Discipline should come from Top Down

This is a comment I pushed through (they will never publish these things) a PHP front of a local paper on suicide.

Discipline should come from Top Down

Let me give few examples that were recorded in a 3 hour survey in my sphere of activity.

Time 1 PM.

Site Teller Machine

Two girls inside (which is irregular).

I was behind.

I waited for 5 minutes.

I wanted to get the queue to get longer.

My response abbreviated for public consumption.

To an old gentlemen (older than me) standing behind me.

I wish they brought (nana reddak genawan nagana yanna thibuna ne) a bathing trunk (so that I could have visualized their bare bony figure, if not their mental make up).

Th last word, they were simply SELFISH.

Blank is left here for one to add anymore conglomerations!

As they came out, I whispered into their ears, in English “get out of this place, without wasting time of others”.

No eye contact or no apologies from them.

Time 1.30 PM.

Super Market Queue

I looked for the shortest queue in the supermarket out of three outlets.

A not so respectable young, Buddhist monk with his “Gihi Golaya” came from behind; the monk curtly addressed the counter girl and pushed his Golaya in front of the queue and pushed over to the other side with heavy and disgusting composure.

I thank myself, I was not the one whose “Human Right” was violated.

I would have rudely refused him and said “please slow down before entering Heaven or Nirvana".

What the mighty rush, the monks have? 

A priest with any other denomination would not have done this show of stupid superiority.

To douse my anger and to keep me entertained with curiosity, I watched every item that was billed in.

Presto!

There was a very expensive perfume bottle (not an incense cube) in the lot.

Even in Ten Meritorious Deeds for our Opaskika Mathawas, perfume is tabooed for one night when on Dasa Sil.

(Nachcha, Geetha, Vadhia, Vilupana, Dhassana, Mala, Ghannda, Vilupana was voltage / voltaging and violating inside, my head by now).

I watched the guy, in saffron cloth with a laptop in hand and soon images of me suturing episiotomy wounds (trauma to birth canal) went one by one in a flash like a MP3 video.

There would been lot worse porn in the hard disk than I have scene in real life, in my life time, in between the saffron cloth and the laptop enclosure, I figured out, in me, in a mesmerized stance, not in meditation (one tries to suppress by will all the sensual inputs and desires in Buddhist Meditation).

If it that was not enough, the third episode driven me into overdrive in superhighway.

Time 2.30 PM

Private Bus plying, in an "Ebi Gamana"

In the bus, I quietly reading a book “Clowns in the Left of me, Jokers in the Right by Ranil Senanayake, to wild away the time of one hour of “drive by bus” (just only 5 miles).

There was a little commotion in the bus.

The conductor was telling a woman dressed in Kandyan Sari, to step up and in, from the foot-board, for the third time and the bloody woman said, “I am a teacher”- that implied she has the right to violate rules in broad day light-and there were many school children in the bus.

I hit the roof in a moment of rare insanity.

I told the conductor “Putha Oya Moda Ganita Awawada Karannta Epa” and flipped the page back to where my reading was interrupted.

There was absolute sanity till we reached our destination and the driver revved up a bit and I had a quiet chat with the conductor and the driver and thank them profusely for bring me home safely.

I totally agree with Ranil Senanayake, there are Clowns and Jokers in this country.

I wish our Ranil an Rosi read this.

A child committing suicide in not a miracle but a natural thing which they see every moment of their living life, more often than me.

I do not want to be an octogenarian in this country.

I wish I kick the bucket sooner than late.

That is of course if I do not emigrate.

President Putin (P.P. product to be proud of)has delivered, that all Russians could be proud of

My comment about Mr. Putin and Russian politics has proven wrong.
There aren't any credible geo-politicians, left on this planet

We are going from crisis to crisis.

President Putin (P.P. product to be proud of)has delivered, that all Russians could be proud of

I watched “Sochi Olympics” with much more enthusiasm than watching Sir-Lankans playing cricket with Bangladesh and English getting a real drubbing in Test Cricket by Australians.

The C in cricket stands for Crime and Corruption and I have changed it to Wicket and W in Wicket stands for wickedness they handed over to mighty South African who played and burnt out for England, Kevin Peterson (P stands for Pride here), the not so nice guy in the dressing room (because he speaks his heart out unlike, the English who are born with two tongues- one tries to speak the truth, the other is secretly deceptive).

Before taking about Mr. Putin let me dispense the English and Australians.

Like the way they dealt with Kevin, English use the Terrorist Rump (the backside of English politics) -who did sweet nothing to Sri-Lankan Image-to their advantage and dump them (like Kevin) off when the going is BAD and Touch.

So before they went to Sochi, they were looking for holes (only found ARSxxxxx) in Russian Terrorist Rump and found nothing to find and ended up looking for toilet bowls and were balled out in Medal Table.

The BBC (they have an obsessive group of so called almost Nutty (sometimes Nutzie) group of journalists who are always unhappy even given the best of comforts) never portrayed the true “Russian Spirit”.

Unlike the British, the ordinary Russians are very sweet guys and girls.

They can bring the best out, given even the worst of comforts.

They looked after their stray dogs too.

They proved their mettle without any doubt in Sochi.

The Australians who are also petting terrorist rump (what is left of it) fared worse than English.

What has happened to their “Macho Image” in Cricket and Rugger?

They can say it is a desert and wild Continent and can wash their hands off.

But I am amazed.

To the Americans, my hat's off to the Olympians who adopted, so many puppies.

He is a guy who everyone should admire.

What has happened to “Puppy Sense” of British and Australians?

They must be thinking of quarantining the hypothetical Russian terrorist genes in their “Puppy Blood” before adopting them but they could adopt any terrorist with two legs, left our shores without any hesitation.

That is their wisdom in politics, of course.

Coming to Canada winning the Olympic Hockey (my favorite game being a hockey player of yesteryear (not ICE hockey) is creditable but their political brain is frozen when it comes to terrorists.

It is the breeding ground for the “Next Generation” of terrorists including money laundering and “Yuppie Type” guys and girls involved in “Cyber Cafe Crimes” (money is raised with illegal drugs coming from Mexico through Americas).

Those behind the Iron Curtain dealt a body blow to “Fanatic Muslim Terrorists” with and Iron Fist which Mrs Thatcher now in her grave could be proud of.

Not only that they topped the Medal Table too.

In the mean time all in the European Commission were busy splitting the Ukraine into Anarchy.

That is how the Europeans outside, the Greater Russia expanding their neo-colonialism.

I think Mr. Putin should put an end to this SAGA in Ukraine with real politics, now that the Sochi Olympics is over.

Microwave Cooking

Microwave Cooking

I have been waiting for a microwave safe plastic plate for over 15 years in this country.

It is now available in Sri-Lanka.

I have seen people reheating food wrapped in thin film which is very BAD.

Most of the microwave ovens have no clocks and set menu and time.
 
One should not buy them.

I used microwave (I was living in a very unhealthy locality) to kill bacteria at High Power (not for cooking but REHEATING) and ended up with B Vitamin Deficiency which was serious enough.

Since then I began to use my common sense. 

Mind you, I have been using microwave from 1980s with no ill effects.
Only period I stooped using it was when I was recovering from the B Vitamin Deficiency.

Low Power cooking is the best way to "go about".

Counterfeiting Drugs

Below I reproduce an article for the greater good of the poor Patients

Counterfeiting Drugs

Even though, I do not write on medical topics now, this is an issue, I was involved for over 40 years but has not seen any improvement ofter the demise of late professor Senaka Bibile.

It has got worse over the past 20 years and I never by Indian Drugs for my consumption.

Even if the tender procedures look OK on paper by the time it is shipped from India over 40 to 50 are dud ones (counterfeiting is not the correct term) and that 50 good stuff is filtered and given to pharmacies in India in cut rate.

This happen in Sri-Lanka too.

Almost 50% from the SPC is filtered out and dud ones are introduced.

There is a Drug Mafia running parallel with illegal (heroin) and that is how almost 50% of the black currency is originated.

That is how the democracy works here and in India and perpetrators (because they are in the majority anyway) are protected by politicians.

Americans have woken up but it is too late for the poor patients.

How India's Drug Biz Can Compromise Your Pills‬‬‬‬

In the cutthroat business of generic drug manufacturing it’s the little things that can bolster a company’s bottom line—like fabricating data about quality instead of fully testing products. Some major drug plants in India that exported medications to the U.S., it seems, did just that.

Such shoddy practices can lead to medicine that does not perform as it should or, worse, causes harmful side effects. In recent years these kinds of incidents have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to place bans on several prominent drug suppliers in India. To follow up, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is going to India this week to meet with its health minister and industry officials. India’s drug and food programs will be at the top of the agenda, according to the FDA. India is currently the second-biggest drug provider, after Canada, and the eighth-largest exporter of food products to the U.S.

The meeting comes shortly after the U.S. curbed imports at yet another plant belonging to Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd., India’s largest drug manufacturer and one of the largest U.S. suppliers. Last month the FDA banned a Ranbaxy plant from producing or distributing drug ingredients for the U.S. market; the firm was caught retesting materials to produce acceptable findings after they had failed the first time around. The company had neither investigated nor reported why the products failed initially, the FDA says.

Since 2008 the FDA has issued four bans against Ranbaxy plants.

At present, no Ranbaxy human drug products are being imported into the U.S.

The company has already pleaded guilty to federal drug safety violations as part of a $500-million settlement with the FDA, after a whistleblower from inside Ranbaxy came forward.

Separately, Ranbaxy has experienced other quality and control lapses, one of which allowed pieces of glass to get into its generic Lipitor tablets in 2012. Ranbaxy is not the only Indian company that has been cited for sending flawed products to the U.S. Wockhardt and RPG Life Sciences have also received FDA admonishments.

Some critics have blamed lackluster FDA inspection practices for the mishaps, noting that although the FDA inspects domestic plants every two years, it only inspects foreign plants about once every seven to 13 years. In fiscal 2009, for example, the FDA inspected 1,015 domestic establishments but only 424 in all foreign countries combined. FDA data indicates that in 2013 the agency performed 111 inspections at Indian drug facilities.

Simply ramping up the number of FDA inspections overseas would not solve the problem, however, says Roger Bate, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who studies the drug market. More unannounced inspections in India, along with testing products these plants send to the U.S. would help, he says, but any watershed changes would need to be fueled by the Indian government. The power to inspect and shut down facilities rests with each state in India, and some states are more diligent than others, he says. He notes that empowering India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization—equivalent to the FDA—to take action would help address the issue.

Commissioner Hamburg’s eight-day trip will apply needed pressure to the Indian government to crack down on the problem, Bate says. Hamburg is slated to take up food and drug safety issues during meetings with the CEOs of major drug and food producers and with India’s ministers for Commerce and Industry, Health and Family Welfare, and the drug controller general as well as state-level regulators.
She will also be meeting with World Health Organization officials and speaking at the World Spice Congress. India supplies nearly one quarter of the spices, oil and food colorings used in the U.S., but an FDA evaluation last fall found that some of the Indian spices were contaminated. Just one of many findings: almost 9 percent of the 1,057 spice shipments from India were laced with salmonella.

(For more data on what’s in your spices check out Graphic Science in the March edition of Scientific American.)

My Note of Discontent (NOD)

My Note of Discontent (NOD)

Sri -Lankan are very creative people but that creativity comes only after retirement when one sees that the grave stone or tomb is the final place of conquest!

This ultimate reality is also taxed; the Masters of this creation are British Tax Inspectors of Yesteryear.

British only had Police and Inspectors now we have Private Security in the Universities too.

We have lost everything including freedom but they cannot take our simple humour rather the satire (I thought satire is bit psychopathic) out of context.

Very soon humour will be taxed.

The academic Freedom in the University is also Taxed and Malabe is the Beginning.

Mr. O.M. Weerasooiya is a Retired Commissioner General of Inland Revenue and a Corporate Member of Sri Lanka Institute of taxation and former Treasurer of Netherlands Alumni Association of Lanka.
A personal note of somebody who is nobody in this Tax World:
Mr. O M Weerasooriya has done a wonderful job by writing this poem but there is something that we would like you to know.
A Developed country will collect 20 to 35% as taxes in this world.
A Developing country will collect 35 to 42.5% as taxes.
Today Sri Lanka collects 63% as taxes.
Every 100 rupees you earn 63 rupees will go back to the government as taxes.
This means Sri Lanka is heading for disaster like Zimbabwe (this is true- my own comment-We are heading that garden pathway rapidly in the name of development Who cares?) who collects a whopping 88% as taxes.
Support somebody who could change this at least to a developing level.

Read My Comment below and please add your comment, too.
Few lines would do.

The Tax Poem
At first I thought this was funny…then I realized the awful truth of it.
Be sure to read all the way to the end as that’s the punch line!
Tax his land, tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work, Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts Anyway!
Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers,
If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his aRss (after the daily purge).
Tax all he has, then let him know
That you won’t be done, till he has no dough
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till he’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he’s laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me to my doom…’
When he’s gone, do not relax,
Its time to ap ply the inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax,
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax,
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax,
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax,
Death Tax
Dog License Tax,
Driving Permit Tax
Excise Taxes,
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment (UI),
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax,
Petrol Tax (too much per liter)
Gross Receipts Tax,
Health Tax
Hunting License Tax,
Hydro Tax,
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax,
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes,
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax,
Mortgage Tax
Personal Income Tax,
Property Tax
Poverty Tax,
Prescription Drug Tax
Provincial Income Tax,
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax,
School Tax
Telephone Tax,
Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Water Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax
Entertainment Tax,
Tourism Promotion Tax
Value Added Tax……..
G.S.T. (Gona Saha Thanakola TAX-Bull and the Grass TAX)
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our Nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle-class and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
 
What in the hell happened?
 
Can you spell ‘Politicians’?
It is all PoliTricks Scientists (my creation for Oxford Dictionary-Coined for American Scientists who make mockery / distort facts and make them friction / out of real facts).
I hope this goes around SRI LANKA at least 100 times!!!!!
YOU can help it get there!!!!
GO AHEAD – - – be a SRI LANKAN !!!!!!!!!!
SEND IT AROUND EVERYWHERE for a change
Help make a difference.

Ayubowan, is Long Life.
If you live long you pay more TAX.

May he attain the Final Goal, the Nibbana in this life and not next life.
Then the next life we believe is spared.

Even then the TAX Inspector will follow him.

I will send a Note / Email to Maha Brahma to TAX the TAX man and send him to HELL.

I gather from reliable sources very soon SEX will be taxed through the purchase of condoms.

The sale person is required to ask the question why do by more than one.

Then if you say for safe sex, he / she will produce the TAX Form and if you do not pay or fill the form would be asked to pay an additional fine.

Please do not use condoms.

If you use them please cut the TIP off.

I mean the tip of the condom.

Why I do not use a Mobile

Why I do not use a Mobile.
Mind you I have a land phone.

Read this in tandem with attention deficit (new syndrome defined by me) below.
This is something I posted elsewhere.

I have 100 or more reasons why I do not have or use a cell phone.

I will list them as they come to my mind but not in any order of priority,

As an intern I hated all calls mobile included since it meant, a batch of new arrival of small kids who have arrived in absolutely appalling condition.

Some of them fitting due to low blood sugar nearing zero.

In fact I had 8 to 10 kids whose blood sugar and CSF sugar down to zero.

The government at that time told the public it was encephalitis and I proved them wrong without even my medical registration completed.

Then in 6 months later when I went to collect my own data they had disappeared mysteriously from, medical records.

Then what I did subsequently, I have to pen down on a latter date of my life nearing my death!

One thing was sure leave this messy health service and I decided to leave the Public Sector Health Service and I was glad I did that and if you read Dengue Dilemma elsewhere in my writings, one can easily guess it.

It has deteriorated in quality even though it has expanded in number.

1. As a doctor I hated bad news on telephone.
   We rarely hear good news when on duty.
    
2. Later in life when cell phone came, I believed in CPP (Calling Party Pays) and flatly refused a cell phone.
    
3. It is a public nuisance.
    
4. It is a nuisance when the cell phone owner has switched it off when you really needed him /her.
   
   
5. When you travel on a public transport one cannot have a snooze to drown the inconvenience with frequent interruptions. 
    
6. I love silence in public places. 
    
7. Even though, I don’t use it I have to foot the bill (kids telephone bills).
    
8. No work get done in public officers.
   They are busy answering their private calls of nature and it is more frequent than the real call of nature.
    
9. It is cheaper to redirect a message by email that should end up as junk or gossip.
    
10. We use it for gossip not for creative work
     
11. It is private enemy number one when you own the bank or telephone company a small sum in arrears and the reminders by them cost you more than you actually own them.
    I think you got the picture correct.
    I think it is enough for today but I will add more on future date when I run short of a topic to write. 
    
    Memory and Gadgets

(Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets)Technology Addiction.

Many years ago, I posted an article on the web regarding memory specially in reference to Buddhist Monks of yesteryear (not today´s TV acting MahaMewna Type) and all the points except my assertion on Mediation Practice (Focused attention on the presence) was copied by an Author of the Scientific American Publication and recently by another author.

This is one reason I thought of writing few books before my memory fails by default and old age.

It is rather loss of short term memory and now I have coined a fancy Medical Term.

Few years ago (I still do not take a note or reminder but devised a 24 hour simple protocol to enhance day to day activity) I noticed lapses in my memory and got activated.

1. Won´t use a telephone, but buy a cellphone when I go abroad and drop it into a bin in the airport (this is the biggest handicap and in the middle of your work one may give a call with a low priority-gossip related call).

Who Cares.

Thank god one can switch off the cell, then what is the use of a telephone if it is not doing it job, transfer a message.

I use my land phone at my discretion since I pay the bill.
Not even the Telecom (delay in payment) or the a bank officer can break that law and break into my freedom.

2. Won´t sit in front of the TV and watch web videos unless it is related to animals, especially elephants.

Baby elephant dead was trapped in a tree in this country.
There is a video of a elephant mum protecting its young baby from hyenas (we have to protect the young one's from political hyenas and some rabid monks in saffron cloth).

3. Live with Living things, the dog, fish, and plants (including water plants).

All three will die if I do not have some simple protocol, not so rigid but to remind me that there are other lives on this planet (that others things also do exist) in relation to me.

Fortunately fish can go on for 10 days without food.

If neglected any longer toxic algae will kill them.

A dog will die within three days, if there is no other care giver.

Believe it or not Dogs never use telephone even in an emergency, they only BARK.

My dog in particular will start barking for no reason when I am on the phone.

 He wants me to stop talking quickly and he has not got a degree in economics but knows how to cut my telephone bill.

The garden will go to wilderness in no time.

All these little things one has to be mindful, however busy one is in day to day lives, even one has servants to look after these jobs.

They will never do them right in my experience.

4. Use the computer and the email productively.

5. Keep in touch with family and family friends in person.

When one sees a friend, just stop for a few minutes and greet them and have some empathy.
You may not see them again would be run over by a vehicle driven by a fast track lumpen with a cell phone in hand.

I am predicting now with Facebook and low priority web videos, the present young generation will hit a very low point, in their middle age with attention deficit and I am going to coin the Medical Term now, Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets) Technology Addiction (AD-R-TA- RTA stands for Road Traffic Accidents and some of these gadgets may trigger an accident on the road too).

Elephant Myths-03

Elephant Myths-03

I just made a comment on a story about a seaman who had strayed in sea for one year and survived.

I did not believe a wee bit having cared for malnourished children and adults, 41 years ago.

This is  similar to a story our Ganja Grower (hashish or pot) will give to a policeman who will record it faithfully as a true story (from Monaragala).

I did a survey (hypothetical to begin with but a true fact of evolution in this country) of how a family of 20 elephants would survive a journey (sea is mind-boggling) from Uda Walawe to Wilpattu?

With the current rate of conflict of Man an the Beast, the chances are only three (3) will survive and not a single baby elephant.

You should do the calculation yourself.

1. 200 hundred are killed every year.

2. Nearly 70 baby elephants captured by illegal trackers (but probably more).

3. The elephant man ratio is one is to hundred thousands (Ratio 1:100,000) for this family of 20.

4. Human movement is in multiples, a single Ganja Grower / Grover can make multiple trips over and over again without getting caught to our vigilant policemen, after mid night, anywhere in this country without batting an eyelid.

5. But the odds are multiples for a herd of 20, with there pace can grind to a halt at anytime, when they encounter a Ganja Grower with automatics (some are ex-serviceman from Late Lalith Athlathmudali's time-a batch 400 went missing and not accounted for).

Let me begin the track record.

1. Uda Walewas to Lunugamwehera should be a cake walk at night.

2. They would bypass the so called narrow strip of Sinharaja forest since it is crowed by human activity on all sides and the stream is small and narrow.

3. Would the the elephants get a good meal on their meal is a moot point.

4. They will also bypass Hambantota due to cricket, especially due to flood lit cricket.

5. Their deadliest route is when they emerged from Yala over the borders of Ganja Cultivation, in Monaragala district.

Please do your own cultivation, since after a sniff they shoot at anything moving sometimes their own dogs.

Elephants hate dogs even if they do not bark.

6. They will somehow make it to Elahara.

7. From GiraduruKotte to Wasgamura is the most treacherous part, if not killed certainly maimed in their ordeal to avoid human habitat (which was their habitat centuries ago).

Thanks to Mahaveli Project our elephants had to devise many ways to avoid humans.

They come out only at night.

They have very poor vision especially, the baby elephants, the traps our Ganja Growers have laid is covered with roses (sorry hashish).

8. Then they are in the flood plains of Mahaweli.

They baby elephant's carcass trapped in a tree that BBC published is the living reminder how treacherous the terrain and flood plains when torrential rains intervene.

9. They cannot cross to Wilpattu since there are so many religious activities in Anuradhapura with captive elephants parading and sending “belly messages” with their empty bellies, signaling the path is not clear for safe passage of wild elephants.

10. The bottom line is, that there are so many obstacles on their way, that if the old matriarch is there with the herd with her wisdom never hurries (or fails) in her journey through.

But many of them were killed or maimed that the younger ones who have not mastered the tricks of our Ganja Grower, end up in conflict.

That is simply unavoidable.

11. The myth that there is an Elephant corridor was cooked up in 1970s when we did not have rice to feed our human babies.

That the link with the seaman is real.

Our politicians are better than the seaman and will cook up a miracle story to hash/bash/brag, my blog post.

Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable

Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable

This bit is a "gossip", I made to a local paper.

I do hesitate to write anything about present cricketers except Mahela (not necessary for Sanga, with a big wag) for posterity.

They are our Rohan Kanhai and Kallicharan duo.

There is no looks like for Vivian Richards on record.

Cricketers (all good cricketers should do that) used to walk away (like Mahela) if they felt they were out without leaving the agony for the umpires to guess.

Our cricket Board is corrupt to the core like our politicians.

Politicians (even after heroin) and board officials (big mess in cricket stadiums and the grass they used to overlay the corrupt practices, which even our milking cows won't partake ) never resign!


1. Kehel I knew him well in cricket and police.
 
2. Daya (Sahabandu) used to ball SIX different ways in an over.
He was the worst fielder we ever had.
He has (probably) never scored a caught and balled victory in an international.
Somebody had to be in the Circle or Ring to catch for him.
It was very nice cricket anyway, without a hype.
 
3. We had a guy called Ben Navaratne who whipped the bail by his tongue and the umpire could not catch the trick.
If he became a politician with his wagging tongue (not the tails of present parliamentarians), god only knows he would have gone to Sky High!

4. Micheal Tissera was the best we had, he could have achieved more, if not for the fact, his buddy (best man) eloped to Australia with his wife.

Collection of these writings should be there in the Web (preserved as archives), like in Wikipedia for the young to browse.

Elephant Myths-02

Elephant Myths-02

Peeps at Many Lands (Ceylon)

By Alfred Clerk.

When Ceylon belonged (only the coastal areas) to Dutch, the capture of the elephants for sale was one of their principal sources of revenue. The operations were carried out in the south of the island, where elephants then swarmed, over 200 having been captured in a single drive.

The system is still followed not by the Government, and the old Dutch name still applied to it. Elephant kraals are now got up by the Kandyan chiefs (sick), in honour of newly appointed Governors or of royal visitors (sick) to the Island.

The system employed is to construct of tree-trunks (the beginning of environmental degradation, coupled with Tea plantation which the author fails to record) of strong enclosures called kraals into which herds of elephants are driven by hundreds of shouting (sick) men armed with spears, and provided with tom-toms and other noise producing instruments (pathetic).

(Panamura Ath Raja-King Elephant of Panamura was killed by a state member called Mola Mure (he was a heedless and headless, Kandyan chief) who was the speaker, then. 
He died in the speakers chair/chamber (good on him, god willing)).

These men are sometimes engaged for weeks in the forest rounding up elephants till all is ready for the final drive.

Stands are erected near the great gate of the kraal and here ladies (probably psychopathic) and gentlemen, invited to be present (I believe they had to pay for the entrance) sit for hours waiting more or less patiently, while the herd is slowly and carefully brought up. When the great movement arrives a tremendous uproar of guns, tom-toms and human throats (this is how our ancient politicians learnt how to speak in the parliament) is raised and the terrified elephants come crashing out of the forest, pause for one moment at the sight of the stockade and then rush through the gate (of no return), huddled mass of huge black forms, the gate bars (reminder of the Jurassic Park) are dropped behind them and the pleasant, leisurely life of the jungle is ended for most of them.

As soon as the herd is enclosed, tame elephants, carrying men expert in noosing, enter the kraal and one by one, all the YOUNG and SALABLE animals are secured and dragged out. The aged and infirm elephants remaining are then allowed to escape.

(There is no victory parade, though).

The imprisoned elephants are generally too cowed to give any trouble but occasionally an old bull or more often a cow with the young calf (present day Buddhists shoot the mother dead, in our Pollonnarwa District with the patronage of powerful politicians) will show fight and charge the stockade and has to be shot to prevent it breaking through. It is curious fact that the men riding the tame elephants inside the kraal during the noosing operation are never molested by the wild ones, though it would be easy for them to pull the men off and to trample them to death (probably they practice “Metta” to these devil incarnations).

The training of the captured elephants is a simple matter.

They are secured by ropes on fore and hind legs (and staved to fatigue) to strong trees and are left to struggle (exhaustion) till they are thoroughly exhausted themselves (equivalent to American water-boarding).

Many animals kill themselves through internal ruptures of the violence of their struggle to capture (note no escape).

They also suffer terribly from leg sores (fested in no time) caused by chafing of the tether ropes. 
This is how we capture the elephants to carry the casket (only the casket, mind you) of the Temple of the Tooth and decimated the population from 60,000 or more before the British to barely, 2000, now.

200 are killed each year.

The time is running out. 

Historical records indicate from ancient Egypt (5000 years ago, slavery stated in Egypt both for animal and human) to present India and Ceylon they were used for warfare and not for religious (it is mythology) activity.

These poor captive animals (including Pinnawala) have no democratic rights, freedom or choice but only modern day SLAVERY in the name of glorious religion.

My Freedom (Linux) Philosophy

My Freedom (Linux) Philosophy

Let me be down to earth.

People do not value if something is given free.

This is true in Africa, in Asia, and in Americas.

This stupid mentality is very well illustrated in Sri-Lanka.

The government to absolve and justify their stance of not improving the education system over 35 odd years (almost the time of the internal war) or so, give free school books and wash their hands off.

Teachers are ill trained or not trained at all, and there is a thriving industry of Tuition Masters, outside the main stream.

Then there is a leadership training program to inculcate inferiority and subjugation of poor undergraduates.

Add to the above insult there is no orientation program and the level of English is hopelessly poor.

So the undergraduates live a vegetative life (this is not so 45 years ago) for few years and pass out with a degree but without the skills for survival (survival of the fittest).

Their skills in IT (except for few) is inadequate.

Almost 97% of the students do not know there is an operating system called Linux and BSD and “Linux Freedom” gives a very good alternative system and choice of high value.

Above all majority DO NOT play games including video games (I was an addict).

The above preamble,

Is to highlight the plight of Microsoft users (XP and Win 7) and I now have a psychopathic elation to watch their misery.

My inner feelings (state) state that was not my original intention (over the past 10 to 15 years) when I started educating young ones on the philosophy of free software and free operating system.

Everybody took me as a JOKE then. sometimes even my colleagues.

That is the very reason of my current elation.

I knew this was coming.

I have the last laugh and would continue to laugh at the Microsoft (Microshaft guys) guys and girls.

That is because now I enjoy the Linux Freedom.

That is a Freedom one could boast about, even at a time when we are fast losing our democratic freedom and free speech.

Below are two distributions that worth considering as an alternative for Microsoft and Apple.

Even though, I do not use Ubuntu as my primary work horse (there are over 200 distributions, worth trying), I promote it without reservation because the Ubuntu forum/s are good backup resources.

Warnings

1. There are enough Free Linux (there was practically nothing except Linux Bible and Fedora Bible when I started writing introductory books) books to download now.

I have downloaded them and read a few but nothing like Linux Bibles.

I do not intend to update them since, by the time I finish my book, it goes out of date.

Lately even (this was the oversight of Ubuntu, had they introduced books, I would have been one of the first (very few) to buy them) Ubuntu has produced books.

 
Best option is for me to write blog pieces once in a way.

I used to do that once a week when I started.

Most of the Linux guys and girls also have gone through this phase of fatigue, but not me.

I still read the Linux Magazine, waiting for it to come by mail is like waiting for a “love Letter”.

Geeks are doing the magazine and they have the distant vision in their grasp.

When one reads a books the instructions are general and not specific like antibodies to Microsoft.

Microsoft and their viruses will remain for a foreseeable future sometimes deliberately introduced by Microsoft cronies.

2. If one uses a Linux distribution (we call it the default set up) do not try to tinker it.

If the desired outcome is not available please make a forum request.

Unlike Microsoft that take years to find a solution, in three month you will get an update.

That is the beauty.

3. If you like to tinker, go ahead and do it but when you are in trouble ask for help.

There is always few guys/girls who would do the needful.

4. Please be NICE to them; they just do it for fun not as a memorial collection or they are not TAX collectors.

They actually save time and TAX for you. 
To be nice to them is a mandatory requirement.

5. I use light weight distributions, even if they lack some security features.

Even if a hacker come through the back door into one of my computers, I have many computers to fall back.

This happened only twice over the past 15 years.

One.

Stupid guy from India whom I traced back.

Two

I used one my computers as a Cloud Sever as an experiment and it was used almost as a Zombie.

I could not save any of my working files and a mad guy (mad server probably) was using its resources fully leaving me nothing.

I found a way out but that was not to my satisfaction and ultimately come December, 2013 holidays, saved all my data and withdrew abruptly from “Cloud Serving”.

5. In another five years even Linux will be Dead with cloud computing would be taking a foothold.

I have already stated an undesired outcome of cloud computing, above.

So learn Linux by trial and error (Learning curve may be bit steep) and stick to a base you are comfortable with.

1. Peppermint

I use Peppermint but it is minimal and for light work but has all the resources (software) to download.

One has to tinker a bit.

2. Lubuntu

Lubuntu is good enough and light weight but it has few glitches (understandable only a few guys are with the developer/s).

Change is good but changing everything isn't always great. 
Same is true for aging computers and their operating systems. Support is sometimes lost too quickly with a 6 month core release cycle. Graphics & Audio cards and chip sets get dropped along with other miscellaneous functions with programs or drivers that just go missing. We all like having updated software we certainly don't like down time or loss of features and capabilities.

I believe most aging hardware just needs the right system on it, and lets face it, it helps keep a couple bucks in your pocket if you can squeeze a few more years out of your current system; without sacrificing, performance, capability, usability and of course aesthetics.

I decided to take a LTS version of Lubuntu, although not official it was close enough. A nice stable seasoned release from which to build from. I loaded it up with some heavy weight programs to ensure covering all the bases while providing ease of use. I added and updated the software repositories, and updated all the major programs such as LibreOffice, Gimp, Openshot.

Finally I made sure it was beautiful, complete with a new theme coupled by gorgeous wallpapers and drop shadows provided by Compton. I also included a couple unique features like Random Wallpaper, Fast Forecast, Aero Snap and the Conky system monitor layout. I then decided to create both a 32bit & 64bit version of LXLE. They are identical with a small exception. The 32bit version has compton (shadows) disabled by default, it is easily enabled if desired.

The REAL SHORT OF IT is, this is a glorified remastered version of Lubuntu 12.04, with plans for incremental updates until the next LTS release.

Help or support can be achieved through existing (L)Ubuntu Forums, Websites, Channels, Documentation and I'll help by email if I can.

3. Robolinux

Robolinux is pretty impressive but my advice is to use only 64 bit version with at least 4-GB RAM.

My 32 bit, old computer froze in a matter of five minutes.

It did not do any damage, even though Ese, Ctr+Alt, F1 to F7 did not work and I did not have any escape route.

Mind you, short cuts and command line work are the main stay in Basic Linux which this distribution has done away with.

This can be deadly for the RAM (if one is panicky) and the Graphic Card.

I lost one using PCLINUX in last October.

Robolinux is a user-friendly, 100% fully configured, highly intuitive, no-hassle, commercial Linux operating system that installs everything you need in just 10 to 20 minutes.

Robolinux includes dozens of proprietary Wi-Fi and printer drivers, plus it is the only Linux distribution that features an innovative one-click, 10 second Windows 7 and XP virtual machine installer.

For 100% proof watch the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mrB52h1aRLw

See what Real Users are saying here:

http://www.robolinux.org/testimonials.html

Welcome to a virus & malware free life!