Dreams-X-Files-01

Dreams-X-Files-01

I deliberately censured or sanctioned only few of my dreams for private circulation, lately.

This not to annoy Maha Brahma but I had enormous amount of unfinished work.

Besides, Maha Brahma lives for eons and I have precise little time to spare, before He or Director of Apaya, International calls me for his recreational activity in the Apaya Hell Service Server.

Thanks the second letter is not R and the last letter is not E (XRXE).

Besides, I might deprive both of them by attaining Nirvana in this life, since if I have really finished, all the unfinished quota of work, I intend to do while alive and well and my memory being intact for those tasks, there is no need for me to carry on regardless.

I sometime think by stroke of luck if my memory fails and those tasks are no longer remembered, I have a strategic leeway.

Then no need for me to go on or call for another round of birth to finish the tasks, I could not finish.

Ether way, my memory being intact, I was busy doing lot of things on the fly, so to speak.

Having said that, the dream I had at 5.55 am yesterday was a nice one to be sent to Maha.

This dream was unusual.

It has never happened before.

I was up 5.55 am sharp, half an hour before my usual break in sleep with the alarm clock buzzing and another half an hour, charge up, and really get out of the bed and gear myself for another day of chore.

I was annoyed but it was a nice short dream.

I have accomplished one of my wakeful hour (“I have a dream type” of Martin Luther King) dreams, writing or developing a Linux Game for Kids.

I was playing it, with a nice Walter Disney type front end.

I was so happy, I left the dream world to enjoy in wakeful state.

Then when I was woken up, I was annoyed for breaking the sleep half an hour early and also annoyed that Maha has intervened in my dream state.

He has a nice attitude for me; if the second half of the dream is bad, fearing I get a heart attack in my dreams, he interferes with my dream and fills up gap story with his inter-planetary chat, he has with me.

Nonetheless, I decided to drop to sleep, since yesterday being Saturday and Kandy Perehara in full steam, I was forcefully and by default housebound and the unthinkable happened.

I dropped to sleep almost instantaneously and back in the dream world.

As it were to complete the dream.

The second time, I was test playing the game with some kids to see its childproof ability.

To my amazement one kid played with it and there was a mathematical quiz which he changed and the characters changed sex immediately.

This not something I intended in the game but the kid found a way to tease me and manipulate, picture characters.

I must tell this was done in French with all the non-command line text in French (I was revising my little ability in French) and I felt the guy did change my French text into command line.

Mind you French applies sex character to every noun in its vocabulary.

So I asked him and requested for him to show how he did the trick.

He was nasty brat and he immediately switched off the console.

I was annoyed for the second time in as few minutes as, may be five minutes (in my dream state), I was woken up again.

To see that was a dream and immediately switched back to dream mode (new found ability and the discovery dreams can be reactivated if the GAP time of wakeful state is short enough) and the kid did the same thing couple of times and every time he did it, I was absorbed in his skill in the sleep more and more realizing if I get annoyed, I would be woken up and the dream would terminate.

By the way, I wanted the game to be childproof as well as child friendly.

This went on and on and both me and the kids were enjoying the game (unfortunately, I cannot remember all the details) very much.

Finally, I got up at 11.00 am with a very relax mood.

In all I have dreaming for five hours and I could remember only 15 minutes of it.

This dream was unusual and it got to be sent to Maha for interpretation since, I know I had been dreaming for five hours and was very happy.

Maha will pick the GAPS, that I cannot remember anymore and to be put in print for posterity for all to enjoy.

As usual Maha was prompt in video chat.

Long time, no see.

I said it was very short time.

But for me no dream from you is a long time.

Why any problem with you.

No, No.

I was busy and the dreams were mediocre and nothing exciting.

But why now.

I told him.

The weather was fine and lot of raining in the hill country.

But there is drought elsewhere, you know.

But we have Perehara in Kandy and it is held to get blessings from Rain Gods and not Sun Gods.

But it is to be Sun Gods to begin with and during the Perehara and Rain Gods comes at the end of the Day Perahara, you know?

I told him, I had a secret deal with one of his subordinate gods and requested him to have 10 days of rain, during the festival.

It is naughty of YOU.

You must not interfere with traditions.

Hang the traditions.

If we had a dry spell poor baby elephants captured illegally would burn their feet in scorching, sun.

That was my rationale and your nice god could not refuse.

You are very clever.

They had captured over 200 and more than half died only 80 left and one of them is with a sitting judge.

Is that so?

Yes the remaining 80 will die of over work and sun strokes.

Well in that case, I have no qualms.

In any case, now everything end to front and not face forwards with shoddy deals like capturing baby elephants, changing their sex, identity theft and also identity cards and passports.

Why passports?

Well they have to go abroad every time an entourage takes the flight.

Do they come back?

No.

Why?

They are traded for foreign currency to pay debts.

Are they expensive.

Yes with “Gaja Muthu” and other paraphernalia like ivory are lot expensive  nowadays.

How many elephants left in the jungle.

According to official figures 5500 (2009) and with over 1000 births after the end of the war and only 500 were officially and unofficially captured alive or dead, in 2014 there are 6000 in the wild, recorded on Registered Paper.

You are joking.

I am not, that is the official figures.

I know elephants do not procreate that fast and only in 10 years,you know.

If there are 3000 she elephants and one in three is pregnant and the bull elephants must be having a gala time know, making them pregnant.

The miracles are happening in this country, especially in the "wilder beasts" and it is quite possible, since it is on official record.

Then,  he begged me to give the real records.

I told him 200 are killed every year and 1000 are feared dead during five years.

My estimate is only 2000 left and at this rate of habitat lost and rapid development and expansion, they will be potentially extinct by another regime change or so.

What is a regime change?

It is the time when the “power grab, power grip and power grid” change, usually 30 years, currently on the 21^st annual running.
We had 17 years of curse, now we are going through 21st year of the Curse (over 35 years was the curse was spent on War Effects)  but it may go on indefinitely. 

It is only counted in marathons years, now.

That is not good for democracy, know.

Who the hell who cares for democracy now, it is only autocracy with a rubber stamp of democracy by crazy elections ad hoc and never on time.

Any more news.

No mosquitoes because of rain.

No work due to festivals.

Just in NATO mode, No Action Talk Only, especially for reconciliation and UNO probing of crimes of war.

Yes crimes of war, in Ukraine, Gaza, Iraq, Syria and Central Africa.

Only we are free of war but Navi Pillai and Bunki Moon want to probe us nevertheless and never in Israel.

Why is that.

You should ask Obama, not me.

Shall we get on with the interpretation of the dream?

OK.

Is there a second part?

No.

Is it futuristic?

Yes and NO.

Why?

It is related to your elections, election monitoring and computer games?

It is futuristic, know?

But I cannot give the time schedule exactly?

Why?

Your President is very crafty?

I have not have a measure of him yet.

He is unpredictable.

That is why I said Yes and No.

Yes for elections and no for the exact time.

But it is in the stars above know?

You mean the gods.

No, no the solar system and planets.

Do people still believe in planets and their movements, when probes are sent to monitor meteorites?

It is absurd.

This is the Awakening, the Renaissance, Revival of of modern science, you know.

But not in Sri-Lanka, unfortunately with science education, English, and mathematics gone down the Hela / Hell, the nasty precipice.

What is the outcome?

I cannot tell you with this new computers the the election commissioner has acquired.

Its speed is so fast and it is accurate to about 100 decimals and they have already predicted the winner.

Then why elections?

One need to spend the money and time, you know.

You mean to say, you cannot predict the outcome.

I am sorry.

But then all the candidates go and have prayers for gods, you know.

You got to remember there are no elections in heaven.

We have only merits.

No demerits.

So we do not understand.

We do not have monitors too.

We monitor ourselves well, so there is no need.

What about the computer games?

That I can tell you.

We love games and especially, computer games.

I ran your game with the kids in your dream mode.

I enjoyed it a lot.

In fact, I was there disguised as a kid.

You could not do any whetting of me know, in your dream mode.

You were naughty?

I just like to be a kid again.

Did you enjoy my computer game?

Yes.

That is why I let you play the game with me for five hours.

Who were the other kids.

They were also gods in kids' clothing.

Well will you take me to heaven, next birth?

NO.

Why?

You cannot dream in heaven only humans and animals can do that.

Which animals dreams a lot?

Your elephants, my dear?

I thought cats.

No, No the elephants come first, they all want to come here instead of parading in festivals.

What about dogs.

They have an inborn right to be born here.

What about Buddhist politicians and monks?

Please do not send them here.

They might introduce elections here and evict me from my seat before my term of eons is over.

To me 20 to 30 years of one party in power is like an eon.

But you must activate the inner self of all the voters.

It is not my job.

But they are in deep insomnia and slumber.

They are zombies.

Just give all of them “kick in the back”.

Wake them up from slumber. 

See, you soon and he disappeared.

Jumbo-Gardeners: How elephants affect weather

Jumbo-Gardeners:
How elephants affect weather
Mega-Gardner

The tropical rainforests of Africa and Asia play a crucial role in keeping our planet healthy.
They moderate our climate, absorb the carbon we produce, and act as a major source of atmospheric moisture – which can fall as rain many miles away.
One of the biggest tropical forests in the world is in Congo.
Its huge size and incredible biodiversity is partly thanks to an unlikely ally – the elephant.


These are few lines from BBC Film titled Jumbo-Gardeners.

Every Sri-Lankan should see this video and show it to their children.

It is far better than watching Kandy, Perehara eating a Jumbo-Peanut imported from China.


1. Elephant is our nature's biggest gardener who help to disperse seeds in the rain forest.
If they a tied to a coconut tree or Kithul tree and chained, they cannot do that, even if they outlive their jungle cousins.

It is a SIN to domesticate elephants.


2. Elephant do not remain in one place.
Because they carry wide range of seeds, it helps to conserve the biodiversity of the forest.


3. They carry a packet of fertilizer with them to help germinate seeds.
We do not have to import fertilizer with concoction of poisons, and increasing our national debt.


4. More seeds that germinate more trees we have.
Trees help to make moisture that turns into rain.
 
So elephants help us to have rain, indirectly.
 
They were pushed to the dry zone forcibly by the British.
They should be in the Wet Zone, the rightful place for them foraging up to, Piduruthalagala and Samanal Kanda. 
 
They destroyed our elephants and our rain forest to cultivate tea and coffee.
Now our experts are growing Ganja (hashish) in the name of vegetable gardens, including Monaragala.

We had trees covering 90% of our land in early 20^th century.
We have destroyed the tree cover rapidly after independence.
That is why we have drought NOW.


5. Unlike us elephants have a poor digestive system.
So they need more fruits and vegetation.
So they need more trees (currently less than 20% not enough to sustain rain) for their survival.

If the monsoons fail, it affects everything in this country.

My estimation is that they will be extinct in one family's desire (or a singular dynasty is sustained) is satisfied for over 20 years.

After the war we have lost over 100 baby elephants and their mothers, while capturing.

It is a craze to display elephants in Perahara or any political or religious parade.
 
These are things I will include not the “20 or more ways of killing our wild elephants” in my third book, “Elephant Talks”.

Credit goes to;

The Nature Conservancy’s lead scientist Dr M Sanjayan, Dr Valerie Kapos of the UN Environment Programme, and tropical field biologist and conservationist Dr Ian Redmond reveal the crucial role that elephants play in keeping these forests strong and resilient, and how elephants are the most important player when it comes to the diversity of tree species in the rainforest.

Falshdrives or Pendrives-How to avoid the Safty Risks?

Of all Flashdrives or Pendrives?

How to avoid the Safty Risks?

Flash Dives are like hypodermic needle used by an Aids patient.

They carry almost 100% risk, if shared at least once.

I have never used a flash drive in my office and brought home.

That practice is over 15 years.

I have a different solution, if I detect a Microsft based Pendrive.

I mount it on a Linux distribution and do a survey and remove suspected files and then format it if necessary.

This treatment was OK 15 years ago.

Now the Malaware is in the (boot file) or in the firmware.

I used them for mounting Linux Distribution, and that's all.

No DATA except in only one out of 30 Flshdrives I have.

I do not share them or ask a Pendrive from a friend.

 

This what Bob Rankin says

Any USB device (flash drive, external hard drive, smartphone, digital camera, mouse, keyboard, etc.) that has been plugged into an untrusted computer should be treated with suspicion -- much like a used hypodermic needle. 

Further, erasing, formatting, or using anti-virus tools will not remove malicious code from the firmware of USB devices. 

And there is no known method at this time to scan USB devices to see if they are clean.

I do not use cellphones, except when I travel.

Then when I return home drop that in a bin at the airport. 

Almost all cellphones are are also infected, does not matter it is iphone or Samsung.

They have not found a way out.

This is true for tablets true.

Where is the IT industry heading us too.

Nemesis, I believe.

 

Are You Missing Out on Life While Checking Your Smartphone?

This is a beautiful piece.

Read it in conjunction with my blog piece "Why I do not use a cellphone?".

I practice moment meditation at work and Metta meditation when completely relaxed.

 Real Life Story

One day I  was fully focused, "On  casualty duty" with a serious facial injury with heavy bleeding.

It was serious enough to take the injured to the "operation theater".

Could you guess what happened?

When I wanted the "Casualty Surgeon" on call he was practicing meditation having  switched of his SMART phone.

We could not get him down.

I got hold of one of my SUPER students by phone from home and three of US attended to the patient.

Thankfully we had very cooperative patient and we finished the job in one hour under local anaethesia (not a bit of gas used)

 Corollary (it should be one choice but this has three)

1.When one is on call one should not switch off the cellphone.

2. It is improper to practice meditation (become more selfish) when on duty.

3. Doing wrong thing (even meditation was wrong here), in the wrong time is a crime that cannot be pardoned.

My response was sweet.

I wished that this person should not be one of my working "consorts" in next life (and this life too).

I decided not to make a complaint (professional misconduct on my part) and this is the first time I am baring it in public.

Are You Missing Out on Life While Checking Your Smartphone?

By Alex Busson

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
“Yeah…Uh huh…Uh huh…Yeah…No way! Uh huh.”
This was the response I got when talking to a friend the other day. I could tell he wasn’t really listening, because he was browsing Facebook at the time.
Why was his smartphone more important than me? It didn’t used to be this way.
I know I’m at risk of sounding out-of-touch and technophobic. But I really do think this is a much bigger problem than we perceive.
We’re talking about our lives here. Do we really want to dedicate them to an iPhone?

Another Smartphone Shocker 

The other day I saw a man on his Blackberry during an entire meal with his family. He was with his wife and young children (although they’ll be adults before long).
How rare are moments like this? How precious are they?
Yet, the man let this moment pass him by forever. If only he’d brought his attention to the present moment, he’d have experienced something far more valuable than anything displayed on a three-inch screen.
And is there any joy in a stroll through the park or along a bustling city street?
Last year I roughly counted one in five people glued to their phones while walking. And this was on New York’s 5^th Avenue—one of the most exciting, alive, beautiful streets I’d ever walked on.
Was it really so mundane to these people?
Let me be clear. I’m not suggesting you throw away your smartphone and communicate with telegrams. The smartphone is an extremely useful tool, no question.
What I’m saying is this: bring attention to the moments when you reach for your smartphone.
There are three questions I suggest you ask yourself every time.

Question 1: What’s the emotion behind this decision?

I work from home most days, and this wasn’t easy at first.
I spent a good couple of years completely addicted to my email account. If there was an opportunity to check my inbox, you can bet your best socks I’d have taken it.
But once I began meditating, I became much more aware of my emotions.
I soon realized I didn’t check my email to check my email. I checked my email because I wanted fulfillment. I wanted somebody to praise me for good work, send me a dream brief, or tell me something fascinating.
As you check your smartphone, try to pinpoint the emotion behind your decision.
Is it anxiety? Boredom? Or are you subconsciously putting off something more important?
Once you know the emotion, ask yourself: Can this emotion be fulfilled by something else?
I realized I got the same feeling of fulfillment from writing. So I stopped checking my email first thing in the morning and would write for two hours instead. Since I’m a copywriter, this was doubly beneficial, because it made me better at my job.

Question 2: What value do I place on this present moment? 

If you show gratitude for the present moment, you might think twice about using your smartphone.
Riding the bus is a common place to start checking Facebook. The bus is, admittedly, quite boring. You follow the same route every day and not much seems to happen.
But what if riding the bus became a wonderful in-the-moment experience? Rather than grab your phone on instinct, notice the passing scenery, the feeling of movement, and the different people who hop on and off.
This is a moment in your life. Never forget that.
If you need to check your phone, the bus is a good time to do it. But if you don’t, why not experience the journey?
Also, remember, if you’re with a friend or relative the present moment has twice as much value. You have someone else to consider.
Personally, I don’t think it’s ever appropriate to check your phone in someone else’s company. (Unless you have something very serious going on in your life, of course.) Show people how much you value them instead.
As Thich Nhat Hanh said, “The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

Question 3: Can my smartphone really add value to the present moment?

Before the smartphone, we had something very precious indeed—the unanswered question.
Your smartphone can answer any question in a couple of seconds. That’s true. But don’t you find it’s the unanswered questions that spark the most interesting conversations.
Unanswered questions start debates. They enrich friendships.
The other day I mentioned that the author Jack Kerouac was Canadian.
“You’re wrong,” a friend jumped in. “He was American.”
“Are you sure? I swear he was from Quebec,” I replied.
“I’ll find the answer,” another friend said, withdrawing their smartphone. Presto! Two seconds later, the conversation was over.
Another time, at dinner, a group of us wondered who composed the Lord of the Rings score. All sorts of interesting topics popped up along the way—from Hans Zimmer to John Williams to Star Wars and back to Lord of the Rings again.
“I’ll find the answer,” someone said. And again, it was a smartphone that killed the conversation.
Unanswered questions are uncomfortable.
Reaching for your smartphone is understandable. Perhaps it’s even human nature. But it’s important to stop, reflect, and question what might happen when you do.
I believe mindfulness is more important today than ever before. Unless we take control of ourselves, our gadgets will take control for us.
Notice the present moment. Understand it. Be grateful for it.
And if you decide it’s not a good time to use your phone, please resist the urge. You’ll feel much happier.

Privatix Live-System

This is posted with Privatix Live session.
It has Open Office 3.0 which was my love (I did my thesis on Open Office) till it was hijacked by Oracle, which tried to destroy it.
Now in the hands of Apache is making a strong comeback and Debian's favorite probably due to light weight(lighter than LibreOffice).
Mind you this distribution is based on Mandrake which was my favorite of yesteryear which died a untimely death in France.
Mageia is in place now.
Its strength is that it is encrypted and even signing my email was allowed after (i had almost forgotten) secret word.
it made me to revise or reinvigorate my memory, which showing some signs of failure.
I lost one of my credit cards.
Did not lose any money, though.
Now I do daily memory training.

Privatix Live-System 

Free portable encrypted system on an usb flash drive or an external hard drive for safe editing and carrying along of sensitive data, for encrypted communication and anonymous web surfing

Not everyone who finds privacy important while using the internet and communicating or is editing sensitive data always has their own computer with a safely set up operating system and the required tools at their disposal or want to carry it with them.

That's why we created the Privatix Live-System (based on Debian GNU/Linux). It is an easy to operate safe and portable system that can be booted from a cd-rom, an usb flash drive or an external hard drive and ensures your privacy and confidentiality while using the internet and communicating or editing and encrypting sensitive data.

Therefore standard applications such as browser, email client, word processor, image viewer and most importantly numerous data protection and encryption software are integrated.

Private data and settings, documents, e-mails, or pgp-keys are not saved on the computer that you use but instead those are saved on the encrypted usb flash drive or on the encrypted external hard drive. In case of loss or theft of the data medium your personal data is going to stay protected by a password.

No free storage space is required, no system needs to be installed or any specific operating system or other programms are necessary on the computer that is used because the whole system and all other applications are loaded from the usb flash drive or from the external hard drive.

This way you can use unknown computers without having to rely on the security of the installed operating system that might be infected with trojans or software keyloggers and without requiring tools to be installed and despite of this mobility preserve high data protection standards or you can create a separate secure environment for very sensitive data or communication (e.g. collective bargaining, online banking, whistleblowing and e-mail encryption) on any external medium in addition to your regular operating system installation.

Dog Sense and My Worst Fear

Dog Sense and My Fear

Sunday generally my sphere of activity is wide and uninhibited.

Come Esala Festival it shrinks by design and by default.

I did not think, the sphere of activity shrining for dogs and applies to Kandy dogs.

My general impression was that there are lots of people visiting Kandy and lot of foods thrown away, dogs would have a Gala time, especially the Paraya dogs.

I have been obsessed with a relatively more important topic (I'll come to that in a moment) regarding dogs, I actually never gave a thought to the sphere of activity of dogs.

I did not see any of the entourage of dogs that loiter in our neighborhood today.

I had a very limited agenda today and I went for my “Banana Treat” first.

No Banana.

The Ramazan is over and no demand I thought.

Then I looked round to see the dogs I feed and one already missing and the other one hiding in a corner.

I had to coax her to come for the treat.

There used to be several others dogs whom I do not feed, not really Paraya but with known owners.

My specialty is the Paraya Type.

With my observation of the old dog with one canine and the policemen, I decided to have a special observation tour.

Everywhere, I went, the numbers were small.

The first one I saw was at the Lawyers Office, (as I went in, to take some cash from the till), one healthy one came and marked the entrance with a healthy “pits-burger'.

I recorded it as a lawyer, in previous life, making his routine visit to the court house.

He was brief to the point and in a flash, disappeared.

Then the second one was in poor shape emaciated and was almost hiding in a very low profile.

I saw only one more, worse off than the one before limping (hooryfied, too) and trying to cross the road, taking the shortest route (avoiding the pedestrian crossing, further up) possible.
It almost got knock down by a passing vehicle.

That's it.

Only three for the day.

Immediately, I went into my thinking mode.

My Reasons.

1. Rain NO

2. Firecracker NO

3. Traffic Increase Very unlikely

4. Taken a little Vacation / Holiday- Schools are closed

5. Well Fed Most unlikely

6. Increase of Police Presence Yes

7. Municipality Dog catchers Yes

The last point rekindled my worst fear.

Yes they are rounded up and dressed for foreigners, especially for Koreans as dinner treat.

My previous investigation have discovered that this is the evil period for Kandy dogs, some of them end up as dinner.

I went to the supermarket and bought two leashes (very expensive) for my dog.

Dog lovers keep your dogs leashed for at least two weeks.

Evil doers come at night.

This was what happened to my cat.

It was poisoned with two other dogs.

They collected my cat but not the two dogs, that were poisoned with strychnine.

Kandy municipality has a supply of it.

I know it.

I used to give the order to kill dogs on the behest of my foreign partners.

That was part of my service agreement with them.

I give the order to my PHI and take two days leave.

I do not sleep on those two days.

That is the reality.

Yes, I was a dog lover at home and a dog killer by design.

Sixth Mass Extinction of Life

Sixth Mass Extinction of Life

 

Below is a reproduction of random pieces of writing of a South African Doctor.

I have omitted, the most important piece of his advice, he dished out (deliberate vandalism of his train of thinking).

His article even though brief was illuminating!

Just to illustrate the point that the Web Information (especially cut and paste writing) can be disjointed if one is a casual browser, like the social media.

Just pick one out of the five phrases you like most and do some soul searching, yourself.

For me the sixth mass extinction is one that comes on top within a short time, nine (9) billion people will be on this planet.

The tipping point and WHO does not care for a Family Planning Program, globally.

in 1975 it was there obsession (after the 1973 Middle East War)!

I also believe, this mass extinction in the beginning will be engineered by petty wars.

Who will decide who will be eliminated is just happening in the Middle East and Banki Moon has a tight lip and he may be having the other end lose due to his thinking about his next appointment.

This is true to Navi Pillai, too (unfortunately, like the doctor above, is South African).

Both their terms end in September (transitional period in world politics and there is transitional justice to American propaganda at lib).

1. There have been five great mass extinctions through the aeons and some scientists believe that we humans, in addition to killing ourselves, are causing the sixth mass extinction of other life forms by our unprecedented wasteful utilization of resources.

2. As omnivores, humanoids are able to eat and digest not only plant foods and meat, but everything, ranging from seeds and roots, fruits and sedges, to eggs and milk.

3. This versatility not only helped to ensure a better chance of survival than the exclusive herbivores (plant eaters-elephants included) and carnivores (meat eaters-tigers and lions included), but also boosted the growth of our brains.

4. I also realized very clearly when we returned to the recreation area, and saw what a restaurant was serving a group of students, that we may soon lose our vitality as a species if we don’t stop eating fast, high-fat food at every opportunity.

5. Each student was served a hamburger with chips and a cold drink for lunch – refined carbohydrates, liquid sugar, artificial colours and flavours, and loads of fat!

Dog sense and Mine (observation)

Dog sense and mine

Dog has astute sense.

I do not have that sense but I have the power of simple observation.

I was walking down the road and all the Paraya (stray) dogs were agitated and barking.

All of them know me well.

All of them including the Yorkshire Terrier (abandoned by the master) were very friendly with me.

I just say hello to them, even the most "horryfied" (not the English meaning but the Sinhala translation for horry-the unwelcome skin disorder of all Paraya dogs) one get my attention.

I paused a bit and looked around but saw nothing unusual.

My fifth sense ignited, an extra diligent observation was warranted.

No strangers (dogs kind) have ventured into the area inadvertently.

Then the intensity of the uproar increased and I saw two policemen coming down from a nearby steep foot path.

The oldest dog with one canine missing, with his back to the policemen (in case of aggression by the intruder) was barking at full pitch and volume and cunningly, its frontal (face) partially hidden with the remaining canine clearly visible to the policemen.
The message was clear, "I got one tooth lost and the remainder (canine) has its biting power reduced but I am 80 years old" (human age-the dog age is 16 plus) respectable and wise enough to know a human from a vulture.

I could not stop laughing to myself, since I cannot show my bare back to any XUxx, with or without a hat.

Then when, I reached the bus stop there were two policemen in the boutique, where I usually have a "banana treat" and feed the two adorable dogs who welcome in style and kind.

I looked around to see them.
They have vanished.

Corollary
If you are a foreign visitor and if you do not see stray dogs, please avoid that area.
There is some inherent danger.
Either police or thieves.

So I avoided entering the boutique and reached Kandy to see an altercation of an old man and two women constables both without identity badge (one probably was a reserve).

He was refusing to show his identity card to the officer supposed to be without a badge.

I told myself not only dogs who hate police but vagabonds, too.

My approach toned down the altercation and he paced up away from the two WPCs.

I paced myself to him and gave a friendly advice in a soft but affirmative manner.

This is the period, one sees more policemen than average visitors to the city.

Some of their behaviour is atrocious.

I have seen a policeman urinating in the open, right in front of a mixed school, fortunately (for the policeman) or unfortunately (for me) I did not have a camera.

This is a city some of our Paraya dogs cross the road only at pedestrian crossings and school children are like the policeman mentioned above.

I think (children) they have taken a cue from the law officers.

I avoid the city or find a short cut, if I do visit.

Generally, I avoid the city for the entire duration of the festival.

It is a welcome change to my routines but you will miss many of my observations on the RUN or on the FLY.

Sorry for that.

One more joker (in police parlance) less in the city is better for the ambiance.

Thousand and Two reasons why our Wild Elephants would become extinct

Thousand and Two reasons why our Wild Elephants would become extinct

As I stated in the previous blog piece that I wanted the Elephant Saga to be my 1001th piece and it should coincide with the annual Esala Perehara (Kandy Pageantry).

What I wanted write here was inspired by a wooden craft in display at bargain price.

It was given at half price.

Why?

It originally had three pieces (three elephants).

The tusker, the mother and the baby.

What was left?

Two and one tusk missing.

Mother had been taken away forcibly (stolen)

It ashamed me, just the pity look of it, probably a Sri-Lankan kid had done this damage to a  wonderful piece of Kandyan craftsmanship.

My guess, he could have been a son of a Ganga Grower, who has visited the city with ill gotten money with his son unsupervised (or supervised to see that there was nobody on the floor, so that he could practice, a broad day light break in and stealing) who accomplised the ruthless task of disfiguring a figurine in display. 

Having seen his father doing that in the jungle, he was probably practicing, the skills on a dummy.

The father and the Jim-band would have been proud of his skill.

I have another pray for this season.

i want it to rain for ten days (there are draught stricken regions in this country). the entire period of the festival.

One and only one reason.

Poor elephants (babies) burn their feet on hot tar roads.
I want the rain to cool their feet and body.

Elephants love water, it is their play mate.

Thousand and One reasons why our Wild Elephants would become extinct

Thousand and One reasons why our Wild Elephants would become extinct

I want my blog piece of 1001 to be on elephants, not the domesticated ones but the wild and neglected lot.

Unfortunately, I was looking for a blog piece I made for www.wrteclique.net but this site has been vandalized by a rival party.

To be precise, I think it is the Sir-Lankan government.

I was looking for a little piece, that I copied from somewhere (probably from a book) that illustrated how American Banks cheat their little tiny toddler customers.
It was about a young guy who wanted to open an account from his Piggy Bank, collection.
I cannot remember how much the bank costs the young customer in charges to open an account but the dad had to supplement over $100/= dollars for the ordeal.
In this part of the world toddlers are cheated by both the bank and the politicians.
 (This was well before stock market crash).

Good example was how my daughter was cheated and that money was utilized for bribing voters in a presidential election.

This is a miracle producing country.

After two hours of sifting through my archives, it turned out be blank and a blind episode with 10 blind men describing an elephant (affair).
But with a welcome stroke of luck, I managed to find the first draft of my writing on pachyderms.
 I tuned to my writing at www.wrteclique.net.
I stop writing at www.wrteclique.net  many moons ago, since its web master, stopped my writings getting, to the top ten.

I had hit even, 10 out of ten.

They used my age as a bar, which is blatant violation of fundamental rights, on age basis (this piece of legislation is still not there in UK).

This site meant for young writers but entry was free for all.

At the beginning, there were writers like Jean Arasanayagam, contributing.

She actually gave the introductory speech.

I was not into writing fray then, in any way and it was the pronged university strike in the university that made me to pen a little verse, to ease my boredom, if not anger.

It became infectious and here I am writing about elephants, now.

My annoyance with the web master was that he should have informed me (I could have under-aged myself, in that case) of his concern.

I was one who was vociferous about the poor standard of English in school then, and this was an idea I discussed with the Director of the British, Council Library.

The other obsession was my life time obsession on computers, in this case computers for children for fun and education.

At that time there were no computers in school in Sir-Lanka and the first five computers for young members were given by the British Council of Colombo but with little persuasion, they came to Kandy, too.

Thank you British Council for the pioneering work, in Sir-Lanka.

This is long before “Nana Sala” which is used for political agenda, now.

My real reason of dissociation with British Council was a different one.

The British Council, with pressure from British Writers Association, decided to close the Library and then decided to teach (it became a language Center) English.

That was my bone of contention.

No Library to visit browse some technical and academic stuff, not English literature.

They charged exorbitant amount for the course and used that money to pay the local staff.

That was naughty and that contributed to more decline in English standard in Sir-Lanka.

Only the rich could pay principle was applied.

There was no benevolence for learning English as a second language.

That did not tally with my Free Software and Linux mentality.

So writing skills are partly the result of boredom and partly the result of British Council investing its money on English for foreign students.

Coming back to the Elephants with this long preamble is necessary, since my writing investment in elephant welfare dates back to Price Charles visit to Sri-Lanka.

I wanted him to be aware of the real plight of our elephants and his father, Duke of Edinburgh is the Patron of the wild life society.

There was a conference in London in the beginning of this year.

I am glad Crown Price William has taken, the traditions and the interest.

Elephant poaching and ivory is a global issue.

I was indirect privy to nefarious activities of our ganja (hashish) growers who kill our elephants in the name of, “they are destroying their vegetable (hashish) gardens in the jungle”.

175 to 200 them are killed each year.

Some of them are for ivory and with political cover.

In Monaragla range there supposed to be 5 elephants of The Majestic (Suthdhantha) Genealogy, sited before 2009.

There is only one sighted now and it has become a killer (just the survival instinct) by default and not by design.

We are having elections there NOW and I am pretty sure Ganga (Hashish) Growers and their masters will win a resounding victory.

About 180 baby elephants were (perhaps more) were captured and over 100 had died in about the same period, according to wild life imprecise records.

In today’s. Ravaya paper, it is mentioned that a Sir-Lankan, judge had in possession, an illegal baby elephant.

That is how the law and order is maintained, in this blessed country.

There was prolonged Amnesty for these Elephant Dealers.

I am made to understand, baby elephants captured in Pollonnaruwa are smuggled to east coast and auctioned in the sea.

That may be one reason, Indian Fishermen are caught, in the sea.

This country has become a “Paraya State for Elephants”-four legged variety to be precise.

Facts can be put in a nutshell, and that was the reason for a long preamble.

Postscript
There are more than 20 ways used by these poachers to kill our elephants.
I wanted to include them in my third book but fearing the methods might shoot up to even "fifty ways of killing an elephant", I would not write, them in print or digital forms.

Instead my third book will be on Elephant Myths.

One myth propagated by Sri-Lankan Politicians and Buddhist monks is there are 5500 elephants in the wild (this  an enlarged and bogus figure) instead of culling, domesticate them for religious functions (second myth, inside a grandiose myth) but they are used for money spinning on a daily basis.

Poor animals are used for commercial activities (one in vogue is weddings).

Yarn
I should state a little yarn, we used to utter when we were kids.
There was a big elephant with a Big Penis.
He always traveled with a young monkey.
One day, he met a teenage she elephant on his routine patrol .
He was to mate impromptu and without any wedding ceremony and his Penis became Plump.
The monkey in his curiosity landed on the dangling object.
The master was annoyed.
Then the monkey said,
"Mama Ussala Denna Hadewe"- 
I was trying to lift it up to the entry point (hole), the English translation.
Then the Elephant said,
No THANK YOU,
I have done it before and I can do it again.
If you do not land on my back QUICK, you will be inside a big hole or or warm cave, My dear.

My corollary, for Sri-Lankans who use elephants in weddings is as follows.

If you do not have a big penis do not marry!
Elephant Penis is too big for this occasion (wedding) and for the bride who is a virgin (it is not necessarily true for a whore), even if the bridegroom  has lot of money in his purse.

Money cannot by erections (just like the Etha above) but it is spontaneous.
Sign of virility not money.

Life

Life
 
Life is a series
Of steps / stages,
Each step is different
From its predecessor

Every stumbling block
That comes across
Should be made into
A stepping stone
That lays the foundation
For more difficult
And enduring
Steps to follow

But,
The steps
That preceded are gone
For good
The step to be taken
Has not yet come

Hence,
What matter most,
Is the step
In motion
That focuses
The mind
To be still for
A moment
Of its vagary
And deception

23rd Monday,2009

13. Elementary Logic

13. Elementary Logic
This is something I posted on why Facebook is rich, doing almost nothing except connectivity.

It is very simple and elementary my dear.

People who sweat a lot at work and home (like my dad and mum) are always poor.

But people who dish out advices (psychologists) and do sweet nothing (politicians too) are rich by default.

The people who invest others money like bankers and speculators (get off free plundering others money) are always richer than anybody else.

Facebook is no different, just connect people to cheat each other.

I am one who is promoting Linux and Free Software is left to lament like you!

This is what we called the 21st century, sadly cheating is the way forward for many.