Human Predicament

This is a summary of a long piece here on this blog site.

We humans go through several stages in our life.

It is very easy to use animal analogy.

1. Dog stage 

This is the stage from birth to 35 years.

We have no control of our life and tend to do what others expect from us to do.

Yes to parents 

Yes to teachers 

Yes to the employer

Yes to ones spouse and many more.

2. Donkey Stage

This goes on for another 35 years.

24/7 work schedule and no sleep or rest.

This is where Peter Principle working overtime.

One cannot go up the ladder but stagnate in one position at home and at work.

One is made to be important and hence doing the donkey work for others.

3. Bird Stage

This a is very short period of about 10 years.

One is retired and free to do what one wishes.

This is the time people start writing books and try to show the wisdom to other but nobody cares that you exist.

4. Bat Stage

Dementia sets in at this stage.

One is over 80 and your body and mind fail on daily basis.

One hangs on to the basic instincts.

One grabs from walking stick to the dializer to the ventilator to the care giver.

One is a vegetable on practical terms.

One does not know how to say Good Bye and bid farewell to this existence.

The biggest problem is they become politicians and want to become Word Leaders.

A good example is Donald Trump.

Dementia that sets in at this stage won't let them realize that they are "Global Pain Producers".

Like a bat in "Resting Stage" they see everything in this world "Upside Down". 

5. Elephant Stage

Elephant Stage is the antithesis to the above four stage.

In this stage one is magnanimous, is generally cool and meditative.

Best Prime Minister, Britain Never Had-Anthony (Tony) Benn

Anthony (Tony) Benn

Anthony (Tony) Benn is 100 years today, if he lived.

He passed away in 2014 at the age of 89.

He was my Labour Hero.

He and Arthur Scargill gave the fighting spirit and leadership to Yorkshire miners.

 

As a doctor I looked after the miner's kid in early 1980s.

Ken Livingston was the Mayor of London then.

 

Margret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan betrayed the Labour Organization.

Donald Trump is the epitome of that long hand of capitalism.

I was a Lobour Member (only time I had a political membership) but I have no political affiliation now. 

Australian Labour party, my guess is going to get a hammering.

Then the immigration for Asians would become much more difficult.

I think only Western country with Labour sympathizers left. 

In fact, the West is plotting against one of the most powerful socialist country, Russia.

I am still looking for a copy of dar Capital of Carl Marx.

 

By the way, Jeremy Corbyn had a bad deal under Keith Starmer.

I said a star was born but not to be but a War Monger.

Labour party always stood against war.

 

That is probably why President Putin prefers Socialism instead of Labour to counter the War mongering West.

Ceylonese Dog with Russian President Putin

Ceylonese Dog with Russian President Putin

Unlike on earth Paranoia is absent in heaven.

Paranoia precludes dementia in humans.

Maha wants to find the genomic piece of paranoia in these two dogs and transplant the piece into his divine plotters.

It is win win situation.

He gets his competitors wrapped up in delusion of grandiosity.

I get a scheme to make a fast buck by copyrighting this genomic sequence while having a free ride to Russia. Russia has banned Ceylonese from traveling to Russia unless he or she has some blood relationship to a real Russian. I did so, by offering to solve the dog problem of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Did our Ceylonese dog solved the problem of the Russian President?

Yes, he did.

How?

It very simple logic.

He was made to deliver the food to the dogs.

The plates were kept outside and the Russian dog has to step outside from the kennel and eat. Until he eats our Ceylonese dog does not touch his food. Every day, the plate is kept further away from the his kennel and more towards the American dog’s kennel until they were facing each other.

It is all sign language in practice.

The dog handlers job is to prompt the name of his dog.

In about three months both Russian dog and the American dogs realized they had a name of their own.          

I suppose our Ceylonese dog should get a Nobel Prize for this feat, since no Ceylonese has being nominated so far. The bonus for me is when the award ceremony is held in Stockholm Sweden, I get a chance to accompany the dog as a handler.

I have refused to become a dog handler after the demise of our dog Zimba.    I would not say anything about Zimba until, I meet him in heaven. Until then, all my passwords for NUC computer would have some element of his name attached as a souvenir.

Coming to the present predicament, even though the dogs had dementia none of the dogs lost their natural ways. American dog had American habits, Ceylonese Paraya dog had stray dog habits. Only exception was the Russian dog. He had lost the canny ability to learn a foreign language, in 10 days, if left alone in the foreign airport. This was a real asset for the Russian President and now he has lost it.

He was looking for some remedy.

Our president with my initiation send a message to Russian embassy that we could solve using one of our own dogs. The only caveat was we had to get permission form Chinese authorities.

Russians did not have any objections.

This how it was accomplished.

A strain of Wuhan virus was the intermediary.

Our Paraya dog has to be taken to China for 10 days and was kept with a Chinese special dog. They gain in function part of the virus is changed to the gene for Chinese language. Within 10 days our Ceylonese dog gain the ability to converse in sign language of Chinese.  Then he was taken to Russia and was kept with the Russian dog. Within 10 days the Russian dog acquires Chinese capability.

For Russians this was real asset.

However, much they trust Chinese diplomats having a Russian dog who could see the real intent of Chinese, at least in sign language was an asset that Russia would not have dreamt of.

What about the American dog, who lost his ability in English?

It is simple Ceylonese dog is kept with the American dog for ten day he acquires the typical Ceylonese English of American descent.

I am left with two problems.

I cannot get the Russian dog to comprehend Russian but he is well versed with English.

I cannot get the Ceylonese dog to comprehend English.

He can comprehend only Sinhala language.

They have lost the parts of the genome of language comprehension which is closely linked to the dementia portion.

Loss of language ability is part of the syndrome of dementia anyway.

So I have decided to send Ceylonese dogs to heaven, so Maha Brahama Assistant who is a Pedigree dog can use his genomic material to change his rival God’s genes, so that they become demented and won’t be a challenge to his regime in heaven.

I have no regret letting this Ceylonese dog succumb to a natural death due to food scarcity already evident in Ceylon.

But before that event happening, I have to help President Donald Trump to get my dogs to help in CDC investigation in detail. This would take at least a few years and Junior John F. Kennedy would be happy to accept him as a gift from Ceylon.

Philosophy

1. Instinct

Food 

Security 

Sex

2. Emotions

Humans we never happy.

Reason for exploration

War

Inventions

3. Reason

Learned 

Ukraine

 Ukraine

Ukraine did not exist 1000 years ago.
Russe State was created by Vikings, consisted of Russia and Ukraine. Vladimir the Great could be considered as the founder.
He introduced Orthodox Christianity from Byzantine (Greek) Empire.
It was integrated to different principalities.
Invaded by Mongols.
Cossacks 300 years ago created the modern Ukraine.
Russia occupied Kiev east bank Ukraine.
Poland ceded right bank to Ukraine.
 

Ukraine was under U.S.S.R.
Famine occurred during Stalin's regime.
Steppe stretching from Ukraine in the West and Mongolia on the East.
History, conquests and migration have shaped its culture.
Dry and treeless.
Grasslands have given birth to horses, cattle and many grains.
Ukraine has never been a FREE country from the 13th Century until U.S.S. Russia took it under its umbrella during the Second World War, may be from German occupation.
 

Several countries tried to grab its land.
They include
Germany
Austria
Poland
Russia
America and CIA has no claim for this country.
However, America wants to use this land mass to threaten Russian influence in the Baltic region.     

That is the tragedy of its current situation and UK also entered this fiasco for economic reasons, mainly oil and gas.
It is the largest East European country only small to Russia in land mass.
It is a fertile land (muddy during rainy season) and is called bread basket of Europe.
Belarus, Poland and Russia have borders with this muddy land mass.
By the way, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova also have land borders with Ukraine.
These countries have very important interest on Ukraine mostly related to land transport of commercial items.

 
Serbia is the only country not related to Ukraine but America got involved with Serbia in dividing the country on Muslim and Christian faiths.
 

In other words an extension of the Bible War.
Ukrainian are supposed to be Slavic and a ancient language which I have no understanding.
Coming back to Ukraine and 2 World Wars that disrupted peace on this planet, the first world war created lot of disruption to Ukraine and its boundaries.
Russian Revolution and overthrow of Tsar Nicholas was not a smooth affair.
Lenin was more involved in civil wars within Russia and he had very little interest in Ukraine affairs except thinking Bolshevik revolution in Russia will take precedence. 

He was proven wrong at least in the case of  Ukraine.
Ukraine was in a mess after World War I.
Armistice that were signed were not respected and internal strife continued.
That included famine and diseases.
Millions died not due to war but due to poverty.

 
By the way, Mongols, Ottomans and Germans disrupted the peace in this region for 600 years.
 

Animosities are still simmering and currently it is based on Language.
Russian language
Ukrainian language
Both are Orthodox Christians.
Russia is a regional power and Poland is not.
Russia militarily and politically controlled Poland and the animosity even now, is immense.
Russia never trusted Polish people and do not consider Polish as equal partners.
Wars defined their borders and policies.

 
Poland can never win against Russia.

 
Therefore, NATO is using this distrust to station forces there as a goodwill gesture but more importantly to budge against Russia.
Russians know all these ploys of the West and during second World War captured and controlled Ukraine in entirety. 

Russia made a big mistake by trusting USA and UK.
Angela Merkel was the cheater and the scapegoat.
 

For Russia what it wants is a land corridor and entry into Baltic sea.
Russia also needs water for Crimea.
Crimea was never a part of Ukraine.
 

Come Zelensky, the CIA agent, now Russia has all the reasons to dictate political terms.
1. No Membership at EU for Ukraine.
2. No NATO forces on its borders.
3. Hang the Midan agreement and a New robust security arrangement on Russian terms.
If not, War of Attrition to protect its Russian speaking population.
Russia is going about on these business lines, in stages with no hurry.
Eventual fall of Biden who wanted regime change in Russia has backfired, after over 125 billion dollars spent on military hardware.
Israel donated its military hardware to Ukraine (including spy robots) and Israel  now cannot fight Hamas (at equal level operation).
I think most of the military hardware given to Ukraine ended up in Africa and with Muslim militants.

 
What a scenario!

NUC Base

Monday, January 2, 2023

NUC Base
I did not use my NUC Base as a portable device.
Instead of I used my external disk with Linux in them to boot.
That means I have to chose each device on boot up and GRUB did not have all devices recognized.
What I did was opened the NUC removed the SSD inside and put a SSD without a GRUB and reinstalled Debian and Emma.
Emma recognized all the distributions in three SSDs.
Finally I disconnected the two external SSDs.
If I want to boot Star Linux or Sparky Linux I would stick the external disk and pick and choose  the distribution I want from GRUB Menu.
NUC Base is quiet and no games.
I have only 4GB RAM 4.
Removing the SSD was difficult with finger.
Nothing to hold on to.
I used a pair pincers to slip it out.
Top enclosure has SATA power cord and data cord.
There is no room to manipulate my fingers and use my hand to slip out without pulling out data and power cords.
It has no ports for new NVMe cards with high capacity high energy use.
 
My requirements are minimal and if you have lot of stuff choose a NUC with better CPU and motherboard.

Otherwise you would be disappointed.

Wait till prices come down.

We are back to power cuts in Ceylon.

I was making a USB stick with multiple Linux Options when the power cut mode came into operation.

I am using Linux MiltiSysyem Utility.

By the way, Emmabantus has MultiSystem as an application, which another plus point of Emma.

Luckily UPS lasts more than 20 minutes and I  safely exited.
I bought it for Rs.45,00/= and it is now Rs.15,000/=.
I should have bought another one.
I have another UPS which backs up for 10 minutes.

This NUC boots up any USB stick with a distribution except BSD.

On a different topic why all the guys in the West do not talk about Russian Linux distributions.\

 

Paranoia?
 

I am intrigued by YouTube guys not talking about Russian Linux distributions.
Star Linux has Mobile, Tablet and Desktop mode which is very good approach for a Laptop.
If you can stick the cellphone mobile mode is good to unload excess data and photos to the NUC or PC.
Russian unlike American are practical minded.
Only down side is one user per computer which is capitalistic mind set.
One cannot make your PC a Family Unit.

 
I have overcome it by using multiple distributions.
I tried various method to dual boot with Star Linux and failed with my old Laptop but not with NUC. 

It is old and the BIOS does not support dual booting.

 
I actually used BSD on a DVD to erase BIOS dictates.
BSD full version (not the USB mode) does not boot from my Laptop.

By the way, Star Linux is Debian based and it has introduced Russian Fly Desktop to Debian.
Developers from outside Russia should make a note of it's innovative approach.

I have found another problem with Linux Mint.
It's GRUB boot detection is hopeless.
It could not detect Sparky Linux and Russian Star Linux in one of my external SATA disk.

I am installing Ubuntu 22.10 again to get the GRUB configuration correct and to detect all my external drives.
I am on a relaxed mode but did not erase Mint. 

  

 

 

Best Thing for me -2022-was Intel NUC

Yes best thing that happened to me in 2022 was Intel NUC.

I wanted a clutter and wire free Table Top and quiet PC with low power capacity.
All in one place but no games in spite of 8GB RAM.

All the fun I had spoiled by PoP OS and PCLinux.

My advice for newbies is to, not to try them.

They cannot dual boot and figure out how ESP partition works.
This applies to Zorin, too.

Ubuntu has the best ESP workout and Debian has got it's act right but not Emmabantus.

Mind you I use Emmabantus in my writing mode to use AbiWord.

I wanted to update my OLP PC and tried both PCLinux and PoP OS and they ruined my GRUB boot record.

When I was testing BSD it took over my first hard disk formatted it and I did not know this fact but I still could boot the second hard disk.

All my old DATA is in this disk including old Linux images for 32 bit computers.

It was only Gnome's GParted that alerted me that it is formatted to XFS partition.
Any way I got Debian and Astra Linux already installed but without a boot GRUB.

PoP OS and PCLinux could not touch them.
I am nor installing Emmabantus.
Problem was I did not have Emma's image.
I have erased them to collect empty USBs, having installed it in a MultiSystem USB.
MultiSystem USB could not boot Emma.
I just made a Emma USB using my Iso Store.

I am fully retired and none of this put me on Panic Mode.

Moderna Vaccine abreaction has destroyed my Panic Center in the brain.
That is a bonus from this vaccine.
My advice is never take any of these vaccines which the WHO had Violated all safety Protocols.
I think this guy who is trying to hide under Global Warming, like CDC guy should be sacked along with all neocolonials of Biden administration.

Politics is bane for me and I want the CNN and Fox News who cover up these political guys killed by their own sordid deeds.

Try Al Jazeera instead.

Now I must say Emmabantus got PoP OS booting and my old NVidia card cannot rise up to PoP OS needs.

Astra Linux is booting OK but I have two Emmas in the two hard disks.
One boots automatically.

Now it is 3 AM and I won't try any fancy things for this year 2023.

Happy New Year to all who visits my page.
No more blogging for sometime.

Why I left UK?

Thursday, June 15, 2023
Why I left UK?
 

Working in a foreign country as a medical guy is no easy task.

One is not expected to make mistakes.

I would highlight only a few.

We had a guy called Dr. Baxi from India.
He was to cover my leave.

That was my last job in UK before leaving.
We had a joint session and after the session my consultant casually asked about this guy. I told him do not trust him and he is a liability.

He came as a locum to the hospital where, I did my first appointment. 

From the very first glance, I did sense he was no good.
He did not stay long.

I did not know he had a bogus certificate.

A week later the consultant rang me to thank me.
 

He had produced a bogus medical council certificate for his registration.

The beauty was that he had been working as a locum for over 5 years in UK.

Within a month of my work in my first appointment as a Senior House my consultant call me for a private discussion.

The exact sequence is vague but the factual outcome was solid.

This is about a big British nurse.

1. I may have seen (witnessed)  this women squeezing the chest of a premature baby.

2. I told the consultant if this baby dies make a full inquiry including a postmortem.

3. She asked Why?

Smilingly, I said; I am not paranoid and besides the baby is still alive.

False or make believe allegation is dangerous.

4. This baby became acutely ill before and I had to perform a Lumbar Puncture, a couple of hours earlier.

5. Minutes after the LP  this nurse attended to the nursing care of this baby and I saw her forcefully squeezing the chest with both hands.

6. Luckily, I alerted my consultant in advance.

7. The baby was in respiratory distress.

The consultant called me and I told her, I saw her squeezing the chest with both hands. We need quick chest X-rays, before baby dies.
 
8. Mobile X-ray Unit came in and we managed to get enough X-rays.

9. There were multiple rib fractures on both sides.
She was put on a ventilator but soon succumbed.

10. Inquiry began and the big British Nurse put the blame squarely on me, saying the damage was done during the LP.
 

She did not know that I had seen her crime and alerted my consultant in advance.

11. The smart consultant called me again in the presence of the Nurse.

What did you see?
I saw her squeezing the chest.
She eventually confessed and was removed from nursing.

12. It is called Mercy Killing.
My Registrar in a later date in a different hospital was accused of 8 infant deaths.

Read the "Murder in Hospital" where the nurse was sent to 30 year prison sentence.

13. In a another incident a drunk nurse while dressing an IV site, cut the little finger of a baby.

She gave me an emergency call.

I asked why?
The drip is running OK.

I noticed a drop of blood on the dressing.
I asked her to strip and expose.
Sure enough the cut wound was exposed.
 

Having dressed the wound, I called the matron and I asked her to tell the mother of the accidental injury.

She was charged and her alcohol consumption on duty was exposed.

14. There were lot more offenses by consultants and they were settled with you scratch my back and I would reciprocate.
A sensible approach.

We are humans and are prone to human mistakes and most are not deliberate mistakes.

15. Throwing the towel when in good shape at 50 was of course deliberate and I eat well and sleep well now in my 70s.

16. I have stopped my alcohol with the retirement at 66.

Not even a sip now.
I have to keep my memory sharp.
Forgetting is a good think but some events linger long after the event.

Window Managers of Linux

Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Window Managers of Linux

Long time ago when I was new to Linux, I used Light Weight Window Managers.

Out first computer (bought for my son) which is defunct now had only 2MB of Video Ram and 512MB of total RAM.
Hard disk of 2GB.

My new Samsung cellphone has  8GB RAM and 128GB hard disk which would last a decade.

I am addicted to KDE plasma.

It is time I reflect on Light Weight Window Managers.
I got hooked to Linux due to them.

1. IceWM

2. Awesome

3. Enlightenment

4. FVWM

5. Fluxbox

6. Openbox

7. Window Maker

8. FWM

9. LXDE

10. FXCE

11. Kwin

12. Blackbox

13.Sawfish

14. Compiz

15. Gnome

16. KDE

17. Plama

 

Wisdom

Friday, June 30, 2023
Wisdom

 

Insight Wisdom

There are a few words in Pali which have no English equivalents.

1. Vipassana

2. Vidhasshana

3. Mudhita

4. Upekka

Let me bring three philosophical tenets.

1. Good

2. Bad

3. Neither good nor bad

A given notion can be categorized or simplified into, these three language basics.

The task of a philosopher is not to assemble new words but to give relatively fluid meaning as in fundamental of physics.

Take the word "God".

A simple philosopher does not take a firm stand on the Notion of God but he says the concept of God is neither good nor bad.

He is not sitting on the fence but gives a non committing sense to the word God.

In the case of an ordinary man or woman the term God has absolute meaning and he substantiate its presence by modelling it in the mind first and later in figurines.

It takes an art form over time.

None of them has seen the god in real time and space but the statistical odds against it's presence in his or her mind is never evaluated.

Dogma is born out of nothing substantial.

I see this as the basic problem of mankind for time immemorial.

The propagation thereafter is infinite.

There is no problem with the existence of man.

For that matter even alien beings.

He is supposed to have a clear mind.

I doubt the man ever had a clear mind.

His mind was ever clouded or was never visited in depth.

He had only the fear.

Fear of water and floods.

Fear of fire and burning.

Fear of wind, rain and lightening

Fear of loss.

Fear of death.

Fear of war.

Fear of destruction.

Fear of hunger.

Fear of pain.

The list goes on.

He does not figure out, all these are in the mind in time and space.

He is preoccupied.

He does not have time to ponder or reflect that all these are mind born.

So he is allude to the subllime.

Vissuddhi
Vidhasshana
Muditha
Upekka are out of the reach of his or her mind.

What is Vissuddhi?

It is what one sees with the naked eye.

It  may be a thing or colour of the thing.
It may be pleasurable or not pleasurable or without emotion attached and neutral.

All these are mind born feelings and nothing substantial present, at the mind door.

But he still, wants to retain all those mind born objects are as real and substantial.

Mind is not free even for a moment but flips from, one moment to another, like a stream not remaining still.

The mind stream flows.

No course correction at all.

What one needs is to still the mind of all mind objects and emotions, just for a fraction of a second.

If this is done for a sufficient length of time and over long period of time, mind begins not to respond for a fraction of a second to begin with.

That is the entry point.

Then the mind becomes open to its own analysis.

Another mind can never see this moment of reflection.

The subject and object are the same!

This analysis brings the mind to Viddhasshana.

Nothing real.
Nothing substantial.
Nothing permanent but empty phenomena.

This reflection of mind is a joy by itself.the moment one enters this domain.

This joy itself which is natural may be a hindrance to the next higher domain.

That is Upekka the highest level.

The sublime state of mind.

It is very difficult to achieve.

But this is within our reach.

That is the wisdom door of insight.

 

Henry Steel Olcott

 Monday, July 31, 2023

 Henry Steel Olcott
Henry Steel Olcott and Comparative Religions

His contemporaries were
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Carl Sagan
3. Albert Einstein
4.Mark Twain
5. Bertram Russel

1. Agricultural Scientist

2. Military Investigator of fraud in the army.
Had malaria during civil war.
Signal Officer to begin with during American Civil War.
Later promoted to Colonel.
Asked to help in Abraham Lincoln assassination.

3. Lawyer

4. Journalist and a writer.

5. Spiritualist and a healer.

Marie Russack Hotchener
Father came in astral form (in dreams) to tell her to contact H.S.Olcott.

She booked the rooms.
She bought the cloths
She read the Key to Theosophy.
Follow the principles of Theosophy and do not follow the personality.

She remained as the secretary to Olcott until his death.

Logic, reason and empiricism as opposed to authority, tradition dogma and revelation (in other words the tradition of the Church).

Oriental man in turban or Mahatmas.
Mahatma Letters by Blavatsky. She had seen the Mahatmas as a child.

Mahatmas are astral bodies or mediums.

Founded the Theosophical Society.
Investigation of science, philosophy and comparative religion.

Founded in 1875.

Blavatsky, Olcott, Judge and A.P.Sennett
Annie Besant
Born in 1932.
Married in 1860 with 4 children and two girls died in childhood.
Divorced.
Died in 1907.

Came to Ceylon on May 12, 1880.
Visited on 25 May, Wijayananda Monastery in Galle.
Buddhist flag was designed in 1885.

He was into healing and mesmerism and healed over 8000.

He was into occult science and was tolerant of all religions including Muslim religion. He was once asked to talk about Islam (he had never studied) and he managed it without offending any in the audience.

He was compared to a Bodhisattva but he had lot of animosity including Anagarika Dharmapala.

He had helped to form over 4000 schools in India and Ceylon. Average Hindu respects him more than an average Sinhala Buddhist.

He may have foreseen religious animosity developing in Ceylon.

The Theosophical Society is defunct in Ceylon.

He lived a simple and frugal life unlike the present Buddhist monks with political authority

Russian Writers

Sunday, October 8, 2023
 Russian Writers

1. Leon Tolstoy
Sociologist
Moralize

2. Dostoevsky
Psychologist

3. Stepan Kolesnikoff
Artist

4. Alexandra Pushkin
Poet

5. Maxim Gorky
Revolutionary writer

6. Anton Pavlovich Chekov
Story Teller

7. Nikolai Gogol
He was a Russian story writer and a play writer who influenced later writers.

He was a Ukraine writer. The Ukrainian culture and folklore influenced his writing.
His writing style wads called grotesque or distorted or repulsively ugly.

The Nose
The Overcoat
The diary of a Madman

Born in 1st April 1809

Died in 4th March 1852

We all came under Gogol's undercoat is a saying that come his work overvoat.


Below is about Chekov
Father of short stories.
He was the artist of the mundane.
To escape from reality he choose literature.

He was living at a time when Russia was waking up with outpouring of literature.
His mother probably would have told him many stories.
Talent from our father.
Our soul from our mother.
He failed in Greek.
When he was 16 his father went bankrupt. To avoid jail he fled to Moscow.
He had to support family financially and keep them cheerful by writing letters and stories.
He read lot of fiction.
He read books by philosophers like Schopenhauer.
Busy chasing with older women including one of the wife of his teachers.
He managed to enter Moscow State University.
Within 4 years he got his doctorate.
He achieved all this without any help.
all by himself.
He has come from poverty and he wanted to give something back.
It all came at a cost to himself.
It was his writing which kept him going.
He won the prestigious Pushkin Prize.
Other writers were getting old and Russia needed young blood which Chekov filled.
He wrote a story book Steps while in Ukraine.
Ivanoff became a hugh success.
Painter of reality in his stories.
This was revolutionary at his time.
Everything in the story should have a purpose.
Tidy story telling.
He wrote about all human horrors he observed.
He wanted the authorities to treat criminals humanely.
Human Rights.
Tolstoy fought in Crimean war.
George Orwell wrote poverty in London and Paris.
He moved to a village while practicing medicine he wrote his classics.
He became an atheist.
When his health was failing he moved to Crimea where he met Tolstoy and Gorky.

One of the greatest Russian play writers and a physician.

The Seagull

The Cherry  Orchard.

Uncle Vanya

Three Sisters

Were his classics.

Lady with the dog.

Born 29 January 1860
Died  15 July       1904 aged 44.

He probably died of tuberculosis which he probably acquired during resident work.
He took a neural stand on morality, politics and religion.

In short stories one should focus attention with minimalistic details. In novels one can diverge but not in short stories.
Less is more approach.
Follow intuition.
Telling the Truth
Brutal Honesty
These are escape from reality and philosophy.
Human behaviour in real life.
Wil to Joy
Joy is all temporary.
Happiness is not enduring but a myth.
We anticipate death.
Final Words
He made himself invisible in his stories.
He appears heartless in depicting the reality.


He says, medicine is his lawful wife and writing was his mistress.

He was probably spending all his earning on his big family.
He was down to earth and idealist in his philosophy.

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Sunday, October 8, 2023
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Born 9 September 1826
Died 20 November 1910

War and Piece

Anna Karenina

Sketches of Sivastapol
Based on Crimean War.

His approach to non violent protests for social change influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, junior.

He was deeply religious man and followed Christianity.

Currently Russians are Orthodox Christians.

Greatest writer of all times.
Towering figure in Russian literature.
Charles Dicken lived at the same time.
Like a wise old grandpa with amazing stories.
CD was a poor city boy whereas LT was a country gentleman. Dicken wrote monthly or weekly.
LT wrote epic long stories like family, society and politics. CD believed in life opportunities and was very optimistic.
LT believed in mystical forces within self and was recklessly pessimistic.
CD dreaming of future and fortune(capitalistic outlook) and LT looking inside and purpose in life.
Dickens stories are overtly sentimental whereas LT overtly moralistic (eastern approach).
Egalitarianism was a dominant philosophy in the west. The most famous was of Karl Marx equality of rights of mankind.
The sacrifice of soldiers was normal in war and the glory went to the generals and kings.
Two who lived through this period were LT and CD who captured the mood in literary sense.
CD
Good Expectations
Tales of Two Cities
Christmas Carol

LT
Pioneered art of story telling by traumatization.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Psychological depth and dramatic structure in his literature and journalistic writing.

Leo Tolstoy
Sociological and more comparable to Dickens.
Childhood, boyhood and youth is modelled on CD's David Copperfield.
LT went to France and met Victor Hugo.
Dickens wrote about ugly side of industrial revolution while LT wrote about ugly side of history warfare.

Likes
English peasants vs Russian counts
Father was sent to prison for unpaid debts.
Count into an aristocratic family.
Dickens troubles with money.

Tolstoy troubled with life.
His mother died when he was two and his father died when he was nine.

What is the purpose of this life?

CD worked 10 hours as a 15 year old.
Learned how to write shorthand.
He became a journalist.
Started writing short stories.
He rose up the social ladder.

Tolstoy was a sloppy student.
He quit oriental languages in the university.
His life was easy.

He pursued alcohol, women and gambling.
He realized he need a bigger purpose in life and joined the army to fighting the Crimean war in 1850.
He used this experience in his masterpiece in War and Peace.
Horrors of war changed his perspective in life.
Lead to pessimism.

Dickens met Victor Hugo and Alexander Duma in France. Dickens was global figure.
CD had 10 children and LT had 13.
LT met Victor Hugo 15 years after CD.
Huge impact on him reading les miserables.
He returnec to Russia and started writing War and Peace.
In 1853 CD had a midlife crisis and left his wife with 10 children and married an 18 year girl.
Dickens had a stroke and died 58  in 1870.

Unlike Dickens Tolstoy crisis was the purpose of life. In his 50s he disowned his novels and confessed his religious belief.

Struggles for meaning constantly shifting from Arthur  Schopenhauer's negation of self and Christian belief.

Died in 1910 aged 82 in a railway station.

Maxim Gorky

 Maxim Gorky

Alexi Peshkove

Born 1868.
He died at the age of 69 in 1937.
Ophan at the age of 11.
Raised by maternal grandmother.
Ran way at the age of 12 in 1880.
Assistant for a shoemaker
Erand boy.
Assistant to icon painter.
Dish washer.
Cook made him to read books.

He was a street boy (which is quite normal behaviour) and dropped out of school instead of studying languages and history.

He read a lot.

Father of Soviet Revolutionary literature.

He propagated Socialist Idealism.

For 15 years he traveled throughout Russia and turned to become a writer.

He used to make lot of spelling mistakes and his wife was the proof reader.

He was known for his naturalistic writing style.

His book "Mother" which Lenin praised as a timely book.

He associated Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy.

He was a prolific writer.
He had over 500 literary work in a national paper.

He was active with emerging socialist movement.

He was arrested several times and imprisoned.

He met Vladimir Lenin and developed a personal friendship.

He was a Bolshevik but criticized Lenin.

Headed the union of soviet writers.
He became a publisher to promote his political writing that were related to Russian Revolution.
He went to America to raise funds for the revolution.

He made an impression on Mark Twain.

He was a good chess player.

After the assassination attempt of Lenin his relationship with Lenin deteriorated.
However, Joseph Stalin treated him well and he had a summer house in Crimea and Winter houses in Russia.

He was not allowed to migrate to Italy probably fearing copyright infringement of his material by foreign investors.
Besides, the payments were low in Russia.
Not having a legal wife to inherit his copyrights should be understood in this light.

Financial dealing were shoddy both in Russia and in the west.

He was known for his short stories and catch phrases.

He probably believed in god, quite contrary to the Marxist atheistic beliefs.

Vladimir Lenin

 Vladimir Lenin

Only person whose baby picture was flowing into space.
Founder of the Soviet Union.
Gave orders to kill the entire royal family of Tsar Nicholas.
His body is preserved for decades.
He masterminded the Russian Revolution on the Theory of Marxism.
To some he is a hero and for others he was evil villain.
Born 1870
He came from a happy home.
Mother Maria descended from a wealthy Jewish family.
Father was a director of education for an entire province.
They were considered hereditary nobility.
They were from section of Intelligentsia and debated over philosophy and politics in their spare time.
His brother Alexandra went to university in Pietersburg and there he believed the failure of the Romanov Empire.
To save Russia they had to be removed.

They formed a terrorist group to kill the king and they were caught and hanged.
Lenin was expelled from his school and he decided to educate himself.
The king relieved peasants from their landlords as a conciliatory gesture having felt the revolutionary trends in the country.
He read Karl Marx and other revolutionary advocates and writers.
1891 famine was a catalyst to show failing Russian economy.
Nearly 5 million people died.
Coronavirus endemic contributed to deaths.
Karl Marx believed that a revolution would come from an individualized country.
But it was peasants who rose against the Tsar.
It was called Leninism.
Also demanded shorter hours of work and better pay.
He was arrested when he wad 22.
He was 17 when his brother was hanged.
Hid prison was a comfortable place. He had family visits and read books.
Allowed to write his revolutionary essays.
He was exiled to Siberia.
Siberia was very long writer's retreat.
He met his wife and married in exile.
He published political themes in various pseudo names.
Moved to Germany aged 30 and continued to publish his revolutionary ideas.
Joseph Stalin was one of his conspirators/  revolutionists who disseminated his writing.
Stalin of course took Lenin's place after his demise.
He was well respected intellectual and thought would rise to power almost immediately but not to be.
Even among Intelligence anyone who disagreed with him were fearlessly dealt with.
He decided to take time off in Swiss Alps and let his Bolsheviks take care of his political activity.

Protest at Winter Palace for 8 hour work.
Tsar ordered the guards to shoot and thousands died.
Bloody Sunday outraged the people.
Country wide protest began and Lenin read that time was right for him to steer the revolution. He tried to incite people but it did not work and he fled to Switzerland.
World War I started and everything damped down.
Tsar went to front line to fight the war.
War was a disaster and millions died.
Revolution was starting take effect without him.
Soldiers wanted to end the war and they started revolting.
Provincial government leader was Alexander Kerensky. He was a lawyer and Lenin could not match him in a debate.
He fled again.
He was called a German spy.
This time he went to Finland.
Alexander Kerensky outlawed the Bolshevik party.
In October 1917 he came back to Russia and convinced Red Guards and Bolsheviks to overthrow the Tsar.
It worked on the 4th attempt.
Every Though  many historian write Kenin as a impatient character I believe he had the patience, charisma and intelligence to understand that the Revolution was not a Instant Remedy but a painstaking slow process in spite of tremendous effort.

That is my estimate as a medical man not a politician.
This type of guys are rare in history.
Take Ceylon as an example, many of our politicians are opportunists and theoreticians.
They were not pragmatic and JVP in many forms is another example.
40 years in politics but nothing much to show off.
I am putting these down to educate the masses.
Ceylon is in wrong hands presently and various political wings are like fishing on muddy and trouble waters.
Lenin overthrew the provisional government without a single vote casted for him.

If he waited any longer I would not be writing anything about Lenin.

Lenin was crafty man but it took a long time to come to power just like J.R.J in Ceylon and he was well past 80 when he became our president and ruined our politics and we have not recovered from the LOANS taken from the IMF.
Whereas Russia has come out of its economic meltdown and giving a run for CIA and the West.
Peace
Bread
Land were his promises.
Old Grand Daddy Lenin was going to take care of Russia and Russians.

His rule was not conciliatory but brutal and he was decisive of getting rid of the Tsar.

Unfortunately guy who followed him was a true autocrat and a dictator.

It is very difficult to predict history but who would have ever guessed President Putin would come this far.

When he retires he would have surpassed even Stalin.

He is much cleverer and 90% of Russians love him.

In a democracy only 50% (in Ceylon one who was not elected by the people is running the country. He is no Lenin) of the guys and girls vote a guy/girl  to power.

A woman shot him twice but survived.
Lenin let the socialism gradually changed to capitalism.

President Putin was the beneficiary.

Lenin died in 1924.

Petrograd was changed to Leningrad!

Vladimir Putin

 Vladimir Putin 

Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad on October 7, 1952.

In 1975, he graduated with a degree in law from Leningrad State University. He later earned a PhD. degree in economics.
1985–1990

After graduation, Mr. Putin was assigned to work in the KGB. 

From 1985 to 1990, he worked in East Germany.

In 1990, he became assistant to the rector of Leningrad State University responsible for international affairs. His next position was an advisor to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council.
1991, 1994 

In June 1991, he became chairman of the St. Petersburg City Council’s International Relations Committee and, starting with 1994, he combined this post with the position of First Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg City Government (First Deputy Mayor).

In August 1996, he was appointed deputy head of the President’s Administrative Directorate (Property Management Directorate).

In March 1997, he became deputy head of the Executive Office of the President (Presidential Administration) and head of the Central Supervision and Inspections Directorate.

In May 1998, he was promoted to first deputy head of the Presidential Administration.
1998, 1999

In July 1998, he was appointed director of the Federal Security Service and, as of March 1999, he combined this position with that of Secretary of the Security Council.

In August 1999, he was appointed Prime Minister..

On December 31, 1999, he became acting President.

On March 26, 2000, he was elected President of Russia and was inaugurated on May 7, 2000.

On March 14, 2004, he was elected President of Russia for the second term.

Since May 8, 2008, Vladimir Putin is a Prime Minister of Russia.

On March 4, 2012, he was elected President of Russia and inaugurated on May 7, 2012.

On March 18, 2018, he was re-elected President of Russia. 

Assumed office on May 7, 2018.

Won Russia’s presidential election held on March 15–17, 2024. 

Assumed office on May 7, 2024.

Vladimir Putin has two daughters.

Maria (1985)

Katerina (1986)
 

This is to make a statement about Russians.

30 million Russians died fighting Germans Nazis.

Stalin and Trotsky were the architects of this victory.

Neither Winston Churchill nor Roosevelt helped until Russians entered Berlin causing total defeat of Nazis.

Nazis are raising their heads again, through Ukraine and CIA.

When things go bad CIA will sacrifice Zelensky and it is their normal game plan.

East German Angela Merkel was a BIG Cheat on behalf of CIA in 2014.

I believe the Nazi Rump has infiltrated the CIA.

The Canadian incident and Bandera Outfit of Zelensky are the proof of the pudding.

Americans want to undermine the Germans and they blew up the Russian pipeline.

Russia has got another gas pipeline and they should never give gas to Germany for another 10 years (they should not be allowed to operate Nuclear Power, lest they develop nuclear arsenal).

Zelensky wanted to develop Nuclear Arms in their Nuclear Plant.

 

This is where Russians decided to say enough is enough and got hold of one of the two operating systems.

Other plant is still disputed.

CIA plans unlike good old days are blatantly obvious.

Iran Nuclear deal is not OK but Ukraine developing nuclear arsenal is OK.

In spite of fighting wars in the past  Iran and Russia, are mending their ways.

Enemies' enemy is a good friend!

Israel has to walk on a tight rope.

There are lot of Jews still in Russia.

Trotsky was a Jew.

Zelensky is supposed to be Jew with  Nazi Bandera.

Russia is giving Nuclear Fuel to Bangladesh.

Western hegemony is falling down under President Biden.

Turkey and India playing double deals and can never be trusted.

Coming to President Putin he is not sacrificing his foot soldiers unlike Stalin.

His rockets are plummeting Western arm dumps in Ukraine.

CIA attempt to temporary ceasefire is to hoodwink Russia again like Angela Merkel.

Stalin of course developed the Nuclear Bomb for Russia.

Putin is selling his Nuclear Fuel and France cannot have double deals for its small Nuclear reactors.

Putin has changed, this world upside down and he never  trusts UK, USA and Canada.

Australia has to walk a tight rope, since it has to get its gas from outside or go nuclear.

It is a changing world.

I wish I kick the bucket earlier than late.

Joseph Stalin

 Joseph Stalin

I won't wright a piece on Mao Zedong who was a mass murderer.
He killed 30 to 45 million Chinese during Operation Leap Forward.
To this add 15 million killed in Tibet.

Only, the British killed similar number in mainland China and Hong Kong using two Opium Wars.
This is to take over Chinese Tea Industry.

In that sense Joseph Stalin killed only 6 million Russians. This may go upto 9 million premature deaths in gulags.

For anti-communist he was a mass murderer ( compare with Mao Zedong).
For most Russians he was a statesman and a nation- builder.

In Russia a Jew (Leon Trotsky) or Muslim (Chechens and Tartars) can live with equal dignity provided they do not propagate disorder.

Similarly Orthodox Church operate in Russia, unlike in China (10,000 Buddhist temples were destroyed by Mao Zedong) there is no freedom for religion.

Born in Georgian town of Gori.
He was brought up behind violence.

His birth name was Joseph Vissarionovich.

December 18th 1878.
In 1894 he graduated 2 years ahead of his schedule.
He was sent to a Church for learning but was taken up by Marxism at an early age.

He was an atheist.

He hated Tsar.

His code name was Koba.

His father was a shoemaker.
He ruled Russia over 25 years with an iron fist.
Single death is a tragedy and million deaths is statistics.
He started leaning Russian at age 9 and haf a typical Georgian accent.

Similar to Trotsky he was good in his speeches and organizing strikes.
He used writing to propagate his agenda.

He relocated to coastal town of Batumi in Georgia.
He was taken into prison for organizing and sent to Siberia
He was sent to 0rison and each time he managed to escape.

1903 the workers party broke into two sections.

Mensheviks

Bolsheviks

Lenin was impressed with Stalin.
Called him wonderful Georgian.
He was taken into communist party committee.
This time he changed his name to Stalin
Man of Steel.
First World War in 1914 accelerated the collapse of Tsar regime.
1917 Provisional Government.
Tsar Nicholas abdicated.
 

Year later Lenin ordered the killing of the entire royal family.

Stalin was living in Siberia during the whole revolution.

Leon Trotsky fought and defeated the White Army that supported thr Tsar.
Lenin of course took him to the Central Committee.
Stalin was appointed to lead the army at Stalingrad.
He frequently went loggerhead with Trotsky.
Due to internal strife the Bolsheviks changed its name to Communist Party.
Lenin made him General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Autonomy for Georgia was not granted (renege) and he fell out with Lenin.
Stalin executed the Georgian Rebellion.
Lenin was absolutely furious.

Lenin castigated Stalin.
After the death of Lenin Stalin became Lenin!
This called deification of Lenin.
Trotsky was exiled.
He confiscated peasants lands. Poor management of agricultural land, lead to famine.
10 million died in Ukraine.
He brought the law to deny defense.

Automatic leader was born.
He methodically purged anybody who opposed him.

Nazi crossed the Soviet Border in spite of a pact with Germany.
400,000 Russians were were surrounded by pincer movement in Minsk.
25 millions Russians died in the war with Germans.

He celebrated his 70th birthday in 1949.

In 1953 he had a paralyzing stroke.
Died March 5th, 1953.

Rein from 1924 to 1953.

Nikita Khrushchev succeed him.

German invaded Russia in 1941.
In 1945 Russians pushed German to Berlin and captured Berlin.

In 1949 Russia had developed Atomic Bomb.

 

Leon Trotsky

Saturday, October 7, 2023
Leon Trotsky

True believer in Marxism.
Utopian society built on Communism.
He was sidelined by Stalin.
He was assassinated by a woman.
Born 7th November,1879.
Parents were from Ukrainian, village Yankova.

His birth name was Lev (Leon) Bronstein.

Language he spoke was mixture of Russian and Ukrainian.
But he had a love for Russian language and literature.
He was sent into a Jewish school but was not fluid in Yiddish. Modern Jews speak, Hebrew, English and more importantly Russian
His reading like Leo Tolstoy made him to challenge orthodoxy.
He moved to Nicolova which was center of dissent.
Met Aleksandra Sokolovskaya and she was the only person who could challenge his views.
She argued "Is it Marxism which is best for Russian Society?".

He was jailed for striking union member in 1898.
Married in 1900.
1900 banished to Siberia for his radical ideas.
Had two children, both girls.

He wanted get out of the purgatory.

Found a false passport and changed his name to Leon Trotsky to escape from Siberia. Name comes from a jailors name in Odessa.

Made his way to London and met Vladimir Lenin.
Lenin took him as the writer for his newspaper, Ikstra.
Went to France met his second wife, Natalia Sedova.
Came to London and attended the second council of the " Workers Congress".

Mensheviks
Mens of the minority.
Moderates of the two factions.
Envisioned the gradual transmission to Communism.

Bolsheviks
Mens of the majority.
Far more radical.
Dismantle the current system immediately.
Prepared to stage violent uprising.
Lenin wanted to create a centralized power structure to control the masses.
This decision was troubling for Trotsky who it was similar to and replacement of capitalist control of workers.

1905 Russia suffered a humiliating defeat to Japan.
Protesters gathered near Tsar Nicholas Palace. Cavalry was sent and rioters were routed.
Bolsheviks saw this as the trigger they were waiting for.

General strike of October, 1905.
Lenin and Trotsky were relocated to Pietersberg (north west of Moscow bordering Baltic sea).
Beginning of Soviet workers councils.
Trotsky was again taken in a prisoner.
Exiled to Siberia. He escaped again in 1907.
Pravda
London then to Vienna in Austria.
Started working on Communist Paper Pravda.
Len agreed with a replacement of a Bolshevik as an assistant editor.
Lenin purged the moderates but Trotsky remained in opposition.
Around 1912 wrote to several radical papers.
He was sent cover the Balkan War.
Located himself in Paris. He was expelled from France and went to Spain and expelled from Spain.
Ended up in United States.
Bronx in New York in 1917.
Tsar Nicholas was overthrown.
October Revolution in 1917.

1.Distrust the bourgeoisie.
2. Control our own leaders.
3. Gather confidence in Revolution.

Voted as the Governor of Pietersburg.
Provisional government failed.
He became the second most powerful man of Bolsheviks.
Immediate task was to get Russia out of the war.

 
Russians give the claims for Ukraine, Poland, Lituania, Latvia and Belarus.

 
Countries convinced Lenin and Trotsky to not to sign the armistice.
We declare we end the war but we will not sign an armistice.

Austrian and Germans invaded Russia.
Czechoslovakian army returning from war revolted against Bolsheviks
This "White Army"was made of volunteers Christians from the Church.

White Guard from Finland to save King Nicholas.

Royal family was kept captive.
Order came to kill the entire royal family of 7.
In 1919 Russia was in crisis due to civil war.
Disease, famine and poverty decimated the population.
The White Army was pressing up to Moscow.

White Army was consecrated in Siberia.

With determination Trotsky defeated the invaders.
Petersburg was saved.
1922 Lenin had a massive stroke.
Lenin held on until the 24th January, 1924.
Trotsky was the natural choice but Josef Stalin took over by force.

He expelled Trotsky from Communist Party and was to be sent to Kazakhstan.
He was later sent to Turkey and he was treated with respect, there.
Trotsky wrote Revolution Betrayed.
Hitler and Stalin.
Stalin seek my death.

August 24th 1940 a man hit him with a ice spike. 

He fought the man but said he would die of this attack.

He was street fighter and a thug.
His iron fist on Russia betrayed Trotsky and Russians.

 

Karl Marx

 Karl Marx

Born on May 5th 1818 in Germany.
Died 14th March, 1883 aged 65.

Grandparents were Jews by birth but his father converted to protestantism.
Wife Jenny von Westphalen.
Married in 1843
Happy marriage with 7 children.
Philosopher
University was fascinated by J.W. F. Hegel
Idealism
Ontology
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Political philosophy

He moved (exiled) to London and took the post of journalist as the European correspondent New York Tribune.
Crisis over slavery and abolition movement.
Civil war in America.

Journalist

Historian

Political activist

Revolutionary

Communist Manifesto
Champion the worker (preliterate)
Ruling Class (bourgeoisie)

Classless society

Das Capital

Economist

Why I LEFT New Zealand?

 Sunday, November 5, 2023
Why I LEFT New Zealand?

Reasons are many.

1. Number one it is a racist country especially for Asians.

2. Guys and Girls there are lazy by nature.

3. Salaries are one third of England.

4. New Zealand is a very stingy country.

They want only money to be deposited in their banks, which was a huge deposit.
I did not deposit any money but kept the money equivalent in a British Bank.

5. It was then, a Labour Government and one has to (mandatory) retire at 50.

I just turned 40 and I had less than a decade of working life left in NZ.

6. I left NZ after 2 years and joined the university in Ceylon and worked until 66 years of age.

I added 25 years to my Service Record.

I am still active and alive!

7. I missed the retirement plan that I was entitled due to inordinate delay in processing my Visa Application.

8. Had I entered  6 weeks earlier, I would have qualified by default for a retirement pay and Immigration Guys deliberately delayed my entry to disqualify me.

Before I enter into any contract, I study the rules and regulation in depth.

9. I had a job offer confirmed in my hand and I threatened to sue the guys, if I lose my job.

10. They are very jealous of medical guys.

11. While I was discriminated in broad day light, South African Apartheid guys were given priority in Visa.

In action and intent New Zealand practice an Apartheid Policy.

12. I was the last one to be cleared from the airport and that was after I made a complaint to the senior Immigration Officer.

I waited 3 hours in the lobby patiently and did not want to create a scene at the entry point.

13. The VISA was generally processed at Singapore at that time and the Chinese woman deliberately delayed the processing.

This office is no more.

I  immediately booked a ticket to London and put a new Visa Application there.

In other words I paid twice.

13. Woman in London stamped the Multiple Entry on my old Passport instead of my new passport.

That was an act of vandalism.

14. I had Indefinite Visa for UK.

I had already decided to quit UK.

I could have applied for a job but I hated English weather.

15. In retirement in NZ Ceylonese guys play poker to support their income.

I could never put a poker face and I was the first to be thrown out of a poker table.

16. Some of them play golf and golf equipment are expensive for a retiree.

17. Play Grounds were soggy and within two years with the help of Mr. Graham Bone we managed to lay an artificial surface, play hockey.

18. I trained young NZ kids to play hockey.

19. No Clubs and I could not play a single snooker game in New Zealand and that is the main reason for leaving this stingy country.

20. They have enough Chinese brothels.

There are many other reasons and I have included them in details with names in one of my books at Amazon's.

21. An average New Zealander both male and female is not bisexual but homosexual..

I missed a case of massive perianal abscess (presented as knee and hip pains) of a young guy of 25.

I failed to do a Per Rectal Examination and failed to look at his back.

Couple of days later on a Sunday, he was admitted and the young New Zealand consultant discovered the a huge perianal abscess.

I was told that the guy was a homosexual.

By the way, same nerves that supply knee and hip have branches supplying the perianal region.

This is generally called referred pain and this young guy presented with referred pain.

If you do not put your finger in (Per Rectal Examination) you have to put your foot in, is a medical jargon, which I knew in theory but did not practice!

That is the bottom line.

22. I am making this entry on the 16th November after the semifinal match which NZ lost.

I am a sportsman and I play the game fair unlike Angelo Matthews.

This is to illustrate REAL lifetime incidents.

Number 1 Episode
I was doing shopping in local ??Newsweek (did not have good shopping centers) shopping center with my family and kids.

I wanted to buy a little present for my daughter and was doing window shopping and found a little  language dictionary in the tradition of a calculator but bit bigger.

I paid the sum and did not forget to buy a present for my son,too (I cannot remember, may be a musical pod).

Having come out, when I checked the shopping bags to give it to my daughter and it was not there.

Double checked, no luck.

It dawned on me that the young sales woman forgot to put it to the bag.

I reported the missing item to the manager and they could not find it.

I distinctly noticed that the sales woman was bit fidgety and told him that she had stolen it and you better do an investigation and I need my money back.

He refunded the money.

I said if this woman is there when I come next time round, I would boycott your shop.

I did not get the "language modem" but she was not working there anymore.

That moment I decided I would not ask for full immigration in NZ.


Number 2 Episode

I bought a ticket by Singapore Airline for my mother in law from Colombo to Christchurch.

She was supposed to attend to her Visitor Visa and the same Chinese woman stopped her at Singapore.

We had a friendly Singaporean lady and she took my mother in law home and gave a call about her plight.

I took a call to the Immigration Office in NZ.
The woman answered was by the name of Williamson (hope she not related to the cricketer) and she gave me a cock and bull answer.

I said I will give (you may record) verbal and written assurance that she would return in  6 months.

She refused and I blasted her for about half an hour and gave a call to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and he said he does not get involved in immigration matters which was a BIG Lie.

From Minister to the Head of Immigration to Immigration documentation officer in Singapore were biased and racist and I decided not to extend my stay after two years.

At Christchurch the pile of files at the Immigration Office was the biggest pile.

My job contract was for two years and the South African Recruiting  Consultant who offered me the job was sacked.

He told me so (Dr.Van Dyke).

My wife and I did travel to UK (my annual holiday) at least once during this period to do shopping in London.

My favorite places were Summerfield Stamps center and Foyles Bookshop.

By the way, Singapore Airline gave the full refund and I booked a ticket for her to return after 2 weeks.

I do not think I will ever visit NZ again.

By the way, many years later after my retirement from the University I decided to pay a visit to England.

I went through the VSQ formalities and send the Visitor Visa Form to the Office in Madras and for 3 months I did not here anything.

I did a survey and I found that the L.T.T.E guys at Madras Office deliberately delay Visa application forms from Sinhala guys from Ceylon.

I did give a call to Assistant Secretary of Immigration in Ceylon and told him the above issues and if you all are acting as racists, I do not need to travel to UK and there are other countries I could travel but please give a call to Madras and get my passport back within two weeks lest you get a notice from my lawyer.

My Tamil lawyer Arudusothie is no more.

Yes, I got my passport back in double quick time and I made alternative travel arrangements.

My favorite Airline towards London is Emirates and its services are pretty good, if one is traveling towards London.

By the way, I got an email yesterday, from Emirates quoting the prices from Auckland to London.

The prices have gone up by 3 to 5 times and for old age people discrimination is the norm.

Age discrimination is a criminal offense.

After the landmark decision by the Supreme Court on the 13th it is high time that judges give due concern for old people.

Lalith Kotalawala case and his death under suspicious circumstances is worth probing including Shafter case.

I do not think, Brian Thomas had anything to do with this murder and this Shafter guy was trying to frame (insurance guys  should not be trusted) for his own gain and ultimately paid the full price!

Dimbulagala Nayaka Thero Assassination

 Saturday, November 11, 2023
Dimbulagala Nayaka Thero Assassination

Dimbulagala is in Pollonnaruwa.

Dimbulagala Nayaka Thero was a classic figure who was very popular among Tamils.

He has done enough to improve the quality of life for both Tamil and Sinhala civilians.

He has been active there from 1950.

Both Sirimavo and J.R.J. hated this Thero since he was politically neutral.

They feared that he had political ambitions.

Probably not.

To this day both U.N.P. and S.L.F.P together cannot muster 60% of the vote.

Nearly 40% abstain from voting.

This assassination is not motivated by L.T.T.E. and they have publicly declared, so.

There was no political need for L.T.T.E. to engage in such an activity in Polonnaruwa.

However, local politicians may have had a hand in it.

To silence the Maha Thero.

It was apparent they were not professional killers but a rag tag team assembled to score the political objective.

It is said that the killers communicated in Sinhala and not in Tamil.

Reason for my interest is my father in law went there with a team to meditate there.

I was invited to join but I said no.

He was not allowed to go there long before this assassination.

I sensed something nasty would happen having heard his (Thero) speeches.

Unfortunately it did happen.

Adult Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Adult Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

This is a common (missed) disorder in adults.

ADHD or attention deficit syndrome is a behaviour disorder usually first noticed in childhood and often missed.

1. Inattention

2. Impulsive

3. Hyperactivity

4. Short Attention Span

5. Difficulty in focusing

6. Absent mindedness

7. Fidgeting

8. Aggression

9. Irritability

10. Excitability

11. Lack of restraint

12. Persistent repetition of actions

13. Persistent repetition of words

14. Result in learning difficulty

15. Results in problem solving.

Unfortunately these habits may not improve but progressed into adulthood and result in loss of job opportunity.

 

Puppy Linux-Easy OS

 Puppy Linux-Easy OS

I just downloaded Easy OS (Puppy Linux) and installed it to a USB stick using Image writer.
Booted it.
Configured Wireless Network
Signed in with Gmail to my blog post.
Finished posting this piece in 5 minutes.
This was after I made a sore comment in www.distrowatch.com on Sparky Linux which comes from Poland.
Using the new version of Sparky Linux is a waste of time.
Thank you to all Puppy Linux Developers.
I have downloaded all active Puppy Linux distributions in less than 24 hours by torrent.
I am Puppy Linux Lover and I am in Australia currently.
Barry Kauler of Australia developed Puppy Linux, first.
It is cool, it has a small footprint and a classic Linux Utility (can be installed) and using the word distribution to it is a misnomer.
Only Knoppix can beat it on the number of utilities but Knoppix is almost dormant from 2020.
Gnoppix is a welcome addition.
 

Easy OS has followings.
1. Container Folder
2. Data Folder
3. File Folder
4. Release Folder
5. sfs Folder
6. Initrd
7. vmlinux
 

Squash File
Squash may be a Linux term for compression when USB sticks were only 512MB. It opens up and expand in a Live Session.
I used a 512MB stick for my first Puppy Linux!
Squash File (I have forgotten the details) is a one long text file including boot instructions of legacy boot time.
Easy OS uses EFI file that requires only 528MB (much bigger than the boot file in legacy time).
Microsoft UEFI framework tried to destroy dual booting of Linux.
EFI is Linux solution to blatant interference of FREE Internet use by Bill Gate Clients who were working with dead Epstein (I believe murdered Epstein)!
SFS files use the SquashFS file system, which is compressed and pretty much only supported by Unix/Linux.
 ISO files are much less standardized as well as uncompressed, so they can be used in a lot more way, including as a generic file container.
SquashFS
 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia SquashFS

Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system for Linux.
Squashfs compresses files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes from 4 KiB up to 1 MiB for greater compression. Several compression algorithms are supported. Squashfs is also the name of free software, licensed under the GPL, for accessing Squashfs filesystems.
Squashfs is intended for general read-only file-system use and in constrained block-device memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed.
Uses
Squashfs is used by the Live CD versions of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Salix, Ubuntu, NixOS, Clonezilla, Kali Linux, KDE neon and on embedded distributions such as the OpenWrt and DD-WRT router firmware. It is also used in Chromecast, in Tiny Core Linux for packaging extensions, and for the system partitions of some Android releases (Android Nougat). It is often combined with a union mount filesystem, such as UnionFS, OverlayFS, or aufs, to provide a read-write environment for live Linux distributions. This takes advantage of both Squashfs's high-speed compression abilities and the ability to alter the distribution while running it from a live CD. Distributions such as Debian Live, Mandriva One, Puppy Linux, Salix Live and Slax use this combination. The AppImage project, which aims to create portable linux applications, uses squashfs for creating appimages. The Snappy package manager also uses squashfs for its ".snap file format".
Squashfs is also used by Linux Terminal Server Project and Splashtop. The tools unsquashfs and mksquashfs have been ported to Windows NT – Windows 8.1. 7-Zip also supports Squashfs.
 History
Squashfs was initially maintained as an out-of-tree Linux patch. The initial version 1.0 was released on 23 October 2002.In 2009 Squashfs was merged into Linux mainline as part of Linux 2.6.29.In that process, the backward-compatibility code for older formats was removed. Since then the Squashfs kernel-space code has been maintained in the Linux mainline tree, while the user-space tools remain on the project's GitHub page.
The original version of Squashfs used gzip compression, although Linux kernel 2.6.34 added support for LZMA and LZO compression, Linux kernel 2.6.38 added support for LZMA2 compression (which is used by xz), Linux kernel 3.19 added support for LZ4 compression, and Linux kernel 4.14 added support for Zstandard compression.
      
Squashfs is intended for general read-only file-system use and in constrained block-device memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed.
Uses
Squashfs is used by the Live CD versions of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Salix, Ubuntu, NixOS, Clonezilla, Kali Linux, KDE neon and on embedded distributions such as the OpenWrt[1] and DD-WRT router firmware. It is also used in Chromecast,[2] in Tiny Core Linux for packaging extensions, and for the system partitions of some Android releases (Android Nougat).[3] It is often combined with a union mount filesystem, such as UnionFS, OverlayFS, or aufs, to provide a read-write environment for live Linux distributions. This takes advantage of both Squashfs's high-speed compression abilities and the ability to alter the distribution while running it from a live CD. Distributions such as Debian Live, Mandriva One, Puppy Linux, Salix Live and Slax use this combination. The AppImage project, which aims to create portable linux applications, uses squashfs for creating appimages. The Snappy package manager also uses squashfs for its ".snap file format".
Squashfs is also used by Linux Terminal Server Project and Splashtop. The tools unsquashfs and mksquashfs have been ported to Windows NT[4] – Windows 8.1.[5] 7-Zip also supports Squashfs.[6]
History
Squashfs was initially maintained as an out-of-tree Linux patch. The initial version 1.0 was released on 23 October 2002.[7] In 2009 Squashfs was merged into Linux mainline as part of Linux 2.6.29.[8][9] In that process, the backward-compatibility code for older formats was removed. Since then the Squashfs kernel-space code has been maintained in the Linux mainline tree, while the user-space tools remain on the project's GitHub page.[10]
The original version of Squashfs used gzip compression, although Linux kernel 2.6.34 added support for LZMA[11] and LZO compression,[12] Linux kernel 2.6.38 added support for LZMA2 compression (which is used by xz),[13] Linux kernel 3.19 added support for LZ4 compression,[14] and Linux kernel 4.14 added support for Zstandard compression.[15]
Linux kernel 2.6.35 added support for extended file attributes.