You know what would make the Galle Lit Fest cooler? If they had authors mud wrestling. That'd be pretty cool.
I'm rather bummed that I didn't make it to Galle this weekend, but that's cancelled by the whole 'glad to be alive' thing that I've got going on.
I wholeheartedly recommend watching Stranger Than Fiction. Sure, they could've made it better, but the story's serious while being quite funny, and Maggie Gyllenhaal is nothing but smoking all throughout.
I decided I shouldn't hate Java just because it's very popular and a lot of people use it as a golden hammer. I also learned that writing single line methods gives me a 'kick'. ;)
Van Morrison really is an underrated artist. I mean, sirawata! :/
Since I won't really be able to support Wikipedia financially (till I get myself a credit card), I decided that spending some time each week expanding stub articles and starting up new ones on stuff that I like would be a nice way of contributing. I also discovered that I've been a registered Wikipedia member for more than 4 years now! O_o
Stuff I want to do next month: Go somewhere exciting (could be in Colombo, could be out, I don't care), go for the Wagon Park concert on the 12th and pass my midterms. :P That is all.
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Recap
November started off on a positive note with a presentation at uni that went off pretty well on the first day of the month. But plenty of other things that were planned didn't happen as expected, but it was a good month nonetheless.
I learned a fair bit of C, and can implement everything we learned up to now at uni using it. Object orientation and such are obviously not supported, but the workarounds exist and as many programmers say "C is easier to learn in its entirety, and that is the biggest advantage it gives a coder". Basically, when you know exactly what the language can and cannot do, it makes coding so much easier and more productive.
A thing I didn't get to do was visit ol' Tommy. The time elapsed since I last saw him has hit a new high of 5 freaking months! :( And I don't think I'll get to visit him this weekend either. Sucks ass.
A lot of the travel planned for November had to be shelved, especially due to the bizarre weather conditions. The family did visit Katharagama and the south, but it was a rain affected journey. The planned hike to Nuwara Eliya with Uni buddies didn't work out, and neither did Arugam Bay with Sai and the old thread gang. I did get to spend an extraordinary amount of time at Sai's place though (thanks for the lunches, Sai! :D And the lulz too.) Spending time with one of your best friends in the whole world who only drops by the island once every 15 months or so is one of the true delights of life. :)
Hmmm, so what else. Watched a couple of movies, including "Toy Story 3" (How the hell does Pixar impress over and over again like that???) and "The Social Network" by David Fincher. The latter was one of the best movies I had ever seen. It had the obvious geek appeal for me ("OMG Zuckerberg uses Linux!!!") and also the first Beatles song in a soundtrack that I've heard in a long time (Baby, You're a Rich Man, off Magical Mystery Tour. Beautiful song.) But what I loved about the film is that he achieved in a couple of years things that most people wouldn't in their entire lifetime. And it made me think... What's the point of being called a geek, what's the point of knowing what a wget command does if you don't apply that stuff and do something exciting, do something that you can be proud of? Will you forever be remembered as a nameless faceless glorified typist who slaved away coding some buggy commercial software, or will you be remembered as a Torvalds, a Stallman or a Cohen? Someone who gave up a boring, well paying life to do something that they genuinely found exciting and worth working towards? It's something I'll have a long hard think about in the next couple of months.
I learned a fair bit of C, and can implement everything we learned up to now at uni using it. Object orientation and such are obviously not supported, but the workarounds exist and as many programmers say "C is easier to learn in its entirety, and that is the biggest advantage it gives a coder". Basically, when you know exactly what the language can and cannot do, it makes coding so much easier and more productive.
A thing I didn't get to do was visit ol' Tommy. The time elapsed since I last saw him has hit a new high of 5 freaking months! :( And I don't think I'll get to visit him this weekend either. Sucks ass.
A lot of the travel planned for November had to be shelved, especially due to the bizarre weather conditions. The family did visit Katharagama and the south, but it was a rain affected journey. The planned hike to Nuwara Eliya with Uni buddies didn't work out, and neither did Arugam Bay with Sai and the old thread gang. I did get to spend an extraordinary amount of time at Sai's place though (thanks for the lunches, Sai! :D And the lulz too.) Spending time with one of your best friends in the whole world who only drops by the island once every 15 months or so is one of the true delights of life. :)
Hmmm, so what else. Watched a couple of movies, including "Toy Story 3" (How the hell does Pixar impress over and over again like that???) and "The Social Network" by David Fincher. The latter was one of the best movies I had ever seen. It had the obvious geek appeal for me ("OMG Zuckerberg uses Linux!!!") and also the first Beatles song in a soundtrack that I've heard in a long time (Baby, You're a Rich Man, off Magical Mystery Tour. Beautiful song.) But what I loved about the film is that he achieved in a couple of years things that most people wouldn't in their entire lifetime. And it made me think... What's the point of being called a geek, what's the point of knowing what a wget command does if you don't apply that stuff and do something exciting, do something that you can be proud of? Will you forever be remembered as a nameless faceless glorified typist who slaved away coding some buggy commercial software, or will you be remembered as a Torvalds, a Stallman or a Cohen? Someone who gave up a boring, well paying life to do something that they genuinely found exciting and worth working towards? It's something I'll have a long hard think about in the next couple of months.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Bus route 99
More about the title later.
As the absence of posts in the last couple of days have suggested, I had a pretty awesomely busy weekend. Went to watch 'Bambara Walalla' with a friend on Saturday, and I have to say it was pretty good. Don't want to reveal any plot details, but at the end I felt a cocktail of emotions about how everyone acted. It's just that there is an absolute lack of any black or white characters, and all you see are various shades of grey. And the brightness and contrast of this grey picture changes abruptly with the plot twists and turns. Ok, I've said enough, methinks. If you're one of those people wait ages for a quality Sinhala movie comes, go catch this one. It's not perfect but it's one of the best I've ever seen. (Note: Regal, where I saw it, had English subtitles. So don't worry about the language issue). And the film was followed by a hastily organized blogger meetup on Sunday. Things are getting regular again, which I dig... :)
Ok, so Bus route 99. Colombo to Badulla (I've seen a couple of Welimada buses too)
You get on at Fort (or where I live, coz it passes in front of my house) get down in Kalupahana, trek up the 'Devil's staircase' to Horton Plains, camp, mess around in the highlands and take train from Ohiya back to Colombo. There, instant holiday. What say you, Meshak? ;)
Excuse the pointless post. Hopefully I'll get to write about how Meshak, Inosh and I ate a whole bag of 'gal siyambala' inside the networking lab soon! :D
As the absence of posts in the last couple of days have suggested, I had a pretty awesomely busy weekend. Went to watch 'Bambara Walalla' with a friend on Saturday, and I have to say it was pretty good. Don't want to reveal any plot details, but at the end I felt a cocktail of emotions about how everyone acted. It's just that there is an absolute lack of any black or white characters, and all you see are various shades of grey. And the brightness and contrast of this grey picture changes abruptly with the plot twists and turns. Ok, I've said enough, methinks. If you're one of those people wait ages for a quality Sinhala movie comes, go catch this one. It's not perfect but it's one of the best I've ever seen. (Note: Regal, where I saw it, had English subtitles. So don't worry about the language issue). And the film was followed by a hastily organized blogger meetup on Sunday. Things are getting regular again, which I dig... :)
Ok, so Bus route 99. Colombo to Badulla (I've seen a couple of Welimada buses too)
You get on at Fort (or where I live, coz it passes in front of my house) get down in Kalupahana, trek up the 'Devil's staircase' to Horton Plains, camp, mess around in the highlands and take train from Ohiya back to Colombo. There, instant holiday. What say you, Meshak? ;)
Excuse the pointless post. Hopefully I'll get to write about how Meshak, Inosh and I ate a whole bag of 'gal siyambala' inside the networking lab soon! :D
Monday, January 4, 2010
මේ ගසේ බොහෝ...
ඉස්ඉස්සෙල්ලාම ලැබුවාවූ 2010 නව වසර කිරියෙන් පැණියෙන් (දෙජාතියේම පැණි හොඳේ! හික්ස්!) පිරුණු සෞභාග්යමත් වසරක් වේවායැයි පතනවා! :D
මට අනාදිමත් කාලෙක ඉඳල සිංහලෙන් බ්ලොග් එකක් ලියන්න ලොකු ආසාවක් තිබුන, ඒත් කරුමෙට වගෙ මට විජේසේකර යතුරු පුවරුව අල්ලගන්න පොඩ්ඩක් අමාරු වෙලා තමයි හිටියෙ... මගේ හොඳ මිත්ර චතුර සහොදරයා ඕකට හොඳ විසඳුමකුත් දුන්න, ඒත් ඉතින් මම කම්මලියානෙ! වැඩේ වුනේ නෑ කොහොම හරි... හික්ස්! ;)
කොහොම කොහොම හරි ඉතින් මට දැනගන්න ලැබුනා මේ qsFOX කියන ගිණිනරියා extension එක ගැන... මමත් ඕක දාන්නෙ නතුව අදි මදි කරා නරියා තවත් ස්ලෝ වෙයි කියල බයට. එත් මේක දැම්මට පස්සෙ කිසිම ප්රශ්නයක් නැතුව වැඩ! මේකෙ නිර්මාතෲවරු දෙදෙනාට මාගෙ ප්රණාමය!
හ්ම්ම්ම් තව මොනාද කියන්න තියෙන්නෙ? මම ඊයෙ පෙරුම් පුරල පෙරුම් පුරල අන්තිමේට ස්ටැන්ලි ක්යූබ්රික් සහ ආතර් සී. ක්ලාක් ගෙ 2001: A Space Odyssey චිත්රපටය බැලුවා! 21වන සතවර්ෂයේ ජීවත් වුනත් 1968 නිමවුන මේ සිනමා කෘතියේ එන විශේෂ ප්රයෝග දැක්කහම පුදුම හිතෙනව! ඒව එච්චරට අනර්ඝයි!
හරි, මගේ පළමු සිංහල සටහන අහවර කරන්නයි දැන් යන්නෙ. ව්යාකරණ දෝශ එහෙම තියෙනවනම් සමාවෙන්නැයි ඉල්ලා ඉන්නවා! ඒව මගේ හොඳ සාමන්ය පෙළ මිස්ටවත් හදන්න බැරි වුනානෙ! :(
මට අනාදිමත් කාලෙක ඉඳල සිංහලෙන් බ්ලොග් එකක් ලියන්න ලොකු ආසාවක් තිබුන, ඒත් කරුමෙට වගෙ මට විජේසේකර යතුරු පුවරුව අල්ලගන්න පොඩ්ඩක් අමාරු වෙලා තමයි හිටියෙ... මගේ හොඳ මිත්ර චතුර සහොදරයා ඕකට හොඳ විසඳුමකුත් දුන්න, ඒත් ඉතින් මම කම්මලියානෙ! වැඩේ වුනේ නෑ කොහොම හරි... හික්ස්! ;)
කොහොම කොහොම හරි ඉතින් මට දැනගන්න ලැබුනා මේ qsFOX කියන ගිණිනරියා extension එක ගැන... මමත් ඕක දාන්නෙ නතුව අදි මදි කරා නරියා තවත් ස්ලෝ වෙයි කියල බයට. එත් මේක දැම්මට පස්සෙ කිසිම ප්රශ්නයක් නැතුව වැඩ! මේකෙ නිර්මාතෲවරු දෙදෙනාට මාගෙ ප්රණාමය!
හ්ම්ම්ම් තව මොනාද කියන්න තියෙන්නෙ? මම ඊයෙ පෙරුම් පුරල පෙරුම් පුරල අන්තිමේට ස්ටැන්ලි ක්යූබ්රික් සහ ආතර් සී. ක්ලාක් ගෙ 2001: A Space Odyssey චිත්රපටය බැලුවා! 21වන සතවර්ෂයේ ජීවත් වුනත් 1968 නිමවුන මේ සිනමා කෘතියේ එන විශේෂ ප්රයෝග දැක්කහම පුදුම හිතෙනව! ඒව එච්චරට අනර්ඝයි!
හරි, මගේ පළමු සිංහල සටහන අහවර කරන්නයි දැන් යන්නෙ. ව්යාකරණ දෝශ එහෙම තියෙනවනම් සමාවෙන්නැයි ඉල්ලා ඉන්නවා! ඒව මගේ හොඳ සාමන්ය පෙළ මිස්ටවත් හදන්න බැරි වුනානෙ! :(
Monday, October 12, 2009
Pokerface
I've developed a brand new addiction to playing poker on Facebook... which is kinda strange, because back when I was in school (during the last two years of A/Ls) everyone was playing Facebook poker in the computer labs and real poker in the classrooms during off periods, and I wasn't! :S I was more interested in playing Counter Strike in the labs (we'd switch to the easier-to-conceal-behind-your-work Deluxe Pool when the teacher started breathing down our necks!) and wandering about around the school during off periods... man, those days were fun! :D
St. Fallen shared a cool and lightweight application called Screamer Radio that enables you to listen to a wide range of webcasts from radio stations around the world... what I like most about it is the ability to save the tracks onto your hard drive, something that I used to do by manually going through my Firefox cache, but is now only one click away! so we're basically using legal radio webcasts to illegally download music... niiiiice! lol ;)
My favourite station on it at the moment is Radio Luxembourg, which is the descendant of a famous station situated in Luxembourg that used to broadcast rock music to the UK back in the day... something like the offshore pirate stations in the movie 'The Boat That Rocked' I watched sometime back. That movie was good! The soundtrack was awesome! I'd definitely recommend it for lovers of '60s music! :)
St. Fallen shared a cool and lightweight application called Screamer Radio that enables you to listen to a wide range of webcasts from radio stations around the world... what I like most about it is the ability to save the tracks onto your hard drive, something that I used to do by manually going through my Firefox cache, but is now only one click away! so we're basically using legal radio webcasts to illegally download music... niiiiice! lol ;)
My favourite station on it at the moment is Radio Luxembourg, which is the descendant of a famous station situated in Luxembourg that used to broadcast rock music to the UK back in the day... something like the offshore pirate stations in the movie 'The Boat That Rocked' I watched sometime back. That movie was good! The soundtrack was awesome! I'd definitely recommend it for lovers of '60s music! :)
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Haiyooo
I was about to go out and get a haircut, but it just started raining and buses + rain are not my ideal combination at 9 in the morning... Buuuut, whatever.
I finished reading like 50% of Questionable Content (from 600-something to the latest) and I love it!!! You really don't know who's gonna grab Faye's boobs next do ya? ROFL! xD So, I've been kinda glued to the PC for the last 3 days and mum called me an addict and made a big fuss about it. And she leaves today and tells me to go get a haircut. In the rain! Now you get why I'm whining ya? :)
Watched the Star Trek movie yesterday and I think I'm gonna be a trekkie... Woohoo! :)
aaaaaaaaand Firefox 3.5 (the greatest browser ever btw) apparently has a big security hole so don't panic, just follow the instructions here to patch up for now... DO NOT UNINSTALL FIREFOX AS IT MAY BLOW UP YOUR COMPUTER!!!
bad joke? :S
I finished reading like 50% of Questionable Content (from 600-something to the latest) and I love it!!! You really don't know who's gonna grab Faye's boobs next do ya? ROFL! xD So, I've been kinda glued to the PC for the last 3 days and mum called me an addict and made a big fuss about it. And she leaves today and tells me to go get a haircut. In the rain! Now you get why I'm whining ya? :)
Watched the Star Trek movie yesterday and I think I'm gonna be a trekkie... Woohoo! :)
aaaaaaaaand Firefox 3.5 (the greatest browser ever btw) apparently has a big security hole so don't panic, just follow the instructions here to patch up for now... DO NOT UNINSTALL FIREFOX AS IT MAY BLOW UP YOUR COMPUTER!!!
bad joke? :S
Friday, February 20, 2009
and the Oscar goes to...
So there I was, watching Bill O' going on and on with Dennis Miller... and what struck me was these guys' pure contempt for Slumdog Millionaire. and they made no secret of it either, I had heard Bill on a previous occasion (I think before the Golden Globes) saying something about Slumdog not deserving the best picture win. Do I smell racial Supremacism?
On a completely unrelated note, check out Roadie #42's blog at the Coldplay site. looks like everyone at the War Child charity concert got a lot more than they bargained for...
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