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The last post of the #bestoftwelve is for my bar-favourites @izkyfaiz and @ai_mee_lee . I was lucky enough to have gotten to know them through @rebelinpurple and was even luckier to have been invited to celebrate their marriage. Having seen a very small bit into their lives together during the years I’ve known them, I could not have been happier to have been a part of their wedding. I was also extremely happy about not wearing makeup as per usual because I was crying so much so that Jack and Rose would’ve facepalmed by the end of it.
December is an expensive month for us. I’m partly happy about not celebrating Christmas officially because if we did, I’m assuming that our year long savings would be invested this month. So to make things easier and cheaper, I asked my favourite home cake maker @yazabdeen who runs @cream_n_crumble to make a half-and-half chocolate and ribbon cake to celebrate all of the birthdays! It was so good that official chocolate cake connoisseur and critic @lifeandstylewithn loved it. . . . Sorry about the potato quality picture. The dinner was hosted while ensuring the cake and wine remained a surprise and soon after the passing of a very close person. Life has a funny way of presenting itself. Here’s hoping that 2019 will allow us to navigate it better.
My beautiful childhood friend @afroosaa got married this year to the love of her (almost) decade-long boyfriend @ironfreak77 . I was honoured to have been a part of her wedding, despite the four inch heels in which I lasted only twenty minutes. I added more pointers to my bridesmaid’s prep-kit with this young lady’s ridiculous attention to detail and need for perfection. And yes, seen here is the 👰🏼 bride 👰🏼 , on the morning of her wedding, shaping (cutting) up her veil 🤦🏽‍♀️
I love chasing a few things in life: annoying drivers that break rules, lighthouses and sunsets. This was during my solo walk in Ernakulam when Bettina thought that she had enough with my mall-hopping and street-gazing. I’ve also been very fortunate to travel as much as I have this year. Here’s hoping that 2019 has more adventures in store.
This year was an interesting year in travel because I actually found myself in Afghanistan! I’ll tell you though, it wasn’t really a country that was in my travel list, but I did realise that after my visit to Kabul that I didn’t have a travel wish list. I learnt that it was unfair to have one because every country is beautiful (not in the context of “all lives matter”) and every country has something so unique and familiar that you are able to feel at home but away at the same time. . . . My time in Afghanistan introduced me to “blast walls” that I had not seen in Sri Lanka during the time of war or maybe there were and I was not as aware of it. It also taught me that how Kabul, like Colombo can continue to prevail through war times and despite a probable bomb blast a few kilometres away. And I don’t mean that in an insensitive way either. As someone who firmly believes in the show continuing to go on despite the circumstances, the resilience the city and people of Kabul show is nothing short of remarkable. . . . Interesting fact about this image. Inter Continental Hotel in Kabul. It was attacked on 20 January 2018 and left at least 42 people dead and more than 14 injured. This image was taken during the first week of July 2018.
I like to talk a lot about hospitality because I’ve been told 800 times over of what Sri Lanka resonates and it has become natural for me to look for it when I travel. This is also one of the reasons I wonder why those at the point of entry to a country (read, immigration officers) cannot be friendlier? Yes, I understand it’s a thankless job and you are probably not doing it because you are passionate about it, but you are after all the first contact person or representative of a particular country? . . . That aside, my brief visit to Nepal this year was lovely. Not only did they greet me with my favourite bananas in my room, I also got to meet another favourite @sabirooo , where we spoke about adult life and the need to climb mountains in 2019.

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