Posted this first waaay back in 2010. Re-posting as a BIG hint to the Universe. Because I hate waiting.  Image by Melvin Sokolsky. Part of a the iconin ‘Bubble Series’ shot for the Harper’s Bazaar when he was just 21. For more images see here, or just google the man.  wait in silence mind storm blue sky, all around mind ...

I Looked At You - The Doors. My Song of The Day for the Day. 

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

This post was first published on Indi’s site months ago.  College has opened again after the December hols and I thought it appropriate to dig this up.                           S.Thomas’s College, Mount Lavinia has stood around in the same location for over a hundred years. Here’s what they should do ...

             Making of a Model is brand spanking new reality television series, currently broadcasting at 9pm Tuesdays on ART Television in Colombo. In it, 17 year old Shenelle, 18 year old Anita, and I, the oldest at 26, face a number of challenges intended to initiate us to the travails of the modern modelling industry, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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

Originally published on Groundviews, this is me, in response to US Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya’s denial of any rape, assault and violence against women in Sri Lanka:                                  Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the US, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, recently responded to the Crisis Group Report’s assertion that assault ...

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 ...

Re-blogged this from getstooobsessed. What a wonderfully, accepting, liberal way of bringing up kids. Kudos.  “Mommy, they are just like me.”  My oldest son is six years old and in love for the first time.  He is in love with Blaine from Glee.  For those who don’t know Blaine is a boy…a gay boy, the boyfriend of one of the ...

‘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!

Lay down your Arms,  I like the way you play Eye matches Eye, You, then I, we sway. 

I worked on another quick shoot with Kanchana Thalpawila’s brand KT Brown - the results of which are these. Great to report that I am getting less awkward in front of the camera and am, in these, visibly relaxed: Huzza! Photographer was the young and handsome Jonathan Berman, and of course, Jacquie Mei coordinated it all. 

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 ...

Look at what I stumbled on yesterday! This really really cool site that delivers personal messages to kids…from Santa! Just last year I was grumbling that Santa needed to get his act together and get himself an email address, and this year I found this. Given that current favorites - despite my protestations - are Twilight and the Walking Dead, I had given ...

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 ...

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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.