What Have I Done
I’m reluctant to encourage this tagging thing, but I have nothing else to write today. So this is Christmas, and what have I done. Was tagged by Blacker and Whackster. This year I had (and was fully absorbed by) a square job. I wasn’t that happy for a while, and the corporate life kinda sucked the life out of everything else I was doing, and was actually good at. However, in the last few months things have changed a lot and I think I can do more work that I love. By all objective measures, however, I think this has been a bad year, though I do feel like a marginally better person.
My first real memory of this year was walking into office on January 1st (for kiribath) and getting a text alert that the Tamil politician Maheshwaran had been killed in kovil. Which was an immediate downer. And the government pulled out of the cease-fire on the 3rd. And it’s been that kinda year. I have less (inflation-adjusted) money, (alcohol-adjusted) friends, and time. There are also significantly more spirits in the material world, and a lot more injustice floating around like smog. However, crisis is an opportunity to make changes you couldn’t make before, and I’m trying to take that. I think my personal life is OK, I don’t get in random drunken trouble all the time and I’m generally nice and supportive to the people around me. I’m pretty good with kids, attentive to elders and I treat women with respect, unless I’m flirting, and even then.
My personal life fell apart last year in the midst of a bad break-up and now I think it’s back together. I have fewer friends, but they’re more solid. I don’t go out as much, but so what. Now my working life is teetering, but it’s also given me opportunity to do stuff that was impossible before because of entrenched interests. Now it’s crisis and it’s possible to make fundamental changes. I’ve also slowly started reconciling what I want to do with my life to the ways the world works. God willing, that will be productive.
Anyways, this is some stuff I’ve done
General
Work
Personal
This is highly dubious. Miss Travel is a travel/social networking site that connects ‘Generous’ and ‘Attractive’ travelers. To, like, travel together, I guess. It all seems a bit like arranged prostitution and trafficking. This is part of a broader online trend to connect rich men to younger, attractive women. Sites like 
Sri Lankan domestics never say anything, they just stop coming. My maid just stopped coming and when I finally pressed her she said I needed to get a washing machine. I was hoping to ride this one out, but I’ve run out of underwear and I have no choice. I finally caved and bought a washing machine, from 
There’s nothing wrong with pornography, but there’s a lot wrong with porn. Nothing wrong with watching people have sex, but too often that sex is brutal, senseless and coerced. I mean how many couples are coming on each others faces every day? Hence, philosopher king Alain de Botton – after calling for a 
Sri Lanka is going to start offer 
stopped thinking with dick?
That’s the BEST one I read so far.. do spread it around…:)
good for ya! wish I had an award to give you right now!!:D
Stopped wearing ties! I always wondered how people wore suits in SL. Even a tee was too much for me! I am a constant sweat fountain when ever I am over there. (soon I will be)
Thanks goes for sharing!
Good on you mate! yeah the work life is teetering on the balance a bit.. lets see what happens eh. cheers