too coz it was filled with small small happenings which I don’t think is not fair enough to share and make u board. Oh I watched ‘Snake on the plane’ (piece of crap filled with stunning yet impossible sequences. Some snakes feeling horny and trying to fuck the passengers up!! )

Check out another pic from my collection. This is from Hunnasgiriya.

They walk among us

2006-10-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

These are some funny yet relastic instances of how some people take things in to their brains. I recieved this on email.

Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old, still working fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying:"Free to good home. You want it, you take it". For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting of this deal. It looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: "Fridge for sale $50". The next day someone stole it.

My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car it's designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk

I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman with a nose ring attached to an earring by a chain. My friend said, "Wouldn't the chain rip out every time she turned her head?" I explained that a person's nose and ear remain the same distance apart no matter which way the head is turned.

While working at a Pizza Parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time before responding."Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.

Yep, They Walk Among Us too.They walk among us, and reproduce!

AIR DECCAN

2006-10-05T02:36:00.000-07:00

This is fucking funny!

WELCOME TO AIR DECCAN ( hope you know this airline in India )Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen....This is your captain PATEL welcoming both seated and standing

passengersonboard of Air Deccan.We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off,it was due to badweatherand partly due to the search for a missingtyre.This is flight 717 to Mumbai. Landing there is notguaranteed, but we will end up somewhere in India . And, if luck is inour favor, we may even be landing on your village!

Air Deccan has an excellent safety-record. In fact,our safety standards are so high, that even terrorists are afraid tofly with us! It is withpleasure; I announce that, starting this year, over30% of our Passengers have reached their destination.If our engines are too noisy for you, on passengerrequest, we can arrange to turn them off.

To make your free fall toearth pleasant and memorable, we serve Complimentary Daru and VadaPav. For our not-so-religious passengers, we are the onlyairline who can help you find out if there really is a God!

We regret to inform you, that today's in-flightmovie will not be shown as we forgot to record it from the television.However, for our movie buffs, we will be flyingright next to Kingfisher Airline, where their moviewill be visible from the right side of the cabinwindow.

There is no smoking allowed in this airplane. Anysmoke you see in the Cabin is only the early warning system on theengines telling us to slow down!In order to catch important landmarks, we try to flyas close as possible. For the best view , if however, we go alittle too close, do let us know. Our enthusiastic co-pilot sometimesflies right through the landmark!

Kindly be seated, keep your seat in an uprightposition for take-off and fasten your seat-belt. For those of you whocan'tfind a seat-belt,kindly Fasten your own belt to the arm of your seat. And, for those ofyouwho can't find a seat, do not hesitate to get in touch with a stewardesswhowill explain how to fasten yourself to your suitcase.
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Restircted life

2006-10-03T23:48:00.000-07:00

Another long weekend is coming. To my amazement and my bad health conditions I have to stay at home without having any chance of going on a long photo journey. Long distance traveling, trekking and hiking for few months is a no no for me so here I’am wondering what to do on this weekend. Maybe I can work on some of my pics taken before at home or go for a movie with my girl or watch some at home. What ever it is I can’t enjoy them very much coz it’s hard for me to stay in one posture for long. Office is a tough place too for me these days because of the back pain. Every few minutes I get up and walk about for a while and come back to ease it. So cheerio I’am just about to do that now.

Here is a pick I took few months back while I was in Knuckles range. View full , enjoy and comment coz I wanna improve. U know what I mean.

2006-09-27T22:05:00.000-07:00

I’am feeling so “Hospitalastic” this month. I know I know its not a word that u can find in the world most fucking big dictionary even. Check my reason for me being so hospitalastic.

1. I was in “Apollo” with spine problem for 8 days in a row

2. After I got discharged one of my fellow worker got the flu so went to see him to “Sulaimans”

3.While on a party last Saturday night a friend of mine got a chest pain and admitted to ICU at “Delmon hospital” and he discharged only today so had few visits there.

4.Then again I went to “Apollo” for a check up on the spine progress on last Monday.

5.Last night I had to go to “Durdons hospital” with my girl since she was not feeling wel but luckily it was not much.

6.Today another friend of mine is admitted to “Navaloka hospital’ with fever so it’s a potential visit very soon.

At the moment I’am thinking how the hell I was managing this month will all these hospital visits. I don’t know guys I’am feeling so “Hospitalastic”!!!

Ela errors

2006-09-27T02:24:00.000-07:00

Is sex a weapon??

2006-09-24T02:48:00.000-07:00

We all like sex. It’s not what’s my problem is! First of all let me say why this came in to my mind. BASIC INSTINCT 2. Yeesss that the name of a movie and why am I so troubled over that. It’s the story of a slutty novelist seducing a psychiatrist and using him to get a mental satisfaction by making a twist out of his life and putting him in the mental hospital at the end. Yes that’s the whole movie in one line which takes 2 hours to watch as you may wish to. I watched it and I must say many does so because they heard that it has lots of sex in it. But believe me it’s very slow phase and the sex scenes in it is just a mere 0.000000001% comparing to the porno I have watched. So I alarm you not to just pick it up and watch it if that’s what you’re expecting.

History proves that woman can be seductive and ruled men at many occasions. Cleopatra is one example. How ever how many modern Cleopatras are we encountering day by day? As guys we may think that we have done enough fucking and enough flirting with woman and got what was some say is unreachable and untouchable. Personally I have being there. Maybe it’s a challenge to pick some woman and make her pose in front of you with legs spread. But we never know if its her or we spread things in front of her any way. There were times where I have spent for woman and given them what they wanted and at the end of the got some thing in return. It can be sex or conversation or some other help or what ever but my intension was not just to get laid. If it’s a woman who is worth only for that it’s another story. But come to think of it really now after few years of those kind of relationships some have really juiced me out. They have shrunken me to the bone and guess what? They were sluts like one in . BASIC INSTINCT 2. No don’t worry, I’am not in the mental hospital or neither have killed any one for a woman but some people must have ha.

My point is simply this. Some Woman seduces us and get what they want and let us think that we got what we want but….. we have not gained any thing after all.

"Apollo" chapter- Days of pain.

2006-09-22T02:56:00.000-07:00

Just as planned and expected I visited Kanneliya rain forest on 8th September. The place is just amazing and was able to boost my interest big time in every way. The forest was amazing the waterfalls were elegant and top of that the lodging place was cozy and well maintained. To my bad luck the whole area got soaked few times a day with heavy rains which I must say that is bigger than cats and dogs. Due to that I had to leave my beloved camera equipments at the lodge and do the trekking with hopes of coming back again on some other day. We chose a 12km trek which covered 2 main waterfalls and some other interesting trees and places.

The fun turned in to pain the night before the day which I was scheduled return. The spine injury which I had mildly for few years has given me so much trouble that night and I landed in “Apollo” hospital the very next day straight from the jungle. I had to be there for 8 days before I recovered enough to walk and go home after days of bed rest and hours of physiotherapy. Doctors identified it as lumber disk prolapsed or commonly known as slip disk. So I’am being very careful at the moment. No gym, no long hours traveling, no trekking for some time. I perfectly know that the start of this problem was a workout injury which happened 3 years back while I was doing heavy weight training. “SO MY ONE AND ONLY WARNING FOR YOU GUYS WHO LIFT WEIGHTS IS - WEAR THE SAFETY BELT “.I was stupid enough to neglect it and here I’am today. I was lucky enough to restart my system and will recover completely in due course but for some it may not. So keep that in mind.

Oh by the way here is how the thing illustrated by some one I don’t know who.

2005 Best head lines

2006-09-06T00:10:00.000-07:00

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says [No, really?]

Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers[ That'll stop 'em. ]

Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? [Not if I wipe thoroughly!]

Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over [What a guy!]Miners Refuse to Work after Death[No-good-for-nothing lazy so-and-sos!]

Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant[See if that works any better than a fair trial!]

War Dims Hope for Peace [I can see where it might have that effect!]

If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile[You think?]

Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures[Who would have thought!]

Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide [They may be on to something!]

Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges ![You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?]

Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge[he probably IS the battery charge!]

New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group [Weren't they fat enough?!]

Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft[That's what he gets for eating those beans!]

Kids Make Nutritious Snacks[Taste like chicken?]

Local High School Dropouts Cut In Half [Chainsaw Massacre all over again!]

Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors[Boy, are they tall!]

And the winner is....
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds DeadThe Man the Legend

Miami Vice

2006-09-03T21:11:00.000-07:00

Another Sunday passed by. Some time spent and office and major time spent on movies. Watched 2 movies which were completely different to one another. First its was “Miami Vice”, which is strong in violence and action/thriller now showing at Savoy cinema. The second was “Golamaal” an Indian comedy filled with eye cracking colorful songs and unrealistic comedy scenes on DVD. Its quite strange coz I happened to like them both and that happens rarely on a same day. Miami Vice was indeed up to my expectations and from the day I watched teaser trailer of that few months ago I was counting my fingers to see it. Sad to say the copy which is showing at the theater was a bit grainy and color washed like. I don’t know if it was an error occurred for that particular show time but I noticed it pretty much. How ever since the movies was thumping that was not much noticed after a while.

Today seems to be a busy day. I have few interviews to attend and that would be my last recruit for this year.

Striking history

2006-09-02T03:55:00.000-07:00

There is a photography exhibition on the Tsunami tragedy at the new island-Baray lake. Today on a short notice I happened to drop by with one of my friends. Since photography is my personnel interest and tsunami is some thing worth remembering the photographs exhibited struck deep in to my mind. It was the first time I came upon such touching collection of photographs taken on the Tsunami incident which was not revealed before.

I was in Kalmunai on the dawn of 2005 new year day participating on a Tsunami relief campaign organized by the company and its was a quite salient experience for me. I have only spent 24 hours on that locations doing the relief work and handing out food and other necessary items to the needy. At the end of the day I felt like the world has become a completely different place and life has become inexpensive and fragile in every view point. And I can’t even imagine how the people who faced the tragedy overcame and rebuild their lives. While viewing the exhibition I felt like I was dragged back to that feeling and the world had started to spin the opposite direction.

Udurawana

2006-09-01T00:44:00.000-07:00

Just enjoy!!

Iterviewer: what is your birth date?
> Udurawana : 13th October
> Which year?
> Udurawana : EVERY YEAR
> =======================================
>
> Manager asked Udurawana at an interview
> Can you spell a word that has more than 100 letters in it?
> Udurawana replyed: -P-O-S-T-B-O-X.
>
> =======================================
>
> After returning back from a foreign trip, Udurawana asked his
> wife,
>
> Do I look like a foreigner?
> Wife: No! Why?
> Udurawana : In London a lady asked me "Are you a foreigner?"
>
> =======================================
> One tourist from U.S.A. asked Udurawana "Any great man born in this
> village???"
> Udurawana : no sir, only small Babies!!!
> =======================================
>
> In the university, lecturer asked to write a note on "Buddha
> Jayanthi"
> So Udurawana writes, "Buddha was born in India & was a great
> Philosopher , but I don't know who is Jayanthi.
>
> =======================================
> Udurawana was doing experiment with cockroach, first he cut it's one
> leg and told WALK. WALK. Cockroach walked. Then he cut it's second
> leg and told the same. Cockroach walked. Then cut the third leg and
> did the same. At last he cut it's fourth leg and ordered it walk!
> But cockroach didn't walk.
> Suddenly Udurawana said loudly, "I found it. If we cut cockroach's
> four legs, it becomes deaf.
> =======================================
>
> On a political rally Udurawana was arrested.
> Why???
> A woman journalist walking with a badge wrote "PRESS" and He did
> it..
>
> =======================================
>
> When Udurawana was traveling with his wife in a three wheeler , the
> driver adjusted mirror.
> Udurawana shouted, "You are trying to see my wife? Sit back. I will
> drive.
>
> =======================================
> Interviewer: just imagine your in 3rd floor, it caught fire and how
> will you escape?
> Udurawana : its simple. I will stop my imagination!!!

What are u doin ? Just Blogging.

2006-08-31T01:29:00.000-07:00

Well some times I wonder if any one reads my Blogg actually lol. Even my girl and my friends don’t know that I write this. Why I failed or rather hesitate to tell them that is, they may not be actually interested reading. She will read ya but she already knows most of the things going in my head. When it comes to my fiends they are a bunch of lazy f..ers which thinks life is all about f..ing and f…ing I wonder why guys are so much in to this thing. Well I really don’t point finger at any one in particular since 3 fingers will point at me automatically. For a guys eye Big booties and jugs is the ultimate measurement to measure how worthy a woman is at a glance.

I watched “Tumbsucker” last night. When I watched the trailer I thought it was a comedy. But believe me its much more serious than that. Its nothing much but a collection of happening of a life of a 17 year old suffers from some mental ( I don’t know what ever) things and sucks his thumb. But there is a deeper meaning to the movie than that which may run in to any ones teenage life including mine. Watch it when ur fully awake and fit enough to be silent and pump some thing to the brains. If not forget this and watch WWF instead.

I will Wright soon.

Board while things to do

2006-08-30T01:59:00.000-07:00

Damn it I’am so board. I feel like yell and say it buuuuut it will not be good behavior in office. All I hear the sounds coming out from keyboards and mouse clicks. Information’s of some important upcoming projects are on my table and some unread emails which needs attention. I have gone through those roughly and immediately kept them for future thorough references. Well maybe some I will never go through those “future thorough references” even though it sounds crucially important.

SAG and KANK!!!

2006-08-27T23:07:00.000-07:00

South Asian games were super. Since as Sri Lankans we don’t get to see such huge events unfold in our own grounds it was worth being there. Needless to say that the place was amazingly crowded and the noise was almost making me deaf. I had my beloved camera and the lenses with me so managed to sneak up behind the official media stand and take some pics which I will remember as my first sport photo shoot. Here is two for the record

Sunday was KANK day. If you wonder what that is its not some thing like TGIF. It’s “Kabi Alvida Naa Kehna”. Since the movie started at 10.30 am and finished at 2pm (Holy moly) I decided that I should call the day by its name it self. The movie was good actually. Yash Johar is the youths film maker in India at the moment with Kuch Kuch hotha hai , Koi mil gaya kind of super hits under his belt.

Lucky number Slevin and the SAG

2006-08-26T03:12:00.000-07:00

I recommend “Lucky number Slevin”. Yes and I mean it. The movie may start as a series of events which is not relevant to each other but gradually cultivate in to a piece complicated puzzle and then in a to a simple yet powerful solution to it. Josh Harnet is powerful and the newly skinny looked Bruce Willys is neutral.

Today is Saturday and at last I got some tickets and the interest to visit the South Asian Games. Matter of fact I live in front of the Sugathadasa Stadium and I hear the noise coming out of it ever day. Honestly speaking some time I got really annoyed when it disturbed me while I was watching serious drama kind of movies at home.

So I’am ready with charged batteries and changed lenses to take some snaps of the events. Not to mention I won’t be able to make it to full close up but then again a try is worth than nothing.

SMS voting

2006-08-25T05:53:00.000-07:00

A piece of joke with the new sms voting trend by the media. Some thing I got from email.

American Intelligence

2006-08-24T06:31:00.000-07:00

This goes as follows.
First line - American Intelligence
Second line - Action By US Govt.
Third line - Results

Vietnam can be occupied - In future we can have access to china from here
Attack
It is a mess (Run away)

Japanese should learn a lesson
Atom Bomb
Thousands of civilians killed - A permanent stigma for USA

Russia is going to attack on Afghanistan
Appreciate them to go for war - Help the Afghanis to fight against Russia - Sell Opium to get more money
Russia collapsed Financially

Afghanis got Russian arms
Don't let them make a government
Afghanistan internal war for 11 years

S! addam is going for war on Iran
Appreciate him - Sell him arms (Don't forget Iran - sell them arms too)
Iran Iraq war of 10 years

Saddam is going for war on Kuwait
Appreciate him
A severe attack on Kuwait

Kuwait is occupied
Send US forces to protect KSA and Kuwait from Iraq Oppression
US forces are still in these countries

Saddam is no more with us
Sanctions - Sanctions - Sanctions
150000 children died due to non availability of medicine

Osama is going to attack on wtc
None
Wtc Attacked

Osama is in Afghanistan
Occupy Afghanistan
Osama is not in Afghanistan - Afghanistan is a mess - UNO should take control

Osama has a link with Iraq
Occupy Oil - I me! an Occup y Iraq
Protests world wide

Iraq has the weapons of mass destruction that we provided in previous wars
Oh - Occupy Iraq
Protest Increased

People of Iraq will welcome America
hmmm Go for attack
Iraq occupied - Hundreds of people died - ("We were telling a lie about weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in iraq" Bush )

People have not welcomed USA
Ask UNO for help
Iraq is a mess - UNO should help us

India and Pakistan are going to solve the Kashmir Conflict
We will lose two very important customers of our arms , Start bomb blasts on both sides
Hundreds of people died in Karachi Baloochistan and Mumbai
Mission Accomplished Successfully

Hammas is fighting for their land
They are terrorist - Oppress them
More "Terrorists" are born

Hezbollah is support hammas
Hezbollah is also terrorist - we should teach them a lesson
Israel is buying american arms

People of Lebanon support Hezbollah
Support attack on lebanon - The hate for hezbollah will increase - Kill civilians so that hezbollah can learn a lesson for messing with our friend
Hundreds of civilians died.

People of Lebanon support Hezbollah more then past - In future Hezbollah will win the elections
Oh shit
Lebanon is a mess - UNO should help us

People are turning against us
Ask Osama to release a new video
Coming Soon!!!

Its not that scary after all - Scary movie 4

2006-08-21T22:29:00.000-07:00

It’s really really hilarious. It took me five months from its release to watch “Scary movie 4” since all the copies I checked out was horrible camera or promotional ones. I hate them as much as I hate LTTE.

Well every one knows what’s the recipe for the Scary movie. This time they have abused War of the worlds, Village, Grudge and Saw big time and the crude humor some times is quite striking. Especially the once with Michael Jackson (look a like) and US president. Well the whole movies is an almost storyles piece of pieces from other movies and only good for entertainment and nothing else.

Gevi giys sathi anthaya.

2006-08-20T22:10:00.000-07:00

48 hours of my long and short life has passed by on this weekend also. Noting much that I have gained except for 2 new movies and some new experience working with RAW image files.

Watched superman returns at the MC and boy that was better than I expected. Since it earned only $ 10 million on the US box office opening weekend I thought it might suck. But then again the fault is with the opening weekend it self coz “Pirate of the Caribbean’s-dead mans chest” has drawn the whole America to theaters and earned super $ 250million in two days leaving “Superman-Returns” with empty seats. Well Pirates are still famous than Superman these days in that case.

The other one was “Good night and Good luck”. A story of a CBS new broadcaster who struggle to give justice for a navy personnel, who was charged for communist activities in the 1950s. Directory by George Clooney and nominated for Oscars last year the movie was what I expected. Completely done in Black and white and with complicated language it was a different kind of stuff than the day to day car chases and double barrel pump shot guns.

My girl is not feeling very well after the Nuwaraeliya chapter and one of my relations has passed away in kaluthara are another two short news. So till I write again “Good night and good luck”.

1500km on the road

2006-08-14T19:15:00.000-07:00

Oh my dear Blogg. I missed it so much (not really!). Aaah cut the crap it’s not the case. I was again on the road for over a week and I loved it. I have visited 3 different locations in the country within the last ten days. I even wonder how that happened since some was quite sudden.

4th to 5th I went to Knuckles range as planned via Mathale , Ratthota and that was a nice journey. The climate was good and the place too. Managed to gather some heavy photographs since I started working on RAW format for the first time. Covered one mountain trail with some effort and the mini worlds end too.

6th to 9th I was in Mahiyanganaya, Dambana area. There were 2 reasons to visit and both were official. The community project I’am working on at a school at Mahiyanganaya has still more to finish and secondly my company was planning to do some donations to the first and only Aborigines museum at Dambana. It was a fresh and an interesting experience the visit the Weddas and to learn a bit of the tribe and there community. The climate there was really bad since September is one of the driest months at the dry country. The burning heat was some times a real killer.

11th to 13th I was in Nuwaraeliya !!! Ya after the bloody hot dry climate of Mahiyangana 48 hours later I was wearing a rain coat and winter cap with fully covered glows. My girl and her causing wanted to get away for a long time now and it suddenly happened on that day. So I was almost like the tour guide arranging the lodging, transport and the places to visit.

So after all those traveling I feel like I’am half shrunk or some thing. I have covered over 1500km in all kinds of roads straight and bended and I feel like I need a break now. I have nearly 1000 photographs in my pc to work on and phew those are quite huge numbers for me.