"Changeling" and Sri Lanka today

I watched Clint Eastwood’s movie: Changeling. It was a good story to watch after a while. Angelina Jolie’s contribution was so superb; I didn’t feel the movie’s runtime of 141 minutes at all.

In summary, the story tells about a mother who challenges political corrupted and lawless authority to find her missing son. After all troubles, with the help of civil society leaders, she was able to find a reasonable justice for her and others’ cases.

When I watched the movie, I felt that the problem in the story depicts the situation in Sri Lanka nowadays. “Uchitha’s blog” has a good post about the way things are going today. With the current situation in country people are feared of authorities going politically corrupted and lawless. But the problem is civil society is getting afraid to lead the socity, so end to the problem is unlike. As I feel, this transition period for Sri Lanka should be over soon to see a better country for all of us. Otherwise, the transition period will be longer than we think.

Thanks Vagi for the movie.

Kite Runner : The book and the movie

I usually watch movies, also read novels (occasionally). But, it’s really rare to read a novel and watch the movies based on that novel. Last time it was Da Vinchi code, like everyone who did that, I like the book over movie.

Uchitha mentioned about “Kit Runner” in his blog few months ago. He has watched the Kit Runner movie and mentioned about it with full credit.

With his introduction to the movie, I bought the Novel. It took a long time to start the reading. But that was a real good novel to read. The novel was based on Afganistan, but some parts of it were related to the Pakistan I knew. So, I found it’s bit familiar to me. Also, the story for so good to keep the readers addicted to the novel.

After the book, I found the movie. I watched it. As I feel, the director has done justice to the book. But the book is far ahead without any doubt.

Trip to Doovili Ella

On April 14th, we went to see the “Doovili Ella”, which is located near Neluwa (Close to Sinharaja forest). The route from Galle is Galle->Udugama Town->Thawalama Town->Neluwa Town->Turn to Pelawatta road, around 3-4kms-> turn to the Doovili ella access road.

Doovili Ella consists of 3 falls. It’s really a nice view to see. But the main attraction according to my thinking is the natural water pool located at the bottom of the pool. Water from the fall is directed to a man-made water pool. So, it’s really a secure bath there.

Only problem I faced is the time it took us to travel. From Galle town, it took around 2.5 hours to get there. But, it’s really worth trip to go.

View sunset from Galle Fort

My home town is Galle. I did my studies there. When we were in Galle, we had a habit of going to Fort in the evening. With higher studies and job, I was out of this for a long time.

Last weekend I had time to visit the Galle Fort in the evening and see the sunset.

It's really a wonderful view to see. My recommendation is to plan your trips or visits (if you are going on that way) to be on the Galle Fort in the evening, to watch the sunset.

Demotivating a (Good) Programmer

Found an interesting article on programmer's life, Demotivating a (Good) Programmer.

When I compare my experience and thinking, I feel majority of this article is true.

We oya river, a place to go in the weekend

Last Sunday morning, we were wandering what to do. Suddenly my friend Chamindu came with an idea of going out of Colombo. Janaka took the lead by agreeing to it without any hesitation.
Initially we thought to go to Kithulgala. If we go to Kithulgala, bath in the river and white water rafting is possible. But when we were on the way to there, we heard about a nice place to have a swim.

We Oya, when you travel on Colombo-Hatton road, turn right just before the Yatiyanthota town. The road goes parallel to the We oya river. You have to go around 8 Kms. Then turn right to the road leading to the school there. Less than one kilometer on that road, you will find the place. Best thing to do is, ask from someone there. I can’t remember the exact name of the place, but if anyone of you interested, please mail me.
[Thanks Janaka for the photos.]