MATHAWAADA sister blog REBELZZART presents PAIN KILLER the graphic+poetry show

As a founding member, with the help of my buddy skullzero, I learned the basics of this whole blogging thing thru MATHAWAADA and I managed to create a separate blog to unleash the creativity of the undergrads at Faculty of Mgt. & Fin. in University of Colombo.
After two semesters, the blog is in full operation and we managed to bring up some of the hidden talents of the undergrads to the cyberspace. But the problem was that the most of the students in the faculty are not that much techno savvy and some of the art being just got published and neglected. So after much thought, with the help of some of the contributors of REBELZZART, I managed to organize this exhibition and here is a glimpse of what it looked like on 26th and 27th May at Faculty canteen...

You can download all the photoshop final proofs of the articles in jpeg format by following this link-

http://www.zshare.net/download/60679310d078f472/

An Year Gone by...

Well…can’t believe it’s already been a year since we started Mathawaada.

But it has.

Conceptualized and materialized as an idle chat among three friends, the blog came into existence without a proper direction during the earlier weeks of May last year. This eventually became a dumping ground for each other’s varying thoughts which at times lead to heated debates and interesting discussions.

Personally, the blog itself thought me a few good lessons about life. About friends, commitments and trust. It was merely a piece of virtual space, few thoughts spewed off to become 0s and 1s, but it led me in a direction where I discovered so many interesting aspects of about life, merely by dealing with so many people who had the common denominator of being a blogger.

At a time when almost all the contributors have gone off missing, I keep this short note just as an appreciation for all who took some time off to go through the pages and made the counters tick. It’s for all the friends we made in the guise of a virtual persona, some of whom we will never even get to know in real life…

Thanks Guys.

Sticker Mania- Seen in a lecture room in University of Colombo

MATHAWAADA wadak!!! Seen in a street in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Guilty Parties- realskullzero & DRG

Look for that Green Light..

After a late night out, the only oasis you could come across is a small “Night Kade” which would surely assure you a cigarette, plain tea and some instantly cooked street food. This is not about the obvious Hijra, Pilla, Billal or any other the popular night shop, its about those small shops or boutiques which stand in unfamiliar semi-urban landscapes catering to small groups of people ? Well, as you may have already realized, Look for the Green Light!, just observed several of those shops and the similar attribute was the large, green fluorescent light which stands out as a guiding beacon for those tired travelers who are in search of a refuge to rest in.

Disclaimer: not all places have Green Lights but most of them do (99%) because just yesterday i went passed one with only red lights

That Evil Thought...

People are people. Sometime it’s said that we pass through a cycle of life which is destined to us. You would grow as a child, go to school, learn, pass out from college, go for higher education or get into a job, then after sometime you start thinking about a career, find a woman, get married, have children, earn for the family, grow old and die. And so the cycle continues. But here and there you get the odd apples, those who defy the norm, those who out of their own belief try to go against the normal way of things.

These people can be any one from a deranged child molester to a school dropout who would later go on to become a millionaire by starting up his own business. Trying to think against the normal belief seems cool, it is sometimes the scapegoat that you try to believe when you can’t succeed in your life. After all if everything you wish was coming to your life easily there wouldn’t be a problem, rite? You would blame it on others and the way its being done. Sometimes you defy the norms just because you can’t compete, but whatever the reason may be there still are those who despise the system.

Oh… that evil thought, that little tumor which nudges you once in a while saying don’t follow the herd. Don’t slave yourself to do things you don’t like just so that you could survive. This thought is sometimes a curse. It’s a thought which sometimes confuses you; it makes you go wild and makes you lose your touch with the reality. It empties you and makes you question your whole existence. It drains out the life sending you in the dark abyss of hopelessness. It may have been the reason why Kurt Cobain put a bit more pressure on the trigger or why Jim Morrison pressed that syringe a bit harder into his veins.

But it’s already too late. You know it, and you can’t hide from it. Unless… You genuinely start to change your perception about life. But how can this be done? Well, limiting your thought flow can be a quick fix. Focusing only on what you do, trying to succeed in whatever that you have been doing. Taking the safe, tested and predictable path. So the remedy is simple. Go to your job, do the work, go home...jack off and sleep. Then repeat the mantra till you die. Seems quite simple I guess.

But then suddenly you get that fucking nudge in your brain again...