Father / Mother to Son Politics without Firewall

Father / Mother to Son Politics without Firewall

 

Firewall in Linux is to protect a System from outside intrusion.

This is not about Linux but Politics.

Ceylon Politics has no Firewall to protect Family Domination.

It goes from father to son or mother to son.

This trend needs to be destroyed.

I do not agree with Kumara Welgama but he is free to let one of his sons taking up politics.

But I am opposed to Wijedasa Rajapaksa putting his son to the Cricket Board Interim Committee.

This guy with a PhD is the worst introduction to politics by Chandrika.

He is a born Wheeler Dealer.

He is worse than S.B.

He changes his party every 4 to 5 years.

If I am the Ministry of Legal Affairs, first thing I do is to pass a law to unseat a MP who crosses the party lines and move to another party.

No problem becoming independent member and voting with his or her conscience.

Not only that I would have legislation to have a By-Election within 6 weeks after cross over.

These legislations were there and Wijayananda Dahanayake of Galle was a classic example.

There is nobody with conscience in the parliament but prostitutes, betting agents and drug dealers.

There is lot of money exchanged (BRIBES) for a List MP post.

The parliament is a haven for the underworld.

Any MP can be bought for money and that includes Minister of Sports.

For that matter, I hate Sirimavo in power and out of power.

In fact, I was one who was politically active to oust Sirimavo.

We introduced Sick Notes!

We were sick of Sirimavo!

Of course, the replacement J.R.J. was the biggest CURSE of Ceylon.

If he did not come into power L.T.T.E. problem would not have fested this country.

By the way, I was away from this country but happened to be here on the day of the mocked referendum (on 10 day holiday).

In later years, I took a leading role to send Mahinda home.

I need not worry now, Professor Niomal Ranjith Devasiri is more versatile.

I have already named two sons from one party and my friend Rajitha Senaratne's son has had a bad omen.

Please note Rajitha's father was a well established medical practitioner. 

My guess he never encouraged him to become a politician.

I am ambivalent to this father, mother and son or daughter inheritance of politics.

If the guy is a dud one what else the parent can do? 

I must state an action I did with the help of the PSU President. 

 

I went with him to meet Professor E.O.E. Pereira who was our Vice Chancellor.

I represented the sports union not politics.

My friend was from the Arts Faculty and he was not fluent in English.

I did the talking.

I said we need to stop all the students strikes for at lest 5 years.

How come?

It is simple, Sir?

The P.S.U has lot of money.

All the previous Student Leaders misappropriated this money.

We made a proposal to state that, any expense, in excess of Rs.100/=, a valid receipt should be provided to the Bursar for Remuneration.

We signed the proposal and we did not say anything to our mates for over 2 decades.

Yes, for about 7 years there wasn't a single major student's strike in Peradeniya University.

I believe J.V.P. bypassed this by "Tin Kata" or Collecting Tins.

I never put a cent to a PIN KATA.

 

I think Pubudu Jagoda is the last one in this link.

I think the Cricket Board has a big PIN Katayak which belonged to Sumathipala, Dharmadasa, Shammi Perera and now Wijedasa (Puthage).

Amazing Australian Railways

Australia is not a country but a continent.

Strangely it has only 6 or 8 big cities all along the coast except Alive Springs.

Adelaide
Brisbane
Darwin
Canberra
Newcastle
Perth
Sydney
Melbourne

There is wast stretch of land not inhabited.

It has many type of railway tracks from small gauge to standard gauge.
Melbourne of course has underground train.

The biggest anomaly is there are driverless robotic train in the outback.

Do not panic!

No passengers and these trains carry minerals and coal from outback to the ports.

These are maintained by the virtual computer technology.

I am yet to travel by the surface train.

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.

Ceylonese abroad, how they treat you

This is not about all Ceylonese but the majority living abroad.

Good example is Nagananda Kodituwakku, self acclaimed saviour of Ceylon.

You just ask him with your VISA formalities and he will quote you thousands of rules and regulations, some of them are not yet in the statutory and refuse to help you.

The same guy will ask you to contribute money to save mother Lanka and hoodwink you.

BEWARE!

Quite similar is Sepala Amarasinghe who pretends to be neutral but a "Cat Paw" of J.V.P.

I think he gets money from J.V.P.

I call him the Baka Panditha!

Both are playing a dangerous game!

Professor Niomal Devasiri Ranjith is the one who can get US out of the deep political pit but he cannot do it by himself and current university structure is completely dysfunctional due to various reasons.

Please do not get caught to these digital guys.

They come up like mushrooms!

Politics is volatile in Ceylon and I believe
Dharshana Hapangoda is different and he is the First Guy who introduced the independent and alternative channel for Ceylonese.

There is another channel run by a few of Colombo university graduates who have no understanding of Ceylon beyond probably Kaleniya and Ragama.

I call this the Gossip Channel and do not watch them.

I am off the target but generalization is one of my techniques.

1. Do not believe these guys when they come home during winter.

They cannot afford the bills and come home to hibernate.

The VISA probably is pending.

I met a guy in Kandy. He was 2 years junior to me in colleague and could not enter the university.

He pretended not to know me.
I thought, he wanted to have a cup of tea.
He could have easily join me.

I had just finished my cuppa but I did not clear the table for him.

He vanished.

I am planning to write a long essay on how the air industry changed over the past 40 years.

My first hand experience in UK which I cannot include in that essay is dished out here.

My first visit to UK was tense.

My brother had left UK and he was in Kuwait.

He deposited a big sum for me to last at least 3 months in UK but without a job I did not want to go on a spending free.

I did have few friends and none of them were established in their own fields.

Rest of them were in USA and I had no intention of going to USA.

I worked with a guy in Ceylon who was 10 years senior and two of his brothers were in UK.

He said he could ask one of them to pick me at the airport and I could stay a couple of days with him.

He was married to an Irish airline hostess and they were living in near Heathrow in Hounslow.

The Council House was small and I had to share the toilet with the dog.

The place was filthy and after 10 days I decided to move to a residence of a doctor who promised accomodation for a few days.

He was Colombo graduate and he was named "Kota Uda Doctor".

That was his favorite Sinhala phrase when things go wrong.

His wife was a doctor (she craftily joined my unit in General Hospital, Colombo) and she went to UK before me.

Her plan was to get the VISA formalities attended in Colombo while working in General Hospital.

She had no understanding in haematology and I had to do all the bone marrow biopsies and venipunctures.

By the way, by shear accident I diagnosed a case of Red Cell Leukaemia!

Her mother could not speak a word in English and I was coerced to accompany her.

I said yes.

One day this old lady came to me and said Vi Ka Ra Ge.

I was puzzled and the street name was Vicarage Road.

First Kota Uda and now Vi Ka Ra Ge and I kept myself self amused.

On the 10th day this woman (lady part is dropped now) gave me the Eviction Notice (on a Saturday).

I was shocked!

I paid a courtesy call having secured a job and they had moved out of Vicarage Road, Watford.

I never so them again.

I stayed in two other places and I was dished out in 4 days and 7 days unceremoniously.

So never trust a guy who offer you help abroad.

I packed my things quickly and on Sunday morning went out looking for a cheap motel.

I found a nice Italian, Bed and Breakfast Hotel in Surrey Garden and moved in, the same evening.

Then one evening I gave a call to our principal's sister in law looking for a cheaper annex.

She was working when I called her.

She understood my plight instantly.

She asked me to pack the things and you come and stay with us until a suitable place is found.

After work she came with her husband and picked me up.

First lesson was to cook my food and gave me simple instructions like raw milk for coconut milk.

She found me an annex for 150 pounds (half the price of the hotel).

I had to put 50 pense for the heating in the night.

Month's expense with food was 200 pounds.

After the breakfast I come out to spent the day inside the tube (train) for heating.

The tube was filthy those days.

Coffee was the worst and Kentucky and Macdonald were non existent.

Chinese fish and chips with food additives were cheap.

Changed to Yorkshire  fish and chips later.

I really enjoyed the two month sojourn in the city of London and all the bookshops, computer shops and stamp (philates) shops.

Tottenham  Court Road was my favourite.
It had Indian Kashmir Sari shops from where I bought two saries for my mother and my mother in law for our wedding.

Within two months I found a job in Yorkshire and never had to look back.

I made good friends too.

I went to New Zealand for two decades later.

There I met lovely Ceylonese friends who helped me in various ways throughout my stay.

I do not like New Zealanders and never went back.

Now I am in a third country in my retirement.

There is no Left (Labour), Left in UK

Why I say there is no Left in U.K

Labour lost its grip in 1979 after the minors' strike and Winter of Discontent.

Labour Party is sympathetic to the immigrants.

In our time 60% of the NHS was staffed by overseas doctors.

Over the years General Medical Council made radical changes, so overseas doctors were marginalized.

I do not know the current situation.

Politics is about coming to power.

There is visible discrimination of Asians and Muslims in UK.

Labour sympathy for immigrants did help them to win seats in London, Manchester and Bedford.

Keith Starmer shifted more towards the center.

He came to Labour Leadership ousting Jeromy Corbin who was a genuine Anti-american (Vietnam War) and Anti-israel lobbyist.

By the way, Israel is a British creation!

This shift is evident and there is nobody in the current Labour Party who can raise his or her hand against Israel's Genocide in Palestine.

Labour party stood for Two State Solution for Gaza in the past.

Fearing loss of marginal seats to conservatives Keith Starmer would stammer (or tongue in the cheek, approach) when this issue is brought to surface.

This is good ammunition for Jeromy Corbin to unsettle the local support where majority of Muslims live in the inner cities.

I do not think there would be any split in the Labour Party since Keith Starmer sacked all loyal to Jeromy Corbyn.

My guess is disgruntled labour guys and girls would support Liberals (Biden's mix gender type or WOKE culture in UK) and it is going to be a bonus to Liberal Party.

There would be a lot of independent candidates unseen in political history of UK.

If Keith Starmer becomes the P.M. he would be no different from Richi Zunak.

Perhaps he would get some support from disgruntled conservative back benchers.

Glenn Maxwell, the Greatest Knock in One Day Cricket

Yes it is the greatest knock in one day cricket.

13 days ago he scored a record 40 ball hundred in this world cup.

To follow up with double hundred (201 not out) is classic.

Captain Patrick James Cummins contribution is 12 out of 202  in 128 balls and that is how the game should be played. He is the fast bowler.

Australians were 91 with 7 wickets down.

Recovery of Economy NOT Cricket that is important

Cricket is not the ONLY corrupt institution in Ceylon.

These guys who are ALL corrupt on both sides are trying to COVER UP their SORDID affairs with cricket.

Opportunists by default.

Looking for a scapegoat and the found in the name of Cricket.

Yes, it is recovery of Economy and NOT Cricket that is important for Ceylon.

Theoretically, I am happy that we are ousted from cricket stardom and I.P.L.

Only one reason (intermingled with another shoddy political strategy) I can bring out to show how things work in this blessed land of opportunists.

I watched all the pre-qualifying matches we played to qualify for this world cup.

It was Dimutu Karunaratne who restored order in our team.

He is a quality Test Cricketer with correct technique and he did not like being pushed into this arena of 50 over game.

Yet, he delivered results and the young team that came up on top of the table lacked physical fitness and stamina to stand up to formidable opposition.

Then comes Angelo Matthews to spoil the soup!

He is totally unprepared and physically unfit to play 50 overs.

He never bowled 5 overs and come late to bat when the shine of the ball is gone.

He used this strategy for over 20 years.

Dinesh Chandhimal should have been the better player who could bat from 1 to 6 positions.

This was the late Tony Greg Formula.

I am sorry he is no longer with us to help us with this total (cricket) tragedy of ours.

Arjuna Ranatunge and his family is not the solution to our cricketing problems.

All of them including the former administration are greedy of the ICC money.

Proper accounting over 25 years is mandatory and ICC should not dispense any money until this is done.

The minister in charge is a joker who used to bring motor vehicle parts from Japan and assemble them inside a ship as fully furnished vehicles and sell them to Africans.

Former president outsourced his ill gotten money to Africa.

His son was also involved in this spare part industry. The partially assembled vehicle was taken into custody in HIS GARAGE and nobody knows what happened to it.

Probably ended up in Ethiopia or Nigeria.

Regarding Sumathipala he has now formed a betting consortium and he is now dealing with cyber currency.

If this money is confiscated there is some money for the coffers.

Ranil has no guts to take action even though he came in with the promise to end corruption.

His bond deals are still in my memory.

He is aiding and abetting.

He is a SLPP Stooge and was rejected by the voters.

My guess is these guys are collecting money for the next round of general elections.

If the Election Commission has any backbone they should ask the guys and girls to declare their assets before approving the nominations.

This include JVP.

It will never happen.

Senior Premadasa's assets were *audited out* only 2 years after his death.

Ranil is called "Suttara Puncha" or  an age old political trickster par excellence.

He is diverting attention of  his inability to manage deficit finance, directly to Cricket Chaos!

His strategy is to hide his inability to deal with HUNGER and Diseases of the masses.

There is a Dhammapada saying that states HUNGER and DISEASES are the GREATEST ILLS of Mankind.

There is acute shortage of essential medicine in government hospitals.

Things are going to get worse.

Election might oust lot of corrupt guys but substantial number of corrupt guys and girls from both sides would remain to continue the plunder.

Calling for an early election is not the solution.

The longer they stay  in power the bigger is the rejection including losing their deposits to the government coffers.

J.V.P should not consider that they are the rightful owners of the political change.

It was spontaneous and natural rebellion of the youth (J.V.P was indirect contributor) that brought down the regime head of the past but MPS in Sheep Coats are inside the parliament and they were not sent home.

Some of them are marking time until the "Pension Qualification" is satisfied.

Nobody should get Pension or Official Quarters when out of power.

The dissolution of parliament is on the card after 4 years.

My close guess is a parliamentary elevations, since they could not get through the Provincial Council (white elephant) Election due to legal matters.

That is to test the ground reality.

Nobody would get 50% at the Presidential Election. It is possible to abolish the Post of Presidency but Referendum has to be held to confirm it.

J.R.J. the Fox has put lot of restrictions.

Young Premadasa will not "let slip a chance" for another go.

He is building up his image at the expense of the Cricket Board and Adminstration.

The present guy will hang on to the post of presidency without legal rights.

A Hung Parliament is a probability and current Suttra Puncha loves that scenario.

Anything can happen in politics.

I will shut up moment an election is declared and I am away from  home and my vote is null and void.

There is Big Hole in the Political Bucket, dear Liser, dear Liser!

Cricket in Summary

Three families and their stooges ruined cricket.

1. Sumathipala cohort

2. Dharmadasa cohorts

3. Ranatunge brothers

R.I.P. for Ceylon Cricket.

4. Latest addition is Wijedasa Rajapaksa.

His son is already in the Cricket Board.

Yaka Model Ceylon Cricket

About todays umpiring decision, I have no issues.

The Law is clear and not ambiguous.

Umpire's Decision is Final.

Inability to stand with that decision by a very old player sets a very bad precedence to younger players.

Angelo is not indispensable to cricket and he should quit cricket now.

My reason for this piece is to highlight the injustice meted out to many of our cricketers in the past.

I may have missed out many.

I am surprised to see a cricketer sentenced to prison due to very bad behaviour.

There are many reason for me to, not to watch cricket.

Cricket is a gentleman's game and not for criminals.

What happened to Avishka (25) Fernando?

Lahiru Thirimanne
Dinesh Chandhimal

Above two were our forgotten cricket talents.

Yaka Model cricketer is Asanka Gurusinghe.

That is his type of discipline in and out of cricket.

Arjuna Ranasinghe says we needs a Yaka Model cricket adminstration to revive Ceylon Cricket Board and its Administration.

The Sumathi Cricket Bookie man has already got cryptocurrency and booking agents arranged in India to ruin our cricket.

Unfortunately Dharmadada family also has some links with Bookie cricket. Senior  Dharmadsa is a close buddy of President Premadada (Timber Dealer before Navaloka).

There is an Indian Model nicknamed Desha to handle Ceylon cricket.

We should start rebuilding from our School Cricket. Even at school levels parents bribe the Sports Master to get the child into the team.

Raw talent is disregarded.

There is enough talent available but they are missed by our cricket coaches.

10 year program is necessary without Indian I.PL.

The bottom line is that I.P.L. has long term plan to ruin our budding cricketers.

Just look at what happened to Lahiru Thirimanne (33) and Dinesh Chandhimal (34).

Thisara Perera (34)

Dimuth Karunaratne (35)

Angelo Mathews (35) is good enough to roll the cricket Gal Rola.

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 hugh 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 mandatorily 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 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 NewWeek (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 travelling 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!

Veteran's Day

Veteran's Day

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

This is remembered as the Veteran Day.

Memorial day is remembered on the last Monday of May.

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

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

Ranatunge Cooperative Cricket

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

Under Sirimovo Bandaranayake Regime this family became rich.

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

Felix Dias Bandaranayake, the Finance Minister was a neurotic.

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

This was my formal protest of this regime.

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

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

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

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

We had butter and cheese only in the university residence.

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

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

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

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

Ananda swimming pool was built during his time.

Money donated to the pool were stolen by various guys.

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

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

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

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

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

I said mosquitoes were my problem.

They wanted me to become a doctor.

I told them I would do that in Kandy.

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

I proved them wrong!

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

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

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

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

That is how they insinuate!

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

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

Game plan is to steal the remaining money.

BEWARE!

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

Helicopter Ride

Helicopter Ride was a dream of my life.

This was all about applied physis.

How it ascends, how it turns and how it remains stationary and how it descends  were my interests not flying per say.

It consumes lot of energy even to stay afloat.

Since we cannot see air currents, unlike the water currents around a boat one has to feel it by being inside the helicopter.

I went to an Engineering Exhibition in a Ceylon university, expecting them to show me real flow dynamics and I was disappointed.

I, only saw an old dysfunctional helicopter on the grass on its pads.

Going some years back in New Zealand, with my family we went to a helicopter airshow and booked a ticket in advance.

We were waiting for sometime and we were told that we could not fly due to poor visibility.

Disappointed, I drew the car to the top of the mountain as far as I could go until I saw snow on the road.

Got down from the car and had a few photos and waited until I could not see anything in front of me.

I knew we will be blinded in no time and descended carefully to a lower level until I could drive safely.

I did not have chains behind my car to avoid slippery ice.
I checked and double checked every component if the second hand car I bought in New Zealand.

If I remember right, I spent more money than the purchased price, on the Honda for all the repair work.

It was in perfect condition when I retuned it back to the seller.

The cost of exporting items were prohibitive and I instead, sent only my books (not available in Ceylon) and magazines home.

We retuned home safely, and I decided never to ride a helicopter.

Months later we went to see, sea lions on a cloudy day.

I took the baby walker beyond an emergency point and could not see anything due to mist.

Mist was a blessing and being a mountaineer from Ampitiya in the hill capital, negotiated the slippery slope without a tight code in hand.

It was a very STUPID IDEA crossing the warning sign!

I was much wiser after the incident.

Why Australia should ban Chinese Economic Refugees

Chinese are global economic refugees that should be banned from every country.

They are like proverbial leeches who suck a blood meal and go into hibernation for one year.

1. During hibernation they invest that money earned on projects that an average Australian shun.

For example they take over hospital refuse system (everything including Australian faeces and urine and grow tomatoes in  what is called Organic (Giant Peanuts, too) Farms and sell them back to Australians.

They also cultivate giant cockroaches and cell their meat as Protein Rich Food items.

There are thousands of similar projects globally and I won't waste my time here.

2. In Ceylon they use Chinese Prostitutes in massage parlors named as Ayurvedic Treatment Centers to cater for sons of political giants.

This is where they do spying sessions on the government projects like building a Circuits for Motor Racing.

How they operate in Australia I haven't got a clue, since I have no intention of visiting any of their brothels.

Their homosexual exploits of males, I haven't got a clue.

They know Australian weaknesses.

The Woke Culture of Biden Era is a bonus industry in America for Chinese.

Do not beware Muslims but beware Chinese smooth operation strategy.

5. They spread diseases and their personal hygiene is always below standard.

I will give you a few examples.

A) We visited a coffee joint in the remote part of the city and this Chinese girl with nasty upper respiratory track infection, in broad day light contaminated all the plastic cups with saliva and breath.

Never used a paper towel to wipe!

We threw the cups to the dustbin immediately and went to a better coffee parlour.

We are Tea Drinkers and we could not find a suitable place.

B) During the Halloween day, Chinese Boys took (stole) our  stainless steel container along with the sweets.

We decided NOT to leave any sweets in future, if there are Chinese boys and girls in the neighbourhood.

C) I was a Chinese Food Restaurant addict in United Kingdom in 1980s.

I was without a job and living on my paltry saving in UK in a cheap Italian " Bed and Breakfast" in Surrey Gardens in London.

Most of my time was spent on Tube Stations for heating adjustments and a Takeaway from Chinese joint near King's Cross was my fish and chips luncheon and dinner combined.

They add addictive to Chinese Takeaways and I got addicted!

I avoid Chines Restaurants by default now.

D) Chinese Restaurant Syndrome

This is similar to Sick Building Syndrome (along with asbestosis) in UK at that time.

We used to get headaches and diarrhoea after a meal in Cheap Chinese Restaurants in London and Midlands.

We did a survey and found that the food additive were the reason for headaches and diarrhoea and switched to Italian restaurants.

I thought alcohol (beer) and chillies were the reasons and I was proven wrong.

Pancakes with corn syrup honey in an Italian restaurant were our favourite after marriage!

When they won World Cup Football in 1982, all the Italian Restaurants dished out free meals with alcohol and I never forget Parlo Roti

Pizza is my favourite.

I won't go to a Indian Restaurant during this cricket world cup.

In fact, I am boycotting cricket in total.

E) We went to chocolate factory and we were playing games for bonus chocolates.

Four Chines boys who could not read English were trying to peep over our shoulders and I for good reason showed my annoyance by stretching my shoulders wide behind our team of family players.

We left the difficult game for them!

They lost twice and were trying to break the game machine to get the tokens.

We never saw them again during our entire walk around the chocolate factory.

These are descendants of One Child Policy of China.

They are juvenile delinquents.

I have been avoiding Chinese from 1982.

I have been avoiding Indians all my life.

They are bit worse.

I hope and pray for a fourth World  War between China and India.

That is the best Population Control not the Palestine Israel war.

F. Chinese and Indians do not have the patient to wait in queues.

They are always in Rat Race.

Beat the other guy and prey on vulnerable is their life time goals.

G. They last Chinese guy at the airport immigration was a nut cracker neurotic.

I never carry anything illegal when I cross ports.

I do not even carry the legally allowable tobacco and liqueur except only once.

I went to Singapore after my retirement and brought at least 8 bottles of wine.
6 in my big bag with the laptop.
Two in my hand luggage.

I bought 3 equivalent of bottles of wine from the store for one duty free bottle allowed.

Duty free guys cheat a lot!

Buying from a local wine store is cheaper and they have the full variety.

I dished out all to managers in the Banks, Telecoms and couple of other guys nicely wrapped in cardboard or brown paper so that they can take them home, safely undetected.

I would not be able to do that anymore in my retirement.

Coming back to this Chinese Australian guy in immigration, he was in panic mode.

I knew my rights and he had no right to RUSH me and old guy.

He wanted to clear me like an inanimate object.

To annoy him I went to deliberate Slow Mode knowing he cannot coordinate the visual display and his eyesight.

He had to check me thrice.

I pretend not to understand his English.

He was treating me like a Chinese criminal in Australia.

Of course, as usual I uttered an English vulgar expletive loudly so that all the Australians around me could hear me, the moment I cleared the immigration.

I had only chocolates and tissues in my pockets.

I took them out one by one.

After he said OK and let me out, I pushed out another chocolate.

I used to do this at Amsterdam Airport.

Pull out a tooth paste, tooth brush, parker pen and a pensil, until the final call message was on.

This connection plane was late in London for 20 minutes and the plane had to circle for 45 minutes for a landing spot.

Mind you a plane lands every 30 seconds at Heathrow, and I knew what I was doing.

I told the European guys next to me if they treated me like one of you, you would not have missed your connections.

This was before the emergence of L.T.T.E. violence and after 1984 I was doubly careful at airport crossings.

I must FINISH with an encounter with a Singaporean Chinese woman at the NZ immigration counter.

NZ immigration office was in Singapore, then.
I handed my passport and the application the day before, stating I need Entry Visa in 24 hours.
When I went there the next morning and it was not ready.

I said I want the passport back with a new application form.

I bought a ticket to London and handed over a new application at the London Office and told the documentation officer, if my passport is not ready by 24 hours you would hear from my lawyer.

There was a long queue South Africans fleeing from SA after Nelson Mandela came to power.

I got my Multiple Entry VISA and it was pasted on my old passport deliberately by the woman in immigration as a "tick for tack".

I did not make a fuss and landed the plane same evening.

Apart from this neurotic Chinese woman in Singapore New Zealand Immigration officers are nasty to the CORE.

It was Work VISA and decided NEVER to apply for NZ residency.

This is the only country I have not visited twice.

By the way, I would not go even  to Hong Kong, if somebody gives me a free air ticket.

Another pandemic is looming.

Beware of Chinese!

I am planning to visit Moscow before I kick the bucket.

I have to learn Russian and Russian economy is booming, thanks to the Israel War.

The Muslims want better weapons and drones from Russia.

They are getting them through third parties.

What a miscalculation of American War machine?

Returned and Services League of Australia

Retired and Services League of Australia was initiated in 1916 after the First World War.

This was to help the returning soldiers or sailors to settle down in the country of domesticated.

The idea was to help with medical problems and medical facilities were primitive then.

Anglophile organizations

Monarchic organizations

Sexist organization where women were excluded.

They organized the ANZAC celebrations.

Wyndham Philip Island is a Bird Paradise

Yes, Wyndham Philip Island is Bird Paradise.

Ramada Hotel chain has established a massive Resort  with 210 villas numbered from 101 to 311.

Villas are spacious and have two or three rooms.

One has to book in advance to enjoy the quiet luxury.

Our stay was very short on our way to see the Penguin Parade.

I am a Linux guy and our Logo is Penguin!

The birds who are numerous to name and I picked up only three names.

No sparrows but a birds the size of a sparrow are plenty.

Purple hen
Spur winged Plover
Cape Barren Goose

The magpie of course, I did not like.

They come in to steal the food left out on the table.

Resort facilities include;
Gymnasium
Indoor pool
Indoor spa
Outdoor pools
Outdoor spar 
Games room for children including a pool table
Tennis Court
Karts
Walking tracks
Barbecues
A guest laundry

We were busy could not play a snooker game or go Karting.


Wifi is available and TV needs to be connected through one's cellphone.

One need not cook and food is available at Flametrees Restaurant.


We had one meal at Flametrees but rest cooked.

We took enough fish to cook and I remained a vegetarian with lot of fruits as the compliment.

House Keeping

Housekeeping is not available but (2 and 3 bedroom) villas are equipped with washers and dryers.

One is encouraged to reuse towel when possible.

The weather, even in summer is cold with Northerlies and Westerlies determined the wind directions and the temperature.

Whether is very pleasant in summer time.

The generally nocturnal Brushtail possums   can be spotted around the villas looking for food.

One has to keep doors and windows closed to avoid unauthorized entry of the wild beasts.

Roads are littered with birds' droppings and your car needs a general clean up after a visit.

We were lucky the overnight rain cleaned the roods and the car top.

We did not have to wash the car.

Do not park under trees and garages are missing by default but there is ample space in front to park for two cars.

We had two cars one rented.

Back of the villa is open to the wild and one cannot take the car to the backyard.

One should not throw food to the birds and possums.

That is the cardinal rule to protect wild life.

Kick the Cricket (Chalk) Bucket, Ceylon Style

Kick the Bucket is short term for somebody, unexpectedly dying.

Ceylon Cricket is not dead yet.

Our Selection Committee is trying hard to kill it.

First let me say something about the Chalk Bucket for a newbee in cricket.

Chalk was used in good old days to paint the  cricket boots.

Nowadays it is used to paint the various lines in the middle of the wicket.

Coming to cricket politics, if we used the Ground Boy (who paint the batting and bowling creases) instead of Angelo Matthews, Ground Boy would nave batted better, fielded better and would have hit a few sixes at number 6 position.

Ground Boys and the Ground women who look after the grass pitch, on the middle are fondly remembered, here.

Their services are very important.

Angelo deprived the place of a young player.

If he is mature enough he would have believed so and would have declined playing  and thus allowing a younger player to fit in at number 6.

Besides, he would have preserved his averages.

He still has time to quit this tournament faking an injury.

Faking injury is his forte and his modus operandum!

If he really wants to be useful, he should push the heavy roller with the groundsman.

That would certainly improve his fitness.

I generally won't watch cricket, if Angelo is playing.

I watched his innings today, only to write this piece.

Regarding Dimuth Karunaratne, he was one who (with other younger players) got us out of the doldrums and qualified Ceylon for this tournament, playing all the vital qualifying round games.

Netherlands and Ceylon qualified and unfortunately West Indies were left out.

I would have preferred West Indies qualifying, instead of Netherland.

Dimuth was unceremoniously dished out in favour of Kusal Perera (who was a pain to watch), unjustly.

Chris Silverwood should have played Dimuth Karunaratne at Number 6 instead of Angelo (when really, some of the fast bowlers are bowling at the tail end).

It would have been a good spoil and we would have made 270 runs.

We need to train a young guy to join Pathum Nissanka, instead of Kusal Perera.

I hope Dasun Shanka would recover soon and keep leading the team.

Cricket is all about runs and wickets and nothing more.

I am hoping to write a book in English, on the plight (betrayal) of Ceylon  Cricket from Politics to bad Administration.

Kick the Bucket Syndrome of Ceylon Cricket would be its Title.

By the way, I hate the Women Commentator  who should be sent to comment on Kindergarten Cricket Commentary.

I won't watch any more of this tournament but there are lot of old pensioners whose pastime is watching cricket.

Few of them would end up, with heart attacks if not Myopathy of Coronavirus Vaccination.

According to the reports, there is a higher incident of strokes, in vaccinated guys and girls.

Beware! 

House Sparrows

I am a bird lover.
I noticed the decline is sparrows in Ceylon.
I could not find a single book.
Went to Singapore Birds Park to investigate.
I could fing a sparse population of sparrows in Singapore,too.
I found a single book in the Singapore University Library.

Finally, I discovered that the insecticides used in agriculture get deposited in ovaries of these birds and make them infertile.

There are 5 types of chemicals in each grain of rice.

I react to one or many of these chemicals and now I won't eat even a grain of rice.

The entire world is polluted, the water, the soil and the air.

During coronavirus pandemic, I noticed our birds population especially parrots increased in number.

But sparrows have not regained its numbers.

When people do not have things to eat and practically starving (one meal out of three) even stray dogs population go down in numbers.

Sparrows cannot survive in the wild and depend on human for survival!

That is the bottom line.

Dikipedia or Wikipedia

Elon Musk has said he will give a big bonus to Wikipedia if the name is changed to Dikipedia.

I have not contributed (signed in once) any to Wikipedia.

Its content on Buddhism is not accurate and I tried to make some suggestion but they never act on them (25 years ago).

I am made to understand it is moderated by C.I.A.

Laws of Nature

Laws of Nature

1. The time, the tip of the nose begins to itch is when one's hands are dirty with grease

2.Any tool, when dropped lands on a least accessible place.

3. When you dial a wrong number you never get an engaged tone.

4. When you change queues, the queue you just left starts to move faster.

5. If you are late and tell your boss you had a flat tire, the very next day you would have a flat tire.

6. When the body is immersed in water the phone rings.

7. When you want to prove to a friend, the machine won't work, it will work just as well.

8. The probability of meeting someone you know increases, no sooner you are with someone you do not want to be.

9.  The severity of itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

10. As soon as you sit down with a cup of tea, your boss will ask you to do a job that will make the cup of tea cold.

11. At any public event, the guys who  sit in  the front arrive the last.

12. When you sit around a table with a bottle of alcohol, the taste disappears the first.

13. When you wake in the morning you only remember the worst dream out of many sweet dreams.

14. However, much you avoid, the dog shit is the first thing you see in your evening stroll.

15. When browsing the web for a useful topic, the troll is the first thing that pops up.

16. When one is watching cricket live, the most interesting thing happens when you have run to the loo, for a quick one.

17. If one desperately wants to come out a boring meeting, that is very moment, the stupidest question is asked.

18. When you want to give a call to attend to a urgent matter is when you realize you do not have the number with you.

19. When you decide to send a card to someone is the time you realize you have misplaced the address.

20. The duty free bottle is the first thing one should load to the trolley since when you come round the duty free corner you have already spent all the extra cash in your hand.

21. Only when one is in front of the pharmacy one realizes the prescription was left at home.

22. "Remind Me" note is the first thing you lose in the morning.

23. Switching off the cellphone at bedtime is the thing, one always forget.

24. Getting rid of "Pile Up Things" is very hard if one does not do it on weekly basis.

25. If you accidentally misplace your key, the first thing one should look at is the dustbin!

26. If the dustbin can speak many mysteries can be solved without the help of a forensic investigator.

Cricket in General and How to Play

I believe, cricket should be included in Olympics, but in what format (I hate 20 over matches) is a Big Ask.

I think Indians are ruining this game.

Having said that, Nawab of Pataudi, one eyed great cricketer of old time and current player, Virat Kholi of class, are appreciated in the cricketing stardom.

Brian Lara was a class act.

West Indians not in the current tournament is an object lesson how Indians ruined this game.

It all started with Indian IPL, money and Bollywood prostitutes.

I never watch IPL.

It is not the place for actors like Zelensky.

Like Zelensky does not fit with a military fatigue, the Bollywood girls do not fit with a cricket bat (they should be treated with a different bat).

IPL and 20 over game is the ploy Indians used to destroy young players' of their stamina.

For example take the West Indies guys who were lured to IPL and destroyed with money and Bollywood prostitutes.

Christopher Gayle is the classic test player with a highest total of 333 runs. Just look at his averages from Test Cricket, 50 over and 20 overs.

A drastic drop!

Not only he ruined himself he ruined West Indian Cricket.

I totally agree with West Indies Cricket Board for dropping Chris from the Test side.

The same thing happened to Ceylon Cricket.

We were in ruins after IPL.

Our team had to qualify to enter this tournament and they were NO good compared to 1996 Team.

They are currently in the 10th position and will remain so.

I do not blame our coach Chris  Silverwood.

Blame should go to the Selection Board and Cricket Board.

Our Minister of Sports never played cricket and he authorizes the team.

Angelo Matthews coming through political influence is the case in point. He is going to ruin a career of one of our young players.
He favours homosexual players into the team. That is how he came in that is how he ruined our team.

I must say this before the England game, today. If he is playing I would not watch the game.

Yes I have already getting ready for a outing.

Cricket in General

Let me give a general cricket lesson now.

One of my classmates was a cricket fanatic from school days. He died a year ago. It was not related to a heart problem.

If he lived to this day, my own prediction is by now he would have had a heart attack watching our cricketers playing in India.

I won't get a heart attack but I would dish out a scathing criticism (Reflectively, I did want to write this after the tournament).

I feel my comments become out of place, if I remain silent, now.

This in no way a reflection of my deceased friend's love for cricket but my way of exiting cricket for good.

Yes, I won't watch this tournament.

Yesterday was a good game.

I predicted it and told our family members to watch and went to sleep.

When I woke up Pakistanis were playing the 43rd over. Before I could prepare a cup of tea, they were all out.


Rules of the game.

1. Openers should play only 10 overs and they should take the shine out of the ball and if possible with hard hitting change the shape of the ball so that spinners can have a go.

I do not agree with umpires having a ball at both ends.

2. Openers should score at least 30 runs, the minimum.

3. Total score should be 300 the minimum. Any addition is a bonus.

4. If one of the openers fails the remaining opener should make good the lost score (if is out for 10 he should go on to make at least 50).

The good example is our Gurusinghe. He kept the other end solid when Sanath failed.
Must not forget, dedicated contribution of Mahanama, Hashan Thilakeratne and Chaminda Vas.

It was Team Effort!

5. The next point is important.
We should have at least two players who can play from 1 to 6 like Kaluvitharane.

At this point I should mention, a guy who ruined this 1 to 6 rule.

It was Angelo Mathews!

He came as a bowler and never bowled 3 overs in a game.

His plan was to come at 5 and score quick 50 and remains not out and keeps an average of 60 overall in a losing game.

The game plan is to show he an accumulation of runs not a game winner.

I can remember in a game when Chandimal was nearing a century and we were about to lose the game he was playing for personal glory not the team glory.

Chandimal of course, was caught in a cricket offense and was punished inappropriately hash to ruin his career.  Steve Smith who committed the same offense is playing this tournament.

Instead of Angelo, Chandimal should be given a chance.

Chandhimal is much better player than Angelo.

That is my opinion.

Angelo was very selfish and has many other faults.

I am NOT glad he is (not) in the team.

I am pretty sure he would boast that, if he was there he would have rescued the team that he himself played a role in ruining.

Statistics can be manipulated!

6. I am against a bowler captaining the team for many reasons.

Muthiah Muralidhiram was an example.

7. English is not necessary for cricket, if your skills are good.

Ask for a translator so that you could prepare for the next probing question.

8. There are lot of difficult decisions to make that comes with experience.

How much one should score on a particular wicket. Doing some research on the last three years is mandatory.

Whether to bat first or bowl is another.

Weather of course, nobody can predict.

9. Having said that cricket should be played one bail at a time.

Last ball is past. It has gone.

The ball coming in next is the most important.

Focus on that.

Developing Meditation Skills on daily basis and reading a book one loves are important.

I do not think music helps.

10. Fitness on the field and good diet are important.

Alcohol only after a win and never after a loss.

11. On the field do not deliberate.
Be quick.

Do not let the batsman judge you.
Finish the over quick.

For a fast baller if your legs are aching tell your captain in advance.

12.Test class player can become a good 50 over player.
It is a matter of adjusting.

Good examples are Mahela Jayawardena and Warner.

50 over player can never become a Test player in my opinion.

The lessons one learns from 90 over game is limitless.

I am totally against having two teams.

One for 50 over and one for Test cricket.

That experiment failed. England is a good example.

Bringing out a good cricketer from school age should be the goal.

That is how we became champions and not from IPL. Our school cricket has gone down in quality due to many reasons.

This list can go up to 20 but first 10 points are good enough as the starter.

The Mohenjo Jaro Harappan Civilization

It is in Northern Pakistan.
Sind District.

2500 BC till 1700 BC.
Discovered in 1919, 4000 years after its abandonment.
Excavation ended in 1960.
Largest city in the Indus Valley Civilization.
Stone blocks and walls are still evident of a large city.

Lost city of human history.
Structured around a grid system.
Buildings are separated by walls and roads.
This culture probably developed about 3000 BC. Thoroughly planned and designed.

Why this city was abandoned?

1. Huge Flood.
2. Political Unrest.
3. Lost Trading Partners.
4. Migration to a better location.
5. Draught
6. Not a warrior race and destroyed by Aryans a warrior and a plunder race.
7. Viral Infection and pandemics.

Arose around the Bronze Age.
Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
Lasted 3300 BC to 1300 BC, nearly 2000 years.
10% of the civilization lived around this civilization.
Over 1000 settlement locations.

Harrapan
Dholevira
Binawala
Ganweriwela


They were traders or craftsman.
Built by easily destructible clay like material and were not baked to last. Either due to draught or over use of firewood the forest cover disappeared and rain stopped.
In fact, Global Warming.
Icecaps melting and perennial flooding.
Migrated to the water basin.
Built on raised platform to save from flooding.
But texts were written in baked clay tablets.
Prehistoric language called Dravidian.

In the center was a community center.

In the outer perimeter was the market place.

Granary.

Colleague Hall.

Many different pots and vases.

Jewellery


Weights

Children Toys

Copper working

Shell making

Figurines did not indicate gods but the motherly figure.

Singapore Cricket

I thought Singaporeans do not play cricket after British left.

I am wrong.

The Singapore Cricket Club is still functional.

It's main aim is to sponsor business meetings, weddings and rarely cricket.

It has a current tournament.

Malaysia
Singapore
Oman
Nepal are playing.

Singapore is all about business!

If they cannot earn $10/= per every ball played it does not sponsor a cricket game.

Then, every dollar is invested in the stock market and bookies.

The bookies are of course Cassino types similar to Arizona State in America.

That is how cricket is played in Singapore and never expect them to have a World Cup.

Gratitude and Reciprocation of Cricket (Kala Guna Salakeema)

This idea is not mine but a typical Sri-Lankan satirist's expression about our cricketers and cricket board.

His ranking is different but he is genuinely polite.

I am not going to be polite.

My ranking order is different.

I may pay gratitude to those who derserve.

1. Australia comes first.

We lost to Australia in cricket as a reciprocation of following dues.

Australia made our cricketers tough and we ended up champions in 1996.

Australia gave our Eurasians (Burgher Community) dignity and gave them refuge from Sinhala Basha hegemony and current Buddhist hegemony.

S.W.R.D destroyed our country's peace!

Australia is the best country to emigrate from Ceylon.

Expatriates are treated equally.

They give due respect to Aborigines.

They give equal dignity to all religions.

Venerable Ajan Brahma Wansa was spirited out of UK. Now, he is resident in Western Australia.

While doing all these they keep their Australian identity and the thick accent.

I met a young Australian guy in Sheffield University.
Sheffield has a sweet Yorkshire accent of Freddie Truman type.
I had the unadulterated Ceylonese accent. He did not engage in free conversation at all. It did not take my imagination to realize that, for him the Yorkshire and English accent were foreign.
I can imitate British accent but did not throughout my entire stay.

My / Our secretaries used to tell me, you speak clear English to the dictaphone but we hate Indian accent.

Fourte Fours four wickets type of Sunil Gavaskar.


2. South Africa

It was Nelsan Mandela who showed us stoicism.
Tolerance
Respect
Understanding

In cricket lot to write.

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira incident and banning from cricket for 22 years was important.

Then 25 guys from Ceylon toured South Africa and if I remember right Mahesh Gunathileka was banned from cricket for 25 years.

He joined CTC and later the cigarette advertisements were banned in sports.

He was an excellent opener even better than Maven Attapattu in my opinion. I used to drop in at his place while working in Kegalle.

My classic personality is Shaun Pollock who read the Duckworth Lewis system wrong and SA was eliminated from semifinals.

We qualified.

So as a gratitude to all this we must lose to South Africa.

3. Pakistan

Unlike India Pakistan had been with us all along.

Pakistan pilots did sorties to eliminate L.T.T.E.

They give us Basmati Rice.

When West Indies refused to tour Ceylon, Pakistan organized warm up matches for us.

Special thanks to Mohamed Azurdeen, Indian captain.

By the way, Indira Gandhi and RAW was responsible for L.T.T.E. atrocities.

So we will have to let Pakistan win.


4. Afghanistan

I cannot say anything good about Afghanistan.

They destroyed all the Buddhist  Statues.

Afghanistan was a Buddhist country and Tibetan Buddhism survived until Mongol invasion.

I think current  misguided Buddhist monks may obtain money donations from Afghanistan to erect replicas in Ceylon.

Talibans currently won't let woman to educate (treat them as slaves).

It is worse than apartheid and on that ground alone they should be banned from cricket for 5 years.


5. England

England gave us cricket and on that ground alone we should lose to England.

England gave us English.

England gave us independence without a fight.

Thank you England.

Worst Immigration policy in the world.

When I applied for  tourist tour in 2009 they declined.

I was working in UK for over a decade and I had Indefinite Visa and did not go there within 3 years. So they cancelled my indefinite visa.

I will never go there again.

I saved a lot money by visiting an Asian country.


6. Netherland or Holland

If I remember correct they build low lying water canals in Colombo, Ceylon to transport goods.

They told us how to brew good quality alcohol.

Thank you akvavit!

So our cricketers should taste a can of Danish alcoholic drink to calm the nerves before coming in for batting.

By the way, Holland gave administrative structure to the coastal region.

We even have thier names in our surnames.

Janz
Jansen
Van de Berg
Loos
De Jong


7.  Bangladesh

We cannot balance our budget without Bangladesh help.

We have to lose the match and ask for reduction in interest rate we have to pay.

Muslims do not ask for interest when they lend to a Muslim country.


8. New Zealand

We love New Zealand powered milk.
So on that ground we should forfeit our game to NZ.

Regarding New Zealand accent I have some memories.

I used to walk to the hospital.
I meet guys and girls on my way.

Dog shit all the way to the hospital and I walk with meditative attention.

I say Good Morrning.

I hear,

Ku De.  is Umbrella in my tongue!

Go De. is village guy in my tongue!

Then I ask my little daughter, What is it?

She says, Good Day.

I tell her to keep clear Ceylonese accent.

Improve your English.

When I am short of a word in English, she is always there to help me.

9. India

India created L.T.T.E.

With fear of possible another terrorist organization coming to being, we must lose to India.

Worse is the Indian accent in an Indian Airline.

I went to Bombay only once since I missed the Singapore connection to London.

There were Malaria mosquitoes in Bombay Airport. 

Guys and girls Malaria can come after one year of incubation.

Mind you Indian Malaria is chloroquine resistant.

With South Africans in India WHO should do a follow up study on Malaria!


10. Ceylon

Seyland Bank is a derivative of Ceylon.

Lalith Kothalawela taught us how to cheat internationally.

LK's  money was cheated by late president just like he cheated the gold from L.T.T.E.

Gold was never deposited in the Central Bank but the Swarnawahini Channel and Swarnawahini gold chains came into existence.

By the way, Suwarnawahini is owned currently by Tamil diaspora.

I think they deserve it.

Dimensions, Reason and Rationalizing

This piece is difficult for an unscientific guy.

Reasoning and Rationalising genomic identity can cause misrepresentation.

Therefore, I prefer mitochondrial DNA changes that occur roughly at 3 to 5 million year intervals, when humans diverged from primates.

The autosomal DNA losses are probably recent events that are either lethal or inconsequential.

Man lost 2 chromosomes from gorilla or those two, got tagged to another pair by chance.

When this happened humans lost body hair except hair on the head.

I believe the acquisition of language ability coincided with this event and the brain became inappropriately bigger.

Proving these events are almost impossible.

Reasoning and minimal rationalisation may be a way forward, biologically speaking.

By the way, amoeba has enormous amount of DNA in a single cell. Asexually dividing cell acquiring large amount of DNA is highly improbable but mutations and redundant DNA acquisition could be postulated. Without enzymes to digest ingested DNA material DNA would have accumulated and integrated by randomly. 

Dimensional View of the Environment.

1. Let me start with an earth worm.
Earth worm does not have eyes but it has light sensitive cells.
It can sense day and night.
It has no ears but can sense vibration.

It has no brain but it is intelligent enough to come out at night and avoid birds.

This animal has two dimensional view of the world and only wiggle in two planes but angular motion is possible by bending the trunk.
Its genome has 20,000 genes with 70% homology with humans.

2. Caenorhabditis elegans
Tiny 1mm unsegmented bilaterally symmetrical worm.
Most important component in its body is contractile muscles.

It is bends it body dorsally and ventrally and when moving on a flat surface it tends to lie flat on the right side or the left side.

This worm's life is two dimensional.

Its neural system works to coordinate muscle movements has no brain but an anterior neural ring. 

It has 350 to 380 neurons that are controlled by 20,000 genes.

80% homology with human genome.

In other words it has anterior caudal orientation.


3. Amoeba
This asexual unicellular organism has no brain or neuronal system so its whole life can be described as of one dimensional view, in whatever way it moves.

But it is masterly enough to dominate its sphere of influence.

It has 13,000 genes in 27 pairs of diploid chromosomes.

Humans have 25,000 genes.

Humans have 46 chromosomes.
Gorilla has 48 chromosomes.

Dog has 78 chromosomes.
95% homology to humans.

Elephant has 56 chromosomes and about 90% homology to humans.

By the way we have 40% homology to banana.


4. Human beings

Humans have unbelievable creational capacity. When they could not fathom a certain reality with only visual capacity they invented Microscope, Telescope and Electron Microscope.

Sending probes to space is the desire to widened the scope at least in 3 dimensions.

Human beings who live in a 3 dimensional world is restricted by the eyes to see in two dimensions.

Human beings have additional 5000 genes compared to Caenorhabditis elegans (20,000) to possess a brain and a pair of eyes.

But this 3 dimensional view is an illusion created by our brain.

Eyes see two dimensions.

The brain sees 3 dimension by imagining what it aught to be.


5. How about 4th dimension?

It is impossible.

The moment we possess the fourth dimension the whole world which we call our world would disappear into unthinkable Chaos.


6. Mental Dimensions

Four mental (delusional) states are possible with human mind.

These delusional states are interpreted as higher dimensions by their proponents.

BEWARE!

Alcohol induced Euphoria.

Ecstasy induced by (LSD) drugs.

Esotericism induced by Ayahuasca.

Trance States induced by Meditation practise

To understand the 4 states an individual undergoing,  one needs to be responsive and be wide awake (free of mood altering drugs).

They keep company with similar individuals.

There are no outwardly visible signs but are in unbelievable happy state.


Five accompaniments of Dyana.

1. Vitakka      applied thought


2. Vichara      sustained thought


3. Piti              Rapture


4. Suka.          Bliss    


5. Ekaggata   One pointedness

All the above accompaniments have to shed to achieve Equanimity or neutral or non attached state.

Why no Comedians?

When guys and girls lose the ability to laugh at themselves, the humanity has lost a vital thread in evolution.

Today Americans and British can be passed off as Walking Dead.

They may have lot in their bank balance and in their investment funds but empty in happiness and laughter.

Is it worth?

I doubt.

I do not mean stand up comedians who say something absurd, on  the spur of the moment.

I do not mean satire artists.

I mean Real comedians.

If you take America for a moment the entire political system including lawyers who represent politicians are stand up comedians.

The problem is the average voter cannot laugh at them.

The voter can have the last laugh only at the poling booth and not before.

If we take Ceylon for example, we always select comedians to the parliament.

The problem is the moment they enter the parliament they lose the ability to laugh at their leader who is always a political comedian.

We get rid of one comedian and then replace another.

Current comedian is trying to Plot a Referendum Comedy to hold on to power till 2025.

Unfortunately, JVP guys and girls are becoming comedy actors.

The JVP is predicting that they can harvest 50% of the vote from a base of barely 3%.

That itself is comedy act.

It is better to have hopes.

Hope is no prediction, at all

Funny part is the YouTube presenters propagate their false hopes.

Voter is unpredictable and add to that we have 86 parties to make it precarious.

There will be minimum of 50 candidates for the next presidential election.

That itself is the volatile.

The ground situation is changing every minute.

Do not count on the eggs before they are laid.

Most of these guys would lose their deposits.

They are contesting to hoodwink the Tax Collector of outstanding unpaid taxes.

The Election Commissioner  should reject the applications if, the last 3 years of the Tax Returns are not submitted with the application.

We have on record at least 3 guys entered election while holding foreign citizenship.

Civil Servants should act with impunity and they are protected by law.

I have no trust on judges like the guy who gave judgement on "Helping Hambantota" with Tsunami Funds.

Proucuts of Uncertainty Principle

Slot Machine

1. Opportunity

2. Unpredictable Rewards

3. Repeatability

Endless Captivating Loop

16 games a minute.

Products
Gambling
Financial Institutes and Stock Market
Social Media
Dating Applications
Sports gambling

Gig Economy

Blogging

Evolutionary Behaviour
Hunter gatherer finding food.
Random event.
Repeat searching for food
Pigeons pecking for food.

Cosmological Inquiry

I have an outrageous theory for our solar system.

Before that let me dish out our limitation of colour sense.

We can distinguish only  3 colours clearly using rods and cones of our retina. In my case I cannot see some colours properly from a young age and it is getting worse with age.

I realized this when I was playing snooker.
No problem with billiards since only two colours white and red are used.

The computer can distinguish millions of colour shades and for simplicity sake they use 256 colour shades in our monitor.

Good example of colour compression is used in mpeg file format of video streaming, where redundant analog colours are shed to make the file light not bulky.

The name PNG or portable network file came into existence without sacrificing the quality of the image.

I am out of touch and use only GIMP for my photographic world.

The bottom line is analog files are heavy and we can shed lot of bulk when sharing image files in the internet.

The Cosmos is Big and we can see visually only about 5% of the matter.

Rest of the Universe is dark and beyond our grasp.

To identify hidden matter we have to use other energy components of our energy spectrum using instruments mounted on a satellite probe.

That is the reality.

The man does not want to be blinded by his visual limitation.

My outlandish theory is that we were a binary star system and the other star died and disappeared into darkness long time ago.

It remains as a dark body outside our visible planets and gives stability to our solar system.

Mind you it is not a dark hole but a physical body without visible light source but with powerful gravitational force.

My reasoning are simple.

Binary division is common in cells and biological world.

There is nothing to prevent binary division in physical world or in the cosmos.

It is a simple mathematical logic.

In spiral galaxis there are two arms one bright with young stars and another arm with old stars.

In between globular or elliptical body and a bar body or dark matter in the center.

I am using this analogy to our solar system.

The postulated dark body is bigger of the two original stars.

Stars fading an dying is normal in the cosmos.

Like the bar body in a spiral galaxy it gives stability to our solar system.

Lot of our explorer satellites get lost or veer away from its course.

My postulation is we fail to take account of the gravitational pull of this old star unseen.

Like a good brother it does not let any matter escapes from our solar system.

Our cosmos is receding at a tremendous pace and this guy is trying to stop our solar system losing its components.

This is a working theory and worth probing on at a theoretical level.

This will be one of my questions in my philosophy book.