Off hours · Colombo

Away from the screen

Weekends, mostly. A keyboard, two cats, a telescope, a thousand-piece box on the floor, and six years of teaching that never quite counted as work. The drawings live on the plates page; everything else is here.

Teaching and mentoring

Six years of it, mostly unpaid and mostly on weekends: mentorship cycles, undergraduate workshops, judging panels and the odd Adobe XD session. The habit of explaining the work is what turned into owning the system. The full record sits on the profile.

Pamudi Dahanayake on stage receiving the IEEE Young Protégé 2025 token of appreciation. — Young Protégé final summit · Knowledge Partner *2025*

Pamudi Dahanayake presenting a design thinking process slide during a Zone24x7 session. — Design thinking session · Zone24x7 *Internal*

RevolUX 2.0 speaker card announcing her workshop on branding and marketing in the design process. — RevolUX 2.0 · Branding in the design process *2022*

Creative Eye speaker card listing her as a speaker alongside a colleague. — Creative Eye · UI/UX talk and Adobe XD workshop *2020*

Pamudi Dahanayake seated at a digital keyboard in a home studio corner, playing with both hands. — **At the keyboard** Colombo

Music

Sings, and plays keyboard

Once with the UCSC Music Circle, and still the thing the evening turns into when the laptop closes. A guitar leans against the wall behind the chair.

Two cats, one iPad

They supervise. The second photograph is also the proof of authorship for the green bird on the plates page: same drawing, same hand, same cat asleep behind it.

Two long-haired kittens with blue eyes at a doorway, one white and one seal-point, looking up at the camera. — **The pair** At the door

Drawing a green crested bird in Procreate on an iPad, with a seal-point cat asleep on the desk behind. — **Mid-drawing** Procreate

Games

Playing under the handle Pamsdemic

A wide rotation rather than one title, and whatever the co-op night calls for. Two rigs in one dark room and two cats at the glass door, which is the household in a single frame.

Sea of Thieves screenshot at sunset: a pirate carrying a cat walks up a beach, a burning ship and an island tavern behind, gamertag Pamsdemic overhead. — **Sea of Thieves · Sailor of the Blue Horizon** *In-game capture*

A dark room at night with two lit gaming monitors, an RGB tower and two pale cats sitting by a glass door onto a wet garden. — **Two screens, two cats** Rainy evening

Bricks and pieces

Step 1,379 of a 7,541-piece build, and two thousand jigsaw pieces waiting on the shelf. Both are the same pleasure as a component library: sort, stage, assemble, do not skip the manual.

An open LEGO instruction manual at step 1,379 beside a sofa covered in bagged parts for a large spaceship build. — **Step 1,379** Somewhere near the end

Two 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle boxes, Fantasy Village and Dreamy Day, lying on a cream sheepskin rug. — **Two thousand pieces** Queued

Traveling

Hill country, in the rain

Rain on the glass, coffee going cold, headphones on the tray. The point of the trip, more or less.

A mug of black coffee and over-ear headphones on a wooden sill, looking through rain-flecked glass at a green hillside at dusk. — **A window worth the drive** Hill country

Setting up a large reflector telescope on a tripod in a sitting room lit pink, aligning the finder by hand. — **Reflector, on the tripod** *Setting up*

Stargazing

Carried into the middle of the sitting room

Because that is the direction the doorway faces. Aligning the finder takes longer than the looking does.

Reading is on the list too, and has no photograph. Consider that a gap in the record rather than in the habit.