Those are my (rather rushed) contributions to the photography campaign against gender based violence by Beyond Borders. That campaign in turn is a contribution to the Women and Media Collective‘s (WMC)16 day online campaign for the said cause. WMC’s campaign has been quite inspiring with submissions of poetry, write ups and photography being contributed to the cause. Beyond Borders ...
You sure wouldn't want to be this tree.. When CNN concentrates wholly on little ol’ Sri Lanka during the weather report– there’s reason for concern. Don’t head to the hills though; plenty of landslides predicted. The forecast is that the following days, apart from the landslides, we will experience a terror of stormy weather; heavy rain, floods and lightning- that ...
…but pretty decent for beach bumming! I popped over to Wadduwa on Saturday for some beach bumming (because Colombo beaches are teeming with large noisy families and drunk people). And I must say, Wadduwa should have an attached ‘parental advisory’ warning. But I’ll get to that in a bit. First off, getting there. At 9.30am, Aamina, her cousin- Sarah and ...
I R teh angreh NERD by =Heller45 on deviantART I’m a bit behind with this post because it’s in response to the flurry of opinions about the awkward-phase of every generation being teenybopper-ish; that Himal, Jerry, Tulie and Halik blogged about last week. I found them rather unfair. I get what you mean that each generation is equally bad but ...
Of course, I hadn’t committed any terrible offence. It was just that one of the headlights of my car was busted; visibility was barely relatively all right. So around 11pm driving back from Act Before You Think, on a poorly lit and deserted road, I was stopped by some traffic cops. So far I’ve been able to talk my way ...
The Chinese prostitutes aren’t going to like it much. Neither will the paedophiles and the beach boys; which all together makes scrapping off the visa on arrival policy a good move by the government of Sri Lanka, I’d say. Starting today Sri Lanka will no longer be issuing ...
Proposal- such an unglamourous word. It’s got none of the quixotic trappings of falling in love and living happily ever after. The whole process of a marriage proposal is clinical. First you and the potential-other is sized up- what you do for living, what your family background is, any black marks ...
There’s a fine line between adventure and plain stupidity; my last hike to World’s End was a tightrope walk on just that line. Yeah, that’ll teach me to be impulsive. Though, with luck on my side, I managed to get home alive. My Indian friend had a week left in Sri Lanka and she was [...]
Whenever my aunt comes down to Sri Lanka she usually brings my sisters and me Kebayas. And each time, we stuff it somewhere deep in our closets and fervently hope she won’t asks us to wear them to some function while she’s here. This however, is her loving and yet futile attempt to get us [...]
Well, at least I was told it was haunted. Much to my disappointment I didn’t notice any paranormal activity while I moseyed through the corridors of the Maduwanvala walauvwa last week. Though to be fair it did have an air of eeriness about it; which is why I’d recommend checking ...
And as expected the government’s released a rebuttal video to the Channel 4 documentary. ‘Lies Agreed Upon’ is the title of the video, and going by the looks of it the government was a bit cheap in making the hour long (58 mins) documentary. Whoever they hired did a shoddy ...
and Sri Lanka needs a better amusement park. We drew this conclusion on a typical Sunday evening of having nothing to do in Colombo. We’d played a few games of pool and visited one of the many coffee joints mushrooming in the Capital. Strapped for stuff to do, we lingered outside the coffee shop for a while asking that confounded ...
Guess which blogger this is… Clue: He’s a bit of a smarty pants. Filed under: All Things Arty, Friends, Sketches Tagged: Caricature, Cartoon, Face, Profile, Sketch
Okay… so this one isn’t too cartoony and you might not spot the non-human bit because somehow it’s un-spottable. It’s a bit rushed and messy but this is revenge for mocking and teasing me yesterday! Any guesses as to who this may be?
’bout time I posted something on this blog, wouldn’t you say? And so I will tell you about my purple hair. It’s purple. A shiny plum purple. And I love it! I love that I’m making people stop dead in their tracks and stare in stunned silence at my purple head. I had braced myself for all sorts of unnecessary ...
Dang! I’ve lost count. Oh well. Try to guess who this blogger is… Clue; she’s come for two Open Mics and she gave Nibras Bawa a grand virtual whopping! Any guesses? All right, so most of my previous posts have been of sketches or paintings, but hey art is therapeutic, ...
Taking a break from studying I did a few watercolour paintings. I’m generally inclined to cartoony drawings, but this time I tried not to exaggerate the animals (though I was tempted to). It’s always good to move out of your comfort zone, yes? Anyway, since I haven’t got a scanner, I took photographs of them off my cam so they ...
