මා පළමු වතාවට මවක් වුනේ මේ ඊයේ පෙරේදා ය. නිදි නැති රැයවල්, මගහැරුණු කෑම වේල් මට දැන් පුරුදු දේ වී තිබේ. පුතා පාන්දර සිට නිදි නැත. කුකුළා හඬලන්නටත් කලින් ඇහැරෙන ඔහු අත පය ගසමින්, "ආ ඕ" කියමින් සිටියි. මම අමාරුවෙන් ඔලුව කෙලින් කරගෙන, බාගෙට ඇරුණු ඇස් වලින් ඔහු දෙස බලා හිඳිමි. විටෙක මා දෙසට හැරෙන ඔහු කිරි ඉල්ලන්නට කට හදයි. ...

Meena was only fourteen when her mother left. One morning she woke up to the wails of her one year old brother crying and found out that her mother had left sometime in the dead of the night. Her father sat in a corner, not knowing what to do or how to console a crying one year old. As cries ...

අපේ ගෙදර සුරතල් බැල්ලිය මරණයේ දොරටුව අභියස සිටී. මිය යාමට තරම් වයසක් තවමත් නැතිමුත් හදිසියේ රෝගාතුර වූ ඇය යන්තම් හිසවත් ඔසවා ගනු නොහැකිව ඔහේ වැතිර සිටී. ඇගේ නමින් කථා කළවිට වලිගය හෙමිහිට සොළවයි. ගෙදරට පැමිණෙන අමුත්තන්ට ගෙරවීමට උත්සාහ දරයි. ගෙදර සියල්ලන්ම දුකිනි.ඒ අතර මගේ පියාගේ විද්වත් මිතුරන් තමන්ගේ ශෝකය ඔහුට මෙලෙස ප්‍රකාශ කරයි. ප්‍රවීන ගත කතුවරයෙකුද පුවත්පත් තීරු රචකයෙකුද වන ...

You are silent, like me. You don't talk much, You don't feel the need to express everything in words.You are silent, sitting here with me, on this park bench, under this leafless Oak tree. Between us there is no need for words. You just look at me.You have a handful of blueberries in your palm. The last bounty of an ...

Hi there...Remember I said darling left the country? It's been two months now.. I have moved in with my parents. I also have a little secret growing in my belly. :)I also have exams which started last week and will drag on till mid-December.But here's the deal. My getup and go has disappeared. I'm usually a very upbeat, bubbly person. ...

I sometimes want to do selfish things and say selfish things.I sometimes want to say things like "No one loves you more than I do, no one else would let you go like I did"Sometimes I want to say "Don't hang out with your friends, stay with me instead".But then I remember that if no one loves him as much ...

So I was at the hospital waiting for the doctor to come.You know how most hospitals have gigantic fish tanks everywhere? There was one right next to me and a little boy about three years old and his father were looking at the fish.Suddenly the kid goes " Thaththi.. What do fish eat? Don't they get hungry?"Dad says " People ...

She watched him do the dishes, Her heart was breaking and she wished she was the one doing the dishes."Do you think the potatoes are done darling?" he asked."Let me see" she said. "Prick them with a fork and see""Ah, they're done" he said, drained the potatoes and turned to the sink to wash the pot.It was heart breaking for ...

This is why I've been under the radar lately.Darling has left the country for greener pastures. While I know that he'll be back, and he will probably be back before I know it, I can't help feeling so desolate and empty..I'm back with my parents.. Dad has taken it to his heart to fatten me up.. :)I was supposed to ...

So I got into a lift from the third floor of my dad's office today. Here's how the conversation went.Professional Sounding Lady Voice (PSLV) : " Going down"Me : mhhh....A few seconds pass in utter silence.PSLV : "Ground floor"I said "Thank you" and got out rather hurriedly.On a side note, if you've read Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, remember ...

It has been forever hasn't it? I meant to write. But couldn't bring myself around to it.The past few months have been crazy. My whole life has been upturned, turned inside out. It's still shaky. It's not all bad actually, but even good things in a momentous scale can be a little hard to digest.I will write all about it. ...

I was thinking up on my bucket list when I remembered my organ/blood donor dream.One I was reading the paper when a particular request among its pages caught my eye. A fifty five year old mother of five was requesting for a kidney from a benefactor. The reason why this caught my attention was because she had asked for a ...

OK so this is a topic covered by everyone yeah? While this is obviously not a comprehensive, below are a few things I want to do before I die. I agree, some of them are so very cliche. But then, most good things are. aren't they? I will add more, as time goes on.01. See aurora borealis My brother said ...

When I read the Valmiki Ramayana, out of all the pages in the book, one of the scenes that stayed in my mind was what happens when Rama and Sita see each other for the first time. I know that there are many renditions of the Ramayana. Even the love story of Rama and Sita has been told in countless ...

Lately I've been thinking a lot on what it means to be a daughter in-law and a mother in-law. While I will not have children in the foreseeable future, one can always wonder what the future will bring. And I'm more than determined that I will be a cool mother in-law.I suppose when a new person enters any household, a ...

Who doesn't like tea right? For us Sri Lankans, tea is the ultimate beverage. Rain or shine, when someone visits us we give them a cup of tea. To show that we are not at all stingy and very very hospitable, the tea given to guests is always over sugared. And the guests, to show that they are courteous to ...

I started this yesterday as a part of my new workout routine. I can't walk. Or stand straight.

I was told by the kind doctor whom I visited that I was overweight. He was of the opinion that it would be greatly beneficial to my health if I was to reduce my weight to the lower mark of my ideal weight spectrum. But it has been so hard.It’s so hard for many reasons. I hate working out I ...

When I got married, after the traditional home coming was over, I remember the desolate feeling I got as I watched my family leave me with my husband’s family. It has all felt surreal up to that point. That moment when they all left, leaving me feeling all alone among people who were strangers to me, has been the loneliest ...

This is yesterday's post. What happened to me yesterday? Let me tell you. First I went to a wedding. Then I went to a funeral.Darling's cousin got married yesterday. While we were trying to get them settled into their honeymoon suite we must have passed a million new couples. There were so many weddings yesterday.And while we are on the ...