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Sex in Sri Lanka 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Whoever said the Sri Lanka
n community was conservative is either in total denial of the misdeeds of the youth of the nation OR still living in the golden years of bullock carts and home grown veggies! A few days back I was talking to a friend of mine who was born in Galle and us being the two horny freaks we are got talking about sex, and suddhi's! (White skinned chicks) Basically the gist of the conversation was that no longer are Sri Lanka
ns the timid, coy people we thought them to be….we're having sex like bunny rabbits at sex-fest!!! True talking about it out in the open is still taboo but casual sex with random individuals does happen far more than the average person knows about (or would like to believe) I think it's pretty well known that the "upper" class of Sri Lankans (the ones who can afford to go clubbing and partying regularly) also can afford to rent a room at some nice and comfy hotel and have one night stands and casual sex with fellow party goers! I t
3…2…1…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! What? Three weeks late?!?! How the *eff* did that happen?!? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What the *eff* happened to my money? Where the *eff* did everyone go? What the *eff* do you mean I'm three weeks late?!?! What the *eff* do you mean the holidays are over?!?! This is Sri Lanka you *eff*er the partying never stops…the music keeps on blaring, the drinks keep flowing, the chicks keep getting hotter and I'll never sober up….NEVER!!!!!!!!*sigh*…story of my life…!I wish all of you…1. Love2. Peace3. Happiness4. Joy5. Contentment6. Luck7. Love (again)8. Friendship9. ADSL!!!Thank you for everything. I love all of you. Take care and know that if you ever need me I'll be around. Cheers people. Here's to a rocking 2007…thank you for tolerating me during 2006 :)(I can't believe my first post for this year was about sex…is that ALL you think about Dimithri Perera!?!?!)What the *eff* do you mean we're outta Vodka? Who the *eff* is that chick glaring at me? What the *eff* is her problem? *eff* off you wanka!!! Get your hands off meâ Read more:Three
What Dimi wants...REALLY! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Whats does a 23 year old brat crave need and want? Other than (Junk) Food, (Alcoholic) Drink and (Frequent) Sex? I've decided to once again sit myself down and create a blog post dedicated to the matter so that in a few years to come i'll stumble across this post and wonder what the fuck went wrong, and when the fuck it happened!!! hehehe no no i'll stumble across this post and gloat about my Read more:wants
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The Demise of the HDD (Bemoaning the death of my precious hard disk) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I now have a rather cumbersome paperweight.
I haven't been able to function normally as my computers hard disk crashed about a week ago…I was happily watching a justice league DVD when the machine froze, restarted and then claimed that I needed to "INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ANY KEY" So after about 45 minutes of desperately trying to get it work I came to the conclusion that my precious
4 year Read more:Demise
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Categorized (ALL Women are retards!) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "Who needs men?"
"All men are bastards / perverts / losers / jerks / etc etc"
Recently one of my girlfriends broke up with her boyfriend of three years. No he didn't cheat on her nor was he uncaring. She just thought he wasn't "the one" after realizing her error she wanted him back and cried and moaned and moped for about a month with no avail because he simply wouldn't take her back…and as I Read more:Women
Depression. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You are my angel
Come from way above
To bring me love
Her eyes
She's on the dark side
Neutralize
Every man in sight
Love you, love you, love you...
You are my angel
Come from way above
Love you, love you, love you...
Go clubbing.
Get piss drunk.
Get beaten up bad.
Get totally drugged up on coke.
Go to a strip club.
Pop one pill of ecstasy.
Get laid.
Get drunk again.
Magic Box Mixup can't disband!!! And Mount Beach rocks!!! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Well this just sucks! Went for this concert called "just another gig" last night and to my shock-horror heard that my favourite local band MBM will not be playing for at least another year coz the lead singer Shawn is going to Malaysia or something…?!?! Wtf? No no cant cant…I'm going to get my buds at SriLankan Airways to ground flights forever till he thinks of something to do HERE instead of Read more:Magic
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Valentines Day and the people in denial. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I didn't send anyone flowers this year. I've sent flowers to someone, a girlfriend, a crush, a best friend, a cousin, every Valentines
Day for the past 7 years.
I didn't go card shopping nor did I sit and write long letters of love this year. No movies, no dinner dates and no clubbing with the crush (actually there isn't a crush) all I did was SMS most of my girlfriends…what is wrong with me?!?! Read more:people
, Valentines Day
I Stand Alone. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As an only child (Envy me) I have grown used to keeping myself occupied isolated from other living beings! I spend hours alone in my room listening to music, have no issues with going to watch a movie alone and I feel more at ease doing my work alone, and unaccompanied!I'm definitely NOT anti social nor do I have a problem with mixing with other people it's just that I don't understand the concept of "lonely". In all honesty I don't think I've ever felt lonely…to the extent where it was a problem. I mean I'm alone most of the time but not once has the feeling of being alone been a problem.I was talking to this slightly older girlfriend of mine and she was telling be how she was afraid of growing old alone…of course I nodded my head in empathy and vowed to marry her should things come to that, but later it got me thinking…what's the big deal?!?!Being alone isn't at all bad. When your alone you tend to focus on your life, reflect upon everything you've done an Read more:Stand
Mihin Lanka to begin flights from the 4th of March 2007. 2007-03-02 15:53:00 Just got confirmation that Mihin Lanka
has got the green light to operate flights
from the 4th of March
onwards.Mihin Lanka will be Operating Expo Aviations leased Fokker – F27; a 50 seater turbo prop which is supposed to be re-registered to Mihin Lanka as 4R- MRA. The inaugural flight will be from Katunayake to a place in India called Thivendran? Or Thivendram?….or something like that…Dimi isn’t sure! What Dimi DOES know is that he will be one of the crew members, namely the Junior Ground Engineer. OK so the junior part sucks BUT the engineering crew comprises of just four people so I’m guessing I’ve been doing SOMETHING right! The flight is supposed to be a bit more than a hour from Katunayake and my job is to ready the aircraft for its journey from our base station in Rathmalana to Katunayake, and then get things set up for the actual inaugural flight from Katunayake to India. Plans haven’t been confirmed but if the plane is going to return to base after the first fli Read more:begin
Mihin Lanka is CURSED!!!! 2007-03-05 18:26:00 I’m not one for superstition but after the suffering we went through I’ve am ABSOLUTELY convinced that Mihin Airways is Cursed!!!!The Fokker F-27 functioned fine before it was re-registered as 4R-MRA. Operating as 4R-EXF the same aircraft operated two flights to Jaffna every day for week at end with only minor problems like false propeller pitch warnings (due to faulty brushes) and the unavoidable worn tires and brakes.Re-registered to Mihin and the problems just started rolling in!Upon take off from Rathmalana at 6:30am the flaps wouldn’t retract. They were stuck at 16.5 degrees after a few minutes of trying to rectify the problem in flight we decided it was best to return to base and get things fixed. After touching down and retesting the flaps they retracted fine so we deduced the motor was weak. Thus the failure to retract in flight – with the heavy load imposed by the oncoming airflow. Changed the motor, performed an operational check and we were airborne again at 7:45am Read more:Lanka
, CURSED
Enough! 2007-03-10 17:18:00 In some ways I’m a complete coward.I’ve made so many mistakes. So many. Two stand out blaring and explicit. One with regard to studies and my impulsive carefree attitude and the other which involves this dump I call a blog. And after much thought and a few tears I’ve decided that its time I let go. I’ve simply had enough.I want to leave this island. I’ve been here too long and I now feel that I have nothing to keep me here. I used to be completely in love with the people and places of Colombo but all of a sudden it no longer seems magical. It’s sad really.My City. Colombo. My fondest memories are from here. No debate about it. Loud and noisy dinners at Crescat, followed by late night strolls along the Beira Lake. Endless Evenings spent at Mount beach. The countless nights clubbing and the quiet hang out sessions at friend’s places. Falling in love. My first kiss. And those hundreds of plays I went to watch. Movies at MC and bowling at Millennium Park. The Colombo Rowing c Read more:Enough
Poor standards of journalism and “The Nation’s” plagiarizing Gihan Indraguptha! 2007-03-19 18:12:00 Was happily checking mail today when I noticed an email from a close friend and fellow blogger who had sent me a little e-note notifying me that my article on Mihin Lanka’s proving flight was in “The Nation” under the subtitle “An Engineers Account”I had absolutely no idea that it was being used and worse it was edited to imply certain points that I hadn’t really stressed upon! The Author, a one Mr. Gihan Indraguptha has very conveniently used his excellent journalism
skills copy-paste skills to use parts of MY article without the common courtesy of emailing me and asking for permission or at least informing me that parts of MY post were published in his “fiercely independent” rather dysfunctional newspaper!I mean aren’t there rules in journalism to prevent plagiarism? Shouldn’t he have done some research to verify the contents of a post? I mean who takes blog posts and lands them in a newspaper? Is that allowed? I mean what if I had posted a load of rubbish? And wh
Whispers of love. 2008-02-13 15:12:00 What do you say to someone who means the world to you? Do you say “I love you”? Is that simply enough? Do those uncomplicated, straight forward words enclose everything you mean to say? Do they speak those unspoken volumes of human emotion? Do they encompass that feeling of pure bliss, the sustaining satisfying feeling you get by knowing your loved, needed and wanted? That absolute high you feel when you’re together? And that calming soothing effect you get lying in your loved ones arms? I think not.Do the words “Thank you” justify it? Thank you for the good times we shared, thank you for the millions of memories we made together, Thank you for all the times I will cherish for years to come. Thank you? Is that all one needs to say?How do you put into words that awe stuck emotion
The Valentines Day post! 2008-02-11 09:28:00 Stupid Cupid you cherub bastard you missed…again!!! I swear to god if I ever see you I’ll knock your giggly round baby head in with a baseball bat and shove your crooked sorry arrows where the sun don’t shine!!! I mean once is forgivable, twice was irritating but thrice and you’ve got yourself a war!!! You know what I think, you little angel faced shit I think true love is a grown up version of the tooth fairy, roses are the ugliest flowers ever to blossom on the face of the earth and you better start looking for real red hearts coz I intend on ripping yours out of your beating baby chest!!! As for all you lovers who gang up on the 14th and smirk at me from every conceivable corner of the earth, I hope you all spontaneous combust and that your lips fuse together should you even dar Read more:Valentines
Sustaining SriLankan – How will the National Air Carrier fair? 2008-02-10 01:14:00 Come the 1st of April SriLankan Airlines will be totally managed by the Government of Sri Lanka and her people. After being managed by the Dubai based Emirates Airlines for a period of ten years one wonders how SriLankan will hold up with the rising cost of fuel, the never ending war and the constant state of flux regarding its employees!In April 1998 Emirates bought 40% of the stake hold in an agreement which would give the Dubai based career exclusive rights for all caterings and airport services rendered at the Bandaranaike International Airport, later this would increase to 43.6% and with it saw that Emirates would control all management decisions and investments during the remaining period of the agreement. This would bring about mixed results for SriLankan which could be debated as t Read more:National
Picket this you NGO Fucks! 2008-02-04 02:16:00 I’m confused. A bit at a loss as to where my friends from the peace loving NGOs are right now? Where are those picketing heroes who proud about Lipton Circus? What happened to the righteous moralists who carry placards of truth and justice? Why are the noble peace loving humanitarians of Colombo silent at this time? Are you not going to scream at this injustice? Will you not stand up and bring to light the blatant horrors going on right under our noses? The injustice, the discrimination…it’s stifling! Where is your revolution? Your staunch devotion to the cause? Please please for the love of god and humanity…picket!Picket you bum sucking bastards. Bombs on a bus are violations of your fucking Geneva code you imbecilic wankers. Hotel Nippon isn’t a meeting place for military big g
2007 is dead…(Wasnt an alcohol overdose lu!) 2008-01-01 01:34:00 What a weird new years feeling this is…my eyes aren’t puffy and red, voices aren’t dull and echoic and I can stand up straight without swaying about and grinning…I do believe this is the first time I’ve woken up sober, perpendicular and with full presence of mind on the 1st of January!!! *gasp* maybe this is what getting old feels like!!! I can’t believe I stayed at home and watched the X-Men trilogy on New Years Eve…what WAS I thinking?!?! What a sad-ass way to end the year! Me’s is a looser!!!! (There I said it!)2007 started of pretty slow…I think that happens when you meet up with friends at 8pm and start of the festivities immediately…come 12 o clock and the dawning of the new year you’re lucky if you can do the “count down”…luckier if you can do that standi
Happy Belated Birthday Wishes Blog; DoE is Three!!! 2007-12-26 21:47:00 Three! Three! Dragons of Eden is Three!!! And how depressing that is! In the three years I’ve been blogging I haven’t actually gained a thing…actually I think I’ve lost out quite a bit coz of this damned blog…curse thee you evil three year old!!!Three years ago Blogger was the only platform most people had heard of and Kottu was something you had for 100 bucks at Pilawoos, I knew less than a dozen local bloggers and I used my real name to sign posts…*sigh*…those were the days!Fast forward to the present time and I’m dizzy with the choice of platforms and Kottu is almost twice the price it was at Pilla! In addition to that there’s this whacked out site of the same name with hundreds of bloggers and it even hosted a particularly entertaining troll (Ps. What happened to Pada Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, Wishes
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Living two-gether!!! 2007-12-21 03:12:00 How do HELL do married couples, college-goers, and exchange students do this??? How on gods green earths do you live in the same house with someone else??? Parents are a different issue…you’ve been with them most of your life so you get used to their (half a million) quirks and oddities!!! But move in with someone who isn’t exactly family and it drives you mad!!! So here’s my case I’ve been living alone for a few months and to save myself from going mad from boredom I invited a friend to stay with me (The ulterior motive was to get someone to cook and clean for me but that TOTALLY backfired)Now let’s get one thing straight this is a completely platonic relationship NO SEX, not even when we’re both drunk/stoned/horny beyond belief! That’s the way it is and that’s the only Read more:Living
Battle of sexes – in the skies! 2007-09-27 07:38:00 Dedicated to the girl who said “give me dildo and your tool box and I won’t need you to come to work anymore”Women with wings / flying females; worthy of the skies…or not quite there? This has been a topic at the work place for some time now and me being the little trouble seeker I am I’ve decided to bring the war to the blogosphere!!!I’m not going to get into details…I’m just going to state the facts as to why you girls should stay at home and do the dishes while us boys handle the planes!I’m not going to talk about piloting skills either, I’m not a pilot nor do I know much about the art of flying so I’m going to restrict this slander to the activities I deal with in the aviation industry - maintenance, engineering, and ground handling!Ok…so let’s start with the Read more:Battle
Rats stole my cell phone!!! 2007-09-21 09:33:00 I kid you not…its official!!! the rodent species has found the ultimate retaliatory attack strategy, after centuries of being rat-trapped, poisoned, drowned and even shot at, the race of rats (not to be confused with the rat race) have decided to bite back!Their grand plan is to steal all our cell phone
s and cause us to revert back to smoke signals and Stone Age screams and squawks!I, being one of the higher intellects was one of the first to come across this phenomenon; and for the survival of the human race and you, my beloved readers / fellow bloggers (higher human beings) I have decided to impart this invaluable knowledge to you.It all started with a few drinks…no wait!!! I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking “Aiyo yet another one of those incidents, where so and so ge
Leaving lovely Colombo! 2007-07-29 07:59:00 Smog, traffic, rat race, road rage. Errant bus drivers, obscene trishaw drivers and absent minded female drivers.Short skirts, female flirts and my sweetest sin!!! Street lights, neon lights, sirens and screams. These are the things I have come to miss since moving out of the great city of Colombo. I now live in a “village” far far away from civilization as I know it. Here the term “Main road” takes a whole new meaning, and “just around the corner” means 2km+. The bus I take comes every thirty minutes so with my schedule of things if I miss the bus I’m effectively half an hour late to work. Most trishaws don’t go on hires…they have fixed customers, like children going to school and their parents going to work….which leaves little old me watching squirrels run about and Read more:Leaving
Kaiser Kryptonite – Basic Engineering Modules! 2007-06-19 10:08:00 Good news for all of you…I wont be polluting the blogosphere with my nonsense for about 4 months! I am SO totally failing my basic engineering modules (Math’s, Physics and Electricity/Electronics) that I’ve decided to drop off the face of the earth and complete focus on passing these first few modules. I mean I always knew that the SriLankan training course was comprehensive and bloody tough…but in all honesty…I was SO under prepared for this! Math’s is tough coz I’m a retard. Physics is touch coz I can’t remember all those pesky equations and electricity isn’t really my field of studies (I’m a propulsion person NOT a blooming instruments and electronics person) so I’m right royally screwed!!!I cant wait for us to start on the engine and aircraft systems modules…I f Read more:Kaiser
, Kryptonite
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, Modules
Go get beaten up…It does wonders for your confidence! 2007-05-21 13:43:00 I still remember my first violence related split lip…I cant remember the exact cause but I remember the rusty taste of blood in my mouth, the searing pain that immediately followed and my eyes blurring up with tears; partly from the ego bruise, mostly from the pain! This of course was followed by a fist being rammed into my right eyebrow followed by a punch to my left cheekbone which remained swollen for two days and hurt when you touched it for about a week…some nice soul pulled me out of the brawl and shoved a “hanky” in my face to get cleaned up! and that was it! short, fast and unglorious like my first attmept at sex!At home I got the lecture about how stupid I was and my mother refused to sew back the buttons on my shirt. My father threatened to ground me and my cousin sat the
Room mates wanted: 1 house, 2 rooms, 3 people, 25000 bucks! 2007-05-17 21:48:00 So here’s the deal I’ve been retrenched at Katunayake so my family is moving out to a place called Pamunugama which is much closer to the BIA than here in Dehiwala. BUT I need to come to Colombo for the weekends because… 1. I have to work weekends at the Rathmalana Airport 2. My social life (and my soul) will die if I don’t get my weekly dose of disco! 3. I don’t want to move out of my room which I’ve lived in for the most part of my lifeSo due to this I need to figure out a way to keep my room while utilizing the rest of the house…so I’ve decided to search for room mates! Yes I’m serious! (I don’t mind if you’re insane, gay, white, as long as you don’t bother me)So the house is in Dehiwala; Sri Saranankara Road. There is parking for a car. A ki Read more:wanted
, people
SLAF to purchase four MIG29’s (Finally!!!) 2007-05-13 19:25:00 After weeks of staring at the sky and running for the phone at the sight of an aircraft the Sri Lankan Air Force has decided to purchase four MIG 29 air superiority fighters. (The 5th aircraft is reportedly being leased from the Ukrainians for initial training and combat situations) This in my humble opinion is one of the best decisions we have come up with in recent times!The MIG29 – “Fulcrum” is by far one of the best air to air attack aircrafts operating in today’s airspace, in close range combat simulations it has out-performed legends like the Tomcat F14, the F15 Eagle, the F16 fighting falcon (Recognized by many as the best plane in military aviation history) and even the current hotshot F18 Hornet!The MIG29 is best suited for the Sri Lankan situation for multiple reasons.It Read more:Finally
Oh Facebook…how I love thee! 2007-05-11 07:33:00 Losers come in many shapes and sizes…their mostly short and fat; but the sure fire way to find out if someone is a total and complete loser is to check out their online lifestyle! No email, no chats, no stupid groups and chances are you’re probably as cool as Aerosmith! Just on MSN and your right up there with Diddy and 50cent! And finally if you’re just on HI5 you’re what we call “Godey” (roughly translated – Cheap Loser) If by some weird twist of fate your on ALL the above mentioned things…you should consider jumping off a bridge coz chances are the only chick who likes talking to you is named “power puff pokemon” and stays in Japan!!!But wait…sad has yet another lower level…where the bottom dwellers lurk…its dark, cold and smells like feet here…its *drum roll Read more:Facebook
, love thee
Suit up or shut up! – Shooting down the LTTE Air force. 2007-05-03 08:49:00 I am simply sick of people going on and on and on about how incompetent the Sri Lankan air force is!“We have better aircraft…what are we doing with them” “What were we doing till they came, bombed and left?” “How come we let them get away?”People seem to be of the notion that Kfirs, MIG’s, F7’s and the MI-24 Helicopter gun ships are all we need to knock the LTTE out of the skies…and what’s worse is the fact that you proclaim this shallow opinion in public as if it was a hard fact…even the newspapers carry articles implying that we should have “given chase” etc!Firstly the famed Kfir’s…Search the net and you will come to learn that Kfir’s are classified as “multi role fighters” meaning they are capable of attacking both ground and air targets...however Read more:Air force
A SriLankan Interview 2007-04-16 10:05:00 For those of you simply hated my long and wavy hair…its gone now so you can all be relived or be happy or do whatever it is you do every time I cut my hair!!! No I didn’t cut my hair to please you (you’re irrelevant to me) I cut my hair, because however much I claim that I don’t give a **** about what other people think of me…I sometimes, occasionally do! Today was one of those days…Got a mail a few weeks back notifying me that I was selected for an interview at SriLankan Airways…this was after one hell of an exam which I was SURE I had failed…but somehow, apparently, I’m not as half as stupid as I think I am!?!So I shaved, and cut my hair and wore this absolutely sexy black / blue shot effect tie with a equally awesome shirt…I looked stunning if I should say so myself
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