What a Blunder

Kinda Long but it all happend.

Man, today was a terrible experience. I had to go with my dad to the Big City (Cargills Food City in town) to buy some stuff. On our way we thought we'll pump some Petrol. There was a long queue. When my chance came dad got out and went to get some Break Oil. After a while I saw the Man who was pumpin juice seem to have finished the job. Then I thought I heard the guy at the back toot the horn. I quickly strarted the car and was goin forward when there was a lauuuud thud on the back of the car. The pumping man was hittin the car like crazy. Then I realized 'Oh brother', he was still pumpin. If not for him I wud 'av taken the pump with me. I stopped. That man was swearing at me. The whole Petrol Shed was staring at me. Then came my dad and he blasted me to pieces in front of everyone. "You wud'av taken whole pump with you, see you still can't drive"

Thought that was it and came to Big City. Dad wanted to by some Beer. We were at the queue for the liquor store. Then heard "Old Iwarai, Old Iwarai" (Old Arrack is over) so many dissapointed souls got out of the queue. Dad waited to collect the bottles and I was pulled by a sales guy and was directed to pay for them. Thoroughly confused I paid and came back to the liquor store, loaded the bottles into a bag and I saw 2 more bottles on the table. I tried to take them as well. Surprisingly they were empty. Then I hear a voice "Hey they are mine" shouts an old gentleman.

Well then I had keep guard for the bottles(8 bottles) while my father went to look for Cornetto for my sister. I was standing at the entrance with the bottles with the whole crowd (people entering the super market and ppl at the counter - err I was facing all the counters) staring at me. Then I saw a parishioner of our church (I think he is a Warden) with his wife and two young daughters. He looked at me then at the Beer bottles and looked away.(may be not to cause any embarrasment). Must 'av told himself "Gee I thought this guy was a sober dude. Better keep my daughters away from him"

Thats not all, in a little while an old man comes next to me and looks at me.. then he looks at the bottles.. again he looks at me... again he looks a the bottles. (8 bottles) Crazy old fool I know what he was thinkin. "Can this guy pour all that beer down his throat ?"

Man, I've had enough of it. What a day What a Blunder !!

Another Donation

Guess these are those New SLTB buses on the Road. (Painted in Red). Never thought they were "Environmentally Substandard". Here goes another Donation. Wonder whether we'll have to suffer the envoronmental consequences in time to come. I feel these buses hav got some sort of shock absorbers unlike the Lanka Ashok Leyland. On Monday I went in one of these new buses and its shocks seem to have deteriorated. (I'm not quite sure whether the driver was drunk) With 150 new ones on sri Lankan roads, "God help us now !"
source : www.ramadbk.com/news/2005/21.html

Whom I was angry with ??

Last week one day, dogtired after work, I was doin some work at home and suddenly I knocked my eye on a piece of glass. It was a thundering knock. I must admit I swore at the piece of glass. I dunno whom I was addressing. But there was no bleeding. Later I realized the piece of Glass, What it means. When you look into it you see yourself (Reflection). Wonder whom I was angry with ??

Great Quotes

I did not say these and there certainly are many more.


Abraham Lincoln (16th president of US)

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come"

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"


The quotations page


Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

My Early Life, 1930

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

Radio speech, 1939

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to

force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

Speech, 1941, Harrow School

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."


The Quotations Page


My Favourites

"Never, never, never give up."

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

Sir Winston Churchill



" I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the Alter of Freedom."

Abraham Lincoln

From The collected works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VIII, Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby (November 21, 1864, pp. 116-117)


"Look around you. In the 7th Cavalry, we got a Captain from the Ukraine. Another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians, Jews and Gentiles -- all Americans. Now here in the States, some men in this Unit may experience discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the 'valley of the shadow of death' -- where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is or by what name he calls God."

"They say we're leavin' home. We're goin' to what home was always supposed to be. So let us understand the situation. We are goin' into battle against a tough and determined enemy. I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear before you and before Almighty God: That when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to stop off. And I will leave no one behind."

"Dead or alive, we will all come home together."

"So help me God."

Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Hal" G. Moore: Address to the 7th Cavalry
"We Were Soldiers" (2002)

AAAAARRRGHHHH GRRRRRR.............. I knew I'll FORGET that !

Remember the last time when you got out of the house in the morning and just as you leave home you tell yourself "I know I FORGOT SOMETHING" ?


Then on your way to work you remember that SOMETHING. You also Remember ............. "AAAAARRRGHHHH GRRRRRR.............. I knew I'll FORGET that !"
What a shame I've been keeping it in my mind all morning knowing I'll forget that, UNTIL.........
the time I got out of the house.


I sure do remember all of those times but still FORGRET what I had to remember.