How to make an Elephant Cry?

How to make an Elephant Cry?

This is something I have kept in storage for a very longtime due to its politically sensitive nature.

You may remember the story I posted about, how to make an Elephant Laugh?

A decade or so ago I posted that story when web posts were the unusual and unconventional and we did not have even 1% web presence in this country.

The routers were not known and dial up connection were the norm but were painfully slow.

Then, the politicians were ignorant that there was something called WWW in existence.
That web site is currently under political scrutiny and I do not use it anyway and I have migrated to bigger things like Google and www.wordpress.com.

The web site with British Heritage with local support is blocked for reasons unknown to me.

In any case, I have no connection with anything British except BBC Sports but that also I rarely visit since I do not watch Sri-Lankan cricket at all after political interference during the last world cup with a doctor without CMC registration with dubious record was managing the Sri-Lankan cricket.

Mind you, I even missed the trashing England suffered under South African command.

I only knew it when I visited the BBC sports to see the opening ceremony details.

BBC sports has done an excellent job and I suggest you visit it now before Sri-Lankan Government ban it for publishing a news event of a Sri-Lankan official who accompanied the team found shoplifting in a far remote corner of the British Isles.

I am pretty sure more officials than the athletes have arrived in London, well before the opening ceremony and they are involved in other dubious activities other than sports in London such as SOHO or Gambling Dens.

Mind you, the gambling is our National pastime when abroad to make some fast buck of foreign exchange.

I exchanged some Travelers cheques  kept for safe keeping in view of our industrial action but the bank has failed to realize it for the last three weeks or so.
One of our stupid union man (may be he is working for the government) has slipped his tongue in public and the government has taken mean advantage of the situation and stopped payment of our salary.

The usual procedure of stop payment is to set off leave, then half pay for 3 to 6 months once the leave is exhausted and finally the full pay is withheld.

We are not even into three weeks of union action and I have all my leave and more unauthorized leave because of the strike.

This stupid union man does not know the procedures or the etiquette of addressing. the public media and how he conducts his lectures is a pertinent question in academic circles.

Probably, he is not good enough to to give lectures and has taken up union activities to survive.

Coming back, to gambling one of the Papua New Guinea players was killed returning from a gambling den in Colombo, frequented by some our of ex-cricketers (not current) and the reason is not money but a girl we are told but we are still to hear the official version or the real version now into 10 years of inquiry.

All these diversions were to tone down the political nature of the story related to the elephant who died few years ago.

How to make an Elephant cry?

This is a true story coming from the aegis of Maha Brahma.

The elephant of course ended up in heaven but the second part which was withheld by me goes on like this.

Within minutes of his presence in high heaven, he started crying.

Maha asked him Why?

When this Elephant Guy of yesteryear was ascending to high heaven, the mahout who was drunk had been sleeping on his rear holding onto his tail thinking it is the Henduwa that is used to control the the gentle giant.

As he was bit up in the air he felt something skirmish and asked where am I?

The elephant had said ¨We are on our way to high Heaven¨.

Hold tight.

What nonsense I am already in high heaven and the Kassippu was invigorating to say the least.

No my dear, we are really ascending to high heaven and hold tight.

The mahout woke up from his slumber and having realized that he was holding onto the tail and took his hand off to take the Henduwa to bring his mad Elephant to senses but alas he dropped from the sky to the earth below in a flash.

The elephant guy said to Maha that his master who was holding onto his tail had met with this tragic misadventure and I fear he is dead and he is in hell now.

Maha Brahma had a little pause and burst out into a big laughter.

Our new god was bit bemused.

Your friend did not die of the crash but the Nilame was dead instantaneously.

How come?

The Nilame has come to visit the mahout to pay his dues for the day.

Then when both of you ascended up the Nilame got hold of the mahout´s leg knowing very well that the trip was to high heaven.

When they crash landed the mahout fell on top of the Nilame and survived but not his Nilame.

He was taken into custody by the Sri-Lankan police and now he is in prison charged with murder of his boss.

Now he is in prison?

YES.

Poor guy it must be worst than the hell know?

What nonsense?

Sri-Lankan prison is hundred thousand times better than the hell with cellphones and all the paraphernalia.

Is it so?

Yes.

Do you want to see the glimpse of the hell.

Yes, please.

My goodness.

Who is that guy?

He is the Nilame that just arrived.

Why is he having a big thing hooked into his back.

He is still under investigation and on probation for a proper appraisal.

Who is that guy?

He is one of your ex-presidents now already assigned a post in hell.

What is his post?

If any of his fellow presidents join prison he has to give a proper affidavit to process his or her claim in the hierarchy reserved only for Sri-Lankan politicians.

Does he give a good one.

NEVER.

Why?

He never wanted anyone other than his party of Elephants to hold the post of presidency.

Now, that he has lost it he takes the PIN (Kusal or the merits) or PAIN of it in Hell.

Do you want to see some of the Diyawadanae Nilames there.

NO, Sir.