WELCOME TO THE ICE AGE..!!

Ice Age 3 : The Dawn of the Dinosaurs is at Liberty Cinema these days. I hope you guys have watched the first two movies already. Weren’t those the funniest animation movies ever made? :D Madagascar 2 was great and incredibly funny. But none can beat the new Ice Age movie! It’s a classic!

This Friday, I got the chance to watch the movie in the theatre, after work. It was a great Friday night. A great way to end the working week! J Girl and her family were planning for the movie, and I too was welcome. We grabbed some bites from Goodies and headed for the movie. There was a huge crowd since it was the Friday night. We booked the tickets in advance to make sure that we’ll have seats.

Well.. From the moment it starts, till the very end, I’m sure you won’t be able to stop laughing!! It’s THAT hilarious! That was one superb movie. The best one out of the Ice Age trilogy! Manny the mammoth and Ellie are expecting a baby. Diego the Saber tooth wants to break away from the herd and find new adventures. Crash and Eddie always stick by their ‘sister’ Ellie. Sid just hangs around with them, until he finds 3 dino eggs and decides to be a single parent, a ‘mom’ in particular. The newest addition to the herd is Buck the one eyed weasel. He pops out of nowhere and saves the day!

We grabbed our dinner from Dine-more and all the way to home.. we couldn’t stop talking about the movie. It was actually not ‘talking’. We were laughing all the way home, talking about the funniest parts of the movie. That’s ONE GOOD MOVIE you should never ever miss. Trust me!!

PURPLE AND WHITE FLOWERS...

This might be a little bit older to share, I guess. But last night, I couldn’t help remembering about my birthday. It was a flowery one. I got 4 bouquets of flowers.. all pretty and lovely. My friends have decorated my cubicle so nicely.. and I practically lived that day in my cubicle, surrounded by loads of red and white floating balloons, with red and white ribbons hanging as their tails. I got so many gifts… cards and surprises. My best friend showed up with her partner in crime (wink wink, Konga) with a biiig ship… and a green gram bunny toy. It was a big medal ship andI lvvvvvd it! Then again, my best guy friend showed up in the evening as well and confused me in BIG time.. :P

Now.. This is about the flowers I got. One was from my very good friend Vani.. Second : From my good and great buddies of vClub. Third : A bunch of lovely red roses from my darling VB. All three… lovely as the word implies! But this is about the 4th bouquet.

Early in the morning, when I was walking to the office, a guy was waiting for me till I pass him.. and he was holding these lovely flowers in his hand. I looked at the flowers… and when I was passing him, he said “Hey… These are for you..” I was like.. let’s say.. dumbstuck.. yeah.. that’s the word.. I was like.. “Who are you?? How?? What??” Then he waited a moment for me to calm down. Then he started speaking. “These are from your best guy friend.”.. My blog buddies, you all know that my best friend passed away almost one and a half year ago, right? I was just staring at him. “Before he was taken to the hospital.. two days before he passed away.. he has told his brother that he so much wanted to send some flowers for you on your 28th birthday. He wanted them to be purple and white. Here they are.. This is his brother, making his wish come true.. and I’m his brother’s friend”..

All I could remember was.. my eyes filling with tears. The next moment, I was hugging the flowers and holding them so tight… so that they would not fall out from my hands. But I was happy… Happy as I could be. This is how much my dear best friend.. my brother cared about me. How fortunate I was, to have a best friend like him in my life…

At the end of the day.. this little thing came to my head.. and I was thinking how true it is.. People who really care about you, will always care about you.. even if they die.. People who are no more in this world are trying to make you happy… and it’s the LIVING people in the world are the ones who try to play with your life.. screw it and make you feel miserable. Bad people are always bad. Good people are always good.. and that ‘goodness’ remains even after they die..

TRANSFORMERS.. PIZZA AND A MISSED WEDDING...

Just like I was telling you last week, I managed to get 2 out of 3 things done I was planning for this week. One: I was able to watch Transformers 2 ion widescreen. Two: I was able to go for the pizza & doughnut offer in the Galle Face Hotel. Three: Sadly.. I mean really sadly, I couldn’t make it to my best friend’s sister’s wedding.

Let me tell you about the movie first. It was AWESOME… and you should.. I mean you really SHOULD watch it on widescreen. It was far better than the first movie. Trust me.. you’ll love it. Deceptacons are far more powerful this time, and they are so gigantic. (Deviating from the topic: A sneek peek on what that name means – Deceptacons: They're people we think good of, but in reality, they are two-faced, lying backstabbers). As usual, everything ends in a good way. Autobots rolled on the screen, doing they’re magic on Deceptacons and defeating them. Optimus Prime will always be your favourite, but this time.. you’ll love Bumble Bee more, too. There’s an ‘old’ Deceptacon too, which happens to be odd.. and he carries a walking stick with him. Watch out for him when you watch the movie, OK? Bottom line : Don’t miss the movie.. That’s mandatory. And this is NOT optional.. Watch it on widescreen. I’m not kidding. The day I watched it, we were only able to get the front seats.. and the next two shows were all booked..!

Good food for good prices: I wonder why all the good hotels and fancy restaurants doing this these days. But there are a huge number of FOOD offers happening these days. Just pay a visit to www.promotions.lk and see it I’m wrong, guys! Buy all are very good offers. You get to eat good stuff from good places for good prices. The offer at Galle Face Hotel was also one such. You get fairly a large pizza.. a doughnut and two ice coffees for the price of Rs. 490/=. It’s really reasonable and the pizza was so good. Just try some of these offers and see, guys. What I’m telling is.. not to eat junk food… or spend good money on these offers. But most of these offers are worth for the cost you spend.

Three: I missed the wedding. Having regrets about it, still. I know my best friend understands. In fact, she DID. But I feel upset and guilty. Hmmm… There’s no way I can make it up to her now. Should call her when the rush is over.

So.. here I am.. It’s again a Sunday. Mom was a lil bit sick. I was too. I watched the movie ’17 Again’ today. Good one. The new week starts from tomorrow. So… happy week ahead, folks!

IT'S JUST A THOUGHT...

In all of our lives, there are seasons for everything. When we were small, we go to school. Everybody goes to school. The exception at that time is, not going to school. People ask you ‘Why are you not going to school?’ When teenagers fall in love in very early ages, in that time, it’s a big deal for all o us. It’s a big conventional NO at that time. Then there’s the time we focus on major exams in school times. Dropping out from school at that time is the exception, coz majority continue studies. Time goes by, and there comes a time everyone is OK to have relationships. It’s the right age.

Then there are university times. The right age to study. At that time, getting married early is the exception. We talk about how early those two got married. Then you finish the higher studies and start working. At that time, the exception is not having a job. People talk as in.. ‘Hey.. What a pity, that dude still doesn’t have a job’.

Then come the right time to get married. Everybody around you is getting married. The singles club who used to have fun in the weekends? Well.. The number is getting reduced. There come commitments and responsibilities for the married. At that time, the exception is still being single… People ask you ‘Why are you still single?’.. You have quite a number of weddings per month, blinking the bulb upon your head to indicate that it’s the right time for you to get married.

Then there comes the kids. You hear the good news all over! You hear the newly married getting preggy. It’s the right time to have kids and grow up a family. The exception here is being married and not having kids. People ask you ‘You’re already married and you’re still not thinking about having kids?’. This is how life goes. The circle of life goes on, and you’re just a part of it.. Somewhere in one of these stages.

All these are happening around you. People meet.. They fall in love.. They get married… They have children.. The world moves forward. Yet some of us are struggling to survive.. Struggling to collect the broken pieces our lives, trying to mend our broken hearts…

It’s just a thought….

BARN BUDDY.. :D

Starting phrase: I hereby declare and admit that I’m a Facebook addict in big time!! For some, FB is just a gossip network where you can poke your nose into other peoples profiles and find out what they’re up to.. if they’re single or not… married or whatever and where on earth they are. Through FB, I located so many long lost friends, and now.. I keep in touch with them regularly. You see their photos, you message them, put comments on their photos and activites.. It’s just like you’re always talking with them.. and it feels so good!

Now, this post is not about praising the FB, ok? Switching topics: Barn Buddy – the coolest and the most jolly-good game in FB! Parental Advisory: You’ll get addicted to it if you start playing it. So, it’s your call, to take the risk! I always loved growing vegetables, not flowers. Now.. this maybe one reason I love the game.

When you access Barn Buddy, they give you a farm. All you have to do is, to look after it. There are levels in the game. In level 0, you get 6 spaces in the farm to grow veggies. Initially, they’ll give you some already planted crops. You can harvest them, put them in the Store House and sell them. Then you earn coins. You can buy new seeds from your coins. You can buy fertilizers too. You plant the seeds, fertilize them and let them grow. That’s not all. You have to look after your farm. When weeds grow, you have to use the weed spray and do weeding. When bugs come, you have to use the bug spray and kill the bugs then. When plants become dry, you have to water them. You can water, do weeding and remove bugs from your friends’ farms too. You can earn coins and experience points by doing so. Your levels will go up, according to how you earn your experience points. When you plant the seeds, water them, remove bugs, do weeding, harvest the crops and remove dead plants, you’ll earn experience point. You can expand the farm when you earn enough coins and pass certain levels in the game.

The seeds will be unlocked one by one, as you level up in the game. There is a particular time for the seeds to grow. From vegetable to vegetable, this time is different. Some crops, you can harvest only one time. After that, the plant dies. Some plants, you can get the harvest multiple times. Now… Here comes the fun part! You can STEAL vegetables from your friends! But you can steal the harvest from one plant, one time only. They can come and steal from yours too. How do you stop it? By getting a dog to guard your farm, of coz! How? Recruit 10 friends to play Barn Buddy by sending them invitations or you can actually ‘pay’ by credit cards and buy the dog. The dog will not let your friends to steal from you, plant weeds on your farm or add bugs to your plant.. AS LONG AS you feed him well. There’s a bowl of food for the doggie, and you have to fill it by spending 240 coins. If the doggie goes hungry, he’ll let your friends steal!

Well.. It’s just a game, but it’s so much fun to play it! You can message your friend through Barn Buddy as well. Sounds so childish? Oh yes, I admit! But it’s so much fun! Just don’t blame me if you get addicted to it after reading this post, ok?? :D

THE LONG WEEKEND....

The long weekend is finally here! Wow..!! It means good food.. friends and relaxation, is it? Duh! Not for me, unluckily. I’ve been having…. Say… like 12 weddings and Home Comings from the end of May till today. It’s still gonna continue since my best friend’s sister’s wedding is also in the next weekend. Every week, I had a wedding or a two. My salaries disappear like magic! The Girl on the Move has got poor in big time, guys. Yesterday night also I had a Home Coming. A nice romantic, fun filled one, though. Really enjoyed being in it. Btw, how do you spend the weekend, guys? I want to know how yours is different from mine. Just to know whether I’m having an abnormal routine or not..! :D

Friday evening, I went to MC with J Girl to get some bling blings for her and to get my mini-Ferrari after the fix. The work was OK on Friday, so I managed to get out around 5 o’clock. Well.. The mini-Ferrari is really my Camera. It started giving me Goosebumps when it started throwing some sort of a Lens Error and hesitated to ‘zoom’. I love the camera so much, and this one place was the only place I could find to fix it. It was not really on Friday anyway, so I had to go empty handed. I love window shopping, but this time, J Girl & me.. we bought some stuff. For you to know: there’s a nice bling bling shop in MC, just under those two new palm trees. Worth for the money you spend, girls. I got a bag (like one those 2 graders use) and J Girl got her bling blings as well. We grabbed some Submarines from the KFC for dinner and headed to our homes.

Saturday – The Home Coming day. J Girl and I are going for it. Breakfast of Egg hoppers from home. Left home around 10 in the morning. Went to the camera repair shop to get my mini-Ferrari. Why I call it that? Gosh! It took me a fortune to get it fixed. I’ll just say that the cost is a 5 figure number. Jeez! My SALARYYY!! :-S It’s like you’re using a Ferrari and when you have to replace a part, for that money, you can buy another car. Same thing here. (Lesson learned: Never buy luxury items, if you can’t manage the maintenance cost). The time was almost 1 o’clock. Got in to a tuk tuk, got down from Nugegoda junction to grab Gonuts doughnuts for J Girl. (She drove me crazy mentioning the smooth and soothing taste of them, so I so much wanted to have a few on my tummy!) Got a 6-pack one from there and reached J Girl’s home. Superb lunch at her place. Relax time. Nice tea with those tempting doughnuts and by 7.30, we were ready to go to the HC. Had a great time there… and boy! It was a really romantic one with nice decorations and great food. J Girl dropped me and went home around 11.30.

Sunday – Breakfast with sandwiches, cutlets and butter cakes at home. Some visitors showed up next. Lunch with friends. Watched the movie ‘Watchmen’ in the evening. Then there was Facebook, playing Barn Buddy in FB, checking mails and reading the weekend newspapers.

Monday – Nothing planned so far. It’s gonna be a lovely day at home, with helping around the house… good food.. chat with my sis and another one or two movies.

Next weekend – Saturday.. spend the day with my long lost buddies. Want to watch ‘Transformers 2’ on widescreen. (The trailer was superb and it’s a sin if you watch it on DVD, rather than watching it on widescreen, trust me!). Some junk food lunch.. and for the tea time, we want to try that Doughnuts+ Pizza mega offer in Galle Face Hotel. Ice Age 3 is in theatres. Wish we’ll have time to watch 2 movies on the same day. Then again.. Sunday : my best friend’s sister’s wedding…

Two packed weekends.. and life goes on. No studies for me at this time, cz I’m trying to survive these days. Come to think of it, the things I have in mind for the weekend maybe absolutely a waste of time for some. For me.. for the time being.. I survive.. and I love there are things to keep me happy and occupied. For the short while you live, do the things you love to do. You may never get a second chance again. Don’t just be in this world for the sake of it. Do what you love to do.. So.. when you get older, you’ll never have to regret thinking that you missed so many things in your life.. Cheers!

3 THINGS....

3 weeks back, there was a Wedding on one fine Sunday. I was one of the invitees. I met a heartbroken girl and a confused guy in the wedding, both being my friends. When we were talking, we came to the most common topic on earth… Relationships… ;)

We talked about many things. Let me tell you the 3 basic things I told them about how I felt about the whole relationships thing. Maybe these things will not be true to you.. or maybe they are. It’s up to each and every one of us to remain at our decisions and look at things in different ways. It always depends. But this is how I think of it.

One – When they want someone to spend the time with, they approach you anyway and gain your trust, so that they always know that you’ll be always there for them. They talk with you, go out with you, text you almost every 2 or 3 hours, give you late night calls and talk sweet with you. But there’s one keyword… ‘We’re just good friends’…

Two – At one point when you realized something is wrong. They have problems with introducing who you are to the people around them. (It’s called ‘Hesitation, btw). When they’re so mushy gushy with you, they tend to look for ‘other options’, while still holding on to you. The bell rings.. you fall down from the sky and then you tend to go to them and ask ‘Hey, What’s our relationship??’.. and they’ll tell you. ‘We’re just good friends’. Then you ask, ‘If that’s the case, whey did you do these and these?’. Then they tell you.. ‘I never told you that I love you or anything. Never in my wildest dreams had I wanted to marry you or anything closer to that. I told you from the beginning.. We’re just friends.. Nothing more.’ There’s the keyword again… ‘Friends’.. At the end, you get a broken heart.

Three – You have the broken heart and things are sour now. Fine! Then again they call you and get back to you when they want, cz they always know that you’re always there for them, no matter how badly they’ve broken your heart. Your mistake: You know they’re just using you again, but you tend to go back for their aid, cz you still love them a lot… The story continues.. You’re in vain.. And when they find their ‘better option’ they’re just good and gone, like nothing happened. (It’s called ‘Selfishness’, btw)

The above three things are not gender basis. Guys.. girls.. they both do this.. The two friends who were with me; the guy and the girl, they totally agreed with me on this one. I don’t know what your point of view is. But for me, this is something I have seen.. still seeing and still happening in the world around me. Pity how some people use other people to fulfill their own selfish needs. Hmmm…