UN-Fashionable Facades

Oh! If you ask me Colombian about the biggest buzz in town during the past week, well many Colombytes would think that it is all to do with a photo-man very much in vogue, being man or is it woman-handled.

Okay, okay handled somehow, by a lady employee, named Melisha; of the agency which initially thought that it was the media sponsor of a FASHIONABLE WEEK-END held in me Colombian's Colombo recently.

But me Colombian would think, it is that dame with her dress flying high and a masculine hand with a paint brush painting her underwear red which has had heads revolving non-stop during the past week.

Darlings! I don't know about the underwear that dame is wearing dears but that ad has painted me Colombian's Colombo red alright.

The thing is honey! the ad is being run by a school which offer graduation courses for students interested in fashion design so on and so fourth.

But the ad it seems is catering more to the week-end party poppers and Peeping Toms rather than trying to present an in-depth view of the students work at their graduation show. So in fact now the city is looking forward to one hell of a cabaret, me Colombian was told.

Now that the dress that's flying high worn by that dame, who was a fancy star of hollywood and also later considered to be the mysterious mistress of sorts connected to the hierarchy of bygone American politics.

Now everybody is looking at that ad and wandering how on earth that kind of character (and its a bad drawing of the star too) can have anything to do with a graduation show of students dabbling in a subject like fashion?

But considering the good credentials of the institute, one is left wandering who is behind that faltering idea of promoting Malryn with her dress flying high.

Whether the organisers wanted to show the public the kind of serious work that students pace through before they present their graduation collection or if the interest lies in what that ad suggest 'yet another high flying week-end party' is yet to be seen.

Strangling fashion photographers

There was pandemonium it seems at that week-end which all of me Colombian's Colombytes spent all their money and time la di da-ing with fashion. You know why?

No, no, no! Why, why, why ah? Mayee don't get so excited aney! Like all those Colombytes, at a drop of a goz.

It seems that there was this photo-catcher who represented a glossy which has come into vogue very recently and me Colombian was told that though the organisers have had an earlier te te te to limit the events media publicity to a sponsor which has its label pasted up at every event that is held under the sun here in me Colombian's Colombo.

At the press conference (very strangely, at which many of the other press too had turned up) The man behind the event took his turn to 'Singh' out and answer to a question in positive terms that the event was open to all media.

But instead of sorting out the matter with the organisers and asking them to re-phrase their statement clearly, which would have kept others from covering the event, a female employee from the media sponsorship had turned violent towards a photographer, caught him by his collar and unceremoniously attempted to throw him out.

Well darlings! Me Colombian thinks it's only natural no? When competitors do the familiarisation tour within the same circles where others have already run around saying there ha's and hello's? Besides breaking ground (now the earth is about to open up any way dears with a competitor who claims that they are more in vogue than merely go around greeting) Mayee... Professional jealousies meya!

The awards trigger

Darleengs! You know no? How many award functions there are the world over. Oh my goat! me Colombian had to count on all ten fingers, then on all toes, then on other people's fingers and toes too!

Hm... and dears in our little aboard also there are many, many, many functions where actors, directors, musicians and all types and sizes are walking away with all kind of shapes and sizes of awards presented to them for there talent and contributions made towards their field of work during their space of time.

So, it is natural no? That they all look forward to events where they are recognised for their work. So recently, when one such event organised under the active patronage of the head of state was under way, an actress and actor was called upon to appear on State television to discuss the event.

Now if you believe what me Colombian witnessed? it was amazing, within seconds of airing their opinion, stating that they considered the presidential awards function a very prestigious one and was looking forward to it, the channel had the visiting voice of a leading reverend noted for all his yeoman service towards the arts and responsible in spearheading another awards function annually.

The voice disappointingly said that it is unfair that the actor and actress concerned should think that the Presidential Awards Ceremony was more important than any other held throughout the year, so on and so fourth.

In an instant all three - the actor, actress and the TV presenter, all apologised profusely for any pain caused to the said reverend in the process of airing their views.

Now dears! Me Colombian thinks that everybody is entitled to their own private opinion on any matter.

Likewise what the actor and the actress stated was their personal belief about what they thought of the Presidential Awards Ceremony and it was quite uncalled for other award function organisers to call in and impose their own point of view against it.

Learning from books

Myeee..... goat! Me Colombian was told that the big 'thamasha' which was held recently in Goal. You know goal no? Aney darlings that place where there is also a foat. Yes, yes 'Goal Foat' that's where it was. No, no not only inside the foat aney! All over the place it-seems.

Some of me Colombian's real 'Book Browse' were there amongst many (far out did the number of the 'Poth Gullas' anyway) of me Colombian's Colombytes who, according to one visitor, probably read a book for the first time in their lives.

May be true? dears! imagine finding the time to read books while having to 'Goz' on the phone at any given hour of the day and with the fanatical obsession to dress-up for cocktail parties. But darlings this too was important enough to be seen around no? after all many, many national and international personalities were attending no?

So there they were in there dozens checking into all the posh aboard's within the 'Goal Foat' and also out of it.

Beside dressing up and posing for photographs in-between the cocktail parties and luncheons apparently the Colombytes found some time it-seems to gape at a few books in-between all that week-end hullabaloo.

Winning ways of the 2 SS'

Oh darlings, it was wonderful to see the one with the bat (and the ball too) who is known as Master Blaster showing up to be interrogated by that pleasant chap who claims its 'Nothing Personal' with the ones that takes the opposite seat facing him to be put through the paces of answering all his Q's.

Well dears that's exactly what the blaster, who is a master at it did. It was all how he played his game, first with his brother and father and then in school.

"It was with a tennis ball that I started and it was nothing to do with playing for the Sri Lanka team or for the country. It was all, my plain love for cricket".

To the question whether he was distracted by the beauties at the time he sat on the panel to judge the Miss World beauty pageant in Bangalore? He said that he takes each event as it dawns upon him "even though I have my family on my mind most of the time, when I am on the field, my priority is the game and the best I can give towards winning it".

The shinning star of Sri Lankan cricket, very humbly said how his parents were not in favour of him taking to the game seriously "because they were not able to pay towards what it takes to carry on to reach the top".

"Total commitment and a mission to do the best can get you there", his advice to the young, up and coming players seeking to grace the field in the future.

The Other S

Oh! she had made her way through, without the mildest friction to her feet or her ego. That's the little child star who just dived into the waiting arms of international critics, to grace the isle at this years Oscar Awards in the world's hottest movie seat 'Hollywood'.

Deepa Meheta, one of India's most controversial film makers might be breathing a sense of joy for having cast this little girl from Sri Lanka in a role that stretched through a series of emotions and moods which called to be played with perfection, that would have envied even the most seasoned character player of our time.

In a recent TV interview with regard to her dawning upon Hollywood through her performance in 'Water' which is amongst the best five nominees in the foreign film category.

The beaming child actress stressed her passion for acting "but in selected films and with good directors and when I find time beside my studies".

To the question whether she would want to live outside Sri Lanka, since she has now seen most places, both in the East and the West by travelling to numerous film festivals along with 'Water', she answered with a wide grin " I love Sri Lanka".

With both, The World Cup and The Oscar Awards ceremony just a few months away, don't you think darlings we must put our hands together in applause to both these SS'. Sanath Teran Jayasuriya and Sarala Jayani Kariyawasam. Once, for whatever they have achieved in their relevant fields, while gaining glory for our country.

A standing ovation, for keeping their feet firmly placed on the ground, on their way to achieve that glory and long after getting there. Me Colombian's Colombytes! Are you listening?