I saw a belly dancing monkey on the Wesak day. And Wesak is so bloody noisy this time. Wesak has come to be a regular commotion of vehicle honking, annoying voices reciting ridiculous pseudo-Buddhist kavi (honestly, they are atrocious), silencerless motorbikes whirring about like irritating mosquitoes, the same old Mohideen Beg songs repeated over and over again till they ...

The tuk driver asked me whether we should go through Borella. I told him to take me from a route that avoids the usual city nonsense. And he did. So we wound through narrow streets lined with modest houses of wood and tin facades, rubble and human bodies. Children played in railway tracks while groups of women, young and ...

According to my to-be sis-in-law’s sister, the beauty of being a bridesmaid is that you get to experience all the excitement of getting married without actually having to undergo all the responsibilities that come along with it. According to her it’s a no brainer, since you only have to dress as the bride instructs you to dress, without having ...

The three-day trip to Badulla last week deserves a post of its own. If the excitement of the train ride wasn't enough, the haunted bungalow and all the tales heard within it is a spine-tingling thriller which is a tale in itself! Well we got to ride in the engine room of the train, side by side with the ...

Saturday mornings, I usually wake up a misanthrope and remain steadfastly so till midday Saturday, only to slightly be able to tolerate a little human company during the weekend. Yesterday however has been an antisocial Saturday. Today a less so but it did take some effort on my part to socialize as life required me to do. Hope the ...

The world seems to have gotten louder. Everybody seems to be talking all at once all of a sudden. Loud music blares out at you at every stop, vehicles honk louder, engines roar more intensely and I can barely hear myself think! Granted that it IS the Avrudu season after all, one can indeed say that the loudness is ...

I have tried for a very long time to turn a blind eye to this whole "let's hate the other races and point fingers at each other" scenario that's been going on lately, hoping that if I ignore it long enough without contributing to it, that people would soon tire of it. But seems not. Atrocities heighten day by ...

As late as it is, this post is dedicated to all those who had lost all their hair, got traumatized and scarred for life in the hands of salon personnel at least once in their life. This strange and frightening phenomena has been taking place from time immemorial, actually ever since the art of hair dressing has been introduced ...

What is it with skirts and men? Wearing a regular office skirt, not very short, perhaps a little bit above the knee and crossing the road is quite an ordeal I've learnt of late. It makes vehicles slow down and toot their horns while some even can't help but flash their headlights full on. Quite a few sha's and ...

Anybody else aware of the outrageously flirty Kelly Felder pretty boys? ;) I've been a huge fan of the brand ever since they've just begun to put some of their stuff over at ODEL. Bought a pair of their jeans a good many years ago and had been hooked ever since. It was about a few years back they ...

The weekend had been nonexistent. Things had just swished past with no trace at all to what had happened to the hours that usually drag by. The Lady had been dismayed. A novel awaits to be written, so does a collection of poetry to be edited and finalized. But before long the time has evaporated, like sweat before an ...

To the land of sarees and back. In one piece with not much of collateral damage. I am pretty sure that I shall burst out crying if anyone so much as mentions sarees within the next few weeks. The things I do for my brother! I felt like kissing the non-urinated, non-desecrated, betel spit unstained ground at arrival in ...

Why is it that the victims in all these horror movies insist on running in the middle of the road when they are being chased by a car (or truck or bulldozer, etc)? Why doesn't it ever occur to them that they should get off the road (at least run on the pavement like a good pedestrian should) or run ...

If there is something that I absolutely despise in the world that would be waiting. Whether it be waiting for photos to upload, dressed and waiting for others to get ready, waiting for a response to an email, waiting for a much awaited call, waiting till a much awaited day, waiting is a tedious task. If I had it my ...

Sitting in the balcony letting the thoughts run awash. Its finally shining. Well barely. And hence the breezy thought provocation. The sky is strangely bland. Not a cloud in sight. It's strangely depressing, somewhat empty and stale. Its the kind of a decrepit stale you find in deserted colonial inns and empty hotel rooms that had just been vacated. Its ...

Beginning to hate rainy days. Specially nights. This is a little too much. Everything feels so cold and clammy. Ugh! And cloths smell funny too. Just took the entire wardrobe out and put them out to air. Doggy is all wet too. Comes cuddling with his fur coat wet and all. Had to shoo him off several times. Poor thing. ...

So the temple next door is having one of its lengthy and extremely noisy Bodhi Pooja's again. I can barely hear myself think. This is the 2000th one as I heard. (Yes, the 2000th, I kid you not). And they are being conducted by this super arrogant monk to whom Father Dearest fondly refers to as the බෝධි පූජා කොමසාරිස් ...

The Lady's head is quite muddled up. Red, yellow and fish rains, aliens, Sri Lanka coming on top of sex searches, brutal rapes, etc, etc, etc........it really is too much to wrap one's head around. The world is enraged over the rape of one girl. Suddenly, protest against rape, the safety of the womankind has become the in thing. The ...

Christmas came and went. Wasn't as christmassy this time so there was no real sense of exhilaration as there usually is at this time of the year. Made Christmas goodies as usual, out of habit than out of enthusiasm and shared Christmas dinner with The Darling's family. Happy family time. Grouchy as there has not been any worthwhile gigs or ...

Went on a date with myself. Not that I planned it, it just turned out that way. Nevertheless, I had a good time. Turns out I am very good company. A quiet breakfast out with a book to keep me company. I sat there watching people passing by. It felt good just sitting there, not participating in the hubbub of ...