War begins peace by peace.

And so the time has come for the pessimists to crush the optimists with a million "I told you so'" as war has loomed and now spilled over the horizon and back on the seen like a malignant cancer. But one cannot dispute the wonder of Sri lankan politics and the way it's handled. Everyone knows the events leading upto to the breakdown of peace and back into the bombs of Colombo. the question is "will there ever be an end in sight, at all?" or are we plunging back into the deep dark ages where we won't have any money and will have to resort to fighting on elephant back using pikes as weapons. Currently it all seems rather bleak which is quite disheartning for the next generation half of whom will live in deep seated paranoia with one goal in mind (get to Australia) and the other half will have deep rooted hate and mis-guided patriotism that has been passed down generation after generation which has led us to this mess in the first place. Back to the present, and the road blocks at Bauddahloka Mawatha have been setup, ministers and deputy ministers run around in Chryslers costing 15Mn followed by brand new Hilux's packed like a 138 bus on Monday morning with security personnal, pushing people off the road as they rush to parliment to waste the hard earned money of the people they pushed off the road earlier, but at the same providng entertaining fodder for the morning tabloids and free press, blaming violence and terrorism on everyone else.
So what does one do in the middle of all this madness? Avoid, avoid and avoid. Rush down to Hikkaduwa as soon as possible whenever possible, avoid possible bombable targets like anything government based. And get bloody good insurance with riot and terrorism cover. Other than for that all we can do is relax and wait till we hit refugee status and then mass exodus it to Canada.