After my family moved to Fiji in 1977, we were introduced to many food preparations that I had never experienced before. Due to the ethnic diversity in Fiji there was a whole array of diverse dishes.From the Fiji Indian community, there were the delicious Indian rotis (chapatis) which are the Indian flat breads, being the main food of the Indian ...
Although I am not Christian, I love Christmas. I have many memories from Christmases past. I have always loved the pageantry associated with Christmas from when I was a small child. It is a season of joy and celebration. A time for cooking and enjoying good food, community and decorating. The Christmas season encompasses all these plus it has such ...
Okay, I ended up doing nothing this past Halloween, having dressed up for the past four years in a row.Since I might cause a stampede if I posted pics of me dressed up as an adult. I thought the next best alternative ...
I'm sorry for the state of my latest blog posting entitled 'My Garden- a story told in Flowers'.I hit the publish key by mistake and it was published in an unedited state.I am working on correcting it right now and hope to get the final version downloaded asap. ...
Why I love GardeningIt is exciting to plant a rose cutting or sow some seeds in the ground and wait for them to take root and sprout leaves. It is even more exciting to see them bloom for the first time. Most locales in Sri Lanka are blessed with abundant rain which allows gardens to flourish in no time. I ...
Hi Everyone, I've been busy with 'real life' and away from my blog for a few weeks, hope to blog something before the month is up! Not that what I blog about is not real life :) Hope no bloggers take offense to that!Just got the news that there was a Kottu blogger meetup? How did that go? Would love ...
Just a note: I've added some pictures to some of my older postings. Unfortunately, I'm posting the pics a little late. Please click on the links below for the pics, and also be sure to click on the pics themselves for a clearer view: from USA to Sri Lanka-1970 my childhood in sri lanka in the seventies my childhood attraction ...
Coming from Sri Lanka to Fiji in the mid seventies I found it was like a different world. There were many things that were new to me. Differences ran across the board from food, the house we lived in, roads, stores, school, clothes, language and the culture.The first thing I noticed was the food. Our Dad was eagerly waiting to ...
Just a few months before my tenth birthday, my younger brother, myself and my Mom left Sri Lanka to join our Dad who had taken up a new job at a university in the Fiji Islands.We left Sri Lanka in December soon ...
(I wrote most of this blog posting in June 2009 after my father died. It is now October 2011, over two years since he passed away. The feelings of hopelessness have now gone away and I have now come to accept the fact that he is now gone.However, whenever I see something that reminds me of my father, like his ...
