Pictures Speak a Thousand Words...
Rajive Aiya and Navamali Akki... the engagement... Sri Lanka, July 1998.
Rajive Aiya and Navamali Akki... the going away picture... Sri Lanka, January 1999.
Rajive Aiya and Navamali Akki... the wedding picture... Sri Lanka, January 1999.
With Hiran Aiya, Anagi Akki and my little nephew Navindu (also know as Bowjith... he's being taught to call Suneth Malli and me as Aiyas!!)
With Akki's parents, Aunty Nalini and Uncle Nanda (also called Mr. Cool for obvious reasons...)
Looks like the Mafia doesn't it?!
With the parents...
One of my favourite pictures... the coconut leaf decoration blooms open to present the traditional Kiribath to the couple - the SL'n equivalent of the wedding cake
With the flower girls, the bridesmaids, and bestmen...
Navamali Akki
At the homecoming...
Suneth Malli... the STUD... Internship at Columbia... Summer of 98... the impressive contraption behind him... he made that... and it looks as messy as his room was back in Sri Lanka!!!
Another one of my favourite pictures... my nephew Navindu... we call him Bowjith... because "bow" is the only word in his vocabulary right now!!!
Suneth Malli, Kavi, Tenna and myself... my buddies from Royal... this picture was taken after our visit to College in January, 1999.
With our cousins Amrita, Nilakshi and Tikshana... Jan '99...
With some of my closest friends at Mac... L to R... Vahe, Niloy, Marie, me, Kiki, Jason, Katie, Hannah, Mike and Hannah... at Kiki's b'day... Fall '98... where's George??!!
More of my buddies from Royal... Thanush, me, Nana, Harith, Malaka, Rajiv, Kavi, Fazli and Prami... meeting after quite some time... at my place, Jan '99...
At my grandparents' place in Horana... the paddy fields and greenery that stretch out in all directions are quite beautiful...
My first car... I named it Kella... :-)... she's been SOOOO good to me!! :-)... Summer '98 while I was interning at GE in Connecticut...
With some of my closest friends at Mac... L to R... Collin, Genevieve, Florin, Altay, me, Alejandro, and, last but not least, Raveena... :-)... in my room, junior year at Mac... Spring '98...
With a bunch of friends in NYC... Summer '98... at a restaurant in the Village... L to R... Fred, two of his friends, Mini, Leah, her sis, me and malli... Fred's two friends were a little concerned with my driving in NYC... but hey, I was just having fun with all the Punjabi cab drivers!!!
At the registration ceremony... until Aiya signed, Uncle Nanda, Mali Akki's father, kept joking that he still had time to break free!!!
Another one of my favourites... the littlest guy is Thevindu my neighbour... he keeps my mom and dad busy when the three boys are not there... he's also called Dr. Hampdon... on my right is Puni... his brother
This is everybody from my father's side... Aiya and Akki are missing because were off on their honeymoon!!! My uncle Dalton is holding Indu, the first grandchild of the family... her parents are on the right...
The three boys... at Dartmouth, visiting Aiya's engineering school... Spring '97
THIS is why I call it my island paradise... this photo was taken by the master photographer himself, Aiya....