1. Dancing and singing in my own room. 2. There’s always plenty of food in the fridge for a midnight snack. 3. Shampoo or toothpaste is over? No problem, a new tube will magically reappear the next day. 4. Having a huge double-mattress to roll around on even though I really just use one-third of it. 5. Sexy intelligent Sri ...

So this week, on vacation, I challenged myself to learn to ride the bicycle. Yes, I can’t ride a bicycle. Laugh it up, bitch. I think I tried it out when I was about 8, but I fell off. It was brutal. Naturally I shunned the contraption forever, and rode my tricycle around instead.. till that got too weird, socially. ...

So apparently Aishwarya Rai had a baby this year, and Jessica Simpson is expecting one too. They’re both going to produce miniature celebrities who are going to be coochy cooed over by all loyal followers of the tabloid for years to come. Worldover, people love talking about these hot mamas and their movies and music and enviable good looks, ...

I was packing last night for my flight back home, a long vacation, and this is what my luggage looked like: This is not counting the first layer of library at the very bottom. I had to close it and sit on it and bounce on it a few times to be able to bring the two edges of zip ...

with my Atlas Chooti pen during study breaks.

So it’s only a week till I get on a plane back home, and as usual the last few days before take-off have me turned into a grumpy mumbling fidgety little thing constantly reminded of homely comforts. And the number one thing at home I yearn for? FOOD. Oh god. Yesterday I literally stabbed a pillow with my fist and ...

A coupla centuries after white Britain bitch-slapped Asia around a few times and were all ‘you guys suck, and we’re awesome, nyaaa!’ (this is how I paraphrase colonization) – everyone’s still crazy about wanting to LOOK WHITE. I’m not even exaggerating when I say ‘look white’ – literally, they want their naturally brown skin, to be the literal shade of ...

I will confess, the being referred to in the title above has often been a subject of discussion on my blog — and this is evidence of my fascination with the Godaya and its habits and customs, purely on the basis of scientific observation. Just to clarify, I use the word Godaya, loosely. Within the context of my dramatic ranting, ...

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 ...