http://srilanka.laurieashton.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:22:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sri Lankan time changeHalf hour back, now match region Everyone still late.So my haikus suck. Deal. :pHere's the deal.A bunch of years ago, Sri Lanka's time was GMT +5:30. Then President Bandaranaike, the nutjob whacko woman, was elected, and it changed to GMT +6. The fact that she's a wacko ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/time-change/ I recently came across a site that had a listing of free language learning resources, including this one for Sinhala. *gulp* I guess I have no more excuses, eh? Just, ya know, whatever you do, don't tell ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/study-sinhala-for-free/ Fahmi hired a driver for the next few days. What with everything going on, I gather the general consensus is that, given that only Fahmi and their mother drive, and they'll be busy, it just makes good sense.So, because we have a large and largely unoccupied house, and Fahim's parent's ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/let-the-chaos-begin/ Just a little...Not too much. I could certainly use more if anyone else wants to spoil me. Although that's not required, of course. I'm just not dismissing the possibility, that's all...With weddings here, it's culturally expected that the parents and family of the groom will give gold jewellery to the ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/im-starting-to-get-spoiled/ Wedding stuff commences...Fahim took off the next few days because of the wedding and the possible help we might be able to give to his parents and brother. So, we head over to his parents place. Bright and... not so early.First, we run a few errands, including stopping off at ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/fahims-first-day-off/ I finished sewing the crinkly cotton purple/pink/yellow kameez this morning, although I have a leetle bit of picky detail work to do around the neckline. Yay!Sometime, when I'm feeling energetic (read: not right now) I'll take photos and post 'em. It ended up looking pretty good.And then I sewed a ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/sewing-done/ I tried out a new chocolate cake recipe here. I haven't tasted the cake, so I don't know yet what I think, and same for the icing, but either way, it's all done.Yay!My icing was going all lumpy on me and wasn't mixing properly, so... I got out my largest ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/baking-is-done/ I dunno, I think I'm the only one...I got an email today that cited something I wrote in one of the online forums I frequent, emailed directly to my email addy, obtainable by hunting down my domain and finding it through there (my forum settings are set to email me ... http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/matchmaker-matchmaker-make-me-a-match/ Crinkly fabric shrunk.What to do? Oh, what to do?Stretch it out, my dear! http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/03/shrinking-fabric-haiku/ Pink shalwaar is doneNext cut out crinkly fabricPink, purple, yellow. http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/03/and-another-one-2/