Bloody hell

WTF? Was watching the match at CH and suddenly the lights go out. The screens go up and everyone starts to settle down and watch the match under moonlight. Sri Lanka is scoring well with Sanga and Jayasuriaya when some dude comes near our table, crouches down, presumably to hear the other person on the phone better and exclaims "What? The tigers are bombing Colombo?" Everyone at our table is like wtf? this dude's just joking right?

With the lights out and Colombo in the dark, some paralights or whatever were fired in to the air and everyone thought it was part of the celebration, cause we were doing pretty well. Calm. And then the screens go out and everyone thinks that CH is gonna be bombed. Phone lines are congested. Texts roll in and phone calls come streaking in, some asking if I was OK and some asking what the score was, cause their lights were out.

Rumors.

Some passenger aircraft or SLAF aircraft flies over and everyone screams and scatters. I just plant my ass on the table and watch the plane. I watch too much discovery to know that a) those bullshit tiger planes can't fly that high and b) no one can drop bombs even half accurately from that altitude. Someone gets on the mic and tells everyone to leave.

Fuck! We head out to Pilla to grab a bite and have a lime. Call me insensitive but I grew up with this shit and I really can't be bothered having a panic attack at 2am on the day of the World Cup Final when the boys are playing. Pilla is Closed. Head to Bamaba and eat.

Got a cab and came home. One my way home it seemed that everything was back to normal. Some bread-man was on his bike on his way to deliver the bread to some shop. Some other buggers were hanging vesak decorations. Life goes on.

I check TamilNet and some smug LTTE spokesman is on about bombing the refineries and that their planes arrived safely at their base. Why can't we just take those crop-dusters apart? They also said that unindentified aircraft were seen on the radar. This is starting to piss me off now... I hope the boss had a good time in Barbados.

And we lost the fucking match!