You know you are Sri Lankan when...
1. You eat rice with 4 curries for breakfast, lunch and dinner
2. You get it on to Baila music.
3. Your idea of a bathing suit is a conspicuous see-thru sarong around your chest.
4. You refer to friends by calling them "Machan" or "ado"
5. When you get up 1.00 pm in the noon with sleep of 12 hours with fully drunk in previous night
6. When local Arrack and mixture is better than all others
7. You use Siddahelpe and Panadol to solve your all medical problems
12. You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.
15. Whenever something sad happens to anyone or any animal for that matter you automatically say "aney pouuuuuu..."(sooooo saaaaad)
16. When something gross happens or talking about anything thats disgusting,bad,etc. you say "Chi Chi Chi...".
22. When you'd "tap that Toddy" just to get that nice taste.
24. When to your parents
a) Scotch tape is 'sello tape',
b/ Washing Powder is 'Rinso'
c) toothpaste is 'signal'
d) soap is "lux or rexona'
e) MSG's are "Aji-no-moto'
f) and binoculars are "binaCLOSE'
g) any cellphone is reffered to as 'Cell Tell'
25.)When you know the words to the very annoying 'Surangani' and "Ojaye, Ojaye" songs...(NOTE: and now that you have been reminded, these songs automatically start playing in your head)
26. When despite the fact that you have eaten a full three course meal prior to visiting your "auntie", refusing to eat another three course meal in the same evening may result in dire consequences.
27. You get invited to dinner at an "uncles" house for 7:00pm; You get there at 8:30 and dinner is served at 11:58 pm; The arrack induced fathers start singing at 1:00 am while the mothers start making idle chit chat about the "old days in Sri Lanka"...By 3:00am your "auntie" forces you to drink coffee so that you can get a good nights sleep when you get home at 6:00 AM.
29. When you know that Odel/house of Fashion and No Limit are the best places to do an entire decade worth of shopping!
30. When you know that Thambili is not only a fruit, but a color, a cure for diarrhea and a way to solve hangover-related issues!
31. When you see aunties/uncles you haven't seen in a long time they give you the Sri Lankan"sniff kiss" where by:
a.They bring their cheek up to your cheek
b. The sniff
c. Switch cheeks and repeat.
32. When your version of cookies and milk equals to"Marie biscuits" and Pure Ceylon Tea.
33. When you know that "short eats" are nothing short of delicious, fattening and extremely addictive...
34. When "roast paan" is always chosen over "naan bread".
35. When everything is dipped in "plain tea" or eaten with coconut sambol and bread
36. When finding large chunks of juggry in your "tala guli" is always a welcome surprise.
37. When Bombai Mutai" is better than any cotton candy.
38. When you smile after reading this whole list.
39. When you still continue to smile
40. When you think how happy and how proud you to be a Sri Lankan.
1. You eat rice with 4 curries for breakfast, lunch and dinner
2. You get it on to Baila music.
3. Your idea of a bathing suit is a conspicuous see-thru sarong around your chest.
4. You refer to friends by calling them "Machan" or "ado"
5. When you get up 1.00 pm in the noon with sleep of 12 hours with fully drunk in previous night
6. When local Arrack and mixture is better than all others
7. You use Siddahelpe and Panadol to solve your all medical problems
12. You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.
15. Whenever something sad happens to anyone or any animal for that matter you automatically say "aney pouuuuuu..."(sooooo saaaaad)
16. When something gross happens or talking about anything thats disgusting,bad,etc. you say "Chi Chi Chi...".
22. When you'd "tap that Toddy" just to get that nice taste.
24. When to your parents
a) Scotch tape is 'sello tape',
b/ Washing Powder is 'Rinso'
c) toothpaste is 'signal'
d) soap is "lux or rexona'
e) MSG's are "Aji-no-moto'
f) and binoculars are "binaCLOSE'
g) any cellphone is reffered to as 'Cell Tell'
25.)When you know the words to the very annoying 'Surangani' and "Ojaye, Ojaye" songs...(NOTE: and now that you have been reminded, these songs automatically start playing in your head)
26. When despite the fact that you have eaten a full three course meal prior to visiting your "auntie", refusing to eat another three course meal in the same evening may result in dire consequences.
27. You get invited to dinner at an "uncles" house for 7:00pm; You get there at 8:30 and dinner is served at 11:58 pm; The arrack induced fathers start singing at 1:00 am while the mothers start making idle chit chat about the "old days in Sri Lanka"...By 3:00am your "auntie" forces you to drink coffee so that you can get a good nights sleep when you get home at 6:00 AM.
29. When you know that Odel/house of Fashion and No Limit are the best places to do an entire decade worth of shopping!
30. When you know that Thambili is not only a fruit, but a color, a cure for diarrhea and a way to solve hangover-related issues!
31. When you see aunties/uncles you haven't seen in a long time they give you the Sri Lankan"sniff kiss" where by:
a.They bring their cheek up to your cheek
b. The sniff
c. Switch cheeks and repeat.
32. When your version of cookies and milk equals to"Marie biscuits" and Pure Ceylon Tea.
33. When you know that "short eats" are nothing short of delicious, fattening and extremely addictive...
34. When "roast paan" is always chosen over "naan bread".
35. When everything is dipped in "plain tea" or eaten with coconut sambol and bread
36. When finding large chunks of juggry in your "tala guli" is always a welcome surprise.
37. When Bombai Mutai" is better than any cotton candy.
38. When you smile after reading this whole list.
39. When you still continue to smile
40. When you think how happy and how proud you to be a Sri Lankan.
