Vist to SL and married Chandra (late wife)

 

1990 Dec

Vist to SL and married Chandra (late wife)

Registration no wedding. Witnesses Upali De Silva and Andrew Muthumani (Andy). Marriage Registrar was conveniently at the top of the Lane (300 m). Even more conveniently the liquor store was about 3 shops from the Marriage Registrar

Upali, Andrew Muthumani, Chandra, Mrs De Silva (Upalis mother)

Andy is a character, but not corporate material, i.e. not manageable A few years senior to me at the school I attended (S Thomas, Mount) Physics Special at Uni Colombo. Became Flight Engineer for Air Ceylon and asked to leave after assaulting the Captain.

Rafai, Podda Kapduwa, Andrew

Podda and Rafai

Mrs Silva, Upalis Mother

Upalis house was at the bottom of Harmers Lane facing the beach. Pleasant place to have a booze with a constant breeze. It was at first a place for Lobster Scuba Divers. Big fish tanks in the garden to keep the lobsters that were not sold, alive. The Lobster cash cow racket ended with the 1984 Pogrom. Curfew on and off and going out to sea in the night was forbidden. Any one doing so was arrested and charged under anti terrorism laws.


Mrs Irene Pandithasekara (Irene Anti) was a family friend, I think class mate of my mothers older sister Ranee (Mrs Perumal, teacher at Aloysius_ I used to spend a pleasant day or two at this house when we went to Galle for school holidays. This house was on the Galle Wakwella Road and had an 1-2 acres of rice paddy in front of the land. The back of the property extended all the way to the Hapugalla Reservoir

Note: This was the first camera I owned, a chap plastic one with a battery just for the flash. I had better things to with any money I had. Pleasurable suff like booze and other activities.