(Epic Fox Okami by Burmalloo) I had a strange dream this morning. In it, I was wandering around (Colombo I think) with my boyfriend and there was this fox that kept materializing everywhere I went. Materializing out the earth, materializing out thin air, out everything. At first I didn’t really care that it kept turning up - it didn’t do anything - ...

I was chatting to a friend. He was joking, but told me he wanted to put out an ad for a hot wife. “Hot Wife Wanted” it would read. I asked him if he would make any other specification. “36D” he replied.  It was funny.  What is funnier still is that the Sunday papers in Sri Lanka carry week in ...

image from the Non Communicable Disease Unit of the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition. Don’t ask me where they got it from!  Im studying at the Open University of Sri Lanka. Management, Economic, Human Geography and my favorite, History. Its alright. The textbooks take pages and pages to describe a simple concept, sometimes going round and round in circles - possibly because they ...

I love Freddie Mercury. Happy 65th Birthday! Im keeping you alive! Love the pants! 

Image from Be Inspire If your a girl in Sri Lanka, you know you can’t walk alone on the road without drawing attention. It doesn’t matter if you are fat, thin, round, pearshaped, pretty, pockmarked, fair, dark, ugly, have big boobs, have no boobs, have wide hips, have sharp hips. If your alone, your vulnerable.  I’ve tried but I’ve found that there ...

I just put this up as a profile pic on my Facebook page. The image represents two fundamental forces in the Universe that exist in perfect, indestructible union - Shiva and Shakti. I like the idea of attaining perfect balance. Nuff said. But here’s an interesting chat conversation that came up as a result of it. Hi. How r u Roel Hi Hi, ...

             Rubber trees at the entrance of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya. I was reading through Bitter Berry Bondage - an account of the lives of 19th century coffee workers in Ceylon by Donovan Moldrich the Coordinating Secretary for Plantation Areas in 1989, and learnt that the Royal Botanical Gardens was originally situated in Slave Island, Colombo ...

I did some work for Kanchana Thalapawila’s label K.T Brown recently. (website)All of Kanchana’s clothes are handmade at her Park Street warehouse shop using wonderful woven material supplied by traditional weavers and embroiderers who have been in the business for generation

On Field Action Seen this video yet? Its making the rounds on Facebook here in Colombo. Seems Gautam Ghambir and Ishant Sharma were caught smacking, grabbing and patting each others bottoms during what looks like the warm up for the 3rd Test between England and India. I only watch World Cup cricket so I don’t really know what match these ...

Ever heard of the Veranda Question? Centers on a tax imposed by the British Governor Campbell in Colombo in 1846 when he ordered that all verandas in Colombo be demolished, without compensation, or else. Old Man on the Veranda, Kolkata via huwowenthomas       It is said that these verandas, built by the Sinhalese and Burghers, encroached up to 6 - 10 ...

Hand, via Fazen I was reading through my history book, re: colonialism, the plantation economy and immigrant labor from South India to Sri Lanka when something interesting came to my attention.  It seems, due to a laissez-faire economic policy in effect at the time, there was no government involvement with the importation of ‘cheap and docile slave labor’ from ...

thara1: “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” Image courtesy Thareef of my brother Zd. 

A Grease Yakka madness has hit this island. I first heard of the phenomena when chatting to a girl tending to me at the salon. We were talking about how uniformly hard it is for women on the streets, she complaining about how hard it was to walk up the street to get the bus and I how hard it ...

‘Take Me Home Tonight’, from last night. Heard it playing in the background of some TV show and Googled the lyrics to find this. I’ve heard the music before, certainly, but don’t know no Eddie Money. Time to find out more!

  Enid Blyton’s books are, generally speaking, lighthearted, fun and adventurous. But one book she wrote, this, was the complete opposite. A child friendly (?@?@!!) version of the Pilgrims Progress, the book is a Christian allegory and for that reason alone scared the bejesus out of me as a child. The images were illustrated by Horace Knowles and were awesome ...

Growing up, my two most favorite Enid Blyton books were the Adventures of the Wishing Chair and The Faraway Tree. This is not to say that I didn’t enjoy her other books, just that these two had a profound impact on me and to date have a very special place in my heart. In fact, the Faraway Tree was the ...

Paddy’s real name is Padma. She is the cleaning lady where I work and I have always found cleaning ladies and their lives to be irresistible. I chat with them. Its something I haven’t been able to stop myself from doing; such is the curiosity, despite knowing that it will soon end with me receiving unsolicited advice on every visible aspect of ...

Just wrote an interesting post, laptop crashed and although Tumblr says ‘you have an unsaved post, retrieve it’ it isn’t there. WTF? Damn you Tumblr. 

[ cloud overview | get your own cloud ]This is a Tumblr Cloud I generated from my blog posts between Apr 2011 and Jul 2011 containing my top 20 used words.

   Google is always trying out new stuff. (Check out Google labs) Some flop, some don’t. Their latest attempt is to gain a share in the social media market hitherto dominated by Facebook and Twitter. Google+ is not officially out yet but you can catch a preview of it here. So far, I like what it looks like - simple interface, ...