A suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside the Jumma mosque at Godapitiya, in Akurassa , in the Matara district at around 10.35 am during annual Milad-un-Nabi, the festival celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). Minister Mahinda Wijesekara are among the 20 others injured.

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Sometime since I wrote something on Facebook.  Ah it’s been 2 years on the thing and I’ve finally come-up with a definition for it.

a platform for people to communicate with other people.

a tool which individuals and organizations can make use of to reach out to the common Facebookian

a place where you can create, share, enjoy and experience videos, photos, titbits, notes, pokes, and all other man-made time wasters.

A very broad definition(s) for Facebook which really is your Cargills Gedara Yana Gamang (or should that be Gedara Avilla Ice Gahana Gamang). Facebook is not just a youth thing anymore. My relatives from Europe have made contact with me and I must say having them as close a computer screen is something I have never experience before.

One thing about Facebook is that it’s shit easy. Communication – you can send messages to anybody and if they’re even a little active on FB you’re assured they’ll get it. Or you can chat with them with the new chat application. How awesome is that. Facebook is now systematically erasing not just rivals in social networking, but companies concepts and applications that are not in the same genre Facebook is in. I really don’t need Messenger, Gmail, Flickr, or the many other services out there which offer just a limited rabge of services compared to Facebook.

Facebook is like an excellent business model for Google. If Google was just a home page with Gmail instead of Facebook message, Google Talk instead of Facebook Chat and whatnot instead of whatnot, I think that would just be awesome.

One short coming with Facebook though, is the search. If they made Facebook Search just a wee bit more user-friendly like Google Search by offering search term suggestions like

Do you mean Tsunami?

Hopefully The Zuckerburg will do something about it.

Yesterday, US Airways Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River in New York after a bird strike  (poor suckers fly right into an engine and get really screwed up inside what with the fans rotating so fast). This plane crash on water was executed by Captain Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III (I thought we had wicked names). Apparently the bird screwed up the engine so bad that it stopped working and the plane had to be landed immediately.

Kudos to the Captain.

Ahh, the much awaited Indian invasion has begun. Bharti Airtel is finally here people. But is it here to stay? Dialog, Mobitel, Tigo and even Hutch have stepped up their advertising and have adjust the so many price rates out there.

So will Shahrukh Khan saying hello and Kumar Sangakkara giving us his most sought after advice help Airtel at it’s infancy here in ShirrLanka? Only time will tell.

The way I see it, I don’t think much is going to happen in a drastic way over here in Sri Lanka when considering the fact that about .14 % of Americans know where the Indian Ocean is let alone Sri Lanka……

One thing that might happen though is that the world will change, the way the world percieves America will change and has changed already. The way America does business with the world will change and people can actually hope. That’s a word that has been tossed around for years by people who didn’t really mean it. Whenever someone’s campaign slogan was hope, people would go, where have we seen that before?

But people saw something different in Obama. People actually hoped. It was quite involuntary for some but it just came. That’s it. They just hoped.

This transformation has changed America frever. The fact that Obama is the first black person to sit behind the desk at the Oval Office makes the world and Amerca a whole new place.

Its a miracle.

Its change we really can believe in.

AirTel has been coming for about a year now and I’m not sure whether it’s coming or going right now. A bigshot at AirTel keeps telling me that it’s launching in December. First it was the first, then the sixth, now its the eighteenth of this month.

Apparently AT’s gonna charge much less than Dialog and the clan and is targeting the youth and errr…..I’m not sure how to put this….farmers. Like the goviya. Looks like they’ll be called the Mod goviyas after AirTel launches, or if it ever launches.

Maybe the nakatha running a little late…….

Now where have we heard that one before……?

Really feeling caught in the middle though. The bad guys > me < the good guys. That sorta thing. Sometimes real bad, sometimes real good. Can’t seem to make up my mind…..really.

Wonder why am in world at moment.

Oh and exams OVERRRRR!

The Inter School Shakespeare Drama Competition boys’ semi finals just finished off today with Royal, D.S, and Joes making throught the Coombo ticket and Trinity making it through the Outstation schools’ category. Awaiting the finals on Sunday, the 21st!

SAARC has come and SAARC has gone. A few rabid dogs got the injection. A few posters got removed. A hell of a lot of people got inconvenienced. But will SAARC bring any benefits to South Asia in general and Sri Lanka in particular? For the past 23 years the summit has just been a case of round talks and a hearty meal afterwards. There haven’t been any significant impacts made by SAARC in relevance to improving a billion lives. SAFTA has been a total no-show and has become the laughing stock of progressive regional blocs such as the EU.

2.8 billion bucks were spent to hold the summit in Sri Lanka and most of that was channeled towards security. In my opinion I thought that the LTTE wouldn’t dare attack any of the delegates as they had too much to lose specially in the eyes of the international community. India most certainly would not tolerate another of it’s premiers beeing attacked or killed in Sri Lanka. Pakistan would’ve invaded the north if something had happened to Gilani.

So the question remains……..did SAARC XV usher in a new ‘partnership for the people’? Or was it just another slice of government propaganda?