Music

After I’ve discovered my new best friend gadget that I can’t live without – my ipod, music has assumed an even more important role in my every day. I listen to it on the bus, and it’s a bore-saver especially during road closures for the parliament where the lives of the general public come to a literal standstill for 30 – 40 minutes to make way for the parliamentarians to get to parliament. Instead of chaffing against the discomfort of sitting in a tin oven of a bus, I can switch on my ipod and listen to my choice of music.

The other good part of it is that I have got quite a good selection of music which I have now started copying onto CD’s in order to preserve the songs I like best.

So life is very melodious these days and I’m happy.

Cozy Lunches with Friends

I have been the happy participant of lunches with friends outside the office these past weeks and find them such a lovely way to catch up with old friends and keep in touch. I often notice that it is not always what you eat that just makes the day, but rather the company in which you eat it with. Though of course I must admit that good food just enhances the whole experience a whole lot more!

Once Upon a Time – Ekamath Eka Rataka

I was wondering whether I had watched the same movie that all the rave reviewers seem to have seen or whether they had been screened something special. I wonder this because I didn’t see anything to rave about in the movie. The story line itself is of course from a short story but I felt way too much emphasis was placed on the character played by Sanath Goonetilleke. I felt that the movie was made mainly to portray his acting capabilities rather than share the limelight with the other members of the cast. I’m sure the audience would have been happier to see more emphasis on the girl and boy romance (or whatever) as opposed to watch the painstaking, long, laborious and I have to say this, boring life of Sanath and while I’m on the subject was there a necessity to show such a lot of fat, hairy, ugly leg of Sanath constantly. I think the audience would have liked to see Nirosha and the guy (whatever his name is) more.

Also I think basic logic would tell anyone if the girl believed the guy was dead and then left him in her bed until she went to a party and came back in the night and all that blah blah that the body would not have remained warm and supple and that if he was indeed not dead, there would have been some breath??

So all in all, in my opinion, the movie was a dead bore. They should have shown more of the other characters and less of the utterly long and boring bits played by Sanath. Oh I would agree that he is a good actor, but did he need to keep himself in the limelight all the time just because he directed the movie??

Thosai for Lunch

Dinush, Rams, Shahim and I decided to have thosai for lunch today and had Jayaratne bring steaming hot thosais from Ambal’s Café down Bristol Street for us. Mmm they were perfectly delicious for such a cold day (or is it that our AC is on high as usual freezing all of us as usual?).

The Mystery of the Low Battery of a New Nokia Phone

Hyacinth had dropped her phone somewhere and was forced to buy a new one, so she came along the WTC where Softlogic has a phone booth. She bought quite a cute little, rather inexpensive Nokia phone, but found that the battery was dying in no time at all. I was quite surprised because my experience of the Nokia brand has been user-friendly and good indeed.

On investigation what do you think the culprit was?? The constant news alerts from Dialog!!!!! She was getting all kinds of sms’s every 3 – 4 minutes which made the screen light up, thereby draining the battery. The nice salesgirl at the counter de-activated the alerts (or whatever) and apparently the phone is behaving quite reasonably now.

DBU Celebration of the End of the War

The DBU had a celebration on the end of the war with the theme to foster one country one flag theme. Everyone came dressed to the theme in one of the national costumes where they proceeded to select the best Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Burgher costumes. Kismet played fabulously. We had a table ordered just for the few of us and I kind of felt like a one of the happy little boats bobbing amidst long steamers of tables of 20 or 30 people on either side of us. Tea lights added to the mystique and ambiance and the best of the foods of the four communities was on the menu for dinner.

A lovely evening of superb company, food, music and ambiance. Lots of notable personalities graced the occasion including the beautiful Angela, the witty Indu, beauty queens of yore, Shirlene, Jennifer Ingleton and many others. What a lovely, lovely evening it turned out to be, with everyone dancing their cares away in perfect amity.