The one and only time I stole something with premeditation, I stole a book. It was a book written in 1930 and printed in 1956. In its day, it had cost in all 32 rupees. Quite apart from the subject matter, it consisted of a 1000 pages written in a style that is lost to [...]
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Book thief
Posted in Me, Nonsense on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Guvmint
Posted in Me, Nonsense on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When one has to write a letter to the electricity board requesting a service fuse replacement, not knowing the Sinhalese word for ‘fuse’ becomes problematic. Not that I don’t know it — it’s been a decade and a half since the grade nine lesson on household wiring. And a decade since the last formal letter [...]
Island spell
Posted in Me, New York & Jersey on November 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Manhattan, not SL.
I was thinking about writing something along these lines but I never got around to it until the friendly neighborhood spectralcentroid wrote something along the something I wrote about a month or two back — specifically, about leaving New York (reminds me of some movie… ah of course, Leaving Las Vegas). I thought I’d [...]
Wednesday miscellaneous
Posted in Me on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For the first time, I walked out of a pub with more money in my pocket than I walked in with. Pub quiz, of course. Second prize unfortunately. Our team was called “The Canadian Embassy Sucks”, ask not why. We jokered and canned the movies round but sucked as much as the Canadian embassy when [...]
Amateur Cook
Posted in Camera-Monkey, Me on July 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Funny things happen when you’re new to both the country and the cooking/shopping bit. Just the other day I’m hunting for sausages at the local supermarket when I get this funny feeling that, even though I’ve found sausages, that I’m not quite in the right aisle. To see see it’s the kosher department. I must [...]
