Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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How to escape the under-achievement trapWho do you want to become when you grow up? We ask our children. I remember being asked this question in class many years ago. Not surprisingly, there were many aspiring Engineers and Doctors. The talkative types wanted to become Lawyers. Some were liberal enough to want to...
Why your worldview is distorted, and what to do about itI’m scrolling down my Facebook News Feed. I have 1,566 friends on Facebook (most of whom I should ideally unfriend), so why do I see the same faces everyday? Are the others not as active? Or is there something else at play? Do you ever wonder the same? A TEDx...
What my newest habit taught meFor a long time, the Podcasts app has been sitting silently in the Extras folder on my Home Screen without ever being touched. It’s only been a year since I actually started using it. I realized that about 3 hours of my time are being wasted every day in the commute to and from work...
Photo by Thilina Alagiyawanna from Pexels Is pluralism a myth?I’m returning to the blogosphere after a long time. It has been too long, in fact. But I had to come. While I don’t yet know if this stay would last, I’ll say what I have to say. We commemorated the 68th Anniversary of National Independence today as a...
My thoughts on the eventI’m so glad that I bunked my evening CIM lecture yesterday to attend TEDxColombo 2015. It was a first for me. I had never been to a TEDxColombo before. Despite my love for all the “Ideas Worth Spreading” consumed on Youtube, the fact that experiencing it firsthand would be different had...
#RanaViruMeetUpI was born in 1994. The entirety of my life was spent in the suburbs of Colombo. I don’t remember a childhood of living in fear of terrorists or war, because as a little kid, those words didn’t mean much to me. When a bomb went off somewhere, I never understood what it meant to the people who lost a...
How to stay relevant in a world that favours automationI have been away for 5 months. Away from blogging. Several blog-worthy things happened in those 5 months. Sri Lankans said yes to 19, the Irish said yes to gay marriage, David Cameron embraced victory, Birdman won Best Picture and Nepal lost 8,000 lives...
#PresPollSLFirst let me be clear, this is a voluntary disclosure. The Presidential Election today, I heard, concluded with an impressive voters turnout. I was at the polling station at 6.55 in the morning, and a queue of about 50 people had already formed outside. I waited in the queue for sometime, my head heavy...
How to stay relevant in a world that favours automationThere was a time when I dreamed of a future where I would find myself a decent job, and I used to tell myself that education could get me there. I pushed myself to get the best out of the public education system in this country, and although I failed, I still...
AFP My thoughts on the new Sri Lankan PresidentSomething happened yesterday. People rejoiced over it and celebrated. The government made desperate attempts to hide their exasperation, and in the process made the scenario worse. Something that was perceived impossible happened. The unbreakable Rajapaksa government...
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