WE ARE FAMILYLife over here…hmmm..let me think. Apart from the -30˚Cor even sometimes -40˚C temperature in the winter soaring up to even a +40˚C in the summer and also apart from missing your families, life is quite nice over here. FROZENThe first time we set foot over here we were rather surprised by some things like for example, female ...
YouYOU who stared at the mixed up fried rice sleepily after waking up from a deep sleep on our laps and said, “What’s this? Cat food?” because it was the first time you saw fried rice and because we used to mix up all the left over rice and feed the stray cats…,YOU who had to watch too much ...
“Then I was a kid,” Umesh said opening his archives ‘down the memory lane’. “When I go to our bathroom, I see a lot of beauty culture stuff that belonged to my sisters. I used to experiment with them in secret.”“Once, a bottle with a picture of a beautiful gloss head of hair on the label attracted my attention. ...
I ducked the first swing Moray aimed at my head without much difficulty. Even the second swing, which was a very much low-end version in technique, but had a lot of muscle behind it, fanned the top of my head. If contacted it could have been disastrous. Then I saw my chance which I took. Moray’s middle was still ...
This is another story from Padidilian series. Suresh is Umesh’s younger brother. We became buddies during the time I was a boarder there. Well, not exactly. I’m not doing justice to them and their hospitality, if I use the word ‘boarder’, which is an ugly, commercial word. I was actually their guest, because Umesh was my friend. And they didn’t ...
By the time you read this post, we 'll be on the final leg of the transit, on our way home to Sri Lanka. This passage consists of travel by land, sea and air. Though this is supposed to be an eagerly awaited joyful event, the airline ticketing agencies or a bank or some other body makes sure to take ...
I swung the wheel to the left to avoid the water-logged potholes on the causeway. Suddenly, without warning, the offside of the van tilted wildly and sank into the earth with a tremendous crash and a thud and explosion. Everyone screamed. When I stepped out, I realized the driver's side was unnaturally higher than normal and the front wheel ...
I saw Umesh’s dad as a strange, detached person. He wasn’t home much, except on weekends. Maybe, because he was a lawyer who worked in another district. He didn’t talk much and I was careful to steer clear of him. And, I had this nagging feeling that he didn’t like my being there. Well, that was the impression I ...
Mine was four door version of this.My small red Fiat hatchback had begun to irritate me. The starter motor had grown a mind of its own. It had developed this nasty habit of sticking and wouldn’t turn when I most wanted it to do so. It let me down when my wife wanted to be rushed to the hospital ...
I was stunned to see the 'stranger' standing in the doorway. Gamini, one of my best friends, standing right here in front of me at the bachelors' quarters of the school in Ampara where I was doing my first year of teaching, on the other side of Sri Lanka! This dude, now a Wildlife Ranger,for the Department of Wildlife has ...
I write this post with a heavy heart, with a lump in my throat and tears welling up in my eyes. I never thought in my wildest dreams, I would have to write a post like this on Obaa ayya, at least not so soon. When I saw the headings of the blogs in Weni’s blog roll, I was stunned. ...
Some decades ago on a day like this a little boy was born. Then some years later this is what happened in our house…“Wait Deepa, those new shoes I bought would match this shirt, let me bring them”. With that, Thaththa left the living room and headed towards the master bed room. We heard him opening the cupboard and then ...
“When I discovered I really have no talent in writing I had been a writer for 15 years!”“Then what did you do? Gave up writing?”“How can I? By then I had become a popular writer.” Though this is just a joke I have heard, it has something common with my situation. Though I’ve been a teacher most of my life, ...
I’m not a businessman. I’m not a doctor. Still as a layperson, there are a lot of business ideas I could give to a businessman and novel ideas even to a doctor to excel in their professions. These are not learned at any Business School or Medical College, but at the University of Life. This goes beyond the two ...
I was a Motor Engineering Student at the Technical College those days. We were given a monthly allowance which didn’t last much long but something which we waited eagerly for. Somehow the long weekend grew closer and closer and still there was no sign of the allowance, though it was due before the last working day. ...
We’ve inherited so much from our imperialistic invaders, the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Some of us aren’t even aware that kamisa (shirt), sapaththu (shoes), paan (bread) isthoappuva (verandah), aren’t even Sinhalese words. They’ve run so deep and are comfortably localized and naturalized. I’m sure you are so much familiar with Silvas, Pereras , Fernandos and Fonsekas. But ...
This is a story from the country I'm currently working as a teacher. Here the student prepare for the Cambridge IGCSE. They have a Reading and Writing paper and also a Listening paper.One day I was doing a writing task with them. The task was to write on, the topic, 'If your house is on fire what item would you ...
Ten years later the boy wonder arrived. Click here if you didn't read Part 1. He was so special and we wanted him to be that way. So I experimented by like, playing the guitar and singing for him when he was still in mom's womb. He loved my music pre-natal and knew me ...
THE OFFICE DUDE: The office train to Kandy was pulling in at the platform. Hundreds of steel wheels rattled against the steel tracks with slowing tempo. The milling crowds on the platform edged towards the slowing train. Some were already hanging on to the handrails, their feet trying to find foothold on the foot board or at least some ...
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