Sunday, November 23, 2008

~ Sudu Redi Horu ~











Jayalath Manorathne @ the end of the paly, Pic. by: Imesh Gunaratne

Truly amazing !
It was a nice plan for the Sunday evening and the John de Silva Memorial theater was full.
I'm not going to criticize anything here because it not my job, but this is how I enjoyed it.
Liveness of the play was there till the end, all the actors/actresses performed really well but Rodney & Manorathne was the best among the best. Music was perfect for the scenes, I guess that was another amazing job by Nawarathne Gamage. I enjoyed the individual scenes very well but not the flow of scenes, I guess I have go for more plays and learn to feel it the correct way. Play was build up on "Sadesha Kaawya" and some of the poems reminded me the grade 11 sinhala literature book.
I guess this would be really cool if the audience was true stage play lovers. John de Silva is also not a perfect theater to highlight the full outcome of the play, there were no AC and some of the lights were not switched off during the play. Parking was really a headache, If it is John de Silva be there before 30+ minutes to make the parking easy.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Install Java runtime on ubuntu

I wanted to install JRE and the browser plugin to make some Java made sites work in my PC. As a habit first I go for the Adept GUI and console will always be the second option. Adept downloaded the required files (all of them) and just after starting the installation Adept got stuck, when I press the 'show details' button there was a license agreement which needs to be accepted by pressing an OK button. Focussing the OK button (which displayed on a text area) was failed, tried pressing tab, enter, F12, etc etc ...
I gave it up @ the moment and, my Adeept GUI mode was not usable anymore. Received the error, "There was an error committing changes, bla bla".
Executing the below command solved the issue,
sudo apt-get -f install (again the license agreement shown up, but tab, enter did the job in console)

Friday, November 7, 2008

Pain of Payne ...

Even after reading some 'bad' reviews, went to see Max with office buddies. There were only few ppl @ Liberty cinema.
From the beginning it was out of the track. IMDB says its a 5.9/10 but mine is <5.
I was expecting the John Moore's action in 'Behind Enemy Lines', but I have to say this stays a big step behind. Honestly I was expecting much more from the guy with the big blade, unfortunately BB took him out. Is Mr. Moore trying to clone 'Bourne'?

The main point 'the drug' why do they take that, if it is so painful? The s...l...o...w - m..o..t..i..o..n of shooting @ Max with a machine gun... why is that so slow (even I may shot him down without looking @ him).. and all 3 (or 4) bullets hit the same drug container which was far away from Max.

The Hero

Words can't express anything more ... just see ...