Thank you Gold FM and How I became Creative During Pandemic Lockdown

This is about Radios and WiFi Music.

The pandemic has made us neurotic, psychotic and selfish.

If not for the Radio and Beautiful Gold FM music I would have gone bonkers.

Mind you our TV, CNN and Fox are NOT very useful to get concise news in less than five (5) minutes.

I turn in Gold FM and get my daily news brief and news update quickly.

No Coronavirus Overload in Gold FM.

The Gold FM is probably the best in South Asia.

Unlike Indian broadcasters they do not murder the Queen's Language.

Thank you to all the Gold FM listeners for their feedback to the comperes of Gold FM constantly.

It is Ceylonese at best.

I wish instead of putting out boring Pirith Recitals, they have a Sinhala and Tamil broadcasts devoid of political and advertisement interruptions.

Broadcast music they love (Sinhala and Tamil) and brief news update and weather  so that a farmer working in plot bordering the jungle or a distant tea planter walking through his estate could be kept informed and entertained.

TV and Multimedia won't penetrate distant places without electricity.

A Radio with rechargeable batteries consume less electricity.

The point here is radio with rechargeable batteries (not normal lead batteries are going out of stock in Ceylon due to import restrictions).

Unfortunately countries like UK cutting foreign aids and not investing on Worldwide Broadcasts and Education Projects  we need to invest in Radio (Ceylon) Public and Private (Channels) seriously for instant communication.

Energy saving is of paramount importance with TV and Multimedia are energy suckers.

Radio with a rechargeable battery  costs very little and its running cost are very  low and lasts over 24 hours on one charge.

They are combined with LED torch.and SD card and USB inputs.

The SD card can hold large number of songs and educational stuff in addition to music.

We will never be able provide every child with a laptop which can be substituted by a much cheaper cellphone that would supplement the radio programs.

The problem with cellphone is carriers that provide WiFi is costly and may not reach the distant villages.

Current video programs only supplement kids who already overloaded with information not education.

TV education programs are actually a lesson in a classroom recorded and dished out.

I am not saying stop them but improve them with a radio signal included for transmitting to remote villages.

The current old education minister will take an year to understand what I say here.

Bypass him and take a lead to innovate Radio Programs.

I will list how I used radio for my upward mobility.

I was born after Second World War.

We were the only house which had a large Philip Radio which needed a large horizontal ariel mounted horizontally across above  our garden we played.

It provided up to date brief news.

Radio Ceylon provided very good children.and adult programs.

I was clever enough not to need them and  was I ahead of time.

I made *one crystal radio* as a kid and picked science effortlessly.

Aim was to enter university one day which I did not tell anybody (my classmates used to ponder secretly that I would do that on the first attempt).

I am voicing this here to say there must be lot of kids much more capable than me in remote places that can be reached only by Radio Waves (not cellphone WiFi).

Do not let them vanish like a wild flower.

There is a beautiful song that lyrics give a musical rendition to the above phrase.

The song did not come on airways of Gold FM today but anybody from Good FM who reads  this play that song and follow up a ground level program to go with it.

Listening is a technique that has to be trained in kids.

TV image is a big distraction whereas radio message is not.

I am what I am tody due to the Radio Ceylon and we did not have TVs.

I used to listen to Cricket Broadcasts from UK and Australia (my father used to switch it off rudely).

I used to listen to BBC news and Panaroma 

That improved my English and  English pronunciation better than my father.

By the way, current BBC program are not as good as they used to be.

Probably they are not paid well and leave BBC to join American stations and programs.

Just pampering politicians is not the way.

During pandemic I did lot of creative things after a lapse of time.

1. Getting Android 11 into trim condition Updating  News (without TV) and looking round how technology advances around the world are a few of them.

2' Listening to Radio News and music especially Gold FM.

3. Getting the rooftop organized by removing 70% extras.

4. Going out aimlessly to Kandy city saying to bring food.

5. Perfected Bridge playing with cellphone and added few mote new games to my repertoire.

6. Got the Laptop and PC running latest Linux and kept a keen interest on the  development Steam Deck and Dock game Console.

7. Put on little weight.

8. Disconnected the land phone.

9. No meditation.

10. Good night sleepy (having killed all mosquitoes, less than 5 a day now) and up.guy 10 A.M.
All mosquito breeding sits destroyed and fish in the tanks do the rest.