Aukana Buddha Statue - Anuradhapura (Captured on Poson Day)
Saturday, June 26, 2010
GOOD THINGS AND BAD THINGS...
Life just flows on these days.. Good things and bad things… The baddest and the saddest and the most unbelievable of all… a death of a best friend.. Hmmm… He was the best friend of my brother who passed away two and a half years ago. He left this world all of a sudden with a major blow on my head! One month ago, he was alive. Then he went on Hitch hiking. Some germ has caught his lungs when he was swimming in an algae – filled water. Then he was hospitalized. My brother’s lil bro was always with him when he was in the hospital. I could only pray for him. Never got the chance to see him cz they live in the States. He was on life support… Got better.. Discharged… Got worse… Hospital again.. Life support.. I prayed and prayed and prayed… Then he left the world.. I kinda walk.. eat… sleep like all numb. Trying not to show the world how grieving I am… I put on a smile. He’s gone. Never coming back. Life is unbelievable, isn’t it? Good people die young because heaven needs more and more angels. Hmmmm….Good things of coz.. my bro passed a certain exam in the University, in which ¾ of the students failed to get through. It’s a big deal. My sis got graduated. End of her 5 year degree. Work is good for me. I’m gonna start the MBA (Fiiinally!). It starts next week! I’m excited about it. But I’ll never have weekends for myself for 2 whole years. Can’t think how busy life will be! Well… Life just goes on and it’s bad sometimes… and it’s good sometimes. I hope I’ll somehow have to find time to read books.. listen to music.. watch movies… surf FB and for all the other things I love to do, after next week. Life will take a new step! Having high hopes about it!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
THANTHIRIMALE...
We visited Thanthirimale Rajamaha Viharaya for this wesak. It was such a beautiful place. The rock surface covers 250 acres of the ground. When the Sri Maha Bodhi was brought from India to Sri Lanka, one night along the way the pot containing the sapling was kept at Thantheremale. It is believed that there was one branch separately grew from the pot, was planted at that village to remember the incidence. Hence, some believe that this may be the first Sri Maha Bhodi plant in Sri Lanka. The Bo Tree is placed on top of large stony layer which may protect the tree up to now. This place was unidentified till the beginning of this 19th century and in 1960s the temple was reestablished by Buddhist Monks.The temple and surrounding area are full of ruins, including two stone statues and several stone ponds.WESAK DAYS..!!
Wesak days are here again. I hope you guys also had a ball of a time since there was a long weekend to celebrate it. As always, we too did celebrate it in a good way. Lanterns, roaming the streets to see the beauty of wesak and going somewhere sacred. Well.. We made 10 wesak lanterns this time... I captured one of them glowing in the night. Here's how we celebrated wesak!Friday, April 30, 2010
නුඔ...
සඳ එලිය ඔබත් මට දුක දී....මල් පොකුරු හඬවනා හැටි...
තරු එලිය ඔබත් මට දුක දී....
පිනි පබලු පාරනා හැටි...
බලා ඉන්නේ මං කෝම...
මගෙම වූ නුඔත් මට දුක දී....
මගේ කවි සිත රිදවනා හැටි...
හිත හදා ගන්නේ කෝම...
පොඩි දුකක්වත් නුඔට නැති හැටි...
LOVE ME TENDER....
Come away… Come away with me..
Dance with me…
In this perfect perfect moonlight…
Hold my hand…
Sway with me slow…
Feel my glittering lips..
Washed away in starlight…
Kiss me slow…
Kiss me tender…
Look me in these..
Starlight star bright eyes…
And when the moon plays hide and seek…
In the silvery cloud lines..
Love me tender…
Hold me tender…
Say you need me..
Say you love me…
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