How Many Internet Users In Colombo?
A slide from the upcoming awesomeness that is the YAMU business plan. I’m working on this business plan for YAMU, and this requires sizing up the Internet market in Colombo. While the ITU has some...
View ArticleScenes From A Morning
This is actually a photo from India. I write in lieu of photographs. There’s a lot of photographs that I miss. They’re things I just see. Here’s a few photos I didn’t take. The show finishes. There’s...
View ArticleChina Doll. Everything Is Great. Except The Food
As much as I love this logo… I love China Doll, the brand at least. They have, IMHO, the best logo in Sri Lanka, the best restaurant website (by far), efficient online ordering, everything. I also...
View ArticleThe First Modern Commuter Bus
Colombo badly needs middle class public transit. This is a start. This is a Micro bus (which is mad nice) plying from Kadawatha (Kiribathgoda, horror) to Kollupitiya. It’s a comfortable A/C bus, it...
View ArticleColombo Criticism
My original headline for this review of Sea Fish was ‘THIS PLACE SUCKS’, but peeps wanted to tone it down. Very few people in Sri Lankan media do bad reviews. Perhaps bad isn’t the right word, let’s...
View ArticleThe Book Fair
The Colombo International Book Fair is mad big and kinda awesome. They estimate that like a million people come there, which seems high, but not impossible. We went to check it out yesterday and...
View ArticleThe Corruption Of Sri Lankan Girls As Barmaids
I’m kidding with the title. I think women as barmaids and waitresses is great. It’s just that Sri Lanka/Colombo has so few of them. Except O! Bar (at Dutch Hospital) which has girls working the bar...
View ArticleThe Hidden Farm In BMICH
We were checking out the Colombo International Book Fair (Sinhala/Tamil) and stumbled upon this random farm in the middle of BMICH. Not in the building itself, but to the east side. The CIC and...
View ArticleWhat And Why Is A VVIP
VVIP photo from South Africa, by coda. I was at a World Cup match and they had both VIP and VVIP (parking and stuff). Really? You need Very Important Person and Very Very Important Person? It’s like...
View ArticleThe Old And New White Horse
The White Horse bar, or brand at least, is old, dating back to colonial days. Generations of people have gone through that bar, wherever it is, drank with mates, met biological mates, gotten in...
View ArticleWorld Largest Kottu Tomorrow, Inshallah
Iraj’s Kotthu video. Pretty funny, especially the Prabhakaran part. UPDATE UPDATE: It’s rescheduled for Friday at 4 PM. Same place. UPDATE: This event is probably not happening. The Ministry Of...
View Article5 Customer Service Fails (In SL)
This winkle (bike shop) on my street has amazing service. Go to a shop with walls, however, and you’ll get active retardation. These are some things that annoy me about customer service in Sri Lanka....
View ArticleLazy Customer Service
The flipside of stalker customer service is the lazy kind. Where they don’t care or act like you’re quite rudely interrupting them. The most recent personification of this has been the staff at the...
View ArticleRaw Beef Sushi
The Gyuu No Tataki at Nihonbashi, which I can’t even look at directly without drooling. Sushi, typically raw fish on rice, doesn’t surprise me anymore, but the idea of raw beef on rice does. Yet it is...
View ArticleWho’s This Development For?
Dog on the street in front of the new Racecourse, after the gala opening. I’m not a hater I just blog a lot. I’m all for development but seriously, who’s all this stuff for? The five star hotels,...
View ArticleMcRestoration At The Colombo Racecourse
I’m all for the government’s urban renewal program which began with the Cinnamon Gardens police station and culminated in the lovely Dutch Hospital. Thus I was looking forward to the renovation of the...
View ArticleThe Rains
Rain in Colombo, circa 2012. Sorry for the long radio silence. I took a bit of a long weekend and my main computer melted down. Working on an iPad’s not much fun. The main thing about this long...
View ArticleThe Marley Concert
Bob Marley is a trishaw God here. The most popular international non-prophet in Sri Lanka would probably be him or Che Guevara. Right now, Che Guevara seems to be winning (judging by trishaw art) but...
View ArticleColombo Traffic
Colombo traffic. Nawam Perahera is coming up. This week the Sri Lankan Police have been stopping cars to conduct a survey on traffic. Colombo actually has far less traffic than many global cities, but...
View ArticleClubs For Thugs
Kama crowd back when it was called Zanzibar, the last time I went there You’re honestly in more danger at an expensive Sri Lankan nightclub than in the depths of any slum. In the worst Colombo...
View ArticleParaya The Play (In Real 3D)
Tracy Jayasinghe and Ruvin De Silva. Tracy Holsinger was kind enough to invite me for a rehearsal of Paraya, a play that’s opening this Wednesday the 18th. Where is the interesting part, it’s at the...
View ArticleThe Cantaloupe Crash
Scene of the collapse from Nathashi Wijesundera’s FB Cantaloupe is an events management team that grew out of the old Colombo Nightlife crew, AFAIK. I’ve met a few of the directors and they’re nice...
View Article3 Ideas For Fixing Traffic
Colombo traffic has suddenly gotten dramatically worse. This is largely seasonal, due to the rains, but it won’t get any better given current policies. The government tries to limit car use by taxing...
View ArticlePublic Transit For Colombo
Here’s an idea I haven’t thought through completely. It’s a public transport system for Colombo. 1. Use Existing Rail Colombo has existing rail lines that could serve as a metro. There are two parallel...
View ArticleColombo Vehicle Statistics (2015)
How many cars enter Colombo everyday? 170,000 actually. How many people enter Colombo overall? That would be 1.8 million. Find this and more answers by scrolling down. These are 2015ish statistics for...
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