Off on a Tangent ~ හිතුමතේ හී සර

This is my last night at home for a long time to come. One last time to listen to the wind rustling the huge Bo tree infront of our house...One last time to watch the crafty kingfisher catch a little fish in the lotus pond in the backyard. One last time to sit at Ammi's feet and have her oil my hair... Yes - I am leaving home - and high time too I think! Enough of being spoilt at home and being a pain to my uncomplaining parents! :D Even though I have dreamed of this day, it still feels surreal. Can this be happening? Part of me wants to break away, and have my own adventure - on my own terms. The other part of me wants to lock myself in my room and hide in my own little world. As the wise and omnipotent Tintin once said (in Blue Lotus I think) - there is a rainbow in my heart today. Rain falls because I am leaving the two people that I love most in the world for a long time - and yet the Sun shines because I'm about to pursue my dream in a new land. To cut a long story short -...

l finally resolved my accommodation problem today! Well, sort of. Thing is, I've been searching for a room/flat/townhouse in Melbourne. I'm going there to do my post grad research studies at La Trobe uni in a few days. So I finally found something I liked on the web - and knowing as internet content cannot fully be trusted, asked an auntie of mine there to check it out. So we talked today and apparently the room is quite nice. Its quite affordable most importantly, walking distance to uni, and its in a main road so I can take the bus quite easily. And its furnished and the rent includes bills as well. Yeah so a Yay! moment for me! Been having quite a few such moments this year - starting from the day I received news of my scholarship :) I've opted to share with a roommate, so now the only problem I have is what kind of roommate I might get. Hmm... I mean I don't want a roommate from hell. Currently there is noone else for that room, so I get to have it all to myself u...

ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව කිව්ව ගමන් මතක් වෙන්නෙ කැන්ගරුන් ව. ලංකාවෙ අපිට නං කැන්ගරුවො දැකගන්න වෙන්නෙ සත්තු වත්තට ගියොත් විතරනෙ. හැබැයි ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවෙ නම් ටිකක් නගරෙන් පිට ගියොත් පාර අයිනෙ කැන්ගරුවො පැන පැන යනව පේනව. සමහර වෙලාවට අධිවේගී මාර්ග අයිනෙ වාහන වලට හැපිල උන් මැරිලත් ඉන්නවා. ඉතින් මේ සටහන මම ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවෙදි ගිය එළිමහන් සත්තු වත්තක හිටිය කැන්ගරු පවුලකට වෙච්චි දෙයක් ගැනයි. එළිමහන් කිව්වෙ, මේකෙ සත්තු කූඩු කරලම නැහැ. වැටවල් ගහලා ටිකක් ස්වභාවිකත්වයට ළං වෙන්න තියන තැනක්. සමහර සතුන් අල්ලන්න, කෑම දෙන්න එහෙම පුලුවන්. එක තැනක් තිබුනා - එතන කැන්ගරුවො එක්කල හිටිය 'එමු' කියල මහ විසාල කුරුල්ලො ජාතියකුත්. අනේ කැන්ගරුල නම් හරි අහිංසක පාටට හිටිය. අර කුරුල්ලො නම් මහ නාහෙට අහ්න්නෙ නැති උන් ටිකක වගෙයි. පහළ පිංතූර ටික බැලුවොත් පෙනෙයි මට එහෙම හිතුනෙ ඇයි කියල... මුලින් අපි ගියේ කැන්ගරු අම්ම ගාවට...චූටි පැටියටත් කෑම දුන්නට ඌ තාම කිරි බොන වයසෙද කොහෙද නිසා අම්ම විතරයි කෑවෙ. මේ තමයි කැන්ගරු තාත්තා. එයා ටිකකින් කෑම එක අත් (කකුල්?) දෙකෙන්ම අරන් කන්න ගත්තා. ඔන්න බලන්න දුෂ්ට එමූ කරන වැඩේ! පව් අසරණ කැන්ගරු :( එම...

I've been taking long drives a lot lately, and listening to my cousins ipod and one of the things that you can do to fight falling asleep at night when driving is to have long discussions on what the current track means. :D So the number one song that we've been listening to a lot - and singing along too is American Pie by Don McLean : 'Now for ten years we've been on our own And moss grows fat on a rollin stone, But thats not how it used to be. When the jester sang for the king and queen, In a coat he borrowed from james dean And a voice that came from you and me, Oh, and while the king was looking down, The jester stole his thorny crown. The courtroom was adjourned; No verdict was returned. And while lennon read a book of marx, The quartet practiced in the park, And we sang dirges in the dark The day the music died.' The original one - not the poppfiyed one by Maddona. Its a great song to sing along to - that is until you start wondering what the hell he's ta...

Flight to Sydney from Melbourne was to be at 8.30 pm yesterday. After a scalding hot day I was really really tired and wanted to get on the plane and be in a nice soft bed in Sydney by 11. Huh so not to be :( See Aussie weather is really freakish. One minute is 40 degrees and then you get flash flooding and storms the next few hours. So the weather god up in Sydney must have thought to have some fun (at our expense) and decided on a storm yesterday night. Which meant that all flights got cancelled. Oh yeah, did I mention that we were flying budget airlines? Which means that if your flight got cancelled - you're screwed. You dont get accommodation or food until the next flight. So yesterday evening, at about 6pm, we walk to the check in counter carrying all these heavy bags - tired, shoulders aching. And theres this looong queue which we join. Then theres this guy from the airline who starts yelling 'Going to Sydney? Going to Sydney? your flight's been cancelled' All aro...

And I think you should too. I will not tell you whom to vote for. That is entirely upto you. But please, vote for someone. As for myself, I am someone who have only voted once before – and I am 26. What with all that horrible ink stain that refuses to go away for days, and the fact that I had no real interest, and felt no sense of responsibility nor connection with politics put me off the whole voting thing. But you see, I have realized that we can't just wipe our hands off our responsibility of voting in a president. Yes, the way I see it, it is not just our constitutional right, but also our responsibility. I've heard somewhere that people get the leaders they deserve. So what if you don't care much for any of the candidates? There is always a choice and you have to make one. Fact is, we have to work with what we've got. If you feel like something should change, vote for the person who you believe will make that change. If you feel something should stay the same, vo...

Another year gone! Where do the days go huh? Seriously is it just me or does anyone else been subject to extreme time loss as well? Hmm maybe Mulder's conspiracy theory was right all along! So these are the last few days of 2009... What have I been doing? Hmm lets see... Week started on Sunday with me and my friends tuning on to the Avatar hype - we really wanted to see it last Sunday but we had to postpone it because we couldn't get tickets on short notice. Monday saw me dragging myself off to work. Really its such a crime when you have to work in the last week of December :( What with the whole festive mood and all. And almost everyone goes on leave that the office is so deserted! Nothing is as depressing during office hours as being surrounded by empty desks and blank screens - serving as constant reminders to you that somewhere, someone is frolicking in the golden sands of Trinco/ living it up in Bangkok/ Sleeping till noon while , YOU are NOT. On Tuesday I made a startli...