Friday Happenings

My social life is generally restricted to, uh, this but there are two events tonight. I can only make one, which is the Serendipity launch at Tantra. The other event is the Gypsie’s Ball, organized by my friend Kamini. As mentioned previously, Serendipity is a Sri Lankan expat mag based in the UK. I think there are actually like 200,000 expats in UK or thereabouts (off top of my head) and prolly more in Canada. Toronto is actually the second biggest Sri Lankan city, after Colombo. As such, Serendipity can reach a larger audience than most local stuff, where 5,000 is considered respectable circulation. Anyways, I’ll be at this launch thing at Tantra. I’ll be the dork blowing his nose and nursing a mineral water (my dad gave me a cold).
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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