Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Dedicated to AnuD..(one of the few i met when i walked into LNP in 2006)

YES!! This is in Sri Lanka..

A contestant Sally, on `Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ` had reached the final plateau..

If she answered the next question correctly, she would win $1,000,000.
If she answered incorrectly, she would pocket only the $25,000 milestone
money.

And as she suspected the Million Dollar Question was no pushover.

It was, `Which of the following species of birds does not build its own
nest but instead lays its eggs in the nests of other birds? Is it:

A) the condor

B) the buzzard

Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram`s wife Huma passed away at 9.20am on Sunday following a cardiac arrest at Apollo Hospitals
here.

Huma, a hypnotherapist in Pakistan, was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday after she had a heart attack when the air ambulance on which she was being flown to Singapore landed at Chennai airport for a scheduled refuelling. She was being flown from Lahore to Singapore for treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate`s Court today issued notice on ex-cricketer Aravinda de Silva and his sister Araliya Silva over the alleged transfer of properties belonging to F&G Real Estate Company in their names by undervaluing the said properties in lieu of their money deposited with the said F&G Real Estate Company.

The Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Yasantha Kodagoda informed court that the investigations had revealed the connection of the De Silva siblings in the transfer of the properties belonging to F&G Real Estate Company in their name by undervaluing the said properties in lieu of the money deposited by them in the said company.

will usain Bolt be a Good cricketer..

Non Cabinet Labour Minster Mervyn Silva said only President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa deserved credit for the military victory, and that only these two names which would go down in history.

No one can call themselves number one in this victory. There is no way of saying that this one or that one did it. The heads of the armed forces and their troops were there for 30 years.

A leading US hedge fund boss and five other people have been arrested on charges linked to insider trading.

Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and the other defendants, are alleged to have pocketed about $20m ( 12m) in illegal profits.

They are said to have secured inside information regarding firms including Google, AMD, and Hilton Hotels.

Forbes magazine has featured Mr Rajaratnam on one of its rich lists and estimated that he was worth $1.3bn.

Prosecutors claimed the insider trading also took place at the New Castle hedge fund and Intel Capital, the investment arm of microchip giant Intel.

Jeewan Kulatunga to captain SL at HK Sixes

Jeewan Kulatunga has been picked to lead the Sri Lanka team at the Annual Hong Kong sixes cricket tournament, which will be staged at the Kowloon Cricket Club grounds on October 31 and November 1.

Former Sri Lanka wicket keeper/opening bat, Amal Silva will accompany the team as manager.

Sri Lanka squad:

Jeewatha Kulathunga (Captain), Kaushal Lokuarachchi (Vice Captain), Indika De Saram, Nuwan Zoysa, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Hasantha Fernando and Dilhara Lokuhettige.

American tennis superstar Serena Williams, who posed naked for the cover of ESPN The Magazine`s `Body Issue` due out Friday, said she loves the `classy and not trampy` picture.

Williams, 28, who is set to regain the number one world ranking when the WTA issues a new list on Monday, also said she was `super flattered` to be one of the athletes featured on six different covers.

`ESPN had a `Body Issue` and they told me I had a great body and they wanted me to be on the cover so I was super flattered,` she told reporters late Thursday after a three-set loss at the China Open to Russia`s Nadia Petrova.

We have been talking about Old Cricketers and whom we watched live in the 70`s and 80`s

We can`t forget this song!!!

Zaharan bro and X-Factor..I am sure this will bring back some good old memories

Enjoy

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain and Member of Parliament Arjuna Ranatunga welcomed appointment of General Sarath Fonseka as Secretary, Ministry of Sports and Public Recreation and hopes the alleged mass scale corrupt activities at the ministry would end with the arrival of the veteran soldier.

A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his Audience. He Said: `The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn`t my wife!`

The audience was in silence and shock. The speaker added: `And that woman was my mother!`

Laughter and Applause!!!

A week later, a top manager trained by the Motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke At home. He was a bit foggy after a drink. He said loudly to His wife who was preparing dinner, `The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my Wife!`

Sri lanka lost to England in a very difficult pitch yesterday at the Wanderers. It was a bowlers paradise and Andrew Strauss won the Toss and bowled first..Sanga said he would have batted so the Toss did not matter

Sanath Jayasuriya is the weakest link in the side..He should be dropped for the final match against NZ.

I would like to hear your views on Sanath

`We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, `Why did this happen to me?` unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way`

1. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, `I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step
process.`

2. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last.Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.