Torrid time for birds with inclement weather

Torrid time for birds with inclement weather
It is torrid time for birds with heavy rain.
To begin with it is cold and food (fruits) is scare.
The sunshine is essential for flowers to bloom and fruits to be abundant. It is not so.
The mulberry fruits that are left in the single mulberry tree in our little garden, are not enough to last the prolong rain.
I begin to hate the rain and wish for 10 days of sunshine for flowers to bloom again which is very unlikely.
The flowers that bloomed including pomegranate did not yield fruits.
It was so with the palm tree which bloomed after many years of lapse.
The birds are in near starvation.
The little energy they consume is wasted in drying up the feathers and grooming.
The young batch of babblers, flinch, bulbul, robins and barbet are the most effected.
The robin comes and catch few of my guppies in the morning.
They are in the veranda to escape from the rain.
They cannot stay, all day there.
They need bit of chirp, chatter and wandering a bit in the sunshine.
If this goes on for long lot of them will die of starvation.
I do not believe in throwing spoiled rice containing arsenic that damage their ovaries and the eggs.
Bread is no substitute.
They need fruits with high energy.
Beside they spread the seeds and help them germinate with one pass in their alimentary system.
 
This inclement weather which I believe, the end result of global warming (oil the spoiler) and melting ice will destroy the whole eco-system in a few years.
 
We will not hear the robins and mynas singing in the morning and afternoon (any longer, if this continues).

The Kinsey Scale and Report

Rating Scale of 7 with one X category (docile)
Description
 
0 Exclusively heterosexual
 
1 Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
 
2 Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
 
3 Equally heterosexual and homosexual
 
4 Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
 
5 Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
 
6 Exclusively homosexual
 
X No socio-sexual contacts or reactions
Kinsey and his colleagues (fearing backlash from undesirables, including priests and politicians not scientists) were very clever not to identify categories but put the sexual orientation in a continuum.
This clearly is not scientific in a clinical setting.
This has caused problems for an average clinician.
Often indirect questions or indirect tests are done to avoid embarrassment to both parties.
In an open an promiscuous society, as of today, this has to change at least for scientific reasons.
An adult mature clinician should be able ask a direct question and keep it in his/her (no need for recording it for posterity but he/she should be able give a percentage in a particular set up, say priests / politicians, for proper assessment of a clinical problem, say AIDS) head, as long as a particular patient is under him or her.
It is no point only the cardinal (party leader) or the head priest (school principle) is aware of the situation.
Often these guys and girls are in education or in political hierarchy and these facts are hidden from the average young parents with kids.
As a clinician, if I am asked a question by a mother or father I should be able to tell 10 percent (it is much, much more in reality) of adult priests or teachers are that way oriented (for clarity) and leave the parent to take adequate precaution and or attention.
Because I am not in patient care currently (voluntary decision) I will bare few Ceylonese facts.
We had a higher education minister with venereal disease.
I have avoided the time period and you are free to guess.
There were over 16 (most likely more) principals or his or her close assistant in a particular dense region (I worked in the border region) who were preying kids.
I have had examined the victims but all the parents were against reporting the incidences.
Ten Kilometers from where I worked there was a place run by a Swedish Guy who was an ace pedophile.
We alerted the police, thinking his passport would be impounded but he went scot free, thanks to a prominent female politician.
Yesterday, by bizarre coincidence, I witnessed an accident.
My gut feeling was that this particular kid, under ten was a victim.
I avoided eye contact and vanished in a flash.

Multi Purpose Multi Liner

Multi Purpose Multi Liner

I am fed up of quotations or one liners.

But I start with a one liner to be interspersed between Trump's Twitters.

Quotations or Twitter one liners are good for repetition or reputation of the quoter but worth nothing in between!

Now my Multi Liners come after the closure of a U.N.O disclosure of an interview with an alien being at the Water's Edge in Colombo.

This should not be taken as a hypothetical case but a real encounter.

1. One who goes and search the archives is none other than our Pope.

2. One who takes the Koran and makes a new entry with a back dated entry is a Muslim.

3. One who ask for redeem of a Merit (Kusal) Re-Commission is a Buddhist.

4. One who goes for a pee (poo is excluded by the request of the alien guy who smells like, what not?) is an Indian M.P.

5. One who takes a plaster cast (for reverse engineering) of the Teleporting Machine is a Chinese.

6. One who taps the wire or the computer system is a friend of Putin.

7. One who sends a ballistic missile for testing is a North Korean scientist.

8. One who orders an  anti-ballistic missile from America is a South Koren.

9. One who asks the closing question after the disclosure is over is an American Journalist (he is still skeptic that aliens are real)

He asks are you really an Alien from the Alien/s?

10. One who orders to look up instead of look down is P.M. Abe of Japan (No Japanese has ever seen an alien due to the polite head bending attitude to foreigners and foreign affairs.

11. One who digs his own grave is an old communist from Ceylon.

12. One who asks for a pint-ah (Pilsner, Lager, Stout, McCallum's Three Coins ) is our Finance Minister after the budget speech.

13. One who test a Nuclear Missile is an Iranian.

14. One who blames America for financial melt down is a Saudi Foreign Minister.

This list can go and anybody can edit or reinvent it but the catch 22 or the catch phrase is;

33. One who asks for a long term loan to settle old loans of an adversary is none other than our P.M.

The largest of Sri Lanka's brewers is the Lion Brewery, which is also the oldest brewery in the country. It produces over 80% of Sri Lanka's beers. In 1988 it constructed a new brewery at Biyagama to replace the century-old facility at Nuwara Eliya. In 1993 the brewery became a subsidiary of Carson Cumberbatch & Co Ltd, and in 1996 the Carlsberg Group acquired a 25% share of the company. The brewery's portfolio includes lagers, strong beers and stouts, notably Lion, Lion Strong and Lion Stout. The company also brews Carlsberg and Guinness under license. The brewery exports its beers to the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia and the Maldives.

The largest of Sri Lanka's brewers is the Lion Brewery, which is also the oldest brewery in the country. It produces over 80% of Sri Lanka's beers. In 1988 it constructed a new brewery at Biyagama to replace the century-old facility at Nuwara Eliya. In 1993 the brewery became a subsidiary of Carson Cumberbatch & Co Ltd, and in 1996 the Carlsberg Group acquired a 25% share of the company. The brewery's portfolio includes lagers, strong beers and stouts, notably Lion, Lion Strong and Lion Stout. The company also brews Carlsberg and Guinness under license. The brewery exports its beers to the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia and the Maldives.

Sri Lanka's second largest brewer is Asia Pacific Brewery Lanka Limited, which acquired local brewer, United Brewery, in 2005. Asia Pacific Breweries is a Singaporean-based joint venture between Heineken International and Fraser and Neave. It has a brewery in Mawathagama where it produces a range of King beers, including Bison XXtra, Kings Lager, Kings Pilsner and Kings Stout.



The country's third and smallest brewer is the McCallum Brewery, which was established in 1963 in Meegoda. In 2011 the brewery was acquired by Cargills Ceylon PLC. It produces a number of lagers, ales and stouts, notably Three Coins and Sando Stout.

Orchid, The May Flower (Wesak Orchid)

Orchid, The May Flower (Wesak Orchid)

I admire the British Gardeners for their dedication.

I do not have the same patience but my dear friend has. 

This is the story about him not me.

There was one in UK who cared for a dwarf (Pygmy) palm, barely 4 feet tall after 40 years.

One needs meditative mindset and attention for such a task.

Plants can sense and they have more senses than we possess.

If one stops caring for a particular plant, it goes into self imposed hibernation, quite different from perennial hibernation.

My story stretches over 65 years or so.

The plant or the orchid belonged to my father.

I can remember it bloomed several times when my father was alive but it never did after his demise.

Why?

I do not know but my guess now is that it got attached to my father's delicate care which I could not reproduce.

Story goes like this.

He had a lovely orchid house donated to him by a Scottish gentleman who left this country, with the ushering of the Nawa Ugaya (It should be said the Gon Pora Ugaya -decline in values that has reached its zenith now, with bond scams taking shape) in 1956.

We were residing near Kurunegala, then, warm and humid enough for orchids.

The Wesak orchid was collected from a nearby forest where a murder victim (young girl) was hung after the gruesome killing.

The story concocted was to appear as accidental hit and run by a car (but a rape victim, all the same).

Even as a kid, rather a brat, my mind not fully developed forensically could see through the maze, the lies and deception at that time, it was a murder.

 

Coming back to the orchid story, we had to shift to Kandy my birth place due to circumstances beyond my father's control, who did not wish to move.

Ultimately,we did with all the orchids and it needed a orchid house ( 6 feet by 6 feet by 10) built.

This would have been the sore points of my near relatives but I ignited it with a total obnoxious act of hitting my mother's elder sister with a firewood (she was a very sweet lady) for her husband abusing my father.

My father did not utter a word.

His police training during second world war had made him to be non provoking.

I did not do any good on reflection for his act of calm.

So before this aggravated total warfare he decided to move to a rented house.

That house was so tiny without a garden we could not move the orchid house.

So he donated it to a distant relative of ours whose son was my big brother friend (taught me how to make a kite).

He was a very nice guy youngest in the family very well abused by his elder sisters and brothers but all the same a tough guy.

No man or guy would touch me, if he was nearby.

He was sort of a private body guard.

He tells me now, he admired me for my mathematical skills even as a kid.

Me ending as a doctor was an accident (I say it was a clerical mistake by the education department).

This guy who is 90% blind for over fifty years looked after the orchid plant for my father.

Most of the other orchids died a natural death over the fifty years.

But he had a fierce attachment to the Wesak orchid, (even though it did not blossom after few blooms).

Last time, I went to see him, the orchid was in poor shape, being blind he could not detect the problems and the global warming contributing to its slow but sure death.

I told him it is in bad shape and requested a piece for safe keeping as it were.

I am not an expert on orchids and I could name only three or four, Cattleya and Kandyan dancer are the only namesakes, I can remember, now.

My current favorite is big Vanilla NOT the Vanda.

I did not have the patience of a British Gardner anyway.

I borrowed a piece about 15 years ago, but it did not last an year.

It was good fortune I did take a sapling.

When I visited the next time my friends plant had gone for good. 

It died a natural death.

I became obsessively attached to the one I had, which was hidden in my roof top water garden.

Few days ago, when I was watering the plants, I noticed the orchid was in bad shape, again.

Fully exposed and the cement heating up it was near peril state.

All this morning with some clever arrangement, I did find a hiding place for it.

I have placed my water plants in a cascading pattern of arrangement.

Plants needing little water on the top and the plants needing shade and an abundance of water at the bottom and the Bonsai tree cover in between.

It took two hours for me to rearrange, so that the orchid was well protected and enough humidity around it.

Other two specimens, I have were kept as its companion neighbors.

I offered to give him a sapling when it sprouts to my friend and he politely refused.

What will happen to this orchid and its descendants after my demise?

It is an open question.

Bakthi, the Prayer

Bakthi, the Prayer
Long time ago,
One of my Indian friends,
Expressed the view
That there are 800 million
(Now over billion -give an indication of the time of this discussion-and one who reads this should investigate the doubling time of human population, especially India and China)
Indians in India,
And Equally there are
800 hundred million
Gods to Worship
What I am to do?
Whom, I should Worship?

My prompt and curt
Respond was
Worship nobody,
Just like me
As a simple Buddhist
BUT my dear friend
The problem in Ceylon is,
There are 8 million Buddhists
Looking for some sort of god
Or divine incarnation from India
(specially politicians)
In spite,
The majority
Of beings are non-abiding Buddhists

Going back in history,
Five thousand years or more
India the seat of divine incarnation
Of all gods
There were Rama, Ravana and Sita
Who are still revered as gods
And the Hanuman
Who built the Hunuman Way
Or the Rama-Satu Bridge
To recapture Sita
From Ravana who was a celebrity

All the gods
From Hindu to Judaism
Need Bakthi as a nutritive element
Or an animal sacrifice
Or some other sacrifice
For survival
Of the ancient conceptual wisdom

When Christ objected
To animal sacrifices
The Roman democrats
Crucified him
By majority Vote

If the same rule is applied
In the Modern Day
There won’t be any democrats
Or any meritocrats
Left in this world for posterity

The sacrifice of the Christ
Was the beginning
Of Human Misadventure
Of the history of gods
And their human counterparts
In the name of democracy

In this modern world
With so many adherents of its merits
Barring Russia and China
How come the democracy,
Still surviving?

In the midst of
Mayhem and Autocracy
From Myanmar to Zimbabwe
How come the U.N.O
Enshrine the human dignity
Devoid of god’s intervention?

The majority can be right
Or the majority can be wrong
Who is the best judge of all
It should not be
Or could not be
The All Mighty God

The God created,
The man with all impurities
And he is culpable of all
Human deeds
Good or Bad
 
Why NOT?

At the barest level
The love of god
Created the Evil by Exclusion
Of all other faiths of dissimilar gods
The breeding ground for hate and ill-will

It is just
The two side of the coin
On one side love and faith
The other side hate and enmity

If all the god loving men and women
Stop human sacrifices
As well as animal sacrifices
Many of the gods will die of starvation
Or the lack of nutritive Elements of Sustenance 
Or Hate of other Faiths

We can let the gods
Fight their own Holy Wars in Heaven
Then only,
This world would be a nicer place
For us to “Live and Let Live”

The energy saved then
Could be better utilized
For saving the Planet Earth
From pollution
Including the noise in decibels!