I think love is based on action and reaction. I think it has very little to do with the appearance of an individual, one's personality or any other trait in the long run of things. While the above mentioned factors are applicable to short trice, I think long lasting affection is based on one's reaction to the other human ...
So the launch happened and it went quite well too. Just as I expected: perfectly serene ambiance, good music, good company and mellow lighting. Perfect. Now people keep on asking, why Barefoot? Why go endorse in the typical 'Colombian', sarong-wearing, mantra-chanting, wanna-be artsy hippie culture? Yes I'm aware of the many labels and tags that the place comes with but ...
I had my last fruit salad today. Not that I'm never going to have fruit salads again. Just that I will not have a fruit salad quite like this fruit salad again. It all started like this. When things get unbearable at work, I'd go downstairs and get a fruit salad. I'd sit there and eat it, amidst the ...
The sun is extra golden and the winds are crisp, cool and colourful. Is it Christmas or is it just December doing its thing? What feels absolutely right at the moment is whipping up one of my weird combo cakes, pushing it into the oven & cuddle up on a couch to watch A Christmas Carol while it bakes, ...
Oh where and where have this book not traveled with me! This picture is one I took in Dubai where I was reading it during a quiet moment. Several weeks later I was reading it in Galle, and then in Negombo and then on my commute to work. Safe to say, this book has seen quite a bit. Anyhoo, ...
What is it with skirts and men? Wearing a regular office skirt, not very short, perhaps a little bit above the knee and crossing the road is quite an ordeal I've learnt of late. It makes vehicles slow down and toot their horns while some even can't help but flash their headlights full on. Quite a few sha's and ...
25th January 2016, we ventured out to give a newly released original track a listen . A casual gathering of a few friends and media, the event said, a collaboration of two artists; a rather formidable personality in the metal music scene - one that is known to us and a promising musician trained in classical music. An unlikely ...
Just when you think that you can no longer be surprised by the behavior of the Sri Lankan male, they surprise you again. Sri Lanka is filled with this curious species who seem to be on a lifelong mission to shock and surprise you on a daily basis. This particular specimen was met on a Sunday afternoon at a roadside ...
WHY is it that men are allowed to parade around with all their glorious fuzzy fur ablaze while us womenfolk have to trim, wax and shave off that natural protective layer that covers our skin??? WHY???? A question that has baffled me for ages, yet one that I haven't quite found a reply for. Whoever that introduced the notion of ...
2013 is almost at an end. Fire crackers are going off on all directions startling Frankie boy witless. There is festivity in the air nevertheles, Mother Dearest is all set with the little clay pot of milk to be boiled at midnight today. Tradition. Took the day off today, spent half the day on the balcony and half the ...
The year started with an extremely unpleasant surprise for us. Hubster woke up with a 105.4 fever Sunday a month back and we haven't slept, eaten or practically done anything properly since then. 7 days in the hospital out of which 4 days were in the ICU - days sped by in perpetual chaos, confusion, sadness, anxiety, pure terror ...
The Lady's head is quite muddled up. Red, yellow and fish rains, aliens, Sri Lanka coming on top of sex searches, brutal rapes, etc, etc, etc........it really is too much to wrap one's head around. The world is enraged over the rape of one girl. Suddenly, protest against rape, the safety of the womankind has become the in thing. The ...
Life has been whizzing past so rapidly for the past couple of weeks or so. I have been wandering around, eating, sleeping, working, zombie-like, hardly knowing what I am doing, hardly conscious of what needs to be done, apart from the daily dose of work that desperately awaits completion before the day is done. And today, I woke up, only ...
Decided to jot down some observations that I had made during my measly existence of 25 years. I shall now try to jot them down, trying to respect the age old commandment "Thou shalt not ramble" (which of course I never seem to respect). 1. Most new born babies are ugly. Yes I said it. They are like little spider ...
It's a booootiful morning in December and I simply can't get enough of it! I want to soak all of it up, slurp it all up through a straw, like it was the last milkshake on earth. Even sunlight seems happy :) Total and complete holiday mode on and it's only the first week of December. Well, who the ...
Sitting in the balcony letting the thoughts run awash. Its finally shining. Well barely. And hence the breezy thought provocation. The sky is strangely bland. Not a cloud in sight. It's strangely depressing, somewhat empty and stale. Its the kind of a decrepit stale you find in deserted colonial inns and empty hotel rooms that had just been vacated. Its ...
This is a long over due post and I'm putting it down today. Do I dare type away when I have million other things piling up on that horrendous to-do list of mine? Yes, I dooooooooo!! Anyways, walking down the streets in my neighborhood can be quite an experience. You'd think that half the male population in the country have ...
When Dinesh Ravindra Gunaratne (otherwise known as DRG), longtime friend, movie maker and fellow arts-enthusiast invited us for “Stranger in a Sari”, I literally rubbed my hands together and said “finally!” Having known this individual for quite a while as an incredibly gifted artistic soul with this sense of something (we have always interpreted as) just bursting to come ...
Facebook, the blogsphere, Tumblr, Twitter, all these social media platforms have been teeming with anti-Buddhist/anti-Sinhala rants in the recent past at an alarming rate. The blatant discrimination and the absurdity of their claims – all this has got me scratching my head in wonderment. Oh so being anti-Buddhism/ anti-Sinhalese is the trend now? It seems that the Sinhala Buddhists ...
Something that has always struck me and has begun striking me even more as of late – a woman may never be seen completely as a human being, an intellectual creature with the vices and virtues that exist in every human being. It would take an extraordinary human being, the kind that I haven't met yet to acknowledge a ...
