Tuesday, March 17, 2026

New Year Celebrations-2026=DOGS

To begin with No Fire Crackers for  New Year Celebrations.

This piece is actually is an advertisement to my latest book on "Three Ceylonese Dogs". 

One stray dog and two pedigree dogs. 

My advice is one should Read this book before one kicks the bucket or eventually become demented like the President of America.

The Paraya Dog has attained Nibbhana and through him, before attaining Nibbhana,       I have forged an indirect contact with Maha Brahma. 

He is on a long holiday measured in aeons. 

Earthling are prohibited any contact with heaven by default according to Buddha Dhamma. 

Dhamma is heavily corrupted by Tamil Monk Mahanama and MAHAVANSA.

I have taken the liberty to bring sanity to all earthlings and bring out Buddha Dhamma in a subtle way without stressing the mental capacities of the reader of my book, especially if s/he is not a Buddhist by birth.

It would be published only after the current war in Iran vs Israel is over.

I have made this book earthly, while giving some snippets of Samadhi States described in Dhamma.

That is why, I have highlighted the Paraya Dog who attended that higher state, in the first place.

The premise is if a CEYLONESE paraya dog could attain Nibbhana, so do you, at least the Sovan Status.

Sovan Status is supposed to be many times the power of Maha Brahma Status or Sakvithi Raja on this planet earth.

By the way, I have no intention of entering the path at this moment, since I have some unfinished business on my Kamma Pathway. 

That includes visiting our dog Zimba in heaven at least once or twice before me considering entering the Path of Freedom.

In case, I kick the bucket before next Olympics in AUSTRALIA, I may consider visting CEYLON briefly, only after this Niragamika Clan is expelled from power. 
It is a powder keg (of CEYLON) and would bust at any moment.

I want them to be in power for the full 5 years. I want the guys and girls who voted them to be punished, equally. 

Kamma works in both ways.

It is the aiding and abetting priciple in law.

One who helps them to come to power including LTTE diasphora are culpable.

It is already happening both who voted them in and those who opposed them are suffering due to fuel crisis.

Substantially, due to the price hike of petroleum products and fertilizer. 

My prediction is famine in Indian Subcontinent similar to Baminitiya Saya for at least for 5 years (not 11 years as when Kalinga and Magha were ruling CEYLON) during the full Niragamika Regime. 

The lot deserves the timely punishment.

When Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi's wished and tried his best to prove that Buddha was born in CEYLON all the corrupt monks including Ellawala Medhananda were antagonistic. He made a threat of a CURSE and that also may be hanging on the heads of all CEYLONESE who betrayed the country.

The saviour or the future Diyasena Kumaraya may not come or  he may delay his appearance.

Reborn Dudley Senanayake is my viable candidate but my guess is that he won't come at this juncture.

Going to a Kovil and asking help is worthless.This Kapuva, Kattadiya and Devale are human creations by Hindus and has no relevance to Buddhist Cosmology.

I am in a happy mood and I had a reasonable good dream to be retold later but it comes at the end of this piece. An invitation I received for a grand ceremony.

Point 1
Pre Maha Brahma Era
That is the period before me introducing a Computer Server in LINUX to Heaven.
Maha Brahma's action was primitive. 
He has this subjugative attitude to all the beings of lower realm.
Mind you Devas are of different colors. 
We can see distinctly only about 16 to 24 digital colors of a computer. The computer can distinguish over millions of colour shades. 

The Devas or Gods are over million of colours and they are outside our range of visibility of 24 colour shades.
That is why we do not see them. 
One cannot use a computer to see Gods.
That is the bottom line.

Maha Brahma has a Golf Ball like gadget which he kicks randomly and it colour determines the Kusal Status of an individual to be REBORN. 

This Kusal Status is gravity-less and radiates round him at all times until all the guys and girls are REBORN

I forget to say that gravity in hell is much bigger than our eagle who creates over 25G in advancing towards a prey from above. 
We humans can tolerate up to 7 or 9 gravitational force when traveling in space. Anything above kills us in space.

That poor Laika dog died in his first flight and that is when everybody in Russia got activated in studying human physiology.
As a medical student I wrote a piece for our student Medical Journal.

Entry into Hell is instantaneous with a gravity pull of over 100G. There is no delay unlike at the heaven's gate.

At the heaven gate the Good Kamma is evenly balanced with the next outcome in Rebirth. That is after eliminating an equivalent of Bad Kamma that may result in entering Hell.

Brightest colour belongs to the Gods.
Less bright colours belong to lowerly beings like pigs, dogs, elephants, dolphins, sharks and whales.
By the way, pigs are the closet to human genetics.

When Maha Brahma kicks his "golf ball like" gadget depending on the force he exerts the colour or the Kamma status of the ball changes. It automatically selects the guy or girl who belongs to that domain and s/he is born as another god or or pig or dog or any other sentient.
He kicks one and allocates one being and then he kicks again and allocates the desirable realm to the next. 
He is in no hurry and always takes a break.

Then ultimately came to our Paraya Dog. Before this dog left the gate of heaven, he told Maha Brahma that there is guy in CEYLON who is good in Linux Servers and that if I ask him, he may device a Computer Server for Heaven. 
In fact, he has already made a Server for Hell for guys entering from CEYLON and that Server and the Software are working fine without a break.
You need not have to kick this gadget and break your leg one day say, when an elephant or a whale is born. 
The computer can make millions and millions of colour shades non stop dishing out Rebirth in an instance.
You can even go on a holiday.
He said, OK. OK.

I will be back in 15 years with a Server Computer from CEYLON and this guy has a refurbished discarded IBM Server from America in his possession.

This was around 1980s when I was collecting all IBM computers discarded from USA and made Linux Network in our house. I have discarded this Network due to soaring Electricity Bill and moved to a NUC under 20 Watt. 
I left four of my SATA disks two of which are yanked to two external cases.
All my books, stories and blog pieces are in those two external disks. This is the only reason for me coming back to CEYLON to retrieve my digital content of the past. 
I cannot remember what is in store may be many Linux images, my digital photographs of over 10 years and my wrtings including political stuff. 
Before that of course, I used 36mm film rolls and photo prints. They must be in very bad shape. Termites must be having a feast or a field day.

Point 2
Current Maha Brahma Era 
With my inputs.
Thanks to my involvement in Heaven, Maha Brahma is on a long holliday, in aeons. He throughly deserves a Holiday. 
I used send him at least 50 dreams in total of my original dreams for interpretation.

First 35 them are in 3 volumes at Amazon books, named Dream I, II and III. Just Type my name plus Amazon books plus dreams to peruse them. I have 35 other books on various other topics including, Linux and Dhamma. 

My last entry was "Living with Nature".

The current Maha Brahma's assitant is a pedigree dog. He was the Yes Man under Rajapkasa regime. He was killed in a LTTE bomb blast. Appointed Chief Minister of the Eastern Province also died in this attack
He was born as a tourtoise.
This Yes Man was born as a Pelican and thereafter as a Pedigree Dog.
He is the current Assistant to the Maha Brahma.  Do not think of taking over that Post. He has no desire to leave it.

Other pedigree dog is reborn as a paraya dog to learns all the tricks of Our EXIT Dog tricks from other paraya dogs related to the 
him. His goal is to attain at least Sovan having learnt all the tricks of paraya dogs.

Point 3
This dream is related to Peradeniya and Panideniya. When I returned from UK in mid 80s, I could not find a suitable place to buy even some Rehydrat, the sugar and salt packets used for diarrhoea patients. Even, Preethi condoms were not in existence. 

There is Pharmacy belonging to a guy who did not have a valid certificate to open a retail pharmacy.
Somebody in the family may be his father had a certificate to open a Dispensary during probably, British rule. I believe he continued to use the dead father's certificate. He was the eldest in the family. His name is Sarath.

He was related to a politician with LSSP connection through whom Harinee made her entry into politics. 

One day, he dispensed me the wrong medicine. The tablets used for asthma patients had a red colour. He dispensed a tablet with the same colour that aggravated asthma. When customers were not present I asked him to show me the pharmacy certificate but he could not. There was a little altercation and I told him I am going to report and made him to close the outlet, if he does not apologize for his own mistake. He was almost in tears and was begging me not to report.
I said you cannot dispense medicine without a valid doctor's precriprion and he has to make a note of the amount dispensed in Red ink in the prescription. 
He agreed. 
Matter closed.

Those days I used to  go to Colombo on regular basis and I come back by bus and alight right in front of this pharmacy. He keeps it open till 9.30PM. I buy some provisions like cheese, butter and bread if any left. 
It became a working relationship.
Of course, during Corronavirus Pandemic he was in charge of the retail provisions and a single call to him was enough to get our provisions before they went out of stock. 

Then only I realized that had the earlier altercation with him made him an enemy, he would have deprived me the provisions including essential medicine.

Forgive and Forget is a good remedy.

One of my classmates who was Chemistry Special Graduate wanted to do Pharmacy Course and I helped him with all my medical books mostly brought from UK.
He tried to open a pharmacy but he could not. Others won't let him do so, by underhand methods. 
He did some stupid things which I won't go into. I told him you would end up 5 years in jail. He used to sell his certificate to a pharmcy guy in the city and stay at home. 
I told him by law he has to stay in the premises during working hours. So he did for a while which was a pain and he took his certificate back.
He gave to it to this guy. 
His home is nearby and he could come in for an emergency or if the pharmacy inspector decides to raid this pharmacy.
 
Through him, I got the pharmcy guy to have proper cupboards, fridge and freezer away from chicken and perishables. 
Ultimate goal was to give notice of 3 months and retrieve his pharmacy certificate. 
He did before I left CEYLON.
I also told him not to tell him that I was behind all this. 
The presumption is that nobody gets the wrong dose or the wrong medicine. 
Over time he developed the courage to give a call back to the doctor who writes illegibly or the wrong dose. 
Suffice is to say he was successful in his business.

He tried to become a baker but failed. 
There was a big breakery nearby.

Litte FRENCH 
Boulangeri is baker in French
Patisserie is the maker of pastries and sweets in French.
la boutique is shop or store and is a feminine noun.
FRENCH is Funny each noun has a male      (maculine) or female (feminine) grammatical gender. 
Genre comes from this connotation.

After 6 months of paid training in French those are the only words in French I can remember.

By the way, his younger brother opened another pharmcy in Peradeniya Junction.
His name is Keerthi.
This premises belonged to the University and I had no objection. Reason being the drug peddlars of GAMPOLA used to smuggle drugs (narcoics) through the river by boats and the recovery (exit) outlet was right behind this pharmacy. Police new this but never took action. 
There is a raw of boutiques and one of them belonged to an old lady who sold earthenware or pots and pants. I used buy the New Year pot every year from her boutique. The opening Title is New Year - 2026 and remebering this old lady is relevant. She used to rembember me at the first glance but the last time when I met her she could not, most likely she was bordering dementia. 
She was probably in her 90s.

Placing the pharmacy there had some hindrace to narcotic smuggle since people used to gather there by choice and having an illegal operation was not feasible.

I stopped going to this pharmacy and Raja Pharmacy with many outlets in Kandy was my choice.

The Dream 
This dream was related these pharmacies.

I was invited to an opening ceremony there.

That included opening a Network of computers conecting the two pharmacies.

They were using Microsoft Windows 11.

Instead of displaying the pharmaceutical names Ghost Characters appeared on the screen. 
Without making a commotion, I walked up to the Pharmacy in Peradeniya Junction. 
It was the same story.
Garbage on the screen. 
I volunteeed help in LINUX.
They declined.
The computer Server intended for the pharmacy was hijacked by a cyber punk. 

There was the message in this dream.

I do not need to send this to Maha Brahma.

Hijacking a pharmacy to launder money is a distinct possibility in CEYLON.
With the  Government having dealing with LTTE diaspora using any pharmacy to launder the ill gotten money is real
It won't look like a shady deal.

I had a few sips of orange juice and came home for some Earl Grey Tea.

I am glad I am not in CEYLON.

One Night of Trouble with Linux

 Saturday, November 28, 2015
One Night of TROUBLE with Linux

I was trying to upgrade my computer with Linux derivatives and take an early Christmas Break.
I list the Linux Nuances not on any order of merit here.
All these are Human Errors and can be rectified.

I believe all the Linux developers are Doing a great Job but by rushing to put out the distribution before Christmas leave behind some ugly nuances.

They should be excused for minor lapses.

1. Peppermint Front end is Dark and Ugly.

I get a headache after few minutes of work.

2. Libre Office has No Thesaurus in Linux.

3. Ubuntu 14.04 takes four hours,mind you it is not their fault.
Our Internet speed is down to 5 KB / per second by the default action of the Service Provider.
I Pay over Rs.8000 per month and get only 20 GB of downloads which I finish in one day of downloads and the rest of the month GO snail space even to read my email.
This they Call the Five Star Service
I hope during the Christmas holiday at least, they allow a leeway. 
 
But at the end of the installation delete the Tmp File which takes a bit of time.

Why can't they Install first in English and give the User to download his or her language afterwards?

4. Knoppix 7.6 is beautiful on a Live Session but has a major glitch.

I downloaded the English version and Installed it to reiserfs partition.
It is not in English but probably in Danish.

I tried to convert it to English at boot time but it boots so fast that touching the Del Key or F2 has no effect.

5. Boot loaders are finicky, especially Knoppix but it gives the option of not installing it and  let one configure manually.

6. None of them
detect the UEFI based Window's 8 in my second hard drive. 
I deliberately shifted its UEFI partition.

7. DVD booting of Pinguy, and Knoppix were halted abruptly due to sectors not written properly on the boot disk. 
They were burned by K3B on Peppermint
One disk did not finish writing on it.
I am not a novice to Linux and I have gone through these nuances many a times, I can tolerate all this in one night of Linux Dance but what I cannot tolerate is our Telecom restricting my access to Internet even at 5 KB per second.

It is killing me softly.

I take my hat off for all the developers.
I am making these comments before Microsoft guys try to bash (not the hash script) your back with critical comments.
If  you  hear these comments from a Microsoft Guy / Girl please ignore them and have a Patch ready by January.
Mind you Microsoft takes one year  patch their faults by that time they have a new release for which you have to Pay.

Only foolish guys Pay for their own faults and make Microsoft Rich.

Linux, You Guys/Girls need a holiday and you richly deserve a holiday.

In any case I am going into recess any time from now and if you do not hear from me please do not assume I am dead and gone with the wind.

I will be back with all cylinders firing at top level.

Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, 2016.

My Linux Beginning

Saturday, July 30, 2011
My Linux Beginning
Linux Reproduction for Posterity

I must tell you after preparing the 15 partitions booting four Linux images. 

It took little over 2 and a half hours. 
 
Pinguy took little longer and 20 minutes extra since I had to install Dropbox.

I was connected to the Internet.
 
Half and hour is all that is required to install Linux.

1.
Knoppix DVD was the quickest.
 

2. Then Vinux
 

3. Then Sabayon
 

4. Pinguy took one hour and one can cut it down to half an hour if you do not tick updates from Internet and third party software like Flash and MPeg.

To be honest I had made a mistake in the night by inadvertently using its home partition (wrong numbering of partitions) for Sabayon and I had to redo all including re-partitioning to correct the order and numbering sequence for me to remember by heart.

I finished in less than two hours.

This would go as the quickest update under one day (24 hours) while doing lot of other things including taking my son out for a meal who has a high degree of visual handicap and sat with him with Vinux after returning home. 
He of course picked up the finer points in no time and by the time I returned having attended  to Internet cables I had pulled out accidentally while configuring the laptop.

In fact, that took longer than the installation since I had to check all the cables and make sure my download work continued (it broke twice yesterday) and listen to BBC cricket on radio while doing all this.
 
Since PCLinux 64 bits version is not there I am going to install Debian and leave two partition free for it for future day.

Beauty is that the GRUB file/s of each distributions is / are now compatible. 
It does not matter in what order I install them.

That also saved lot of time.

In other words it is going to have 6 distributions with all the utilities I used in various combinations.

I have not installed ArtistX or AVLinux since I have no time for graphic work now but I have their images in my collection, if any of my friends need them to be installed.

Laptop is a showpiece but my real workhorses are old I.B.Ms which run almost 24 hours everyday downloading various images I test on daily basis.
That exercise is going to end very soon.

I was waiting for the PCLinux2011 64 bits Version but it was never coming and decided to upgrade my laptop with a bigger hard disk which are becoming cheaper by the day.

The steps are 
1. Remove the battery.

2. Remove the Hard disk.

3. Fixed the new Hard Disk 

Place the old one on a portable mini USB bay/tray enclosure.

4. Use Gparted to partition the new hard disk (15 partition restriction applies  for SATA Hard Drives).

5. Install Knoppix 10 the anniversary edition. 
No problem.

6. Install Pinguy. 
No problem with GRUB and detects Knoppix but painfully slow when updating on line.

7. Install Dropbox in about 5 minutes.

8. Install Sabayon 6 with no problem and it detects both Knoppix and Pinguy. 
 
No problem with XBMC media center and mouse does not freeze.

9. Boot up Pinguy and let Dropbox synchronizes.

I go to sleep and it is 6AM in the morning.

10. Test the USB Hard Disk and boots up OK but slow. The data in the old hard is intact. 
 
All these without paying any ransom to Microsoft and now I have 7 operating systems 4 on the old disk 3 on the new one with another 7 partitions left free for install additional distributions.
 
Two
NTFS partitions (for storage of Linux Images)and three for Debian Sinhala another three for PCLinux 64 bits when it comes. I still have another partition for testing a new Linux distribution.

A FAT partition is kept for posterity but sometimes destructive for some Linux distributions. 

Sometimes with oversight I reinstall distributions that I have already installed. Usually, in one night of hectic work overload I try to test all the Linux distributions I have downloaded.

The whole Saturday for me to  go to sleep mode and have a couple of dreams for Maha Brahma.

 
Please note that installing was done in the night only because our Telecom's download speed is painfully slow for online updates (takes ages if done during day time) in day time. This is while all 
Ceylonese including doctors on duty sleeping except poor Interns who have poor diagnostic skills.

Please do not get sick at night because we do not have ambulances to take you to a hospital and the ambulance drivers also prefer a good night sleep. 
 
Then you might wonder why I was keeping up all night. 
 
Well I had to keep all night up when I was on call abroad often working for three others and patient prefer coming to me at night since I used to solve all their problems. Those GPs took ages to give an appointment let alone solve a clinical problem.

Those nightly habits are a bonus when one deals with computing in Linux, not that Linux gives problems but often due to human errors like installing a root partition on some other distribution's home partition due to wrong numbering of the partition table.

Classic Personalities, I Missed In This Life

I have a book on "Classic Personalities" at Amazon Books.
There were 36 in total.
Only one bad guy.
This is from milkman to the top guys in administration.
No diplomats.
 
But I missed 3 guys.
I may have made a passing reference but not in a chapter.
Since, I believe in Rebirth and I may or may not meet them again in my life stream, for the sake of completeness sake, I have to make a brief note of them here.
 
Two Banda and one guy who was a Muslim
One of them was extremely useful for my academic work. 
Strangely, I forgot his name but remembered the name, today

Case 1
He is Wijeratne Banda.
Chain smoker but dedicated to his work.
I have never seen him under the influence of alcohol but my guess is that he had some just before landing on the bus to Wattegama
He was many years younger but I did not see him after his retirement in KANDY.
He was in charge of the photocopy machine of the Faculty.
I used to buy a bundle of photocopy for my Thesis Work and he keeps it at a side and used them when I needed a set of copies. If one bundle is over I buy another. 
Suffice is to say the money allocation for my work was not enough. 
I spend nearly Rs. 500,000/= from my saving in UK
That included buying a Digital Microscope.
I think I did a little introductory book on LINUX, spiral bound.
Spiral spine came from him
That was my entry into writing books and the book on Placenta is one of them.
If not for him I would not have finish my book without any mistakes. 
Every page, I may have read 100 odd times to the tiniest detail, colon or semicolon included.
He was trying to build his own house while doing this.
 
Case 2
I forget his Christian name.
May be Punchi or Heen Banda by his stature.
He was an expert on Billiards and Snooker.
He was in charge of our Billiard Table and the Student Canteen.
We had a Surround Audio Player in the canteen. 
We also had a lovely collection of English Titles.
 
Before opening of our New Medical Library we had a overnight Pirith Ceremony, I was in charge of looking after the monks during their Pirith Breaks. With difficulty I managed one hour. I was one who could move out without disturbing the process under the pretext of attending to monks' needs. 
Rest had to sit glued to the ground. With my long legs of a short distance runner siting on the floor was an agony.
I have no problem sleeping on a Padura or carpet on the floor . I did this for two weeks to rest my back due probably to a stress fracture of the spine. I may have sustained it while practicing Hop Step and Jump which I was not good.
 
After midnight, I told Banda we could open the canteen and play Billiards till morning. 
He could treat me finer points. 
That is what we did. He shows me a particular shot and try after him. 
This top, bottom, left, right, screw, roll over, top left quarter etc;. he taught me. That how I could beat any Western guy in United Kingdom.
Thank YOU Banda.
 
Like Wijeratne I did not see him after he retired before me.

Case 3
I called him Marcam Marker.
I did not know his real name 
He was the marker at the Ballard Table of the Faculty Club.
We go there for beer.
Loser pays for the beer was the tradition.
My good friend Laxman Denipitiya who is Stonybrook in USA
I was his best man and I saw in only once after that when he appeared for a Guest Lecture.
Marker was even better.
He used correct my posture when nobody was at the Table.
We were living at Arruppola.
I used to miss our last night bus to Arruppla.
We use get into a long distance bus and get down at the RAA Kaddie ( Toddy) Junction.
He waits until I finish clearing the top of the mountain.
Reason the Wild Cat comes after midnight to catch dogs and cats.
One day he showed me the beaming eyes of the fairly tall Wild Cat.
I used to carry a torch. 
I did not believe it before.
He was so concerned about my well being.
He takes the next bus to Wattegama.

I managed to train a guy to play billiards at IMMI in Digana.
He was in charge of the Table but could not play. Most of the time I could not find a partner and there were only a few and most of the British and American guys have left because of the  JVP threats.
I let him win the last game as a good sportsman but he had to earn it
It went on for solid 2 hours. I spent 7 hours learning it and giving 2 hours for a new guy is not bad at all.
IMMI was closed and I collected all my Playing Gear.
Playing Cue
Jumper Cue
Sad part was my mother in law gave the Playing Cue to a Mason Bass when we were building our house on an anthill.
I did not make a fuss since there were no Billiard Tables left in the university.
These JVP student guys were using the Ballard Table as their Lunch Table.
That is the level of their sportsmanship of NPP/JVP combo.
Regarding Billiards, I have to make a reference to parallel batch mate veterinary surgeon Professor Kuruwita who was embroiled in a tussele with a agriculture guy who was many years junior over a snooker game. Both were drunk. To settle the dispute I proposed a foursome knowing I could could take the game easily. I calmed him down so that he could complement me. Of course, we won the game and I accompanied him to his university residence, quitely telling him that he has a problem with his drink. He developed a stroke and died within 2 years. I could not remeber his name but his name come from the scenic and difficult access to Adam's peak from Ratnapura. A little while ago I remembered the name to complete the Billard Saga.
He was involved in developing a paralysing and anaesthetizing pharmaceutical cocktail to calm aggressive elephants. I am not sure how successful he was. Suffice is to say few elephants were sacrificed in that process. If the animal falls due to excessive dose it causes compression of the lung on the side it falls compromising it breathing seriously and eventual death.