10 000 BC

10 000 years before Jesus Christ!! That is where this movie was set and so the title. Made at a budget of 140 M US$, after 2 weeks of release the movie earned back 62 M US$ in USA only. So staying at the box office for few more months and adding the international gross, the present statistics indicate a money back guarantee to the producers.





I personally had a wonderful time watching the movie. The visuals were stunning and it was certainly a breath taking journey back to 10 000 BC. With saber-toothed cat, mammoth hunting and fighting with large Ostrichs, there was no lack for action sequences and entertainment.
But certain things in the movie were a bit disturbing.


First of all the movie's theme was not original. We already had a tribal village, which is was attacked by a group of raiders and a few villagers being kidnapped, in Apocalypto. In Apocalyto the hero is captured and he escapes back to village to save his pregnant wife, but in 10 000 BC the Leading lady is captured and the hero goes to the rescue. Reminds me of Fairy tales.


The raiders kidnapped the villagers to Egypt to sell as slaves. Its definately Egypt cuz they were building pyramids. But unlike never heard before in history, mammoths were used to push up the big stones to build the pyramid. Its really hard to contradict with history as mammoth, or better known as wooly mammoth, survived and worked in a dessert. History tells that mammoth were roaming in the Ice age and went to extinction after global warming. Hard to accpet them working in dessert building a pyramid.


We had mayan pyramids in Apocalypto, so the director, Rokan Emerich, to maintain the originality, went for Egyptian pyramids. The tribal village is somewhere on a cold mountain. Lets say the tribal village is some cold mountain in europe, cuz they were speaking English. hehe. So the director is trying to put an idea into our head that we could literally walk from England to Egypt. Well thats how they do it in good old days, but can they do it in something like 6 days??


The best joke in the film however is the Stretcher. Right after the village was attacked the injured people were taken on a stretcher. It was alomost like modern day stretcher with 2 guys holding it on each end. Where were they taking them to?? Mammoth National Hospital??
Interesting to see stretchers being used 10 000 years Before christ.


No matter what, go and watch 10 000 BC. its definately a wonderful movie experience!!!

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was shot in Sri Lanka!!!

I am a big fan of Steven Spielberg, and watch all his movies. But the problem is that he started making movies before i was born, so i dont know much about his previous movies. His next venture is Indiana Jones the Kingdom of crystal skull. He is goin back to the Indiana Jones series after doing that last of that series, Last Crusade in 1989.

So because that he is gonna do Indiana Jones, i tried to find the previous 3 movies in the series. Did some searching and found it in poly library and watched the Last crusade and enjoyed it. Then i was watched The Temple of Doom yesterday. In the movie Indiana crashes in India after escaping from China. He then finds himself in a village where the people there talk to him about their sorrows and ask him to retrieve the Sankara Stone from the Pankot Palace. But hey, they were speaking to Indiana in Sinhalese. I was shocked for a while. But then Harrison Ford also spoke back to them in Sinhalese. Shock!! Shock!!

So i did some googling and my freind wiki told me that the movie was shot in Kandy. Surprise Surprise!! Oh well, some of the old folks out here might know about this, but for guys like me whose parents were not even married in 1984, might not know about this. So check out the movie guys, to see Harrison Ford Speaking Sinhalese, Directed by Steven Spielberg and Produced by George Lucas.

How to marry a rich a guy?

Found this on the web. quite interesting!!


I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York . My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?
Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden , $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)

2) Which age group should I target?

3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who doesn't have looks and are
not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys

4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

*************************Ms. Pretty*****************************************

Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of beauty and money: Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depre ciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a trading position. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or leased. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in leasing services, do contact me.

Signed, J.P. Morgan

Lankan News Style

From the days when the LTTE started their http://www.tamilnet.com/ website, we always get contradicting news to an incident that has taken place. For example, lets say a battle took place in vavuniya, the lankan media will say 10 tigers died in the batte, while some of the army personal were injured. At the same time tamilnet will say 10 Srilankan Army personal died, while a couple of their men were injured. So when i hear this kind of news, i add them both together and devide them and come to a conclusion that 5 army personal and 5 ltte militants died.

Its so interesting to listen to both the sides story. Both will look at the incident from their point of view, and as a movie maniac, its damn interesting for me.

Lets look at the latest Anuradhapura attack by LTTE, which they named as "Operation Ellalan".
The follwing is an extract from tamilnet. Helicopters including two MI-24 gunships, one MI-17, one PT6, one Bell 212, a CTH 748, and a reconnaissance aircraft were destroyed in the attack, according to Mr. Ilanthirayan.

Lets see what http://www.defence.lk/ (official webiste of ministry of defence). Meanwhile, it has been reported that a Bell 212 helicopter which was pursuing the terror aircraft was crashed onto Doramadalawa, in the Mihinthale area during the confrontation. According to the sources the two pilots and two gunners who were onboard the helicopter, have died in the incident. The helicopter was called in for assistance from Vavuniya, air force sources said. The reason for the crash is suspected to be a technical failure.

So its been accepted my the both sides that Bell 212 Helicopter was destroyed. But the funny part is http://www.defence.lks/ 's press release. They say the Bell 212 was on pursuit of the terrror aircraft, after being called in for assistance from vavuniya. It crashed after technical failure. Too much of a coincidence hey?? The helicopter was on pursuit of terrorist aircraft and was logically in a battlezone but didnt crash cuz of any attack, but of technical failure. Wonderful story!!!

And why would you want to call a Bell 212 for assistance???i mean why cant u ask for a figter jet or some good aircraft. According to wikipedia, Bell 212 is used as an air aumbulance or for rescue missions. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_212) Why would u send an aircraft which is primarily used as an air amulance in the military all over the world, to go on pursuit of a terror aircraft???

Oh i love the lankan media. They want to lie, but dont know how to do it properly!!

Dumbledores Gay

Any Harry Potter freaks out here? You all must have known the headmaster of Harry Potter’s school, Albus Dumbledore.

The author of Harry Potter, J K Rowling, went on a book tour to america and was asked if Dumbledore found true love.

“Dumbledore is gay,” she replied, before adding that he’d fallen in love with his rival Gellert Grindelwald.

But she said Dumbledore was “terribly let down” when Grindelwald became more interested in the dark arts than good, and so he went on to destroy him.
Fans at New York’s Carnegie Hall were initially stunned into silence by the announcement, but soon started clapping and cheering.

JK said: “I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy.”

The news should help to clear up lots of rumours about Dumbledore’s mysterious past once and for all. But interesting hey, the best wizard in the wordl is a gay!!!

The Transformers

Watched tranformers..well quite late acutally as the movie is no more in theatres now. Man the robots were so cool, and the CGI was simply amazing. Al the actors were cool too. With a sexy girl who knows all about cars, to another sexy girl who figures out how to decode the alien voice while all the wise guys out there were scratching their heads... I mean the movie was so nice with fantastic action sequence, nice CGIs and good comedy and fun, but hey, the story line is so stupid. I mean just because a bunch of soldiers survived the megatron attack in qatar, doesnt mean they will give be made as a special force and promoted so fst just like that...it doesnt happen that way...not in USA. And the sector 7, was shown as a ultra secert organisation, but they revealed all the truth about them, and even gave complete tour guidance of their headquaters. They tried to kill bumble bee car, and freeze him, and suddenly they free him and ask him to save them...the whole bunch of sector 7 listen to this small kid and release the bumble bee just like that?? commmon guys, its too stupid to happen for a such high secret organisation. And when the megatron and the autobots were fighitng how do people know whom to support to?? i found the storyline of transformer so stupid, yet i enjoyed watching it!!

Oman - Wadi

Unlike what we know of desserts, it rains quite a lot in Muscat and its suburbs. When it rains, it rains hard, and the rain water flows through the valley between the hills. This river is called “Wadi” in local dialect.

And there is no drainage system outside Muscat. While you travel on these roads you will see a lot Wadi crossing, and only in certain places where the predicted flow is high, you will see a bridge built across. On all other occasions the Wadi is allowed to cross the road, by building the road beneath the Wadi level. So when it rains and rains hard once in a blue moon, the road Wadi will be running across the road. So when it rains the transportation will come to a halt.

What is the big deal if the transportation outside the city comes to a halt once in a blue moon? Well guys, people do live outside the city area. There are lots and lots of tiny villages positioned all over the desert. Because that there is so much free space and land outside the city, the houses are placed quite far from each other. Heard that lands to build houses are given to the locals by the government according to their cast and status. Its pity you can’t choose where you want to live. Well anyway the problem is that, because you find houses all over the place and they are situated far from each other, it’s not possible to supply water and clear drainage through pipelines. So the water is supplied to the houses regularly and the drainage is sucked away by Tanker Lorries. By standard the water supplying tankers are blue in colour while the Yellow ones suck away the drainage.

So when the Wadi flows high, and blocks the road, people in the rural areas will not have access to water, and their drainage will not be cleared too. But luckily for them, the dessert sun is too hot, that Wadi doesn’t last more than a day. Cost reduction is the only possible explanation given by the road authorities, for not building a bridge and making the Wadi go beneath the road. Life is funny and different all over the world!!!