Don’t believe in Santa Clause. He is a Lie!

I felt like crying. I felt like been cheated. I was shocked. Santa is a one giant lie! It was a one grand conspiracy, making me believe in that nice old man, looks after all the good kids in the world. Any of you knew it was a lie?

My friends laugh other day pointing their finger at me and holding their stomachs. I felt like crying. How can I not to believe in Santa? My mama told me about him. NASA and Norad tracks him every Christmas eve, and display Santa’s movement in their web site. They all make a fool out of me. I felt like cheated. I felt like crying.

I thought Santa is a nice old man lives in Northpole. He used to watch over me every single minute, am I been a bad or good boy, just like how Joseph Stalin used to watch over Russians. They told me, if I behave badly, Santa not going to like me anymore. I was scared.

I hated Grinch, the enemy of Santa, tries to steal Christmas from him all the time. Oh Boy! I hated him so much. Do you know Grinch was a lie too? Really, I mean guys, Do any of you knew all this is a queen-size lie?

Anyway, other day two nicely dressed gentleman knocked on my door. I opened it, brushing my teeth in the morning. They asked me "Who you believe in, Handsome Sir?", with smile on their faces, and holding a book with their hands.

I said proudly, "I believe in Santa Claus!", and how nice the Santa is, and how did I met him when I was young, and how my mama used to tell me stories about Santa and even I showed them the photo of him on my wall.

But then, at that minute, they told me “You cannot believe in Santa any more, Santa is for kids, and you are not a kid any more”. I asked them “WHY?”. They said, "Because Santa is a lie, and there is no Santa at all, Northpole is just an empty wasteland just like scientists says".

I felt like crying. I felt like cheated. My legs felt heavy. Tears came out my eyes. Why did they lie to me all this time? Why!

But those young gentlemen were so kind. They lift me up, sat me down on a chair and told me, “Don’t give up hope, you don’t want Santa, you are big now. You need God in your life”. I asked them “who is God?”, wiping out my tears.
They said, “He is the Savior! he is the Lord! he is the Creator!”. They fetched me a glass of water. I felt better.

They taught me everything. They said Satan is the enemy of God. He is so much worse than Grinch. Satan tries to steal the whole world from God. Jealous basted! They taught me how to talk to God. It was easy. I used to write letters to Santa before.

God is looking over me every single minute; he knows everything I think, everything I do, even in the bathroom. And if I behave badly, I will burn in hell forever after I die. Quite scary though, felt like living in North Korea, even without an escape after death. But I used to been a good boy before, with Santa. So I’m ok.

I’m so happy back again. I'm Smart! I'm not a Child any more.

Obama Talking About Sri Lanka at Google. (not entirely)

US presidential hopeful Obama is talking about Sri Lanka for one brief movement in his discussion at Google. Obama here is talking about obviously what Sri Lanka famous for. The whole discussion is quite long, like a one hour. But I think it is worth spend an hour listening to him. I absolutely guarantee it will be far more uplifting than listening about Mervin Silva in Sirasa.

For some reason I quite like the fellow. In deep down inside we all want to see one charismatic real leader, not a politician, running any country in the world, in our life time. There was such a type of leaders before the Second World War. But since after, look like all the leaders we see everywhere in the world are just another politician, (except Mandela of cause..). But in this case, Obama seems to be a genuine article. At least I like to believe so. May be I believe it like a hopeless teenage girl. But it is nice to daydream some times.

Anyway it looks like Obama understand the new WIKI generation quite well than rest of the leaders. And at least he talks about using technology in the democratic process. I’m a big fan of that concept. I don’t think we are able to reduce the level of “representatives” involved in the democratic process and increase direct people involvement in policy making in our life time. I’m quite sure professional middlemen, who we call Politicians, will not like that idea that much. But at least, if we humans are able to start using Bits & Bytes in the democratic process, in our life time, at least we can start reducing middleman involvement in governing.

Anyway, old woman in US seems don’t understand the whole WIKI generation that much. Of cause America been a feminine country, when Hillary cried like she lost her puppy after the Iowa, old American woman rushed in to vote for her. Even though America is not my country, I don’t like the fact, Bush dynasty after Clinton dynasty coming to power in America - We South Asians know very well, how all that goes. It is quite interesting to follow American elections, but I’m been a Sri Lankan, I like spicy food and murder in election campaign.