Full Photo Gallery (32 photos). Thanks to Klaes’s parents
Anu graduated from high school yesterday. I’m super proud of her. Anu and Subu are all the things I’ve always wanted to be – smart, beautiful, and popular. They’re also responsible adults, so much that they’re in charge when my parents go out of town. But this is about Anu. Anu was Valedictorian, but I’m more happy that she’s an interesting person. Her speech was lucid and actually taught me anything about the Overseas School. It also made me tingly. It’s weird seeing my little sister and all grown up and respectable-like. It was a really nice ceremony. Everybody knows each other and it was sweet seeing the parents with their kids. Unfortunately their kids are all dumber than my sister. They’re all really bright kids.
After the ceremony, which included Ms. Swinly Perera on piano, everyone went out to the lobby. Anu has a painting displayed there. The Principal type said this would starting a tradition of displaying one piece of art from each class. The catered food was really good and I ate like 7 sandwiches. Chuti and Punchi and Achchi and Seeya and everybody came, which was nice. Also Anju Akki and Arjun Ayya. Amma said she felt relieved to get one more out the door in one piece, though there has been one return-to-sender so far. Had too much champagne and fell asleep on the couch when we went home to change.
Afterwards we went to dinner at the Mount Lavinia Hotel, which was nice. Achchi told me stories about Thatha when he was a ‘red-hot leftist’. He says he’s still a radical, it’s just that the left has gotten conservative. Amma and Tha had to leave to go to San Diego but I think it’s important to thank them (a lot). They’ve produced a bunch or creative and well-adjusted human beings, which is no small feat. I also feel this weird Clockwork-Orange like physical aversion to most immoral behavior, which I think is them again. Amma likes to say that she’s conditioned us and that the stuff that isn’t working now (recycling for me) is just on timed release. The girls are already responsible though. Keep studying Anu, I’ll need a place to stay once the parents kick me out.
Out of us three, Anu is the most creative. She’s been drawing since she was a kid. When we were in Columbus one of her paintings got picked for the Phone Book, so I lots of people in the CO saw it. She also made a giant paper-mache elephant and a giant paper mache-hand, now in the living room. I am occasionally tempted to sit in it, but I know that won’t work. More than anything I like hanging out with her and Subu, which is, in my opinion, a better test of character than any resume lines. So, I’m proud of my sister. Congrats.
Anu, seen from behind Achchi and Seeya
Anu and Subu
Closest we’ve got to a non-ridiculous family photo in years
parents looking out the picture window, Overseas School Colombo
Congrats Anu =) I met her as soon as i joined the paper but I don’t think she’d remember me … heh …. but she left like 2 weeks afterwards.
Really sweet post Indi =)
this is probably not the point, but how/why are *all* the kids in this family so damn good looking?!
indi (no hitting on intended) what was all that bullshit about you looking average?
def average. I just don’t post bad pictures of myself. The girls are beautiful.
blah blah blah. :p
Indi, are you confessing to pimping yourself?
damn it, my Achichi is here. Why? [achichi is actually spelled ‘achchi’. Typo]
sigh..you’re good at taking photographs..when i take pics i usually end up with the head and neck of the person and a very extensive background. I once took pics of a leopard in Yala that was about 12 feet away from the jeep, the snaps were so bad that i had to circle the leopard so that ppl could see it! (i think a zooming function would also be a cunning investment).
P.s. the guy in the blue shirt has a classic expression on his face! It’s the face i make when i see the bill.
What’s an Achichi?
Isn’t that the dad?
I mean not the Achichi, the guy in the blue shirt.
Hi indi..
Im not gay.. but I think you are quite good looking..
but i have a question for abt father..
1) did he graduated from any Uni in sri lanka ? Im such a admirer of him. love what he did to Telecommunication systems in here.. guy is a hero in our mind..
Im asking this cuz i have thing about peoples biographies…
just want to know whether he went to uni in here & what subject je graduated on….
plz plz can you find this & putup…
thanX..
Dude you sound like a stalker…
Indi, if I were you…hmmm…
No Indi you’re right.
all right, i think I’ll open a seperate ‘what does indi look like’ thread. If you could just keep it focused people.
I like how in the family photo your father appears to have just seen something truly shocking. You and your sisters managed to see where the camera was and behave appropriately.
maybe the father was hungry, and soon as someone said cheese he thought “oooh! where??” and the mother gives a disapproving look :)
Machan Hallow !…
Indi –
I asked you a question about your Fathers University Education ? could you please be helpfull and answer it plzzzz.
Im dying to get to know about him..
for more information about this question Plz see
Indis Freind.com Says:
May 31st, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Plz Ela kiri wage deepan Answer ASAP Honde !
good boy – G Man.
not the place G-Man. Email me if you want.
adoh !
shes cute indi
It’s really nice to see some great pics here of our graduation.. I got this site on google!! hehe.. was completely unexepected. Really nice entry about Anu and the ceremony as a whole. Yes, Anu is a fantastic person.. she really is an all-rounder. Just amazing.. and of course, smarter than “the other kids” hahahahahahahhahha :) lolz.. great photos! was really good seeing them..