Month: May 2004

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Fur-Bound Adventure at the Animal Welfare and Protection Agency

Richard wants me to do an article on the stray dog situation here. I’m all fine with…

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The Mango Tree

And I’m not referring to one growing in someone’s backyard. Nope. I’m referring to the restaurant by…

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Police Most Corrupt Organization

On the local news, at least the one in English, most mornings, perhaps all mornings? the news…

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monkey on rooftop

Fahim’s been talking, sporadically, about a monkey on a rooftop that he can see out our living…

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Internet. Yay.

Yeah, I know. Blog is having problems. I published today, but somehow the images didn’t work. Boo…

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More on Monsoons

I know I don’t talk about the monsoon every day – even though it’s happening every day….

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And then there were none. . .

That was what I wanted, anyway. The frenetic dancing ants were back. Ugh. I had to de-insect…

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If the Tamils have their own police. doesn’t that mean they already have their own state?

Yeah. I don’t know either, but it sure does pose an interesting question. . . . Watching…

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invasion of the tiny frenetic dancing ants

Ugh. You do NOT want to be living in my house right now. I’ve talked (written) a…

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Fahim Finds Floss

Fahim went to the grocery store and picked up a few things. Among them was floss. What?…

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It’s all the government’s fault! Everything!

On the drive back, I was in a car with Nehal and Lionel. Lionel, if I had…

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Negumbo again

I went to Negumbo again today. I was hoping to have a family history consultant to train,…

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homemaking – compassionate service project

We, along with Colombo 2nd Branch, put together 300 newborn kits for destitute mothers at the DeSoysa…

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Abandoned Property Next Door Gets Facelift

Two men, labourers, showed up next door this morning, about 9 am, and started hacking away at…

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Desiccated Coconut Found

I’ve mentioned before that the grocery stores here don’t use barcode scanners (although Arpico seems to be…

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Floss

Only here would something like FLOSS warrant it’s own heading. I ran out of one type of…

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Kurrakan, Dude

I talked about kurrakan a while ago after we bought a box of chocolate flavored kurrakan breakfast…

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musical trishaws not just for ice cream

I told you about the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer tuning ice cream trishaws. Meaning, that’s the…

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Yes, we have no bananas . . .

Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image…

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Fahim buys more sweets. Or snacks. Or something.

Fahim bought some groceries today. And among what he bought were these two bags. The Ginger Fingers…

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Fahim Showers

Yes, it may shock you that I’m willing to post a picture of dearest taking a shower….

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Fahim has a strange sense of style

But I don’t care. He’s an adult. He’s responsible for himself. He can do whatever he wants….

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Duel Comets in the Night Sky

Now read it again if you didn’t notice it the first time. Have you noticed it yet?…

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Transportation habits in Sri Lanka

This is something else I haven’t mentioned much, if at all, in here. I’ve mentioned the driving…

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And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .

You’d think they’d learn. Eventually. Evidently, they have not. It’s a truck carrying a load of scrap…