How is it that concerned parents, activists and citizens of this island find it possible to hand over to a government incapable thus far of even acknowledging injustices to women, children and other marginalized sections of our society, the right to impose death as a penalty for crime? Do ...
Written originally for Ceylon Today. Kris Jenner, the mother of Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall and Kylie, came under considerable attack in a largely liberal USA, for revealing on Fox Television her decision to put all of her daughters on birth control ‘as soon as they expressed sexual curiosity.’ Jenner defended her unconventional method ...
Wrote this (brief) essay on the implications of the proposed amendments to the Press Council Law of Sri Lanka. (please don’t ask me where this image is from) At last week’s (5 July) media briefing on Cabinet ...
Kanchana Thalpawila was gracious enough to ask me to model yet another collection of clothes for her. ‘Orange Summer’ was designed especially for Cotton Collection and is the first from her brand KT Brown since moving store from Park Street Mews to No: 7, Coniston Place, Colombo 7 (lane alongside Wycherley International School). Make up was by Jacquie Mei and ...
Viral campaign Kony 2012 hit the online shores of Colombo late last evening. As expected it has been duly shared and re-shared by civic conscious netizens. That was last night. By this evening, Colombo’s youth intelligentsia has declared war on Kony 2012. I find this deeply disturbing on multiple levels. For one, ...
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Posted this first waaay back in 2010. Re-posting as a BIG hint to the Universe. Because I hate waiting. Image by Melvin Sokolsky. Part of a the iconin ‘Bubble Series’ shot for the Harper’s Bazaar when he was just 21. For more images see here, or just google the man. wait in silence mind storm blue sky, all around mind ...
No matter how far I stray from you, I come back to you. And you’ll stand in front me on your day of birth, and offer to shake my hand with your blessed right hand, as peers.. And you’ll accept that I won’t kiss your hand, or bow to you, But offer my hand to shake yours, And you ...
I Looked At You - The Doors. My Song of The Day for the Day.
This post was first published on Indi’s site months ago. College has opened again after the December hols and I thought it appropriate to dig this up. S.Thomas’s College, Mount Lavinia has stood around in the same location for over a hundred years. Here’s what they should do ...
Making of a Model is brand spanking new reality television series, currently broadcasting at 9pm Tuesdays on ART Television in Colombo. In it, 17 year old Shenelle, 18 year old Anita, and I, the oldest at 26, face a number of challenges intended to initiate us to the travails of the modern modelling industry, ...
Babylon is trouble. In a Biblical sense it was trouble, and today, on the interwebs, it still is trouble. Belshazzar, Prince of Babylon from here Babylon is the name of a site that ...
I have a zit. It is on my face. I have never had a zit on my face. I touched it and wondered if some insect had bitten me, but no, it is very definitely a zit. It’s a novel experience. It’s not an experience I want to repeat. I now know why girls, other girls, hate zits so much. ...
Originally published on Groundviews, this is me, in response to US Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya’s denial of any rape, assault and violence against women in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the US, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, recently responded to the Crisis Group Report’s assertion that assault ...
Re-blogged this from getstooobsessed. What a wonderfully, accepting, liberal way of bringing up kids. Kudos. “Mommy, they are just like me.” My oldest son is six years old and in love for the first time. He is in love with Blaine from Glee. For those who don’t know Blaine is a boy…a gay boy, the boyfriend of one of the ...
Lay down your arms, I like the way you play Eye matches Eye, You, then I, we sway.
Christmas went off quite well this year, despite a rather large disconnect on my part, right until the 24th of December. It was then that I finally ‘felt’ like Christmas, and to be honest this feeling - when it came - had more to do with friends, good food and copious amounts of wine than the birth of Jesus Christ. ...
I worked on another quick shoot with Kanchana Thalpawila’s brand KT Brown - the results of which are these. Great to report that I am getting less awkward in front of the camera and am, in these, visibly relaxed: Huzza! Photographer was the young and handsome Jonathan Berman, and of course, Jacquie Mei coordinated it all.
Look at what I stumbled on yesterday! This really really cool site that delivers personal messages to kids…from Santa! Just last year I was grumbling that Santa needed to get his act together and get himself an email address, and this year I found this. Given that current favorites - despite my protestations - are Twilight and the Walking Dead, I had given ...
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