Ranil Wickrasinghe is no economic wizard. What he did was to postpone the install paymants and we have to pay the installents with added interest, later.
He fooled the masse with Pseudo RECOVERY.
Sutra Puncha at his Worst.
We must never let him come to power.
I have a Personal Grouse with him.
He unceremoniously sacked my BOSS, University Grant Comission Chairman, Professor B. Ranjth N. Mendis.
I acted as the Aciting Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science for 3 months and fulfilled all His Intended Targets.
I begged him to release me from Work on Adminstration, since I was intereted in Research Work which I finished in double quick time and the rest of the time I spent on my Linux Development Plan and having a Network dedicated to the Faculty of Dental Sciences independent of the University Server.
Yes, he released me for academic work but gave me another project with Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA).
I really enjoyed working with Dr. Handa and Hagiwara and Professor Kimiko was my Room Buddy. He was involved in training our Technical Staff on Special (enzyme technology) Staining Technology.
Unfortunately, minus 20 decree Fridge Freezer I ordered for my Research Work was hijacked by our seniors technician Mr. Bandara who died of Mercury Poisonining.
He was a very nice guy and this piece is dedicated to him.
Of course, I was interested in Safety within the Laboratory from my Private Sector Training in Quality Control and Safety.
This was to highlight the lady who died at about the same time in Colombo (forget her name) who was doing gene splitting in CEYLON. I think this case was hushed up and covered up by the Private Sector guys, fearing litigation by the family and the possibility of undermining their recruitment schemes which violated the Fundamental Rights and the Safety of the individuals in laboratory work.
I left private Sector never to join again but always highligted this case in my introductory lectures to students and visiting trainees.
I was trained by WHO Program in Gene Splitting and part of that training included Safety. I went to Science Faculty for training and one of my classmates in Biochemistry died related to chemical poisoning after retirement. Another of my classmates who entered university much later in Biochemistry did his Masters in Laboratory Chemical Poisonung in America.
He asked me to suggest a Reseach Project.
All my other academic friends who entered the University from my class except the above mentioned above are dead.
I have noted these incidents without their names in a single chapter in one of my many books at Amazon's.
You have to read those books at Amazon to become wiser.
My first project proposal to aThird Year Medical student was very simple.
Study the relationship of grey hair to Thyroid Hormones, T4 and T3.
He ended up in Biochemistry which I hated in later years. He did go to UK and USA and never retuned to Mother Lanka to pay back his loans and the bond which was Rs. 30,000/=. We immediately raised the bond to 3 times and more,
(Rs.100,000/=).
The girls who joined Pathology (they were Tamils) did not pay back their legal bonds. I personnally conveyed a mesage from my Professor R. G. Tennakoon, to one of my batchmates, that she cannot join any University in CEYLON, if she decides to come home one day.
Coming back to the Biochemitry Guy, he orgsnized a Guest Lecture in our Faculty.
I attended it in good time and it so happened that I was the only guy to listen to him on that day. He was devastated and told him nobody likes him and Do Not ever come back here, to Show Off.
He was a Hela Urumaya Type guy in his days in CEYLON and he was from Ananda College. He also did not return any of the books he borrowed from me.
He was a very stingy guy and he never offered me a cup of tea which I really love.
One of batch his mates had already warned me that he would never offer a cup of tea and BEWARE.
He of course broke my childhood camera and he did not tell me how. Of course, by that time I had a better camera which I never gave on loan to anybody.
Incidentally, one of my relatives ransacked all my spare cameras and vandalized my very expensive Medical Projector for the lens. He became paralysed just before I left CEYLON and I did not pay him a visit but send him the medical gear that he needed through my wife. This is a guy I wish not see in any of my next lives and that includes that Biochemistry Guy.
I wish I meet our dog Zimba in one of my next lives. I am convinced that he is currently in heaven but I have no intention of visiting haeven to cancel my good merits achieved in this life.
Stil I need to talk about another guy who tried to steal my intellectual property. He was an anesthetic. He had no training in paediatrics but was interested in studying TOR or Toxic Oxygen Radical. By that time I was into TOR as the base starting point in Inflammation and Inteleukins. I got one my senior female technician to do the TOR work and her senior technician was a ladies man whom I did like and refused to associate with. I did a close watch on his extracurricular acts and not on his bench work. He was a good bench worker but did use shortcuts in his staining work which was not accepted in Research. So, he was never tasked with Research Work. He used to undercut Sujatha Ramadasa the next in line of command. She unfortunately lacked Resesch component for her promotion in the Medical Faculty. I worjed in the Dental Faculty. I bumped into her one day and asked her how she was doing. She broke and started crying. She came from Ratnapura and she did not have any friends in Kandy. I told her to give me her resume and I would collaboratte in a Research work and I would buy all the chemicals, particularly the Suoeroxide Dismutase (SOD) for the project. I got her to do some pilot work since to my knowledge nobody had done any work in Ceylon on SOD. When I was satisfied I gave her my protocol which that Doctor guy tried to steal from me. He was initilly one of my supervisors. I sacked him from the supervisor. This was an unpresidented event and I threatened to put my preemptive research work on placenta on to the dustbin, if he was not removed legally in a formal meeting with the Faculty of Medicine. Fortunately, Professor Mendis had the foresight of a breakdown in communication and appponted 3 supervisors to my project. That saved the day for me.
Miss Sujatha Ramadasa of course got promoted as the Chief Technician when that ladies guy retired. That was on the the strength of the SOD Work with me. I gave a strong recommdation. That ladies guy after retirement used to avoid me in public and he had to retire early on medical grounds. He developed herpes related ophthalmiitis which affected his vision and bench work. That brings me to the third guy with whom I had no academic connection. He used to cover up many deficiencies in the technical and minor staff of the Department. I had to uncover the pilferring of absolute alcohol from the Deparment store. I managed to sack 3 in the Department.
1. One stealing petty cash.
2. One stealing Microcope lens
3. One stealing absolute alcohol
The Chief Guy used to cover up these acts.
Then I had a good COMBO.
Mr. Nimal Ranjith Seneviratna who was National Senior athlete and a good opening batman in cricket for Kegalle and Kandy. He never told me he was a cricketer but he taught me how to use the Typewriter which I coined "Ko Ko System" of Typing which is not related to Touch Typing.
When I did a book on all these guys, I discovered the finer points of their lives.
I did not forget to give long calls to all of them before my departure from CEYLON.
There is no way, I would return to CEYLON even for a holiday.
I did my parts to "Mother Lanka" in "My Way" and there are no arrears.
My only loss is 2 one terabyte SSD disks with all my DATA of Yesteryear snd a few hard copies of my books at Amazon's.
