Personal

I have blogged extensively about my life in my blog. Some of these blogposts follow a theme as a series.

Travels

I like traveling and experiencing diverse cultures.

I have lived in 7 countries: Sri Lanka, Portugal, Sweden, Croatia, USA, Belgium, and Saudi Arabia.

I have traveled in 50 countries, as this map highlights. Read the full list of my travels.

I maintain a list of top 20 countries that I love to visit soon.

Memories of series

• Memories of Sri Lanka
  • This is a quick looking back into my life in Sri Lanka (1987 - 2012) and thoughts along those lines.
  • A detailed discussion of my undergrad days is in the Memories of UoM 3-episode series.
• Memories of Portugal
  • This is the most detailed writing among my “Memories of” series. This is a 5-episode series, as I was in-and-out of Portugal, 2012 - 2019.
  • As Lisboa was my host city (and my first city to live abroad) throughout my MSc and Ph.D. it made sense for a long series of post.
• Memories of Sweden
  • A brief post compared to Portugal since I lived in Sweden for just one semester of my MSc, although visited three times in 2010s.
• Memories of Croatia
  • Although just a month, Croatia left a lasting impact and an on-going collaboration reaching a decade.
• Memories of USA
  • This is a future series since I prefer to write from looking back.
  • The first post/episode on this series will be Memories of Atlanta, which I will write when I have time and mood.
  • A series on the Pandemic days of 2020 in Atlanta: Week 42 - Week 12 and Week 11 - Week 1.
• Memories of Belgium
  • I spent most of my 2017 in Belgium, as the second university of my Ph.D. was in Belgium.
• Memories of Saudi Arabia
  • It was just two months. So, a brief blog post.

A few things that made my YEAR interesting.. series

• This is a series of blog posts that I write annually.
  • Each blog post is a collection of 30 items, remarking a happy event or an achievement of the year.
  • I have written this annual post since 2010, usually in the last week of December.
  • A few years were exciting (for example, 2023, 2019, 2017, and 2015) and I was struggling to find which of the events to exclude from the post to limit to 30 things. Other years (such as 2018) were less eventful.

A few things that made my DECADE interesting.. series

• This is a series (?) of blog posts that I hope to write every 10 years.
  • Each blog post is a collection of 30 items, remarking a happy event or an achievement of the decade.
  • My first decade post was for 2010s, written in December 2019. 2010s has been my most eventful and exciting decade.
  • Not sure whether this will become a series. We need to wait until 2029 for that.