Check point inspection

I don't understand why the Sri Lanka mall close at 3pm on Sunday, well, I think the term, "mall" shouldn't apply to the shopping center in Sri Lanka, because it is really small, the four storey mall is the size of one floor Giant supermarket in Kelana Giant,
Bought some children clothes for my niece and nephew and my mom too, I board the first tuk-tuk who approach, like usual, the damn tuk tuk driver asking a fare of 300rs, which 200rs is about right and reasonable, this kind of driver I could have ignored it because of their dishonesty, however, I board the tuk-tuk because I don't want to waste my time. Off course, he agreed at 200rs to take me back.
The traffic is not that bad on Sunday, you see, the air quality in Sri Lanka is not so good due to a lot of old cars like the tuk-tuk and buses running around, or perhaps, I have been sitting in cars or public transport like LRT most of the time and I forgot how was it like to travel open air.
When we passed by a checkpoint, the soldier waved on my driver and ask him to stop for inspection. For the past few months, the north side of Sri Lanka was harrassed by the Tamil Tigers, which they called it the rebels, the peace talk ambasaddor was assasinated this year, that is the reason why the company is giving the Chinese employees an extra of USD20 every day for their allowance. Well, I hope I can benifit from that, but apparently I don't think so.
The driver pulled over the three wheelers and the soldiers asked him to show his papers... Can't really blame the troops because this driver really looks like a crook to me too. I sat behind the driver, checking out the guards' FN FAL assault rifles, I saw there were two pouches on the soldier, each pouch stores 2 cartridges of magazines for the rifle, I think they really means business, if there is a gun fight, the extra magazines will come in handy.
Another guard lean down his head and ask me where do I come from, I told him Malaysia. He requested me to show him my passport. I told him that I left it in the hotel, (come on, who the hell will bring his passport here and there?) I asked him, can I give you my ID instead? I took out my wallet and hand him my Malaysian ID, The guard took it and look at it. At the same time, the guard who carries the FN FAL rifle inspected the papers of the driver, may be he want to make sure that this fella is legit. I notice the hand of the driver is shaking a bit during the inspection process... I think a lot of people will, especially when you stand so close to the gun point.
Lucky the soldier did not give any hard time to foreigners like me, or else I will be screwed because I don't have a passport with me at that time. Somehow I think Sri Lankans quite respect the foreigners, I also had one experience that the guy in food court gave me some rice for free even though I didn't pay for it, because I ordered a lamb curry and they only give me lamb curry instead of lamb curry with rice, when I told him that I will pay for the rice, he give me a signal that he will give the rice to me, FOC.
After the inspection, we are free to go, paid the tuk tuk driver 500rs, and he gave me back 270Rs because that is what he got, I get off the three wheeler and walked back to my room...