Author: LMAshton

Today was the last day at church for the Boise’s. They’re missionaries, an older couple (as in,…

After Crescat, we went to the Hilton Sports Club. Marlene has a pass – she pays monthly…

We wandered around Crescat, and it was basically a small collection of upscale stores. There were perhaps…

I also found cornflour. I was looking for cornstarch. Here, what is known in North America as…

I did, however, finally find ground cinnamon. I find this interesting – I live in the country…

It’s a shopping mall along the lines of Odel’s – geared toward the rich and the foreigners….

We watched a movie in the morning, and when it was done, we watched another, and after…

For the record, I am brilliant. They dried. They were sufficiently dry to use tonight. Yippee. And…

What I haven’t talked about yet are television advertisements. What I find very interesting is that, on…

Right. It’s now 2:15pm and the power just came back on. I ran out of battery power…

Not really. I started a load of laundry at around 7:15am. Fahim had already left for work…

Today, I finished watching the one season of Planet of the Apes. I started on what, Monday?…

Today, a mooing cow, accompanied by dogs barking, moved towards my house at a fairly good clip….

Mosquitoes have been up. Increasing. Drat. I’ve been getting bitten during the day lately. I hate it….

One thing I haven’t mentioned yet is that it’s been a lot cooler lately. I don’t watch…

His infoshare/groove thing has an official launch tonight, and Fahim’s supposed to speak at it, and apparently,…

There’s something I have to mention about Hindi movies. To start with, both on and off record,…

Fahim told me last night, after we watched two more episodes of 24, that he was going…

And this afternoon, I went to OSC, Overseas School of Colombo, to chat with Michelle for a…

For dinner tonight, Fahim wanted to make shrimp okra curry. I’ve only had okra once before –…

But it’s only unhealthy for me, of course. He wouldn’t have any obsession that was unhealthy for…

Fahim’s 24 didn’t entirely work. We started watching it yesterday, and it skipped on the DVD player….

Fahim and I went shopping at Majestic City today. Fahim has to get a laptop bag for…

There’s something very curious I’ve seen here. Occasionally, I’ll see a tree that has a fence, benches,…

After we left the Cancer Hospital, on the way back, Karu had his driver take us through…