Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Tale of Five Sri-Lankan Monkey Types and Monkey Magic


Tale of Five Sri-Lankan Monkey Types and Monkey Magic
We have quite a number of monkeys in the wild and this story is not about them.
We have a monkey in edutainment ministry who is always appealing to the low grade or the gallery.
This monkey is like the proverbial monkey who got its tail caught up between wooden planks.
He came to the scene and straddled on the wooden planks with tail in between and for fun pulled the peg that was holding the two apart.
Presto!
The edutainment was in full gear and in crisis now and the tail is still caught between the planks.
Then we got a another monkey who was like the proverbial Hunuman with tail on fire.
He is a Union man who wants to be on industrial action while forgoing his/her meager salary.
His tail is on fire and he does not care.
Then we got the third and the biggest monkey who ventured into the cuckoo land and stole three eggs from the nest.
He puts one in his pharyngeal pouch (cheek).
The second one was crushed open with one hand.
The third one is, in its tightly closed palm not wanting to share with any other monkey.
He is the one who has law onto himself.
The fourth variety is the ones who have retired from active duty but looking on these three monkeys for reincarnation and cheering only one of them and abusing the other two.
The fifth category are the ones long retired and nothing else to do in active life but write to local papers to get their ego recorded for posterity.
This is the country of Monkey Magic and the reader is free to add any more categories down below in the comment section.
Thank You.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Pinnacle of Achievement-Sebastian Coe the Model Sportsman and Gentleman par excellence


Pinnacle of Achievement-Sebastian Coe the Model Sportsman and Gentleman par excellence

It is amazing what one man can do to sports.

I remember seeing him in Sheffield and talking to him while he was training for the Olympic gold in 1980.
His dedication, discipline and training to achieve and break the world record at the same time was remarkable.
I am sure Roger Bannister who was a neurologist, if he was alive today would have been more proud of his achievement.
Roger was one who said one can break the 4 minutes barrier in one mile and trained himself to do just that.
He is a role model and made other athletes coming from Africa with very limited resources to compete and break his record within a very short time space.
Having taken up politics he only served his ultimate gold getting the highest number of medals for a TEAM UK.
He galvanized, polarized and focused on the job while India played politics in this games by allowing an undesirable freak to appear in the opening ceremony and cast some slur on the character of Sebestian Coe.
I cannot believe the Team India did not recognize the freak before commencing the march.
I also believe Indian had a ploy to take mean advantage of her presence and cast some doubts on the overall security.
India has in the meantime has destroyed the gentleman´s Test Cricket by IPL and it is actively destroying our players too.
Indian can be bought and thrive only on money.
That is their name of the game and booking strategy.
They only speak with money and money is corruptive in any game, football included.
I hope Sebstian Coe make steps so that cricket is never in the Olympics until money minded Indian and their politicians get cricket back to its original gentleman´s game.
That is why India did not get a single gold with a population that will overtake China in a few years time but China may even lead the gold table by beating TEAM USA.
I have a issues for our guys and girls.
Like I predicted without having any inside knowledge that there will be more officials and politicians in London on state coffers to participate in this grand extravaganza has been reported true by an English daily but not Sinhala.
My fear is that if we have cricket is in the Olympics there will be more officials and politicians(fifty times the team strength and with additional cheer party lead by Percy) and they will drain the entire budget meant for sports in one week of sojourn in a foreign land.
The qualification to become a minister is to cheat ballot papers at all the elections from Local to National.
Unfortunately counting officers are also in the fray nowadays with political backing.
It is a shame.
Only crooks gets there that unfortunately include our cricket board elections too.
In this country they spent less than 1.8% on education and 80% of that is for salary and we do not have a sports magazine in the Medical library.
In actual fact, they spent less than 0.5 percent in real terms and they want to cut it more.
For sports it is even worse and that too is spent on cricket pitches and football pitches in the Vanniya and nothing for the sportsmen and women.

Sebastian Coe – Chair
Sebastian Coe is Chair of the Company, having previously been Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.
Sebastina is a double Olympic Champion and 12-time world record holder in athletics.
He won gold in the 1500m and silver in the 800m at both the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Games.
He retired from competitive athletics in 1990 and became a Conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague. In 2002 he was made a Peer – Lord Coe of Ranmore.
He received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Ebony and Ivory


Ebony And Ivory
Live Together
In Perfect Harmony
Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard,
Oh Lord, Why Don't We?
We All Know
That People Are The Same
Where Ever You Go
There Is Good and Bad
In Everyone,
We Learn To Live,
We Learn To Give

"Ebony and Ivory" was banned for a while in South Africa during the Apartheid era.

In the early 19th century mammoth ivory was used, as substantial source, for such products as piano keys, billiard balls, and ornamental boxes.


One thing that Paul forgot to mention was that the piano keys were made of ivory.
I make that record here, even belatedly (he is alive and kicking well unlike the dead elephants).
Paul McCartney is the writer and Stevie Wonder the other of the duet.


This song hit the chart in 1982 and I was in England.
I was neither black nor white but a browny (not a brown Sahib) and was feeling the pinch.

All the jobs I did  up to that point were the ones white man did not want to work.
One place had the highest maternal death and another place had highest neonatal death in UK.

All the same, I worked for humanity and mostly neonates.
Worked hard to improve the lot including newly established wings and hospitals and planning for new ones in Dartford.
I was focused when British doctors were either half drunk or fully drunk and one social worker was killing destitutes to get their social benefits illegally and there was a mad GP and mad nurse murdering NHF patients and babies.
All three were in prison, one committed suicide in the cell.
Then the last case was  a little girl who was seduced by the father who was a policemen.
I had enough and left UK for good never to return.
These people who are agents of human rights, look straight into the mirror and see who is more innocent.
I abhor violence and killing even in war.
But I abhor killing innocent animals, more.

If we look at the history of Ceylon British occupiers killed our Gentle Giants almost to extinction in the hills and where now tea is planted and foreign labour was brought and they were the worst treated slaves until 1975, when British Television exposed them in broad day light.
I do not say their lot is better three years after the war ended and their daily wages are not enough to buy flour or bread!
They are fast leaving the plantation but their leaders are living in cushy Colombo 7 palaces.
They only come up when they need their votes that comes once in every six years.
Now coming to my lead story the Ebony and Ivory.
Ivory trade was regularized only towards beginning of  1980.
In this country we have both Ivory and Ebony.
From 1970 we started decimating the Ebony with 1973 oil price hike and with foreign cash deficit

We started decimating tree cover including in the plantation sector and growing not cash crops but manioc.
The tree felling is continuing with political patronage and now anybody who is somebody with political backing of  two third majority can transport illegal timber anywhere in this blessed country.

We deserve this type of government for our own stupidity.

State laborers were eating maniac with their leaves as vegetable matter and I had to do postmortem on them and the diagnosis was cyanide poisoning.

Now, we are killing the remaining tuskers to adorn the high palaces with ornamentation.

They are venerated for 10 days and the rest of the year they are neglected by wildlife, railway and the hashish cultivators in the deep jungle with ¨Upi Wawamu Rata Nagamu with Hashish¨.

Below is a historical record which I copied form elsewhere in the web for your information.


Japanese, American, Russians and the Chinese are the biggest consumers of illegal IVORY TRADE.

In the early 19th century mammoth ivory was used, as substantial source, for such products as piano keys, billiard balls, and ornamental boxes.

Some estimates suggest that 10 million mammoths still remain buried in Siberia.

The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade in the ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, mammoth, Rhino and most commonly, Asian and African elephants.
Ivory has been traded for hundreds of years by people in such regions as Greenland, Alaska, and Siberia. 

The trade, in more recent times, has led to endangerment of species, resulting in restrictions and bans.