Dream into Reality

[...] It is now eight years since I returned to Sri Lanka, after 33 years living overseas, 18 in the United Kingdom, and 15 in the United States. There [...]

[...] way, that was payment enough. No wonder his life has touched the whole gammet of businessmen in Sri Lanka, with Sir Chittampalam Gardiner being his first client, when he ventured out on his own around [...]

[...] a united family with wives and children, (also in University) something that is rarely found in Sri Lanka these days. Though her family were now economically in good health, she still chose to go to [...]

[...] from that devastation, but not being able to get the best of health care money can buy in Sri Lanka has been a source of irritation, especially as there has been no assistance forthcoming from [...]

[...] On April 1st we had a packed day of events in Minneriya beginning with a daham pasala (sunday school) of 400 students studying under the trees in Nagalakanda Minneriya, with few school rooms to [...]

[...] a Provincial Councillor to go about distributing items. The first stop was at a fairly large Sunday School, of over 900 students namely at the Deepaduththamarama Purana Vihare in Nivandama, where 5 [...]

 When I snuck off to Minneriya over the Vesak holidays, people asked me why, as I would miss all the light shows in Colombo. Living on Gregory’s Ro [...]

Getting the most of a 4 day break, even while taking public transport is an opportunity to savor some quiet tranquil moments, even though it was inter [...]

Hours, days and months keep passing. There was a time I had time for blogging, to take photos, and include them in the blog from time to time in a rel [...]

July 8th 2013 Mr Rauf Hakeem MP Minister of Justice Law Courts Complex Aluth Kade, Colombo 11 Dear Sir, Re: The accident caused by your MSD prot [...]

[...] hut, I went there yesterday to relax in an easy chair in the shade. It is quiet and with the windy season in full swing in the area, a clear breeze blows with the sound of rustling leaves a perfect [...]

[...] caught the earlier bus that had just left, I would have been here an hour earlier. It is the windy season, and there is a cool breeze that blows due to the tank by the property as well as the two [...]

[...] There was a meeting in the Hingurakgoda town where local people came and we also gave sports equipment to some sports clubs which are starved off equipment to play sports in the evenings and [...]

[...] Govinna, a teacher at St Benedicts College, Colombo, we spent the afternoon giving sports equipment to sports clubs in the area. The photo above shows some boys holding onto the [...]

[...] . We then had a meeting at one of our active members homes, where we distributed Chillington Crocodile Mammoties to a Farmer organization and then after lunch there visited two two temples in the [...]

[...] with being able to find a reasonable price for their produce. They were given some Chillington Crocodile Mammoties There was a meeting in the Hingurakgoda town where local people came and we also gave [...]

[...] would then have been 55, the same age I am now. More than would be the case for others, Upali Wijewardene had a direct influence on our lives, as my father was his financial advisor, and unlike many [...]

[...] and then hung them on a jam tree outside the verandah over the pond. I am in my property in Ratmale Minneriya, and so we had to improvise a lot as we do not have power here and it is all lamplight [...]