|| A Badly Miss - Not for One, but for All ||
After finishing the usual afternoon chat with my girlie, I went for a short nap, which I am usually used to do during home stays. Later, I woke up to the SMS beep alert of my mobile and when looked into, saw a news alert stating that the re-imposed curfew will again be lifted for 10 hours(6am - 4pm), this Thursday. With that, I regained my post-somnolent consciousness and was just wondering that something is badly missing from our expected daily routine, at this time of the year. I thought about it while having a ginger-flavoured plain tea and came up with what is missing.
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Before I started my university days, life at this time of the year was so simple such that, you know only two or three more days left to begin the New Year vacation of school and you prepare for it extensively. After starting the university journey, even though you get one week vacation for New Year, the feeling that you get when days like this arrive, is the same as that in school days. The last Friday evening before the vacation, during pre-clinical days, was one hell of a day. Coming from a place where you take only 1-1.5 hours to travel between the cities, you had to take the responsibility to cover up the heads in lectures, for 8-10 hour journeyed, "left for vacation at lunch-time" people, at the four ends of the island. But it gave you that feeling "yaay, finally I have done something for my batch" and it was fun. After the clinicals started, it was a big fight to get the last Saturday morning free and we use all the inborn talents of the group to make it in the end. But, the pity thing is that those " 8-10 hour journeyed, no buses" people become its pawns once again. Oh! poor them.
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Even before this penultimate week starts, you are forced to finish your shopping due to the early festival advances of parents & awesome "nearing-Avurudu" traffic around the city. It was scheduled in such a way that you divide at least 3-4 nights during school days, each night dedicated for a particular group of kin. The 3-4 days became one long Saturday & a Sunday night to cover up all the groups of kin, after this "holiday-less" university life began.
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This is the time where our Ammas & Achchis begin to show their inherited festival cookery skills. You see them preparing quite early for the kawilis and you see tons of rice flour and honey being warmed-up every morning. School days were fun, as you become the official rasa-parikshaka of every single kokisaya & kavuma they fry, after returning home. University days only changed in the simplest of margins, where you get the separate sample tasters Amma had prepared, on the pre-told Friday night when you reach home. This is also the time where our unique creatures, in the forms of Koha, Erabadu & Mr. Mahinda Kumara Dalupotha, start to appear extensively. This is the time for the deadline of your Avurudu Kumara-Kumari applications in all sources of media. This is the time you see each TV & radio channel advertise their Soorya Mangalyaya locations. You see, aren't these familiar sights for everybody?
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Not only myself, you all would have felt the same. You all would have thought that something is really missing in your lives at this time of the year. See how a nano-metre sized microbe was able to inculcate that bad miss into your memories. Maybe, the rulers have felt the same that they decided to extend, hopefully the last curfew lift prior to Avurudu, for 2 more hours, allowing people to collect few more things to at least prepare a plate of "quarantined-Kiribath" during the auspicious mealing time. Yes, I know it is very hard for everyone to bear this miss, but let's hold on as a nation. Just believe! Summer will follow soon!
- Yashod Rajasinghe -
Faculty of Medicine
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Before I started my university days, life at this time of the year was so simple such that, you know only two or three more days left to begin the New Year vacation of school and you prepare for it extensively. After starting the university journey, even though you get one week vacation for New Year, the feeling that you get when days like this arrive, is the same as that in school days. The last Friday evening before the vacation, during pre-clinical days, was one hell of a day. Coming from a place where you take only 1-1.5 hours to travel between the cities, you had to take the responsibility to cover up the heads in lectures, for 8-10 hour journeyed, "left for vacation at lunch-time" people, at the four ends of the island. But it gave you that feeling "yaay, finally I have done something for my batch" and it was fun. After the clinicals started, it was a big fight to get the last Saturday morning free and we use all the inborn talents of the group to make it in the end. But, the pity thing is that those " 8-10 hour journeyed, no buses" people become its pawns once again. Oh! poor them.
...........
Even before this penultimate week starts, you are forced to finish your shopping due to the early festival advances of parents & awesome "nearing-Avurudu" traffic around the city. It was scheduled in such a way that you divide at least 3-4 nights during school days, each night dedicated for a particular group of kin. The 3-4 days became one long Saturday & a Sunday night to cover up all the groups of kin, after this "holiday-less" university life began............
This is the time where our Ammas & Achchis begin to show their inherited festival cookery skills. You see them preparing quite early for the kawilis and you see tons of rice flour and honey being warmed-up every morning. School days were fun, as you become the official rasa-parikshaka of every single kokisaya & kavuma they fry, after returning home. University days only changed in the simplest of margins, where you get the separate sample tasters Amma had prepared, on the pre-told Friday night when you reach home. This is also the time where our unique creatures, in the forms of Koha, Erabadu & Mr. Mahinda Kumara Dalupotha, start to appear extensively. This is the time for the deadline of your Avurudu Kumara-Kumari applications in all sources of media. This is the time you see each TV & radio channel advertise their Soorya Mangalyaya locations. You see, aren't these familiar sights for everybody?
...........
Not only myself, you all would have felt the same. You all would have thought that something is really missing in your lives at this time of the year. See how a nano-metre sized microbe was able to inculcate that bad miss into your memories. Maybe, the rulers have felt the same that they decided to extend, hopefully the last curfew lift prior to Avurudu, for 2 more hours, allowing people to collect few more things to at least prepare a plate of "quarantined-Kiribath" during the auspicious mealing time. Yes, I know it is very hard for everyone to bear this miss, but let's hold on as a nation. Just believe! Summer will follow soon!
- Yashod Rajasinghe -
Faculty of Medicine
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