Wednesday, May 8, 2019

My Masterly Inactivity and Mini Water Garden Concept


My Masterly Inactivity and Mini Water Garden Concept

My Masterly Inactivity and Mini Water Garden Concept was total failure.

My favorite plant Vallisneria took total control of the fish tank and there was no breathing or swimming space for the little guppy fish or other water plants.

Fortuitously though, a few golden yellow Guppy mutants emerged out of the blue. 
 
With perseverance, I managed to raise about 20 beautiful ones.

I went into active participation or total interference with mother nature. 

Uprooted large bucket full of Vallisneria and replaced it with a carefully controlled pot of Vallisneria rared in open air.

Well I was anticipating the take over strategy of Vallisneria.

It is hard to find water plants and Japanese fern. Vallisneria and Hydrilla are few of my favorites out of the 22 odd water plants I collected over 15 years.

They will perish within a month of my demise since nobody wants touch the dirty buckets with Guppy fish and water plants.

Lately my interest is water lilies and there are at least five varieties to greet me with flowers.

I added two more varieties.

One bloomed after 2 years. 
It is very difficult to grow water lilies and a visitor pinches a leaf it goes into hibernation for one to two years.

Except one, I took all of them to the roof top garden and with the little rain and my care (means masterly inactivity), they are surviving for the last five years.

The one with yellow flowers never bloomed.

That was the first one and I am beginning to ignore it expecting it to surprise me one day.

Mind you Guppy fish (it was when I was a kid) was not my current interest except for controlling mosquitoes but they keep on luring me with beautiful colours.

Saturday, May 4, 2019

CRON JOBS in Linux


CRON JOBS in Linux
 
CRON jobs mean scheduled tasks / functions in Linux such as clearing and deleting of redundant files at a timed interval.
 
These are generally meant for heavy duty servers with shared resources and not for single user desktops.
 
Linux is configured to do certain jobs at a particular time.

CRON a short term for time (origin from Chronological).
 
If one is new to Linux one should not fiddle with theses scheduled tasks for fun.
 
They are there to ease your jobs and not to burden YOU by themselves.
 
There was an article that question whether one should  run / not run the computer 24 hours.
 
The answer is YES 24/7 for Linux.
 
Some jobs are scheduled after midnight as a default and the CRON job gets clogged up, if the computer is switched off before midnight.
 
If your work is light at least twice a week let it run overnight so that in the morning it is ready with prime condition.
 
I have my own way of cleaning up and never changed a scheduled and default CRON configuration.
 
A single wrong configuration file might slow your computer.
 
If you a newbie and no understanding please do not fiddle with Linux defaults.

Beachbeat also do cleaning up jobs.

Only run it overnight once or twice a week,
 
Do not confuse with midnight commander.
It is a file manager.

My Learning Curve of Debian 5 to Current 9.9.0


My Learning Curve of Debian 5 to Current 9.9.0
My Learning Curve of Debian 6 to Current 9.9.0 was not smooth but with lot of hiccups but it was worth all the same.
I am writing this while waiting for Debian to be installed on a laptop.
I erased the Windows for good (laptop) but it did not allow me to mount a Linux distributions.
The current UEFI of Microsoft was created to ban dual booting.

Sinister and a sadistic ploy and the ESP boot partition is filled with a batch of Microsoft secretive BIG Virus Package.

Even Debian could not bypass this strategic ploy.

But I found a way.

It is Open Solaris in TrueOs that ruthlessly eliminated the ESP partition from ROOT to the RUMP of the partition table and let me use TrueOs.
It created TrueOs version of ESP partition to boot.
The TrueOs is for developers' item and I found a way to delete its TANK partition and install Debian.

Since TANK partition cannot be resized, I had to devise my own solution without coexisting with the TrueOs.
Coming back to my difficult experience with Debian in my early days, I migrated to Mandriva, to Redhat to Open Solaris and finally settled down with TestStar’s PCLinux (Fullmonty) for my work.
These were 32 bit power hungry old computers with low RAM.

Come 64 bits I changed to Peppermint and Debian.
I erased all my paid Window’s versions for good.
I use Debian exclusively without any problem.

Even managed to make a USB stick for installation on a laptop.

When I have time I play with ElementaryOs, PinguyOS, PeppermintOs, Elive, Emmabantus and few more.
Since I now use Debian only I feel I should voluntarily retire from taking about other distributions from now onwards,
Sorry guys and girls (developers) other than Debian.
Keep up the good work.
Thank YOU.


Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Thank you TrueOs


Thank you TrueOs

I have been fiddling with my son’s laptop (he does not us it) and i erased its Windows operating system.

It did not allow dual booting with Linux.

It has a UEFI script that prevented booting Linux.

Additionally F2 was blocked with a password.

I bought this laptop in Singapore for a very good offer and did not anticipate or checked its problems (I was in a hurry).

I thought erasing Windows it would allow me to install Knoppix.

Knoppix took over the hard disk but it could not boot up with GRUB boot record.

Windows script kept coming on saying no boot media.

Tried Debian it could not, even after creating an ESP partition new.

Finally I allowed TrueOs to destroy everything and install TrueOs.

Then I looked up the partition table to see it had unallocated (Big Thank YOU) the Windows UEFI partition and another 60 odd GiB I made as an alternative UEFI/FAT to boot Debian.

Mind you I tried Ubuntu but it could not bypass the script.

I tried to resize the tank partition (Open Solaris terminology) using Gparted for me to install Debian but it did not allow resizing.

Finally I deleted the HUGE tank partition and installed Debian in one third of the capacity. 
Now it boots up Debian with TrueOs Theme Logo.
If it had allowed me to resize the home/tank partition I would have both TrueOs and Debian in the laptop.

Thank TrueOs for been ruthless to Windows UEFI.

My attitude of never Give Up has come good at last.
If I could have located the Windows Boot Script partition, I would have done it myself.
Windows and OEM guys own your equipment and YOU rent it for an enormous price.
Worth it?

Using Linux and Installing


Using Linux and Installing

I get lot of silly questions at Quorora.
I give a blunt answer instead of saying YOU STUPID.
Immediately the moderator deletes my comment (that is my wish).
By the way, my comments are time tested and valid.
My intention is, not to have any questions directed at me and say Good Bye to Quorora but like Facebook they keep my registration.

Mind you they make money on the side.

Warning!
If you paid lot of money for an equipment please do not try to modify it.
The OEM guys have secret agreement, specially with Microsoft to install BIOS/UEFI based software and even Linux, Debian in my case cannot overwrite this file often very small 3 MiB in size.

I have found a way around it but I won’t state it here (very destructive).
I have lot of spare gadgets collected over 20 years and I am found of playing round OEM tricks.

It is time consuming.

I use Knoppix and even Knoppix haven’t fount a utility to erase OEM software.

Installing Linux
Very brief instructions here but in my blog site I have many options and instructions which I have tried.

Do not try them and blame me.

Visitors from Russia (no Chinese, by the way) to USA to UK.

Go to www.distrowatch.com and read its comments.

First 30 Linux distributions are time tested.

1. Pick your choice.

2. Download and write the iso to a DVD (all are above except Puppy Linux and few more less than 700 MiB).

3. Try a live session to see it has the components you need.

4. Look at your hardware profile and disk space.

5. You may have to partition it.

6. Use Gparted for partition.

7. Install Windows first.

8. Install Linux (follow its manual’s instruction, if there is no manual do not use that distribution-very unlikely).

9. Make sure GRUB file is in the master boot record.

10. Do not try SSDs they have problems with writing the GRUB file.

11. The GRUB file is very instructive boot record and mount (copy) its configuration on a text file and read it.

12. Linux is very precise, even a single missing file might give you problems.One can download the extra software after the basic system (ideally graphic) is installed out of over 66,000 packages.

Monday, April 29, 2019

Why Politics is a Failure and Democracy Needs Revival In Ceylon


Why Politics is a Failure and Democracy Needs Revival In Ceylon

This piece is ruthless to journalists and our secular politicians.


If you are weak mind do not read below this line since I am going to talk about drug peddlers, religious fanatics, homosexuals, money swindlers, way side killers, pedophiles and psychopaths who write to national media and journalists who encourage them.

Dispense with SF to begin with.

He (SF) should contest the next election with or without the help of UNP (non existent currently). 
This will eliminate Thajuddeen murderers and white van philosophy.
We need not want JVP to hoodwink him (that is what they did in the past)
We are breathing fresh air due to the efforts of foot soldiers and SF who led them.
This does not mean all the soldiers are good and some of them have murdered Sinhala (1971,1989), Tamil (ethic war) and in the future may be others (Muslims), too.
A psychopath (reproduced below without his name) says SF is a failure since he could could not avoid the suicide bomber.
He faced the bomber head on and saved his colleagues in his office.
Mind you he wore a protective vest and that is why he is alive.
That is what a true leader does not like current president who run to Thirupathi for inspiration and hide his cowardliness in broad daylight.
We need not have coward guys (two in fact) on the top.
We do not need politicians who believe no existent gods including Muslim, Hindu or Christian.
I think now they should wear a helmet (average citizens Kithul Polla awaits them come elections not the journalist’s pen) and a protective vest now onwards.
Preferably a BOX the cricketers wear since they value their private parts more than the life of an average citizen.
Now I come to the homosexuals since, I talked about the box (all MPs should wear BOXES in parliament, their behavior speaks themselves in public -is exemplary).
Before I went to UK I was told by a senior guy “Beware of Homosexuals) whom I managed to outwit in the interview of over 60 guys.
Mind you I did not accept it (declined) since the government bound me by 12 years, monetary bonds and penalties.
The basic salary then was Rs.400/=.
I must say in the plane I did not come across homosexuals but my first encounter in a tube toilet (horrible those days) in London was a homosexual. 
I told him that it is a criminal offense and five years in jail and would you come to the nearest police stations. He ran away like a thief. I used to keep a Swiss knife in my possession, the entire stay in UK (still in Ceylon to counteract pickpockets) and pull it out with an apple to show my not so elegant public defense.
It is illegal to carry a knife (knife incidents were common those days in London).
 
Mind you 80 year old lady was raped at midnight (my wife and I took the train few minutes before this incident) in Merylibourne station in 1984.
We came home that Christmas for good.
There were 35 odd pedophiles (one was a PM) and many more homosexuals in the upper and lower house in the eighties.
Mind you, Lady Thatcher passed a bill in my time making homosexuality a normal act and I became a minority but a vocal opponent.
That is how the democracy works, more homosexuals and more in the parliament.
More drug peddlers and more of them in the parliament (over 125 currently) .
Mind you most priests are homosexuals and like politicians they hide behind the robe.
More criminals (drug peddlers) more terrorist in any country, Ceylon is no exception.
Ceylonese National papers (media, too) are owned by underworld guys to make black money white.
There was a good article in a Aniddha about how putrid the journalists are now. 
Giving a psychopath a room to tarnish SFs image is a manifestation of this malady.
They are scared that he will contest next presidential election and their blood dirty swords are directed at him but not who killed Tharjudeen and Lasantha.

Democracy -Why the Failure?

I will list them not in any order of priority.

1. Post of Presidency its action and inaction (past, present and future)

2. Bonus vote, List MPs and Governors (political bum suckers) not accountable to the masses.
Only one man one vote works in democracy not when it is in multiples.

3. Fringe political parties based on religion, race, drug peddlers and homosexuals but not workable policies on national issues.

4. Intransigence of these fringe parties breed ground for extremists and terrorists.

5. No regular time table for elections and the President and PM fiddle with them.
They are fiddlers on the roof but no impact on policies.

6. Division of executive and parliament was meant for democracy to work . It works the other way and antagonistically.
Conspirators run the country.
Deal Dasas make money behind the scene.

7. The cross over of MPs after the last count is made.
It should be made illegal and the cross over holder should lose the right to contest for 20 years.

8. Foreign dwellers who come (Naganadda included) only during the election.
Minimum two years residence to qualify for candidacy including MPs.

9. Vote rigging and bribes.

10. Failure of the public servants who bum-suck politicians.


11. Failure of the bum-sucking journalists.

12. This is not the time for a new constitution.
It is a rotten time.

The list can go on to hundreds.

Fonseka too failed in security

April 28, 2019, 12:00 pm
"The entire government would have resigned if a disaster like the Easter Sunday carnage had happened in any other country, but such things would never happen in Sri Lanka" …said Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka. He severely criticized both the Government and the Opposition for allowing the deterioration of intelligence services.
In the course of his discourse, in parliament, he also stressed that vitally important responsibilities for the security of the nation should not be entrusted to inexperienced amateurs; and that he himself is the person best suited for such a task.
In making this type of statement he, like most politicians, probably believes that the public memories are woefully short. We remember that, he was an excellent Commanding Officer of the Northern Zone, who steadfastly resisted the pressures for the Army to unilaterally evacuate the 'High Security Zone' around the main military base in the Jaffna peninsula, exerted by the leaders of our government during the fateful ‘Peace Negotiations’ of 2002. But, several years later he failed disastrously to protect himself and his headquarters against a terrorist attack, and was compelled to remain a disabled patient in Singapore during that critical phase of planning the final onslaught against the LTTE.

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Why I Agree with Karl Marx, that Religion is an Opium to the Selfish Mind


Why I Agree with Karl Marx, that Religion is an Opium to the Selfish Mind
Religion is an opium to the Unkind and Selfish Mind.
It is a deep philosophical argument he portrayed even though social and communist countries adapted it to politics in the wrong context to control secular societies.
Religion is not based on scientific methodology but on dogmatic statement of a not so charismatic individual and stupid people follow the so called enlightened guy who is in one sense gone bonkers in thinking capacity.

Once a dogma is incarcerated in the mind the guy or girl becomes paranoid and sick and there is no treatment for it except for strict incarceration.

What Karl Marx reiterated was that this illness has no treatment or ready made remedy.

That is the philosophical content for shich we must thank, the British for giving him the refuge in UK when he was vilified by the Church in Germany. 

It was not Russia or China but British who saved the “Freedom of Speech”.

Mind you Sir Bertram Russel had to hide in China from the Church for writing a book “Why I am not a Christian?”.

No religion new or old can escape from the root dogma which is fallible by scientific examination.

What is written in books is not sacred or sacrosanct.
They have to be examined with open mind and be subjected to strict scrutiny.

This is why I say we are still Level Zero Civilization.

Most of the alien civilizations (who have visited us after atomic bomb explosion in nineteen forties) are level one or above level one civilizations and they live in amity and there is total abolition of war mongering.

It will take another 100 years for us to reach level one civilization but long before that we will be extinct due to mass extinction or another bomb which is more lethal than atomic.

This is where the American (Church logic) logic that alien visitation should be hidden under the cover of Conspiracy Theory from the average masses perception is more dangerous than religion by itself.

It breeds grounds for mass paranoia and phobia.

The CIA plan was to make the entire world Christian, whereas the Muslim fanaticism is to make the entire world Muslim.

They are at loggerhead for ages and communist and socialist worlds should be in the forefront to diffuse this animosity.

We need not fear aliens but paranoid youth who are brought up without knowledge, understanding, responsibility or brotherhood or mutual human benefit.
That is the root of the problem.
Dogmatism has no currency in this century.

Startup Disk Creator to Boot Debianon a USB

I finally found a way to create a Startup Disk for Debian.
Debian by default discourages making a Bootable USB Stick with good reasons.
It has enormous source of packages and one missing file will create configuration problems.
In my case I do not like Live DVD for booting.
They make a lot of noise and I prefer USB booting.
Finally I got MultiSystem to have copy of Debian inside a SSD with many other distributions.
Toady I booted ElementaryOs (it has minimal package system after SDD install) on an external disk and started downloading packages and came across Startup Disk Creator Package.
I tested it with 16 GiB USB and presto it could create a Debian 9.8.0 version on USB Disk in less than ten minutes.
By the way, even if you use the USB stick you ought to have DVD in the CD ROM for the dpkg (package checking) to configure the packages correctly, especially if not connected to the Internet.

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Debian on a USB Stick

Debian on a USB Stick
Making a Bootable USB stick (USB 2) with Debian 9.8.0 is humanly impossible.
1. I tried it with the latest DVD (First out of the 3 DVDs).
2. It has enormous amount of packages and does not fit in with a 16 GiB stick.
3. Writing took nearly four (4) hours and aborted with failure to install software.
4. I tried (thinking that it might help to recover) again.
It did not (probably no space left) write a Grub file.
5. I could mount Debian on a USB 3 64 GiB stick (no installing) with MultiSystem Software.
6. I tried UnetBootIn and failed.
7. Now Linux does not support writing a Grub file on a USB stick.

My advice is to use SSD external drives. 
I have several and discarding all OLD USB sticks.

Alternative is to try other Linux distributions on USB sticks.

AVLinux supports booting from a USB stick.

I do not know whether Peppermint, ElementaryOs or PinguyOS support USB booting.

It is time to say Good Bye to USB 2 sticks, except for data writing.
I am not sure one needs a swap partition for SSDs but all the same reserve some space for swap.
SSD does not support Master Boot record and one cannot install a second Linux distribution.
I have Debian on my Mater SSD but the reserved (for a second distribution) JFS partition is unusable.
New technology does not support OLD but very productive methodology.
My old turntable drives with terrabyte capacity have three or four distributions installed with over 500 GiB left for my data (films, photos, books and record of my Document Files).
One does not need cloud to store data, especially if your Internet connection and supply is pretty slow.
It is true in my case and I work only past midnight.

The technicalities behind it are tricky, but MBR is constrained by the capacity and limited number of its sectors—only 32 bits are available to represent logical sectors. You can find out more on Microsoft’s TechNet blog, but it means that MBR can only use up to 2TB of storage space. Anything larger than that, and the extra disk space is marked as unallocated and unusable.
GPT allows for 64 bits, which means that the storage limitation is 9.4ZB. That’s a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes. In practice, what it really means is that GPT has no real-world limit. You can buy any capacity drive and GPT will be able to use all of the space.
In short: MBR can support up to 2TB; GPT handles up to 9.4ZB.

My contention is why one need that much of capacity (only servers use that amount) to write a book which can be accomplished with a very small PDF (Portable Digital Format) file.
I do that with Abiword.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Ubuntu Update


Distributions
Based On
RAM Usage

Quelitu Jazz 16.04**
10/16
 E17/Lubuntu 16.04.1
103 MB

Quelitu Lxde 16.04**
10/16
Lubuntu 16.04.1
125 MB

Lubuntu 16.04
04/16
Ubuntu 16.04.1
154 MB

Linux Mint XFCE 18
08/16
Ubuntu 16.04.1
185 MB

Xubuntu 16.04
04/16
Ubuntu 16.04.1
225 MB

Linux Lite 3.2
10/16
Ubuntu 16.04
240 MB

This is just to write my last three hours with Ubuntu 19.04 and its software. 
It has its own featured set of software and nothing else. 
Downloading Ubuntu was easy with torrent.
Installing was painful.
I tried a live session and tried Gparted (mind you I can visualize my partition table even in my dream) to pick a root and home partitions.
It froze.
Simply because it used so much RAM resources to SHOW off its versatility BUT  not its functionality.
Then I went for the ultimate KILL treatment.
Pressed the switch off button and restarted Ubuntu and it took ages to boot up again.
Installed it which was relatively fast (not to my liking anyway with lot of missing first boot up packages) and I could not use an alternate person to use my computer without the root permission.
Mind its cage was not enough to fill all the characters of my root password.
It does (who will use the root password for daily word) not let me have a user password.
Updating software and removing boot-up software took so much  time I switched the kettle for a cuppa.
Then getting a software update to install Abiword my favorite writing tool took ages.
So I decided to upgrade my anger here.
Mind you this is installed in an old USB 2 external drive (to show a newbie, if asked) not in my alternate external hard drive.
It is better to use ElementaryOS or Peppermint or PinguyOs for productivity.
Mind YOU all are Ubuntu based (Debian based to begin with) but much better user friendly.
How can I recommend Ubuntu to anybody? 
I only use Debian now with few packages missing (Abiword, UnetBootIn, Dilo web browser, Tor, very tiny utilities but super-fast) in a store of over 66,000 packages, I will never use in my life time.
Thank you Debian.
No thanks Ubuntu.
I never used Ubuntu for productivity work anyway!

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

ElementaryOS

ElementaryOS

Concept of ElementaryOS is elementary.

It has a small footprint to start with but it can expand to one's needs.

Its look is something like Mac Os with square windows, is eye-catching but nevertheless still foreign to one who comes from Gnome and KDE base with minimal clutter (with work spaces that keep individual process one not currently working out of sight).
 
Having said that its commercial entry and approach, I welcome, since Linux guys also needs bread and butter (or rice and curry) for survival.

Its packages are $1 to $3 dollars are withing everyone’s reach and for $100 dollars one can have 25 to 30 packages of ones liking.

It has large repertoire of FREE packages, I do not need any of the fancy stuff, since I use Debian as my workhorse.

Peppermint by the way, I am losing interest due to its bulkiness and slow speed of booting.

I keep an eye on PinguyOs but it has some teething problem with Grub File.

None of them supports UnetBootIn except AVLinux.
 
So don’t be a distrohopper but have multiple distributions installed on an external turntable hard drive (preferably not SSD, that has problems with multiple booting).

If you are using SSD better try, MultiSystem CD for booting multiple distributions on a USB pen or drive.

Currently UnetBootIn support only one distribution (good old days multiple distributions on a stick) at a time.
 
Debian does not support MultiSystem, the French System but UnetBootIn does the honours with Debian (I put Debian 9.8.0 on a stick since I hate humming Disk Drive in the background when installing).
 
Thanks the guys and girls doing the wonderful stuff for Linux.
 
Please do not let UnetBootIn go into extinction.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

UnetBootIn-Update

UnetBootIn-Update
I was installing Debian on this computer today.
I got a warning in the installing script (not use toUnetbootin) since the USB Stick was made using UnetBootin.
It (installation) went on smoothly without a hitch. 
UnetBootIn is a very small Linux utility and it needs additional plugin or libraries to function.
I used AVLinux Live session and used its Unetbootin.
Very handy Ghaphic interface.
Unlike old days it installs (overwrite previous installation in USB) only one iso- squashfs file (not multiples).
Only French Utility MultSystem allows one to have many iso distributions in a USB stick.
But the squashfs file might not have all the utilities the iso DVD may have.
It may be safer to use a DVD, instead.
DVD Rom makes a hum and I prefer quiet installation with a USB stick.
As far as I know only UnetBootIn support thisfunction,
Nothing ele.
Please do not destroy its functionality by giving wrong information.
If one tries (I had that difficulty and I have voiced my concern, elsewhere thinking it does not support 64 bit computers) the raw UnetBotin without the plug in one may fail.
The bottom line is if one has a distribition (AVLinux is an example) that supports unetbootin use that distribution.
I hope many of the other Linux distributions would include it in its packages,
Plase do not distroy its functionality.
 

Friday, April 12, 2019

Who is the one who makes the Real Twit?

 Who is the one who makes the Real Twit?


In Twitter parlance which Ceylonese bird makes the real twit sound?

I am not good at distinguishing various chirpy chips of our birds.
There are plenty of different types of Munias (Battchittas) that make a lot of noise.

Identifying the one who really makes a twit is very difficult.

They avoid direct eye contact and disappear the moment one focuses on them and hide under leaves.

Today I spotted two of them alone in our rooftop garden.
They are the tiniest of the lot.
They are the ones who made a nest in our rooftop garden which was left to wilderness (I was busy or had gone abroad, may be) sometime ago.
They are the ones who attacks the big birds without fear.
They are the ones with golden brown feathers with soft white underbelly.

The black variety (I call the paddy birds) does not twit but are very chirpy nevertheless.

It was hide and seek.
I was listening to the twit hiding behind the plastic gate.
Waited for sometime to locate the direction and found two on the roof.
Within seconds they disappeared and I could hear the alarming twit to its buddy at a distance. 
They come to feed on the fruits of the mulberry trees. 
I have three on pots and they have plenty of fruits. The big birds never come down to that level and tiny tots have a leisurely feed.
The mulberry trees need lot of water otherwise they shrivel away.
I have been doing that during the torrid time.
They rain is long overdue.


Thursday, April 11, 2019

Torrid Weather and Birds



 
Torrid Weather and Birds

This is to correct some misconceptions about birds.
We think that by feeding them with left over rice we can support them during the dry weather.
The rice sucks water and fills the belly and make them prone to dehydration.

What we should feed them with is with fruits with seeds.

They scatter seeds helping the reforestation.

At least grow a paw paw tree in your garden and let them eat the ripe ones.

We think they can survive on insects.

No.

They dry weather inhibit abundance of insects.

So only way they can survive is with limited number of fruits.

The best is to grow a mulberry tree in your garden.

They have fruits even during the dry weather.

Birds need honey, too.

Flowering plants are essential for many tiny birds including humming birds.

Water is essential to keep the wings in trim condition.

There is an open water plant near our house.
Local Mynahs have a bath there and come for the mulberry fruits.

They love them.

They are the most jovial type even after a thunder storm.

Mynahs do eat fruits.

The insects are an additional source that helps to control pests of our food crops.
So keeping our bird population is vital for the foods crops.
Eating a few beans by parrots  should not be considered a menace.

They are the worse of birds hit by the torrid weather pattern.

Growing Bamboo Trees

Bamboo and the Windbreaks

This fastest growing plant rather a grass is one of the most vandalized plant in this country. Since it is growing fast we take for granted to destroy at every opportunity available and never care to plant any.

I have never seen a nursery for bamboo even though there are hundreds of varieties.
These plants are not seen in the temperate countries and in early as 18th century Americans took them from Asia and started growing them as ornamental plants.

While they do research on these plants we vandalize them.

Why?

We have plenty of them and we do not care for the mother nature.

If I write one plant a day and continue I may have to continue for years how we destroy our wealth of plants.

The plants going extinct were never recorded in our history and we have not even begun to take an inventory as a proactive exercise.

This is not to elaborate on that issue but to state how bamboo tree protects our river beds and roads that run along the rivers.

They do protect the embankments but what our guys do is to chop them at will since they are not protected by the local authorities.

River basin and embankment is nobody’s business in this country.

It also act as a windbreaks.

It cools the air on a warm day with with gentle air currents.

Not only that it reduces our CO2 foot prints.

None of these are taken into accounts since our guys who gets to the parliament have never studied any including social science and not at all pure science.

They use environment issues to form green parties but never practice what they preach once they get there.

If we want to do as little as possible for our mother nature grow a few bamboos around river path and the surrounds.

Like eating a banana a day (not poisoned by UREA) is healthy for our life growing a bamboo a day would protect our rivers, roads and environment (air) too.

That is my message.