t’s the first weekend of the year. While I would just like to stay at home with a book and a mug of hot coffee, the world still continues to party on. With parties at Kama Colombo, beer pong at Playtrix and movies and album launches.

Happy New Year from everyone at YAMU. We hope 2015 is blessed and peaceful for all of our readers and friends.

Here’s a guide to India’s commercial and entertainment capital – from sight-seeing to street food.

Here’s a list of our favourite mind blowing restaurants and bakers that came up in 2014.

Paan Paan does party platters of sandwiches, sweets and all – it’s also quite affordable.

If you are looking for a place to go for service this Christmas and New Year, here’s just some of the churches in and around Colombo, you could pick from.

The Havelock Road stretch is covered in Christmas fir trees in December – you can get yours for as low as Rs. 1000.

It’s not Vesak, but the whole of Colombo really lights up during the Christmas season, from the malls to the hotels. Suddenly there’s cotton-snow, brown men in white beards, and pine trees everywhere. It’s an interesting sight in the evenings, so we’ve done a round­-up of Colombo’s Christmas decor, to guide you if you choose to drive around and see the lights.

Merry Christmas from everyone at YAMU. This is a video of us putting up our Christmas tree, which we got at Daya Perera’s. It took like half-an-hour, so we hyperlapsed it down to a minute.

Since it’s the season to be giving, there are these people who are collecting donations to buy gifts for Jayanthi Infants Home located in Colombo 07.