This is just to highlight how Kandy Police works.
Brought day light a woman's hand back was stolen (9.30 AM) RECENTLY by a known criminal near Heerassagala Junction (near the railway station).
Police did not take action.
People say his records with photographs are with police.
Police protect the criminal not the victim.
Thesaurus and Thieves
Posted on December 3, 2011
16th
of January, 2009
Thesaurus
This
is a reproduction which I penned down, soon after medical hooligans
(this is in one occasion I was ashamed of my M.B.B.S (Ceylon)
certificate) when they came in numbers and assaulted the Dental
Students in the middle of the night, gate crashing a function held in
the Dental Faculty. None of the culprits were given proper sentences
and some are now practicing physicians. By strange coincidence I was
invited to a wedding where a Medical graduate was married to a Dental
graduate. I did not see any Medicos invited except perhaps few
seniors in academic sphere. I must thank my mother in law who passed
away 3 days prior to this function and on her account I excused
myself from any celebratory functions till three months Dhana was
over. Suffice is to say that I have not attended any student function
from that day to now and I will keep that vow till I retire. I am
getting some devilish ideas and some quotes from Peter Mark Roget
M.D., F.R.S would be appropriate before giving the reasons for my
devilish inclinations. First of all Mark’s (I am entitled to
address him by his second name simply because I am in my geriatric
age and he is a medical colleague without any honours from the Royal
Family) birthday falls on the 18th of January and he would have been
233 years old. He recorded his outrage for Napoleon and his petty
Officers (His father was a French Pastor),
The
Tigers of Africa less to be dreaded, are less ferocious than these…..
Demons are milder…….be treated than they……
My
devilish ideas originated from hearing a tuition teacher killing one
of his colleagues and seeing that there is a devilish trend to
advertise their illegal trade on billboards around the country.
I get
a quiet satisfaction when I see the polling masters pasting their
posters over the tuition masters and this battle is raged in the
night and my dog does not sleep accordingly. Even though my dog
sleeps well in the daytime and I have to come to work and I cannot
catch my lost or broken sleep is my problem. The real reason for my
devilish inclination is this frequently interrupted sleep. I have
noticed my dog now sleeps under my bed (not unless he is angry or
frightened). Poor fellow I believe is frightened.
Coming
back to Roget why he was not honoured by the Royal Family intrigued
me, perhaps he was Swiss and had French Connection. When I think of
the the French and how much they contributed to English Language is a
common knowledge, he is now remembered not for his Medical
Achievements but for his contribution to English Language as a whole.
I sometime think that English is versatile today because of its
foreign connections. Few quotes are in order but I would not say from
where I got them, simply because these local pseudo-English teachers
should do some soul searching before teaching English as a second
language. They should do some digging themselves instead of copying
what I pen down here for leisure.
Every
workman in the exercise of his art should be provided with proper
implements.
Actor
with wardrobe of costumes………
Painter
…………..every hue and tints.
An
amount of labour very much greater than anticipated…….
A few
words for my own consumption are in order.
Added on 22-09-2019
Voter with a broomstick or a Kithul Polla
Politician
with a bribe and offshore account
Wife
with a coconut handle (not spoon)
Husband
with empty spirits
MS
with a Baton Polla (he has taken it from police, so police excluded
by default)
RW
with Pin Saluwa (saffron cloth)
MR
with a Bulath Kole (betel leaves)
Deal
Dasa with Grease Kole (Greeze paper)
SP
with Pin Kate (till)
Lawyer
with a Pirith Nula (sacred thread)
Judge
with a Wine Bottle before delivery of Justice
The term “pulmonary consumption” for tuberculosis from which disease his father probably died when he was five.
The consumption coagulopathy,
I
teach are the by products of this man’s ingenious but hard work.
The
compiler of the Thesaurus started his work after retirement in 1840
when he was 61 years of age. In 12 years he (he probably started this
in 1805 as a hobby to complement his academic talents) managed to
produce the first edition. 28 editions were published during the
remaining 17 years of his life. His son John Lewis Roget revised the
last edition he was working at the age of 90. His grandson Samuel
Romelly Roger revised and publish an edition in 1925.
The
paperback edition came in 1953.
He
was a chess master and his slide ruler and the knight’s movement
over the chessboard without returning to the same square twice were
the showpiece and mastery of his mathematical talents.
What
have the University and the Education Department done to uplift their
spiritual talents except thuggery. When I see this I am less inclined
to blame the politicians in spite of my devilish dreams.
16th
of January, 2009
