Meditation Weaponized

Meditation Weaponized

Please standby with me for a moment.

By default, I am not  Google YouTube guy.

 

All my years I produced only one YouTube presentation as a part of a University Education Session.

I used that opportunity to make a YouTube presentation on Linux.

This is long time ago when nobody talked about Linux. 

Since there were no page hits I removed it and archived it. 

It is gathering dust in Ceylon.

Then I used seriously academic writing in Google Blogs. 

The attempt is simple. 

It is bearing fruits.

 

Target is to make Linux penetrate 10% of PC market.

 

Yes I did a penetration study with a young guy and it was miserly low.

 

Sorry, I used even this space to target a few and get a few people out of meditation practice or trap. 

 

I have done a relatively specific study on meditation. 

 

There is already a book on Amazon and currently I am working on a book.  

 

Meditation Commercialized.

 

Unfortunately, two of classmates were trapped in the Weaponized Meditation.

 

One is already gone and other is undergoing a daily misery.

 

The book came to my mind because of the second guy. 

He has two doctors in his immediate family but they missed the bus.

I did not want to use the word Weaponized but I use that word to promote my book before publication.

Google algorithm is not logical but based on advertisement revenue. 

 

It is skewed or I called it is screwed. 

 

Google algorithm does not follow statistical conventions or log natural curve.

In other words it can be doctored to favour some and more of misinformation than reality.

 

Buddhist Meditation does not follow occultism.

 

It does not follow logic.

 

It follows reality or Dhamma dispensation.

 

It gets to the bottom but Hindu occultism to the top.

 

I will leave with one statement. 

 

Lot of Kundalini oculists have ended up in tragedy whereas Buddhist Meditation warns of the trapping within even Jhana.

 

I have used two names in my book.

1.One is Dr. Greer.

2. Other is Ajan Brakmabanso who talks about Jhana within Jhana.

3. Third guy (he is Darrel Anka) I cannot remember and  he had dropped out of the Google algorithm.

 

After scanning over 300 YouTube presentations on Medication and I found it was a direct advertising for homosexuals and divorce agencies.

 

This guy has gone into oblivion.

 

I presume he is gone totally mad or end his life prematurely

That is the end result of weaponizing Meditation.

 

I use Indika Totawatta as a role model of the misguided Mahayana Tradition who wants to become Pase Buddhas which is futile. 

 

Instead of the third guy I would use Indika Totawatta and his YouTube algorithm that is going down drastically after some comments he made in the web space.

 

Manio syndrome and pseudo astrological prediction fall into another category.  Unfortunately, in CEYLON this category is growing after Anura came into power.  When the economy is sinking these manios or maniacs have a free for all gaming chance.

My prescription is Metta Meditation.

 

The next Buddha is Maithree and it is timely appropriate.

 

It is simple, become a vegetarian to begin with.

 

That stops killing by Muslims and Israelis except pigs.

 

Israelis of course kill Muslims with the help of Americans.

I must say, some Buddhist monks also can get weaponized through, YouTube.

 

Bona fide of YouTube is advertisement and propagation of hate. 

 

Hate is infectious but Metta is rare to manifest in the Web except the "Business Enterprise of Meditation".

I tend to end up with a slant to rebirth manifestation.

 

What follows below is for guys who has the urge to go to the jungle cave for meditation.

 

I say for Metta mediation one does not need a cave or a jungle.

 

Any place where there are dogs one can begin Metta meditation.

 

Just dish out some bread crumbs to begin with.

 

My belief of those guys who want to pursue a jungle track or cave were guys who had been trying to meditate in their pass life but failed miserably due to hard living condition there. 

 

In their dying bed (Patisandi Citta) they remember flashes of their failure and they want to go back that state.

 

It is natural tendency.

 

However, there is a caveat here, one is rarely born again as  a human but in a lower animal kingdom or higher Deva realms.

 

These meditation guys with a stroke of luck come back to human life and from childhood shows the tendency to go back to their failed state.

 

In psychology this is called rumination. 

 

My suggestion is stop ruminating but try Metta mediation to come back to real life and reflect.  

 

It is soothing to begin with once sleeps well without dreams.

Dogs in Heaven?

 Wednesday, December 24, 2014 

This is simply a satire piece of Yesteryear.

Dogs in Heaven?

Can Dogs Go to Heaven?

The answer to that question is very simple.

But there is a caveat.

If the dog is Hindu or Buddhist by descent there is no problem.

Most of them go to heaven (if the master is not a Ceylonese politicians with ministerial posts who deal with heroin, Kassipu or other major vices, they go to hell with them) by default, especially if it is a Paraya or stray dog.

But if the dog is Catholic, it has to wait till the present pontiff re-defines humanely the plight of dogs according to the scriptures and the interpretations made by his predecessors.

But, I have a suggestion to the pontiff who visits us next year.

There is an easy solution without going into scriptures.

Please make all Catholic dogs of Ceylon blessed and converted to Buddhist or Hindu at the time of their demise. There is no harm they remain as Catholic, in their present life.

After all Catholics in Ceylon need them for their security with B.B.S (until Bodu Bala Sena is proscribed) in action like a pack of rabid dogs.

What remains to be done for the dogs of Muslim descent of Ceylon is a difficult preposition. They cannot be converted to any other religion at the time of their demise.
 

It is sacrilegious!

I have a plausible strategy.

These dogs must be made a permanent member of one of the many branches (not Shia or Sunni sectors) of their political parties before their death.

Then at the time of the demise, there should be an affidavit to the effect that they switched allegiance to the ruling party.  By this subtle method blasphemy can be politically avoided and the religion can be safely bypassed.

After all they are animals they need not have a religion.

Dead and deaf dogs are valid only to the ruling party for propaganda.

They are mortally scared of the living dogs, anyway.

That is why they unleash violence while preaching Avihinsa (non violence).

But if the dog belongs to an atheist, the owner should go to a psychologist and get his advice before writing the Will.

The question is why does an atheist needs a dog, if he or she is not fearing hell or heaven?

Perhaps, she / he may be fearing another atheist from another planet.

Or is he or she fearing all the religious guys and girls on this planet.

Sir Bertram Russell had to flee from England to China in 1930s.

He feared Church of England more than Hell or Heaven.

When he was in coma (down with double pneumonia) an obituary was published in UK at the behest of the Church but he recovered to the displeasure of the saints.

He lived to 97 or 99 with no help from any religion.

That is amazing.

This is the debate they are having at present.

Can animals go to heaven?

Some people all over the world have been excited in recent days about reports by news agencies worldwide -- including one from CNN -- declaring that Pope Francis apparently believes they can.
It turns out, it's unclear what he believes on this issue.
 

A previous pope, Paul VI, had no doubts. "One day we will again see our animals in the eternity of Christ," Paul once told a boy grieving the loss of his pet. That quote, from the pontiff who reigned from 1963 until his death in 1978, was inaccurately attributed to Pope  Francis.

The confusion, may have begun when Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera referred to Paul's quote in a story that carried the headline, "The pope and animals: 'Heaven is open to all creatures.'"
The story itself does not indicate Francis said that. 

Instead, it refers back to Paul VI.
The writer for the newspaper pointed to something Francis actually did say: "Sacred Scripture teaches us that the fulfillment of this marvelous plan cannot but involve everything that surrounds us and came from the heart and mind of God".

That remark, the writer suggested, "widened the hope of salvation" to animals and all of creation.

The headline on the article quoted Francis as saying, "Heaven is open to all creatures." 

But there's no sign Francis said that.

A search through the current Pope's writings and remarks showed no immediate sign that he has taken a clear position on this question.

American and Japanese QUALITY GUYS

American and Japanese Quality Guys

 
1. Walter Shewhart

2. Joseph M Juran

3. W. Edward Deming

4. Armand Feigenbum

5. Kaoru Ishikawa

6. Genichi Taguchi

7. Shigeo Shinto

8. Philip B Crosby

Faculty of Dental Sciences is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

I have to remember at least 3 Japanese souls.

I was involved with them from laying the foundation stone to the grand opening.

Dr. Yugiro Handa (now a professor)

He is now bit flabby and I cannot remember him wearing specks but he does it now.

He is now a professor and I can remember him saying he would be going to Africa.

I told him he is better as a ambassador for Japan but he choose to improve health and more importantly Treatment of Tuberculosis in Ethiopia.
 

Miss. Hagiwara

This lady was the one who managed the documentation and probably the statistics.
She was bit stingy and she did not give me a copy of SPSS in statistics for my research work.

This lady may be now in Ghana and trying to improve Child Health in African continent.

Through Professor Asoka Ekanayake I got her to install a copy of it in the Computer Unit of the Faculty of Dental Sciences.

I managed to find a pirated copy used by the Engineering Faculty Students.

My Microsoft Windows installation was not pirated and I had 42 odd 720MB floppies.

No wonder I turned to Linux.

If I remember right, it was one of my students, Sanjeewa Kandegedara who game me the first working copy of Linux.

He is now a good Maxillo Facial Surgeon.

I was involved in recruiting 45 young Dental Surgeons to be sent to Japan for Training.

Only two of them came back and only one paid back the security and resigned properly from the university.

Of course, none of them can join the Univerity again and they are blacklisted for life.

I think I was the only one who did not ask for foreign sojourns and I did my research work in Ceylon.

By the way, one of my parallel Advanced Level (bright guy) students from a different school did NOT get through to Medicine but got a scholarship to Japan.

He tried a scholarship in UK but failed.

He came back to settle his dues in the Univerity and got married to a Japanese lady.

I told him, Japanese are very bad in English and start an English School in Japan, jokingly.

He took me seriously and opened an English Academy in Japan.

I have not seen him since.

Professor Ama Mia
He was a retired Professor of Oral  Pathology  and I gave my room for him to share.

His English was poor but sure enough he managed to learn English in six months and he made a presentation on special staining techniques in Oral Pathology.

He dissected a hamster and manually (not a single word uttered) showed the technology to our technicians.

I preserved the skin coat of the hamster and kept it as a souvenir until my retirement.

I made his presentation in to a booklet for our technicians to use.

My interest was Microscopes with a video display for our students. 

The Video Microscope donated free by Japan  never aligned and what I focus under my microscope student could not see live. 

No alignment and no synchronization.

Japanese were bit stingy and they donated us 50 USED microscopes.

99% of students who had never used a microscope in school were not interested in histopathology.

All of the microcopes, I believed were discarded from schools in Japan but working OK after thorough check up and proper alignment. Mr. Bandara who is no more died of Mercury Poisonining was an expert on micricopes. What he did was to duscard the faulty parts and assemble 25 working microscopes. 

5 good ones were kept for postgraduate students and were under my care. 

After one of my practical demonstrations we checked the microcopes and a few pieces were missing in one microscope. The guy who used this microscope was an Indian. I refused any further teaching, in the next demonstratuon session, unless the missing pieces are replaced immediately.

I left saying that the Guy's name would be made public. In the next session the missing pieces miraculously reappeared.

This an another reason Why I HATE Indians.

Of course, I put my own money and I bought a digital microscope used by students in America. It is still in CEYLON and was too, heavy to bring to Australia by Air Cargo with accessories.

Just forget about Electron Microscopy in Ceylon.

We had an Electron Microscope in the Faculty of Medicine (Departmennt of Anatomy). In the first year, I used to go there and "have a peep" under this EM. 

It broke down within one year since our Power Lines could not provide the correct Voltage and Amperage for the EM to work. 

I am a guy with good understanding of Physics.

It dawned on me simple microscope was good enough for my Research Work.


Total Quality Management in Education (at least in the Universities)

R.W our current president (shoddy deals) is the one who destroyed out University Education for him to initiate Fee Paying Private Universities.
 
We developed a streamlined University Education protocol for all the universities.

Professor Ranjith Mendis's Plight

R.W. came in and sacked the U.G.C chairman and destroyed the whole project and appointed a political goon.

Please do not believe him in his educational reforms.

His intention is to destroy our universities and install private FEE Paying institutions.

He is hell bent on this!

He destroyed the Quality Control of Education in Progress in the University System.

He thinks of Education like selling Wattakkas (pumpkin) and Bandakkas (ladies fingers).

When you look at him he is actually Big Pumpkin (I am referring to his brain not the belly).

5 S Principle

Sort

Set

Shine

Standardize

Sustain


TQM

Total Quality Management

Kaizen

Change for better

Continuous improvement

ලෝක සාමය උඩු යටි කුරු වෙලා

ලෝක සාමය උඩු කුරු යටි කුරු වෙලා

සාම පරවියන් නිදි වැදිලා

පරමාණු බෝම්බ (stock pile) 5000 කට වැඩියි.

5ක් ඇති ලෝක විනාසෙට

Dudley and his Nephew

 
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Dudley and his Nephew

Book published in 2010 by Ranil Senanayake
The book is titled appropriately 'Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right and I am stuck in the middle again'
 

This should be translated into Sinhala and Tamil, and should be given to all grand children, if you have any.
Epilogue
2008
 

Thirty years after I first began to comment on our national preoccupation with mindless consumption as 'development', stand before a country addicted to fossil fuels for our existence. The creation of more and more fossil plants is being shown as a the way forward. 

Our agriculture has been transformed into a system that cannot produce without heavy input of artificial fertilizers. 

Our forestry is reduced to the plantation of even aged monocultures of exotics and the destruction of existing patches of native forest (to grow banana for Americans to treat their constipation). 

Our endemic value system and the culture reduced to a political tyranny (coming as Mahinda Mama- should add another M in front but I would not be expressive - reader is entitled to substitute his own interpretation) that demonstrate the worst aspect of corruption and subverting social values. 

The fear of nepotism that my uncle Dudley had in rejecting my application to the Zoological Gardens seems like some silly little emotion today-nepotism has become the way of power.

Nuclear Deal Impossible

 Nuclear Deal Impossible

My gut estimate is that this Planet would sees its extinction in a Single Nuclear Episode when a big bully with mental derangement and a big mouth, lacking diplomatic skills, use Mafia type of bullying methods to force his opposition client.

IRAN SAGA is a case in point.

START Treaty is about to expire and this bully guy has allowed it to expire without a formal New Arrangement. However, Russia has extended it unilaterally for one year and this guy holds office for another 3 years.

 

With his mental derangement deteriorating, nobody knows what happens within the next two years with Military Industrial Complex with Digital inputs from Silicon Valley run by neocolonialists are holding the strings.

The bottom line is each side does not trust the other side.

Russia has 700 launchers and 1550 nuclear arsenal which is verified. 

China has 600 warheads but I believe they are building launchers in space in low orbit.

Communication satellites or Star-Links have had to lower their orbits due to Chinese bullying. 

China wants parity with USA and that is about 3000 missiles.

5 missiles is enough to finish the world and I  think North Korea has only 3 at the moment.

Next War will be fought in space is my guesstimate.

But the red herring is not CUBA but North Korea would preempt, if existentially challenged.

The strategy of regime change in IRAN would backfire and is the most foolish strategy Israel is pursuing. Unfortunately, UK is behind this ploy since British Hate Russians for no valid reason.

Israel was created by the BRITISH.

 

Britain is a paper tiger without diplomatic tricks after Ukraine Saga.

 

The bottom line is that USA have many enemies and any one of them can take USA to task. B.R.I.C.S. is going to be the antidote to American hegemony, with British the paper tiger growling in the dark.

We are approaching Level I Civilization without Buddhist or Dhamma or Avihinsa Principle.

Buddhist monks globally should organze to avert this major catastrophe. Thailand Army or Buddhist monks in Thailand cannot spearhead any formula since it is an American base by default.

In CEYLON the NPP/JVP regime is sending monks to prison. 

Currently, CEYLON is incompetent.

I hope that stupid action of sending monks to prison by NVP/JVP COMBO could become the catalist for monks in Global Arena to ask for  "World Peace" not "Peace Walk" that is currently underway in America.

Anura is spreading HATE Philosophy to satisfy LTTE Rump in Canada and Norway.

What a disaster?

දර්ශන හපන්ගොඩ කෘමන්ත්‍රරණ කාරයෙක්ද?

මට පෙනෙන හැටියට දර්ශන හපන්ගොඩ (උග්‍ර) ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ මතවාදය පිළිගත් පුද්ගලක්‌. 

ඔහු කළහකාරී බව අවූස්සපු කෙනෙක්.

බෞද්ධ භික්ෂුන්ට ගරහපු කෙනෙක්. 

අවසන් කාලයේදී, පාවිච්චිකොට දේශපාලන හපයක් ලෙස ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණෙන් විසි කරපු කෙනෙක්.

වෛරය

ක්‍රෝදය 

කෘමන්ත්‍රණය යන තුන් වැදැරුම් මේවලම්

YouTube යාන්ත්‍රණයට ගෙනාපු කෙනෙක් හැටියට මිය යන්න වූ එක දෛවයේ සරදමක්‌.

ඔහු බලාපොරොත්තු වූ දේශපාලන වෙනස හෝ සංස්කෘතිය ඔහුට උරුමවුයේ නැත.

අවසානවකි අනේ

Meditation Research and Pseudoscience

I am in the process of finalising a book on "Commercial Enterprise" of Meditation (Not the exact title).

I am a medical guy (pathologist in latter stages) retired and I have no commercial interests except Roylaties on my books on many fields including Linux and Dhamma. 

I have over 35 books published at Amazon Books. This is not an advertisement to those books.

I have never taken part in meditation but have been invited as an observer on many occasions. 

My response to Meditation has always being neutral.

Today, I found an article in GOOGLE that distorts facts, possibly to attract money to the said Institute.

1. 20 subjects

2. 7 Day Retreat

3. Multiple behavioral Inputs (not described)

4. Neuronal study (the most controversial part)

5. Using blood or serum containing thousands of Interleukins.

I have a book on Interleukins published during Corronavirus pandemic. 

6. Drastic conclusions which I do not agree

Commens

A single high dose corticosteroid after 8 hours could produce these effects.

By the way, low dise Asprin has over 22 biochemical actions and is safer, cheaper and effective than 7 DAY PAID RETREAT.

No ststicsl data

Sample is inadequate

No peer review

I am not going to use this article as a subject matter in my book since that gives CREDIBILITY to  the said claims.

I am winding my blog pieces here and no more communication on this issue.

ජංගි අරගලයේ නායකයා කවුද?

ගූගල් වෙබ් හිදසින්, මගේ සමුගැනිම සදහා, එම ප්‍රශ්නය උචිත යයි සිතමි. 

Down the Memory Lane

Why I won't have another Dog?

I have got only a very few photographs of our dog Zimba.

It was just nearing 15 when he died.

Exactly, one months after the family returned from a Tour of India on the 31st of July, 2018. 

He would have come home, in 2003.

I did not keep a record.

I thank Zimba, that he avoided me going to India which, I hated.

I still hate India and Indian cricket.

India ruined the Gentleman Game for good. 

I was a cricket fanatic from Richie Benaud, Brian Booth, Bill Lawry, Neil Harvey, Norman O'Neil and Ted Dextor and many more yesteryear cricketers. 

Tony Geig tops the list for me.

In fact, I perfected Neil Harvey's hook as a school boy.

End Result.

Lot of softballs lost which Gopal, the groundsman could not find.

I have a photograph of my son with Tony Greg commenting live, in the background.

I have had two more dogs and the campus dog Ranger as my room mate in the final year. 

Mr. Campus the campus dog by that time had passed away. All due to Campus Rampus and many industrial actions, in our first 3 years.

Of course, I took adequate preventive actions, asking the Vice Chancellor to not to release money in excess of Rs. 100/= without a valid purchase receipt for any student activity. 

We had a long period without disruption of activities in the Peradeniya Campus.

The point I want to bring out here is, it had taken at least 3 years for me to recover fully, from the depression following the loss of our dog.

My Fujifilm camera is the living memory of the recovery period.

I have become a fish keeper and water plant and water lillie enthusiast.

I bought the camera in 2009. 

I had two other cheap cameras one of the was a Panasonic.

Secrets of Long Life

I have a book on Amazon Books by the name of Life Hacker International.

I am a global citizen and my writings are for everybody.

I was with a highly intelligent Ceylonese Crowd in a Huge Birthday Party. I did not know anybody who attended and I kept a very low profile. 

I only knew the family of the Birthday Boy with his 3 other siblings. 

They knew me well enough that I could sit with them on the flow for the final photograph. 

I avoid taking photographs of children of even known people. They are not objects but livimg beings belonging to families and parents. That is my paediatrics training in UK and New Zealand. 

Nobody identified me as a Doctor. 

Incidentally, I had a messy Head Hair Style that would have categorized me as a partilly demented Guy. 

That was neither intended nor camouflage but was a simple coincidence.

However, I enjoyed the fish curry and the coconut bean (polkiri) curry.

I met only one guy with some casual telationship who was an Engineer at IMMI but he was much Senior to me at IMMI. 

I joined this institution at tail end of the last 9 months pending massive rechenment. 

It was closed due to DJVP insurrection. 

86 odd DJVP guys who invaded our privacy and removed the ID cards of the entire family, for no valid reason.

That was the harbinger of the impending RAW staged crisis. 

I was 3rd or 4th in the Death List of Indian RAW.

The reason of my intended killing was due to me working for Americans.

The very Indian guys are buddies of Amercans now wanting to forcefully acquire Mihintale and Sigiriya for American AIR Bases.

American Bully Donald Trump might even declare ownership of CEYLON. 

I introduced myself and made it a point to to take a photograph of him with my professional camera. 

I was the only one who had a reasonble camera.

The rest were cellphones. 

It was a family photograph.

I was prepared with 5 points in a Mini Lecture but I did not have any formal invitation.

The secrets of Long Life are:

1. Chocolates without milk and sugars.

Dark chocolates have over 300 micro ingredients.

They are cardioprotective.

One piece in 3 months does the job. 

I did not know chocolates are a liver poison for dogs. Our dog developed cataract due to my improper feeding of him. 

2. Tea is cardioprotective and not coffee.

It has lots and lots of antioxidants.

It has to be rationed.

One strong cuppa first thing in the morning.

Light cuppa with lot of milk at bed time.

Milk protects the stomach.

3. Bananas in between meals.

This I call the Jaffna Trick.

It has plenty of antioxidants.

It has hexose and pentose sugars which do not upset the Insulin protocol in nondiabetics.

Good laxative.

Everyday of the week is my Recommendation.

4. Greek Yougert

Once in 6 weeks.

Control the bioflora.

5. Lot of veggies and fruits.

Look after Hypertension and Potassium control. 

Potassium relaxes the cardic muscle.

 

6. To this one should add good night sleep and brief catnap during working hours. 

One who does this no longer needs a Organized progrsm of Meditation.

More details in my book on sleep and biorhythms coming soon at Amazon Books.

7. Regular Exercise depending on the life style and the individual.

An aveage person can digest only 50% of the above facts, possibly 3 points and any elaboration above 3 to 20 points is redundant. 

Lost in Thai Meditation Practice

Thailand is a country that sells Buddhist Meditation and Prostitues in one single advertisement.

Tourist who go there come out confused.

Some of the scams, skims the life long savings of the elderly of the Western countries. 

Do not go there for an easy life and end up in one of their many trikeries.

The Thai Law protects the locals and scams are perpetual.

Think before you book a holiday which on surface looks promising.

Stay where you are and enjoy your Own Hospitality at a higher cost.

This piece is to highlight monasteries and Thai Meditation Masters who lure tourists and leave them stranded without inculcating Dhamma Principles.

Read my book on "Meditation (Weaponized) Commerialized", coming soon at Amazon books.

This book was long ovedue. 

I postponed publishing it, mainly due to a few of my family members were involved in Buddhist Meditation, not as monks but as lay people. 

Daryl Ankar come to my mind and he has gone nuts. 

30 years ago, I had seen at least 6 guys over 55 with problems after attempting Meditation in their Retirement. I referred them to a psychiatrist who was a friend of mine. He said that they have no psychological problems except their recent meditation practice. I told them to stop meditation and their physical symptoms aborted in a few weeks.

Many years later, I found a book by Rerukane Chandawimala Himi who had described these symptoms and signs in SINHALA book to monks. I saw him in death bed with JRJ and my boss Juranapathy at Navaloka.

What a cionicidence?

I signed JRJs last blood report saying that, according to blood chemistry of this report, this guy ought to be dead.

I was his best man in his wedding. 

By the way, I had performed this task 13 times and I quit this ceremonial function abruptly after the 13th event.

The last one was with a Doctor a few years younger to me. 

He ended up as a biochemist in U. S. A. 

He was an Anandian and was a crook. 

I was to to go to U. K. at the end of the same year on "No Pay Leave" and this guy somehow knew this and approached me one day and asked me whether I could become his bestman. 

I said Yes without any hesitation since he was my deputy when I captained the University Hockey Team. He did all the organizational work of matches and I had only to come lead. 

He was very good organizer. 

The understanding was that he would spend money for my 3 piece suit that would be useful when I visit UK. 

I did not bother to select the material and the colour. 

Of course, my look alike opposite Left Wing man was (I was Rught Wing) with me to guide me with the instructions on the day of his wedding. He was a parallel batchmate of him from the Science Faculty and he had the Wedding Schedule. 

From 9AM in the morning delivering the invitation bouquet, till 630PM in the evening Wedding Photograph we were running from one place to another non stop. We were promised lunch at his home but we did not get even a cup of tea or a soft drink. 

Afterall, we could sacrifice a meal for a friend. 

After the photograph, I told my cohort "his job is done" and I would not come for the wedding ceremony. If I remember right, co- left wing player had his own car and I asked him to drop me at the Colombo General Hospital. 

I told him, I need a good bath and a drink at the  3rd floor Grandpass Grill and  Bar at Lipton Junction, located near the Colombo General Hospital. This was the time when cats and dogs were served for Chicken, in Colombo.

We used order a full chicken at Grandpass Grill to avoid eating cats' and dogs' flesh.

Everything was cheap then and my take home salary was Rs.1450/=. I started with Rs. 415/= and we had Industrial action to raise our salary 3 times under Sirimovo.

I left to UK after my compusary service and vouched never to join the Government Service.

Many moons later, I joined the University, that also not Medical but Dental School.

Hyde Park Corner which ARPICO acquired later was famous for political meeting. Lipton Corner was substituted for politicsl rallies for Hyde Park on subsequent years.  

SARA Center or something similar to that name became established when Grandpass Grill went bust.

Coming back to my friend's wedding:

He should proceed to the Hotel and If asked about me, say that I was dropped at the hospital.

I kept the wedding invitations of all 13 of bestmans.

I made it a point to invite all 13 of them      (most of the already left CEYLON) but none who remained in CEYLON came to our Wedding. 

The excuse they gave me was that JRJ had come to KANDY for an official function (I wasn't invited by JRJ) and they attened that function. 

Then, I replied that, they could have slipped away for a moment and rejoined the official function. Also said, do not expect any future engagement with me official or otherwise. 

Those who came had a Field Day at Swiss Hotel, Kandy as far as refreshments were concerned. 

In 10 days we were in Northern Island.

Hotel Swiss was closed for practical purposes and I made it a point that Billiard Room was open for me to play a game weekly. This was extended to Mahaveli Reach for official functions of the Peradeniya University and an occasional billard game for me. 

I believe late Professor R. G. Banabokke had shares of this hotel. Their entire family is gone including his wife and he did not have any friends to call and I was his mental buffer. 

He used give me a call everytime a tragedy hits.

By the way, I haven't played a Billiard game since I arrived in Australia. The last occasion was in Phillip's Island, the Table was occupied by kids. I did not bargain for a game,  since as a real sportman, I should see that the  next generation of players should be trained instead of an old coger like me with poor colour vision hitting the wrong ball and making the opposition guy wins. 

If I rember right, I never lost a game in England.

I only lost to Mr. Banda (from whom I learned the game as a medical student) who was our Faculty Boy and Marcan Marker who was our Faculty Club boy to where I went almost every day with Laxman Denipitiya.

Laxaman is currently in America, a fabulously rich dental surgeon.

He is the only guy of all the bestmen in their wedding ceremonies who kept an amiable relationship. 

I made it a point to invite him as a Guest Lecturer in one of our Symposiums in Dentistry in the Faculty of Dental Sciences.

Coming back to "Bestman Saga" all 13 of the ceremonies were significantly different from the other 12 and there is "No Standard" as such. 

I behaved like a puppet and that job is ideal for master puppet like me. 

When the bridgegroom started coming on elephant tops, I had fully retired and already married with kids. 

I made it a point to refuse all wedding invitations (except the last one), knowing very well that there is an upper ceiling of 250 in most of the hotels, now.

Mr. Rajanayagam

The suit I was given by this guy was of poor quality and was disposed of immediately. 

This is where Mr. Rajanayagam came to my help. Good suit materials were hard to come by, then. I told Mr. Rajanayagam our Chief Technician my predicament. 

Don't worry, Doctor was his usual expression. 

He found me a good piece.

Sad part was when I came home on holiday with a present he had passed away. I met his wife still residing at the Government Quarters at Colombo 7. She said that he had not saved anything for himself and she was fighting eviction from the quarters. 

He did not have any children and I lost touch with her subsequently.

Of course, first thing I did was to buy a Marks & Spencer 3 piece suit for £100/=. 

Later, I tailored, a made to measure suit by London main street tailor for £110/=.

I was obsessed with my dressings from underwear to the top.

I donated both those suits and now I have only one suit left for any formal occasion. 

My hacked two suits were left in CEYLON for good. 

I love my pijamas and I have one sarong left made of pijama cloths in my tiny traveling bag. That is not going to be used since I do not intend to visit CEYLON again.

 

Zebra Fish Experiment

Zebra Fish Experiment

I bought the zebra fish with an intention of crossbreeding them.

They are easy to breed but one need an elaborate tanks to separate the eggs from the parents and also have adequate quantity of infusoria.

Infusoria

Infusoria grows naturally in most tanks, particularly those with live plants. However, there may not be sufficient quantities to sustain a full hatching of fry.
The term infusoria is an old one that has changed in meaning over the years. 

At one time it referred to just about any microscopic, or nearly microscopic, organism that lived in fresh water. That use of that word long ago became outdated in the scientific community.
However, the term infusoria is still used by many within the aquarium community, even by younger fish enthusiasts. To aquarium enthusiasts infusoria refers to many small organisms in water that tiny fry can feed up upon.
Although it's not feasible to name every organism that could be in an infusoria culture, some of the primary ones include, algae (volvox), amoebae, euglena, paramecium, rotifers, stentor and vorticella.

Therefore, it is helpful to culture your own infusoria to ensure having an adequate amount.

Zebra Fish Breeding
Nature has lot of surprises for you and me.
I was trying to raise a Guppy fish with swordtail for ages.
It was easy in good old days when the brood was wild.
They did not have the present sailtail (Sary Guppy) then.
But with the breeding of exotic and the emergence of the sail-tail or sari-tail varieties of guppies one cannot find guppies with the narrow short dorsal end of the tail with a broader and longer ventral end.
I have been screening the tails of guppies and found one with the suggestion of a swordtail and I mixed that one with the wild (not really wild) looking with light featured female guppies but there is no success yet.
They breed less in the glass tanks.
I am waiting for a miracle to happen.
But toady, I was doing my daily routine of mixing different batches of guppies to interbreed and quite casually looked at the fortuitous zebra breeding tank to see whether the water quality was OK.
This plastic kitchen sink type of container was designed to put zebras to lay eggs and in my opinion it was not ready yet to put the adults. But as a conditioning routine I load it with the first portion of outlet water bucket from my main tank with zebras. Idea was to build the infusoria for the young ones, if they lay eggs by any chance. These eggs are very small and not visible to the naked eye. Most of it is eaten by the adult males and adult males are necessary for the fertilization of eggs.  

They lay over 400 to 1000 eggs but rarely a few survives in the tank. 

By removing water at the bottom by siphoning, I expect few eggs by chance to remain trapped with fortuitous black fungus (which appear like a tuft of leaves when fully grown).
Fish do not eat this black fungus probably it has nasty taste or alelopathic chemical.

Then in the main tank to clown fish do the cleaning up of the eggs no sooner they are laid. 

I have been doing this religiously for the last one year but without any luck.
My first batch of zebra (breeding) was discovered accidentally in a bucket with water plants left to nature.
I had about 20 odd young ones and introduced 16 to the main tank leaving behind only four in the original bucket. 

That was a shear intelligent decision the ones introduced to the tank (fairly big) were eaten by the adult in one night.
They are very good at population control of their kind.
I wonder how they survive in the nature.
Probably the adult die soon after breeding with endemic parasitic diseases.
To my surprise there were six young one in the plastic container that survived the natural population control. Now I cannot put siphoned water to this tank for at least six months since they (young zebras) will eat all the eggs. 

I have to leave them in series of buckets and I have no room in my rooftop garden for any more buckets. So my zebra breeding will have to be done on makeshift containers. I cannot put the six young zebra fish to the main tank with zebras (they will be eaten) or to the other tank with live bearers. 

Young zebras will eat all the live-bearers’ young ones.
It is a paradox and reproducing nature is only an ad hoc experiment.

In a different note, I have a fabricated rainfall detector (modified fish tank) and it recorded half an inch of rain for the last one week. 

That I think is 25% of the usual rainfall and my predictions are we will have a drought by next April.

Albino Tetras

 Albino Tetras

Toady, I received a batch of albino tetras free of charge from a dealer, whom I knew for two decades.
The idea was for me to look after them (confirmed disabled) sympathetically until they die.
One of them died on transit due to shock.
Rest went into panic state the moment, I introduced them to my main tank.
I sat there and watched their agony for half an hour.
Only two recovered in half an hour.
Most of them were partially blind or an eye was totally missing.
One was totally blind and took the longest to recover.
After one hour all of them could balance and swim in a comical manner.
They had two problems.
 

One was blindness.
 

The other was balancing.
 

I believe these strains are poisoned in their breeding.
They must be using very toxic material.
There is unsupervised breeding programs in this country.
These chemical are hazardous to humans and other animals and are slowly percolating into our ground water.

Who is allowing these materials to be imported?
 

That is my big question.

 

Zebra Fish and Black Guppy

Zebra Fish and Black Guppy
I have reason to believe there is unhealthy practices of Fish Breeding.
I may have briefly mentioned this sometime in the past. 

I cannot trace the piece of writing.
In any case there seems to be new developments.
There is a guy who breeds albino zebras.
He has now introduced a pink strain.
I have an obsession on the topic of pigmentation, especially in regard to Guppy fish.
 

I wished as a kid, I could see a Guppy black like a black molly.
A guy in Thibirigasya, actually accomplished it.
 

He deserves a Nobel Prize.
 

I do not know how he accomplished it but to see a Guppy with band of black is common now.
These Guppies are robust, healthy and of reasonable size.
 

But all the variants of Zebras were tiny.
 

They do not grow to adult size in spite of proper feeding.
They do not mix in the shoal with normally colored zebras.
In other words they were unhealthy.
  

Goby Fish

Goby Fish

Goby fish is an ugly fish. 

Small in size similar to Guppy fish but live in both fresh and sea water. 

I have not seen one live. They type that live in mangroves slide into tunnels made by crabs on mangrove roots with the sliding tides. There are tiny octopuses who feed on these fish. 

The ecosystems in mangroves is unique. Our mangroves in the Negamboo, Ceylon is fast receding.

 

Blind Fish

Blind Fish
I volunteered to look after a batch of blind and partially blind fish.
After nearly 20 months only three are left.
One has total visually capacity now.
One is blind in one eye.

The other is totally blind.
It amazes me how it survived.
 
It more amazing how it detects me.
 
The moment I sit next to the tank it comes near to the side my chair is kept.

The blind fish knows I am there.
 
I do not touch anything.
Probably it detects my foot steps and pulling the chair (gently).
I do not feed that tank (to confuse the blind fish in a way) first as a routine but feed the fish in the main big tank.
 
Moment I start putting the pellets that sink to the bottom, the two clown fish make a mess of the bottom sediment, and then the blind fish hits at the bottom or the floor in a random fashion and finds its food.
That's how it survived.
I believe the other fish, especially the clown fish (scavenger) gives a subsonic message to the blind fish.
They are all in one community.

 

Guppy Fish

Guppy Fish

I have a life long relationship with Guppy Fish.

I grew up with them.

 

They taught me biology without having to read a textbook.

 

What I discovered was Guppy fish suffers from a disease called Guppy Disease.

I have a healthy batch of almost wild Guppy stock. 

They are in my big outdoor fish tanks.

 

Those tanks are meant to control mosquito population. 

 

Guppy fish love mosquito larvae even though they do not kill other fish.

They are called community fish since they live in harmony with other type of fish.

Most important thing one has to do is to quarantine the new batch of fish.

 

I have a quarantine tank.

 

They are kept there until they breed. 

Breeding is a good sign of healthy fish.

The new shoal is transferred to a new tank and once they are big and a sample is put to the outdoor tank.

Since, I follow this routine regimentally, I never had an episode of Guppy Disease.

 

I used to release some of them to the streams nearby.

 

I stopped doing this die to a good reason.

 

We tend to release washing machine discard to our stream.

 

The chemicals used in washing cloths cause gill disease and 90% fish released die. 

That was not acceptable to me.

Humans are the ones who poison our environment on daily basis.

Guppy Disease

 Guppy Disease

 Guppy fish used to be my favorite but now my interest is water plants especially water lilies.
But one cannot have a pond without fish.
 

The mosquitoes would take over in no time.
 

Guppy fish is the only solution.
 

But over time the fish lose their bright colours and become the wild type. 

The wild type is resistant to disease.
 
Just to introduce some colours I bought a batch of bright coloured guppies.
 

Knowing very well they are incubating guppy disease I introduced them to the stock tank.
I added few of my wild guppy to interbreed.
In no time one by one all the guppies started dying.
Not other fish types.
 

It was evident that the guppy disease was the cause.
 

I believe it is a virus disease and over time they become resistant.
 

But unfortunately my fish in the main outdoor tank started dying.
I made sure there was no contact or contamination.
 

I was puzzled and worried the fish food was the cause.
 

I need to work on this.
 

The vendors treat these disease fish before selling.
Within 24 hours they show the signs of disease and start dying.

 
If you buy a new stock do not introduce them to your main tank.
 

Observe them in a hospital tank for at least a week.
Treat them if necessary and introduce only the healthy ones.

 
Ideally the next generation of young fish.

 
If they are healthy they breed and breed fast.
 

You have a healthy batch then.
 

I now think even contaminated fish food carry disease if not guppy disease (viral) but by bacterial disease.
 

Fish do not have a well developed immune system and succumb to diseases especially bacterial.
 

So keeping the tanks in good healthy condition is a priority.
 

My Fish with Scoliosis

Tuesday, September 1, 2015
My Fish with Scoliosis
 

Fish physiology is very complicated.
Even though the life started in water, unlike terrestrial organisms they are at tremendous odds.
They never sleep.
They have to be under constant vigilance.
 

Lately, I had been watching deformed fish.
 

The first lot was blind.
Out of 11 four are still living.
Most of them died due to poor water quality.
Once I improved the water quality they adapted well.
Strangely, they instantly sense my presence near the tank.
How they do that I do not know.
 

Even in that set up the partially blind fish attacks the completely blind.
 

The blind one cannot survive outside, in the wild.
 
Coming back to the fish with scoliosis it makes a tremendous effort to swim if not float.

It is an ugly sight to see it swim but when tired rests on top of the air pump.
I put some floating plants so that it can rest and have the benefit of oxygen at day time.
Funny part is other fish also take advantage of the plant nest.
It is a cool resting place for them.

My School Cricket Career, if any

Since, I am winding up this blog rants, it time for me to say Good Bye to CRICKET, too.

I was good in Softball Cricket.

I was regular member of the Ampitiya Team and we ended up as unofficial champions of Kandy beating Kingwood Boys.

We did not have a ground in Ampitiya to practice. Main Tar road was our practice ground. During off season paddy field was our play ground. 

I used to make my own bat with planks that anchor wooden shipping boxes.

My father hated cricket and old type of sports. But he used to admire championship (athletic) cups

He did not know our secret plans.

I love making and flying kites.

Next attraction was balloons made by Uncle Ferdinando.

All these acts made me a good physicist in real time.

It is strange, I ended becoming the Hockey Captain in my 4th year in the University.

I was not given a chance to play hockey by the sports master in school but he gave my place to his brother who was hopeless.

I invited the school team and beat them 14 nil in a friendly. I scored the last goal since 13 was considered a bad number to close my career in hockey.

I told him never think of coming back for a friendly  He ended up as a Principal close to our home in KANDY. 

I was told he passed away before I left CEYLON. 

Incidentally, he was related to my mother distantly.

Regarding our final match of the unofficial championship:

We scored 36 all out.

Our plan was to get them out under 30.

I told our captain we could do it but plan the strategy.

They were all out 31 and they gave us a mighty fight. 

I was the best fielder and I may have saved 10 runs and involved in 2 or 3 runouts of the opposition.

That was my last game and I never played for that team headed by a guy from St. Sylvester College.

Reasons are blurry. 

May be two or three reasons.

Dress code of the captain and his brother IVAN was dirty and unkempt.

I was the best dressed boy.

I wanted to keep the wicket but I was never given a chance.

Their English was putrid.

I was an all rounder by all accounts at that level.

Then, I joined Dharmaraja College where 

G. S. Ratnayake was a sensation.

40 balls for a century. 

T.B. Kehelgamuwa just gone overage for the school.

G. W. Sebanayake scored 182 against Nalanda.

Rest I cannot renumber except G. Mendis who entered university Engineering Faculty but never completed the university career.

At schools I was the "Pol Addiyar" of the class. I perfected the Neil Harvey stroke on the leg side.

The end result the softball lost within the first two overs I faced and I had to pay Rs. 5/= for the replacement. Worse part, I had to go to Tennis Club of Kandy and wait for hours to get a used ball. 

We never saw a new ball.

By the way, Rs. 5/= was a huge some those days.

Gopal the ground boy could not find the ball in the abyss down the ground.

 

Subsequently, I deliberately hit the ball to the wood so that I can go back to the classroom and tidy up the school work. I refused to pay for the replacement and that ended up my school cricket career.

I left home at 7.30AM and reached Ampitiya College by 8.00AM on foot to save 10 cents. This fee went upto 30 cents returning home from Dharmaraja Hill through Ampitiya college boundary. 

Half a cup of chickpeas was 15 cents. Only one guy spent money on chickpeas and the others saved the money as pocket money. 

A cream bun was 5 cents at Mendis Bakery. 

Salgadu Bakery was famous in KANDY.

Elephant House, White House, Devon, Chinese Hotel and Matara Bake House were popular in Kandy city.

There was an unsolved murder at the Chinese Hotel and was kept closed for many years. We used to go there to listen to English Music. 

Coin Jockey was the main attraction.

Toilets were hopeless.

There was a secret plot to oust me from the Class Team which I got to know 2 years after my full retirement from the university. I gathered all the names and addresses of my classmates and gave a call to confirm the facts and left the list with a guy from KANDY before leaving Ceylon. 

He is the one who told me there was a plot to stop me playing cricket which I did not realize, at that time.

Ajith Gannoruwa.

SAD

W??? Played for the school cricket team.

I thought I was no good in Cricket.

I told him I joined in to enter University and not to play Cricket. 

The teachers were the worst except Morris Perera. 

There were  guys and girls called M.D. Banda and Mr and Mrs. Samarasinghe who hated me. 

I challenged Bumiputra or Harischadra (he stole the copyright material of the University and piblished them as his own) who gave one lesson in chemistry over 3 months and the Rajanayagam guy who only knew how to draw amoeba.

The challenge was if I get pass the A Level none of them would continue to teach in any form. 

I kept that promise.

There is many more including Principal who was a relative of mine and Amaranayake who was the Vice Principle. Amare thrashed me until the Watahiriya pole (Gliricidia sepium) was in pieces for not taking part in cadetting. I never joined the march past.

I only took part in the final march past as the captain of my home/ house team.

I went to Diyrgalwas three time in junior cadetting at Ampitiya College. 

Last as the team captain and we were 3rd in the overall championship behind Ananda and Nalanda.

 

My intention was not to enter army.

However, I dreamed about becoming a airline pilot.

Panamaldeniya our School Inspector was the on who helped me to enter University.

Mr. Samaranayake helped me in Biochemistry practicals.

Mr. Viydyaratne who was doing his Teacher Training helped me in Botany and Zoology in Advanced Level.

How I manged practical in Botany and Zoology is a topic for another fay.

I stop here since the topic was on Cricket.

 

Tribute to My Professors

I did not want to hold the post of or become a professor in my twilight years even though, I possessed all the academic qualifications and more. 

I did not want to become a guy with a photograph hung on the walls of my Ulma Mator.

In other words become an empty  silhouette. 

Of course, my photographs which are plenty belong to my extended family. 

I was a photographer from my school days but I am not a video guy.

I hate videos and cellphone photos.

The cellphone killed the Art form of Photography. One of my photographs was published in Common Wealth Today, magazine.

I got a pavement of a Guinea.

I was budding photographer.

That is the bottom line.

This attitude to image or photographs probably comes from my Dhamma attitude or Anatma Principle.

I was an empty phenomenon by default. 

I never said this to my students and colleagues albeit I would be labelled as a psycho on a bright daylight.

Though, I won't line up Buddha as a professor of all professors, he is my Ultimate Teacher from whom I wish one day I acquire the ultimate Wisdom.

By the way, l did not emulate any of the physical features from any of them but tried to assimilate qualitative wisdom that transpired

This piece is to give tribute to all of them except 4 who did not leave any academic impact on me. The first two are not my teachers but contemporaries in different fields of expertise.

1. Professor B. N. R. Mendis 

Dean and UGC Chairman

Man with a Golden Heart

2. A. D. P. Kalansuriya 

Professor of Philosophy

Outside the box thinking was his line of approach in thinking to think.

3. Professor Win Gomes

One with gentle touch with kids.

4. Professor Senaka Bibile

Man with a Global Vision

5. Professor Thambipillai Varugunam

He possessed ample Gunam or qualities

6. Professor Barr Kumara Kulasinghe

Man with principles and won't let his son enter medicine unless he clears the academic hurdle.

His son ended up as an undergraduate in Agriculture.

7. Professor Eugene Wickramanayake

My student advisor

8. Professor A. D. P. Jayathilake

The guy who drived me nuts in Anatomy but all the same a very simple man 

9. Professor George E. Tennakoon 

My mentor in Pathology 

10. T. W. (Tommy) Wicramanayake 

One who introduced me to genomics

He was the founder of the Nuclear Medical Unit in Peradeniya 

Honorary Mention

Sarath Wicramarane who was a senior lecturer in Agriculture. He left the university to do gem business in Singapore.

He was the one who made me to realize that sports in conjunction with academic activities make a complete adult.

He corrected my grip of the Hockey Stick so that I get more advantage in a good and soft scoop. 

Mind you, I was not allowed to play hockey in my school by the sports master. 

He gave the post, I deserved to his brother  Nepotism in play. 

I became the Captain of University Team and beat our own school team 14 to nil. The last goal was by me and I did not want to close my career with the number 13. 

I do not think 13 is a bad number but I can count up to 5 times of it to 65.

13

26

39

52

65

In bridge there are 52 cards and I can now play a good game of Bridge.

Our hockey team was unbeaten and we won against the National Youth Team (under 24) in a friendly game.

I forget the names of my team mates but I have framed photograph of our team.

All left in CEYLON.

Old Cricketers of CEYLON

Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable

This bit is a "gossip", I made to a local paper.

I do hesitate to write anything about present cricketers except Mahela (not necessary for Sanga, with a big wag) for posterity.

They are our Rohan Kanhai and Kallicharan duo.

There is no one who  looks like  Vivian Richards on record in Ceylon.

Cricketers (all good cricketers should do that) used to walk away (like Mahela) if they felt they were out without leaving the agony for the umpires to guess.

Our cricket Board is corrupt to the core like our politicians.

Politicians (even after heroic victory) and board officials (big mess in cricket stadiums - the grass they used to overlay to cover the corrupt practices- milking every benefit possible) never resign.

1. Kehel I knew him well in cricket and police.
 
2. Daya (Sahabandu) used to ball SIX different ways in an over.
He was the worst fielder we ever had.
He (probably) never caught and balled a victimn in an international.
Somebody had to be in the Circle or Ring to catch for him.

It was very nice cricket anyway, without a hype.
 
3. We had a guy called Ben Navaratne who whipped the bail by his tongue and the umpire could not catch the trick.
If he became a politician with his wagging tongue (not the tails of present parliamentarians), God only knows, how high he would have gone up.

4. Micheal Tissera was the best we had, he could have achieved more, if not for the fact, his buddy (best man) eloped with his wife to Australia.

Collection of these writings should be there in the Web, preserved as archives, for the young ones to browse.