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L'Oreal bought the Body Shop! I can't believe it? Even the Body Shop's faux-environmentalism is not proof against an enticing offer where each share was marked up by roughly 20%! What is the world coming to? Where have all the cowboys gone?

I was going to type something witty and urbane here like I usually do but my mind has drawn a blank. It is the end of a long and eventful week and today topped it off by a surprise cake entrance that was ordered by my sister at the other end of the world to celebrate recent news and the entire office and I demolished it within 15 minutes flat. Then a quick architect meeting who had worked with Geoffrey Bawa in his last days before he died and offered to give me a private tour of Bawa House and maybe one day Lunnungu as well (swear to myself that I shall see these before I go!).

I am still recovering from recent news. Other people may take it as a given when things like this happen to them, but I originate from humble beginnings. I couldn't sleep till 3 am yesterday and in a fit of madness I called the office responsible across the globe to check that INDEED IT WAS SO and it was.

I was thinking of my father's comments on each (to me and my sadly uneventful life) of the things that happened to me...
On calling him from the RJC hall the day I got my A level results: "Holy Shit".
On calling him from the bathroom at the workplace where I was before I got my internship confirmation: "How do you know its true? Are you sure you want to accept it?"
On calling him from home when he was driving when I got my first job: "What? What? aaah. Well you better go back and study, you're going to fail your final exams with the way you've been studying
On calling him recently on admission to graduate school: What? That's excellent! Sputtering ensues. How did you find out? ohhh by email. How do you know it's genuine?

Sigh. Lankans. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.