Hotel Renuka Colombo

... I gave him 20 Rupees. He did not seem happy with that - well tough I did not ask him for anything after all!!! Apart from public toilet :-).<br><br>I stopped for food at one of the restaurant and I had way too much for lunch!! Everyone eats with their hands here, I had actually forgotten about that. I then went to the Fort Area. On the way, I kind of flipped at a couple of Tuctuc drivers (bike taxis). Basically, every 20 yards one of them ...

Over the past two weeks, I tried out the food in the staff canteen, despite rumours that it is served in a banana leaf and eaten with the hands. Certainly eating with the hands is a skill I should develop, but the middle of a working day is not the best time to do it. After all, I do have go back to work, use my computer and have meetings. Given my lack of experience in eating curry in this way, I concluded that'd ...

... world's endangered species list. I can hardly wait to see who the host visits this coming Sunday. Next up I'll talk about work, the office accommodations, the routine, and the people. Sunday, May 10, 2009. I can hardly believe I haven't had the time to write during the week. The reasons probably have to do with adapting to life in a hotel, identifying satisfactory living accommodations, learning the work culture, expectations and routines, and adjusting to ...

... on what they eat while on missions. This Sunday night it was the Karen guerillas of Burma fighting the Burmese government for release of the Karen ethnic minority who are being driven off their land through forced starvation by burning their territory and destroying food crops. The guerillas make all of their cooking utensils from bamboo in the forest, steaming rice inside hollowed out bamboo, eating fried grubs, and hunting civic cat and lemurs - both on ...

... i Britove. Vysledkem je mnoho potrugalskych prijmeni a take fakt, ze valna vetsina obyvatel mluvi docela obstojne anglicky, coz nam dost usnadnuje zivot. Lide jsou tu povetsinou zdvorili, narazili jsme na nekolik otravnych prodejcu vseho mozneho, hlavne v nejturistictejsich oblastech, ale s Indii se to naprosto neda srovnavat, Indove jsou jina liga. :-) Vetsina Cejlonanu jsou veseli a pohostinni lide a Sri Lanka rozhodne stoji za navstevu. Colombo jako ...

... in for 'the lads'! Later that day, a driver collected me from the hotel as I moved onto Colombo. I had intended to avoid the frenetic capital until the end of my trip, but had received a very kind and generous offer to stay overnight with the parents of my friend (and work colleague) Marina. Emmanuel and Sarojini Joseph have a lovely family home, pleasantly located by the sea, where they raised their 4 daughters - two studied and subsequently settled in Melbourne ...

... had live maggots in the wound , helped by the one of the Vets assistants I removed all the maggots and re cleaned the wounds before dressing it again ( thankfully I brought a large bag of vetwrap with me last time ) we told the owner to bring her in the next day as she needed more treatment and possibility a referral to the Vet hospital. At lunch time I was joined by Terri a lady I had meet via a UK internet animal welfare forum and her husband Pete. Terri and Pete are on ...

... older ones. I think I'll do a theme a week. So far I've thought of seasons, moods, days of the week, animals, transport etc. They always recite the alphabet and count to 20 as well, just to keep up to speed with the basics! So it looks like a week of "head and shoulders" and drawing and labeling faces. So far so good, although as always, there are a few boys who you need to keep an eye on! There's been no weird ...

... N.B. (I was not able to get their names from Marini - do you have them? Thank you.) I. Dr. Pathma Ratnayake -- a Buddhist perspective on feminism and women's rights: Dr. Pathma shared her experiences as a practicing Buddhist. The Buddha did not make a difference in equality between women and men - even though his society considered women to be inferior. Although Buddhism does not restrict educational opportunities or religious freedom for women, it is difficult to give ...