My Story
Ayubowan! I'm Nadee. Please accept my warm
and loving welcome for everyone of you who
came here to look into my story and to know
about myself. I was born in 1993 and grew up in
this amazingly beautiful and picturesque, peaceful
village named Dankotuwa in SriLanka. Dankotuwa
is Located in the interior outskirts of the capital of
SriLanka, Colombo. This peaceful and beautiful
village life has given me many blessings including
that care free life where I enjoy the mostby
looking after my Grandmother and my younger
Brother in this nature’s gift of a village!
If I take you into my childhood, my first day of the school was like yesterday as I remember that day very clearly. Early in the morning, the natural beauty of the light green grass tips which was lushly grown in the small narrow path way of the vernier of the rice fields, were decorated with glistening dew drops were soaking my feet while walking towards the school. But now when it comes to think of it, so many new, strange things have become part of our lives over the time. I'm sure that when we as small kids might have never expected these changes to be part of our lives today. To be honest I truly love and still cherish that care free and stress free part of my life! Let me put it this way! Every time you watch “Traditional Me” , step by step, all what you sense and see so very clearly in every step of the way is my sub conscious mind.
If I take you into my childhood, my first day of the school was like yesterday as I remember that day very clearly. Early in the morning, the natural beauty of the light green grass tips which was lushly grown in the small narrow path way of the vernier of the rice fields, were decorated with glistening dew drops were soaking my feet while walking towards the school. But now when it comes to think of it, so many new, strange things have become part of our lives over the time. I'm sure that when we as small kids might have never expected these changes to be part of our lives today. To be honest I truly love and still cherish that care free and stress free part of my life! Let me put it this way! Every time you watch “Traditional Me” , step by step, all what you sense and see so very clearly in every step of the way is my sub conscious mind.
Grandmother, Brother and Me!
Both me and my Brother grew up with our
Grandmother and lived in my Grandmother's
ancestral home. Grandmother sacrificed a lot and
had her hands full with so many responsibilities. I
still remember how Grandmother spent most of
time on each day, getting up very early in the
morning and cooking our favorites for breakfast
and lunch. Specially on weekends used to have
this very caring habit of making delicious sweets
for both of us. How can anyone for get such sweet
and innocent memories where we stood near
Grandmother and stood on our toes and watched
how she was making sweets on the table tops.
She took care of the few acres of land where she got the coconuts plucked at the correct seasons, organizing people to fertilise the coconut trees on time, safe guarding her lands and raising both of us, must have been a tought ask.Even as of now she is our Mother and Father both and such an immense love and protection that she give both of us is so outstanding.
Today I tell you these happy memories of our care free past spent with our Grandmother but yet our Grandmother's past must have had an entirely different days of emotional stress and despair. We never realised or understood what Grandmother would have had gone true, because both of us were tiny trots and I trust that it’s better to keep some life notes invisible and well forgotten as some chapters of our lives will always be best to be pushed aside to the past with time.
Whenever Grandmother had to go out of the home, we were always kept at Elder Auntie's house for our safty. Our childhood memories still lingers in my mind where I still remember how my Elder Aunty was pregnant with her daughter, kept both me and my brother seated besides her and the way she fed us rice. How she drew water from their garden well and bathed both me and brother though she had her pregnant pains. And how our Elder uncle kept us on his bicycle and took us for rides.
She took care of the few acres of land where she got the coconuts plucked at the correct seasons, organizing people to fertilise the coconut trees on time, safe guarding her lands and raising both of us, must have been a tought ask.Even as of now she is our Mother and Father both and such an immense love and protection that she give both of us is so outstanding.
Today I tell you these happy memories of our care free past spent with our Grandmother but yet our Grandmother's past must have had an entirely different days of emotional stress and despair. We never realised or understood what Grandmother would have had gone true, because both of us were tiny trots and I trust that it’s better to keep some life notes invisible and well forgotten as some chapters of our lives will always be best to be pushed aside to the past with time.
Whenever Grandmother had to go out of the home, we were always kept at Elder Auntie's house for our safty. Our childhood memories still lingers in my mind where I still remember how my Elder Aunty was pregnant with her daughter, kept both me and my brother seated besides her and the way she fed us rice. How she drew water from their garden well and bathed both me and brother though she had her pregnant pains. And how our Elder uncle kept us on his bicycle and took us for rides.
I still remember how Grandmother was cooking in early mornings when she had to run for errands and giving us a huge rice lunch packs to have them in Elder Auntie's place after school. Even now I get hungry when I am thinking of that hot rice and curry, neatly wrapped in a banana leaf. It is funny to remember how impatience we were to have that lunch pack and how we waited until the school over. Normally my brother got off about 1 hour earlier than my school off time.
So my Brother used to come near my classroom and waiting, hanging on to the class wall until I finish my class to walked back home to get her with me though he could have left me and gone if he would have wanted to. My brother had this noble habit of waiting for me even now in our grown life, he never left me alone for a minute.
Grandmother, Brother and Me!
Both me and my Brother grew up with our
Grandmother and lived in my Grandmother's
ancestral home. Grandmother sacrificed a lot and
had her hands full with so many responsibilities. I
still remember how Grandmother spent most of
time on each day, getting up very early in the
morning and cooking our favorites for breakfast
and lunch. Specially on weekends used to have
this very caring habit of making delicious sweets
for both of us. How can anyone for get such sweet
and innocent memories where we stood near
Grandmother and stood on our toes and watched
how she was making sweets on the table tops.
She took care of the few acres of land where she
got the coconuts plucked at the correct seasons,
organizing people to fertilise the coconut trees on
time, safe guarding her lands and raising both of
us, must have been a tought ask.Even as of now
she is our Mother and Father both and such an
immense love and protection that she give both of
us is so outstanding.
Today I tell you these happy memories of our care free past spent with our Grandmother but yet our Grandmother's past must have had an entirely different days of emotional stress and despair. We never realised or understood what Grandmother would have had gone true, because both of us were tiny trots and I trust that it’s better to keep some life notes invisible and well forgotten as some chapters of our lives will always be best to be pushed aside to the past with time.
Whenever Grandmother had to go out of the home, we were always kept at Elder Auntie's house for our safty. Our childhood memories still lingers in my mind where I still remember how my Elder Aunty was pregnant with her daughter, kept both me and my brother seated besides her and the way she fed us rice. How she drew water from their garden well and bathed both me and brother though she had her pregnant pains. And how our Elder uncle kept us on his bicycle and took us for rides.
I still remember how Grandmother was cooking in early mornings when she had to run for errands and giving us a huge rice lunch packs to have them in Elder Auntie's place after school. Even now I get hungry when I am thinking of that hot rice and curry, neatly wrapped in a banana leaf. It is funny to remember how impatience we were to have that lunch pack and how we waited until the school over. Normally my brother got off about 1 hour earlier than my school off time.
Today I tell you these happy memories of our care free past spent with our Grandmother but yet our Grandmother's past must have had an entirely different days of emotional stress and despair. We never realised or understood what Grandmother would have had gone true, because both of us were tiny trots and I trust that it’s better to keep some life notes invisible and well forgotten as some chapters of our lives will always be best to be pushed aside to the past with time.
Whenever Grandmother had to go out of the home, we were always kept at Elder Auntie's house for our safty. Our childhood memories still lingers in my mind where I still remember how my Elder Aunty was pregnant with her daughter, kept both me and my brother seated besides her and the way she fed us rice. How she drew water from their garden well and bathed both me and brother though she had her pregnant pains. And how our Elder uncle kept us on his bicycle and took us for rides.
I still remember how Grandmother was cooking in early mornings when she had to run for errands and giving us a huge rice lunch packs to have them in Elder Auntie's place after school. Even now I get hungry when I am thinking of that hot rice and curry, neatly wrapped in a banana leaf. It is funny to remember how impatience we were to have that lunch pack and how we waited until the school over. Normally my brother got off about 1 hour earlier than my school off time.
So my Brother used to come near my classroom
and waiting, hanging on to the class wall until I
finish my class to walked back home to get her with
me though he could have left me and gone if he
would have wanted to. My brother had this noble
habit of waiting for me even now in our grown
life, he never left me alone for a minute.
Our Home Life!
I truly wanted to live a peaceful and a homely life
caring for my Grandmother after my advanced
level examination. Never had any intention of
studying further even with all the higher
education paths that was available at the time. I
felt that even Grandmother loved that idea in her
heart though she didn’t comment on my decision.
Every-time when grandmother was making food in our kitchen or doing any house work she called me to be by her side and asked me to observe every move that she made while teaching me every single method of traditional cooking, vegetable cutting techniques, food preservation methods etc. I always pay my utmost and deepest respect and my gratitude to her so much because she is the one who moulded me and taught me about life and made me the woman who I am today! I always received the motherly love, care, knowledge, guidance and correct advises from my grandmother. She never let us feel the void of my parents to both me and myBrother. During that period my passion and love for cooking and try out new recipes for my family became a hobby with love and it continued!
Every-time when grandmother was making food in our kitchen or doing any house work she called me to be by her side and asked me to observe every move that she made while teaching me every single method of traditional cooking, vegetable cutting techniques, food preservation methods etc. I always pay my utmost and deepest respect and my gratitude to her so much because she is the one who moulded me and taught me about life and made me the woman who I am today! I always received the motherly love, care, knowledge, guidance and correct advises from my grandmother. She never let us feel the void of my parents to both me and myBrother. During that period my passion and love for cooking and try out new recipes for my family became a hobby with love and it continued!
There was an aunty by the name of "Dhammi” at
my Elder Aunty's place. She was my elder uncle's
younger sister. Aunty Dhammi was employed in
one of the middle eastern countries as a house
keeper. She used to cook varieties of delicious
food for us when she came home for her
vacations. Until Aunty Dhammi got married and
left us, she lived here. I still remember how I got
together with Aunty Dhammi on Saturdays and
after Sunday schools and made different varieties
of dishes. We used to make food by following the
recipes of Sinhala tabloids such as "Rajina"
,
"Sirikatha" thosedays. Actually we got to see the
actual colors of those dishes only after we made
them as those days the tabloid pages were printed
in black and white only. I strongly feel that those
cooking experience that I had with Aunty Dhammi
enhanced my inner desires and abilities more to
beable to continue my cooking journey like this.
Our Home Life!
I truly wanted to live a peaceful and a homely life
caring for my Grandmother after my advanced
level examination. Never had any intention of
studying further even with all the higher
education paths that was available at the time. I
felt that even Grandmother loved that idea in her
heart though she didn’t comment on my decision.
Every-time when grandmother was making food in our kitchen or doing any house work she called me to be by her side and asked me to observe every move that she made while teaching me every single method of traditional cooking, vegetable cutting techniques, food preservation methods etc. I always pay my utmost and deepest respect and my gratitude to her so much because she is the one who moulded me and taught me about life and made me the woman who I am today! I always received the motherly love, care, knowledge, guidance and correct advises from my grandmother. She never let us feel the void of my parents to both me and myBrother. During that period my passion and love for cooking and try out new recipes for my family became a hobby with love and it continued!
Every-time when grandmother was making food in our kitchen or doing any house work she called me to be by her side and asked me to observe every move that she made while teaching me every single method of traditional cooking, vegetable cutting techniques, food preservation methods etc. I always pay my utmost and deepest respect and my gratitude to her so much because she is the one who moulded me and taught me about life and made me the woman who I am today! I always received the motherly love, care, knowledge, guidance and correct advises from my grandmother. She never let us feel the void of my parents to both me and myBrother. During that period my passion and love for cooking and try out new recipes for my family became a hobby with love and it continued!
There was an aunty by the name of "Dhammi” at
my Elder Aunty's place. She was my elder uncle's
younger sister. Aunty Dhammi was employed in
one of the middle eastern countries as a house
keeper. She used to cook varieties of delicious
food for us when she came home for her
vacations. Until Aunty Dhammi got married and
left us, she lived here. I still remember how I got
together with Aunty Dhammi on Saturdays and
after Sunday schools and made different varieties
of dishes. We used to make food by following the
recipes of Sinhala tabloids such as "Rajina"
,
"Sirikatha" thosedays. Actually we got to see the
actual colors of those dishes only after we made
them as those days the tabloid pages were printed
in black and white only. I strongly feel that those
cooking experience that I had with Aunty Dhammi
enhanced my inner desires and abilities more to
beable to continue my cooking journey like this.
Youtube Dream!
The most outstanding culinary videos of the world
famous Sister Liziqi brought me so much of
unexplainable joy and happiness. She became the
true image who is representing such a great
culture of kingdom of China. Her undoubted skills
and vast experience in her hands, her unmatched
creativity, such beautiful and classic food
presentation, splendid and high video quality and
editing to get her with those smooth and serene
music trapped me in an enchanting world. Infact
my mind and soul go through the same vibrant
enchantment when I am watching Sister Dianxi's
videos as well. I am sure for those who have
watched their videos must have felt the same way.
But beyond that norm, I felt something
extraordinary.
Even though, Sri Lanka is a small island nation, we are a mighty civilization that had been nourished by an ancient rich culture which date back for centuries. I felt sad and was in despair with such disappointment as to why no one in our country has not taken this golden opportunity to carry their immense talents to create such quality videos using this international golden gateway and diversify platform "YouTube". Suddenly a thought came in my mind, "Why can’t I doit”? and that question started to bother me afterwards but so many other questions started arising one by one. Where would I find suitable technological knowledge for such creation, who whould do the camera work and editing etc. It hought that it will be just another dream since there was no such a suitable background for an enormous responsibility. But one fine day, an amazing incident happened which laid the first stepping stone to realise my long awaited dream.
That day morning Aunty Dhammi came to our house telling that this Rasavimana team who is publishing the Sri Lanka's finest culinary magazine has come to our village searching for good home-cooks to publish rare village recipes in the section of the magazine called “Taste from village“. In this section they give rural cooks like us from far away villages in Sri Lanka an opportunity to show our cooking skills by presenting our recipes to their readers of this Rasavimana magazine.
Even though, Sri Lanka is a small island nation, we are a mighty civilization that had been nourished by an ancient rich culture which date back for centuries. I felt sad and was in despair with such disappointment as to why no one in our country has not taken this golden opportunity to carry their immense talents to create such quality videos using this international golden gateway and diversify platform "YouTube". Suddenly a thought came in my mind, "Why can’t I doit”? and that question started to bother me afterwards but so many other questions started arising one by one. Where would I find suitable technological knowledge for such creation, who whould do the camera work and editing etc. It hought that it will be just another dream since there was no such a suitable background for an enormous responsibility. But one fine day, an amazing incident happened which laid the first stepping stone to realise my long awaited dream.
That day morning Aunty Dhammi came to our house telling that this Rasavimana team who is publishing the Sri Lanka's finest culinary magazine has come to our village searching for good home-cooks to publish rare village recipes in the section of the magazine called “Taste from village“. In this section they give rural cooks like us from far away villages in Sri Lanka an opportunity to show our cooking skills by presenting our recipes to their readers of this Rasavimana magazine.
With the suggestions from Aunty Dhammi and the majority of villagers I got this unforgeƩable chance to provide my recipes to this high quality magazine for the very first time. I deeply felt and sensed this magazine’s team’s dedication, hard work and commitment to capture even for a one picture when they taking the pictures of prepared dishes by me and also how they loved and valued our country’s traditions. Actually that was the moment I felt that they were the best team that could do such an amazing job in creating my videos. So that fine day I expressed my strong desire and my idea about creating videos about our food culture to the world in order to publish videos on Youtube. But since Rasavimana is a printed publication media company and the fact that they had never produced a video at all, they didn’t give me any direct answer to my suggestion and they said that they needed sometime to think about it.
Time passed by and after two weeks, my dream came alive as they gave me a reply. “My dream” became “Our dream" when they told me “Alright Sister, we are ready for your suggestion and let’s start our new venture from January“. That was the start of this incredible journey of "Traditional Me" through where My life became so close to you.
We planned to air the first 3 videos in January 2020. Yet this was a novel experience to all of us. Even though initially it was a very exciting idea during the implementation, the real experiences and challenges overwhelmed us. Somehow the shooting and the editing of the first 3 videos took longer than what we estimated. 4th of March 2020 was an unforgettable and a very happy day, the day of our dreams came true. It was the first day that you stepped in to our home. That joyous day where our first video was released to the YouTube channel. Yes, thereafter day by day our videos started to upload in the channel. Day by day you also became close to us. Millions of people who live across the globe started to pay more and more attention in to our lives. Do you know? We have become the 1st YouTube channel in SriLanka to surpass over 1 Million subscribers with only 35videos, with in a short period of 14 months!
Youtube Dream!
The most outstanding culinary videos of the world
famous Sister Liziqi brought me so much of
unexplainable joy and happiness. She became the
true image who is representing such a great
culture of kingdom of China. Her undoubted skills
and vast experience in her hands, her unmatched
creativity, such beautiful and classic food
presentation, splendid and high video quality and
editing to get her with those smooth and serene
music trapped me in an enchanting world. Infact
my mind and soul go through the same vibrant
enchantment when I am watching Sister Dianxi's
videos as well. I am sure for those who have
watched their videos must have felt the same way.
But beyond that norm, I felt something
extraordinary.
Even though, Sri Lanka is a small island nation, we
are a mighty civilization that had been nourished
by an ancient rich culture which date back for
centuries. I felt sad and was in despair with such
disappointment as to why no one in our country
has not taken this golden opportunity to carry
their immense talents to create such quality
videos using this international golden gateway and
diversify platform "YouTube". Suddenly a thought
came in my mind,
"Why can’t I doit”? and that
question started to bother me afterwards but so
many other questions started arising one by one.
Where would I find suitable technological
knowledge for such creation, who whould do the
camera work and editing etc. It hought that it will
be just another dream since there was no such a
suitable background for an enormous
responsibility. But one fine day, an amazing
incident happened which laid the first stepping
stone to realise my long awaited dream.
That day morning Aunty Dhammi came to our house telling that this Rasavimana team who is publishing the Sri Lanka's finest culinary magazine has come to our village searching for good home-cooks to publish rare village recipes in the section of the magazine called “Taste from village“. In this section they give rural cooks like us from far away villages in Sri Lanka an opportunity to show our cooking skills by presenting our recipes to their readers of this Rasavimana magazine.
With the suggestions from Aunty Dhammi and the majority of villagers I got this unforgeƩable chance to provide my recipes to this high quality magazine for the very first time. I deeply felt and sensed this magazine’s team’s dedication, hard work and commitment to capture even for a one picture when they taking the pictures of prepared dishes by me and also how they loved and valued our country’s traditions. Actually that was the moment I felt that they were the best team that could do such an amazing job in creating my videos. So that fine day I expressed my strong desire and my idea about creating videos about our food culture to the world in order to publish videos on Youtube. But since Rasavimana is a printed publication media company and the fact that they had never produced a video at all, they didn’t give me any direct answer to my suggestion and they said that they needed sometime to think about it.
That day morning Aunty Dhammi came to our house telling that this Rasavimana team who is publishing the Sri Lanka's finest culinary magazine has come to our village searching for good home-cooks to publish rare village recipes in the section of the magazine called “Taste from village“. In this section they give rural cooks like us from far away villages in Sri Lanka an opportunity to show our cooking skills by presenting our recipes to their readers of this Rasavimana magazine.
With the suggestions from Aunty Dhammi and the majority of villagers I got this unforgeƩable chance to provide my recipes to this high quality magazine for the very first time. I deeply felt and sensed this magazine’s team’s dedication, hard work and commitment to capture even for a one picture when they taking the pictures of prepared dishes by me and also how they loved and valued our country’s traditions. Actually that was the moment I felt that they were the best team that could do such an amazing job in creating my videos. So that fine day I expressed my strong desire and my idea about creating videos about our food culture to the world in order to publish videos on Youtube. But since Rasavimana is a printed publication media company and the fact that they had never produced a video at all, they didn’t give me any direct answer to my suggestion and they said that they needed sometime to think about it.
Time passed by and after two weeks, my dream
came alive as they gave me a reply. “My dream”
became “Our dream" when they told me “Alright
Sister, we are ready for your suggestion and let’s
start our new venture from January“. That was the
start of this incredible journey of "Traditional Me"
through where My life became so close to you.
We planned to air the first 3 videos in January 2020. Yet this was a novel experience to all of us. Even though initially it was a very exciting idea during the implementation, the real experiences and challenges overwhelmed us. Somehow the shooting and the editing of the first 3 videos took longer than what we estimated. 4th of March 2020 was an unforgettable and a very happy day, the day of our dreams came true. It was the first day that you stepped in to our home. That joyous day where our first video was released to the YouTube channel. Yes, thereafter day by day our videos started to upload in the channel. Day by day you also became close to us. Millions of people who live across the globe started to pay more and more attention in to our lives. Do you know? We have become the 1st YouTube channel in SriLanka to surpass over 1 Million subscribers with only 35videos, with in a short period of 14 months!
We planned to air the first 3 videos in January 2020. Yet this was a novel experience to all of us. Even though initially it was a very exciting idea during the implementation, the real experiences and challenges overwhelmed us. Somehow the shooting and the editing of the first 3 videos took longer than what we estimated. 4th of March 2020 was an unforgettable and a very happy day, the day of our dreams came true. It was the first day that you stepped in to our home. That joyous day where our first video was released to the YouTube channel. Yes, thereafter day by day our videos started to upload in the channel. Day by day you also became close to us. Millions of people who live across the globe started to pay more and more attention in to our lives. Do you know? We have become the 1st YouTube channel in SriLanka to surpass over 1 Million subscribers with only 35videos, with in a short period of 14 months!
Why I love to be old fashion!
As a girl I truly enjoy cooking, sewing and hand crafts but my favorite is
trying
out varieties of new recipes. I have made cooking as one of my very favorites
and
fun filled art but yet I pay my utmost respect to all our centuries old
traditional
art of cooking which I am sure that you all must have watched so many of our
food
preparations I have shown in most of my past videos. Apart from that I truly am
passionate about cooking very delicious dishes by using those age old
traditional
cooking methods of Sri Lanka too. You might wonder why I live like a centuries
old
primitive girl in a very high tech world with such a passion for traditional
cooking
methods. Though Sri Lanka is an island
surrounded by the Indian Ocean, has a very diversify and boasts of a 1000 of
years
old rich culture and a history which date back to many centuries. We as one of
the
oldest civilizations in South East Asia have grown up by enriching with all
those
ancient historical, cultural traditions and customs to be a very proud of. Those
strong and rich genetics of our forefathers still runs through our veins which
in
return have made us a modern civilization who has embedded a deep rooted immense
respect to our traditional culture, which has accustomed us to lead a customary
life
style with our own traditional food patterns and cooking methods.
Yes true that our world has technologically revolutionized into such an extremely modern and convenient world. Everything is high tech now with every facility can be accessed so easily with a help of a finger tip. But yet I still lingers on those cherished and special memories of those peaceful, less complicated and serene lifestyle that we lived in the 1980-90 era. At that time the entire society was enjoying emotional peace and emotional contentment than running a marathon in today’s modern society. In today’s modern and robotic society where you are very busy, involved with various electronic equipments from the smart phone to the laptops. If you turn back and to take a good look at your past, you will definitely regret and realize the fact that you have missed so many valuable and important things in your life because of your race in the new modern world. You will be saddened to realize how you have missed your most close loved ones in this high tech world. Almost every one of you all have completely forgotten your simple, happy and carefree childhood and I know that you have started pushing your little kids towards this technological world.You will find that you have missed so many joyous freedom and that sense of been a natural human being.
I strongly believe that a grain of rice that is being cooked in a clay pot on top of a natural wood stove has so much of love, affection, care than a plate of rice which has been cooked in an electric rice cooker! The reason is because when we cook a pot of rice on a wood stove, we pay so much of attention to that pot.
Yes true that our world has technologically revolutionized into such an extremely modern and convenient world. Everything is high tech now with every facility can be accessed so easily with a help of a finger tip. But yet I still lingers on those cherished and special memories of those peaceful, less complicated and serene lifestyle that we lived in the 1980-90 era. At that time the entire society was enjoying emotional peace and emotional contentment than running a marathon in today’s modern society. In today’s modern and robotic society where you are very busy, involved with various electronic equipments from the smart phone to the laptops. If you turn back and to take a good look at your past, you will definitely regret and realize the fact that you have missed so many valuable and important things in your life because of your race in the new modern world. You will be saddened to realize how you have missed your most close loved ones in this high tech world. Almost every one of you all have completely forgotten your simple, happy and carefree childhood and I know that you have started pushing your little kids towards this technological world.You will find that you have missed so many joyous freedom and that sense of been a natural human being.
I strongly believe that a grain of rice that is being cooked in a clay pot on top of a natural wood stove has so much of love, affection, care than a plate of rice which has been cooked in an electric rice cooker! The reason is because when we cook a pot of rice on a wood stove, we pay so much of attention to that pot.
We automatically have this tendency of controlling the heat by adjusting the
firewood in the stove, we loosen the rice grains by using the back of the wooden
spoon and we check the water level of the pot and balance that too by adding
more
water if needed. All these actions has only one pure intention. That is to cook
a
very tasty, edible pot of nourishing rice for our loved ones. So the end result
is
that the pot of rice cooks perfectly with our tender loving care which enhances
the
flavor and the wholesome goodness of the rice. That is the love and care I need
to
deliver in my life as a girl who respect the Traditional lifestyle.
Why I love to be old fashion!
As a girl I truly enjoy cooking, sewing and hand crafts but my favorite is
trying
out varieties of new recipes. I have made cooking as one of my very favorites
and
fun filled art but yet I pay my utmost respect to all our centuries old
traditional
art of cooking which I am sure that you all must have watched so many of our
food
preparations I have shown in most of my past videos. Apart from that I truly am
passionate about cooking very delicious dishes by using those age old
traditional
cooking methods of Sri Lanka too. You might wonder why I live like a centuries
old
primitive girl in a very high tech world with such a passion for traditional
cooking
methods. Though Sri Lanka is an island
surrounded by the Indian Ocean, has a very diversify and boasts of a 1000 of
years
old rich culture and a history which date back to many centuries. We as one of
the
oldest civilizations in South East Asia have grown up by enriching with all
those
ancient historical, cultural traditions and customs to be a very proud of. Those
strong and rich genetics of our forefathers still runs through our veins which
in
return have made us a modern civilization who has embedded a deep rooted immense
respect to our traditional culture, which has accustomed us to lead a customary
life
style with our own traditional food patterns and cooking methods.
Yes true that our world has technologically revolutionized into such an extremely modern and convenient world. Everything is high tech now with every facility can be accessed so easily with a help of a finger tip. But yet I still lingers on those cherished and special memories of those peaceful, less complicated and serene lifestyle that we lived in the 1980-90 era. At that time the entire society was enjoying emotional peace and emotional contentment than running a marathon in today’s modern society. In today’s modern and robotic society where you are very busy, involved with various electronic equipments from the smart phone to the laptops. If you turn back and to take a good look at your past, you will definitely regret and realize the fact that you have missed so many valuable and important things in your life because of your race in the new modern world. You will be saddened to realize how you have missed your most close loved ones in this high tech world. Almost every one of you all have completely forgotten your simple, happy and carefree childhood and I know that you have started pushing your little kids towards this technological world.You will find that you have missed so many joyous freedom and that sense of been a natural human being.
Yes true that our world has technologically revolutionized into such an extremely modern and convenient world. Everything is high tech now with every facility can be accessed so easily with a help of a finger tip. But yet I still lingers on those cherished and special memories of those peaceful, less complicated and serene lifestyle that we lived in the 1980-90 era. At that time the entire society was enjoying emotional peace and emotional contentment than running a marathon in today’s modern society. In today’s modern and robotic society where you are very busy, involved with various electronic equipments from the smart phone to the laptops. If you turn back and to take a good look at your past, you will definitely regret and realize the fact that you have missed so many valuable and important things in your life because of your race in the new modern world. You will be saddened to realize how you have missed your most close loved ones in this high tech world. Almost every one of you all have completely forgotten your simple, happy and carefree childhood and I know that you have started pushing your little kids towards this technological world.You will find that you have missed so many joyous freedom and that sense of been a natural human being.
We automatically have this tendency of controlling the heat by adjusting the
firewood in the stove, we loosen the rice grains by using the back of the wooden
spoon and we check the water level of the pot and balance that too by adding
more
water if needed. All these actions has only one pure intention. That is to cook
a
very tasty, edible pot of nourishing rice for our loved ones. So the end result
is
that the pot of rice cooks perfectly with our tender loving care which enhances
the
flavor and the wholesome goodness of the rice. That is the love and care I need
to
deliver in my life as a girl who respect the Traditional lifestyle.
Quality takes time!
Now it has become a responsibility to deliver you the most beautiful and
qualitatively video everytime. Normally it take 5-6 days to shoot a video. There
were times that took close to 14 days for some videos as well. Then another 4-5
days
goes for editing prior to uploading and after two days of rest, then start of
another new video commences. Actually bright and sunny days are a blessing for
outdoor shooting. Yet throughout the last year and up to now, there were only
few
days that was sunny and bright in Sri Lanka. So once a days shooting was done,
there
are always 2-3 days of rain, where we have to start again after the rain
subside. As
a result of our many days hard work gives a one full course of scrumptious meal
for
you to enjoy watching within that few minutes.
It is very important to make sure to present a top quality, meaningful, educative and enjoyable video to the Internet. Even though I present different kinds of recipes as my creations, I always take every step not to harm or disrespect our Sri Lankan traditional culture when preparing them. Because they are not anyone's private possessions but the pillar stones of our great nation and the culture. If one is trying to change the authenticity of the recipes as per their wishes, without proper knowledge, then I believe that they tend to commit a great national crime. It’s very obvious to me that my videos will carry our ancient heritage and cultural traditions forward, will create an everlasting experience for our future generations.
Hence though these videos I create are for the modern world, they will ultimately become a future legacy. We are well aware of our prime responsibility and duty to leave our traditional inheritance and legacy perfectly intact as they are for our future generations.
I always study Sri Lankan culture and it’s inheritance very closely. I am strongly against of showing off to the world of the practices that are not part of Sri Lankan society and culture as our traditions, as I feel it as exaggeration and pretence. Some practice those merely to gain popularity, viewers and money which I strongly oppose and I see them as opportunists. No matter what our personal views on cultural values, we cannot criticize or ignore them ,when majority of the society have already grasped them as a nation and it is a cultural crime to do so.
I must tell you that I don’t have any intention or a desire to be a popular and a famous individual in front of the international community but always I tried to uplift and enhance the image of our country. Here by I kindly request you to read the other pages of “My Village", "Our Food" and "YouTube & Me" for better understanding of my above comments.
It is very important to make sure to present a top quality, meaningful, educative and enjoyable video to the Internet. Even though I present different kinds of recipes as my creations, I always take every step not to harm or disrespect our Sri Lankan traditional culture when preparing them. Because they are not anyone's private possessions but the pillar stones of our great nation and the culture. If one is trying to change the authenticity of the recipes as per their wishes, without proper knowledge, then I believe that they tend to commit a great national crime. It’s very obvious to me that my videos will carry our ancient heritage and cultural traditions forward, will create an everlasting experience for our future generations.
Hence though these videos I create are for the modern world, they will ultimately become a future legacy. We are well aware of our prime responsibility and duty to leave our traditional inheritance and legacy perfectly intact as they are for our future generations.
I always study Sri Lankan culture and it’s inheritance very closely. I am strongly against of showing off to the world of the practices that are not part of Sri Lankan society and culture as our traditions, as I feel it as exaggeration and pretence. Some practice those merely to gain popularity, viewers and money which I strongly oppose and I see them as opportunists. No matter what our personal views on cultural values, we cannot criticize or ignore them ,when majority of the society have already grasped them as a nation and it is a cultural crime to do so.
I must tell you that I don’t have any intention or a desire to be a popular and a famous individual in front of the international community but always I tried to uplift and enhance the image of our country. Here by I kindly request you to read the other pages of “My Village", "Our Food" and "YouTube & Me" for better understanding of my above comments.
Quality takes time!
Now it has become a responsibility to deliver you the most beautiful and
qualitatively video everytime. Normally it take 5-6 days to shoot a video. There
were times that took close to 14 days for some videos as well. Then another 4-5
days
goes for editing prior to uploading and after two days of rest, then start of
another new video commences. Actually bright and sunny days are a blessing for
outdoor shooting. Yet throughout the last year and up to now, there were only
few
days that was sunny and bright in Sri Lanka. So once a days shooting was done,
there
are always 2-3 days of rain, where we have to start again after the rain
subside. As
a result of our many days hard work gives a one full course of scrumptious meal
for
you to enjoy watching within that few minutes.
It is very important to make sure to present a top quality, meaningful, educative and enjoyable video to the Internet. Even though I present different kinds of recipes as my creations, I always take every step not to harm or disrespect our Sri Lankan traditional culture when preparing them. Because they are not anyone's private possessions but the pillar stones of our great nation and the culture. If one is trying to change the authenticity of the recipes as per their wishes, without proper knowledge, then I believe that they tend to commit a great national crime. It’s very obvious to me that my videos will carry our ancient heritage and cultural traditions forward, will create an everlasting experience for our future generations.
Hence though these videos I create are for the modern world, they will ultimately become a future legacy. We are well aware of our prime responsibility and duty to leave our traditional inheritance and legacy perfectly intact as they are for our future generations.
I always study Sri Lankan culture and it’s inheritance very closely. I am strongly against of showing off to the world of the practices that are not part of Sri Lankan society and culture as our traditions, as I feel it as exaggeration and pretence. Some practice those merely to gain popularity, viewers and money which I strongly oppose and I see them as opportunists. No matter what our personal views on cultural values, we cannot criticize or ignore them ,when majority of the society have already grasped them as a nation and it is a cultural crime to do so.
I must tell you that I don’t have any intention or a desire to be a popular and a famous individual in front of the international community but always I tried to uplift and enhance the image of our country. Here by I kindly request you to read the other pages of “My Village", "Our Food" and "YouTube & Me" for better understanding of my above comments.
It is very important to make sure to present a top quality, meaningful, educative and enjoyable video to the Internet. Even though I present different kinds of recipes as my creations, I always take every step not to harm or disrespect our Sri Lankan traditional culture when preparing them. Because they are not anyone's private possessions but the pillar stones of our great nation and the culture. If one is trying to change the authenticity of the recipes as per their wishes, without proper knowledge, then I believe that they tend to commit a great national crime. It’s very obvious to me that my videos will carry our ancient heritage and cultural traditions forward, will create an everlasting experience for our future generations.
Hence though these videos I create are for the modern world, they will ultimately become a future legacy. We are well aware of our prime responsibility and duty to leave our traditional inheritance and legacy perfectly intact as they are for our future generations.
I always study Sri Lankan culture and it’s inheritance very closely. I am strongly against of showing off to the world of the practices that are not part of Sri Lankan society and culture as our traditions, as I feel it as exaggeration and pretence. Some practice those merely to gain popularity, viewers and money which I strongly oppose and I see them as opportunists. No matter what our personal views on cultural values, we cannot criticize or ignore them ,when majority of the society have already grasped them as a nation and it is a cultural crime to do so.
I must tell you that I don’t have any intention or a desire to be a popular and a famous individual in front of the international community but always I tried to uplift and enhance the image of our country. Here by I kindly request you to read the other pages of “My Village", "Our Food" and "YouTube & Me" for better understanding of my above comments.