Once upon a time when we played Movie Stars

Couple of weeks back I had an amazing opportunity to play one of the main roles in Shingala movie  'Rupantharana' directed by Nalaka Withanage. Who can deny that life in Sri Lanka is interesting?

I am a boss of a main hero. My name is Angela and I am Australian. Heran (main hero) went there and fell in love with another Sri Lankan girl who, unfortunately, feels only friendship. So Haren is suffering from one-side love. And Angela does not helping him either - in office she is shouting at him because he is sleeping, dreaming and does nothing. But in her cubical she is different - declares love and likeliness to him, which makes Haren feel even more scared. One day he accidentally drops his keys and message to another girl in Angela's cubical and she understands it as a positive sign. In evening she comes to his apartment and here action begins - she seduce him, puts some drug in his drink and... camera shows only early morning.

Here are some pictures from all those 3 great days of bossy and naughty Angela was wearing my face. 

  

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Country trip: Lithuanian flavour in Sri Lanka (1)

Counting almost one year in Sri Lanka (Can you believe?!) I have seen and experienced a lot. Unfortunately, I found myself being extremely lazy and demotivated to share all my experience with others. That cost minimum information and no photo albums in my Facebook profile. 

For those who really would like to see Sri Lanka, this is an opportunity to see and get to know this beautiful, colorful and spicy country I found my corner to live.

If Giedre does not come back to Lithuania, Lithuania is coming to visit Giedre

There weren’t any Lithuanians on my daily way here in Sri Lanka, but now 5 girls (me, my sister, cousins and a friend) are traveling all around the country which by size is pretty much the same as our mother land, but completely different by the views we are just about to see.

Trip starts in Colombo international airport with huge mountain of suitcases and some warm home smell in it – delicious cheese, salami, dark bread and chocolate.

Driving to Colombo was a bit shocking for girls. Crazy driving, huge 5 pm. traffic, poverty outside the windows, frightening local men attention in the streets, pollution and loud noise made them feel really uncomfortable.

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Azijos perlas, arba šalis, kurioje neegzistuoja žiema

Šri Lanka. Net ir po 6 mėnesių buvimo saloje vis dar bandau išsiaiškinti, ką šis pavadinimas slepia savyje. Tikro sodraus skonio, milijono kvapų, besišypsančių veidų, nenutylančių automobilių sirenų ir truputėlio magijos šalis. Egzotiškas kokteilis, kurio pakartoti užsisakai dar nepabaigus gerti pirmosios taurės.

Tobula bananų šalis

Šri Lanka, kartais labiau žinoma kaip Ceilonas, nepriklausoma šalis, savo teritorija beveik identiška mūsų tėvynei. Na, tuo tas identiškumas matyt ir baigiasi, nes nei gyventojų gausumu (apie 20 milijonų), tradicijomis, kultūra, gyvenimo būdu ir sąlygomis, o juo labiau klimatu šios šalys nesulyginamos. Pietų Azija, mielieji. Egzotikos čia per akis – pradedant nuo kasdienio transporto ypatumų, baigiant maisto valgymu su rankomis. Vis dėlto, šį tą panašaus turime.

Kaip lietuviai jaučiasi, kai juos maišo su rusais? Daugelis iš karto ima taisyti, kad mes nesame Rusijos dalis, o jau per dvidešimt metų gyvuojanti nepriklausoma valstybė su unikalia kalba, sava teritoja, priėjimu prie Baltijos jūros, trimis milijonais gyventojų ir krepšiniu kaip antra religija. Būtent taip jaučiasi šri lankiečiai lyginami su indais (oi, tik nedrįskite jiems pasakyti, kad jų akcentas kaip indų).

Žvelgti į šį kraštą reikia atidžiai. Be abejo, atvykus vos dviem savaitėm paturistauti įspūdžių bus nemažai. Daugelį sužavės kvapą gniaužiantis gamtos grožis, du tūkstančius metų taikos ir karo atlaikęs kultūrinis ir istorinis palikimas, lietuvaičių akių mėlynumo jūra, tropikų karštis ir nenupasakojamo skanumo vaisiai, ypač mano mėgstami bananai ir ananasai. Tokiomis nuostabos emocijomis gyvenau iš aš pirmus dvejus mėnesius. Aiškčiojau kasdien ir nespėjau įkrovinėti fotoaparato baterijos, mintyse registruoti visų nutikimų ir pastebėjimų.

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Belief or the way they live it

Religion plays a significant role in, let me say, every Sri Lankan life. At least I felt it strongly. There is someone or something above us, which gives cheerful moments and helps to fight with badness and overcome it.

Retained culture

Be religious here is important, even more than I thought. There is at least one temple in each street, nearly in every bus you can find small Buddha statues hanged above the front window, and even in super crowded busses Please will stand up and give front seats for monks. And if you are a girl, don’t even think about a free seat next to a monk, because you are not allowed to sit; only man are can, if a monk is willing to share a seat. Easy to notice, sometimes strange to understand. But writing all about that indeed means writing about Sri Lanka’s culture and major part of its uniqueness and difference we all are looking here.

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It's all about changes

I guess we all need them, from time to time. Maybe start to exercise because the safety wheel around your waist is too wide, start to learn new language or find a sentence you could say to many people in their native language, move to a different place, get a new job, meet new people or change an attitude and share your “Happy Banana time” with friends.

MC office resident

Purple fusion

As for myself, I’m all living in changes now. Of course, coming to Sri Lanka was and still is the biggest change in my life. Nevertheless, after a month or more, I started to get use to such a life style, belong to society and do not pay too much attention to its reactions and daily comments towards me and my ‘alien’ look.

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Competing with limited you

I thought I would never live anywhere out of Europe, I didn’t like spicy food and too hot weather. But I’m living in Sri Lanka now. Everyday I’m eating spicy food with my fingers, going work by two usually overcrowded busses, sweating like a hell there and doing other things I have never done in my life, like watching Cricket or Rugby. And I did participate in Marathon for the first time in my life.

Worth to try

And it leads to a thought that all limitations are self-imposed and if we are limited it’s just because we are too lazy at least to try. All boundaries are human-made and all our excuses are created to convince ourselves: too hard, too inconvenient, too big or rather too small, too far away and just impossible to overcome. Maybe. But what if it’s not?

To run a Marathon was a goal of this year. Well, I haven’t thought that this idea will be realized in Colombo.  Just wanted to try and feel it. By talking about Marathon I do not mean running all 42,196 km, although I would really like to, maybe some time later. But for it body needs to be trained more.

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Starting from the beginning: my job!

It has been quite a long time since I wrote my first post and kept silence till now. Actually, there are so many things to tell, so many feelings to express, so many “wows” to describe. In this case I will try to do it in small steps – different posts. Let me start from probably the most important thing and purpose of my coming to Sri Lanka. That’s my job.

Incredible view, unfortunately, not from my window.

Living diversity

I came to Sri Lanka as an AIESEC intern. AIESEC is an international student organization which gives an opportunity to experience other cultures, life, meet new people, travel and live a different life.

There is no better time when that one you decided to take a first step to some changes. That’s what I wanted, what’s what I needed, what’s why I am here.

My company is called 361 Interactive. It’s event organizing company as a synergist. My task is to deal with MICE tourism sector. MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, events) provide all service a client might need while he has a business meeting in Sri Lanka, starting from corporate events, ending with theme nights, sightseeing, interactive bonding, cocktail parties, Gala dinner and so forth. Lots of creativity, space to show your best, interactivity and fun. Needless to say, that I really enjoy my work, like the company and all challenges I have to overcome. My first impression says: there is no doubt that I’ve made a right decision.

Wouldn’t you like it if:

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