There is a blogspot called "F's Place" (F being Fazli's first name)
http://kermeey.blogspot.com/
If you have any memory of the OLD Ceylon - "Green Cabin", "Perrera's Bakery", "Elephant House", "Hotel Nippon", "the Blue Leopard", "Coconut Grove", "Las Bambas", of hearding "Mignogne & the Jetliners" sing...this is the place to go! He has many beautiful photos and blogs about OLD Ceylon. You may have to sign up (I can't remember) but it's free) and a really cool place. I corresponded through that page with an interesting Ph.D. Candidate from Australia who was researching the old Synagogue in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). She had such a wealth of knowledge on the Jewish members of Ceylon - she found a plaque at what USED to be a place of a Synagogue, found numerous Jewish Graves at Kanatte Cemetery.
I hope I'm not one of those accused of living "in the past" - but I do know that in order to turn the pages FORWARD we must have studied the previous pages well, or we don't move on in the book.
I do miss the one-on-one conversations we had in old-time Ceylon. I feel that today many people are into personal communication or entertainment (i.e., texting - even at the dinner table!) and that the art of conversation is endangered. Everyone is in a "hurry" and we multi-task in so many ways but rarely have the time to sit down and talk to one another.
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