Baby Elephant Saga

Baby Elephant Saga
Monks, Judges, Politicians,Veterinary Surgeons, Media Men covering up facts are not above LAW! 
What the monk should do is to derobe voluntarily (without abusing the saffron cloth) and face the law of the land.

Some of the sexual abuses will come out then.
Read my piece Vigilance Necessary and British Media Guy!


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ECONOMY
A deepening crisis within Sri Lanka’s unity government threatens to undermine a crackdown against high profile individuals, including monks and a magistrate accused of stealing baby elephants, official sources said Friday.

The alleged partisan police action against those illegally keeping baby elephants had also figured as justification for President Maithripala Sirisena’s outburst against Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government.

A top official source close to both sides of the political divide said President Sirisena was miffed that police had taken action against two Buddhist monks for keeping baby elephants while turning a blind eye to another.

"The president could order the release of all these elephants and if that happens, it will be a major setback for conservation," the official said. "We hope the president will not take such a decision."

The President publicly criticised the three main anti-graft bodies for working according to a political agenda, apparently of Prime Minister’s United National Party, and heightened a cold war.

The unexpected public censure of the independent bribery commission saw its Director General Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe step down.

The government is expected to review the work of the Financial Crimes Investigations Division and the Criminal Investigations Division with a view to making drastic changes at the top.

Jumbos have become the another example of the alleged politically-motivated inquiries pursued by the police, according to the President’s camp.

Elephants have become a sensitive subject since the President came under pressure from the Buddhist hierarchy to release seized animals.

The monks had argued that they will not have the sufficient number of elephants for the main pageant in Kandy, but the event passed off in August with the participation of over 80 elephants, the minimum requirement.

"The argument that there was a shortage of tamed elephants for cultural events no longer holds, but the political crisis could see some of the seized se animals given back to the (illegal) owners," the official said.

Wild Life Director General Sumith Pilapitiya resigned in June after refusing to carry out an illegal order to return the animals that were taken over by the department during their investigations into illegal ownership of jumbos.

Wildlife minister Gamini Jayawickrama Perera has told parliament that he was determined to stop the illegal trade, but it is not clear if he will be able to resist influential groups with access to the President.

Almost every tamed baby elephant had been captured from the wild after killing its mother, according to wildlife experts who have been following the department’s conservation efforts.

Elephant calves have also been known to be killed by the tranquiliser drugs used to make them more docile for capture.

About 40 elephants are reported to have been stolen from national parks in the past decade.

One Cannot Sign off or log off Gmail, WHY?

One Cannot Sign off or log off Gmail, WHY?

Google and Gmail are hooked to all the Android devices once signed in you cannot log off from the device.

How to avoid this?

Do not use Androids. 

Pay a lot and buy Apple Mac.

Better still dash it on the floor that Google and Android go into pieces and then go and buy an Apple Mac.

After 24 hours of struggling and too complaints (not replied) I decided to pen this.

Google expects YOU to be in YOUR own trouble and find a way out YOURSELF.

Google help is enormous RUBBISH.

Only way I could have some respite is to PUT synchronization off for never.

Then again, when you want a service like Google Play or Blogger you have to sign again or switch on the synchronization.

What does it do to your battery?

It drains off in no time with lot of application in READY Mode but rarely used.

It slows down your Android.

What are the options.

1. Do not use Android for mission critical work.

2. Use your wired computer for work which is fabulously fast.

3. Switch off your Android and do not overuse it with your fingers or nails, when on holiday and enjoy the sunshine.

Use only ergonomic keyboard.

We spent years developing the typewriter and then the computer keyboard with added F-1 to F-12 Function keys which we rarely use NOW.

Androids have destroyed human ingenuity and make ordinary guys and gals like you are treated like monkeys run by an American company.

4. Do not fiddle with the screen when stressed, YOU get arthritis before 35 years.

5. Use yahoo.com or AOL.com email, instead.

This is what it says at Google Help but it never works.

Why?

Help that does not Help an ordinary GUY like ME.

  

Below is a bit of rubbish help from Google.

Tap "Settings" on the home screen to open the Settings screen. Tap "Accounts & Sync" to see all Google accounts. Tap the first account and then tap "Remove Account" to remove the account from your Android device. Tap "Remove Account" to confirm.

Mobile Banking

Mobile Banking

Today I received a letter from a reputed Ceylonese Bank that I had lot of inconveniences to sign a draft letter agreeing to do Mobile Banking.

I moved to another bank after the altercation with the bank management but did not close all my accounts.

I patched up with the management (the manager was taken out or transferred -never saw him again-probably after my complaint listing over 40 mistakes) bank and cordially working with them with the new manager.

Coming back to the letter, it had many legal mistakes, never a sane man would agree to sign.

I won't highlight the mistakes, even if they pay me a fortune.

 

Reason for writing this is to educate some of my old/young friends.

If you are already having mobile banking YOU STOP at this point, lest you end up with a heart attack.

1.Billions of money is lost due to mobile fraud world over.

 

I was given a free entry by a bank when I was working in 1980s, I politely refused. 

 

Here I was an ordinary man with fixed resources did not need fancy stuff.

2. You need a email and a computer at home (no email and no computer, all pensioners who worked only in Sinhala or Tamil).

3. If the bank make a mistake YOU are unable detect and prosecute the bank.

4.Monthly statement is an obligation (at least for current) in baking regulations. 

If you forgo that you are sucked in.

5. You should have the habit of checking your statements like the Credit Card statements.

6. You are used to a particular method for over 20 to 30 years why change?

 

I can add many but the last one is the most important, in this blessed country, the one who (not writes you) regularly sends you a letter (at least once month) is your bank.

If they cannot send you a letter but only an email statement (which you have to pay Rs.50/= in Web Cafe) why do banking with that particular bank?

The decision is yours but do not be forced into a situation which one cannot retract. It is called unlawful coercion.

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Internet Banking=Dangers not Evaluated;

The WARNINGS not Heeded

This should be read in conjunction with Bugger the Bankers.

I will only give only a glimpse of it.

The reader should update his or her own risk element, if not on daily basis but on monthly basis.

Let me dispense with the underline presumptions.

There are two presumptions.

One is that computers never make mistakes and better than humans.

Computers make huge mistakes whereas humans make small mistakes, like counting the balance.

Computer can make million of mistakes in a fraction of a second but human can make only one mistake at a time, which many of us do not guard against.

Humans try to prevent repeating the mistake, whereas computers keep on doing the same mistake million times.(No fortune company will come out with the true facts, like the Ponsi scheme that went round globally without any hindrance, till the banks started collapsing.

We have too many banks.

What we need is a few banks with credibility.

Like me forgetting, to take the balance after payment is made.

The cashier, if he or she is a good one will promptly return the money.

Computers will never gives back the money that was wrongly paid (server administrator can safely transfer it in seconds to some far away destination without any trace of the transaction) or comes behind you with the correct balance in hand.

The sever administrator can swindle any excess, knowing very well that somebody has made a mistake.

This happens in big shopping networks and that is why the items and articles are more expensive than in the open market.

They never audit or declare these frauds fearing that they will loose the market.

Banks are no different.

They only see one side of it.

The customer side.

Never its own staff.

If they make a mistake they will hide it by all means like a cat covering its poo.

The second premise is very simple.

Majority (99%) including me is very bad at balancing accounts on daily basis.

The bank jump into your shoes under this pretext and may even one day ruin you.

In fact, I managed without a bank account for nearly six years when I returned from abroad with six credit cards.

That was only period in my life, I never asked for a loan and did not make a single mistake.

I was doing my own banking and balancing my accounts.

But I have one cardinal principle.

That is, I may not make mistakes on daily basis but one day I will make a huge mistake.

I will guard against that mistake which will ruin me.

It will last good for me.

I have also another resolution.

My maximum loss should be theoretically not more than Rs.100,000/= (never a million which young ones are enticed and coaxed into by all commercial banks).

Each one should have a credit limit which he or she can bear, which is usually three to ten times the basic salary (not the total salary).

If one exceeds that limit, he or she on his or her own peril one day, one has to blame oneself not the bank or the creditors.

The day I make that big mistake, I will close all my accounts and delegate my finances to someone whom I can trust.

The problem is finding one whom I can trust in this blessed Buddhist country.

So if you do Internet Banking, the moment (fraction of a second) you press the button, you are taking a big risk.

The song bugger the bankers is making a huge impact globally and the banks are hell bent on promoting their vices on many new form of advertisements and in many fronts.

Even children not born are not spared.
Do not fall to their trappings which are worse than Merchant of Venice.

That is, promote free spending with a noose around your neck.

I felt like writing this having seen a young mother with her baby (attended by the grandmother) did not check the bill when she was making her payment.

In my medical career I have seen many nursing mothers making big mistakes that include caring for the baby, let alone finances.

Pain with Smarphones

Pain with Smartphones

Mobile phone is a smart utility in an emergency and on the move.

But it cannot beat a wired connection in many issues.

If it is an old phone it does not have a memory and the secret service has to bug it and wiretap to get the conversation heard or recorded.

If one is sharp one can easily detect, if the wired phone is tapped.

Poor President Nixon comes to my mind and now it has metamorphosed into email servers. 

It used to be a crude method.

I use to take the receiver and hold it for few seconds to see another link is made.

Even though, I was an ordinary guy and not trained in secretive work but had the wondering mind to investgate at firsthand.

Simply because, I said what I mean, and if it was a political statement sour to the party in power that would mean my immediate transfer to a remote place.

In any case, I worked in a remote place in my first few appointments.

I never pulled wire to get what I wanted.

Usually the party in power does the wiretapping.

With a land phone security is not a issue.

1. With a mobile it is a big issue.

2. Mobile or digital communication has an inbuilt memory and can be recorded for posterity.

This was the cardinal mistake LTTE did when they attacked the Katunayake airport.

Even though, it took some hard work and time Ceylonese Police cracked it and kept that secret for a long time.

Memory is the second problem if one is a criminal.

If you see the classic film “The Day of the Jackal”how the plotters were caught by wire tapping and the hired assassin did not take any risks with even the old telephone.

3. My biggest grouse is the Android utilities.

There are thousands of them and sorting out the most useful is a pain in the neck.

Having downloaded my requirements, it took one whole night to customize to my needs.

4. I use the phone as a minicomputer and my only requirement is to access the web and sign off after few lines of blogging (not an essay).

Unlike a computer signing off or logging off is the most difficult job.

Say if I use Google, Gmail and have Google Drive installed and if I lose the mobile all my private data is exposed.

5. They want you hooked to them and like Facebook won't have delete button (in the drop down menu) to sign off the email button.

That is my “beto noire”.

6. There are many other nuances and each individual has his or her own “Grouse Material”.

Paddy Bird (Wee Kurulla), My Dog's Woolly hair and Leaves of Havari Nuga

Paddy Bird (Wee Kurulla), My Dog's Woolly hair and Leaves of Havari Nuga and dried up leaves of grass 

 

I wanted to write about global warming and constipation but my readers are spared of ignominy thanks to the Paddy Bird.

Let me deal with a copyright issue first.

I wanted to put a picture of my favourite bird with this piece and searched for a free photograph.

I found one but it was copyrighted.

I know this guy has a good camera and never cared for a paddy bird let alone take the husk out of a rice seed (which birds are experts).

He is so selfish he tries to own this birds picture.

He is a sordid bird watcher.

I of course (my wife too) for the last 15 years trying to encourage breeding of these birds in our garden.

I never thought that my rooftop garden (birds' paradise in all other respect with water and insects including dragonflies) was conduce for their breeding.

Couple of weeks ago I was watering the water plants and a paddy bird flew across my ear in an aggressive manner.

I just ignored it and did not give any eye contact.

Thanks to my wife's effort lot of birds visit our mulberry tree daily.

With scorching temperatures, hitting 95 outside most of my terrestrial plants including the two cocoa plants are shedding their leaves at a rate that alarmed me to my bones.

I decided to do an overall and reduce the numbers of plants to the minimum to cut down on our water bill which was above the electricity (which is also very high) first time in my life.

For the last three days, with a planned strategy to ease my blind dog's night prowl (no prey but jasmine flowers and spirit weed to sniff) around the trees, I made a wide pathway so that he does not bump against the plant pots.

On the third day (today) I wanted to uproot the second but the tallest tree (hawari nuga and the tallest is an exotic local plant the name I do not know- I got it from a local gardener who is an expert on medicinal plants) but I could not.

Then I looked at it in a meditative mode, this does not deserve an unnatural death and looked at its long leaves.

Presto!

Empty bird's nest.

Owned by the paddy bird few weeks ago but discarded having got its brood out.

It was made of my dog's woolly soft hair (90%) and few grassy bits and a single leaf of a Havari Nuga.

I thought for a moment not only he contributes his liquid fertilizer to my gardening efforts but gives comfort cushion to avi-fauna's young ones.

He got lovely treat for his indirect contribution.

Birds of feather fly together.

In other word nature nurtures nature.

I hope the guy who sells the photos of birds reads this in full.

In a different note if Europeans did not come and G.B.Henry did not tabulate our avi-fauna, this guy would not know how to name a bird.

Series of reproduction from WiKipedia 

Hair of the dog", short for "Hair of the dog that bit you", is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover.

The expression originally referred to a method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound.

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take a glass of the same wine within 24 hours to soothe the nerves. 'If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail the next day.'" He also cites two apocryphal poems containing the phrase, one of which is attributed to Aristophanes. It is possible that the phrase was used to justify an existing practice, and the idea of Latin: similia similibus curantur ("like cures like") dates back at least to the time of Hippocrates and exists today as the basic postulate of classical homeopathy. In the 1930s cocktails known as Corpse Revivers were served in hotels.

Alstonia macrophylla or Hard alstonia, Hard milkwood or Big-leaved macrophyllum is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family.

It is native to Indonesia (Kalimantan and Sulawesi), Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. It was introduced to Sri Lanka, where it is known as hawari nuga by local Sinhalese people.

Alstonia macrophylla is a tree with a straight trunk and a high, narrow crown. It can become up to 30 meters tall. The trunk and branches contain a white latex. The bark is smooth and has a light grey color. Leaves are in whorls of three to four, simple, penni-veined, membranous, and glabrous above. Leaf-blades are 10 to 50 centimeters long, 5 to 15 cm wide, widest in or above the middle, and cuneate at the base. Flowers are about 7 mm in diameter, white, with narrow corolla tube, placed terminal on twigs. Fruits are about 30 centimeters long, green and filled with many small hairy seeds that are dispersed far and wide by the wind. The heartwood is yellowish, with a straight and shallowly interlocked grain with a moderately fine to rather coarse texture.

The common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is a songbird found across tropical Asia. Popular for its nest made of leaves "sewn" together and immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his Jungle Book, it is a common resident in urban gardens. Although shy birds that are usually hidden within vegetation, their loud calls are familiar and give away their presence. They are distinctive in having a long upright tail, greenish upper body plumage and rust coloured forehead and crown. This passerine bird is typically found in open farmland, scrub, forest edges and gardens. Tailorbirds get their name from the way their nest is constructed. The edges of a large leaf are pierced and sewn together with plant fibre or spider silk to make a cradle in which the actual nest is built.

Like most warblers, the common tailorbird is insectivorous. The song is a loud cheeup-cheeup-cheeup with variations across the populations. 
The disyllabic calls are repeated often

Scaly-breasted Munia/Spotted Munia (Lonchura puntulata)

Very common resident bird of grasslands, gardens and paddy fields throughout the island. It lives as flocks of about ten birds and feeds on grass seeds and paddy. Scaly-breasted Munia breeds throughout the year though most nests are found in the period of October to May. The nest is a ball of grass blades in trees or shrubs. 
Thorny trees like lime or orange and sometime areca palm flowers are much favored nesting sites.

GoboLinux

Design of GoboLinux is revolutionary even though based on Linux Kernel.
I am glad they are working on version 16.
Version 15 available at torrent (be a seeder) which I down loaded yesterday.
16 version is alpha and availalbe at point to point download; Please test it and report any mishaps.
Thank you guys and girls at GoBoLinx.

The GoboLinux hierarchy represents a radical departure from the filesystem hierarchy traditionally employed by most UNIX-like operating systems where specific types of files are stored together in common standard subdirectories (such as /bin for executables and /etc for configuration files) and where package managers are used to keep track of what file belongs to which program. In GoboLinux, files from each program are placed under their respective program's own dedicated subdirectory. The makers of GoboLinux have said that "the filesystem is the package manager", and the GoboLinux package system uses the filesystem itself as a package database. This is said to produce a more straightforward, less cluttered directory tree. GoboLinux uses symlinks and an optional kernel module called GoboHide to achieve all this while maintaining full compatibility with the traditional Linux filesystem hierarchy.
The creators of GoboLinux have stated that their design has other "modernisms", such as the removal of some distinctions between similar traditional directories (such as the locations of executables /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin). GoboLinux designers have claimed that this results in shell scripts breaking less often than with other Linux distributions. GoboLinux also allows the user to have different versions of the same program installed concurrently (and even run them concurrently). Furthermore, it has been claimed that the package management index could never become unsynchronized with the filesystem, because references to nonexistent files simply become broken links, and thus become inactive. GoboLinux's filesystem changes also allow other innovations, such as an entirely new boot system that does not use System V or BSD style init systems.

Saying Good Bye to OLD Hard Disks

Saying Good Bye to OLD Hard Disks

If you want to buy an external hard drive, my advice is wait a bit, the prices will come down drastically when the market is saturated.

Wait for SSDs.

In my case all my little videos, photos and all my pdf books can be put in a 32 GiB Smart Slim Card.

Why by Mega Disk?

Power cords and casing are extras.

I have over nearly 20 hard disks of various sizes and shapes loaded with over 500 Linux distributions and I use the

Lightest distribution for my work.

I wanted to build an archive (fearing nobody will store them in the cloud) and the Smart Phones and Andoids spoilt the soup.

As far as Android is concerned it has big security HOLES, especially the Wireless Protocols.

So do not retire the WIRED connection till YOU die.

It is the fastest and the safest, if you use Linux TOR.

Fireroptic does not serve YOU well if your computer's RAM is only 1 GiB.

8 GiB is my recommendation it is roughly Rs.1000/= for I GiB.

I use the cloud for storage which is probably a smarter choice.

The technology is pacing at fast rate and we are getting old very fast.

So saying Good Bye to Linux, Internet and assortment of Emails are on the card and in the distant horizon.

Dragonflies

Dragonflies
Dragonfly is a clever engineering design of nature which is better designed for flying rivalling even  a modern helicopter.
Dragonflies are powerful and agile fliers, capable of migrating across oceans, moving in any direction, and changing direction suddenly. 
In flight, the adult dragonfly can propel itself in six directions: upward, downward, forward, back, to left and to right. 
They have four different styles of flight. 
A number of flying modes are used that include counter-stroking, with fore wings beating 180° out of phase with the hind wings, is used for hovering and slow flight. This style is efficient and generates a large amount of lift. Phased-stroking, with the hind wings beating 90° ahead of the fore wings, is used for fast flight. This style creates more thrust, but less lift than counter-stroking; synchronized-stroking, with fore wings and hind wings beating together, is used when changing direction rapidly, as it maximizes thrust; and gliding, with the wings held out, is used in three situations: free gliding, for a few seconds in between bursts of powered flight; gliding in the updraft at the crest of a hill, effectively hovering by falling at the same speed as the updraft; and in certain dragonflies such as darters, when "in cop" with a male, the female sometimes simply glides while the male pulls the pair along by beating his wings.
The head is large with very short antennae. 
It is dominated by the two compound eyes, which cover most of its surface. The compound eyes are made up of ommatidia, the numbers being greater in the larger species. The number (ommatidia) can be as high as 25,000 of varying sizes. 
It has an amazing sight and we perfected catching them by tail as kids. We could do that because there were so many 60 years ago.
 In other words all its activities are on the wing, eating, drinking, mating, just fooling around and dogfights.
It is amazing that one of the oldest insects of our world developed all these skills which the man cannot reproduce by machine. Of course the 300 million odd years of existence made them much versatile.
Its armory in catching prey is much better than military design. The lower jaw has a huge, extensible labium, armed with hooks and spines, which is used for catching prey. This labium is folded under the body at rest and struck out at great speed by hydraulic pressure generated by the abdominal muscles.
I thought of writing this simply because this was the first insect that ventured into my water garden on the rooftop for laying eggs. 
In the beginning there were only blue one, then a brown one started coming and perhaps a third one yellow in colour. All the other insects including butterflies started coming much later and the birds were the last.
No bees at all.
I did not know they clean up our mosquitoes and larvae.
There is a significant reduction in the mosquito population and I thought my guppies were doing an onerous job.
Not really, dragon fly nymphs can clean up my fish too.
Dragonfly nymphs vary in form with species and are loosely classed into claspers, sprawlers, hiders, and burrowers. 
Their internal hydraulic system is better than water sprayer or a pump.
Whereas damselfly nymphs have three feathery external gills, dragonfly nymphs have internal gills, located around the fourth and fifth abdominal segments. Water is pumped in and out of the abdomen through an opening at the tip. The naiads of some clubtails (Gomphidae) that burrow into the sediment, have a snorkel like tube at the end of the abdomen enabling them to draw in clean water while they are buried in mud. Naiads can forcefully expel a jet of water to propel themselves with great rapidity.
 
1. Dragonflies were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago.
 
2. There are more than 5,000 known species of dragonflies, all of which (along with damselflies) belong to the order Odonata, which means “toothed one” in Greek and refers to the dragonfly’s serrated teeth.
 
3. In their larval stage, which can last up to two years, dragonflies are aquatic and eat just about anything—tadpoles, mosquitoes, fish, other insect larvae and even each other.
 
4. At the end of its larval stage, the dragonfly crawls out of the water, then its exoskeleton cracks open and releases the insect’s abdomen. Its four wings come out next.
 
5. Dragonflies are expert fliers. They can fly straight up and down, hover like a helicopter and even mate mid-air. If they can’t fly, they’ll starve because they only eat prey they catch while flying.
 
6. The flight of the dragonfly is so special that it has inspired engineers who dream of making robots that fly like dragonflies.
 
7. Most of the adult dragonflies live for only a few weeks.
 
8. Nearly all of the dragonfly’s head is eye, so they have incredible vision that encompasses almost every angle except right behind them.
 
9. Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are a great control on the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day.
 
10. A dragonfly called the globe skinner has the longest migration of any insect—11,000 miles back and forth across the Indian Ocean.
 
11. Fossils of very large dragonfly ancestors in the Protodonata are found from 325 million years ago (Mya) in Upper Carboniferous rocks; these had wingspans up to about 750 mm (30 in). About 3000 species of Anisoptera are in the world today. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions.

Nature and stock market

Nature has bounty when that is the order of the day but equally thrifty when the demand is less favourable.
 
I guess an economist cannot fine tune our stock market with such precision.

Global Warming and its Effects on Cloud Formation

This is a tiny bit from my (probably) last book "Living with Nature".
I would concentrate on Linux which is 25 years Young!

Global Warming and its Effects on Cloud Formation
There is a distinct change in cloud patterns with global warming taking its toll on weather, especially the rain clouds. 
Nimbus and cumulus cloud formation are distorted but cirrus formation is promoted, are my beliefs and of course are reinforced by my routine observations.
This is especially so when the wind currents are slow and there is no obstruction to the movement and flow from the mountains. 
With the North East monsoon that blows inward from the East of the country the clouds break into two and move in two  directions when they hit the Hantana range.
One goes towards Kandy and other lifts up the hill and raises towards Katugastota. 
That is the normal pattern it used to be. 
If the cloud come low down to the Hantana range it usually rains in either in Kandy or Katugastota. 
But with a warm air currents below over the landmass the clouds remain high and they do not form into cumulus and later nimbus rain clouds. 
In other words the clouds do not increase in height or mass.
Instead, they become flatter at the bottom and as they become flatter they lift up as they move towards the Kandy city and the grey or dark colour of the cloud changes to fluffy and white. 
The Kandy city which has lost its tree cover is warmer and that is the very reason the clouds that are normally destined to become nimbus or rain clouds turn gradually to cirrus variety.
 
At a distance at the same level away from the hills one sees the cirrus clouds and no nimbus clouds.
 
There is a distinct lack of breaking of the cloud mass into two. Even, if it breaks and move towards Katugastota, those clouds will remain high due to comparably warmer Katugastota landmass.
 
If I summarize the events from Hantana Range to Herassagala, it goes like this.
 
1. Cloud that reach Hantana range from Gampola are cirrus with a touch of cumulus ans nimbus (for description cirrus should be taken as High level clouds, altostratus should be Mid level and cumulonimbus clouds are Low level rain clouds). 
That means clouds have to gather more water for them to become rain clouds.
The word cirrus means curly or cotton wool and stratus means thin and layered and cumulus means heavy or thick clouds.

2. By Heerasagala within about 20 to 30 minutes and a distance of only 3 kilometers (without heavy winds) the clouds break into three to five fragments.
 
3. This is what happens next.
The clouds breaks into pyramidal lumps as they rise up slowly. As they rise up the pyramids change into the shape of (similar to fuel exhaust tail of air planes) thin tails.
In other words cirrus becomes thin tails.
One never sees more than three pyramids or three tails, simply because, in no time tails disappear and the pyramids change to tails and no cumulus clouds reach Kandy.
So we have to go to Maligawa and invoke blessing from unseen current Devas. 
Buddha having attained Parinibbana would not interfere with human affairs until the next in line Metta Buddha appears in time measured in eons. 
By that time Kandy becomes a concrete jungle and the only way to have some respite is to sneak to city center before 8.30 P.M. before air-conditioning is switched off.
Coming back to clouds away from city dwellings;
The rain that is used to come by 3 P.M. or late in the evening never comes. Mind you temperature at 3 P.M. is 90 degrees Fahrenheit and it falls to 84 at mid night. 
If it rains it is well past midnight and towards the morning and the showers are light since they have not become cumulus by the constant warming effect of the landmass. 
The delay of few hours make the cloud to move towards the sea which is cooler and the rain lands on the sea or perhaps in India.
So Ceylon has less rain and some parts of India which never has the same amount of rain gets downpours.
These rain clouds hold much more water due to the higher temperature that preceded their formation.
It does not rain but it pours.
I have not watched the South West monsoon but my gut feeling is that this pattern would repeat itself albeit in a minor degree. The reason being, the South West monsoon produce bigger clouds and the atmospheric temperature is little lower during this season.
If the temperature remains as high as 90s my guess would be there will be less rain even in the South West monsoon.
The landmass has to cool below 78 degrees Fahrenheit or below for the precipitation to occur and the temperature is usually above 80s during the North East monsoon.
We are really seeing the effect of global warming.
One of my exotic flowers bloomed and there were two tiny fruits. I forgot to water for three days and the stem which was green is now gone brown and it is bent down and does not have the turgidity to remain erect. 
That is the end of the formation of the fruit.
This is the second time this happened in two seasons.