the black lullaby

Ok so this is what I currently am. After five years at JWT I finally decided to throw in the towel. Everyone’s slightly pissed, slightly confused, slightly curious as to why I did what I did… as in why did I resign.

The truth is that I don’t know. Maybe five years is a long time. Maybe change is required to renew the soul. I’ve always been famous for my sudden decisions and they’ve brought me more joy than sadness. However, this time things are different. I feel unsupported by all but a few (and thank God for them or I’d lose my mind). I’ve lost my security, my stability and my stronghold on things and I don’t know where to turn.

But I have to say, it’s somewhat exciting. After all this time of knowing exactly what is going to happen on every single day of my life… things have become unpredictable again and it’s rather stimulating.

There is a fear that has attached itself on to me and I’m trying very hard to let go of it but at the moment that’s all it is that’s wrong.

I’m now willing to try my hand at anything. Questions have been circling within my mind and I don’t know which one to answer. Do I act full time or do I sing full time? Do I do advertising part time or do I work on TV part time? Do I write full time and if so for whom? Do I open up a theatre company or leave the country?

Hell I’m only 22 and the possibilities are endless… however, I won’t be 22 forever and I do need to settle on something fast.

So if any of you lovely people out there have any suggestions, I’m listening.

The Battle Begins on Tuesday the 25th of March at 8pm

(p.s. tsunkatse is the name of a fight that was aired on Star Trek Voyager in the year 2000, i just thought it would be a cool name for this pic)

Here’s when you can catch the two casts of Samurai on stage…

25th (Opening Night), 27th & 29th March  (in alphabetical order)

ruvin de silva

jehan gunesekera

ryan holsinger

brandon ingram

wasaam ismail

nuzreth jalaldeen

sulochana perera

subha wijesiriwardena

26th, 28th & 30th (Closing Night) (in alphabetical order)

mahina bongso

anush de costa

aavon fernando

ryan holsinger

brandon ingram

jehan mendis

sulochana perera

mihiri warnasuriya

I was never a Star Trek fan until The Next Generation came along. I watched it for some time and enjoyed it a lot. But the one Trekky Series I really fell in love with was Voyager. I loved the fact that the Captain was a woman and that the story was so emotional. Here’s a quick recap:

The Federation Starship Voyager is sent into the Badlands to recover a Maqui Vessel when both ships are dragged by force into the Delta Quadrant by a species known as the Caretaker. No one from Starfleet has ever returned from the Delta Quadrant to tell the story since it’s over 60,000 lightyears away from Earth. In the 7 years that follow, Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew make countless encounters with alien species and face a number of threats as they make their way back home.

This was also the only series, which had the most appearences of the Borg – an inhuman race of creatures who gained knowledge by assimilating other species to their collective in their ceaseless endeavor to seek perfection. I’m sure we all remember the line ‘we are the borg, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile!’

What fascinated me about these characters was their attitude. They sought perfection, when you attacked them with a weapon, the adapted within seconds and the next time you tried to injure them, they would no longer be affected by it.

Isn’t it interesting, this whole “we will adapt” thing? What if we as human beings could implement this in our normal lives. I mean, it is what we TRY to do every day but fail misserably in doing so. We try to adapt into new environments, out of a relationship, within a new family or a new circle of friends, a new company… we are struck by all these weapons on a daily basis and we’re always trying to adapt. What if it were possible? Think of how easy life would be…

I did think about it and then realized what a bad thing that would be. If we could just adapt from one situation into the next, then what would be the point of living, of experiencing a different set of emotions every day, of understanding how to feel?

There’s a reason those Borg were called ‘drones’.

It’s just blabber really, but I thought a felt worthy of putting down.