| Blank
invitation
A scribe received an invitation from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
but other than the name of the invitee having been filled in the
space provided, the three other spaces namely to………….at……………..and
on………..had been left blank. The angry scribe called
up the Prime Minister's office to complain saying he felt insulted
by this oversight. It was later found the invitation had been for
Christmas carols at Temple Trees.
Politico
scares off children
A ruling party politician sure couldn't get his act together when
he was attending a Christmas function at a church at Ragama recently.
As children performed at the function, the intoxicated politico
was doing the rounds scaring off the children. It must be the smell
that made them run away.
Fun
over southern crisis
It seems that the LTTE too is having fun about the political crisis
in the south. A group of journalists from the east who visited LTTE's
political wing leader, S.P.Thamilselvan last week were each given
a video cassette of a 'political drama' about the crisis in the
south.
The LTTE distributed
40 cassettes and wanted them to show it to the people when they
get back. The play had earlier been shown in the Wanni in which
they had mocked the political situation in the south.
Alert
for striped variety
An employee of Parliament last week sighted a wild cat (pila kotiya)
within the Parliament grounds and the environmental authorities
had been informed. Soon Zoological Gardens officials had arrived
and set a trap to catch the creature.
What they caught instead was a civet cat, which they took back with
them.
The presence of any type of 'kotiya' is bound to get people's attention. |
