Image from Be Inspire If your a girl in Sri Lanka, you know you can’t walk alone on the road without drawing attention. It doesn’t matter if you are fat, thin, round, pearshaped, pretty, pockmarked, fair, dark, ugly, have big boobs, have no boobs, have wide hips, have sharp hips. If your alone, your vulnerable. I’ve tried but I’ve found that there ...
I was chatting to a friend. He was joking, but told me he wanted to put out an ad for a hot wife. “Hot Wife Wanted” it would read. I asked him if he would make any other specification. “36D” he replied. It was funny. What is funnier still is that the Sunday papers in Sri Lanka carry week in ...
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.
image from the Non Communicable Disease Unit of the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition. Don’t ask me where they got it from! Im studying at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Management, Economic, Human Geography and my favorite, History. Its alright. The textbooks take pages and pages to describe a simple concept, sometimes going round and round in circles - possibly because they ...
I just put this up as a profile pic on my Facebook page. The image represents two fundamental forces in the Universe that exist in perfect, indestructible union - Shiva and Shakti. I like the idea of attaining perfect balance. Nuff said. But here’s an interesting chat conversation that came up as a result of it. Hi. How r u Roel Hi Hi, ...
(Epic Fox Okami by Burmalloo) I had a strange dream this morning. In it, I was wandering around (Colombo I think) with my boyfriend and there was this fox that kept materializing everywhere I went. Materializing out the earth, materializing out thin air, out everything. At first I didn’t really care that it kept turning up - it didn’t do anything - ...
R.E.M will be disbanding after some 30 years together. I am not sad. Change is progression and they’ve already given me enough. Losing My Religion was my all time favorite song growing up. Thank you for walking with me then, R.E.M.
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 ...
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, ...
Enid Blyton’s books are, generally speaking, lighthearted, fun and adventurous. But one book she wrote, this, was the complete opposite. A child friendly (?@?@!!) version of the Pilgrims Progress, the book is a Christian allegory and for that reason alone scared the bejesus out of me as a child. The images were illustrated by Horace Knowles and were awesome ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Field Action Seen this video yet? Its making the rounds on Facebook here in Colombo. Seems Gautam Ghambir and Ishant Sharma were caught smacking, grabbing and patting each others bottoms during what looks like the warm up for the 3rd Test between England and India. I only watch World Cup cricket so I don’t really know what match these ...
Steve Jobs left us on the 5th of October and the inter-webs flooded with all things Apple related. In fact, #iSad trended on Twitter for a large part of the day before #RIPSteveJobs and #ThankYouSteve took over. But life goes on, and with time, Steve Jobs and his death will lose significance. I decided to put together a ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
