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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Election is all over and every conceivable lie had being utilized for gains.

It is miracle that I survived without hearing loss since the decibel range was higher than the pitch I was used to.

Sometimes I think it is a blessing to be either deaf or blind or both.

Since I am not either this is to revive Punch and Judy not in his style but in boxing style.

It is strange to note that Punch and Judy characters never used Boxer the kids friendly dog nor the the real boxing characters like Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali), probably fearing American backlash.

I am writing this not expecting any kickbacks from any living soul or any British soul sent to hell by Punch but I have to use English for the strength of the Punch but in boxing style.

I am not even light weight and not even super flyweight to have the physical (I was super bantamweight when I was abroad and having being here for over 5 years gone below the fly weight category without even having a crash course in dieting) presence felt in the ring.

I have to use the English punchlines (send our Buddhist MPs including monks to heaven – not to hell like in UK for them to evoke blessing for the millions of voters who are practically missing a meal-according to health Ministry statistics; they never starve; they actually follow the Buddhist monks principle of eating once a day to go to heaven since Ceylon is not the heaven or paradise that it was known to be) instead for posterity.

The boxing categories including light weight was used by me to address the issue I have with the Microsoft / Open Office Office Package/s which is /are always super heavyweight and tax my computer's limited resources including RAM.

Since I use Linux for my work I do many things (unlike Microsoft Windows) once at the same time (watching Football World Cup-not cricket now- do a distribution download while I do some pep writings like this) and the speed is a factor I rely for efficiency.

I use Abiword Light sometime which is portable too.

I have extended this to my Linux100 writing elsewhere in the Google’s blog spot- just type asoka and paraox- you are instantly there and I want the Linux Developers to produce Light Weight (700 MB. Middle Weight is 1700 MB and anything above is Heavy Weight (especially the commercial versions that tax resources even at boot time) and sometimes useless to say the least.

Just to take some respite from somewhat taxing job (100 is a big issue at my age, even though I have already 200 distributions in my USB hard disc) of testing and writing reviews for the wider web users.

I take life at an easy pace now!

To begin with my Punch Code (in computer terminology) we must have a nurse and a doctor appointed to the parliament.

The should weigh all new MPs (do not do that with the old foxes they are too heavy that the spring of the balance will break without any spring of surprises) now and every three months over the next 6 years and send that data to the Central Bank / World Bank and the WHO (Sinhalen whoooo) as real data.

They must be categorized according to the weight class of the boxers and see how they progress from flyweight to super heavyweight both in weight and money in no time.

Real progress of the country.

My argument for this is that our parliament truly represents the wishes of the population in real terms and numbers.

It truly feel the pulse of the people and rule of the law but not the rulers image.

If we have donkeys in this country surely they should be represented there.

Then we must have an annual contest in front of the Diyawana Oya and get Indian actors to come and face them weight by weight.

Our voters can be used as the Punch Bags or Boxing Bag (it is done almost everyday if you look at the government TV Channel).

It is worth while that they must send a random sample of weight from school leavers for comparison.

But I think that is a waste since our Central Bank has the knack of manipulating any real data into abstruse elements for it to be presented at the Budget at any time of the day or night or if necessary for IMF’s consumption.

But my real punch line is not for the new MPs.

It is for the Ministers who were newly appointed.

It looks as if they are used as the Punch Bags especially the Foreign Minister.

I do not wish who uses them as the Punch Bags.

It is a top secret except for one who is always vociferous in Sinhala for the cameras and destroy anything foreign except the oil he wears on his head.

If seems that boxers use kick balls and kick bags.

I like both of them (kick bag and kick ball) and in football style I can kick them in their vestiges!

Asoka

3rd July., 2010

No Dog for Christmas

Sunday, November 1, 2020
No Dog for Christmas

I should rephrase it no “Puppy as a gift” for Christmas.

If you really love puppies please download Puppy Linux;

The creator of this Linux distribution is a real dog lover.

Not only that Puppy Linux is Puppy size (one need to have some understanding about Linux, though) but loaded with utilities.

I can have a list of reasons of more than 20 but on top are two real life stories.

This happened more than 30 years in the United Kingdom.

I was heavily involved with Neonatal Pediatric care then.

I was on weekend off and listening to some music (Terry Vogan was my favorite Irish announcer) and radio (not Terry) announced the tragic death of a baby few days old (the day the happy family brought the baby home), mauled to death by the owners pet dog.

The police came an shot the dog but the baby did not survive.

The bottom line is the dogs can be extremely jealous of a new comer, including babies.

This happened about 10 days before Christmas and that was the only Christmas that I could not blend with the Christmas spirit.

All throughout the festive season the message was relayed "No Puppy as a pet, if one cannot care for".

Underline theme was that baby care is full time job and dog care is no different.

The bone of contention here is, the doctor/s could have visited the house and made some investigations of the suitability of the house for a newborn baby with an adult dog.

The second incident was, one of my old (80 plus) professors forearm was torn to pieces and needed over 40 stitches.

He was terrified and the dog, his own, was not killed but transferred to a suitable foster home.

He was living alone and we never investigated the reason for the attack.

So my recommendation;

One has to be 40 to 45 years (does not matter one is married or not) old, to properly care for dog who lives till the owner is 60 plus and showing all the signs of old age disabilities.

This the crisis period in life, the children are teens and won't listen to you.

The dog is an outlet to divert ones attention from growing but rebellious kids.

The paradox is the children also use the dog as a “Punching Bag” to let their frustration out.

For a single man or women (the success or failure in career is immaterial) it is good companion.

To brag about the dog (if successful in career) not the career in office.

The dog lives 15 to 20 years and for a single man /woman walking the dog (for the last 15 years of one's life) is a good antidote for intermittent exogenous depression (not for the endogenous depression,one needs proper treatment).

Besides, the dog ages fast and it is a preview of ones old age chronic illnesses, including arthritis, cataract, diabetes, obesity, gout and many more.

Mind you dog care is more expensive than medical care in USA/UK and France.

Best advice is not have a dog at all if YOU do not have Money and Time!

Please do not be enticed by the Christmas films involving dogs but enjoy the film instead.

Demise of Prof. Senaka Bible is a conspiracy

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Demise of Prof. Senaka Bible is a conspiracy

Demise of Prof. Senaka Bible is a conspiracy

This is a reproduction and I tend to believe the circumstances.
The story then was the poison was put in wine by an air hostess and there was inadvertent delay in seeking medical aid.

The same company conduct an annual oration in his name (good old American Methodology, similar to Area 51).

He was my teacher and he is probably reborn in a another alien planet and I believe aliens have advised him not to visit this planet again.

Professor Bibile died in 1977 at Guyana, under mysterious circumstances (this was few yeas after my graduations and I was fortunate enough to listen to his pharmacology lectures.I decided to never do pharmacology and ended up being a pathologist, after fact guy but not forensic but I helped to solve few forensic cases).

The section regarding his death is being consistently removed from Wikipedia by an unknown entity, each time someone updates it.

It is a well known 'secret' that Dr Bibile was murdered by inducing cardiac arrest using a drug(s) that has been available, even before second world war.

One of his colleagues were involved in the murder to ensure that he would not recover from the 'heart attack' by not taking prompt action as well as taking the wrong cause of action as well as a delayed cause of action to recover him.

As a matter of fact, this doctor colleague of doctor Bibile from UNO, asked Mrs Bibile for her forgiveness for letting him die that way, implying that he was simply a tool for corrupted multinational drug companies, in which she replied, "If you can bring him back, then I will forgive you".

Known multinational pharmaceutical companies were involved in Professor Bibile's murder.

The truth will come out one day as it happens all the time.

Who is a Doctor and who can hold the Title Dr.?

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Who is a Doctor and who can hold the Title Dr.?

Who is a Doctor and who can hold the Title Dr.?

Posted on October 12, 2011

This is a reproduction from New York Times

Being myself a Medical Person D.P.T.O (Do not Practice and Teach Only) who can use this two letters and the dot for many reasons, avoid using it, doctor part in my life for the last 10 years and it has made my life very easy and simple.

In fact, one of my neighbors asked me are you really a doctor to which I smiled and did not give an answer, making him more confused.

Most of the guys/girls who know me come for second opinion, I am more than willing to oblige.

But free of charge and they do get better with simple remedies.

I have few emergency tablets, in my purse always for such and eventuality, just in case.

I totally agree with this gentleman and I am more than grateful to him for bringing to notice what ever the PhD one holds if it is not relevant to the (if it is not germane to the holder’s primary current occupation) post currently holding, it should not be used as a label of distinction.

After all the PhD may be 30 years old and disproved by at least three times over that period of time, if it was a good one to tag one’s own thesis.

I am in fact currently finishing a book (which actually was a 10 year research work) and I have decided not to put that for PhD referral or title and would share it with the general public.

If somebody gives a PhD posthumously for this creative work, the funeral director can put a single copy, in my coffin before cremation so that it goes to heaven or hell with me.

Who’s a Dr.?

Our continued use of courtesy titles — increasingly rare in the news media — prompts many questions.

Rules on the use of “Dr.” in particular can lead to confusion, for readers and unfortunately sometimes for our writers.

Here’s our style book entry:

Dr. should be used in all references for physicians and dentists whose practice is their primary current occupation, or who work in a closely related field, like medical writing, research or pharmaceutical manufacturing:

Dr. Alex E. Baranek; Dr. Baranek; the doctor. (Those who practice only incidentally, or not at all, should be called Mr., Ms., Miss or Mrs.).

Anyone else with an earned doctorate, like a Ph.D. degree, may request the title, but only if it is germane to the holder’s primary current occupation (academic, for example, or laboratory research).
For a Ph.D., the title should appear only in second and later references.

The holder of a Ph.D. or equivalent degree may also choose not to use the title.

Do not use the title for someone whose doctorate is honorary.

I am Installing Debian 12.1.0.41 o n my NUC

Yes, My Favorite STACER, the System Tool is back with mew.

No regrets waiting over one hour to install.

I love the old Debian Desktop but desktop with side panels on both sides is already depreciated..

My book started with this edition in my NUC. Advantage of using the old version is it is STABLE and no UPDATES intended.

Material there in my book is based on Debian 12 with highlighting new features as and when necessary.

I currently use Forky the Testing Distribution. The reason being I can use the cellphone dedicated software Debian has recently introduced.

To begin with installation on very easy pace.

I can follow every action since the font is large and readable. I can read them seated in an easy chair. I do not have to read the Linux Bible which is always by the side much smaller than Harrison and Cecil and Loeb- Textbook of Medicine.

Nelson I think is a book on Physics.

It is Python 3.

GRUB took an inordinate time.

About 10 minutes.

Total installation time 1 hour and 15 minutes.

No worry the guys have come to clean up the gutters and roof and I am house bound.

Boot Menu and boot up script is large enough and I am going to keep it for reference.

All icons are large and easy on my eyes.

Taken 9.2GB with all the desktops except LXDE and LXQt.

2620 files in total.

Brings out the nostalgia but without the right side application panel.

I installed AbiWord but I had to remove the DVD tagged to the distribution. Assumed that I installed it using a DVD and not by USB. It is running smoothly and I got STACER back.

What a relief?

I love STACER which is System Tool whuch guves a running commentary. I dot like the new system tools. It is a beautiful graphic application. GeDebi is installed by default and I got both Opera and Vivaldi. Brave is srill terminal and I did not try.

How to Shorten Python in Linux?

Nobody has found a way to shorten Python in Linux.

I always try to avoid learning Linux Python.

I looked at it when it was 2.2 in Debian and gave it up having read the book "Joy of Linux" written in the style of "Joy of Sex". The latter book was probably written by guys who probably worked in Kinsey Report.

These guys were critical of Python but found its loopy arrangement is good for cron jobs as repetitive tasks or in real time automation.

I think Linux partitioning and installation are done python just by looking at the Terminal script during installation.

I do not have any understanding of coding commands like clang but even Cachy OS got stuck three times in in installation and it failed.

I went back to REBORN OS for recovery.

Cachy OS takes twice as time as REBORN OS for each job and my ADVICE for Cachy OS guys is to look at the Python and shorten it and stop looping (to much automation) during installation.

I think AI may fail and looking for RUST may be a solution but Rust is not yet ready.

I am not into Linux coding now and never in Google's Visual Code which I gave up without looking at it when 1.2GB CODE became 2.4GB in less than a year.

I am trying to see how we can replace Google CODE for a better CODE..

Then I will look at the code in my 80s.

Well REBORN has finished installing.

However, Reborn OS Fire has some problems with installation of its desired applications. I used my preferred Easy Package Manager.

Reborn Fire cannot switch off to Easy Package Manager and switch it on to REBORN fire, probably due to too muchy graphic but my Guess is the Python which got stuck.

By the way, MX Linux is brisk in installation and took only 10 minutes.

It has to improve its desktop environment but I immediately go for my favorite Gnome Desktop on top of KDE.

Gnome also has to improve its appearance not its Image.

REBORN OS comes from America.

Thank YOU Guys and Girls.

I hope AntiX in beta stage would come out with a new and a robust old code from GREECE.

I think GREECE is an English protectorate and English guys have become very LAZY.

Morph Browser

Morph Browser

Thank YOU guys of th Morph Browser Group.

I am using you as my stand alone browser when I am with my cellphone.

It seemlessly integrate with Google which has bemoe my daily driver for many years.

Than YOU google for suppoerting Morph browser.

It is light weight and fast and saves on RAM

I had been using Opera mini in the past.

I support all browsers including basic Lynx.

See my post on browsers.

I started with palemoon and seamonkey.

Midori of Debain has beome a go to browser when I am working on a book.

Dillo, Epiphany and Falkon had been are later adoptors and thay were very useful off the Puppy USB stick.

Those habits come from Puppy Linux which suppoted seamonkey and palemoon to save RAM on good old days

However, I have not givin up with Firefox.

Twelve (12) Browsers on Trixie

Twelve (12) Browsers on Trixie

It is not really on Debian Trixie but on MX Linux 25 which is pretty good distribution without flashy outlook.

Nut my favorite is Firefox which has never interfered with my work in a Linux distribution from the time of Mozilla.

Midori is missing but it is there in Trixie of Debian

1. Palemoon

2. Epiphany

3 . Dilo

4. Morph Browser which I accidentally found, while investigating mobile applications in Debian.

5. Chrome Browser

6. LibreWolf

7. Brave

8. Opera

9. Vivaldi

10. Firefox ESR

11. Firefox

12. Falkon

13. Lynx

Do not confuse with Latex (and Lyx) which only Chinese use (lot of characters well in excess on 25 in English).

By the way I got Lyx, Xournal and Texdoctk, tp play with Latex

Number 13 is classic non graphical Lynx browser, I used once or twice in the past to see how we can navigate the web without google .

With all this I have 11.8 GB space free out of 25.7GB /root partition.

Reason being I use Synaptic Package Manager which saves space by using Libraries and not Sandboxes as in SOFTWARE.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

නියම විප්ලවය කියන්නේ

නියම විප්ලවය කියන්නේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී සියයට 46% කින් බලයට පත්ව ඇති වෛරයෙන් රට පාලනය කරන්න හදන පිරිස සියයට 51% කින් පරාදය කිරීමය.

එයට කාලය එලඹ ඇත.

එ කියනේ දකුණෙන් බිහිඋන (මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්), ජිල් මාට්කාරයාගේ ජිල් මාට් එක පරාදය කිරීමය.

Monday, December 8, 2025

I found Two Cellphone Compatible Linux Distributions

They are like Window Managers in Linux.

1. Lomiri is the better one.

I can log off and also run applications installed in my NUC.

2. Phosh

Portmanteau of phone and shell.

One can swith cellphone mode to desktop mode effortlessly.

Elaborate schem

Slides up and down.

I did not know how to use it but fiddling with the mouse got the two mode.

Log out icon is there on top right hand corner

It goes into sleep mode instantly and with the mouse click activate to cellphone mode or desktop mode. One can access any application installed on the PC.

Both are available in Synaptic Package Manager.

One is over 750MB.

Other is at least 500MB.

I am going to fiddle with them and learn.

Much better than UserLand utility.

Now I know Morph Browser was developed for Linux cellphones and now has migrated to Linux desktop. Light weight and is similar to Dillo but lighter than Dillo.

Reborn OS UPDATE

Reborn OS is one of the easiest to install only rivalled by Manjaro. One should give a reasonable large /var partition perhsos over 10GB. My standard is 6GB but I run into problem filling it up. This does not happen, never with Debian Gnome. Debian knows how to allocate space.

Reasi being applcations are fireign to REBORN OS allocate space in the /var partition.

Be mindful.

I got BlueFish from Software Center

Forky is becoming innovative.

Missing applications are stored in Software center.

It took only 5.8GB to install GNOME.

I am trying angelfish browser, now.

Unlike Synaptic Package manager

I must go for catfish if not cutefish.

Cutefish is not there but catfish is available.

Tried Installing Linux Excalibur but Failed

I tried installing Excalibur on a dysfunctional 3 EXT4 partitions.

It failed.

Its instalation only took 5 minutes.

Preparation took one hour.

All in Text Mode in a Terminal.

It uses only 3 partitions.

Boot, Root and Home.

No Vat and Tmp or Opt.

Ruined my GRUB Boot Loader.

It is only 1.9GB Iso Image.

Desktop is Xfce which I hate.

Experience is no different from SOLUS. Saga and almost identical.

If anybody wishes to experiment with Excalibur he or she is on personal peril.

I am a doctor in retirement and was an Ace Problem solver in active life both in CEYLON, UK and New Zealand.

Australia of course I pretend not to be a doctor. Long time ago, I wished to work on Northern Territories of Australia and I did not have money for tickets and VISA fees and gave up until I moved to New Zealand for a health payment but a very heavy job.

Once I worked 172 hours on two weeks.

Their labour regulation was 40 to 44 hours for a week. I was doing twice the workload and was covering for 3 recedent doctors and the OPD Emergency care during weekends.

I threatened to sue the administration for violating their own labour regulations.

After I left, nobody joined the hospital and the local GP who was very smart guy was appointed and he saved his bills for his dispensary expenses.

It was a Win Win situation for him.

I returned home and joined the University with a very poor salary.

I became very active politically and plan was to send Rajapaksa Regime home unless they remedy our salary anomalies.

It was a 3 year long struggle and we sent him home. The plus side was he approved out saraly 3 months before my retirement and I did not get a red cent in salary increase. Not even my due promotion.

My promotion interview was held 3 months after my real retirement.

In the interview I said I would never walk into the University again.

Interview was over in 5 minutes before I let my steam out which I used to do if I am not going to be selected.

Yes, I did that at Central Bank of Ceylon 48 hours before the LTTE Bomb Blast.

I said Central Bank deserved it in a metaphorical sense not on literal sense.

I wrote this while reinstating my GRUB not on terminal but on graphic mode.

It is finishings and I am back to normal.

Last part is to say I do not go into Panic mode in Linux.

Just multitasking.

Linux Installation Simplified

With Debian GNOME

With all the applications I may need installed, I have used 13.3GB, leaving 12.2GB remaining in my/root file and I would not get any warning, saying there is no space in any of my /EXT files including /var and /tmp.

I prefer /tmp instead of Calamares /opt which gets filled up quickly in REBORN and MANJARO.

Hard Drive Space

/root 25GB and 30GB is more than adequate.

/home 15GB

For EFI, boot, var and tmp or opt 10GB.

50GB is ample.

SWAP now optional but I leave 16GB.

Twice the RAM was the old recommendation.

40GB NFFS partition for storing Windows files, say doc files.

100GB is enough and the rest is for the storage, say storing GAME files purchased.

In my case no games but 5 different distributions and at least 2 ARCH derivatives.

At least 5 USB sticks for writing Iso images.

Software

USB Formatter

USB Writer

Spare Time

Do not Listen to YouTube guys, 99% of them come from previous Windows or Apple background and hardly know how Linux operates.

Good Passwords for root and user.

AVOID

Ubuntu

Zorin

Pop OS

Tuxedo

Elementary OS

SOFTWARE applications

Synaptic Package Manager

Avoid SOFTWARE that is bulky with sandbox applications.

But if an application is missing in Synaptic one should look for in SOFTWARE.

Bluefush is not available in Forky Synaptic but is available with SOFTWARE.

Now Bluefish is available in Synaptic Package Manager

Applications

Depends on one's needs.

Please do a web survey to begin with.

Visit my Blog Posts if all the above fails to satisfy the needs.

Type a Query and Wait.

YOU have to find the web page yourself.

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Linux Support for Androids

Alternative is to run cellphone on Linux Debian Gnome through,

Phosh

Lumiri.

Do not cofuse wih Niri whicu is abTiling Window Manager.

I just gave up on Linux support for cellphones after Ubuntu and Debian with only terminal support.

I have found lwo utilities now, thank to Forky developers.

I have not yet tested them fully.

They are

Lomiri

Phosh

Hope more would surface.

One additional finding Gnome GRUB cannot support ARCH derivatives but ARCH can support GNOME.

GNOME base is old and conservative.

ARCH completely new but innovative.

I am gradually shifting myself towards ARCH.

CachyOS is efficient and strict but cannot coexist with other ARCH dervatives.

My shiting towards ARCH is due to its flexibility especially REBORN OS.

Manjaro is no different.

Thank YOU guys and girls for your wonderful work.

One can never expect Apppe Mac and Microsoft Windows to be innovative in the face of globalization of the code.

Unfortunately nothing is penetrating into Russia and China.

They live in their Own Worlds.

I of course hate Chinese stuff but I have a Chinese cellphone I bought in CEYLON with a cracked glass.

I cannot afford my favourite cellphone Nokia in Australia.

It is very expensive.

I had 10 Nokia cellphones with 15 SIM cards but none in Australia after paying 35 US dollats for 6 weeks in Australia in 2023.

It is more expensive now.

SATA disks are too expensive and thete is no hope of me getting my two terabyte portable hard disks left in Ceylon to service.

I would not visit Ceylon until this NPP/JVP government is expelled by force.

They will try to hang on until the last moment even though they are the most unpopular government in recent history.

They came to powet with 46% percent 4% less than the constitutional requirements.

That කපටි මැතිවරණ හොරා from down south did a roundabout ජිල් මාට් to propel Anura to power.

No lawyer with guts opposed his sordid plan.

Now the entire country is payibg the price.

I now CURSE ජිල් මාට් කාරයා.

Unfortunately he comes from my ulma mater Peradeniya University.

Even the Peradeniya University has paid an untold price. It was totally under water including the Senate Building.

He is junior to me and I never saw him during my student days.

Jaya Mangala Gatha and the Blessings

I had only 10 days leave for our wedding.

Only thing I requested was get two teams to sing Jayamangala Gatha.

One team for me one and other team for the going to be wife.

Those blessing last for ages and to those who sing them.

Those little girls each had a Parker pen and lot of extravagant chocolates for them to remember the event for life..

Those girls must be having their own children by now. I hope these mums teach their children to carry on the age old tradition.

Anura is the only guy who refused the recitation in his inauguration.

He reaping the adverse effects of breaking the tradition.

I feel he is a curse to this country.

Guys who love Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi should recite Jayamangala Gatha for 3 days on the trot.

Not a recorded stuff.

Children are always a blessing.

I am not saying this because I did pediatrics for a long time in UK.

Those children never hear Jayamangala Gatha and their suffering lasts long.

In addition children would overcome the fear of the current devastation, if this practice is revived in schools.

Having seen the devastation to Peradeniya University, well the current Vice Chancellor needs lot of blessings.

Recorded Jayamangala Gatha on radio or television has no effects.

In schools they put records.

One does not have to understand the words in Pali.

If one underground the words the benefit is exponential.

As an adult now I prefer the Peon of Joy.

Aloka Udapada

Vidya Udapada and

Panna Udapada sung in the "Aneka Jathi Sansaram".

Kelum Jayasumana also should practice my advice before he gets a Heart Attack.

Otherwise, lot more Curse and Suffering would befall on Ceylon.

For a change Christmas Carol should be banned this December.

Go back to the time before Portuguese came to Ceylon.

Even, the wild elephants are calm after hearing Jayamangala Gatha sung in a musical tone.

Elephants love musical tones.

There was a British Guy who wanted to kill 50 elephants for tusks. He was killed by the elephant, in his last attempt.

I love elephants and I am against parading them in Kandy Perahara.

I have been boycotting Perahara for over 45 years on that ground alone.

It is not a Buddhist festival but a festival forced upon Buddhists by the last Tamil and Hindu king.

British were a curse to Ceylon.

See the devatation in the Tea Plantation in CEYLON and in Mid Africa.

I love tea but I have cut down the number of cups. Tea market would slump and Tea prepared for export were damaged.

Muslims who do not have no contribution in Tea Production will dump the rotten tea to the masses. I know it and I investigated their sordid acts in the past. They mix tea destined for manure in attractive packets.

I used go for a Tea Center run by a Tamil investor and smell the tea before buying.

Tamils do not cheat in business and that is why they are successful.

Muslims a different kettle of fish.

Saudis love our tea our best brand "Heladive Tea" was bought by them.

It looks like a section of Tamils are becoming a curse to Ceylon.

Our Rivers

Reproduction and old piece

Our Rivers

Some years ago I remember walking around the campus and finding all the bridges were badly maintained including the Railway Bridge in Peradenya and Panideniya.

I decided to write up something on river basin management.

If I remember correct, I send a draft to a English National Daily but they never bother to publish it or publish a similar article highlighting how Kandy as a district was neglected by politicians for the last 35 years or so.

The politicians past and present once they assume duties come to Kandy as a routine pilgrimage in a motorcade (now in helicopters), over these dilapidated bridges and do sweet nothing afterward.

This cycle goes on ritualistically since they never get out of their cars or from their air conditioned rooms except for choreographed editions of their meeting of the electorate.

So I decided to publish them in the open, that means in the Web.

Three years after that a shoddy job was done at Peradeniya Motor Bridge (nothing probably for Railway Bridge) and still the Peradeniya town is under threat due to earth slips.

Most of these damages were initialed by heavy construction undertaken to construct Telecommunication Towers and some name boards on the hill above the Peradeniya town.

If one walks along the river side of botanical gardens cracks were visible on the road for decades but nobody took notice of all these symptoms and signs. The reckless negligence by successive governments went on unabated.

They provide lip service come elections and after that they move to Colombo and never come to Kandy, even during December holidays.

Kandy had been a neglected city after the British left for good.

I have stated these observations based on my limited sphere of activity and everybody who is somebody should observe what is neglected in his or her sphere of activity and record and report them for the local government to act.

But I cannot remember anybody acceding to my requests and comments.

However, I did not go into details of landslide since my understanding about is limited but my experience of it from childhood is enough, to say the least.

I have seen part of the massive Ampitiya Uduwela landslide more than 50 years ago when many people left that village for good and settled elsewhere for safety of their life.

On person, I knew veey well was Mr. Wimalasena. He was our Laboratory Assistant, in Ampitiya college. He had sound understanding of science. His knowledge of understanding of local plants was outstanding. My understanding was if one cover a seed with soil and moision it water, it would germinate. This is not true of some. I was trying to germinate a "Rata Nelli" (Nelli is a local sour berry), for ages and could not. I asked him. He said the seed cracks open only due to intense heat and put some on the road to your house and let vehicle run over them during the drought. When rain comes a few of them would germinate by the side and let them grow for a while and pot them later. Sure, I did with excellent results. He lived upto 80s and he was poisoned with digitalis by the doctors in the local hospital. I examined medical his records and ECGs and carefully weaned him off. He used to bring various ornamental plants nicely planted in polythene bags and sell them for his daily living. His paltry pension was woefully inadequate. Then, I did not see him for sometime and assumed he passed away. I never asked him what happened to his family after the eartth slip. He never married again.

Now in Kandy no place is safe.

In addition, during the Mahaveli Development the land reserves were divided among some of the kith and kin in public service and politics for a pittance. That resulted in further encroachment of the river basin.

One guy, I remeber was Wijeyapala Mendis. He bought the land for Rs. 20/= acre. His youngest brother told me, so. I used look after his kids in Negambo.

There was another guy named Dodanwela or Baddewela in the University who did purchase land for Rs. 20/=.

I was offered land for the same price when I was working for IMMI. I refused, simply because I used see lot of patients with Kidney disease in Digana and around. It was all due to lime or high concentration of calcium. Our family inherits urate problem and the combination of calcium and urate is cumulative. I did end up with an allied problem, since I did not drink enough water (only milk and Mesna Tea), when I am out in the city.

Coming to topic here;

The management of the river basin was left to mother nature.

In addition heavy equipment used and detonation used over the past 30 years have compromised heavy tension wire installations. They even remove or steal, the wires and reinforcement used to anchor the pillars. Enough damage is alrady done, one day, high tension wires might fall on our heads.

Nobody would care a damn.

Roughly a year ago Kandy train could not go past beyond Panideniya for three days due to stretch of the track collapsing on to the drain. This part is still not fully serviced and the trains do go pass that point to Kandy daily.

I used to take train to Panideniya which only 20 minuted and 12 Rupees. But by bus 6 Rupees and 90 minutes.

I decided to stop going by this train since one is not sure whether one would return safely home the same evening.

It is time we forget about Mega Projects and divert our attention at least to refurbish the existing infrastructure before they fall apart completely.

This is how the public service is managed and it is getting worse by the season. There are so many ministries and there is no coordination, to say the least.

The events that are unfolding in Kandy and around are due to lack of foresight and negligence by the authorities holding high posts.

This cycle will repeat ad lib.

Yes ultimate catastrophe befell on us.

I did not have the slightest clue something of this nature would happen. I still do not know what happened to Penideniya Station.

It is Clapham Junction in Ceylon.

Google asks for money for clear expanded view.

I won't bother paying

Mak-kos. Mack-kas, and Mac OS

Mak-kos. Mack-kas, and Mac OS

1. Makkos (Mathiwarana Komasaris) is our Election Commissioner.

He trains his officers to rig the count at Counting Stations.

This was what happened in Kandy, last time round.

They (counting officers) are given drinks after midnight and the covert operation begins.

They should be sacked (according to our civil service practice that originates from British) from their normal work and appoint them as our foreign ambassadors after the victory parade.

2. Makkas are the fleas.

They rig the voter at home and at the polling booths.

They are blood suckers and live on blood (political violence).

3. Mac Os is Apple Mackintosh Computer with its latest Operating system to rig the results.

Last time they were imported from India with Indian hacker's to help the commissioner.

This time they come from America, now that Steve Job is dead it is easy to use Mac Os for rigging.

It is called “Computer Gilmart”