Congratulations on the Procreation
This is long overdue, but I’d say congrats to Chanuka on the birth of Bhanu Chiradeep Wattegama. Born Sunday, January 9th – 2005. In classic form, Chanuka sent out a PowerPoint announcing the deal. Also, congrats to Deshan on the birth of his child, and Channa and Sudeeva as well. I have only seen the latter and if that’s any indication they are all beautiful.
I must say that my opinion on children has changed since, well, seeing them. Non-theoretically, they kinda drive me crazy with the moving and the playing and the scratching and the watching TV while I’m trying to work. That said, they are much brighter than the adults I meet, and they give me hope that Sri Lanka can change dramatically in 25 years. I say 25 rather than 50 cause Bhanu et al will be, well, 25 by then and probably have his best work behind him.
These kids are born into good times, I think. I feel like where in a transition period where the promise of great knowledge is there, but intangible. I believe that these ones will have access to a world of greater education and opportunity than we can imagine, and that they will do great things with it. Or just be happy and have friends and family and stuff.
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told
I’ve been testing a lot of apps. A very interesting one is iPlayboy, from Playboy magazine. It’s bad porn but a good magazine, especially since you can read issues from its cultural heyday – the Mad Men era of the 60s.
I’m going to get back to blogging. I buy a shitload of stuff on my iPad. Not that I like spending money, and the exchange rate terrifies me, but it’s just so easy, and so good. For example, I’ve been reading comics again. Spiderman, and 
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