Dear Bodu Bala Sena, Over the past few months I’ve come to notice that you seem to dislike Halal meat. Perhaps you dined at a Halal restaurant and found the meat gamey. I can assure you though, that Halal meat is not too different from any other meat. What makes meat Halal is merely in the way the animal ...
pic credit- Colombo Gazette And now the Jaffna office has been burnt down. The Government has been quick state this was a malicious act conducted by Uthayan to frame the government. Sure, Uthayan Newspapers which has been around since 1985– and which has continued to publish their paper even though they’ve been attacked, and journalists and staff killed– would set ...
To my right a man is hauled off by the police. He tries to resist but it’s futile as four policemen load him into a police jeep and drive off. I’m snapping away as the jeep speeds off into the distance, when a voice behind me asks, ‘what just happened?’ I explain to the man in a brown t-shirt, that ...
Notice how the head of my DP is in the clouds? Get it? No? *deflates* Spent a while on Facebook browsing through friends’ profiles in search of creative cover photos. I was a bit disappointment I didn’t come across any; except for @Rushda_’s cover– her’s was cool. From what I did notice, about 90% of the cover photos I ...
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 ...
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 ...
I have a proposal to all those who drive in Sri Lanka. It’s a protest of sorts against a menace that has killed a few, left some severely injured, damaged vehicles and property, and angered even those who don’t drive. I’m writing about the army and police convoys that clear the streets for ministers, who seem to be in ...
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 [...]
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 ...
Photo credit- Tai Hsin Shiek (Snapped and Framed) I am bruised and battered after taking part in the Colombo Fun Ride—organized by the Pedal Pushers. Not because I’m inept in riding a bicycle but because a *feral little girl charged her tricycle right into my push bike at the Colombo University turn off. She was cackling the whole time. Yes, ...
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
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 ...
Sex slavery sounds like something out of the Middle Ages. When women were examined, bargained and sold like meat or any other commodity for that matter. While you won’t see that happen so flagrantly today; it’s nonetheless rampant. It’s happens here in Sri Lanka in fact. Except it’s called ‘prostitution’; or to make it more acceptable and vapid it’s ...
…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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
’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 ...
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 ...
