Tsunami Alert

A series of earthquakes has struck in and around Sumatra yesterday and today. Tsunami alerts had been triggered by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center which I got to know from a friend of mine while I was at work. Brought back those bitter memories of 2004. Wish something like that never happen to anyone anywhere.

But looking at it on a different side, by going through the bulletin issued by the Warning Center, I was surprised to see United Kingdom under alert! First I thought it was some mistake, but scrolling down I saw DIEGO GARCIA which is now occupied by the UK and US military. From what you see at Wikipedia it seems to be a cool place for vacation:)

Thoppigala Freed-Colombo Not..

First of all, hats off for all the brave people who contributed to capturing Thoppigala. It’s a great victory for sure. But at the same time it’s too bad they have to close down certain roads in Colombo.

Being an IT guy I some of the time have to work from Customer sites and one such customer is base near Temple Trees. Couple of days back I had to go out of where I’m working for some matter, and on my way back only to find out that buses towards Colombo are being diverted via Slave Island after 9:30AM!! Darn! It was about to rain, so I took a tuk-tuk for a 5 min. max walk/crawl. And Guess what?! I didn’t know Tuk-tuks in SL run on Rocket Fuel(or at least that’s how they charge you)!!

Back to my point, majority of people in Lanka travel by Bus(like me). So why restrict buses and let all other vehicles pass through?

Makes me wonder, Why don’t they build a parliament in Hambantota;-)

Bumper to bumper.. Colombo under water!

I finally got a chance to get to know how bad a traffic jam could be! I thought I was lucky to get a lift by my uncle to Kollupitiya junction. I was indeed lucky, otherwise I’d have sweated to death in a bus First I thought it was some VIP on the go. Wonder why the LTTE couldn’t get their planes off the ground.