Veteran's Day

Veteran's Day

On the  11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 was the day armistice was signed between allied forces and Germany.

This is remembered as the Veteran Day.

Memorial day is remembered on the last Monday of May.

May Day is celebrated on the 1st of May in most countries.

In America Labour Day is celebrated on the first Monday of September.

Ranatunge Cooperative Cricket

It is obvious Ranatunge Family is trying to build a Cooperative Cricket Council under their protectorate.

Under Sirimovo Bandaranayake Regime this family became rich.

N.M. Perera and Sirimavo regime were very corrupt.

Felix Dias Bandaranayake, the Finance Minister was a neurotic.

As a young undergraduate, I had to make a shirt out of female " Chettha Redi" to wear.

This was my formal protest of this regime.

Luckily my brother was in UK and I could get a few Van Hussein shirts and a Seiko wrist watch.

Everything including milk powder, dhal, sugar and rice had to be bought from the COOP with a token card.

I had to come home on the Friday evening and wait in the queue on Saturday morning  to get the weekly ration.

I used to buy Ponds Cream for Rs.1.25 and that is also from the cooperative store.

We had butter and cheese only in the university residence.

Went down to String Hoppers in the second year in the university.

All the COOP managers used to steal and this stealing habit goes in the family trait.

They could not afford to go to Ananda College without money in hand.

The principal when these guys were in school was well known to me. He was not an old Anandian.

Ananda swimming pool was built during his time.

Money donated to the pool were stolen by various guys.

Thoracic Surgeon R.S.Perera was very helpful getting the donations for this project but some old Anandians were pocketing the money donated.

By the way, as the captain of the university hockey team we beat Ananda by 12 goals, Nalanda by 10 goals and  Dharmaraja by 14 goals (to nil).

Just to remind that cricket is not the only game in this world.

I never played cricket except soft ball cricket and we were local soft ball champions.

One of my relatives who was the principal then took me there and I lasted only one week.

I said mosquitoes were my problem.

They wanted me to become a doctor.

I told them I would do that in Kandy.

The teachers in Kandy were horrible and they told me, I will never enter the Medical Faculty.

I proved them wrong!

The Cricket Board has money to steal and some families want to posses them.

One of the siblings is under criminal investigation and he is absconding.

I gather this family was trying to destroy Dasun Shanaka, the cricket captain.

They give calls in English to individual cricketers who come from remote villages who do not have fluency in English.

That is how they insinuate!

English is not necessary for cricket and it is a game of runs and wickets.

This family tries to destroy the moral of our cricketers and are  stealthily trying to get in to the cricket administration.

Game plan is to steal the remaining money.

BEWARE!

Internal auditing in cricket was not done for over 25 years.