When i got the tickets for the Australia Vs Pakistan match played at Colombo over the weekend i didn’t expect much. After all Sri Lanka wasn’t playing, it was a poya Holiday hence no booze & missing were the dozens of papare bands that make the Sri Lankan cricket atmosphere so unique. But it was an electric atmosphere all the same, the pakis were doing mexican waves the whole time & managed to get the entire ground involved, they continuously harassed any australian supporters passing by & everyone joined in to abuse some indian fans trying to be too smart by running up & down the stand waving their flags when they had nothing to do with either the match or the venue. The quarters with Sri Lanka in it guarantees to be infinitely better. It will be nice to beat the poms again at this stage of the tournament. Brings back pleasant memories from 1996.
Simply the best! RPICG
Not a lot to report
Was going through the Kottu Blogroll this morning after a lapse of probably a year or more. Found some interesting posts from a lot of blogs I’ve never read before & noticed that for some reason my blog is still listed there, quite surprised to be honest given that I haven’t posted anything in months. There’s not been much to report to be honest. Nothing out of the ordinary.
I haven’t been out of Colombo for quite a few months & that’s not great news given how limited your options can be on a boring saturday afternoon in Colombo. The last time was probably Wasgamuwa, which turned out to be everything I would ever want out of ”getting out of Colombo”. The drive was spectacular, especially the stretch beyond Dabulla to wasgamuwa, where there were quite a few breathtaking straights with high mountains on either side & the early evening sunlight somehow finding its way onto the road in front of us. We also managed to see about 300 elephants after spending 2 whole days inside the park. The fact that all 300 elephants were seen in a brief 20 minute period didn’t dampen the spirits of my Eco friendly friends who thought that they had witnessed the second coming of the messiah. But really, I sort of understood what they felt, even though I didn’t feel the same way. I was just glad that the 2 days weren’t an absolute waste of time & I could proudly tell my mother ”we saw 300 elephants”. (Explaining why we didn’t see any elephants in Wasgamuwa after 2 days inside the park to my mother would have been a painful process). Back at the bungalow I managed to walk across a paddy field which was due to be prepared for sowing in the coming weeks & I found myself at the foot of what looked like a eucalyptus tree with a tree house on top. ”Pal rekeema sadaha Yoda gamu lebe”. It overlooked an expanse of paddy fields which stretched as far as the horizon, ( no really… it did), and it apparently went all the way up to the banks of the mahaweli river which was miles away. It would have been the ideal place/moment to light up a J. It would have also guaranteed that I fell off the tree instead of climbing down since the entire structure was so unstable & made scary creaking sounds the whole time as the hot/dry wind blew the tree from side to side. I seriously wouldn’t mind if my current office relocated to Wasgamuwa, I doubt I’d want to be a farmer like many of the locals, but I certainly wouldn’t mind spending more time in that sort of surroundings.
I tried to do another Mirissa weekend in january. So i rang up Sunil the owner of the small guess house i usually stay at for just 2500rs a night & 3500rs with air conditioning, (i usually skip the ac). I was a bit shocked to find out that he was block booked up until march & a non ac room was going at US$95. So much for Mirissa… I’m still kind of paying off some credit card debt so that was just too much of a stretch.
Hopefully I will enjoy posting on this blog again, this was certainly enjoyable. But it’s just that there’s beenlittle that’s note worthy to write about.
