Glimps at the past, Tribute to an Old Friend!

Remember I mentioned about feeding Ganga in Gangarama? As promised I found the pics of the Parrots and Raja, so let this post be a tribute to Raja, who was the 2 Longest Tusker in Asia (or south Asia) while he was alive. His life span was about 46 years, if my memmory serves me right.

Being so old, I Stil considered him to be cute! Let me tell you why!

During the time I would visit the gangarama Temple in the early hours of the day, I and a few more who visited the temple would buy cooking leaves, such as Kankug, Mukunuwanna & somedays I'd bring Rasakinda from home to feed him. The moment Raja see he bundles of leaves he would start dancing, I mean swinging from side to side with and a joyful, almost hopping movement. This look so cute! Then when feeding he'll simply grab the entire bundle in one mouthful, then reach out with the trunk for more. It was a sight to see. I had always called him adorable when he does this. What ever amount of food you give him it is never enough. He'll always want more!

So Here are the pics, with a wish from me for Raja! May you attain Nirvana in another lifetime!

Here are the pics of the Parrots, They give rice to them just before they start the thewawa seromony at 06:30 am. If you visit the temple before they are fed then you will hear them screaming away, "Feed Us! Feed Us!" In their own language.

This is a wonderful sight to see.

Beauty of the fall!

I came accross this when I was digging around in my collection of poems from the schooldays. Thought I'd dedicate it to the trip we went on recently to the KKG resort. Where on the last day we visited Makeli Ella. I didn't want to come back from there. But the guys managed to drag me away. A water fall is a place which you can stare at for hours and not know time pass by.

So Here's to Makeli Ella!

Delicate! The flower?

This weeks thursday challenge! It is crush able! very!

for Thursday Challenge! (Building - hut)

This is my submission for this week!

This is a traditional hut of the farmers in Sri Lanka! (not that they live in them now a days!) The small hut mounted on a stand is called a Vee bissa where we store the harvest!

Story of the bag

Long time no see -- ha? Yeah was a bit busy, was lost in a lot of images (*_-) !

anyways here is a story I had to upload!

It is a picture story! and the narrator is a little bag called "D" am stealing his owners nickname!

So here is the story!

I went out one day with my owner and my buddy (her new phone)
She went to meet her friends... I think she was supposed to give them a treat.
We were just lying on the table while she was scribbling away, til her friends decided to turn up.

Then came a little girl with a loud voice and a camera.. to see she is one of them too.

She got so exited when she saw me and was taking my pictures. I should admit it I did enjoy posing for her in the beginning.








Then I got tired!



She didn't realise that I was tired, She kept clicking away! I got annoyed with her.



She wouldn't stop so I decided to let her be and listen to some music!



But It was a fun visit all in all!

Ruins

Broken In need of repair is this Thursday's Challenge! Here are the ruins at Belilena

Thursday Challenge!

Found the Thursday challenge on mickmather 's blog! It looked like fun. So I will be participating in this too!

Here is my submission for today!



Thanks mickmather!

Out in the beach!

Today I am going to tell about my week end! not the whole weekend but specifically the Saturday!

We have two foreigners who are visiting us at work, so we decided to take them out to the beach, because it will be so much fun! and FUN it was!

We met at the mount hotel beach in the morning! and the view was spectacular! (did I mention I love the beach :-D )



There was an abandoned boat that fascinated me. It looked so lonely in the middle of nowhere, couldn't resist the urge to take a picture for my collection. So this post is going to be a presentation of the photographs as well as a account of what happened.)







We decided to sit at the seafood cove, and teach our friends from Philippines how to play cricket! Well.... I did not help much with that because I am not very good with cricket. But managed to get some pics of the guys in action!







Soon all of us got bored, and the fun began..............

I handed my camera over to a friend, because if I had it with me I would take pictures of every thing else but me! (Then I would have to answer to my mother. She will kinda.. throw a fit and ask me what did I do beside taking pics.)

With my hands free from the camera I had to find some thing to keep me occupied. That is when I started building a sand castle, which decided to fall off the at the slightest touch! to make matters better (sarcastic smile) my dear friend decided to jump on top of it. I just had to chase after him!

The funnest part about it is how the others relate this incident as he is almost (not exactly) twice as tall as I am (imagine me trying to catch up with him)! Although he was kind enough to stop and let me hit him, I was too tired of running, I just could not do that! (This is going to be one of those incidents narrated to the people who were not there to witness it. Then retold to bug me, when ever the opportunity arrive!).

We had some photo shooting sessions soon after. (most of them were wacky pictures!). Some future profile pictures too.

Since we were so close to the sea it was about time we jump in. The sun was so hot some of the guys decided to stay back where it is safe and shady. But those of us who couldn't stay out of water had to jump in.
Me being so scared of water(not the water exactly but the fear of drowning I think! this is why I cant swim yet!)I had to stay close to shore and wade. Which was almost as good as a sea bath because some of the waves reached close to my head. When it did not I lost my balance and fell in water. I heard some thing nearly snap in my knee during the wading session. But it was no major injury (Thank god!). After a few hours of screaming , covering people with sand and throwing sand at each other, we were very hungry for the fabulous lunch they offered!

Unfortunately we had to leave the beach soon after lunch! But my friend and I decided that we were gong to the pool. The others were too lazy and idiotic to leave us behind! (I have to admit some of them did have genuine reasons - other than just falling asleep even after promising to return :-P)

I was blown away by the view near the pool, so while she was doing a few laps in the pool I caught some fabulous pictures


















I decided.... when I can afford to buy a house.. It most probably is going to be overlooking the sea with a balcony I can sit in! (nice dream ha...!)

I am tempted to go to the beach every week end! ;-)!