Christmas went off quite well this year, despite a rather large disconnect on my part, right until the 24th of December. It was then that I finally ‘felt’ like Christmas, and to be honest this feeling - when it came - had more to do with friends, good food and copious amounts of wine than the birth of Jesus Christ. ...
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 have a zit. It is on my face. I have never had a zit on my face. I touched it and wondered if some insect had bitten me, but no, it is very definitely a zit. It’s a novel experience. It’s not an experience I want to repeat. I now know why girls, other girls, hate zits so much. ...
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 ...
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Kanchana Thalpawila was gracious enough to ask me to model yet another collection of clothes for her. ‘Orange Summer’ was designed especially for Cotton Collection and is the first from her brand KT Brown since moving store from Park Street Mews to No: 7, Coniston Place, Colombo 7 (lane alongside Wycherley International School). Make up was by Jacquie Mei and ...
How is it that concerned parents, activists and citizens of this island find it possible to hand over to a government incapable thus far of even acknowledging injustices to women, children and other marginalized sections of our society, the right to impose death as a penalty for crime? Do ...
Wrote this (brief) essay on the implications of the proposed amendments to the Press Council Law of Sri Lanka. (please don’t ask me where this image is from) At last week’s (5 July) media briefing on Cabinet ...
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, ...
St. Thomas’s College, Mount Lavinia has stood around in the same location for over a hundred years. Heres what they should do next. boys, its time to get moving Draw up a traffic plan ...
No matter how far I stray from you, I come back to you. And you’ll stand in front me on your day of birth, and offer to shake my hand with your blessed right hand, as peers.. And you’ll accept that I won’t kiss your hand, or bow to you, But offer my hand to shake yours, And you ...
Written originally for Ceylon Today. Kris Jenner, the mother of Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall and Kylie, came under considerable attack in a largely liberal USA, for revealing on Fox Television her decision to put all of her daughters on birth control ‘as soon as they expressed sexual curiosity.’ Jenner defended her unconventional method ...
Kanchana Thalpawila was gracious enough to ask me to model yet another collection of clothes for her. ‘Orange Summer’ was designed especially for Cotton Collection and is the first from her brand KT Brown since moving store from Park Street Mews to No: 7, Coniston Place, Colombo 7 (lane alongside Wycherley International School). Make up was by Jacquie Mei and ...
Viral campaign Kony 2012 hit the online shores of Colombo late last evening. As expected it has been duly shared and re-shared by civic conscious netizens. That was last night. By this evening, Colombo’s youth intelligentsia has declared war on Kony 2012. I find this deeply disturbing on multiple levels. For one, ...
