Galle Road Chaos Continues

Back in Colombo after heavenly weekend break.

Hmm. This road is full of action. Sometimes it feels a bit like being in the third panel of this Hieronymous Bosch painting, though.

I am backblipping because last night Dialog was doing maintenance work, so no Internet.

On the way to the supermarket, I came upon a group of people standing near the US embassy, opposite the president's house, on this road. There was a fragile, skeletal, shrunken person passed out on the pavement.

The police were called and he was refreshed with drops of water, and moved on... He should have been taken to hospital. Passers by said, 'Don't worry, he's a drunk and he's mad.' I thought, There but for the grace of ...

A year ago, on this day, I posted my first blip : )