Humanities for Dummies

I suppose it’s strange that Sash (who shall henceforth be known as Zissou on account of a private joke) and I, have our profound conversations on life, growing up, university, jobs, film and everything else between peppered with scrabble moves, each weekday morning (well pre-class in the morning for me in any case, for her [...]

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So Little Time!

Soc Anth Essay, Soc Anth Project, Slide Test (A flippin’ 140 odd paintings, sculptures, furniture and buildings!), exams, a generally uneventful but not completely non-existent life! So much to do, so little time!

Shamelessly copied off one of Goya’s Los Caprichos called “The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters” or “An Allegory of Stress” as I like [...]

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The Click That Decides All

I’ve been talking about my degree change dilemma for months now (to art history or not art history that is the question) So much talk and so little action, I think I was starting to sound like a politician. The unpredictability was tinged with a nail-biting anxiety which was getting too difficult to handle and [...]

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Lost in Translation

Not about the movie (I disliked it quite a lot along with Marie Antoinette but I liked The Virgin Suicides which you should watch given the opportunity- I had a Sofia Coppola train of thought going on there in case you failed to see the point of the ramble)
As I mentioned, the Soc Anth department [...]

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A New Year Wish

The build up to Sinhalese/ Tamil New Year consists of some of my most precious, colourful childhood memories. School holidays would have started, as would have the koha with its constant call and the monkeys raiding the mango trees. My athamma would have started the kavili preparations always consulting me on what I [...]

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The Art of Polite Refusal?

I’ve been to 2 schools from kindergarten to IB. The schools were poles apart in form, attitudes and sensibilities and I love them both for very different reasons- reasons which are as divergent as the schools themselves. I was in one school from 1991-2004 (pretty much most of my life from play school onwards) [...]

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The Avurudu Kavili Epic: How NOT to Make Kavum

The two St. Andrean Sri Lankans on spring break, got talking about Avurudu (Sri Lankan New Year) and decided that it was only appropriate that we make an attempt at making a couple of kinds of Kavili (sweet meats as they are called. Usually made with rice flour/treacle/and lots of sugar) So Kavum and Aluwa [...]

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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

Spring break’s vanishing into a cloud of about 18 dvds, happy teas , pleasant dinners and the great Avurudu experiment of 08 (which deserves a post of its own as soon as I get around to uploading the pictures on how NOT to make kavum) , rain, some rare nearly tropical sun and flurry [...]

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Sri Lankan Cooking à la St. Andrews

I’m on spring break at the moment and I’m doing what i do best- happily vegetate in front of my computer and catch up on that 250 odd film list of mine (making good progress might I add?) and doing un petit-peu de cooking as well.
I didn’t cook at all (except maybe the [...]

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