I’m back on the island for a really short while. So earlier today some friends and I hung out at Galle Face (honestly, the limitedness of places to hang out in this city is depressing!) — and we were bored, so I asked Flailer – the official Gossip Aunty of the Universe – what’s the gossip these days? Who’s going ...
So I’ve been having a crappy start to my Ramadan. For the noobs, Ramadan is a month during which Muslims fast from about 4am to 7pm to experience the hunger our less fortunate brothers and sisters go through and all that cheesy stuff, and everyone is extra nice during this month, and at the end there’s this awesome festival where ...
We’ve all had them. Given, some people are born teachers, with all their grace and compassion and teacherly knowledge – but I think it’s the really bad ones that we remember best. There’s that one who doubles as the spawn of satan. He (or she as the case may be) picks on kids — while probably cackling maniacally — for ...
Sounds familiar am I right? No? You have no idea what I’m talking about? And you’re facepalming at my ridiculous and long blog title? Sigh. Okay. The usual then. Ever since I can remember, me and female friends of mine have had weird boys texting us or calling us or FB-ing us in hopes that it would result in us ...
So it’s been Diwali here in Delhi since Tuesday, which to me – like every other one-of-hundred Hindu festival – just translates to vacation party time. Soon I found myself on an eight-hour bus ride with other Sri Lankans to Rishikesh, a trip organized by the Sri Lankan High Commission in India for Sri Lankan students and employees here. Rishikesh ...
Hey everyone, I’ve started up a new blog – click here and stay tuned. I’ll be blogging there instead now. I love this blog, it’s documented all the crap that’s been swimming around inside my head for several years now, so I’ll probably never shut it down and will come back every now and then for nostalgia’s sake. But I ...
So there I was, looking out the window as the Boeing 757 lifted off the ground and started flying towards India. I saw a brown-green Puttalam travel backwards from under us as the plane rose at awesome speed. I was leaving home! I was strangely casual about it even then, still don’t know what that’s about. Shouldn’t I be like ...
I was up at the ungodly hour of 6am to visit a school for a presentation about bus pervs and how everyone should kick them in the balls (that’s a story for another day), and came home to pass out in a heap of exhaustion at around noon. Had one of those awfully long naps you wake up from like ...
I love Liam Neeson. Ever since Taken, he has become Hollywood’s Rajinikanth. A still from Taken 2 and totally not a picture of Rajinikanth edited using Paint Click here to read more.
Yep. Hugs aren’t always for free anymore… ‘Maids’ in a ‘maid-cafe’ depicted in an anime (Japanese cartoon) Click here to read more. (Yeah I’ve gotta keep link-baiting you guys because the connectivity on Blogger sucks that bad.)
I’ve realized, recently, after having spent a lot of time with my species (aka females… I live with eight of them) – that girls do some ridiculous things to themselves… Click here to read more.
Hey everyone, I’ve started up a new blog – click here and stay tuned. I’ll be blogging there instead now. I love this blog, it’s documented all the crap that’s been swimming around inside my head for several years now, so I’ll probably never shut it down and will come back every now and then for nostalgia’s sake. But I ...
So in my second year of university we’re studying Russian literature – Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and the likes (nothing short of amazing), and a lot of European poetry – 16th century poetry, from the era of ye ol Will S. (no, not Smith). You know, here I was, thinking all that chivalry and those dramatic declarations of undying love you read ...
I talked to my mum a month ago about the time I almost lost my leg and realized that surprisingly, I hadn’t talked to her about it before! She narrated to me the whole story and I thought it was a cool one to share around the water-cooler. And it was pretty unnerving to come face to face with the ...
Ever wonder if we’re being watched? By some superior intelligence? What if God is just an alien? And destiny or karma or fate or coincidence or those times you think someone with a twisted sense of humour is controlling your life – are electromagnetic forces emitted by an instrument in the hand of an alien creature whose microscope slide our ...
