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- A bridge near Clarke Quay
- A Buddhist temple we pass
- A building beside the railroad tracks
- A chameleon on our doorstep!
- A Flying Dog
- A Job Offer
- A lizard came for a visit…
- A monitor lizard crossing the road in Sri Lanka
- A new adventure in New Zealand
- A palm tree in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- A Public Bus
- A red building
- A Room With A View
- A Singaporean Wildlife Bridge…
- A Squirrel and A Bird Come Visiting
- A Squirrel and a Chameleon Meet…
- A Squirrel Is A-Frolickin’
- A tailor shop in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- A Taste of Culture Shock
- A typical main-ish road in Sri Lanka
- A Window in Little India, Singapore.
- About Sri Lanka
- About the Author
- Again
- An Elephant and a Perahara
- An elephant at work
- And another one…
- And It Begins . . .
- And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .
- Another Singapore Sunrise
- Are cows everywhere in Sri Lanka?
- Arriving in Sri Lanka
- Ascott Building
- Atikukula or Greater Coucal
- Attack! of the Sand Creatures!!!
- Back pain.
- Bathing in Sri Lanka
- Because Baskin Robbins
- Best Photos of 2003
- Best Photos of 2005
- Best Photos of 2006
- Best Photos of 2007
- Bicycles!
- Birds of Sri Lanka
- Birds, Birds, Birds
- Black Pajaama Pants
- Borax and Sugar and Ants, Oh My!
- Can’t live with ’em, can’t kill ’em all…
- Censorship in Asia
- Chameleon in heat!
- Chameleon in my tree!
- Chameleon! Maybe?
- Chameleons in my yard!
- Chameleons!
- Changi Airport, Singapore
- Cheeky Squirrel!
- Chernobyl Beetle!
- Chocolate. Glorious Glorious Chocolate.
- Cinnamon
- Classic Architecture
- Clothing definitions
- Coloured Window Frames
- Common Myna
- Common Tailorbird doing a fashion shoot
- Cows snacking in the next door lot
- Cows wandering the streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Cows!
- Crafting/DIY As A Form of Self-Defense
- Crappy crappy internet speeds
- Customer Service in Sri Lanka
- Day 27/#365 The Cat!
- Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love
- Day 32/#365 Alien Bug From the Andromeda Galaxy!
- Day 33/#365 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- December Views – Fishing Boats
- December Views – Trishaw Stand
- Do hummingbirds hum?
- Doing laundry in Singapore
- Donations – 26 Dec 2004 Tsunami Relief
- Earthworms
- Fabric shopping
- Fahim’s first day off…
- Fahim’s Pajaama Pants
- Fahim’s Shopping!
- FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
- Favourite Photos of 2003
- Favourite Photos of 2004
- Favourite Photos of 2005
- Favourite Photos of 2006
- Favourite Photos of 2007
- Fittings and frustration
- Five guys working on a roof
- Flight Day
- For Your Entertainment. Cows And Garbage And Empty Lots.
- Forest Kittens
- Freaky Friday Spider!
- Garbage and Recycling in Sri Lanka
- Garbage men collecting garbage
- German Restaurant
- Goats
- Good Friday.
- Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.
- Green Parrots in Flight
- Growing – and killing – mint in Sri Lanka
- Haiku
- Handmade Furniture
- Hassles at the grocery store
- Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems
- homemaking – compassionate service project
- Hong Kong
- How does ones internet “run out”?
- Howdy
- Hummingbirds
- Hummingbirds were busy today
- I am, apparently, quite clueless.
- I still don’t get the Hello Kitty craze
- I’m Seeing Wasps?
- I’m starting to get spoiled
- I’ve been AWOL
- Ice Cream Bicycles
- Ike is edumacatin’ me
- Images of Poverty
- Installing a Water Line
- Interesting – to me at least – winged creature
- Introducing… Pani Kurulla!
- Is that a monkey on my telephone line again?
- It’s a new bird! Nitamba Sudu Vikurulla
- It’s my birthday and I’ll shop if I want to . . .
- Jewellery, pour moi.
- Just before sunrise
- Kana Koka
- Kurunegala Sunday Market
- Kurunegala Sunday Market, part II
- La Rambla Restaurante
- Leonard Nimoy and Auckland – What do they have in common?
- Let the Chaos Begin!
- License Plates!
- Life in Auckland, New Zealand – the Early Days
- Lizard Crossing
- Lizard!
- Lost!
- Lost!
- Lou and Ike are on their way to the Maldives
- Lou and Ike!
- Lunch?
- Masjid Sultan, or Sultan Mosque
- Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
- Monkesses? Nuns? Erm, what?
- Moo! Moooooo!!!!! Moooo!
- Mooo!
- Mooooooo!
- More Copyright Violations
- More Neighborhood Monkey Activity
- More on cows. Serious cows. Or maybe very happy cows?
- More on Plagiarism in Sri Lanka
- More on Vesak Poya Day
- More scenes from a Buddhist temple
- More Shalwaars?
- My first ladybug
- My first shalwaar fitting
- My Neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Neem Oil and Papaya Mealy Bug
- Neighborhood Monkeys
- Neighorhood Monkeys in Sri Lanka
- No babies delivered by this stork.
- No firecrackers
- No internet
- Noise Laws in Sri Lanka
- Now tell me what these two have in common
- Odel’s! But, alas, no. Pinnacle Shopping Mall? Oh, yes!
- On blogs.
- On books in Sri Lanka
- On the way to the fabric store…
- One of our neighborhood squirrels
- One very weird day…
- OSC
- Our trishaw driver – rock, meet hard place.
- Our View
- Oxcarts. I kid you not.
- People sleeping in a park in Singapore
- Picking Flowers
- Piracy, Plagiarism, and Stolen Content in Sri Lanka
- Polkichcha or Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)
- Pooping Cat!
- President’s party is winning
- Primal Stride – Five at Five Day 3
- Primal Stride Double Crunch Day 2
- Project #365 Day 100 – The Naming of the Lizard with a request for suggestions
- Project #365 Day 101 – An Ant Doing the Breaststroke
- Project #365 Day 102 – Glow
- Project #365 Day 103 – Leaves
- Project #365 Day 104 – Starfruit Flowers
- Project #365 Day 105 – Green Bananas
- Project #365 Day 106 – Grass
- Project #365 Day 107 – A Warm Glow
- Project #365 Day 108 – Reaching for the Sky
- Project #365 Day 109 – A Frequent Visitor
- Project #365 Day 110 – Cloudbound
- Project #365 Day 111 – Blue
- Project #365 Day 112 – Why’d the Lizard Cross the Road?
- Project #365 Day 113 – Square
- Project #365 Day 114 – Radial Green
- Project #365 Day 115 – Brown Speckles on Aqua
- Project #365 Day 116 Windswept
- Project #365 Day 117 – Red Spiky Things
- Project #365 Day 118 Neon Bug
- Project #365 Day 119 The Eye of the Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 121 – Green Stripes
- Project #365 Day 122 – Sepia Lines
- Project #365 Day 123 – Branching Out
- Project #365 Day 124 – Green Veins
- Project #365 Day 125 – Flowers in the Purple
- Project #365 Day 126 – Bubulcus ibis
- Project #365 Day 127 – Stairway to…
- Project #365 Day 128 – Abstract Leaf
- Project #365 Day 129 – The Egg Shell
- Project #365 Day 130 – Red Blur
- Project #365 Day 131 – Curves
- Project #365 Day 132 – Death Among the Living
- Project #365 Day 133 – Negative Space
- Project #365 Day 134 – Stripes
- Project #365 Day 135 – Purple Spokes
- Project #365 Day 136 – Bug Blue
- Project #365 Day 137 – Pink Sky
- Project #365 Day 138 – Broken Wings
- Project #365 Day 139 – Flying Purple People Eater!
- Project #365 Day 140 – Brilliant Sun
- Project #365 Day 141 – Jumble
- Project #365 Day 142 – Rattan
- Project #365 Day 143 – Stained Glass
- Project #365 Day 144 – The Threads of Many Colours
- Project #365 Day 145 – Lunch!
- Project #365 Day 146 – Bannister
- Project #365 Day 147 – Flame
- Project #365 Day 148 – Hiding Sun
- Project #365 Day 149 – Mimosas
- Project #365 Day 150 – Jasmine
- Project #365 Day 151 – Papaya Leaf
- Project #365 Day 152 – The Ant and the Henna Plant
- Project #365 Day 153 – Red Bells
- Project #365 Day 154 – A Sky View
- Project #365 Day 155 – A Butterfly in the Midst
- Project #365 Day 156 – The Lock
- Project #365 Day 157 – Bubbles
- Project #365 Day 158 – A Seven Sister
- Project #365 Day 159 – Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 160 – Decorative Palm Seeds
- Project #365 Day 161 – White On Pink
- Project #365 Day 162 – Palm
- Project #365 Day 163 – Golden Sunrise
- Project #365 Day 164 – Mimosa Flowers
- Project #365 Day 165 – Bells
- Project #365 Day 166 – Lines
- Project #365 Day 167 – Swirls
- Project #365 Day 168 – Yellow Butterfly
- Project #365 Day 169 – Water Fountain
- Project #365 Day 170 – Dying
- Project #365 Day 171 – Ribs of Brown
- Project #365 Day 172 – Striped Body
- Project #365 Day 173 – Bird on a Wire
- Project #365 Day 174 – Another viewing of the friendly neighborhood lizard
- Project #365 Day 175 – Red Vented Bulbul
- Project #365 Day 176 – A Sunbathing Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 177 – Crotons Against A Blue Sky
- Project #365 Day 178 – Yellow Billed Babbler
- Project #365 Day 179 – Chameleon!
- Project #365 Day 180 – Carved Wood and Rattan
- Project #365 Day 181 – Rattan and Carved Wood Revisited
- Project #365 Day 182 – Pink Flower
- Project #365 Day 183 – Jagged Teeth
- Project #365 Day 184 – Grass Flowers and Interpretations Thereof
- Project #365 Day 185 – Redo: Doorknob
- Project #365 Day 186 – Splish Splash, I Was Takin’ a Bath…
- Project #365 Day 187 – Small Change
- Project #365 Day 188 – Contortionist Barbie
- Project #365 Day 189 – Front Door
- Project #365 Day 19 Snail
- Project #365 Day 191 – Chameleon! Again!
- Project #365 Day 192 – Papaya Leaf
- Project #365 Day 193 – Green Blobs, Yellow Speckles, and Splashes of Red
- Project #365 Day 194 – Green and Black
- Project #365 Day 22 Where is that wascally squirrel?
- Project #365 Day 23 A dark green bird…
- Project #365 Day 24 Out and About
- Project #365 Day 37 Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Project #365 Day 38 The Thing! and It!
- Project #365 Day 44 A Purple Flower
- Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers
- Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito
- Project #365 Day 6 Thebu and Papaya Mealybug
- Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
- Project #365 Day 63 Purple-Faced Leaf Monkey
- Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
- Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
- Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
- Project #365 Day 70 Ants and Flowers
- Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
- Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
- Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
- Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
- Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
- Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…
- Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
- Project #365 Day 88 Is that a wasp’s nest?
- Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur
- Project #365 Day 91 That’s a full basket you’re carrying on your head, sir.
- Project #365 Day 93 – Blushing Jambu
- Project #365 Day 94 – Kahakurulla
- Project #365 Day 95 – Croton Flower
- Project #365 Day 96 – Croton Flower Revisited
- Project #365 Day 97 – Gava-Koka Revisited
- Project #365 Day 98 – Starfruit Flower Blossoms
- Project #365 Day 99 – Jambu Fruit
- Project 365 Day 47 The Rat Snake vs. The Fahim
- Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About
- Provincial Council Election Ballots in Sri Lanka
- Purple-Faced Langur Monkey Travelling the Power Line Highway
- Purple-Faced Langur Monkeys at Play
- Rail Road Stations
- Rain, rain, and nothin’ but rain!
- Ramadan and NaNoWriMo just don’t mix
- Rats!
- Recycling in Sri Lanka
- Scenes at a Buddhist Temple
- Scenes from a Buddhist Temple
- Scenes from Auckland, New Zealand
- Scenes from Little India, Singapore
- Scenes from Singapore
- Selling Furniture in Sri Lanka
- Sewing Introspection
- Sewing Machine Repair Guy = A Success!
- Sewing… Done.
- Shocking News: Most Sri Lankans Don’t Use Banks!
- Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets
- Shops, Food Carts, and Produce Stalls
- Shrinking Fabric Haiku
- Silhouette Birdies
- Singapore 2007
- Singapore and the Cost of Owning a Car
- Singapore at night
- Singapore Haze
- Singapore Skyline
- Singapore Sunrise
- Singer Mobile Kitchen
- Six Years and No One’s Dead Yet…
- Smokin’!
- So we have hummingbirds
- So. It’s morning. I’m making breakfast. I reach out to grab a glass…
- Software Piracy in Sri Lanka
- Spider!
- Spiders and Cob Webs
- Spiders… Urgh!
- Squirrel!
- Squirrels Are A-Frolickin’
- Squirrels!
- Squirrels!
- Sri Lanka Links
- Sri Lanka’s Bus System
- Sri Lanka’s Colombo Crows
- Sri Lanka’s Immigration
- Sri Lankan and International Intellectual Property Law
- Sri Lankan Bats and Bat Houses
- Sri Lankan cats are puny
- Stork
- Street scenes from Sri Lanka
- Student Riots And Closing Universities In Sri Lanka
- Sub-Marine Cables Cut – Internet Slow?
- Tailor!
- Teeny Tiny Little Cute Froggy Napping In My Lime Tree
- Teeny tiny little greenish bird
- Telephone pole outside our house in Sri Lanka
- Ten years and no one’s dead yet!
- The Continuing Saga . . .
- The Fisher King! Well, no, not really…
- The Fly!
- The Frozen North
- The Internet’s Broken!
- The jewellery store called
- The latest lizard to invade my garden
- The Lizard Walk. And The Bird. But Mostly The Lizard Walk.
- The Papaya Mealy Bug Infestation Saga Continues
- The parting of the papaya mealybug and the lime tree
- The Siege of the Monitor Lizard
- The Yellow-Billed Babbler and Other Birds of Sri Lanka
- There’s a squirrel hanging from my roof!
- Things that make me go “hmm?”
- This country has too many cows. Way too many. Way way too many.
- This is a trishaw…
- Three Green Parrots
- Thursdays are not Slurpee Days in Sri Lanka
- Time Change
- To wait or not to wait, that is the question
- Today, I wore a shalwaar to church
- Transporting an elephant
- Transporting Furniture and… People?
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyers
- Two images of poverty in Sri Lanka
- Water Lilies
- Water Tanks On Houses
- Weird Little Building
- Welcome to my freak show!
- What happens on Eid ul-Fitr?
- What is your bandwidth speed?
- White Bellied Drongo – Help me, Obiwan!
- White-Rumped Munias Building a Nest
- Witch’s Brew, also known as Paspanguwa
- Yellow-billed babbler in Sri Lanka.
Garden
Geekery
- …And Then There Was the Rackspace Saga…
- An Award For My Little Blog
- Anti-Virus Software
- AVG 8.0
- Back To Pressing Word, Part Deux
- Bionic Eyes
- Blog aggregation… Like it or not…
- Buh-bye, Avast!
- Changing of the anti-virus guard
- coComment. Good Idea / Bad Idea?
- Converting pages to posts, or vice versa, in WordPress
- Copyright Violations
- Copyright: If in doubt about whether or not you have permission to use a photo, you likely don’t….
- Cork as a Renewable Resource
- Cows, Magnets, and Magnetism
- Data Backups
- Eavesdropping the agoraphobic’s way
- Exercise in a Pill?
- Experimenting with Macros without a Macro Lens
- Fahim’s Wobbler Army
- Finding Beeswax in Sri Lanka…
- First-ever photographs of extrasolar planets
- Fluffy
- Googling Yourself Can Be Useful
- Handy Trackback Tool
- How do I get this Apple keyboard to work?
- Humans prevented super ice-age?
- I am the kid in the candy store
- Is It You?
- Kitten Cannon
- Making Non-Petroleum Jelly/Lip Balm
- Mind Control!
- More Cool Sites
- More Copyright Violations
- More on data backups . . .
- More on Paranoia, AKA Data Backups
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods, and Stardust
- Norton Internet Security 2009 Not a RAM Pig?
- On spam, and no, I’m not talking about that canned boiled pig product
- On the nature of viruses and anti-virus software
- Organic Art
- Piracy, Plagiarism, and Stolen Content in Sri Lanka
- Playing with BlogDesk, another desktop blogging application
- Poll: If you were holding a pen on the moon…
- Post revisions in WordPress
- Potentially useful software
- Project #365 Day 190 – Splish Splash Take Two
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- Reading Comprehension 101
- Report a bug, get… a sales pitch for paid support?
- Reviewing Qumana Blog Manager – So far, so good…
- RocketPost-powered
- Search Phrases That Lead People to My Site
- Severely Overpriced Computer Cables
- Software Piracy in Sri Lanka
- Some interesting websites
- Taking BlogJet for a test drive
- Taking Raven out for a test drive
- The Frozen North
- The Lost Room
- The Price of a Picasso Painting
- The problem with forwarded emails
- The SLHost Saga
- Twitter, Twittering, and Tweets
- What is your bandwidth speed?
- Where do spammers get your email addy anyway?
- Write or Die?
Life
- _____ Years And No One’s Dead Yet
- A banana plant falleth down
- A Fat Rant
- A new adventure in New Zealand
- A typical main-ish road in Sri Lanka
- Abandoned Property Next Door Gets Facelift
- And It Begins . . .
- And that would be Fahim
- And you know how Canadians sometimes – and only sometimes – have fruit trees in their back yards?
- Are marriages necessarily hard work?
- Art Rage
- Baby Jumbu!
- Bang! Pop!! Crackle!!! Fire!!!!
- Barbecue!!!!!
- Bathing in Sri Lanka
- Bicycles!
- Blowing Bubbles
- Codpieces are back in style. . .
- Cows!
- Crotan Flower Buds
- Curried Mung Beans
- Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Day 34/#365 Help! Let me out!
- Day 35/#365 Reaching for the Sky
- Day 36/365 Fahim and the Mystery of the Leaking Water Tank
- Dead Veggies
- Earthworms
- Fahim eats with his fingers.
- Fahim has a strange sense of style
- Fahim is in his element…
- Fahim Showers
- Fahim, first thing in the morning
- Fahim’s Shopping!
- FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
- Favourite Photos of 2003
- Favourite Photos of 2004
- Favourite Photos of 2005
- Favourite Photos of 2006
- Flowers
- Flowers! Flowers!! Flowers!!! Ixora!!!!
- Flying Fridays is for the birds! Are you in?
- Garbage pick-up
- Handmade Furniture
- Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems
- Hot Off the Presses! Photos of Chameleon Sex!
- How We Met: The Good Parts Version
- I am, apparently, quite clueless.
- Ice Cream Trishaw
- Id-Ul-Alha (Hadji Festival Day)
- Images of Poverty
- Installing a Water Line
- Is that a monkey on my telephone line again?
- Jasmine
- Jasmine Blooming
- Kurta shopping!!!!
- Kurunegala Sunday Market
- Leaves
- Lettuce Be Happy
- Lizard of Odd
- Monkesses? Nuns? Erm, what?
- More on cows. Serious cows. Or maybe very happy cows?
- My Elephant Hat
- New clothes!
- Oberon
- Oberon loses his new bestest and most favoritest toy
- Odel’s! But, alas, no. Pinnacle Shopping Mall? Oh, yes!
- Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree. . .
- On another note. . .
- On hair colouring, hair length, and henna
- One Thousand and One Ways to Use Coconuts
- Ornamental Palm
- OSC
- Our Poor Destroyed Door…
- Our Volunteer Papaya Is Flowering
- Ox and Wagon
- Pajamaa Pants
- Photos!
- Picking Flowers
- Primal Stride – Double Crunch Challenge Day 1
- Primal Stride – Five at Five Day Five
- Project #365 Day 11 Flora
- Project #365 Day 17 Wild Yam Flower
- Project #365 Day 18 Flowering Decorative Palm
- Project #365 Day 20 Brown Butterfly and Big Ants on Red Flower
- Project #365 Day 21 Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar
- Project #365 Day 24 Out and About
- Project #365 Day 37 Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Project #365 Day 4 – Fungus!
- Project #365 Day 40 Red Flower Bud
- Project #365 Day 41 Red Explosion!
- Project #365 Day 42 Jasmine
- Project #365 Day 43 The Resurrection of the Orchid Tree
- Project #365 Day 48 Purple Purple Plurple
- Project #365 Day 5 Croton
- Project #365 Day 50 Flower Buds
- Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers
- Project #365 Day 53 Common Tailorbird
- Project #365 Day 54 Random Plant
- Project #365 Day 55 Pink Flower
- Project #365 Day 58 Buns! Or, Bunnies!
- Project #365 Day 60 Jambu!
- Project #365 Day 64 Baby Jambu
- Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
- Project #365 Day 67 – Remedial Post
- Project #365 Day 67 Plants!
- Project #365 Day 68 Young Leaf
- Project #365 Day 7 And the Alien!
- Project #365 Day 70 Ants and Flowers
- Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
- Project #365 Day 72 The Brownouts and Bunnies!
- Project #365 Day 73 Flowers in a Raindrop
- Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
- Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
- Project #365 Day 77 Jambu Flower Blossoms
- Project #365 Day 79 The Bee and the Jambu Flower Blossom
- Project #365 Day 8 Is that supposed to be the hospital cafeteria?
- Project #365 Day 80 Palm Leaf
- Project #365 Day 81 Spiralling
- Project #365 Day 83 Poison for the soul
- Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
- Project #365 Day 85 Red Yellow Green
- Project #365 Day 91 That’s a full basket you’re carrying on your head, sir.
- Project 365 Day 2 – Flowers!
- Project 365 Day 47 The Rat Snake vs. The Fahim
- Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About
- Rail Road Stations
- Red Flowers At Night, Spider’s Delight…
- Rice Paddy Field
- Sewing Machine Repair Guy = A Success!
- Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets
- Shops, Food Carts, and Produce Stalls
- Silhouette Birdies
- Singapore and the Cost of Owning a Car
- Six Years and No One’s Dead Yet…
- Sleepers.
- Smokin’!
- Spider!
- Squirrels Are A-Frolickin’
- Sri Lanka’s Bus System
- Sri Lanka’s Immigration
- Stuff we have here that you don’t have there
- Ten years and no one’s dead yet!
- The Frozen North
- The Many Faces of Fahim
- The parting of the papaya mealybug and the lime tree
- Things that go Boo!
- Tightrope-Walking Power-Line-Playing Doves
- Timber!
- Validation
- Water Lilies
- Water Tanks On Houses
- We Have Sinhalese and Tamil and English Television
- What happens on Eid ul-Fitr?
- What, Are Cows Really Everywhere?
- Where in the world are Fahim and Laurie?
- Yes, we have no bananas . . .
Media
- “Planet Run” by Gordon R. Dickson and Keith Laumer
- “Wolfling” by Gordon R. Dickson
- Book in a Minute
- Bulwer-Lytton 2007 winners are in!
- Fahim Farook inspired by Douglas Adams
- Fifteen books in fifteen minutes
- Hal Spacejock: Second Desserts
- Harry Potter’s Books
- On books in Sri Lanka
- Top 100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels
- Top 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyers
- Two Useful Writing Ebooks – Free to Download!
My Art
- Apple in Oil
- At Eternity’s Gate
- Boat on a Beach series
- Dandelion Glow
- Dark Sky
- Flowerfall
- Forest Bears
- Girl with a Troll Earring
- Hopper
- Indian Ocean Sunset
- Japanese Landscape
- Lotus
- Love Heart
- My Other Summer House
- On the Lake
- Oranges in Oil
- Psychoticat
- Red Flowers
- Red Flowers In Emroidery
- Retro Fahim
- Sea Turtle
- Sunflowers
- The Scream
- Uluru
- Watercolour Lake
- Windmill
- Yin and Yang
My Fiction & Poetry
My Photography
- Best Photos of 2003
- Best Photos of 2004
- Best Photos of 2005
- Best Photos of 2006
- Best Photos of 2007
- Day 26/#365 Spotted Dove
- Day 27/#365 The Cat!
- Day 28/#365 The Birds!
- Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Day 30/#365 White Bellied Drongo
- Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love
- Day 32/#365 Alien Bug From the Andromeda Galaxy!
- Day 33/#365 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Day 34/#365 Help! Let me out!
- Day 35/#365 Reaching for the Sky
- Day 36/365 Fahim and the Mystery of the Leaking Water Tank
- December Views – A Bridge Over Calm Waters
- December Views – A Sleeping Mom and Child
- December Views – An Offering
- December Views – Buddha
- December Views – Doorway to…
- December Views – Elephant in Chains
- December Views – Fishing Boats
- December Views – Flamingos
- December Views – Lantern
- December Views – Nine Cows
- December Views – Raggedy Squirrel
- December Views – Sunset
- December Views – The Hand
- December Views – The Steps
- December Views – Trishaw Stand
- Dragon fruit for the win!
- Experimenting with Macros without a Macro Lens
- Peeling Garlic
- Project #365 Day 10 Where’s the Fire?
- Project #365 Day 100 – The Naming of the Lizard with a request for suggestions
- Project #365 Day 101 – An Ant Doing the Breaststroke
- Project #365 Day 102 – Glow
- Project #365 Day 103 – Leaves
- Project #365 Day 104 – Starfruit Flowers
- Project #365 Day 105 – Green Bananas
- Project #365 Day 106 – Grass
- Project #365 Day 107 – A Warm Glow
- Project #365 Day 108 – Reaching for the Sky
- Project #365 Day 109 – A Frequent Visitor
- Project #365 Day 11 Flora
- Project #365 Day 110 – Cloudbound
- Project #365 Day 111 – Blue
- Project #365 Day 112 – Why’d the Lizard Cross the Road?
- Project #365 Day 113 – Square
- Project #365 Day 114 – Radial Green
- Project #365 Day 115 – Brown Speckles on Aqua
- Project #365 Day 116 Windswept
- Project #365 Day 117 – Red Spiky Things
- Project #365 Day 118 Neon Bug
- Project #365 Day 119 The Eye of the Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 12 Mooooo!
- Project #365 Day 121 – Green Stripes
- Project #365 Day 122 – Sepia Lines
- Project #365 Day 123 – Branching Out
- Project #365 Day 124 – Green Veins
- Project #365 Day 125 – Flowers in the Purple
- Project #365 Day 126 – Bubulcus ibis
- Project #365 Day 127 – Stairway to…
- Project #365 Day 128 – Abstract Leaf
- Project #365 Day 129 – The Egg Shell
- Project #365 Day 13 Dragon’s On Fire!
- Project #365 Day 130 – Red Blur
- Project #365 Day 131 – Curves
- Project #365 Day 132 – Death Among the Living
- Project #365 Day 133 – Negative Space
- Project #365 Day 134 – Stripes
- Project #365 Day 135 – Purple Spokes
- Project #365 Day 136 – Bug Blue
- Project #365 Day 137 – Pink Sky
- Project #365 Day 138 – Broken Wings
- Project #365 Day 139 – Flying Purple People Eater!
- Project #365 Day 14 It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s…
- Project #365 Day 140 – Brilliant Sun
- Project #365 Day 141 – Jumble
- Project #365 Day 142 – Rattan
- Project #365 Day 143 – Stained Glass
- Project #365 Day 144 – The Threads of Many Colours
- Project #365 Day 145 – Lunch!
- Project #365 Day 146 – Bannister
- Project #365 Day 147 – Flame
- Project #365 Day 148 – Hiding Sun
- Project #365 Day 149 – Mimosas
- Project #365 Day 15 Fungi!!!!!
- Project #365 Day 150 – Jasmine
- Project #365 Day 151 – Papaya Leaf
- Project #365 Day 152 – The Ant and the Henna Plant
- Project #365 Day 153 – Red Bells
- Project #365 Day 154 – A Sky View
- Project #365 Day 155 – A Butterfly in the Midst
- Project #365 Day 156 – The Lock
- Project #365 Day 157 – Bubbles
- Project #365 Day 158 – A Seven Sister
- Project #365 Day 159 – Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 16 Bird Silhouettes!
- Project #365 Day 160 – Decorative Palm Seeds
- Project #365 Day 161 – White On Pink
- Project #365 Day 162 – Palm
- Project #365 Day 163 – Golden Sunrise
- Project #365 Day 164 – Mimosa Flowers
- Project #365 Day 165 – Bells
- Project #365 Day 166 – Lines
- Project #365 Day 167 – Swirls
- Project #365 Day 168 – Yellow Butterfly
- Project #365 Day 169 – Water Fountain
- Project #365 Day 17 Wild Yam Flower
- Project #365 Day 170 – Dying
- Project #365 Day 171 – Ribs of Brown
- Project #365 Day 172 – Striped Body
- Project #365 Day 173 – Bird on a Wire
- Project #365 Day 174 – Another viewing of the friendly neighborhood lizard
- Project #365 Day 175 – Red Vented Bulbul
- Project #365 Day 176 – A Sunbathing Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 177 – Crotons Against A Blue Sky
- Project #365 Day 178 – Yellow Billed Babbler
- Project #365 Day 179 – Chameleon!
- Project #365 Day 18 Flowering Decorative Palm
- Project #365 Day 180 – Carved Wood and Rattan
- Project #365 Day 181 – Rattan and Carved Wood Revisited
- Project #365 Day 182 – Pink Flower
- Project #365 Day 183 – Jagged Teeth
- Project #365 Day 184 – Grass Flowers and Interpretations Thereof
- Project #365 Day 185 – Redo: Doorknob
- Project #365 Day 186 – Splish Splash, I Was Takin’ a Bath…
- Project #365 Day 187 – Small Change
- Project #365 Day 188 – Contortionist Barbie
- Project #365 Day 189 – Front Door
- Project #365 Day 19 Snail
- Project #365 Day 190 – Splish Splash Take Two
- Project #365 Day 191 – Chameleon! Again!
- Project #365 Day 192 – Papaya Leaf
- Project #365 Day 193 – Green Blobs, Yellow Speckles, and Splashes of Red
- Project #365 Day 194 – Green and Black
- Project #365 Day 20 Brown Butterfly and Big Ants on Red Flower
- Project #365 Day 21 Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar
- Project #365 Day 22 Where is that wascally squirrel?
- Project #365 Day 23 A dark green bird…
- Project #365 Day 24 Out and About
- Project #365 Day 25 Layard’s Parakeet… I think…
- Project #365 Day 26 Sunbird!
- Project #365 Day 37 Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Project #365 Day 38 The Thing! and It!
- Project #365 Day 39 The Naming of the Bird
- Project #365 Day 4 – Fungus!
- Project #365 Day 40 Red Flower Bud
- Project #365 Day 41 Red Explosion!
- Project #365 Day 42 Jasmine
- Project #365 Day 43 The Resurrection of the Orchid Tree
- Project #365 Day 45 I’m a fan
- Project #365 Day 46 What Am I?
- Project #365 Day 48 Purple Purple Plurple
- Project #365 Day 5 Croton
- Project #365 Day 50 Flower Buds
- Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers
- Project #365 Day 53 Common Tailorbird
- Project #365 Day 54 Random Plant
- Project #365 Day 55 Pink Flower
- Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito
- Project #365 Day 57 Chameleon Re-Visited
- Project #365 Day 58 Buns! Or, Bunnies!
- Project #365 Day 59 Electricity!
- Project #365 Day 6 Thebu and Papaya Mealybug
- Project #365 Day 60 Jambu!
- Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
- Project #365 Day 62 For The Birds!
- Project #365 Day 63 Purple-Faced Leaf Monkey
- Project #365 Day 64 Baby Jambu
- Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
- Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
- Project #365 Day 67 – Remedial Post
- Project #365 Day 67 Plants!
- Project #365 Day 68 Young Leaf
- Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
- Project #365 Day 7 And the Alien!
- Project #365 Day 70 Ants and Flowers
- Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
- Project #365 Day 72 The Brownouts and Bunnies!
- Project #365 Day 73 Flowers in a Raindrop
- Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
- Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
- Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
- Project #365 Day 77 Jambu Flower Blossoms
- Project #365 Day 78 Cattle Egret, aka Gava-Koka
- Project #365 Day 79 The Bee and the Jambu Flower Blossom
- Project #365 Day 8 Is that supposed to be the hospital cafeteria?
- Project #365 Day 80 Palm Leaf
- Project #365 Day 81 Spiralling
- Project #365 Day 82 Here Comes Santa Claus
- Project #365 Day 83 Poison for the soul
- Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
- Project #365 Day 85 Red Yellow Green
- Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…
- Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
- Project #365 Day 88 Is that a wasp’s nest?
- Project #365 Day 89 Vichuli Visits
- Project #365 Day 9 Linen, Homeware, Artifacts?
- Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur
- Project #365 Day 91 That’s a full basket you’re carrying on your head, sir.
- Project #365 Day 92 Red Wave
- Project #365 Day 93 – Blushing Jambu
- Project #365 Day 94 – Kahakurulla
- Project #365 Day 95 – Croton Flower
- Project #365 Day 96 – Croton Flower Revisited
- Project #365 Day 97 – Gava-Koka Revisited
- Project #365 Day 98 – Starfruit Flower Blossoms
- Project #365 Day 99 – Jambu Fruit
- Project 365 Day 1 – A Photo A Day
- Project 365 Day 2 – Flowers!
- Project 365 Day 3 – Insect Sex!
- Project 365 Day 47 The Rat Snake vs. The Fahim
- Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About
- Timber!
New Zealand
Other
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- Giant ape lived along-side humans
- India’s marathon boy, aged three
- MenstruujÃcà Barbie
- “Living” robots powered by muscle
- “None but Man” by Gordon R. Dickinson
- “SUN GOD” IS DEAD AND GONE. LET US UNITE AS ONE NATION TO REBUILD OUR COUNTRY.
- “The Alien Way” by Gordon R. Dickson
- ***Side note. Warning. Complete and total tangerine not even closely related to the thread above.
- ***We resume your regular programming now***
- 22,000 confirmed dead in Sri Lanka, 68,000 confirmed deada total
- 228,601 Dead from Tsunami
- 24
- 24 is a Rotter
- 24 starts today! Doesn’t it? Er. . .
- 29,755 dead in Sri Lanka
- 3,000 Dead, 1,500 in Sri Lanka
- 300 prisoners escape as tsunami destroys jail in Sri Lanka
- 450 Counts of Election Violence
- 4900 dead in Sri Lanka with 10,500 missing
- 5 Reports of Pre-Election Violence
- 9 desperate woman fighting for tsunami-survivor ‘Baby 81’
- A Book? Yes, a Book!
- A man with no country?
- A modern version of “Who’s on first?”
- A sewing machine, my dear Spock!
- A Squirrel and A Bird Come Visiting
- A sweet revenge
- A van goes past our house making loudspeaker announcements.
- Accidents. Or are they?
- Actor’s Death Predicted
- Acupuncture Again
- Adaptation
- After the tsunami: To go or not to go, that is the question.
- Afternoon diversions
- Again
- Al-Gebra makes headlines
- All flights to Male suspended
- Alternative Christmas
- Always Always the Cows
- American Military Intelligence – once again, proved an Oxymoron
- Ancient Tribe Survives Tsunami
- And another one . . .
- And another one…
- And another power outage is scheduled for tomorrow. 8 am to 5 pm again.
- And as another note, today is Bak Full Moon Poya Day.
- And Fahim came to church
- And for the record, I’ve now been here in Sri Lanka for 5 months.
- And here are the requisite sunset pictures.
- And Here I Thought Tellulah Was the Smart One
- And here we have another fruit tree. Again, in someone’s yard.
- And here’s a perfect example of vehicles that should not be on tiny little side streets.
- And I have to give credit to. . .
- And if you want to read about fake tsunami pictures . . .
- And it continues.
- And Life Sort Of Returns To Normal
- And more on India’s hospitals
- And more on the monsoon…
- And now I’ll resume an earlier thought.
- And Now I’m Sick
- And other things, too.
- And the cat came back . . .
- And the story is finally continued . . . Paving a road in Sri Lanka
- And then there was more
- And then there were none. . .
- And then there were none. . .
- And then there’s Bill vs. GM…
- And then there’s the Mac…
- And Yes, I’m Still a Little Sickie
- Animal Control?
- Animal Planet has a program called “Cell Dogs”
- Anniversaries and Presents and Thundersticks, Oh My!
- Anniversary Year One
- Another Book!
- Another cool photos site
- Another day, another curry
- Another LDS Sri Lankan blogger
- Another letter from my sister in the Maldives
- Another power outage is scheduled for today
- Another Quiet and Uneventful Day
- Another undersea cable going in?
- Anti-freeze in a tropical contry?
- Ants eat patient’s eye
- Ants REALLY REALLY squick me out
- Apollo Hospital
- Applying for a residency visa
- Are cows everywhere in Sri Lanka?
- Are marriages necessarily hard work?
- Are the Tamil Tigers are suspending their rebellion until after the disaster has been taken care of?
- Are You a Hankie User, Too?
- Are you ready for Christmas?
- Arthur C. Clarke writes a news release: Rebuilding after Tsunami
- Asian quake kills thousands
- Attack! of the Sand Creatures!!!
- Attacking poverty in Sri Lanka and other poor countries
- Ayurvedic Medicine
- Back to Pres Sunil. And then on to the Hussains. . .
- Back To Sick Ol’ Fahim
- Bad Chicken. Bad Bad Chicken.
- Bad stuff is happening. Church was cancelled. 8.9 Earthquake off coast of Sumatra
- Bag Gardening Resources
- Bags of Oil
- Bangladesh affected
- Bank accounts and identity-less survivors
- Banned Books Week
- Battle Star Galac Tica
- Battlestar Galactica – original series
- Because I’m Anal, That’s Why
- Because our washing machine doesn’t have a pump
- Beef Burnt Curry
- Beef with Tomatoes
- Beef. Better? A little.
- Befriend Sri Lanka
- Beggars in Sri Lanka
- Belief-O-Matic
- Best place to find photos, videos, satellite images of the tsunami and its aftermath
- Big Trucks on Little Roads
- BIM. Book In a Month.
- Bird flu in Europe
- Birds of Sri Lanka
- Birth Test
- BIW is over for this month
- Black Pajaama Pants
- Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Oh, and coconut oil.
- Blessed coolness!
- Block method
- Blog is bare
- Blog.exe
- Bloggedy Blog Blog Blog
- Body count in Sri Lanka increased again
- Bollywood Haiku
- Bollywood Musicals 101
- Bomb explosion at Shahrukh concert
- Book Ship, the Doulos, aka floating book fair
- Books on Dressmaking
- Books. Dammit, just how much do I read anyway?
- Bras in Sri Lanka, You Say.
- Breakdown of Tsunami Death Toll by Country
- Breakdown of Tsunami Death Toll by Country
- Brekkie cake
- Brians and More Brians
- Brownies and In-laws
- Buddha Statue.
- Buddhist Holidays
- Buddhist Monk dies. Riots ensue.
- Buddhist monks seek donations
- Bunty aur Babli
- But now I’m really getting ahead of myself.
- But we’re not done . . .
- Canadian Elections??????
- Canal to be dug between India and Sri Lanka?
- Cancer Hospital
- Cargill’s Day
- Cat Baths 101
- Cat Baths 602, Advanced Studies
- Cat Food Walking
- Cataract Haiku
- Cataracts.
- Cats and Mossie Nets – Good Combination, Or Bad?
- Cats love fish? Really?
- Cell Phones Need Money?
- Chamomile versus Camomile. You decide.
- Charitable goods coming into Sri Lanka
- Charity Navigator
- Chatting
- Cheese Commercial Creeps Out Canadian
- Chernobyl Beetle!
- Chicken
- Chicken Tagrine
- Chicken Tagrine
- Chilli Powder and Red Pepper Flakes – Yum!
- Chit Chat and Pebbles
- Chocolate Bran Cake
- Chocolate Explained
- Chocolate Thievin’ Mouse Topic
- Christmas Dinner
- Christmas in Sri Lanka
- Christmas Party
- Church bells? What the heck?
- Church Cancelled Due to Elections
- Church Day
- Church Day
- Church members in Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami
- Cinnamon
- Citronella Has a Rather Pleasant Smell
- Clean water in Sri Lanka
- Clean your screen
- Clothing definitions
- Coconut Curry is Fahim’s Favorite – He Told Me So
- Coconut Palms . . .
- Coconut Rocks Rock!
- Coconuts
- Coir Mattresses
- Collar and Facing Problem?
- Colombo IS affected by the tsunami
- Columbia crew saw new atmospheric phenomenon
- Common Tailorbird doing a fashion shoot
- Common virus kills cancer
- Computer repairs in Sri Lanka
- Cooking Propane
- Cooking with a scale?
- Coolness. Blessed Coolness.
- Cornflour
- Cows are loud
- Cows Are My Life
- Cows snacking in the next door lot
- Cows Stampeding
- Cows, Baby, Cows
- Cows. Always the cows.
- Crafting/DIY As A Form of Self-Defense
- Crescat
- Curried Beef in Tomatoes and Onions
- Customer Service in Sri Lanka
- Cyclops kitten
- Damro’s. It’s time to buy a bed.
- Dancing Lizards
- Dark Fish Day
- Dates
- Day One of District Conference
- Day prior to Sinhala and Tamil New Year Day
- Day Two of District Conference
- De Bas Chocolatier, Chocolate Peaches
- Dead baby gecko.
- Dead Veggies
- Death Toll from Tsunami increased again.
- Dehiwela Zoo and McDonalds
- Dehiwela Zoo. Officially called “The National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka”
- Delay in dancing bar ban
- Dengue Fever?
- Desiccated Coconut Found
- Devastation in east Sri Lanka
- Devil’s Food Cake
- Devilled Red Squid was my reward
- Did Island Tribes Use Ancient Lore to Evade Tsunami?
- Dinner at the in-laws
- Disaster getting less attention
- Disaster Preparedness Training
- Do Fahim and I exchange Christmas/holiday presents?
- Do I Really Have To Have A Title For Every Single Stinkin’ Blog?
- Doctors and internet and TMI alert.
- Does the fact that this is in a tropical climate make things more susceptible to disease spreading faster?
- Does this mean Dennis Quaid was right?
- Dogs, Dogs, and More Dogs
- Drew found the warzone – another email from Kim in Male, Maldives
- Duel Comets in the Night Sky
- Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day
- Duruthu Poya Day
- DVD Shopping
- Earthquake news from Kim in Male, Maldives
- Editor’s Note:
- Eid al Fitr
- Eight monks quit running. In the election, that is.
- Elder V. Dallas Merrell and Leadership
- Elders Lawrence and Woo came over tonight
- Elections are done and we still don’t know who won.
- Electricity outages are . . .
- Electricity. How . . . exciting!
- Elephant Hat
- English lessons
- Engrish
- Environmental impact of the tsunami
- Experimentation with sewing. Ack!
- Explosion!
- Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found
- Fabric shopping
- Fabric Shopping a Success! Now for Dressmaking Books . . .
- Facts and Figures on the Tsunami
- Fahim and Foreign (to me) Films
- Fahim and his family
- Fahim and his hair
- Fahim and his programs
- Fahim and I bought a home theatre system
- Fahim and I go grocery shopping
- Fahim and I will be staying home today. Buddhist Monk’s Cremation. Possible rioting.
- Fahim Ate Bugs. Nanner Nanner Boo Boo!!!!
- Fahim buys more sweets. Or snacks. Or something.
- Fahim can’t sing, yet strangely, he still insists on doing it.
- Fahim Finds Floss
- Fahim is a Little Sicky
- Fahim is getting old.
- Fahim narrowly escapes life in prison
- Fahim’s Baby Tooth Fell Out
- Fahim’s DOS thingy is actually working.
- Fahim’s Feeling Better
- Fahim’s first day off…
- Fahim’s going bananas!
- Fahim’s Got Some Strange Friends
- Fahim’s Obsession Revisited
- Fahim’s Pajaama Pants
- Fahim’s Still Sick
- Fahim’s Still Sick
- Fahim’s Unhealthy Obsession
- Fahim’s Witches Brew
- Fahin decided to install DOS
- Family History Stuff
- Famous Tsunamis
- Fathima and Zara came to visit
- Federal Elections
- Fer Crying Out *bleeping* Loud!
- Fibre Content and Pyromania
- Fighting Mad in Tamil Nadu
- Finally. Internet.
- Firecrackers and Geckos and Analness, Oh My!
- Fish monger is back in business
- Fishmonger Day Two
- Fittings and frustration
- Flame wars, anyone?
- Flight leaves today from Male to Colombo
- Floss
- Flying Fridays is for the birds! Are you in?
- Food Court
- Foot pedal sewing machines?
- For lunch and dinner, we had more Beef with Tomatoes and Onion Shoots
- For the record, my back is way better.
- For Your Entertainment. Cows And Garbage And Empty Lots.
- From India: Live Clothed Girls May Be Stripped of Their Dance Jobs
- Frydays
- Full Fat Powdered Milk
- Fur-Bound Adventure at the Animal Welfare and Protection Agency
- Gallery2 and Photos
- Garbage and Recycling in Sri Lanka
- Garbage Collection in Sri Lanka
- Garbage men.
- Garment Labourers in Sri Lanka
- Gas. Oh, excuse me!
- Gecko carcasses
- Gecko cupboards and cats
- Geek Break-Up Lines
- Geek help needed… Cursor skipping problems.
- Geek Toys
- Geeks ‘r Us
- Giant popsicle floods NYC park
- Girl saved tourists thanks to school lesson
- Girl Squid – Who’d’a Thunk It?
- Give generously! Charitable organizations helping out with south Asian earthquake and tsunami
- Gizzards and Lizzards and . . . oh, forget it!
- Global Warming
- Goa?
- Google exposes web surveillance cams
- GoogleFight!!!!!!
- Googling Arpico
- Gordon R. Dickson vs Robert Asprin
- Gotukola Sambol
- Green Chilis
- Green Gram for Brekkie
- Grocery Shopping
- Grocery shopping causes blood loss
- Grocery Shopping In General
- Gross Cooking Day
- Growing – and killing – mint in Sri Lanka
- Guest Book is removed
- Guns and More Guns
- Hadji Festival tomorrow
- Haiku
- Haiku
- Hair the Musical
- Halal Foods
- Happy, er, New Year?
- Has it been fixed yet? Has it? Huh? Huh?
- Hassles at the grocery store
- Hatrack Gift Exchange and Sri Lanka Post
- Have any interesting dreams lately?
- Have I mentioned that Fahim is anal?
- Have I mentioned that we don’t actually know for sure which town we live in?
- Have I talked about the music these ice cream bikes and trishaws use to attract customers?
- Headache Haiku
- Headache Haiku
- Herman the Lizzerd is back
- Hilton Sports Club – Il Ponte Restaurant
- Hindi movies.
- History Quiz
- Holidays in Sri Lanka
- Holidays in Sri Lanka ARe . . . WEll, COOl.
- Holy Cow!
- Home Breaking
- Homemaking, aka Home Breaking
- Hot and Sour Beef Curry
- Household Stuff I’m Just Not In The Mood For
- How a tsunami works
- How accurate are the death counts?
- How are things here generally now?
- How Canadian Are You?
- How do lizards climb straight up?
- How many dead lizards have you met?
- I am a terrible, terrible wife.
- I am a terrible, terrible wife. Terrible.
- I am so sore!
- I Didn’t Sleep Too Well Last Night
- I dream in Technicolor
- I Get to Meet an In-Law – But Not Today. And I am, apparently, Japanese.
- I had a dream last night . . .
- I Had A Job Offer
- I have a boring life, don’t I?
- I love books!
- I Love Fahim, That Little Freak . . .
- I love Sambal Oelik!
- I Love the Internet
- I made my own Super Hero!
- I Miss Canadian High Speed Internet
- I read my first newspaper . . . ever!!!
- I read my first word!!!! In Sinhalese!!!!
- I Taught a Lesson in Relief Society Today
- I think today I’ll bake a cake.
- I want to bawl like a baby
- I was sustained as Relief Society President today
- I’m a computer geek, yes I am!
- I’m breathing again.
- I’m happy, Fahim’s happy.
- I’m in charge. Oh no!
- I’m Light Sensitive
- I’m melting . . . I’m melting . . .
- I’m seeing everything in italics…
- I’m sooooo deprived!
- I’m starting to get spoiled
- I’m surprised
- I’m tired and just a little irritable today
- I’ve mentioned before how we have geckos roaming around?
- I’ve mentioned the LDS Missionaries many times.
- Id-Ul-Alha (Haj Festival Day)
- If the Tamils have their own police. doesn’t that mean they already have their own state?
- If you want to read first-hand accounts
- Ike is edumacatin’ me
- Illegal? But cows roamed free even before British rule!
- In Thailand: Woman host to maggots
- In the evening news
- In the news . . .
- In-laws and Dead Rats
- India Generous?
- India: Teach-yourself computing for kids
- Insect Infestation
- Insomnia
- Insomnia Haiku
- INSTRUCTION TO ARM THE BASEBOARD OF THE RANGES OF 4 OR 6 BURNERS
- Interfacing Woes
- Internet – Yay!!
- Internet connection problems caused by . . . a gremlin in my machine?
- Internet hassles
- Internet is Down
- Internet is still . . . slow.
- Internet Traffic Report
- Internet!
- Internet!!!!
- Internet? Really?
- Internet. Yay.
- Intersex Fish
- Introducing… Pani Kurulla!
- invasion of the tiny frenetic dancing ants
- Is that a rat, or are you just happy to see me?
- Islamic Banking
- It also means I get internet today
- It always rains on Vesak
- It Just Finished Raining . . .
- It Just Started Raining . . .
- It rained today.
- It’s a revolution!!!!!!
- It’s all the government’s fault! Everything!
- It’s my birthday and I’ll shop if I want to . . .
- It’s my birthday!!!
- It’s official . . . I’m not a geek.
- It’s still broken. Ack!
- It’s still monsoon season. And right now, that also means Dengue Fever season.
- Italian fined for kiss in Dubai
- Jaffna and other areas controlled by the LTTE – otherwise known as the Tamil Tigers
- Jaggery
- Japanese Siblings Live With Dead Parent
- Jean, Jacques, what’s the difference?
- Jewellery, pour moi.
- John Travotra and other movie mistakes
- Joint Action to ensure safety of tsunami affected children
- Jungle Book Revisited
- Just Another Frazzled Friday
- Just Another Uneventful Wednesday
- Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Get a Mullet. . .
- Kim and Drew’s experience in Male, Maldives – another email
- Knox’s Words is launched at the British Council
- Kraft Advertising. Taking advantage of poor, disadvantaged kids.
- Kurrakan, Dude
- Land mines hamper relief efforts in Batticaloa
- Lankan cops probe Shahrukh concert blast
- Lankaweb headlines
- Laptop Melancholia
- Laptops below $100?
- Laptops kill spermies. True? Or False?
- Later . . .
- Later in the day. . .
- Later…
- Latest in Earthquake and Aftershocks in Asia
- Laundry detergent. Hmm.
- Laundry hung up to dry outside doesn’t get dry very quickly during monsoon weather.
- LDS Humanitarian Efforts
- LDS Missionaries – Harmless?
- Les Fils de Vent
- Lest you think I’m heartless
- Let the Chaos Begin!
- Libraries near where I live?
- Lie to me. Please.
- Like Addictions?
- Lizard Be Gone
- Lizard Really Be Gone
- Long Distance
- Lord of the Rings, Extended Edition
- Lost Signals and Weather
- Lost!
- Lost!
- Lou and Ike are on their way to the Maldives
- Lou and Ike!
- LTTE on the news
- Lunch
- Lunch?
- Maid Haiku
- Maine Pyar Kiya
- Majestic City, Here We Come
- Making my own patterns?
- Making vacation plans with Kim in Male, Maldives – my response to her
- Maldives flooded after tidal waves, reports of casualties but no figures
- Maldives has major destruction
- Malli’s Wedding
- Man loses 100 relatives
- Map that shows areas affected by the tsunami
- Maps at Google.com
- Maps of Sri Lanka
- Marriage Proposals in Sri Lanka
- Massive Quakes Difficult to Measure
- Massive Quantities of Laundry Day.
- Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
- May Day
- McDonalds and other chains
- McDonalds. In Borella.
- Me? In a Sari?
- Medical Tourism
- Meeting In-Laws
- Michele at OSC
- Michele’s Bug De-Infestation Tips
- Mind Your Language!
- Mind Your Manners!
- Mob mentality – always wrong?
- Mongolian Food
- Monitor Lizards
- monkey on rooftop
- Monkish Addictions
- Monsoon Blues
- Monsoon continues
- Monsoon Mosquitoes
- Monsoon season again?
- Monsoon Season Can Be A Bad Thing
- Monsoon Season Can Be A Good Thing
- Monsoon Season Doesn’t Mean It’s Always Raining
- Monsoon Season Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Cooler Weather
- Monsoon Season is Seriously Here
- Monsoon Seasons End Eventually. Right?
- Monsoon Weather. Still.
- Monsoons are here to stay.
- Moo Cows Moo Loud
- Moong Beans, er, um, Mung Beans, continued –
- Mooo!
- More 24
- More 24
- More 24
- More Blasted Buddhist Music
- More Bradley. And then on to Freisner.
- More fittings and more frustrations
- More later . . .
- More Monk and Fahim insists that I put in a spoiler warning . . . so consider this as your spoiler warning. “Spoiler Warning”
- More On Cows. There Will Always Be More On Cows.
- More on doctors in Sri Lanka
- More on elections and possible impact on war
- More on Family History. . .
- More on gross negligence at India’s hospitals
- More on Hindi movies. . .
- More on lizards
- More on Magyar Sleeves
- More on Monsoons
- More on Mt. Lavinia Hotel
- More On Mung Beans, also known as Green Gram, also known as Mung Gram, also known as “what the hell is this????”
- More On Power Outages
- More on Rabid Squirrel
- More on Salusala
- More on Septic Tanks
- More on shoplifting
- More on Sri Lankan Elections
- More on Sri Lankan Government. A bit of history.
- More on the elections
- More on the floating book fair…
- More on the in-laws
- More on the new maid
- More on the new place . . .
- More on voile!
- More on Writing
- More On Writing and Writers
- More Shalwaars?
- More things that fall under the label of “Too much time on one’s hands”
- More writing today.
- Morning people. Kill ’em all!
- Mornings Come Early
- Mornings. Ugh?
- Mosquitoes
- Movie Viewing Experiences
- Mozzie nets
- Mt. Lavinia Hotel
- musical trishaws not just for ice cream
- My back is better, but . . .
- My Big Black Black Toe
- My Dull and Boring and Uneventful Life
- My first shalwaar fitting
- My obsession with Oberon’s butt
- My sister’s experience in Male, Maldives – an email she wrote
- Mysteries in the Mountains
- Need a little pick me up?
- Neem Oil and Papaya Mealy Bug
- Negumbo again
- Negumbo Branch
- New flavors of ice cream. . .
- New Years Eve…
- Newletters
- News
- News footage
- News: 126,000 dead and rising
- News. Body count now at 116,000.
- Newspaper Lady
- No Electricity for HOW Many Days?
- No More False Alarms
- No real Christmas trees are sold in Sri Lanka
- No Staples or Office Depot here, man!
- No water? But. . . what about that tank on our roof?
- No water=no marriage
- Noise Laws in Sri Lanka
- Now THAT’S what I call a book collection!
- Oatmeal Cake
- Oberon and Tellulah, the Junkies
- Oberon Back Behind Bars
- Oberon found a way down
- Oberon Is a Sickie
- Oberon Is Still Alive
- Oberon went over the wall
- Oberon! My Dearest! What Happened To You?
- Oberon. That Lazy Cat
- Oberon’s butt
- Oberon’s Furry Friend
- Oberon’s Version of The Continuing Saga of the Disappearing Cat
- Odd things happen at church sometimes
- Odel’s Day
- Oh For the Love of Mike
- Oh yeah. And a Happy New Year. Or something like that.
- Oh, and of course, also I Finally Have Living Room Furniture Day. Yippee!!!!
- Oh, and then . . .
- Oh, and there was a cow.
- Oh, for the update…
- Oh, Household Stuff. Ya Know.
- Oil Exploration as a cause of the earthquake
- On a more serious note…
- On another note – completely unrelated
- On another note, we watched a Hindi movie.
- On another note. And not at all related.
- On chain letters and anti-Islamic sentiment
- On fireworks and drums.
- On plants
- On subtitled movies
- On the road again . . .
- On the Road to Kurunegala
- On the way to the fabric store…
- On to other things.
- Ong-Bak and Entertaining High-Speed Trishaw Chases?
- Online international television stations
- Online Volunteer Organizations
- Onwards and Upwards. Ho!Long Live Blog!!!!
- Oozing Corpses?
- Opticians and Eye Exams and Glasses and Contacts, Oh My.
- OSC Revisited
- Other Fabric Tips
- Our fishmonger is back
- Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000
- Paprika Problems!
- Pardres – yet another Hindi movie
- Pat Morita, rest in peace
- Pattern Books and French Curves and Bras, Oh My!
- Peacocks?
- People are weird . . .
- Peraheras. Those dang loud parades in the middle of the night.
- Perception is everything
- Personal accounts of the tsunami in Sri Lanka
- Photos! Photos! Photos!
- Pictures of the tsunami – before and after
- Pineapple Re-Runs
- Piracy in Pakistan
- Pirated DVDs
- Pizza in Sri Lanka
- Planarity
- Planet of the Apes
- Planning a Sri Lankan vacation with sis – email from Kim in Male, Maldives
- Planting. . .
- Police Most Corrupt Organization
- Police station bombed
- political parties merge
- Polkichcha or Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)
- Postal Codes? We don’t need no stinkin’ postal codes!
- Power Outage
- Power Outage
- Power Outage Over
- Power outages
- Power outages a political move?
- Power Outages and Kitty Puke
- Power Outages Are My Friend
- Prabhakaran dead! Body found!
- Pre-Election Violence
- Presidential Elections, Sri Lanka Style
- Problem solved!
- Problems with giving aid
- Produce and Other Ramblings…
- Produce on Saturdays
- Product Labels
- Profanity Haiku
- Propane again?
- Propane Revisited
- Prophet Mohamed’s Birthday
- Provincial Council Election Ballots in Sri Lanka
- Provincial Elections Today
- Puppies behind bars
- Pure Bee Honey
- Purple frogs?
- Purple-Faced Langur Monkey Travelling the Power Line Highway
- Purrfect Mood Detector
- Rabid Rabid Raggedy Squirrels
- Races
- Rags and the Rag Trade
- Rain
- Rain Rain Go Away
- Rain Rain Go Away Don’t Come Back For Another Day
- Rain Rain Go Away
- Rain, Rain, Go Away, and stop flooding our living room!
- Ramadan starts today.
- Ramadan starts tomorrow
- Rapidly receding shoreline means a tsunami is coming. Run for your life!
- RCCI – Rehabilitation Centre for the Communication Impaired
- Readerware
- Rebuttal to a news report – from Kim in Male, Maldives
- Receding water precedes a tsunami
- Recipes and Photos
- Recycling in Sri Lanka
- Red Ants Have Taken Over Laptop
- Red Cross will be involved in relief work in Sri Lanka
- Red Rice . . . Red Rice . . .
- rel=”nofollow”
- Relief Society Newletter
- Relief Society Newsletters
- Religious tension and attacks . . .
- Remember that Septic Tank?
- Remember those monsoons?
- Return of the King
- Ribbon Embroidery!!!!!
- Ribbon Emroidery Redux
- Rice-Bag Gardening
- risk of epidemics passed via dead bodies
- Robbery, Rape, and Kidnap
- Roof Lizard
- Rumpilstilskin, anyone?
- Saag vs. Palak
- Sachin
- Sacrilege humour
- Salt & Vinegar & Setting Colors
- Salt Shrimp & Okra
- Sam, the world’s (former) ugliest dog
- Sambodhi shelter – Disabled lay in their beds as waters engulfed them
- Sand Art
- Sanity Haiku
- Sarongs and Saris and Swimsuits, Oh My!
- Saturday is for Shopping
- Saturday Schmaturday
- School holidays?
- Sea surges reach East African coast
- Seeking Sambal Oelik
- Septic Tanks Are a Pain in the Butt
- Setting Apart
- Seven hour laundry
- Sewage Systems in Sri Lanka
- Sewing hints and tips
- Sewing Introspection
- Sewing Lessons
- Sewing Machines!
- Sewing Tips
- Sewing… Done.
- Shalwaar Kameez!
- Shalwaar Kameez’s.
- Shalwaars vs. Saris
- Shalwaars!
- Shark Meat
- Sheets
- Shocking News: Most Sri Lankans Don’t Use Banks!
- Shockwaves have hit Malaysia and Indonesia. Death tolls at 5,000. And climbing.
- Shop clusters in Sri Lanka
- Shopping
- Shopping Experiences
- Shopping for Festival
- Shopping!
- Shopping!!!
- Short Asian Guys Arrive With Bed
- Shoulder’s mostly better
- Shrinking Fabric Haiku
- Signs I’ve Been Living in Sri Lanka Too Long. . .
- Silk from Salusala
- Silk. Handwashable?
- Singapore or Thailand. Thailand or Singapore. Vote now!
- Sinhala and Tamil New Years can be a pain in the butt
- Sinhalese
- Sinhalese lessons continue
- Sinhalese Lessons! Yay!!!!
- Sinhalese Lessons. Yay!!
- Sinhalese? Oder Tamil?
- Sinhalese. . . Yay!!!
- Site Scoring
- Slashdot trolling phenomena
- Slaughter a cow, will ya?
- Slavery dying in Niger
- Sleeves. *mad* Not going well. *mad* At all. *mad*
- Smallville
- Smallville, Here We Come. But first . . . Church.
- Smart Rats (TM)
- SMS via cell phone to be backbone of alert system?
- So, I’m Exotic?
- So*. I came across this blog…
- So*. This is how I find out my brother got married…
- Someone has far too much time. . .
- Sometimes I Wonder
- Sometimes I’m On Serious Drugs
- Sounds like it’s “Make Fun of MicroSlop” day
- Spamalot from China?
- Speaking of Cold Showers
- Spices in the Freezer?????
- Spider in the toilet?
- Spiders!
- Spiders… Urgh!
- Sri Lanka – new earthquake zone Earthquakes: Lanka no longer safe
- Sri Lanka bans tsunami adoptions
- Sri Lanka declares a state of emergency
- Sri Lanka has no tsunami warning system
- Sri Lanka ignored earthquake warning signs: Relief official
- Sri Lanka monks blame Colombo for explosion at Bollywood concert
- Sri Lanka votes today
- Sri Lanka: A New Beginning
- Sri Lanka. The only country in the world NOT on the internet.
- Sri Lanka’s Colombo Crows
- Sri Lanka’s death toll thought to be 10,000 – 12,000
- Sri Lanka’s new building regulation
- Sri Lanka’s President Declared a State of Emergency
- Sri Lanka’s unemployment rumoured to rise 20%
- Sri Lanka’s version of door to door salespeople
- Sri Lankan Aid
- Sri Lankan Bats and Bat Houses
- Sri Lankan Elections – Body Count at 2
- Sri Lankan monks regret bomb attack at Bollywood concert :
- Sri Lankan Movies
- Sri Lankans and Fudge
- Star Wars? Russian? What?
- Staying dry in a flood?
- Sticky Board Rat Trap Catches . . . What????
- Sticky Rat Board (TM) attracts . . . What????
- Stiff Fabric Syndrome
- Still in italics. Ugh.
- Stone Age Tribes in Andamans
- Student Riots And Closing Universities In Sri Lanka
- Sumatra earthquake and tsunami costliest disaster ever
- Sundays
- Sunrises and More Sunrises
- SWAT. The movie.
- Swimming Lessons in Sri Lanka
- T2
- Taken
- Taking the trishaw home
- Tamatje’s Indian Restaurant
- Technorati
- Teeny Tiny Little Cute Froggy Napping In My Lime Tree
- Teeny tiny little greenish bird
- Telephone Directories
- Television Advertisements
- Television Commercials and Quality Control
- Television Programming
- Television? Ja oder nay?
- Tellulah Goes Over the Wall
- Tellulah is Gone
- Tellulah, the Great Disappearer
- Tellulah. Where are you?
- Tellulah. Sigh. Oberon. Another Sigh. Sigh.
- Tellulah’s Dull and Boring and Uneventful Life
- Temblor off Australia may have triggered Indian Ocean quake: expert
- Terminator 2 Day
- Thai Pongal Day = Boiling Milk Day
- Thailand ignored tsunami alert: report
- that pesky undersea cable problem
- The Alternative Potter
- The branch Christmas party is Saturday night
- The cake, boss. The cake.
- The Canadian government pisses me off
- The Continuing Garbage Sage
- The Continuing Saga of the Disappearing Cat
- The Continuing Sage of Power Outages
- The death toll continues to climb.
- The DVD is . . . where?
- The Earthquake and their aftershocks in south Asia
- The end of an era
- The Fattitudes
- The firecrackers…
- The Great Escape, Part Deux
- The Great Firewall of China
- The History of Chocolate Chip Cookies
- The Holiday’s Over
- The internet is broken. Again.
- The Janson Directive by Ludlum & Darkover Landfall by Bradley
- The jewellery store called
- The laptop is dead. Long live the laptop!
- The Mango Tree
- The military is on alert.
- The Monk Situation
- The New Maid, Part Deux
- The new maid…
- The No War Zone
- The Papaya Mealy Bug Infestation Saga Continues
- The President is nutso.
- The President is Power Hungry
- The rest of my day
- The rest of my day . . .
- The Rest of My Life
- The Rest of the Day
- The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey
- The Sign of the Beast
- The Tamil Tigers want to be the sole representatives of the Tamil people.
- The telephone system in Sri Lanka
- The tiny sideroad we walk down to get to Fahim’s work is going to be has been paved. We think.
- The View Out Our Front Door
- The writer’s life
- The Yellow-Billed Babbler and Other Birds of Sri Lanka
- Theory: Oil companies running tests may have caused the earthquake.
- There’s a begger at my door
- There’s a cockroach where?????
- There’s a squirrel hanging from my roof!
- There’s nothing funnier than Asterix & Obelix in Sinhalese
- There’s Something Strange Happening With the Sea
- They’re gone.
- Things That Make Me Scream!!!!
- Think Maybe I Was A Little Tired
- This evening, Fahim has to go out without me. Drat.
- This is kinda scary
- This is my life.
- This is the SECOND Time I’ve Written This Entry, I Swear
- Thoughts on communicating tsunami warnings.
- Thread Shopping
- Three weeks of constant rain predicted
- Thrudays
- Thunder and Lightning and Destruction, Oh My
- Thunder, Lightning, and Monsoons
- Thursdays are not Slurpee Days in Sri Lanka
- Time Change
- To Blog Or Not To Blog
- To make sure squid stays tender when cooking…
- Today has been a mostly no water day
- Today is also a holiday.
- Today is NOT, I repeat, NOT a power outage day
- Today Really Was a Boring Day
- Today was a Very Full Day
- Today was pretty much a do almost nothing day.
- Today was REALLY monsoon weather. And yesterday, too.
- Today, I eat jello
- Today, I taught a lesson in Relief Society on Being a Good Citizen.
- Today, I wore a shalwaar to church
- Today’s was officially the worst shower ever!
- Tom Yum Goong
- Too much time on their hands
- Torrential Downpours. Again.
- Torrential rains cause flash flooding in Sri Lanka
- Torrential rains slow down relief work.
- TouchGraph Google Browser
- Tourism is gearing up in Sri Lanka again
- Transportation habits in Sri Lanka
- Transporting Furniture and… People?
- Trees
- Tremors increase in frequency around Sri Lanka
- Triple Cat Food Walking
- Trishaws are a handy thing.
- Tsunami experiments
- Tsunami News
- Tsunami Scams in the News
- Tsunami Snapshot
- Tsunami warning system not manned on boxing day
- Tug of War
- Tuna. Huh?
- Twin needles and zipper feet
- Typhoon forming off the south east coast of Sri Lanka
- U.N.: Tsunami Worst Catastrophe for Tourism
- Uh, OOOOPS!!!!
- Um, dear, there’s something in the ceiling. . .
- Undersea Telephone Cable Repairs Set to Begin Today
- Updates on aftershocks – up to 75
- Urinating in Public is a No-No?
- Vacation plans – email from Kim in Male, Maldives
- Vacation plans – email from Kim in Male, Maldives
- Vacation plans are crimps – email to Kim in Male, Maldives
- Vacation plans with Kim in Male, Maldives – an email from me to her
- Validation
- Vehicles Powered by Motors Are Considered Optional
- Vesak Poya Day
- Vijitha Yapa’s is the best bookstore in Sri Lanka
- Vision is a Good Thing
- Visiting Teaching
- Visitors!
- Warning: Grossness ahead.
- Washing Machines and Sri Lanka
- Watching the evening news
- Water Outage Today
- Water outage. Waaah!
- Water Outages
- Water, brown.
- Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink
- Water. Boiled? Or not?
- Watermelons As Art
- We are starving over here
- We got a property tax assessment in our mail today
- We Had Glass Doors on our Kitchen Cupboards
- We Shall Rebuild. A song for the tsunami relief efforts.
- We started watching my first Hindi movie.
- We’re Baaaaaaack!!!!
- We’re moving. We’re moving. We’re moving. We’re Moving
- We’ve been hit! We’ve been hit!
- Web 2.0 Validator
- Websites and more Websites
- What part of Dong-Ma don’t you understand?
- What the heck are inverted lines?
- What to do? What to do?
- What you need to know about DVDs here
- Whatever. It’s time to move on.
- Whensdays and Wheredays
- Who to donate money to?
- Why Do I Have Songs Running Through My Head?
- Why does garbage have to be so complicated?
- Why does the tsunami garner so much attention while the starving in Africa are ignored?
- Why is the fishing industry completely wiped out?
- Why was Sri Lanka in the forefront of the news in the beginning? Why not Indonesia?
- Why’d the Chicken Cross the Road?
- Wildlife INSIDE the house
- Wildlife OUTSIDE our house
- Windows Really Good Edition
- Windoze error message generator
- Witch’s Brew, also known as Paspanguwa
- Woman’s rape ordered by tribal council
- World Of Warcraft Haiku
- Worldwide Elections
- Worm Infestation. Ew!
- Would I like some cheese with this whine?
- Writing . . . good.
- Writing . . . good.
- Writing Haiku
- Writing Incentives
- Yay!
- Yeah, Whatever.
- Yep, definitely monsoon
- Yes, Dear Virginia, it is important to read every word.
- You know it’s monsoon season when…
- Your Type is ISTJ
- Zoo!!!!!!
Photography
Singapore
- A bridge near Clarke Quay
- A red building
- A Singaporean Wildlife Bridge…
- A Window in Little India, Singapore.
- Another Singapore Sunrise
- Ascott Building
- Changi Airport, Singapore
- Chocolate. Glorious Glorious Chocolate.
- Classic Architecture
- Coloured Window Frames
- Doing laundry in Singapore
- I still don’t get the Hello Kitty craze
- Just before sunrise
- Masjid Sultan, or Sultan Mosque
- People sleeping in a park in Singapore
- Scenes from Little India, Singapore
- Scenes from Singapore
- Singapore 2007
- Singapore and the Cost of Owning a Car
- Singapore at night
- Singapore Haze
- Singapore Skyline
- Singapore Sunrise
- Weird Little Building
Sri Lanka
- A Buddhist temple we pass
- A building beside the railroad tracks
- A chameleon on our doorstep!
- A Flying Dog
- A Job Offer
- A lizard came for a visit…
- A monitor lizard crossing the road in Sri Lanka
- A new adventure in New Zealand
- A palm tree in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- A Public Bus
- A Squirrel and A Bird Come Visiting
- A Squirrel and a Chameleon Meet…
- A Squirrel Is A-Frolickin’
- A tailor shop in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- A Taste of Culture Shock
- A typical main-ish road in Sri Lanka
- About Sri Lanka
- About the Author
- Again
- An Elephant and a Perahara
- An elephant at work
- And another one…
- And It Begins . . .
- And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .
- Are cows everywhere in Sri Lanka?
- Arriving in Sri Lanka
- Atikukula or Greater Coucal
- Attack! of the Sand Creatures!!!
- Back pain.
- Bathing in Sri Lanka
- Because Baskin Robbins
- Best Photos of 2003
- Best Photos of 2005
- Best Photos of 2006
- Best Photos of 2007
- Bicycles!
- Birds of Sri Lanka
- Birds, Birds, Birds
- Black Pajaama Pants
- Borax and Sugar and Ants, Oh My!
- Can’t live with ’em, can’t kill ’em all…
- Censorship in Asia
- Chameleon in heat!
- Chameleon in my tree!
- Chameleon! Maybe?
- Chameleons in my yard!
- Chameleons!
- Cheeky Squirrel!
- Chernobyl Beetle!
- Cinnamon
- Clothing definitions
- Common Myna
- Common Tailorbird doing a fashion shoot
- Cows snacking in the next door lot
- Cows wandering the streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Cows!
- Crafting/DIY As A Form of Self-Defense
- Crappy crappy internet speeds
- Customer Service in Sri Lanka
- Day 27/#365 The Cat!
- Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love
- Day 32/#365 Alien Bug From the Andromeda Galaxy!
- December Views – Fishing Boats
- December Views – Trishaw Stand
- Do hummingbirds hum?
- Donations – 26 Dec 2004 Tsunami Relief
- Earthworms
- Fabric shopping
- Fahim’s first day off…
- Fahim’s Pajaama Pants
- Fahim’s Shopping!
- FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
- Favourite Photos of 2003
- Favourite Photos of 2004
- Favourite Photos of 2005
- Favourite Photos of 2006
- Favourite Photos of 2007
- Fittings and frustration
- Five guys working on a roof
- Flight Day
- For Your Entertainment. Cows And Garbage And Empty Lots.
- Forest Kittens
- Freaky Friday Spider!
- Garbage and Recycling in Sri Lanka
- Garbage men collecting garbage
- German Restaurant
- Goats
- Good Friday.
- Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.
- Green Parrots in Flight
- Growing – and killing – mint in Sri Lanka
- Haiku
- Handmade Furniture
- Hassles at the grocery store
- Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems
- homemaking – compassionate service project
- Hong Kong
- How does ones internet “run out”?
- Howdy
- Hummingbirds
- Hummingbirds were busy today
- I am, apparently, quite clueless.
- I’m Seeing Wasps?
- I’m starting to get spoiled
- I’ve been AWOL
- Ice Cream Bicycles
- Ike is edumacatin’ me
- Images of Poverty
- Installing a Water Line
- Interesting – to me at least – winged creature
- Introducing… Pani Kurulla!
- Is that a monkey on my telephone line again?
- It’s a new bird! Nitamba Sudu Vikurulla
- It’s my birthday and I’ll shop if I want to . . .
- Jewellery, pour moi.
- Kana Koka
- Kurunegala Sunday Market
- Kurunegala Sunday Market, part II
- La Rambla Restaurante
- Let the Chaos Begin!
- License Plates!
- Lizard Crossing
- Lizard!
- Lost!
- Lost!
- Lou and Ike are on their way to the Maldives
- Lou and Ike!
- Lunch?
- Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
- Monkesses? Nuns? Erm, what?
- Moo! Moooooo!!!!! Moooo!
- Mooo!
- Mooooooo!
- More Copyright Violations
- More Neighborhood Monkey Activity
- More on cows. Serious cows. Or maybe very happy cows?
- More on Plagiarism in Sri Lanka
- More on Vesak Poya Day
- More scenes from a Buddhist temple
- More Shalwaars?
- My first ladybug
- My first shalwaar fitting
- My Neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Neem Oil and Papaya Mealy Bug
- Neighborhood Monkeys
- Neighorhood Monkeys in Sri Lanka
- No babies delivered by this stork.
- No firecrackers
- No internet
- Noise Laws in Sri Lanka
- Odel’s! But, alas, no. Pinnacle Shopping Mall? Oh, yes!
- On blogs.
- On books in Sri Lanka
- On the way to the fabric store…
- One of our neighborhood squirrels
- One very weird day…
- OSC
- Our trishaw driver – rock, meet hard place.
- Oxcarts. I kid you not.
- Picking Flowers
- Piracy, Plagiarism, and Stolen Content in Sri Lanka
- Polkichcha or Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)
- Pooping Cat!
- President’s party is winning
- Primal Stride – Five at Five Day 3
- Primal Stride Double Crunch Day 2
- Project #365 Day 100 – The Naming of the Lizard with a request for suggestions
- Project #365 Day 101 – An Ant Doing the Breaststroke
- Project #365 Day 102 – Glow
- Project #365 Day 103 – Leaves
- Project #365 Day 104 – Starfruit Flowers
- Project #365 Day 105 – Green Bananas
- Project #365 Day 106 – Grass
- Project #365 Day 107 – A Warm Glow
- Project #365 Day 108 – Reaching for the Sky
- Project #365 Day 109 – A Frequent Visitor
- Project #365 Day 110 – Cloudbound
- Project #365 Day 111 – Blue
- Project #365 Day 112 – Why’d the Lizard Cross the Road?
- Project #365 Day 113 – Square
- Project #365 Day 114 – Radial Green
- Project #365 Day 115 – Brown Speckles on Aqua
- Project #365 Day 116 Windswept
- Project #365 Day 117 – Red Spiky Things
- Project #365 Day 118 Neon Bug
- Project #365 Day 119 The Eye of the Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 121 – Green Stripes
- Project #365 Day 122 – Sepia Lines
- Project #365 Day 123 – Branching Out
- Project #365 Day 124 – Green Veins
- Project #365 Day 125 – Flowers in the Purple
- Project #365 Day 126 – Bubulcus ibis
- Project #365 Day 127 – Stairway to…
- Project #365 Day 128 – Abstract Leaf
- Project #365 Day 129 – The Egg Shell
- Project #365 Day 130 – Red Blur
- Project #365 Day 131 – Curves
- Project #365 Day 132 – Death Among the Living
- Project #365 Day 133 – Negative Space
- Project #365 Day 134 – Stripes
- Project #365 Day 135 – Purple Spokes
- Project #365 Day 136 – Bug Blue
- Project #365 Day 137 – Pink Sky
- Project #365 Day 138 – Broken Wings
- Project #365 Day 139 – Flying Purple People Eater!
- Project #365 Day 140 – Brilliant Sun
- Project #365 Day 141 – Jumble
- Project #365 Day 142 – Rattan
- Project #365 Day 143 – Stained Glass
- Project #365 Day 144 – The Threads of Many Colours
- Project #365 Day 145 – Lunch!
- Project #365 Day 146 – Bannister
- Project #365 Day 147 – Flame
- Project #365 Day 148 – Hiding Sun
- Project #365 Day 149 – Mimosas
- Project #365 Day 150 – Jasmine
- Project #365 Day 151 – Papaya Leaf
- Project #365 Day 152 – The Ant and the Henna Plant
- Project #365 Day 153 – Red Bells
- Project #365 Day 154 – A Sky View
- Project #365 Day 155 – A Butterfly in the Midst
- Project #365 Day 156 – The Lock
- Project #365 Day 157 – Bubbles
- Project #365 Day 158 – A Seven Sister
- Project #365 Day 159 – Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 160 – Decorative Palm Seeds
- Project #365 Day 161 – White On Pink
- Project #365 Day 162 – Palm
- Project #365 Day 163 – Golden Sunrise
- Project #365 Day 164 – Mimosa Flowers
- Project #365 Day 165 – Bells
- Project #365 Day 166 – Lines
- Project #365 Day 167 – Swirls
- Project #365 Day 168 – Yellow Butterfly
- Project #365 Day 169 – Water Fountain
- Project #365 Day 170 – Dying
- Project #365 Day 171 – Ribs of Brown
- Project #365 Day 172 – Striped Body
- Project #365 Day 173 – Bird on a Wire
- Project #365 Day 174 – Another viewing of the friendly neighborhood lizard
- Project #365 Day 175 – Red Vented Bulbul
- Project #365 Day 176 – A Sunbathing Chameleon
- Project #365 Day 177 – Crotons Against A Blue Sky
- Project #365 Day 178 – Yellow Billed Babbler
- Project #365 Day 179 – Chameleon!
- Project #365 Day 180 – Carved Wood and Rattan
- Project #365 Day 181 – Rattan and Carved Wood Revisited
- Project #365 Day 182 – Pink Flower
- Project #365 Day 183 – Jagged Teeth
- Project #365 Day 184 – Grass Flowers and Interpretations Thereof
- Project #365 Day 185 – Redo: Doorknob
- Project #365 Day 186 – Splish Splash, I Was Takin’ a Bath…
- Project #365 Day 187 – Small Change
- Project #365 Day 188 – Contortionist Barbie
- Project #365 Day 189 – Front Door
- Project #365 Day 19 Snail
- Project #365 Day 191 – Chameleon! Again!
- Project #365 Day 192 – Papaya Leaf
- Project #365 Day 193 – Green Blobs, Yellow Speckles, and Splashes of Red
- Project #365 Day 194 – Green and Black
- Project #365 Day 22 Where is that wascally squirrel?
- Project #365 Day 23 A dark green bird…
- Project #365 Day 24 Out and About
- Project #365 Day 37 Out and About in Sri Lanka
- Project #365 Day 38 The Thing! and It!
- Project #365 Day 44 A Purple Flower
- Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers
- Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito
- Project #365 Day 6 Thebu and Papaya Mealybug
- Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
- Project #365 Day 63 Purple-Faced Leaf Monkey
- Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
- Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
- Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
- Project #365 Day 70 Ants and Flowers
- Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
- Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
- Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
- Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
- Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
- Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…
- Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
- Project #365 Day 88 Is that a wasp’s nest?
- Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur
- Project #365 Day 91 That’s a full basket you’re carrying on your head, sir.
- Project #365 Day 93 – Blushing Jambu
- Project #365 Day 94 – Kahakurulla
- Project #365 Day 95 – Croton Flower
- Project #365 Day 96 – Croton Flower Revisited
- Project #365 Day 97 – Gava-Koka Revisited
- Project #365 Day 98 – Starfruit Flower Blossoms
- Project #365 Day 99 – Jambu Fruit
- Project 365 Day 47 The Rat Snake vs. The Fahim
- Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About
- Provincial Council Election Ballots in Sri Lanka
- Purple-Faced Langur Monkey Travelling the Power Line Highway
- Purple-Faced Langur Monkeys at Play
- Rail Road Stations
- Rain, rain, and nothin’ but rain!
- Ramadan and NaNoWriMo just don’t mix
- Rats!
- Recycling in Sri Lanka
- Scenes at a Buddhist Temple
- Scenes from a Buddhist Temple
- Selling Furniture in Sri Lanka
- Sewing Introspection
- Sewing Machine Repair Guy = A Success!
- Sewing… Done.
- Shocking News: Most Sri Lankans Don’t Use Banks!
- Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets
- Shops, Food Carts, and Produce Stalls
- Shrinking Fabric Haiku
- Silhouette Birdies
- Singer Mobile Kitchen
- Six Years and No One’s Dead Yet…
- Smokin’!
- So we have hummingbirds
- So. It’s morning. I’m making breakfast. I reach out to grab a glass…
- Software Piracy in Sri Lanka
- Spider!
- Spiders and Cob Webs
- Spiders… Urgh!
- Squirrel!
- Squirrels Are A-Frolickin’
- Squirrels!
- Squirrels!
- Sri Lanka Links
- Sri Lanka’s Bus System
- Sri Lanka’s Colombo Crows
- Sri Lanka’s Immigration
- Sri Lankan and International Intellectual Property Law
- Sri Lankan Bats and Bat Houses
- Sri Lankan cats are puny
- Stork
- Street scenes from Sri Lanka
- Student Riots And Closing Universities In Sri Lanka
- Sub-Marine Cables Cut – Internet Slow?
- Tailor!
- Teeny Tiny Little Cute Froggy Napping In My Lime Tree
- Teeny tiny little greenish bird
- Telephone pole outside our house in Sri Lanka
- Ten years and no one’s dead yet!
- The Continuing Saga . . .
- The Fisher King! Well, no, not really…
- The Fly!
- The Internet’s Broken!
- The jewellery store called
- The latest lizard to invade my garden
- The Lizard Walk. And The Bird. But Mostly The Lizard Walk.
- The Papaya Mealy Bug Infestation Saga Continues
- The parting of the papaya mealybug and the lime tree
- The Siege of the Monitor Lizard
- The Yellow-Billed Babbler and Other Birds of Sri Lanka
- There’s a squirrel hanging from my roof!
- Things that make me go “hmm?”
- This country has too many cows. Way too many. Way way too many.
- This is a trishaw…
- Three Green Parrots
- Thursdays are not Slurpee Days in Sri Lanka
- Time Change
- To wait or not to wait, that is the question
- Today, I wore a shalwaar to church
- Transporting an elephant
- Transporting Furniture and… People?
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyers
- Two images of poverty in Sri Lanka
- Water Lilies
- Water Tanks On Houses
- Welcome to my freak show!
- What happens on Eid ul-Fitr?
- What is your bandwidth speed?
- White Bellied Drongo – Help me, Obiwan!
- White-Rumped Munias Building a Nest
- Witch’s Brew, also known as Paspanguwa
- Yellow-billed babbler in Sri Lanka.