Time ran out at mid night on my 28th b’day. It’s the first of many days to come. I am hopeful and will embrace life as it comes. Life is about me, and not about what others do who surround me. Experiences are earned, and will help me guide the way, not to trip and fall again, and again, and ...
(C) Creative Commons The Security Council of the UN held its 7631st meeting, and its first session for the year 2015 on 19th January 2015. Addressing the session, Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon highlighted the need for inclusive development and stressed on the importance of 2015, which is a key year for key global issues that relate to ...
When your phone battery dies on you, and the hotel decides not to have internet, you know you are on your own for a while. Life gets pretty simplistic, and then thoughts start to flow, which is not disrupted by a chat message you have the urgency of sending had you been elsewhere, with happy access to technology. Here you ...
We come to a truce, he doesn’t say crude jokes for a week, or add stupid sexual innuendos for a week, I go out with him for drinks. Well nothing to bet on there, I think, since the man has a tendency to say something or other of that nature every ten minutes, even when he is supposed to be ...
Arumoham is 62 years old. A grand mother, she is separated from her husband and lives with her daughter who is a widow, and a mother of three children. Arumoham is the bread-winner in this family of four. I met her during my visit to Wakarei. She is a working woman, a farmer and a fisher-woman who works to ...
(Photo courtesy wikipedia) Recently a video which was shared by a Sri Lankan on his Facebook managed to grab a lot of attention. Why? Many reasons. One probably being that some people liked watching cruelty to animals, the other due to a petition which was launched against the video, requesting that the man be punished for cruelty he inflicted ...
Written by Kaushalya Premachandra “Traditional knowledge is an important part of Sri Lankan culture and identity. Today, it has also been identified as a source of valuable information, which can be used for innovation and economic gain.” says Naazima Kamardeen, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. The idea of traditional knowledge can be drawn from different facets ...
I walk away For all the words you did not say Would not say I would not expect you to say, I walk away For all those moments You would not offer me Not be able to offer me Or even think of offering me, I walk away Yonder, To sanity A heaven For myself, Where I be Just, Me.
Throughout history, natural resources have been the cause of many conflicts. While scarcity of resources such as water has been the cause of conflict among communities for the remaining water supply, the abundance of expensive resources such as diamonds has also been a cause of conflict in countries such as Sierra Leone, Congo, Liberia, and Angola which have experienced decades ...
Maie had finally decided it was time he sang for me, and decides to pick “With or without you” among a few he was humming for the day. I remember the post-it on a table with a note-to-self, written by a certain someone, in which he reminded himself to learn the chords of the song. Life had changed, and I ...
In a recent study done by Frances Moore and Delavane Diaz of Stanford University which focuses on climate ‘damage functions’ point to stronger impacts on the world’s poor that will be caused by climate change, than predicted before. In a world divided as rich and poor, the study provides that while rich economies will grow well in a warmer world, ...
Pope Francis has successfully grabbed the attention of many irrespective of religion. From speaking on gay rights, and being cited by President Barack Obama as a key player in improving the international relations between Cuba and the USA, the Pope seems to have made the impossible possible. His next step? A call of mobilise for climate change. At a meeting ...
It’s good when you can be yourself with your partner. Something rare I suppose since we make that extra effort to make believe to another that we are something else, or we try to change for the other party. But for a change, it is good to be myself with him. He understands, he laughs, and he accepts. He makes ...
You know you have walked into the wrong place when you walk in and find the man-you-did-not-date right in front of you. Thanks to the caipirinha a few minutes before, you tap on his shoulder, and say “hi”, without thinking too much, to receive a “oh hi!” in a surprised tone. I move to the back of the hall from ...
I told him I will write of him, the evening and the rest of it, and he tells me I should send him the link. I might, out of sheer bitchiness. I could be that, when someone deserves it, or plays the ultimate jerk trying to outdo himself in achieving the height of self-centric behaviour. I have known this specimen ...
I start typing knowing that I need to finish typing in ten minutes, and get this uploaded in fifteen before I pack and leave. It’s Sunday, apparently Mother’s Day, and the day usually people do not work. I have taken a two-day break to work (of course the weekend). Yes, you heard it right, to work! Anyone who knows me ...
It was one of those days I walked in slightly drunk, smelling a bit of tobacco, to find my parents waiting for me to interpret a deed for them. The usual story, shift from my “fine I shall move on” mood to, “let me interpret this shit for you” mood. Two cocktails never did anything much to me, never will ...
I tell him I need to move on to get off the roller coaster not be that person around only when he needed. I needed to love another, to gather my life its bits and pieces to find my way to move away. He asks: “So, I shouldn’t have said good morning?” (c) Creative Commons
It’s one of those days that work gets in the way and emotions have got side-tracked. Aiden tries to be understanding, but more like be supportive to the limit he wants to lock himself in the room and then keep working on his thesis (a way of showing understanding but slightly overwhelming at times.) I try to be close to ...
(c) creative commons Sometimes you know it’s that moment, from where there is no return. You have known this for a while but you wait for that incident which justifies what you do in the end, so that you won’t feel that you gave up too soon, you did not try enough, or things could have been different. Then things ...
