Big Brother is watching? And you can watch too!

Happened to stumble on http://www.keyhole.com/. Scary. Its still downloading (19%). Wonder if I could see APIIT?

Eid Visits

I had the fortune of visiting a close friends house for Eid. While I was indulging myself on the sweets which were so lavishly spread, many "visitors" came and went. They came in, exchanged salaams, then went straight to the spread, had a few morsels, and then went out. This whole process took the better half of ten minutes.

This was the first time that I encountered such "visits", for eid. Generally, when we visit relatives, its a tedious affair of socializing and various threats and exhtortions coming from the hosts to have more of their sumptuous food. The minimum time spent would be half an hour. What I experienced yesterday was such a "paradigm shift". Is this another one of those "instant mode" by products, I wonder?

I, however, managed to indulge myself for the good part of an hour, before finally taking my leave.

The Festival Farce

Yesterday was Eid, and uncharacteristically, we ordered food from out, instead of preparing it at home. Man, the crowd at the caterer joint! What ever happened to the age old tradition of home made food and sweets and stuff. Have they been overwhelmed by the modern wave of instant mode?

And the worst part is that the food was bad. It was bland and totally unworthy of a festival spread. Guess it will have to be home cooked stuff for the next festival! Maybe I should cook... I'm sure it'll be better than what we bought yesterday.

An Event

Was shopping last saturday with my sister, and as usual was searching for parking space. Happened to find a small avenue, and I double parked behind a van. The guy working in the liquor store adjacent to the avenue, told us that it was ok to park. When we returned, we saw antoher car parked behind us. My initial reaction was anger and I wanted to show it in no uncertain terms. You know how stressful shopping and driving can be, dont you? But somehow I managed to curb my anger, as the lady inside showed her five digits indicating "give us five minutes". Did I mention that there was a baby inside as well? No? Well, there was a baby inside as well!

After waiting for more than fifteen minutes, patiently, till the husband arrives, I decided to go into wherever the gentleman driver had decided to perch his good self and inform him of my predicament, and kindly persuade him to let us go. I politely asked the lady for details on how to identify her husband, and went into the photo processing joint which was adjacent to the main road. There, I tried to find the gentleman driver, and guess what? He was an old friend of mine from school!! And boy, was I glad that I behaved in a civilized manner!! He was a junior prefect in school and he would have expected that of me. It turns out that his wife also knows me by name and reputation. Henceforth, I shall be the most civilized driver on the streets of Colombo!

Premature Babies

Yesterday was the naming ceremony of Prithvi, the son of one of my close colleagues. He was born premature. However, his age is legally six months, eventhough he was premature by about two months. Aren't these kind of babies at a disadvantage?

Shouldn't the two months "prematureness" be deducted from their age? Then again what can two months of deduction give you. The only affect is if you are born in the border months of december or january. Then it affects school admissions. So, should it be deducted or not?

I dont use the PROXY!!!

For those of you who doubt the accuracy of the previous blog, and claim that I "hit my own blogs", I tell you, I dont use the PROXY for my surfing!

The hits were based on a new surfing monitor tool which we installed on the web PROXY.

So there!!! Humph!!!

Blogspot hits at APIIT

The results of the top ten hits for blog posts accessed through APIIT's proxy.

charndika.blogspot.com 60 Hits
brumoon.blogspot.com 42 Hits
feshala.blogspot.com 39
upake.blogspopt.com 21
goingetstough.blogspot.com 20
gamindu.blogspot.com 19
aravinda.blogspot.com 16
slothwastaken.blogspot.com 14
harendra.blogspot.com 14
aashika.blogspot.com 11

From 26th September to 2nd November 2004, 13:39 (+0600GMT)