Lights... Camera... Action!

The Kandy trip went well; all in all. Prefer travelling in the nights so I can imagine a night safari through an African jungle! (Except for the fact that reading “Routes” and “Queen” really put me off about Africa). I used to maintain a personal journal ever since I was six. There’s a huge dust borne collection of mine somewhere. It brings back my whole life when I read through them. Laughing at my own weird experiences as I relive them through the pages of a book. Blogging is kinda ruining (or may be improving) that for me little by little. Told the students to do the same about the journal. It helps a lot. It helps to get rid of those inner feelings that really aren’t worth telling anyone about. It helps to be 100% honest and truthful. It helps to build character and improve communication skills like spelling, grammar and style. As you go on there are more benefits that one may realize that come from a lifeless soul mate. Most of all it helps to relieve yourself and to make time for what we call leisure. Not many things to do during leisure in the modern world. Less leisure time, in the first place. Transport has increased in its speed as hours have decreased in their duration. This makes me recall a childhood essay on “How I spend my leisure time”. In it I expressed about a million things that I would like to be doing. Also, told some students and friends to write up vision and mission statements for themselves. After all, you can’t learn how to manage a business if you can’t learn how to manage yourself.

Being the practical minded person I am, it is amazing the number of crazy people I know. Here are some of the very creative vision and mission statements that they managed to come up with.

Vision – To be the most looked up upon person
Mission – To do all working out necessary to get tall.

Vision – To be perfect
Mission – To learn from mistakes and to never repeat them

Vision – To marry the cutest guy to ever walk the surface of the earth
Mission – To find him

Vision – To become a scientist cum mathematician
Mission – To learn to be a good dancer

Vision – Can’t think of one
Mission – Cant think of that either

Vision – To educate and make wise other people
Mission – To be educated and wise, myself

Vision – To make Pizza in a very unique recipe so that you don’t get the bread at the bottom and the crust around it.
Mission – To learn cookery

Vision – To be the best a man can ever be
Mission – To go to college… Btw which college teachers that?
And believe me, they sounded quite serious about it. I’ve been typing this at the break of dawn and I can just hear my alarm going off. Oh dear, I have the ironing to do… C ya!

So there's going to be another one of those Kandy visits today. It's not Kandy that I dislike but the part of having to travel there. Why do loved ones have to be dispersed all over? and why===== do the darn roads have to be so bumpy and squashy? Ayyo, it's really terrible. And I can’t even sleep while travelling because of my fat brothers.
Anyway life goes on and I guess we can’t really make all our decisions on our own. And oh today I saw that accident near Reid Avenue in front of Royal. It was bad. You hardly get to see a mega thing like that in Colombo. The trishaw looked like spilt ice cream. It didn’t strike me to take a picture. Gumz says it should be a warning to those travelling by three-wheelers. But we actually don’t have many transport alternatives here, do we? Be careful people when you drive. Last year I lost a bunch of friends in a car crash. I hate recalling the moment. Life is too precious to waste!

Change is inevitable whether one accepts it or not...

Sometimes I wonder what the point is in trying to understand the environment around us. Why we try so hard. It certainly is not worth wondering if we know that there will come a point that the answers will not be known. Some things are beyond the comprehension of man and must just be accepted at that. However the human mind is one which is certainly difficult to control and virtually impossible to understand! Ta da!

Awaiting destruction

I love Poya days especially when they come in the middle of a tough week. Too much to do, too little time to plan. Underneath it all - the pressure and the pain, there comes some time that you can just spend on yourself. Discovering the true meaning and the senselessness in the matters that great scholars have come up with. Oil prices have risen and smoke has filled the air. The human race will soon perish and we shall face nothingness. We innocent human beings are the helpless observers of a terrible nightmare; not to mention the part of contributing towards and catalysing the inevitable process…

I wish...

So I'm finally getting around to doing something that I really really enjoy. There's not much of rush unlike in other places.
However, laziness is the worst thing one can feel. I'm always planning of things to be done in my head... but then oh God why is it so easy to plan and so difficulty to do? I dont understand what the whole point of planning is if you cant get it done. I wish I wish I wish I didn't have to feel lazy last night. I could have got half the stuff out of my to do list.

About APIIT…

Quiet…

Very Quiet…

A little noise

And Bang! - A blast of human voices and doors

The Team!
Mr. P – buried in machinery
Mr. G – too heavy for the lifts. Walks like on water...
Mr. R – Loves to argue. Always been very friendly under it all.
Mr. B – Never go for lunch with him.
Mr. S – Very quiet and looks the kindest
Mr. I - Somebody help me with this.
Dr. M – speaks only when absolutely necessary – very wise. Opinion counts to all
Ms. Z – Fast observer, questioning listener
Ms. K – Very sweet smile
Mr. M – Highly likeable character with amusing informality in the usage of language
Ms. F - Always in bright colours
Dr. B - Nice companion for tea
Dr. G - Interesting accent.