2025: AI is like teen sex
In early September 2025, I returned to Perth and ended up staying in the same place where I had stayed before. Interestingly, Fred was still there. He seemed alright but didn't have a job, which was...
View ArticleOnce apon a time in Hikka
When going through nostalgic memories, Hikka (or Hikkaduwa / හික්කඩුව) is a memorable stop even today. All beings in Hikka! If you are an ocean lover, beach nerd, or a diver, Hikka would have been your...
View ArticleExpedition to unchartered terrain
Though I wasn't actively involved in the research, others had been kept on studying the whereabouts and feasibility of reaching another lesser known historical site, hidden within the vast jungle of...
View ArticleBack to the cold waters
I wasn't pleased with the fact, Nipuna didn't return my precious books even after few reminders. I was about to explode. One of the books was actually a copy signed by its author, none other than Dr....
View ArticleMemorable end of year catchups
Some of the travel photos I posted in this blog have been captured by Kusum (aka Roshan). He was my partner in crime: we were in same path in studies to professions to outdoor activities. When I first...
View ArticleBorella never change!
I was so relieved to be back at home because I was experiencing the bitterness of winter, in Melbourne, at its best. We really should be admiring the sunlight we enjoy in tropics. In other hand, Sri...
View ArticleWalk into history of Veddhas in Rathugala
If we plan too much with too many options, chances are that hike or excursion would never happen. For some reason, plan of going to Rathugala (රතුගල) surfaced pretty quickly and all were set. All were...
View ArticleNeed a home to be homesick
Australia changes to holiday mode from the beginning of December. In 2023 I was still in Perth. This is usually not in my plans. Given the opportunity, this time I made it a point to attend the office...
View ArticlePartying at Kalpitiya
When we first came to dive at Kalpitiya, a couple of years ago, it was like love at first sight. Its not all about diving, but people, culture and slow life what we started to admire. Day to day life...
View ArticleBusy in good way
Not to say I was tired and overwhelmed by end of the Underwater/ Land excursion done in east, nor any difference for others. Funny, but sadly Niro had travelled all the way to Monaragala again in a bus...
View ArticleAnother excursion at east
I had all the intensions of diving when east coast season started in 2023. I couldn't do much in west coast season this time since Sawanthi went through a surgery and needed a lot of rest, leaving me...
View Articlelife goes on amid the crisis
When I came out of the arrivals door of Bandaranayake Airport, Sisira was there to take me home. Sisira had been my (un)official driver, for last few years. First he was the driver for me when I used...
View ArticleWandering through the time of Covid
In a previous post I mentioned how I was stranded in Australia since federal government imposed a law stopping Australians from going out of the country during the Covid-19 pandemic. At last I was...
View ArticleThrilling historical connections in between Perth and Sri Lanka
In 1942, Japanese captured Singapore and cut off the air link in between Australia and England. By 1943, Royal Australian Air force started one of the historically important flights in between Perth...
View ArticleGoing out of the city
As I mentioned in my previous post, Western Australia wasn’t hit badly by Covid. Though we were not allowed to go out of the state, travel within the state was possible during the period of jeopardy....
View ArticleUncertain times in an isolated city
In early 2020, I was in Sri Lanka with family enjoying all the comforts I can ask for. Not to say, while it was the west coast season, I also explored few shipwreck in the coast of Colombo and Galle....
View ArticleLife at Harbone Street
In August 2019, I came to Perth. After spending first night in a hotel near the Airport I came to my next place where I planned to stay for next month.That's how I ended up living with David and Kim. I...
View ArticlePledge to go fur-free!
Consumers everywhere need to know the truth about fur. When people learn that millions of innocent animals are beaten, boiled, hanged, and electrocuted for their fur every year ... when they learn that...
View ArticleExploring Kudumbigala
Kudumbigala is one of the wonderful places I have ever explored. It is an old monastery which had been re-discovered in recent past. Most fascinatingly, it has become one of the most interior...
View ArticleWhat temperate waters offer
We always see great underwater photos with clear blue backgrounds and that’s like a dream for any diver or underwater enthusiast. Those are tropical waters. As Sri Lankans we are blessed with such...
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