Here is the 2010 list, made based on the 2010 desk calander published at http://documents.gov.lk
Note that the Poya days are no longer shown as mercantile holidays, same as in the gov.lk calander.
If you don’t know what to do with the following list, please see the 2008 Sri Lanka Holidays post for instructions on adding this [...]
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2010 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook
Suba Aluth Avruddak Vewa! Say it in a SMS
Althought I havent posted anything since Jan 1 2009; this is a post I’ve always been making with the exception of 2006. The good ol Sinhala and Tamil new year greeting.
This year, I thought I’d post some of the Sinhala Tamil new years greetings that were sent vai SMS. Got any good ones you’d like to [...]
2009 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook
The New Year is just around the corner, and it looks like some folks just like to prepare for it in advance. So for the pleasure of those of you who like to have your Microsoft Outlook calendar ready for the next year, I’m posting the 2009 Sri Lanka holidays list a little earlier than [...]
Only in Sri Lanka
I recently got a forwarded email titled “Longest initials’. Only in Sri Lanka would there be a guy who has 15 initials to his name. I know what each of those initials stand for too.
It’s just another email forward right? Wrong!
This email contained scanned copy of a National Identity Card and a
scanned pre-paid mobile connection [...]
A veteran and a novice show how it’s done
Jayasuriya with the bat and Mendis with the ball. The result? Defending champions Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup yesterday at Karachi. For the fourth time! Woohoo!! Way to go guys!! Congratulations!!
Suba Aluth Avruddak Vewa!
Its that time of the year again. Good times..
Arthur Charles Clarke
Its a sad day today as I got to know that Sci-fi guru Sir Arthur C. Clarke had passed away.
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” -Arthur C. Clarke
60th Anniversary of Independence
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka celebrated its 60th anniversary since regaining its independence. During the period of 1505 to 1948 Sri Lanka was invaded and was under the rule of the Portuguese, Dutch and then British.
The President’s Independence Day Message“Sixty years is a small interlude to a country with a history and civilization dating [...]
2008 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook
Since Merill has migrated to Australia, it looks like he wont be positing his usual “Add 200x Sri Lanka Holidays” to Outlook post this year. So this year I’ve compiled the list of holidays, and copied the instructions on how to add them into Outlook. Hope this helps.
Holidays
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Google Virus Guard
The Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) website www.slt.lk has been infected with a Trojan Virus Trojan.Maliframe!html. If you don’t believe that the telecoms giant is compromised, here is a screen-shot showing the Trojan virus infected web page.
The risk level of this particular virus has been rated as a very low by Symantec, however considering the number of Internet users in [...]