Colombo Is Too Damn Hot

I’ve been boycotting pants (trousers) for the past few months. They’re oppressing me. Colombo is too damn hot. Seriously, you step out of the shower and you’re in a bath of sweat within 20 minutes. Walk for a mile and your shirt is soaked. Wearing jeans these days makes me want to go all Kony 2012 through the streets. It’s rough out there, tempered only by the evening rains, and it’s simply too hot for northern attire.

So I’ve been wearing shorts. I got some from Conscience (the Arugam Bay store, above Coco Verandah) and they’re great. I’d walk around in wife beaters but I’ve compromised and I wear normal shirts. But I’m not wearing no pants. And hells no to shoes. I actually bought some pants and shoes for a recent presentation but I’m not doing that again.

This is flip-flop and shorts weather, or sarong and banian really. Social misconventions be damned. People look at you funny when you show up at official events in actually comfortable clothes, but I’m not too concerned. Seriously, what’s with ‘business attire’? Why do I have to be uncomfortable to make other people feel comfortable. It’s an island, it’s hot and we really shouldn’t be wearing more than an amudaya. I think shorts is a fair compromise.

10 Comments

  1. The image macro caption should read “The heat in Colombo… is too damn high”

    /memepedant

    :D

  2. Forget you guys, Himal also commented. Meme is as meme does. How an evolved thing got strict rules is beyond me. You guys are like the Catholic church.

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    I’ve been complaining of the same thing, but the weeks before the rain in May were worse.

    Mosquito nets are even worse than trousers.

    This is what I have been recommending when walking. Have not got one myself, yet.

    http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/USA-britain-ww2-cloth-headgear/41-dated-british-solar-topee-180759/

    Because its thicker than an ordinary hat and made of lightweight cork or pith it provides real insulation from the heat. With a hat the heat just transmits through to the head.

    Also goes well with shorts ;)

    http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/116197/baby-elephant-and-two-men/

  10. Colombo is a dump. It’s a typical 3rd world capital city. Noisy, dirty, crowded, sweaty, in an advanced state of disrepair (all of Sri Lanka is in advanced disrepair). The traffic is horrific. The air is polluted and the dirty smells can really put you off. It is chaos and disorder at it’s very best. I hate this country. The people are not 3rd world. We are 4th world. We just don’t have what it takes. Personally, I would have preferred the British stayed back. I think we would have been much better off.

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