So how was your weekend?

I discovered this 80's metal MP3 at the most unlikeliest of places; in a 13 year old kids' PS2 and movie collection. There i am going through 'white chicks', 'wrong turn', 'grand turismo', 'tekken' etc etc trying to find something worthwhile to watch and find 'Best of 80's Rock Albums', and im like woah, whos is this? its apparently the kids'dads. i can take it he won't mind.

Jason X then beats me at wrestling. I'm Batista and he's John Cena. I dont stand a chance, once he has me on the ground i cant get up till he stops hitting me. And he doesnt stop hitting me. I beat him at NFS undercover. that ought to show him who to mess with.

I was at Kurunegala on Friday and Saturday, my friend's dad owns a coconut plantation there. We're walking along, me and my friend, in the evening checking out the paddy plantation and going to a place he tells me is awesome to look at, when a really drunk chap assails us. He is in the middle of cursing loudly in very colorful language at no one in particular (standard village drunkard behavior) when he notices us.

Did i mention he was drunk? He reeks as he tells us about coconut thieves and 'dishonest folk' and how my friends dad's very employees are stealing money from under his nose etc and launches an elaborate campaign to try and grab a job, obviously under the misconception that we could get him a job. he alternatively calls me 'mahatthaya' (sir), 'machang' (buddy), 'putha' (son), he takes us to his little clay hut and makes his wife bring us tea, he shows us pictures of his sons who are at the army and the police, he claims to have immediate access to grenades and other heavy weaponry and tries to convince us to disguise ourselves and come with him to hide and catch the thieves when they come out.

He's a royal pain in the ass. He is insistent on taking my number so that he can 'call me when the thieves get there' and i manage to avoid giving it to him at his house. We then try to get away and he follows us home. We try to part ways and he extends his hand for me to write my number on it, i say i dont have a pen and he throws a fit, says he will come right to our doorstep and all that. We are rescued by the estate manager, who by then has got to wondering where we were and come to have a look. Mr. Paranoid-delusional-drunk is meek as a mouse.

On Monday i took of to Negombo. Mainly cos there were a few relatives over and some family obligations awaited me on the next day as well. Not that I specifically avoid family gigs, just that this didnt especially require my presence and i wanted to squeeze in as much as i could in terms of chill time this long weekend.

Went with two friends and we ask the tuk tuk driver 'does he know a cheap place'? he takes us to the sleaziest joint in Negombo the 'Rooms Victoria Lodge' or something like that and we get one room with a double bed and a juddering AC. We go out to 'hit the town' and the town is pretty much dead. We have an excellent meal at the 'King Coconut' where they make some really great pizza and then go back to the room after walking around a bit cos they are not serving beer or anything and my friends wanted a sip.

Next morning, we contemplate going to one of the hotels for a day package since the town itself seems to be asleep today, and decide to hit Browns Beach after breakfast. So me and MP mosey on down Beach Road to 'dolce vida' which MP (who frequents Negombo on bored weekends) tells me is an excellent place to chill. But they are closed along with all the other places where anyone can expect a decent morning meal and we are ultimately rescued from a delirium of hunger by the hospitality of Mr Alfred Cruz who runs a second hand bookshop a few hundred meters past Browns Beach. He has qite an interesting collection. I buy 'The Hobbit' and 'The Last Continent (Pratchett)' and MP gets 'Digital Fortress'.

Browns Beach as MP puts it 'looks like an old people's home for German tourists' but it is not exactly totally devoid of eye-candy either. So we mostly relax by the pool and read and jump in for a swim and check out the few ladies who pass us by (some even smile back). We enjoy the buffet although the food is not all that great. Im home in the early evening after a couple of nice cool AC bus rides reading a book and hit the sack later only to be tortured by mosquitoes all night long.

Today feels like a Monday, except that Saturday is only two days away. Need to find something to do this weekend. How was yours? And obata haa obey pawle samata kiriyen paniyen uthurana sarusaravath subooma suba nawa wasarak weva! e-mail me the meal vouchers, it'll be easier for you :D

Crazy ideas

Pop into my head only to be considered and wantonly desregarded,.

Jump off the building - whenever i go out onto the balcony on the 7th floor where i work, and see all the vehicles on the road below looking like dinky toys and shit, i get this overwhelming urge to JUMP! Jump jump jump. But i never jump. if i ever disappear from the scene, then here's one probable cause of it that i just told you.

Break my bottle of water and stab the guy standing at the next workstation in the stomach. Nah, my bottle is irreplaceable. and the guy standing next to me is a nice chap. But i want to feel some blood splattering on my hands. All over my white t-shirt, i want to feel the jagged glass slicing into soft flabby stomach, i want to twist it and see the slimy intestine falling out. aarrgh!

Take the reciever of my phone and smash it. no not really, too boring and can't be bothered.

Stand up on my desk go yeah yeah yeah and air hump the... er well, just air hump. Wave my arm like i'm spankling someone. Nah. nothing like the real thing. as in nothing like real air and not this air-conditioned, continuously recycled crap.

Write a totally meaningless post on blog..

Publish said post without being afraid of people thinking you're a suicidal psychotic sexual deviant with a profound sense of disrespect for office furniture..

Keep post on blog without deleting it.

What I do to chill out

Ah man, things are getting more hectic by the day, as the presure of impending exams and assignments builds up on top of work and the hassle of being in between shifting homes you increasingly look for more ways of relaxing. More ways of using what little free time you have to relax as much as you can. Here are my top 5 ways of relaxxxing.. aaaahhh

1) Working out - from anything to running, cricket, b-ball to lifting some weights to push ups at home. its really hard to bring yourself to do it but once you force yourself to start you'll feel the lethargy slipping away and some energy entering your bloodstream, and feel pretty much great afterwards!

2) Movies - Something which just takes you away for a couple hours to somewhere where the world as you know it does not exist. Just watched Master & Commander the other day. It was inventive, witty, the plot is intelligently devised. Other favorites include the Lord of the Rings (all three movies which i've lost count of how many times ive watched), Stardust (a bit girly maybe but still great!), The Martrix Trilogy, Snatch, The Godfather, The Illusionist, Anything by M. Night Shyamalan, City of Gods and the list extends.

3) Nature - Looking at the stars or staring at the waves. Those are th most accessible wonders of the universe to me. owing to me living close to the beach. The stars of course, are free to look at for anybody.

4) Reading - I read a lot. Right now i'm going randomly through Adam Smith's 'Wealth Of Nations' but no before you call me insane I do read the occasional novel. Used to read them a lot more back in the day but just find them too distracting now. So i've rationed myself to the occasional treat. Last couple I read were Terry Pratchett's 'Carpe Jugulum' and Isaac Asimov's 'Robots and Empire'. Mostly tend to stick to Sci-fi Fantasy stuff. have any of you guys heard of a chap called Iain M. Banks? he writes excellent sci-fi. The late A.C. Clarke is also a big fav.

5) Other stuff - like listening to music ( from heavy metal to trance to the radio to relaxing stuff like Enya, Enigma and just discovered this awesome Sri Lankan lounge band which Realskullzero plays in), to the occasional cigarette, to chilling out with friends to going for long drives on empty roads with some radio jockey for company. Lots of other things in fact, but only these just popped into my mind right now.