Average Meeting in CEYLON, a Ruse for a Feast in the University

 

Average Meeting in CEYLON 

This piece is to make some critical comments about our way of dealing with Public Meetings.

1. There is lot of Time Wasted on Lighting the Traditional Oil Lamp.

 

We have to burrow one.

Components include:

Lamp with a 5 wick tray

Bundle of wicks

Coconut oil

Matchbox and a candle 

 

We have to purchase oil, wicks and the ornamental flowers.

 

I was involved in lighting the lamp only once in 15 years. 

 

May be after the tsunami tragedy. 

 

I did not fancy getting coconut oil on my finger tips. 

I have stopped using coconut oil on my head hair. 

My mother used to anoint me, on daily basis as a kid with traditional fragrance added to the oil. 

 

I had a big bush of hair, then. 

Coconut oil is antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal and is the best oil on this Planet. 

As at present, I believe in natural head hair oil of mine. 

However, it is drying up with age.

 

Next time wasting involves Greeting the Invitees. 

 

One has to have a list in hand and make a tick as one greets each invitee with the invitee raising his or her hand.

I banned my name to be included in that list.

I sit on the last raw to see how things progress without disturbing the progress of the meeting. 

 

I did not like the meeting to drag on beyond the schedule.

Lately, I introduced time limit for each speaker and saved time for type of "Round Table Conference" in the middle.

The third is the Thanking Ceremony.

I have no problem with this. 

Since the main meeting is over one can thank till cows come home and everybody who is nobody is leaving the place in rapid succession. 

 

Some time, there is nobody left except the organizers.

My major concern is to clean up the place on the same evening so that the auditorium is ready for another session.

I banned using it for Meditation Sessions.

Thinking Ceremony 

No accommodation for Professor De Bono's Thinking to Think Mode.

We have no capacity to think. 

 

We are gullible listeners.

I left the most important thing to the last. 

This is something, I learned from Professor B. N. R. Mendis.

 

Throw a Party, in the middle when Round Table Conference is due.

Feast with the slightest opportunity was our moto.

That all depends on the money left.

Cake for the occasions is invariable.

The menu I decide.

 

Good Cup of CEYLON TEA of my choice.

 

Sweets, pastries, milk rice and banana,  kokkis and oil cakes if available.

One third is supplied by the Dean's Office.

 

Rest is by the staff members.

 

I even added chocolate to this list.

 

We were poor to dish out cashew nuts at lib but at least the milk toffee had few pieces of cashew embedded.