Goodbye Sir, Royal will never forget you………………….

It is with a sense of great sadness and a feeling of emptiness that I inform all those whom it may concern that, Mr. Viji Weerasinghe, an exemplary character who epitomized the true meaning of what it is to be a Royalist, passed away in hospital today.

Mr. Viji Weerasinghe was hospitalized at the Asiri Surgical Unit following a fall. He left us today with a legacy that will forever be in our heart and with memories that will forever be in our minds…….

God bless you dear Sir, for all what you have done to Royal College as a student, teacher and and administrator, and for showing us who a true Royalist is………..

Ceylinco’s Greed (Pvt) Ltd.

My Grandmother is quite old, feeble, and weak. She just suffered a heart attack and a stroke.

So when the family decides to bring her to our house and keep her with all the creature comforts she needs, we call Ceylinco. Ceylinco SwiftCare is a home nursing service provided by the conglomerate, what else isn’t?

Anyway, we registered for the home nursing service and they send two nurses to look after granny dear everyday. But there is a major problem. SwifCare doesn’t have enough nurses to cope up with the demand. Are these people so greedy? Imagine Ceylinco cash-stripped!!! pfft….

Why I say this is that everyday a nurse gets ready to leave her shift and switch with the other nurse, but once the other nurse was indisposed and the previous one waited on complaining and making a general mess of things and moods. And the supervisor of shifts has the audacity to call and laugh out loud when complained to.

And what more? The nurses provided are straight from villages and haven’t heard of cleanliness. One was found sleeping on the bare floor with my granny’s pillows. Yech!

Are your’ll so desperate to hang on to customers to the point of sacrificing your supposedly good name?

Government Regulations on Alcohol and Tobacco being shown on TV…………………what next? Ban on porn?

Actually, yes.

I went to school last week and my friends were talking about the new found pastime of the cops……….checking poor fellows on motorcycles for pornographic material on their phones But I don’t know how far it’s true , friend talk could go anywhere………

So, if all the above is true, then I believe it’s a step in the right direction at last.

Pornography, in my view, is a root cause for the self-destruction of a person, mentally. I’m speaking about guys my age who are still at school and study (or don’t) under the guidance of their parents and teachers.

Believe it or not, all the guys in my class are either addicted to porn………..or me. No, I’m not lying here, I think I’m lucky enough to understand the consequences and ill-effects of watching porn.

Please don’t laugh, because I do think that indulging in this particular vice not only corrupts the mind, but pollutes the soul as well. I have come to note through the experiences of friends that watching this becomes a regular habit and is hard to shy away from….you’ve got the internet, your parents are not around, why not?

Through my experiences, I’ve noticed that friends of mine who are regurlar subscribers to this vice are of a more meaner nature, always involved in fights, use vulgar lang, can’t understand or appreciate a teacher’s advice, always have mood shifts and are generally tiresome to be with.

Now, I’m not qualified to talk like this at all, and the above said features of a person could result from a variety of other things totally unrelated to porn, but I’ve been thinking about this a lot in the past few months, observing my friends who openly confess to watching porn. As I said earlier, I don’t believe in watching these things and I don’t. I have told everybody that I don’t and they kinda get pissed off and call me a “p” dial and all sorts of stuff.

Through all this I have also observed their take on porn. It’s manly, they say. You’re a woman if you don’t, they say. You have to do it at least once, they say. They say all this about smoking, drinking, and consuming drugs too. Need I say more……..

So I say, my dear Gov luv, make your ban, if there ever is one, tougher if you want a cleaner, happier, and less ill-effected future generation…..

ETV is the dumbest shit ever!

If you’ve read my previous posts regarding the Government Regulations on Alcohol and Tobacco and have been watching a bit of TV lately you’ll know that TV stations are now required (not sure) to blot out scenes of alcohol and tobacco consumption.

In my previous posts I’ve stated why these so-called regulations affect the viewing pleasure of the TV viewing public, and how the regulations can’t possibly affect the consumption of the said vices in this country…………

Everything blogged, said, and done………………….ETV is the dumbest shit ever!

Why do I say that? Yesterday, Friday, I settled down to watch One Tree Hill, one of the only few good shows ETV broadcasts, anyway, there I was watching it and anticipating a blot-out on the screen when there was a drink shown. Thankfully there isn’t much drinking in the show, which mainly focuses on a group of teenagers. Halfway through the show, during a perfectly acceptable scene of a girl talking on stage to a group of people, the dumb-asses at the station blot out the whole scene! What the hell??

This was not an isolated incident, several other perfectly peaceful and clean scenes,  two actors talking, a girl talking on her cell and a perfectly acceptable scene of a play were just some of the scenes blotted out.

Come to think about it there were plenty of scenes where loads and loads of vodka, gin and scotch bottles together with filled-to-the-brim wine glasses were in plain view of the screen…………

And not only that, scenes with sexual content were plainly shown on screen……………………!!

ETV is anyway a good for nothing channel just polluting the airwaves of Colombo, on top of bad management of shows and stupid blunders like these, ETV shows the most amount of advertisements, ruining viewing time, they constantly show repeat telecasts of the same episode over and over again, they keep on showing those pain in the neck Teleseen ads.

All said, ETV has the bloody guts to ask viewers whether they are addicted to the damn channel………….

Grow up, ETV.

Akarsha come, Akarsha go (hopefully)

Anarkali Akarsha calls herself an actress cum tv presenter cum tv hostess cum model cum Ministerial Secretary cum everythingelsunderthesun.

I’d like to call her a fake.

I thought of blogging about her after reading and article in which Angela Seneviratne gives her a bit of a lashing in W@W, the magazine that comes free with the Daily Mirror. It seems that dear Anal (choke!) is a snobby, self-obsessed spoilt brutess, if I may be politically correct. It seems that Anal (heehee!) hosted a beauty pageant on Derana, what else is new, anyway as I was saying, beauty pageant hostess Anal (I just love saying that!) was very huffy and puffy to Angela and was very rude to her.

The above paragraph was meant to clear any doubts about a well known writer looking down upon the high and mighty Anal (kkkkkkkrkrkrkr……!)

Anarkali Akarsha is probably the worst actress Sri Lanka, and (obviously) the world, has seen because only in a country like ours can her non-existent acting career exist. Every movie she acts in gets an excellent overall review but an excruciatingly bad but truthful one on her. Where else can a woman who can’t even speak the language the movie’s been filmed in can have an acting career? The Maldives? I heard someone say that her acting s like that of a 90 year-old woman………

Any tv show or music chart that Anal appears in only survives because of guys who don’t have internet………………

Any foreigner would laugh, and they must be laughing, at the site of local boys going head over heels for her. What else do they have to do besides protesting?

Anal, when will you grow up and leave the Sri Lankan radio waves alone?

Anarkali come.

Anarkali go………………………..?

Democracy

You and me……                                                                                                                                                         You know who…………….

A tribute to the blind

I recently read an article in the newspapers about International White Cane day. It made me think………………..

Imagine someone who can’t read this. Imagine a person who hasn’t seen his or her own parents. Imagine a person who hasn’t seen his or her self…………………..

The blind are probably the most unfortunate, yet fortunate people on earth……..

Unfortunate because they they can’t see the ones they love, the things they hold dear…………..because they can’t see the simple, yet joyous things in life………..like the first steps of a toddler, a child’s smile………

Yet they are fortunate because, they aren’t able to see the horrendous things happening in the world, the Civil War in Sri Lanka, the abductions, the killings, the mass murders. They are not able to see the terrible state of the Hibakusha of Japan. They cannot see the faces of the burnt, the scarred………………..they can’t see the tyranny of leaders, the militancy of some……………the tsunami, the World Trade Center Bombing, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and many other images that haunt all of us to this day.

These images and scenes may seem normal and everyday to you and me, but as the saying goes, seeing is believing…………………the blind may hear lots of vivid news reports on these horrors, but it is only up to their imagination to actually see them……………and most of the time they imagine it less severe, less drastic, less devastating………………..what human being won’t?

But it is only when you see the exact thing that you understand and realize it’s impact, and that exact image or scene is etched in your memory for the rest of your life. But the blind are so fortunate because they can forget get it easily and never know the real thing………………………………….

The blind are the some of the most courageous people I have ever seen. The way they use their White Cane to get about in life, the way they take simple joys in just listening to the radio, whereas we complain about the screen being blotted out because of Government Regulations.

Look at Stevie Wonder, his disability has not stopped him from being a star in American music. His perseverance has led him to this stardom, while others take it for granted.

Let us all lend a hand to the blind of our country as well as of the world in making their lives just a that better.

Oh my God……….! If Susanthika gets the silver medal……..

………..there goes our tax, or tax money for those of you who are tax payers…….

(1) Felicitation ceremony to honour her…..

(2) National ceremony……….

(3) Cars, vans, Pajeros for the golden “queen”……….

(4) Demonstrations of love and affection shown to her on the road, increasing the traffic jam………….

Does Sri Lanka need this? Can we afford this? People are suffering in the country, and they prepare for mass celebrations on the road……….There is a war going on, educated people don’t have jobs, a child can’t get into a school, teachers who have done a far more yeomen service to the country than Susanthika could even think of are deprived of their eligible wages…………When will this nonsense come to an end?

The poor of the country are suffering without any food, she gets a Pajero………Soldiers are dying out there under the Northern sun………………she grumbles about not having proper food and facilities in America. People are living in temporary camps in the East and South………this woman complains of not having proper shoes.

Is she so shameless? She lost to a woman covering her whole body and head in accordance with her religion…….all she knows to do is become second or third, and grumble about bad athletic officials.

Look at those Kenyans and Ethiopians, they have virtually no comforts but continuously bring honour to their country……..they sacrifice all they have for their country………….and this woman berates on and on.

Someone has to teach this one a lesson………………

Crap still continuing……..

For those of you who don’t know what this means, please read, ‘What the crap is the Government up to now???’. Anyway as I stated in the post before the last one, when watching a movie on MTV, I suddenly saw the screen blotted out and a sign saying, ‘This is due to Government Regulations on Alcohol and Tobacco……………

Yesterday, Monday, I switched on to my favourite TV programme, Veronica Mars shown on ETV. Suddenly, during a bar scene, the screen blotted out for apparently no reason, but there was no explanation as to what was happening, no ‘Government Regulations’ sign. But now I’m sure the Government has imposed some new ban on alcohol and tobacco consumption being shown on screen……..

So, so, so, the Government’s cracking down on the vices of Sri Lanka, actually, can you call drinking and smoking not being shown on TV, ‘cracking down’? How many times have you seen a person smoking on TV and films already? How many times will you see a man smoking on the road?

People will always drink and smoke at parties and functions unless you absolutely cannot find any liqour in the country (like that will happen).

When you blot out scenes from a show, it makes it very annoying and a nuiscance to the the viewers………….what will Mahinda do next to completely destroy the TV industry in Sri Lanka?

Are these people so jobless?

Funny on the bus

This happened sometime ago, thought you should know…….

On a bright weekday morning, I got up and got ready for school, since  I used to live a little far away from Colombo and my school, I normally used to take the bus from my home to school. On this fateful day, I got into the bus, pushed myself around (and other people too) until I got a seat and plomped myself on it. After a happy few minutes rumbling on the bus, I noticed a little man seated a little bit in front of me……..but in plain view. After a few moments observing of this creature, I looked away (there was a school van passing……………….)

After a while, I couldn’t help myself but look at Mr. Shorty again. This time, he was preparing himself laboriously to spit like an original Sri Lankan……. after a few moments of growling and gulping and squelching………..(he was sitting in the window seat) there it came……………..right into the closed window, (urgggggggghhhhhhhh……………..)

The wretch had spit right into the closed window of the bus, it was quite healthy saliva, you know the real original Siriii Lanka kela, eek!……………….What more do you need in the morning?

So what happened? What to happen? The guy looked around the bus with a cheeky grin, took out his handkerchief and started wiping the damn shit………………at least he had the decency to do that…………

And what happened to me, I spent the whole day feeling vomitish at school…………………………..

Welcome to Sri Lanka!

What the crap is the Government up to now???

So there came Saturday, and with it, a need to relax my eyes, so I watched a little TV. Yeah, like that would help relax my eyes…………………anyway, switched on to Channel 1 MTV, and found them showing some movie about a group of people trying to blow up a boat and steal some gold.

So there I was watching the movie and (trying) to read the newspapers at the same time. Suddenly when I turned to the TV, the screen was blotted out, the way it is when there’s something naughty going on , you know what I mean………..but it was strange…I was quite sure that those people weren’t in a situation where they could………….you know……….but my doubts were erased after this came on screen…….’This is due to the Governments regulations on Alcohol and Tobacco’……..??????

So, so, so Mahinda’s getting tough on drinking and smoking …….well personally I don’t drink or smoke and don’t believe in trying to ‘impress’ people or ‘feel relieved’ by drinking and smoking and think they’re a load of crap.

So confused and amused, and annoyed, because I never heard of these regulations creeping into TV sets, I tuned on to (urrghhhhh..) Swarnavahini, something which I never normally do……..so anyway there was some crappy movie with some crappy Sinhala actors in it. After watching for sometime, there was some idiot smoking his heart out in plain view of everybody watching……what the hell……….?

Are MTV and Sirasa trying to seem overly obedient towards the Government? Or did Swarnavahini not get the message? Has the Government imposed these so called ‘regulations’ only on English movies?

What the crap is the Government up to now???

Going back to the regulations, has the Gov finally gone nuts??? Who the hell hasn’t seen someone smoking, or drinking? Haven’t children seen it all the time, and they will continue to, at parties and functions, and weddings, where all their parent’s know to do is drink, drink, and drink some more..

These regulations affect the viewing of a television show or movie where there was, is, and always will be drinking and smoking on screen………..these blot outs will become a nuisance to TV viewers in general if they continue………….

There are many ways that the Government can use to rid Sri Lanka of these vices, like BANNING them for example or taxing them into oblivion……….

Is there no end to the discrimination towards the English speaking population in Sri Lanka? Can’t the Government find another way to defeat drinking and smoking?

Am I speaking to MTV? Or to the Government?

Tyra Banks is sooo frikkin’ HOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Lookee here……………………..

Teacher’s Day ‘07

Well, well, well of all the days in Sri Lanka, someone comes up with another day for Sri Lankans to organize a cheap function with horrible colours, music and food. Welcome Teachers Day! Yet another day for those good-for-nothing teachers of Sri Lanka to go around in their best manipurees and sarees and bangles and chains, and other assortments of Swarnamahal.

This year’s theme is ‘Better resources for teachers to ensure better resources for learners’……or some other bulldandruff. The Very Honourable Edu Minister said that he’s trying to get the Gov to increase the amount spent on edu to 5% of national revenue up from 2.9%. TWO POINT NINE!! that’s all they spend on the future of Sri Lanka, two point nine of almost nothing……………….

Nothing in the Very Hon.’s speech outlined the teachers strike……something very important for discussion during teacher’s day, don’t you think? Speaking about the arrears on the teacher’s salaries, a friend told me that another friend of his who’s mother is a teacher never got her pay rise for 07 years!!!!!!!!!!! When she had inquired, the officials had told her that she’d be paid when the government gets more money……….wonder what kind of car Namal would get if the Government got more funds? Maybe an aeroplane, or maybe a nice little yacht…to sail off in the coast of Hambantota………..

Going back to the day, when are the teachers going to get their arrears on their salaries paid off? If not, when are they gonna picket again? When are those poor kids gonna get into a decent school? Or even get an interview with the school?????????????

The teachers aren’t getting their money, students aren’t learning anything in school, a kid can’t even get into a school, and Susil has the the frikkin’ guts to say that there’ve been no complaints concerning schools during his tenure………………….

What’s the point in voting at all………………………….?

Isstate of Ingrish in Sirii Lankaawa…………..

Hehe…….I had to start with something like that……..well what is the iss…….i mean the state of English in Sri Lanka? Ahem…….(drumrollllll)……………………..bullSHIT.

That’s all I can say right now………I mean come on, it is bullshit, worse than bullshit, at least bullshit is made up of something solid , Ok where to start, well why don’t we isstart at the bigginnin [sic]? When the Gov introduced the Swabaasha only policy in the mid 9os, signalling the start of Sri Lanka’s mid life crisis, a very looooong crisis. The gov’s stubborn attitude to be as far away, and least like the British seemed to seep into the minds of these “”"patriots”"” as they’ve called themselves, what patriotic person would ensure the sure death of their “beloved” motherland? Was it to get more votes? More popularity among the uneducated masses out there? I’m sure those were the only reasons for them to discard the well established English language. I mean as everybody knows, that’s all politicians, especially in Sri Lanka do………..

So there it was…..the policy. Generations and generations of Sri Lankans were moulded in the Sinhala lang, went to Uni………..and got unemployed. Such a waste actually, because quite a number of Sri Lankans are exceptionally bright, and have immense potential……………but what happens when one is educated in a language only spoken within a small island of 65,610km? Let’s look at the problem of unemployment………..employment is created through business, any tom, dick and harry knows that…….to do business you have to interact a lot with all kinds of people, and some of these people speak different languages, but the most common of them is English. Plain and simple English. Communication is probably the most important tool in business both within and outside the organization. You might say that if a person without a good English knowledge can be placed within the organization in such a way that he has minimal contact with customers or clients. True, but what about the ‘communication within the organization’ part. Hows biz gonna be good when people don’t understand the next person their working with?

Among other things, TV news and other programmes done in English. Well I must say, there a few categories that I like to put them into (i’m talking about news anchors), 1. Totally not-pot, 2. Shape, 3. Good but with some shortcomings.

Totally not-pot…..not many people, at least the employers have got some sense at last

Shape…………..okaaaaaaaaaaaa………y but no class

Good but with some shortcomings….ahhhhh this is where I really wanted to comment……..I’m talking about MTV, well there pretty good in comparison with the isstandard, but still show that they are………….well………….Sri Lankan. The over-pronunciation of ssssssssssss, fumbling with quite common words like fauna (fowna – according to MTV) and here comes the biggy…………..it’s not briGAYdier, its brigadier, with a short and sharp ‘ga’.

W ell having said all that, I feel………………..useless. Yeah useless. I mean what’s the use in writing all this if no one takes action and does something about it? Please, somebody, anybody…………………………..be a patriot, not a ‘patriot’.

The good and the bad of Facebook

Okay here goes…I’ve been meaning to write somethun about the facebook revolution but just couldn’t find the time. Now that the exams are approaching I can’t wait to do something else other than study:):)

Intro

Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard grad student wo had to dropout of College to run facebook. Allegations of him stealing source code given to him by the creators of ConnectU have sprung up and handled by the American courts.

Anyway………..facebook calls itself a social utility, a platform where you can connect and keep in touch with friends from your school, country, region, network or workplace.

The good…………..

You can do many fun things at facebook as well, thanks to it’s Facebook Platform, where norma, day-to-day users can create their own web applications for other users like them, apps like FunWall, CounterStrike, Love Football (Soccer) and many more enhance the user experience at facebook.

The bad………………..

Well including all that was said upstairs, you might think that facebook is a totally awesome site that you could have as your home on the internet……………., but (there’s always a but, isn’t there!?) facebook reserves the right to provide your personal information to third parties:(

Among this single bad, the apps I told you about earlier………..we……..llll they kinda need a lot of maintenance, a lot of server errors, error messages and upgrading is taken, and sometimes valuable information is lost.

Concusion……………….

Well to tell you the truth, I’m a ‘facebooker’ as we call it, and enjoy the fb experience as much as I can, xcept for those pesky error messages!……………….

But I tell you, join it, see it, feel it, and get the hell out of there if you don’t digg it!

A great blog starts with a small post………………..

……………………….and this is it.