Unprotected Thoughts

Let’s kill some endemic fish using Poison, will you?

2010-02-21T00:42:00.018+05:30

I bump in to this tourism website promoting so call village life in Sri Lanka and I could not believe my eyes. These guys are fishing endemic fishes using poison and calling that having a wonderful day. (I don’t know where it is, I suspect somewhere closer to knuckles) Looks like they are doing those sorts of things regularly for their foreign traveling clients. There is a picture of a dead fish on the top of the page, looks like a stone sucker and we have 2 stone sucker species here in Sri Lanka and both are endemic. This one looks like a Garra ceylonensis Phillipsi (පිලිප්ගේ ගල් පඩියා).

I don’t care where those poisons come from, a bottle or from a tree or even from the grandmother’s kitchen. Poison are poison. Period. And it is illegal to fish with poison. It won’t only kill big fishes; before that it kills babies, eggs and every other living moving things around it. It is wrong. It is bad. It is terrible.

I know villages should have rights to survive using the habitat around them. But it should not be having a wonderful day to someone else. Even it may be a simple side dish for the villages, but it is destroying an endemic species forever.

I understand we should open our villages to tourists but not to these sorts of things. Feed our guests with Kiri Bath or hoppers even fried Thilapia is most wonderful, but not endemic fishes killed with poisons. This is a crime.

රාජපක්ෂගේ විස්කම්

2010-01-19T01:58:00.017+05:30

මේක පහුගිය වන්ගියෙ ඉන්ගිරිසියෙන් ලියාපු අටුවාක්. මේ දවස් වල රාජපක්ෂ කාන්ඩේ එකපැත්තකයී, චන්ද්‍රිකා බන්ඩාරණායක කාන්ඩෙ එකපැත්තකයී ඉදගෙන මහා චන්ද සටනක් කොරන නිසා, අලුතෙන් සිංහලේන් ලීව්වෝතින් පංකාදුයී කියලා හිතුනා. හුගක් දෙනා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ උන්නැහැගේ කල කිරියාව හැකියාව ගැන හගිස්සනවානේ. ඒ නිසා උන්නැහැගේ හැකියාවන් පිලිබද ලයීස්තුවක් තමයී මෙතන තියෙන්නේ.

සිංහලේ වීර රජවරු වැලි මිරීකා වතුර ගත්තායැයී පඩිවරු කියනවා. හැබැයී වතුර මිරිකලා වැලි ගන්න පුලුවන් එකම රජ්ජුරුවො මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයී.
නයාට ගහල පොල්ල වරද්ද ගන්න එපායැයී මනුස්ස ලෝකෙ කතාවක් තියෙනවා. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට ගහලා දලේ වරද්ද ගන්න එපෑයෑයී නාග ලෝකේ කතාවක් තියෙනෙවා.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ කන්නාඩියක් දිහා බැලුවෝතින් කන්නාඩිය දෙකට පැලෙනවා. මොකැයී රාජපක්ෂයී රාජපක්ෂයී මැදට එන්න කන්නාඩියත් බයයී.
ජයසූරියට යාර හතලිහක් දුරට පන්දුව යවන්න ඇහැකීයී. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට ජයසූරියව ඊටත් එහාට යවන්න ඇහැකීයී.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඕහේගෙ ගෙදර තියෙන තැන දන්නේ නැහැ. දන්නේ ඔහේගේ මලගෙදර තියන තැන විතරයී
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ දැක්කහම වෙඩි උන්ඩත් හැන්ගෙනවා.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ නම වැරදියට ගූගල් වල ලීවොතින්, ගූගල් තවදුරටත් "Did you mean Rajapaksa?" කියලා අහන්නේ නැහැ. "දුවපන්.. දුවපන්.. පණ බේරාගන්න දුවපන්" කියාලයී කියන්නේ.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට තනි කුරුල්ලෙකුගෙන් ගල් දෙකක්ම මරා ගත ඇහැකී.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විනාඩි දෝලහයී තප්පර විස්සකින් සිරස රන් දෙපය බලලා ඉවර කරනවා.
ලයීසෝල් වලට විෂබීජ සීයට අනූ නමයී දසම අනූනමයක් විනාශ කොරන්න ඇහැකීයී. හැබැයී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට සීයට සීයක් තමන් කැමතී ඕනෑම දෙයක් විනාශ කොරන්න පුලුවන්.
හොල්මන් හැදිලා තියෙන්නෙ, මාරයාටත් එලොවට එක්කාගෙන යන්න බැරි තරම් වේගෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සටනෙදී මරාපු උන්ගෙනුයී.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගෙ මීයා පූසො දෙන්න දෙන්න අල්ලනවා.
බූමිතෙල් මිල වැඩි වීමට හේතුව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ හවසට හවසට බීමයැයී ඉස්කාගාර දෙපර්තුමේන්තුව කියනවා.
හඳ ලෝකෙට හුගක් ඈතින් ඉන්නේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට බයේ පුලුවන් තරම් ඈතට ගිහිල්ල ඉන්න නිසායී. රෑට විතරක් එලියට එන්නේ දවල්ට ආවොත් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට අහුවෙයී කියලා බය නිසායී.
පිටසක්වල ජීවීන්ගේ පියාබන පීරිසි ලංකාවට ගොඩ බාන්නේ නැත්තේ, මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ හැකියාවන් පිටසක්වලත් ප්‍රසිද්ද නිසායී.
විශ්වය දිනපතා විපර්ශනය වෙනවායැයී පන්ඩිතයන් කියන්වා. එහෙම වෙන්නේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට බයෙන් විශ්වයම ඈතට දුවන නිසායී.
කලු පාට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගෙ නිර්මානයක්. කලු පාට විතරක් නොවෙයී මේ ලෝකෙ තියන ඔක්කෝම පාට හැදුවෙ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ, රෝස පාට ඇරුනහම. රෝස පාට හැදුවෙ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ.
විශ්වයේ කලු කුහරයකින් ගැලවෙන්න කිසිම දේකට බැහැයී පන්ඩිතයෝ කියනවා. හබැයී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට කලු කුහර වලින් ගැලවෙන්න විතරක් නොවෙයී, කලු කුහර ඉදිආප්පම් වගේ රෝල් කොරලා කන්නත් පුලුවන්.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ගහයී කියලා බයෙන් රීරී යකා රෑමැද්දට ඒලියට බහින්නේත් නැහැ.
යක්කු ගස් නගින්නේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට බයෙනුයී.
රාමයී රාවනයී මහා සටනක් කොරෝතින් දිනන්නේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පොඩ්ඩා කාලෙ කවදාවත් ඇදේ හුජ්ජ කොරලා නැහැ. රාජපක්ෂ පොඩ්ඩා රෑට බුදියනකොට මර බයෙන් ඇද හුජ්ජ කොරනවා.
පස්සිල් වල හයවෙනී ශික්ශා පදය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ තරහා ගස්සන්නේ නැතේයී යන්නයී. එසැනීන්ම පඩිසන් දෙන එකම ශික්ශා පදය හයවෙනී ශික්ශා පදයයී.
බයීබලේ කීයාපු හැටියට යේසුතුමා වතුර වයීන් වලට හැරෙව්වා. හැබැයී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට වයීන් බියර් වලට හරවන්න පුලුවන්.
රාමට ලංකාවට එන්න හනුමා යගදාවෙන් ගහලා මුහුද දෙබෑ කරායැයී කියනවා. හැබැයී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට යගදාවක් ඕනෑ නැහැ. හනුමා ඕනෙත් නැහැ. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට දැක්කහම බුදු අම්මෝ කියලා මුහුද දෙපැත්තට දුවනවා.
තුවක්කු වලින් කරන සටනකට කඩුවක් අරන් ගිහිල්ල පලක් නැහැ. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ එක්ක කරන සටනකට තුවක්කු අරගෙන ගිහිල්ල පලක් නැහැ.
ජනාශුතියේ තියනවා මහසෝනා කියලා බයානක යකෙක් ඉන්නවා කියලා. ඒ වුනාට දැන් එහෙම එකෙක් නැහැ. මොකද උගේ වලස් ඔලුව ගලවලා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ බූරු ඔලුවක් හයීකරා. මර්වින් සිල්වා කියලා හුරතාලේට තියාගෙන ඉන්නේ ඌව දමයී.
ලිප්ටන් වටරවුම ඔයීට ඉස්සෙල්ල ලිප්ටන් චතුරාශය. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ගැහුව පයීන් එකක් මුලු හතර රවුම් වෙලා යන්න. දැන් තියෙන්නෙ ලිප්ටන් වටරවුම.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මේ බ්ලොග් අඩවිය ගැන දන්නේ නැහැ. හැබැයී දැනගත්තෝතින් මුලු ඉන්ටර්නෙට් එකම කුනු බක්කියට ඇදලා මකලා දානවා.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට මැගී නූඩ්ල්ස් විනාඩියෙන් උයන්න පුලුවන්.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ නිදියන්නේ ලයීට් දාලා. මොකද මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ කලුවරට බය නිසා නොවෙයී. කලුවර මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට බයයී.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ දෙකේ පන්තියේදී පහ වසර ශිෂතවය සමත් වුනා.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ සතුරන්ගේ ලයීස්තුව "වදවී ගිය සතුන්" යටතේ කටු ගෙයී තියෙනවා.
මෝහිනීට වතාවක් තිස්ස වැව ලඟදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මුන ගැහුනා. එතනම ලේ වමනේ කොරලා මෝහිනි මලා.
වතාවක් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයී ගමනක් යනකොට වලස්සු දෙන්නක් ඉස්සරහට ආව. එක වලහෙක් හනි හනිකට ගහකට නැගලා බේරුනා. අනිත් වලහා මැරුනා වාගේ බිම බුදියගෙන බේරුනා.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ශගේ වෘශණ කෝශ වල මයීල් ගස් නැහැ. මොකැයී යකඩ වල මයීල් වැවෙනවයැ.
මහින්ද රාජපක්ශට වතාවක් තමා වැරද්දක් කොලායැයී හිතුනා. මහින්ද රාජපක්ශට වැරදුනු එකම වතාව ඒකයී.

අයෙත් සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් කතාවක්. මලදානේ කවදා ඉවර වෙයීද මන්දා.

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මෙදා මුරේ අකිල දක්ශින මලයා සිංහල යුනිකොඩ් ගැන අටුවාක් මෙතන ලියලා තිබුනා. ඉඩක් තියනවානම් ගිහිල්ල බැලුවානම් හොදයී. මාත් ඉතින් අටුවාවට ටීකාවක් ලීවා. සීනි තියෙන තැනට කූබි එනවා වාගේ යූනිකෝඩ් තියෙනා තැනට අනිවාර්‍යයෙන්ම ඩොනල්ඩ් උන්දෑ එනවානේ. ඩොනල්ඩ් උන්දෑ ගැන දන්නේ නැති අයට මේ කීයන්නේ, ඩොනල්ඩ් උන්දෑයී සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් සමූහයයී කියන්නේ හරියට රාමයී රාවනයී වගේ. ඉන්දියාවයී පකිස්තානෙයී වගේයී. නයයී මුගටියයී වාගෙයී. එක්කෙනෙක්වත් අත අරින්නේ නැහැ.

සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් කාන්ඩේ හදාපු යුනිකෝඩ් එකෙන් තමයී මමත් ලියන්නේ. අනේ වාසනාවන්. ලියන්න කියන්න අපූරුයී. හැබැයී පුරශ්ණ නැතිව නොවෙයී. ඔක්කොටම ඉස්සෙල්ලා තියන පුරස්න මක්කැයී කියලා විස්තර කරලා ඉමුකො. මම අපේ පොඩ්ඩාගෙන් ඇහුවා, පොඩ්ඩෝ කියාපිය බලන්න "පොඩ්ඩා" කියන වචනෙට අකුරු කීයද කියලා. පොඩ්ඩා ගත්කටටම "තුනායී" කියාගෙන පොල්ලත් අරගෙන දිව්වා බැද්දට. මම කොම්පුටරෙට දාල [alert('පොඩ්ඩා'.length)] ඇහුවා කියාපිය බලන්න අකුරු කියද කියලා. කොම්පියුටරේ කියාපි හයයී කියලා. මේක හරිම මගුලයීනේ. එකම වචනෙට අකුරු හයකුයී තුනකුයී තියෙන්න බැහැනේ. ඔන්න ඉතින් කොම්පියුටර් ගැහීම පිලිබද වැඩි තේරුමක් නැති උන්දෙලා කියන්න පුලුවන්, අනේ අකුරු කීයක් උනත් අපිට මක්කටෙයී, අපි මේ යස අගේට ලියන්නෙයැයී කියන්නේයැයී කියලා. යුනිකෝඩ් අකුරු තියෙන්නෙ පෝස්ටර් අදින්න විතරක් නොවෙයීනේ. පරිගණක වැඩසටහන්, දත්ත ගබඩා වලත් ප්‍රායෝගිකව පාවිච්චි කරන්න පුලුවන් කමක් තියෙන්න ඕනේ.

උදාහරනයක් විදිහට අපේ ගුවන් තොටුපොලේ ආගමන විගමන පත්‍රිකාවේ යස අගේට කොටු ගහල නම ලියන්න ඉඩක් තියලා තියනවා. මට මතක හැටියට ඒකෙ කොටු විස්සක් තිහක් විතර තියනවා. විස්සයී කියමුකෝ. අපි කොටුවට අකුර ගානේ කොටු විස්සට අකුරු විස්සක් ලීවොතින් ඒ අකුරු විස්ස යුනිකෝඩ් වලින් කොම්පියුටරේට දාන්න ගියහම කොම්පුයිටරේ කියාපි මෙතන අකුරු තිහක් හතලිහක් තියනවා කියලා. ඉතින් අපි කොහොමෙයී දත්ත ගබඩාවේ ඉඩ කඩ වෙන් කොරන්නේ අකුරු විස්සෙ පත්‍රිකාවට. ඔන්න ආතක් බූතක් නැතිව අකුරු දෙසීයට තුන්සීයට ඉඩ වෙන්කොරෝතින් හරි. ඒ උනාට ඔය හැම චූට්ටන් ඉඩකටම මිලක් තියනවා. වියදමක් තියෙනවා. ඇහැට පේන්නෙවත් නැති සයීල ගොඩක් එකතුවෙලා සද්දන්ත අලි හැදෙනවා වාගේ, ඔය පොඩි පොඩි වියදම් අන්තිමට මහා වියදමක් වෙනවා.

ඉංගිරිසියේ අකුරු කීපයක් එකතු කොරලා එක සද්දයක් හදනවා. සිංහලේ කෑලි කීපයක් පූට්ටු කොරලා අකුරක් හදාගත්තාට හැම සද්දෙකෙටම එක අකුරක් ගානෙ තියෙනවා. හැබැයී කොම්පියුටරෙ කෑලි අදුරන්නෙ නැහැ. ඒ නිසා අපේ යුනිකෝඩ් කාන්ඩෙ මුලු සිංහල බාසාවෙ පදනමම අමතක කරලා, ඒ හැම ඉස්පිල්ලක්ම පාපිල්ලක්ම වෙන වෙන අකුරු විදිහට ගැනපන්යැයී කියලා, ඒ ඒ අකුරු ඉංගිරිසි ක්‍රමේට එකතු කොරලා තනි සද්දයක් හදන්වා. හරියට T H O එකතුවෙලා "තෝ" හැදෙනවා වාගේ. සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් බාසාවෙන් ත-යන්නයී ෝ-යන්නයී එකතු කරලා "තෝ" ලියනවා. (මේ මද්දහනේ සිංහලේට "ෝ" කියලා අකුරක් එකතු කරපු ජගතා කවුද?) මායා බලයකින් ඒ අකුරු දෙක තනි අකුරක් වගේ අපිට පෙන්නලා අපිව රවට්ටනවා. හැබැයී කට බොරු කීවත් දිව බොරු කියන්නෙ නැහැ කියනවානේ. මොන මායාව දැම්මත් කොම්පියුටරේ දන්නවා මෙතන තියනෙනෙ තනි අකුරක් නොවෙයී, අකුරු දෙකක්යැයී කියලා.

ඔන්න ඔතෙන්දි තමයී ඩොනල්ඩ් උන්දෑ සරමත් කැහිපොට ගහගෙන එන්නෙ චන්ඩියා වගේ. මට දැනෙන විදිහට උන්දෑගේ දර්ශනේ අපේ ඇහැට පේනෙන්නෙ අකුරක් විදිහටනම් කොම්පියුටරෙත් අකුරක් විදිහටම දකින්න ඕනේ යැයී කියලා. ඒ කියන්නේ අයන්න එක අකුරක්, ආයන්න එක අකුරක්. ඇයන්න තවත් අකුරක්. කොටින් කියනවානම් පැන්සලෙන් ලියන්න පුලුවන් හැම අකුරක්ම යුනිකොඩ් වට්ටෝරුවෙ තනි අකුරක් වෙන්න ඕනෙ. ඒ ක්‍රමය යටතේනම් අකුරු පුරශ්නෙට අලංකාරට උත්තර ලැබෙනවා. "පොඩ්ඩා" කියන වචනෙට අකුරු තුනයී. මටත් තුනයී, කොම්පියුටරේටත් තුනයී. පොඩ්ඩටත් තුනයී.

ඩොනල්ඩ් උන්දෑ ඒ ක්‍රමේ යටතේ සූත්තරයක් සකස් කොරලා පේටන්ට් අරගෙන. උන්දෑ දඟ දාන්නේ ඒක විකුනන්නයැයී කියලා කට්ටියේ ගෝරනාඩුව. සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් අපිට ලැබුනෙ නොමිලෙ නොවේයී. හෑම දේකටම මිලක් තියෙනවා. අපි පාවිච්චි කොරන කොම්පියුටරෙ හැමදේටම පේටන්ට් තියනවා. නොමිලෙ දෙන, විවුර්ත මෘදුකාන්ග වලටත් පේටන්ට් තියෙන්වා. පේටන්ට් කියනේ රීරි යකා වගේ බයානක දෙයක් නොවෙයී.

ඊලගට යුනිකොඩ් කාන්ඩෙ කියන්නේ අනේ ඔච්චර අකුරු ගානක් දාන්න යුනිකෝඩ් වට්ටෝරුවෙ ඉඩ නැතෙයී කියලා. ඒ වුනාට සාම්ප්‍රාදායික චීන බාශාවෙ අකුරු කෙල කෝටියම ඔය අගේට යුනිකෝඩ් ඇතුලට දාගෙන තියෙන්නේ. 大 කියන්නෙ එක අකුරක්, 犬 කියන්නෙ තවත් අකුරක් 太 කියන්නෙ වෙනත් අකුරක්. බොරුනම් ඕන් දාල බලන්න alert(犬.length).

කොරියන් හන්ගුල් බාසාව හරියට අපේ බාසාව වගේමයී. 가 කියන අකුරට ㄱපාපිල්ල එකතු කරල 각 කියන අකුර ලියනවා. හැබැයී 각 කියන්නේ යුනිකෝඩෙ තනි අකුරක් [ alert('각'.length)]. අපේ යුනිකෝඩෙ වගේ අකුරු දෙකක් නෙවෙයී. ඒ මූලික අකුරට ඉස්පිලි පාපිලි එකතු කර කරා ලියන අකුරු පෝලිමම 갂간간갈..වෙන වෙන තනි අකුරු. සිංහල යුනිකෝඩේ වගේ අටවාපු රූප නොවෙයී.

සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් කාන්ඩෙගෙ වැඩේ හොදයී. සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් දාල අලංකාරෙට ටයිප් කොරන්න ඇහැකියී. ස්ටෙන්සිල් තහඩු කපන්න ඇහැකියී. පින්තූර උඩින් හින්දි සින්දු ලියන්න ඇහැකී. තියෙන පොඩි පොඩි කඩතොලු, ඒ කියන්නේ len(), left(), mid() වාගේ ප්‍රාතමික පරිගණක අණ වලට හරියට උත්තර දෙන විදිහට එහාට මෙහාට කොරලා හදා ගත්තෝතින් තමයී අනාගතේට ප්‍රයෝජනයක් ගන්න පුලුවන්. සංකීර්ණ පරිගණක වැඩ සටහන් වලත් පිලිවෙලක් ඇතිව පාවිච්චි කොරන්න පුලුවන්. ඒ අඩුපාඩු හදා ගන්න මහා මේරු පර්වතේ පෙරලන්න ඕනෙ නැහැ. ආඩම්බරේ පොඩ්ඩක් පැත්තකින් තියන්න තමයී ඕනෙ.

මේ පහල කොටුවෙ අකුරු තුනක් ලියන්න ඉඩ තියෙනවා. ඔන්න ඔය කොටුවෙ "පොඩ්ඩා" කියන අකුරු තුන ලියන්න පුලුවන් දවසට අපිටත් ප්‍රයෝජනයක් ගන්න පුලුවන් විදිහෙ යුනිකෝඩ් එකක් තියෙනවා.

බඩ අල්ලාගෙන හිනා වෙන්න සිංහලේ එදිනෙදා විහිලු කතන්දර.

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මේ ලියන්නේ කාලයක් තිස්සේ දැකපු අහපු විහිලු කතන්දර කීපයක්. මේ වාගේ බොහෝමයක් කතා වයසත් එක්ක අමතක වෙලා ගිහිල්ලා. මතක තියන කීපයක් තමයී ලියන්නේ.

හරක් හොරා.
ඔන්න ගමක හරක් හොරෙක්ව රෑ එලිවෙනෙකම් රැකලා ඉදලා පොලොසියෙන් අල්ලගෙන. ගමක් කීවට ඔය කොලඹ ඇත්තො සුරතලේට කතා කරන කොග්ගල වගේ ගමක් නොවෙයී ඕන්. මේ ගම හැබෑම ගමක්. අක්කාගේ කොල්ල ඉස්කොලේ වැඩිපුර ලකුණු ගත්තොතින් ඌට කබර තෙල් දෙනව. ගෙදර දෙමහල්ලොම හේන් කොටන්න ගිහිල්ලා. හැඩිමහල් එකී තමයී පොඩි එවුන් තුන් හතර දෙනාම බලා ගන්නේ. වැඩිමල් එකීට වයස දහයක් දොලහක් විතර ඇති. ඒ කොහොම උනත් හැම එකාම ඉස්කෝලෙනම් යනවා. මොකැයී ඇමරිකානු ආදාර යටතෙ දෙන විස්කෝතු හම්මු වෙනවානේ. විවේකෙන් පස්සෙ බාගයක් ඉස්කෝලෙ නැහැ. වැටෙන් රිංගල ගෙදෙර ගිහිල්ල.

ඔය ගමේ තමයි මේ හරක් හොරා ඉන්නේ. උන්දෑ හරක් හොරකම් කොරගෙන ගිහිල්ල විකුනනවා එහෙම නෙවෙයී. වන්ගියෙන් වන්ගියට රෑ පානේ ගමට ඇවිල්ලා හරකගෙක් ඩැහැගෙන ගිහිල්ල මරාගෙන කනවා මාස ගනනක් තියාගෙන. කැලේ තමයී ඉන්නේ. වැඩි වයසක උන්දෙක් නොවෙයී, සාගතේට අහුවෙච්ච කලු ගැහිච්ච කැහැටු කොලු ගැටයෙක්. සරම් කඩමාල්ලක් වගේ එකක් ඇදගෙන හිටියාට ඒකට සරමක් කියන්න බැහැ. මම උන්දෑව දැක්කෙ පොලොසියෙන් අල්ලා ගත්තාට පස්සේ. මේකව අල්ලාගෙන හොදටම නෙලලා, ඇග පුරාම ලේ පාරවල් තැලුම් පාරවල්. හරක් හමක් පිට උඩ පොරෝල. හරක් වලිගයක් කටින් හපාපිය කියලා දීලා ගම හරහ උදේ පාන්දර මූට ගගහ දක්කගෙන එනවා උදේ බස් එකට හරක් වලිගෙත් කටින් එල්ලාගෙන. උන්දෑ බාගෙට මැරිලා වගේ. ඇවිද ගන්නත් බැහැ. කැලෑ ගදයී. අන්තිමට ගෙනල්ලා ඌව බස් එකේ බැටරි පෙට්ටිය ලගින් බිම ඉන්දෝල කකුල කනුවකට අල්ලලා මාන්චු දැම්මා. මමත් ඒ බස් එකෙම තමයී එදා අප්පච්චිත් එක්ක ආපහු කොලඹ එන්න කියලා ආවේ. ඌ හරක් වලිගෙත් කටින් හපාගෙන හරක් හමත් පොරවාගෙන එහෙ විසි වෙනවා මෙහේ විසි වෙනවා. ඔලුව හැප්පෙනවා, කද හැප්පෙනවා.පොලිසීයේ රාල හාමිලා දෙන්නාට එක දැකල හරිම හිනා. දෙන්න දෙන්නාගේ මූන බලාගෙන හිනාවෙනවා.

බලු නකුටා
අපේ ගෙවල් පැත්තේ අයාලෙ යන බල්ලො ගොඩයී. අරහෙ දුවනවා මේහේ දුවනවා. අනුන්ගේ වතුවලට යනවා, ජරාව කොරනවා. ඔය ගොඩේ හිටියා බලල් ඇස් තියන කෙට්ටු බැල්ලියක්. හැම මුරෙටම කොහේ හරි පැටව් තුන් හතර දෙනෙක් දානවා. අනුන්ගේ කුනු ගොඩවල් වලට ගිහිල්ල කනවා. ගෙහිමියෝ කෙලින්න එනකොට අරහෙට මෙහාට පැනලා බේරිලා දුවනවා. මගේ යාලුවෙක් දවසක් ගඩොල් බාගයක් අතේ තියාගෙන ඉන්නවා මේ බැල්ලි එනකම්. බැල්ලිත් හොරෙන් හොරෙන් වැටෙන් රිංගල ආව කුනු ගොඩ ලගට. කොල්ල එල්ලෙ බලලා ඇරිය ගඩොල් බාගෙ කෙලින්ම බල්ලාගේ කකුලට. බැල්ලිට තරු. කකුලත් උස්සාගෙන යටි ගිරියෙන් බෙරිහන්දීගෙන එක පිම්මට වැට අස්සෙන් රිංගලා පැටව් ඉන්න දිහාවට දිවේ එක හුස්මට. බල්ල නොපෙනී ගිහිල්ලත් උගේ ලතෝනිය ඇහෙනවා. මයේ යාලුවට හරිම හිනා. උන්දෑ බල්ලා දුවපු හැටි කිය කියා හිනාවෙනවා. පෙන්න පෙන්නා හිනාවෙනවා. ගඩොලෙ තරම කිය කියා හිනාවෙනවා.

කුඩු කාරයා
නුගේගොඩ කිට්ටුව අලංකාර පන්සලක් තියනවා. ඔය කිට්ටුව මමත් හිටියා කාලෙකට උඩදි. හැම පෝයටම ලව්ස්පීකරේ පිරිත්. කටින පින්කම කාලේට හැමදාම පිරිත්. බොහොම සිංහල ගමක්. දවසක් ඔය ගමට කුඩු කාරයෙක් හොරකමේ ඇවිල්ල. දන්නවානේ උන්දෙලාගේ කතාව. වැලක රෙද්දක් දාලා තියන්න බැහැ හොරකම් කොරනවා. ලිදේ බාල්දිය බොලොක්කෙ එක්ක හොරකම් කොරනවා. ගමේ උන්දෙලා මේකව අල්ලාගෙන, ඇදගෙන ඇවිල්ල පාර ලගට. ගමේ පිරිමි සරන් ඇද ඇද දුවගෙන එනවා. එකෙක් නිදාගෙන හිටපු ඇදේ ඇද පොල්ලත් ගලෝගන ඇවිල්ල. සමහරුන් කකා හිටපු ගමන් අතේ ඉදුල්. කට්ටියම වටකරගෙන මේකට ගහනවා. පොලුවලින් ගහනවා. පයීන් ගහනවා. එකෙක් ඌගේ කෙස්සෙන් අල්ලාගෙන. කට්ටිය වට වෙච්ච තරමට සමහරුන්ට ගහන්න යන්න ඉඩ නැහැ. උඩින් අත දාල ඔලුවට ගහනව. ගෑනු, ලමයී අතේ එල්ලාගෙන පාරට ඇවිල්ලා කැ ගහනවා. ඕකට ගැහුව ඇති, දැන් ඕකා මැරෙයී. එකෙක් කියනවා. හොදවැඩේ කුඩුකාර හැත්ත. තව ගෑනියෙක් කියනවා. අන්තිමට ගුටි කෙලිය ඉවර වෙනකොට කුඩු කාරයා බාගෙට මැරිලා. ඇදුම් ඉරිලා. සිහිය නැහැ. ත්‍රීවීල් මල්ලි ත්‍රීවීල් එක කරකවගෙන ඇවිල්ල බිම වැටිලා උන්න එකා ඇදලා, පිටිපස්සෙ බිමට දාලා පොලෝසියට ගෙනිච්චා. වටවෙච්ච ගමේ කට්ටිය කුඩු කාරයාට කෙලපු හැටි ගැන කිය කියා හිනාවෙනවා. ඌට ගහනකොට ඌ බෙරිහන් දුන්නු හැටි කිය කියා හිනා වෙනවා. හිනා ගොඩයී.

ගැබිනි වාට්ටුව.
මේක මම දැකපු කතාවක් නෙවෙයී. අහපු කතාවක්. ඔය කොලඹින් එපිට ඉස්පිරිතාලෙක කතාවක් තමයී. හැබැයී ඉතින් බොහොමයක් ඉස්පිරිතාලවලට පොදු කතාවක් කියලා තමයී මම හිතන්නේ. දරුවෙක් ඉපදෙනකොට ඇතිවෙන විලි රුදාව කියන්නෙ එසේ මෙසේ දෙයක් නොවෙයී. රුදාවෙ තරම කටින් කියන්න බැහැ නොවැ. ඔය කවුද කීවේ විලි රුදාවෙ තරම දැන ගන්න ඕනෙනම්, යටි තොල ඇදලා අරගෙන ඔලුවෙ අනිත් පැත්තට දාන්නයැයී කියලා. කොහොම උනත් විලිරුදාව හැදුනහම අම්මලා වේදනාවෙන් බෙරිහන් දෙනවා. කෑ ගහනවා. එතකොට තමයී ඉස්පිරිතාලෙ වින්නබු අම්මලා නර්ස් නොනලා ඇවිල්ල දරු උපතට උදව් කරන්නේ. ඉතින් ඔය අපේ ඉස්පිරිතාලෙ වින්නබු අම්මලා ඇවිල්ල, "පයීය දාන්න කකුල් පලල් කරන්න පුලුවන්නම් දැන් බෙරිහන්දෙන්නේ නැතිව තටමමපන් හුත්තීයේ" කියලා අම්මලාට දෙකයී හතරේ කුනු හරුපෙන් බනිනවා. පස්සේ වින්නබු අම්මලා, නර්ස් නෝනලා, "මේ ගෑනු අත බබාල වෙන්න හදනවා, මම ඒකීට සුද්ද සිංහලෙන් කීවෙ මෙහෙමයී, ඔය දැන් වැදුවෙ ලමය", කියලා එකිනෙකාට කිය කියා හිනා වෙනව. නියම විහුලුව.

කොටි මරපු හැටි
මේක අපි කවුරුත් දැකපු කතාවක්. ඔය පහුගිය වන්ගියේ කොටි මරපු චිත්‍රපටියක්යැයී කියපු එකක් ඉන්ටර්නෙට් එක පුරාම තිබුනානේ. ඔය එංගලන්තෙ හතරවෙන් නාලිකාවෙ ගියායැයී කියන එක. කවුරු හරි කොටි මරන්නත් එපායැ. කට්ටියක් අත පය බැදපු මිනිස්සු කාන්ඩයක් අමු හෙලුවෙන් ඇදගෙන ඇවිල්ල ඔලුවට වෙඩි තියලා මඩ වගුරක් උඩ මරනවා. අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න දෙයක් නැහැනේ. කවුරුත් දැකලා ඇතිනේ, හැබැයී හරියට ඇහුවොතින් අහන්න පුලුවන් කවදාවත් අහන්න නොලැබෙන විහිලු කතාවක්, කට්ටිය "බලපං බලපං අන්න අරූ හාව පැන්නා වගේ වැටිලා මැරුනේ මචන්" කියලා එකිනෙකාට හිනාවෙනවා. හරිම විහිලු වැඩක් තමයී.

The Tax Poem

2009-12-08T22:42:00.010+05:30

This is one of those uninvited emails we get every day that keep us all busy in the office. I don’t know is everything here is true or not, but I thought its funny. If its funny, it don’t have to be true. Here we go...

"O M Weerasooriya has done a wonderful job by writing this poem but there is something that we would like you to know. A rich country will collect 20 to 35% as taxes. A developing country will collect 35 to 42.5% as taxes. Today Sri Lanka collects 63% as taxes. From every 100 rupees you earn, 63 rupees will go back to the government as taxes. This means Sri Lanka is heading towards disaster like Zimbabwe which collects a whopping 88%."
(Mr. OM Weerasooiya is a Retired Commissioner General of Inland Revenue and a Corporate Member of Sri Lanka Institute of Taxation and former Treasurer of Netherlands Alumni Association of Lanka.)

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts Anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Death Tax
Dog License Tax
Driving Permit Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment (UI)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Petrol Tax ( too much per litre)
Gross Receipts Tax
Health Tax
Hunting License Tax
Hydro Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage LicenseTax
Medicare Tax
Mortgage Tax
Personal Income Tax
Property Tax
Poverty Tax
Prescription Drug Tax
Provincial Income Tax
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax
School Tax
Telephone Tax
Telephone, Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Water Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Entertainment Tax
Tourism Promotion Tax
Value Added Tax ........

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle-class, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What in the hell happened?

What is wrong with Sinhalese Buddhists?

2009-07-28T21:10:00.022+05:30

Holly tooth relic was brought to Sri Lanka by a woman. A pretty princess she was they say. A strong and fearless woman she was, I think. But let alone having voting rights for the only woman happened to be in the Temple of tooth board, they even do not let woman get closer to the tooth relic anymore.

Sri Maha bodi, the holly tree, brought to Sri Lanka by a woman. A princess turned a Buddhist monk they say. Regardless woman are not welcome to pass the fence around any Bodi tree, a fence that often happened to be made with Gold for some strange reason I don’t understand let alone why we have a fence in the first place.

We don't stop there; our Sinhalese Buddhists go on making new laws in the name of Buddhism and even monks walk in to politics in the name of Buddhism too. I often wonder who is correct, Buddha or our Sinhalese Buddhists. Since Sinhalese Buddhists are often correct, it is safe to bet Buddha was utterly wrong by leaving politics in the first place and becoming a simple monk. He should have stay in the power, and become an emperor like Genghis Khan or at least a government minister like one of those Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, and create all sorts of laws.

Before I get distracted by those hypocrisy business, what I really wanted to talk about is, those two baby elephants that people at temple of tooth snatched last week from their mothers in Pinnawala elephant orphanage and brought to Kandy to be working elephants. It is bothering me. Anyone with a tiny bit of knowledge about elephants knows elephants are highly emotional and have strong and long lasting parent-child relationships. And if those people at temple of tooth have their own children, they should have known how strong that love could be. Even if they don’t have own children for a quick comparison, they could have easily refer any Buddhist teachings widely available on the Internet, that often describe mothers love is the strongest love in the world. Wildlife researchers say all those killer elephants are orphans with terrible childhood memories. Since they are wildlife researchers and research is what they do, we have to believe it is true. But you don’t need to read research papers to understand that, just sit comfortably in a safe place and look form distance at a family of elephants in wild. But sadly, those people at temple of tooth have not done any of that.

News says Elephants mothers at Pinnawala orphanage still crying and injuring themselves, as mammals naturally do when they are emotionally devastated. So does the babies. According to the same news, one baby already broke his tusk. May be they just want to die. This whole incident remind me of the Japanese movie call පුන්චි ඇත් පැටවා , which subtitled by an absolute genius name Titus Thotawaththa.

I do understand Elephants are part of our culture and we need them as working animals and it won’t be a perfect deal all the time. But since we humans claim ourselves better than animals, we should have treated them with little bit more kindness and understanding. May be good people at temple of tooth thought, Elephants may not have souls and they were created for us to use as we wish. If so, they are wrong. James Herriot said "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." and James Herriot is right.

If I can, I would like to do terrible things to those people who do terrible things to animals. Or at least force them to sit down and watch පුන්චි ඇත් පැටවා till they cry with self shame.
News Update is here

Blind Photography. Can you See Beyond Sight?

2009-07-25T22:29:00.002+05:30

Seeing Beyond Sight project is a blind photography project. I just finish watching Tony Deifell’s talk @ Google and Seeing Beyond Sight videos. I don’t know how to explain exactly what it make me feel. It change the perspective of world philosophically and emotionally. Here I add list of some videos from Seeing Beyond Sight project. Every second you spend watching that, is a well spend second.

The Butterfly Effect Do Work

2009-07-09T17:23:00.010+05:30

Butterfly effect is a term base on a mathematical theory call "chaos theory" according to Wikipedia, which I have very little knowledge or interest in since that to do with boring mathematic. But when someone applies those boring theories in to real life, they get undoubtedly fascinating, just like my grandmothers cooking. The simple idea behind Butterfly Effect is, a butterfly in Africa flapping its wings, may create a ripple effect that end up as a cyclone in America or some other continent. Even though, to me that argument sounded like a bad excuse for not doing home work, a mathematician may prove it using hieroglyphics on large blackboards, as they usually do.

I was reading the news about unrest in China this week. A 19 year old Han Chinese girl working as a trainee in a toy factory lost her way to her dormitory. I don’t know how she managed to lost her way, but I like to imagine, it may be a boy with his hands in his pockets, whistling at passing girls, leaning and covering the signpost which pointed toward the girl’s dormitory, cause her to lose her way. Whatever the reason it may be, she ended up opening a door of a room to some Uygur young men. Having seen unexpected men in the room and realizing that was not her dormitory, she screamed and runaway. I don’t know why she decided to do that, but girls usually very good at creating drama when they are occasionally embarrassed. The girl went on her way to her friends and spends night with them.

I don’t know how other Han workers got to know that either. But I like to imagine one Han guy bored that day because of some minor reason, smoking a cigarette looking outside his window, wearing nothing but his underwear, saw a Han girl screaming and running away from a room occupied by some young Uygur boys. Hans and Uygurs been belong to two deferent ethnic groups, they agreed upon doing exact thing any number of ethnic groups suppose to do in such a situation. Fight with each other, while continually informing and inviting others on mobile phones. So they did just that. As lethal as Chinese fights are reputed to be, the fight overflowed from the dormitory to the factory and from factory to the city causing more than 160 people dead. Chinese government deployed 1000s of solders to the region and pronounce anyone involved in fighting will be executed. That means more dead people. Meanwhile Chinese president, who was working on fixing the global economic crises with G8 leaders, had to stop all that good work and fly back home right away to address the Han vs Uygurs fight, causing further delays improving the global economy. Now, that is what I like to call The Butterfly Effect and that is how our little lives effected most of the time. But we rather like to think we have significant control of everything around us, or at least we know a fellow who we can bribe by cheap praises regularly and get him to control situations. But that is not really the case. A girl walking in to a wrong building in China, may create a situation that cause you to lose your job in Sri Lanka.

Let Gays go to Hell !

2009-07-03T23:58:00.011+05:30

This week India overturns the colonial law banning same-sex relationships. I’m pleased. India is not only progressing in economic front, but most importantly in moral front also. Such a country will never fail.

There are few none Muslim countries in the world still practices this horrible colonial law of outlawing same sex relationships and Sri Lanka is a one of those horrible countries. Last year United Nations made a request to all those countries to consider relaxing those awful colonial laws, but Sri Lanka refused them as always under the pressure of Churches, specially Mormon Church which acquired significant power over our government recently. Our Penal Code 365A which ban gay relationships as unnatural act, amended by G.L. Peiris in 1995 under the supervision of Catholic Church, added lesbians also in to that.

One of my religious friends told me, the world is coming to the end because of our tolerance against homosexuals. Economic problems, global warming, earthquake and such things are results of our behavior against God. Well, if that is so, let gays go to hell. And if by letting homosexuals have their rights, if we also go to hell, let us go to hell too. It is better to go to hell doing the right than go to heaven doing the wrong.

Mahinda Rajapaksa Facts

2009-07-02T06:00:00.011+05:30

Lot of people asked me who Mahinda Rajapaksa really is. Is he a dictator? Is he a new royalty or is he simply everybody’s uncle? Those are difficult questions. So here I collect some facts about him. Hope you find them interesting.

Mahinda Rajapaksa can sneeze with his eyes open.
Mahinda Rajapaksa can delete anything he wants; he can even delete the recycle bin.
Mahinda Rajapaksa makes onions cry.
When Mahinda Rajapaksa looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Mahinda and Mahinda.
Sanath Jayasuriya can throw a ball over 50 yards. Rajapaksa can throw jayasuriya even further.
Mahinda Rajapaksa does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.
Bullets dodge Rajapaksa.
If you spell Rajapaksa wrong on Google it doesn't say, "Did you mean Rajapaksa? " It simply replies, "Run while you still have the chance."
Google won't search for Mahinda Rajapaksa because it knows you don't find Mahinda Rajapaksa, he finds you.
Mahinda Rajapaksa can kill two stones with one bird.
It takes Mahinda Rajapaksa 12 minutes and 40 seconds to watch Sirasa Ran-Depeya.
Lysol claims they can kill 99.9% of germs. Mahinda Rajapaksa kills 100 percent of whatever he wants.
There is no such thing as global warming. Mahinda Rajapaksa was cold, so he turned the sun up.
Ghosts are actually caused by Mahinda Rajapaksa killing people faster than Death can process them.
In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Mahinda Rajapaksa could use to kill you, including the room itself.
Mahinda Rajapaksa couldn’t enter Mortal Kombat, because Rajapaksa is no mortal.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Mahinda Rajapaksa.
With the rising cost of Kerosene, Mahinda Rajapaksa is beginning to worry about his drinking habit.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Mahinda Rajapaksa has allowed to live.
Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Mahinda.
Aliens DO indeed exist. They just know better than to visit a planet that Mahinda Rajapaksa is on.
We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Mahinda doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
Mahinda Rajapaksa invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Ranil Wickramasinghe invented pink.
Mahinda Rajapaksa recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Elephant House Ginger Beer.
Nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole, except for Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mahinda Rajapaksa eats black holes. They taste like string hoppers.
In a fight between Rama and Ravana, the winner would be Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Mahinda Rajapaksa never wet his bed as a child. The bed wet itself out of fear.
The 11th commandment is “Thou shalt not piss off Mahinda Rajapaksa” This commandment is rarely enforced, as it is impossible to accomplish.
Mahinda Rajapaksa has volunteered to remain on earth after the Rapture; he will spend his time fighting the Anti-Christ.
In the Bible, Jesus turned water into wine. But then Mahinda Rajapaksa turned that wine into beer.
Mahinda Rajapaksha doesn't need a miracle in order to split the ocean. He just walks in and the water gets the fuck out of the way.
When God said, "Let there be light", Mahinda Rajapaksha said, "say please."
When Arnold says the line "I'll be back" in the first Terminator movie it is implied that is he going to ask Mahinda Rajapaksa for help.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the pen is held by Rajapaksa.
Rules of fighting: 1) Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. 2) Don't bring a gun to a Rajapaksa fight.
In Sri Lanka there is a legend that a warrior name Mahasona, with a wild boar head and human body rules the dark night. That man is not Mahinda Rajapaksa. Because he killed that man.
Somawansa is allowed to live because Rajapaksa doesn't kill women.
Mahinda Rajapaksa does not know about this blog. If he did, he would have just deleted the internet.
Before become the president, Mahinda Rajapaksha was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when he managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.
If it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken but Mahinda Rajapaksha says its beef, then it's fucking beef.
Mahinda Rajapaksha doesn't have hair on his testicles, because hair does not grow on steel.
Death once had a near-Mahinda-Rajapaksha experience.
The only time Mahinda Rajapaksha was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.

know more Mahinda Rajapaksa facts? Comment section is open!

MIA @ Real Time with Bill Maher, this Friday.

2009-05-24T07:04:00.002+05:30

MIA somehow managed to get into Real Time with Bill Maher this Friday. Real Time with Bill Maher is one of the top liberal US political shows and a good one too. This time, in this interview, she went on saying "you have to understand in Sri Lanka, not a single Sinhalese person is been convicted of a crime for 60 years". And Bill was surprised by that statement, and so does I. Bill ask "Any Crime?" and she said "No". Bill asked again "Not even shop lifting?" and she said "nothing."

I don’t know what to say about these kind of talk. Can I say it is a lie? If I say that, wouldn’t I imply you are idiot without what so ever self judgment?

Can I Give Sri Lankan Army the Benefit of the Doubt?

2009-05-11T21:27:00.013+05:30

I can’t watch pictures of dead children any more, without making me chock and feeling utterly helpless. I don’t know what it is to a parent to lose a child, but I know what it is to have a child. And I can’t possibly imagine how a parent could bear lost of a child.

1000 people dead one say, 2000 people dead say others. Just numbers, anonymous people, rounded up to last digits for our convenience. But they all are people with faces, legs and hopes, some are parents to a child like our parents and some child to a parent like our children.

As a citizen in a democratic country, I have a moral and civil responsibility to what our army is doing. If Sri Lankan Army shelled on those civilians, they should burn in hell, we all should burn in hell, because we know better, because we have other options. We drag this war more than a quarter century. I know every single day it drag further, it only bring suffering to everyone, but we could wait couple of more days, couple of more weeks, if needed couple of more months. We don’t have to risk large number of civilians. We shouldn’t have risk children. There are other options. There are better options.

But at this moment, I’m willing to accept government’s version of the story and give benefit of the doubt to Sri Lankan Army, only because LTTE does not have any military power that they can use for a victory or even for survival against Sri Lankan military, but they still don’t want to surrender, because they have a single card left, which they have been using quite vigorously and successfully. Civilians. They keep on holding thousands of civilians that they collected on their retreat, not to keep as pets, or as hotel guests, but for their military use, just like bullets, buckets and such other objects that they may dispose for their tactical benefit. And Canadian and British LTTE members propagate civilian death to the maximum military benefit of LTTE. More civilians die, more children die, more advantage they collect. Attract enemy fire on to civilians or deliberately killing civilians for propaganda, always has been fully working tactic for LTTE. In the absent of military power, I don’t think LTTE is sitting around a table playing cards with each other smoking cigars, or drinking tea or reading comic books. They are working on the only tactic left for them to reach their goal – a ceasefire. That is kill civilians, thousands by thousands, until so call “international community” forces government to go to a truce. It is brutal tactic. But it is a working tactic. It is bloody working tactic.

I’m in the Channel 4 News Piece About War in Sri Lanka!

2009-05-07T19:57:00.045+05:30

I guess you have seen above Channel 4 News piece and wonder who those shadowy figures are. I’m here to put your mind to rest - that was me, the first shadowy figure with the title “Aid worker”. The second guy is one of my good friends. Now before you say anything, I just want to say, it is nothing personal, just pure british way of investigative journalism. I’m just doing my job. Nevertheless, we were paid handsomely and we were also told there is a big possibility for us to get UK visa with the help of Channel 4.

We shoot this little news piece in Juliana hotel in Kolpity, where we all had a very good time with very most gorgeous ladies. If you listened to news piece carefully, I almost blow the whole thing up with the story, “the dead woman with worms coming out of the mouth, while children playing around her”. But I could have blow this up big time, if I said what I was really about to say. A woman was dead for days and her few weeks old baby trying to feed on her breast. I saw that sort of a scene in a movie, I think it was in the HBO miniseries Rome. But luckily, last minute I thought it would be overly dramatic.

The video footage of the camp, well, I was able get that copy for Channel 4 from a friend of mine, a DIG in the Police, from the police video unit. As you see, even my DIG friend’s driver, Corporeal Samaranayaka, is in that video in his uniform. I know the video does not synch very much with the storyline. But the video cost us only a diner, few bottles and a trip to the heath center at Galadari hotel, where my DIG friend spend couple of happy hours with most beautiful ladies. But Isn’t it priceless when present as a secret hidden footage from a death camp in a third world country, with the soft sad narrative in the backgroud?

The news crew from Channel 4 was wonderful. I met those British journalists who break the story of “Rubina Ali’s father (Slumdog Millioner child actress) trying to auction his daughter shamelessly, to the highest bidder, as those people in third world countries often do”. If you remember, Indian police found out it was a made up story and her father never tried to auction his daughter, as British media claimed. But story was already sold for a price you won’t believe, and it was a top story all over the world. Anyway, no one believes Indian police or any other authority from any third world countries. Third world countries are always corrupt and without whatsoever moral values. Everyone in developed countries knows that. So it do not have to be a "real story", as long as it provide enough shocking value and the sense of moral superiority to the audience (journalist students – take notes). Before you say anything bad about these guys, who are trying to make a living, I want to tell you, it is not like they are holding a bottle of fake “yellowcake” in UN meeting, cooking up a reason to invade another country or something like that. These are just innocent news stories.

I know, some may deeply question the validity of this post and rightfully so. Some always do. So let me tell you something. I know, I’m a blogger, not a journalist. But when I write a post, I try my best to follows same journalistic standards Channel 4 and other numerous British news organizations proudly follows. So if you have any questions about the validity of this story, please contact Channel 4. I made my claim, I know it is shocking, and claims without proofs are just humbug to intelligent mind, But I’m a shadowy figure, and you can not quection shadowy figures. So now it is Channel 4's turn to deny my claim, if they are not true.

Swine Flu for Dummies

2009-05-04T00:14:00.008+05:30

White people, generally spend their day talking about handbags, sushi and such things, while having London Fog Tea latte in Starbucks, needs something to make them panic once in a while to complete their life. They usually jump out of perfectly fine air planes and call it sky diving or engage in horrible activity call bungee jumping. But not everyone can personally put their lives in such risks for their own amusement, so they find something exciting in mass scale between each Olympic. One time they waited till air plans to drop out from the sky and world to end, and called it Y2K. And this year they find something new, called it Swine flu.

Swine flu is a flu presumably originated in Mexico as they say, and so far around 20 people died out of around 800 confirmed cases. This brings perfect drama for white people to start panicking, and we follow white people as ducklings as we usually do, start testing passengers with flu like symptoms in our Airport and discuses about it while we are getting drunk. But meanwhile, plain old flu, causes 500,000 deaths each year, but it is too common and has no theatrical value in it. Something new gives governments a reason to spend large amount of money on vaccinations and such things, that to be throw away unused in couple of years and drug companies to make large sum of money like it is Christmas. News corporations also get chance to report something all day without spending bit of money on camera crews or journalists.

Swine flu is a virus like any other flu, and virus as they usually do in their spare times, engages in evolution. But some people who do not believe in evolution in the first place, thrilled by the Swine flu, so they can say, “Look! Look! We were correct; pigs are bad, dirty and unholy! Since we are correct this time, we are correct all other times!! You unbelievers will go to hell and bake live in slow heat”. But the sad story is, they were not able to find any pig with swine flu virus yet, even if it is called swine flu. So black pork curries are still delicious as they been for past couple of thousand years and it will continue to feed us for years to come.

I’m not saying we should not protect ourselves from swine flu, or any other flu, but all I’m saying is normal dull old flu is far more dangerous and deadlier than the swine flu. And H1N1 flu as they call it now, will evolutes in to something else next year, if not in next couple of months.

ටෙලිපොන් විහිලු කතා

2009-04-24T23:32:00.008+05:30

ශාකුන්තලගේ සටහන දැක්කම මටත් පාසල් ගිය කාලේ ආගිය කතාවක් මතක් වුනා. මේ මුලු කතාවම දුරකතන සන්වාදයක් යාලුවෙකුගෙ අප්පච්චිත් එක්ක. හැමෝම දන්නවා, පොඩ්ඩක් පොඩ්ඩ ඇත්තම් අම්බානට තද වෙනවා කියලා.

හෙලෝ.. කවුද?

- මම මම

කවුද මම?

- මම මේ තිස්ස.

තිස්සසස.. තිස්ස කවුද?

- ඇයී සමරනායක මතක නැද්ද, මම මේ තිස්සනේ..

අනේ මතකයක් නම් නැහැ. තිස්සලා ගොඩක් හිටියනේ. කොහොන්ද කතා කරන්නේ?

- මේ පොලොන්නරුවෙන්. මේ පොලොන්නරුවෙ තිස්ස. මතක නැදද, මේ මම මේ කතා කරේ, අපේ මුවා එහෙම ඔය පැත්තේ ආවද.

කවුද, මුවා!?

- අර ගිය පාර මහත්තය පොලොන්නරු ගියවෙලේ මාත් එක්ක හම්බුවුනේ. මේ අපේ මුවා. මම මේ දවස් ගානක ඉදලා අල්ලා ගන්න හදනවා, කොහේ ඉන්නවාද දන්නේ නැහැ. ඕහේවත් ආවද කියලා බලන්නයී මේ කතා කරේ.

ඇත්තටම කවුද ඔය?

- මේ තිස්ස පොලොන්නරුවේ. කාවනම් පියතිස්ස. මේ මුවාව හොයන ගනමන් කතා කරන්නේ. ඇත්තටම ඕකා ඔය පැත්තටවත් ආවද.!?

@#$@#$$#$#$% මේ අයීත් එහෙම කතා කරන්න එපා..

වටේ ඉන්න අයට බඩ පැලෙන්න හිනා. අන්කල්ට නහුතෙට තද වෙලා තමන්ටම බැන බැනා ගිහිල්ල අයීත් ලංකාදීපෙ බලන්න ගත්තලු ඉස්තෝප්පුවේ ලොකු පුටුවෙ වාඩි වෙලා. කොලුකාලේ අපිටත් සීමාවක් නැහැනේ. ආයීත් විනාඩි දහයකට පහලවකට පස්සේ, තව එකෙක් අන්කල්ට කෝල් එකක් අරගන, බොහොම සුමුහිරි කටහඩකින් අහනවා

හලෝ..

- හලේ.. කවුද..?

මම මේ මුවා කතා කරන්නේ. තිස්ස මට පනිවිඩයක් තිබ්බාද..?

LTTE F.A.Q (as for today)

2009-04-23T18:59:00.046+05:30

What is LTTE? LTTE is an international crime and terrorist organization base in "Western world", Countries such as Britain, Canada and Australia and operates mainly in Asian countries such as Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India.

Who are LTTE members? Majority of LTTE members are British and Canadians, mainly from tribal areas of those countries. Also there are significant number of cadres, mainly children and woman, forcibly recruited in Asian countries such as Sri Lanka for their suicide operations. The figurehead leader and the founder of the organization is still a Sri Lanka citizen.

Are they Terrorists? Most of the countries consider LTTE as a terrorist organization. Even Canadian and British governments accept LTTE as terrorist organization. FBI named LTTE as the world most dangerous terrorist organization. But western publications, such as Huffington Post do not consider LTTE as a terrorist organization, rather like to generalize as a Guerrilla organization. Regardless, LTTE is the inventor of suicide belt, and carried out more suicide attacks on civilians, combined Al Qaeda and all other terrorist organizations combine.

Is there any deferent between Al Qaeda and LTTE? Yes. Al Qaeda is an organization base on East and operates in West. And LTTE is an organization base on West and operate in East.

What LTTE wants? Just like Taliban, they want a country of their own to carry out their operations. Their immediate goal is to carve out a separate country from the island of Sri Lanka. They have already explored the possibilities in Malaysia and they are highly active in southern part of India also.

Who funds LTTE? Tax. LTTE successfully operate complex tax code in tribal areas of Canada, UK and other western countries, separated from the government taxes. Every tribal family supposes to make monthly wage to LTTE tax collectors, who have freedom to use that money on their personal businesses for three months. Also they are largely involved in piracy in Indian Ocean, sex slavery in Thailand, human smuggling Singapore and surrounding countries, and credit card frauds across Europe. According to Jane's Intelligence Centre, LTTE is the world most profitable terrorist organization.

Is there any connection between current genocide in Sri Lanka and LTTE? Unfortunately Yes. They have successfully committed 4 acts out of 5, which each considered as "genocide" under internal law by creating this unfortunate situation right now. They have wiped out every single Sri Lankan from North and East of the country, mainly by slaughtering complete villages overnight or forcibly keeping them as human shield. Also deliberately inflicting on Sri Lankans conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole, by destroying economy of the country and livelihood of Sri Lankans. And even at this moment, they are actively engage in blocking IMF loan Sri Lanka is seeking to survive the global finical crises and blocking other commercial transactions to rebuild the life of people in north and east part of the country.

Can Sri Lanka Eliminate LTTE? No. even once LTTE’s military operations completely failed in Sri Lanka, it will not stop their activities significantly. As long as LTTE operate in Tribal areas of those countries, they will continue to plan attack on Asian countries like Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, etc.. and our way of life.

Is Norway a Failed State?

2009-04-13T23:50:00.009+05:30

"Embassy bombing" and things like that are nothing new, if you watch nightly news that they promote malted milk and such other commodities. Terrorists attacks, under-protected embassies all around the world, over and over again in failed states such as Afghanistan and Somalia. But for strange reason, Norwegians also joined this disgraceful club this week by vandalizing the Sri Lankan embassy.

Sri Lanka is a poor country with much corruption, a war, and so many other things we are not proud of. We are number 20 in failed states list. But we never failed to protect our embassies to our best, even while we vigorously protest front them for so many reasons. Norway is a beautiful country, with peaceful, soccer loving people. I can’t understand what made Norwegians to behave like Afghan or Somali terrorists. Maybe they were having too much Absolute this week. Or maybe they were having Lutefisk with too much lye, since last Christmas. Or may be Norway is a failed state like so many other failed states around the world. Whatever the reason it may be, I would like to pass my friend Ole a little advice I received from my class teacher in the unholy days of JVP era. "If you sleep with dogs, you will wake up with ticks".

Do NOT use Condoms, it can increase your chance of getting AIDS.

2009-03-26T22:55:00.003+05:30

This is a public service announcement. I’m not writing any of my own opinions, since it is not really necessary.

Pope Benedict, Our holly father, Servant of the Servants of God, talking about AIDS in Africa last week announced,

“You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms, On the contrary, it increases the problem."

So guys if you engage in some sort of sexual activity please do NOT use condoms by any means. It can worsen AIDS problem and it will not help protecting you from those sorts of diseases.

Tamil Struggle vs Black Struggle. (A reply to BeyondFrame)

2009-03-23T23:53:00.028+05:30

When it comes to so call Tamil Struggle in Sri Lanka, there are few deferent views among Sinhalese out there. The first group of Sinhalese haven’t spend a day in their life to learn what it is, but pick a bit from there and bit from here like a old cow in a barn, eventually surrender to someone else’s assumptions since it is easiest thing to do. Then there is other group, who honestly don’t bother. I kind of like this attitude for so many reasons. They accept all the terrifying bombs, never-ending war and daily bad news as a fact of life like in-laws or neighbors. The other group opposes to the Tamil Struggle and they are very well annoyed by it. The last group, that I assume Beyond Frame also belongs to sympathized the Tamil Struggle and believe in a root cause. They believe by treating root cause, we can solve the terrorism too, which is a part of so call Tamil Struggle. It is quite logical and sensible approach.

Beyond Frame wrote this blog about black struggle in America and current situation of black community. Even thought it received very less attentions than his usual fiery posts, that is a topic I find very interesting. He suggests, rightfully, we should look at similar situations in other countries, such as Black issues in America and compare them with our own issues.

Here is my comparison.

1. Minorities always get their ass kicked.
There are minorities in every country, Tamils in Sri Lanka, Muslims in India or Gays in America. They all get their ass kicked one time or another. I find American homosexuals issue is pretty interesting to look at. Blacks, who were discriminated back then, voted for a bill to discriminate Gays in California this year. My point here is, there is no country without faults. Correcting them is a journey, not an event. Sri Lanka also had her faults, she corrected lot of them, there is lot more, and we will correct them along the way too.

2. Minorities always win.
Minorities always win rights at the end. But they never win rights only for themselves; instead they create rights for everyone. If any minority group gains rights only for themselves, it won’t pass the brutal test of time. Blacks in America did not won rights only for blacks, they create set of Civil Rights that can enjoy by whites, blacks and every other color in that country. Tamils in Sri Lanka are not fighting for set of civil rights like how blacks did in America. They are exclusively demand for themselves. Whenever situation is such, they have to use excessive amount of violence to achieve such goal. And even if they successive, it cannot survive without continues use of force.

3. Conflict is a Compulsory Evil
If you look at history of any free country, it is the minorities, who always won rights for everyone and make the country better each time. Even though face of Tamil Struggle is selfish terror campaign, as a byproduct, Sri Lankan social structure may possibly improve.

3. Black vs Tamils, discrimination.
This I find quite interesting. Blacks were slaves and Tamils were not. I guess until British gained control of the whole island, Tamils who was the ruling class of the Kingdom (also elite Sinhalese) had Sinhalese Slaves (source: Kanadian court records) and owners had rights to punish even by the brutal act of amputation. After the power swap, Tamils dominated the upper class of the country, and Sinhalese worked as servants for them. Now there is nothing wrong with serving anyone and matter of fact, if you talk to those old people who spend their youth as servant-boys, they still speak very highly of their Tamil masters and they have a bit of pride too. This is complete opposite to the African American situation.

13% of Americans are black, but they all speak English or Spanish, not Kiswahili. Or any time of the history they did not demanded any African language to be an official language. And matter of fact, use of African tongue was banned all together back then. Now talking about Language, English was the Language in Sri Lanka until Bandaranayaka changed it in to Sinhala “with reasonable use of Tamil” (the part everyone forget to mention when they talk about this), and later on, Tamil also considered as national language.

Unlike blacks in America, Tamils in Sri Lanka had access to Parliament since the day one. When blacks were fighting to sit front of the bus, Tamils are demanding 50-50 seats in the parliament. Democracy or parliament may not be perfect, considering it is the democratic system that banned gay marriages in US or been gay a crime in SL, still democracy have ability to self correct and do the right thing. Therefore it is the best system we have so far, and Tamils had all the rights (or even more than Sinhalese) to participate in it.

More than Sinhalese I said? Yes. Let me explain why. By Sri Lankan constitution, Tamils have exclusive right to own lands in north of the country while they also have freedom to own land in any other place of the country. In otherworld, Sinhalese could not own land in north of the country till this day. That gives Tamils possibility to represent the parliament from any part of the country as they usually do, while rest do not have same possibility.

My point of all these examples is – Tamils were not discriminated as such as Blacks or quite possibly not even as much as Sinhalese. Now again, I do not deny Tamils were discriminated (or gays or children) or I don’t say blacks are not discriminated in America even now either.

4. Separate county.
Black struggle had three diferent goals, overlapping each other time to time. Specially in early ages, they wanted to go back to Africa. They thought Africa is the rightful place and quite large number of Black Americans moved to Liberia. It is quite contrary in Sri Lanka. They fought to stay here first and then they gave up the complete idea, Tamilnadu is their homeland.

Second face of black struggle is a separate state. This mainly lead by Elijah Muhammad and supported by Malcolm X at some point. Now this is very much equal to Tamil Struggle in Sri Lanka by so many ways. They both had influence of other countries and backing of religion. But this face did not work out for black people and did not work for Tamil people either.

Third and most successful face is Civil Right movement lead by MLK and others. MLK valued and respected America deeply. Let me repeat it again. MLK value and respect America deeply, the country that kept his people as slaves for hundreds of years, baned reading or writing, vote, and even owning property. This is totally opposite to Tamil Struggle in Sri Lanka which the main tactic is destroying Sri Lanka economically and structurally (that they did quite well)

MLK speak in Montgomery:

“We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. Now let us say that we are not here advocating violence. We have overcome that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. And secondly, this is the glory of America, with all of its faults. This is the glory of our democracy. If we were incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a Communistic nation we couldn't do this. If we were trapped in the dungeon of a totalitarian regime we couldn't do this. But the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.”

5. Where is Tamil Beyond Frame.
Beyond Frame and many other Sinhalese, continually speak for Tamil rights; criticize the government all the time. But I have not seen a single Tamil criticize even the most terrible acts of LTTE (well, except Anandasangari). Some says, because Tamils are scared of LTTE. Well, Sinhalese also die for criticizing the government isn’t it? And Beyond Frame still speaks his mind and it is same with the black community in US too. But end of the day, all Tamils voices are very much monolithic.

Unlike Black struggle, only two things can put a stop to Tamil Struggle. Tamil Rights are not one of them, because Black struggle is a struggle for rights. But Tamil struggle is not. Giving them what they are fighting for, asking for, can stop the Tamil struggle, which is a separate country. Or a Tamil leader who value and respect Sri Lanka with all her faults, just like MLK did, can put a stop to so call Tamil Struggle too.

Private University Dialog – My Response

2009-03-21T07:47:00.011+05:30

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. ~ Epictetus

I was reading all those arguments about private universities these days here, here and here and thought of writing an answer to all of them at once. So here it is. I’m trying to keep that in point form, so it is easy for anyone to challenge each point.

1. It is not free higher education. It is closed education.
It is true; one characters of our higher education system is “free” price tag, among other characteristics, such as class room education or weekday classes. But all those characteristics belong to a closed education system. When someone refers to free higher education system, they are defending or arguing not about the free price tag as one might think, but they are referring to the closed system.

2. “Free education” was an answer to a monopoly. Not meant to be a monopoly.
Until free education reforms, aristocrats were created by church, which had enough wealth to provide education with a free price tag to selected few, who they thought deserve to be educated. There was no challenge to such a monopoly back then, since concept of privately organized institutes was none exists. So government with a surplus budget did the right thing by breaking the monopoly of religion. Also in Early 1900s, Sri Lankans (and most of other countries) had unrestricted access to Europe where there was best organized higher education system in the world, for relatively cheap price. Free education was implemented in ADDITION to that, not as a REPLACEMENT. But this access and price tag dramatically changed after WWII.

3. Assumed Intelligence vs Wealth.
One argument keep on popping up loudly is, “fairness”. By letting people with private wealth access to knowledge openly, forces assumed intelligent without wealth, struggle “unfairly”. A person who simply passed A/L is no better or any special than illiterate Kamalawathi, who worked in Jordan and generated wealth for the nation. I can’t possibly see the principle behind the philosophy of assumed intelligence needed to be treated specially than proven wealth. I would be very glad if someone can explain the philosophy behind this argument.

4. A/L is not a way to decide intelligence.
There are three sub points:
1. One most arrogant and offensive argument coming up time to time is, people for open education or against close education are A/L dropouts. Let me simply say it is not true.

2. If only intelligent people deserve to be educated, then A/L is not the way to prove intelligence. Einstein, Da Vinci, Edison, Picasso, Churchill, Jefferson, Washington, Ted Turner, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, they all are dyslexic, therefore without what so ever possibility to be a success in Sri Lankan education system.

3. Even we have a solid way to locate intelligence; it is an unacceptable argument to say only intelligent people deserved to be educated. Intelligence is a result of education (whatever the form of education it may be), not education a result of intelligence. Therefore this argument fundamentally wrong.

5. People in Sri Lanka are poor and therefore they cannot afford Higher Education.
Simply not true. Those so called poor people already spend on higher education. Unfortunately may not on their own children, but on other group of kids selected by the government. Still that, closed education system is not an alternative to finical aid or scholarships. Open education system can increase the level of finical aid and scholarships to the people who rightfully deserve.

6. Where is our Socrates?
We have invested so much on a closed education. But what it has given us in return, that an open education system could not provide? All our major wealth generating industries base on human labor and contributed by people without higher education or higher education is not required. Right now people without higher education support and fund the higher education system and results of higher education system. A shame! Now please don’t tell me Sri Lankans work in NASA. A country can live on pride alone.

7. Where is the return of investment?
Education is a direct investment. It is perfectly alright for government to invest on individuals, but if those individuals could not payback, as a nation we should immediately look in to more profitable investments, such as milk cows.

8. Closed education system creates a form Aristocracy.
Back then Queen used to choose aristocrats, but in the absence of a Queen, our government chooses individuals and creates an elite group of people separated from the rest. They were provided free exclusive knowledge required for special set of jobs that do not open to rest of the society. As the same way Queen commissions her aristocrats, we commission our elite group to each of those jobs that may secure their future till death. This system morally and ethically contradicts with democracy. Whenever someone propose to open up the education to public, these aristocrats, start to bully the public viciously, the same way British aristocrats used to do back then.

I honestly don’t know any other country in the world that denies their people access to knowledge that we desperately need in this century. I don’t know if it is a crime to deny people education, but I know it should be a one.

Tamil Student Need More Marks than Sinhalese to go to University?

2009-03-12T04:30:00.005+05:30

I was listening to Nihal on BBC today @ youtube and came to this argument that I have heard few times before. Apparently Tamil guy said it is true, they have to have more marks than Sinhalese to enter in to a Sri Lankan universities and Sinhalese guy said it is not true. And they argue about it few times, like they always does on radio, then move on to a deferent entertaining argument. Now I don’t know is it really true or not. If you know, could you please tell me? I’m sure there are lot of people out there really wants to know too...

Let’s blame British today. Shall We?

2009-03-11T00:49:00.017+05:30

I’m not a big fan of blaming west for our own mistakes like most of us usually do in our spare time. Colonization is a too old word, usually meaning "robbing other people, and building the Museum of London". Even though colonization is outdated, like Windows XP or Disco, there are new releases, such as modern-colonization or neo-colonization. I don’t know what the exact meanings of those words are, but I begin to believe it is the same process of robbing other people, but ingeniously, without building railroads like they had to do last time. Whatever it may be, I’m not here to blame British for that. Let them have the things they took from us, and even let them action those as they wish, and let us move on with our lives.

Taking about moving, I came cross another visa related insult today (here). This time British officials start to inspect passengers departing Sri Lanka at the Bandaranayake Airport, (which we named after Bandaranayake family just like everything else in here) like it their grandmother’s kitchen. It seems they are there to inspect and stop passengers as they wish. I’m used to them treating me like a common thief. But this is the first time they start to make sure that I feel absolutely worthless about myself as a human being even before I leave the country.

The common and most accepted excuse for this sort of dominant and submissive relationship between west and rest of the world is, we are the people from third world countries, immigrate to their neck of the woods and rob their way of life, the same way they robed rabbits from imperial garden. I don’t know when human migration becomes a crime. It was perfectly fine till last century, since the time Eve got kicked out of Eden for playing naked with a big snake. It is part of natural human survival mechanism to migrate to richer and safer lands as the surface of world changes. Even that, we all know, it is not every single person leave Katunayaka airport, migrating to some other country where there is a Royal family without a dental plan.

This is all about keeping us behind the queue, or in other words, they staying front of the queue displaying us their behind. Even before the time of Globalization, British knew the opportunity value comes with traveling. The Grand tour was not only about getting laid in Venice, it is about young British gentleman finding new opportunities in the ever changing world. By making traveling is uttermost difficult and insulting thing for us to do, they make sure we won’t have the sort of an opportunities they are having. A legal or natural British (Shell Gas or Barnaby from Lancashire) can roam around the earth freely, and find better and more profitable opportunities before everyone else. A young client of mine, a British lad in early 20s, visited Sri Lanka with his brother regarding a new business he wanted to start. It was cheap and easy for him, and most of all; he had the opportunity to expand himself globally in early age of his life without whatsoever restrictions, while same opportunities were denied to us very aggressively.

Behalf of our spineless leaders, I would like to tell all the British Airline Liaison Officers at Colombo Airport, please go kiss a cunt of a cow.

If you like to have a calm vacation, then don’t go to Sri Lanka

2009-02-18T03:37:00.010+05:30

I just jump in to this simply entry at one of the Peter Greenberg’s travel website, dontgothere.org. It was the latest entry, so I would not miss it. This is what it says.

"If you like to have a calm vacation, then don’t go to Sri Lanka. The corruption will kill the joy of traveling around. You will be told how poor the country is. Hmm… I don’t think so if u look to what prices there are on everything, it’s cheaper in Europe and don’t forget, clean."

I thought commenting there, because commenting on every single blog in the world is one of my bad habits among many other such habits, but most importantly, as a child, every word I heard about Sri Lanka ended with glorious ST, such as greatest, prettiest, oldest and then usual world ‘paradise’. When one used to hear such nice things for long time, it quite painful to see those kinds of posts popping up here and there and you feel unstoppable desire to say “it is not true”.

But then I realize what it say there is true. Every bit of it. Sri Lanka is not a calm quite place. Not anymore. Either it is screaming TATA buses fly over our roads or bikers on Bajaj bikes ride like they don’t have families, children or reason to live another day. It is good we don’t have salesmen using loudspeakers vigorously promoting their merchandise, such as lottery tickets or religion. But we are far from been the quite calm place we used to be. Still there are enough beggars waiting to surround any tourist bus with their rented baby’s hanging on their arms or amputees rolling on tiny carts. A lady told me about her experience once and I’m quoting her, “when we get down at Kandy, he rolled toward us like a crocodile in dark, making all of us shiver”. Another lady told me about souvenir sales people, “When I was at Mihinthale, they separated me from the rest of the group, and forced me to buy a Souvenir. I didn’t get down from the bus since”. If you escape all those horrible encounters, then there are nationalist nut cases too, that you may occasionally bump in to. I came across such a horrible person at top of the Sigiriya, who scold one of my foreign friends for standing inside “king's Palace” and accused him for disrespecting our thousands of year’s old Royalty.

What I’m trying to say is, Sri Lanka is not the hospitable, wonderful, and "ST" place it used to be. I remember when I was young; the neighborhood I grow up had an unholy reputation as the “Korea”, and I thought about it while I’m looking at the sky line of port city of Busan some time back. There, young kids around 10 years old, cross the road alone, late at night, shop whatever they came for, and walk back home softly. Young school girls, walk home after night school around 10 at night, giggling at each other, wearing those short stripe skirts that they ware that part of the world. A pretty girl wearing short club dress, licking an ice cream, cross the road middle of the night, far from the town and went toward her way like it is Sunday morning. And that is a beautiful country. And the "Korea" I grow up in, well, we still live there.

War Theatre in Sri Lanka.

2009-02-08T11:12:00.028+05:30

War is nothing new to Sri Lanka. If you enjoying reading those useless history books that we never learn anything from, you may have an idea us Sri Lankan has to face some sort of invasion from Indian subcontinent, every couple of hundred years. Just like Colman McCarthy once said about Pacific, we live in peace between wars, like being vegetarians between meals. I think it is the correct for any country you find on the world map or any other map not from this world, such as one from the Lord of the Rings.

War is an armed conflict that decide not who is right, but who is left at the end. It is more or less like a surgery. Bloody, painful and must not let come to it. But if you are unfortunate enough to engage in one, keep it short. If the current war in Sri Lanka is like any other war in human civilization, such as Peloponnesian War or Second World War, we should have seen an end to it long time back or at least last week when LTTE practically lost their military capabilities.

LTTE never had capacity to win a war with Sri Lankan army or any other actual army in that manner. Not back then, defiantly not now. This war started 25 years ago, when Michael Jackson used be black and top of the charts and even before Amy Winehouse was born. This dragged for so long because of two reasons. The first one been past Sri Lankan governments really didn’t want to end it. The second and most impotent one, defiantly the reason why the war did not end last week, because this is War Theatre, conducted front of live audience.

Audience of our War Theatre is western institutes such as Amnesty international or any western government that you may heard demanding human rights, ceasefire, media freedom and things in that nature, we all would like to have by the way. We do not hold parliamentary debits about Afghanistan or Iraq and demand ceasefire from British government like how British care to stop their daily activities early this month and debit about Sri Lanka and demanded a ceasefire.

"Why?", one of my friends asked me. Majority say it is the influence of Tamil Diaspora drive west to behave like that. Some say it is great conspiracy against Buddhism. But I think it none of above. I believe, It is the same reason that drives Nalin De Silva to criticize west even when he write about weather and it is the exact same reason some of our nationalistic bloggers find tremendous joy in economic misery in west. Buddha explained this behavior as “Maana” (මහා මානය, හීන මානය සහ සම මානය) in personal level and advice to be free from it. G.W.F. Hegel put it in broader social level, “We claim who we are by differentiating ourselves from others”. An obvious example, we may look at a bird and see, we don’t have feathers or wings and we don’t eat worms, so we are not birds and we are better. So does the west look at beyond the line they draw as west, define themselves from comparing to others, not in physical appearance but in their way of life and values. They believe they fought and won human rights, freedom of speech and such social values and therefore it is their organic values and others such as American Indians, Orients or Chinese or even Sri Lankans are inferior in such values, therefor they are the Westerners and Westerners are better. Just like our president have to say a Buddhist saying in UN meetings, British parliament have to debit about Sri Lanka, and about other countries, to remind their own selves, who they are.

The war didn’t ended as it naturally suppose to be, when LTTE lost their military capabilities, because LTTE find a way to manipulate this cultural sense of the west.

I don’t blame LTTE for that, because it is human nature to manipulate the environment for our benefit. For an example, if you are Tamil and poor, you cannot go to British high commission and apply for economic asylum and there is no such a thing call economic asylum, even when hunger more painful than lost of political freedom. But like someone commented in a previous post, you can burn your own hand and apply for political asylum and there you will get it. If you are a journalist, most probably they will not issue you visa to report British parliament debits, but they may grant you political asylum. This visa principle alone become a major reason for Sri Lankan war to continue, killing more than 70,000 humans, because it gave an opportunity for people to manipulate it and also west an opportunity to feel superior in the list of value that they use to claim who they are.

If it is not for west obsession of human rights, LTTE would not keep a human shield right now. The only reason LTTE do such a thing is not because they want protection, because they want to see civilians been harmed, so they can stimulate institutes such as Amnesty international. I don’t know who attacked the hospital last week, but LTTE stopped people from leaving the hospital because they wanted to show something dramatic to their audience. It is not only LTTE, reporters say how Harms leaders literally hide behind their own children and attract enemy fire in to dramatic locations like schools or hospitals. This is not war. This is War Theatre played for an audience. People like M.I.A goes around talking about genocide, not because we Sri Lankans stop our daily activity and go around killing Tamil people, because it is part of War Theatre. LTTE did not let civilians go, because it is part of War Theatre. Red Cross places an order of staggering amount of body bags not because they had to use it, because it is War Theatre.

LTTE will keep on manipulating their own people as long as they can, just to keep up their audience.

Where Are Those Tamils?

2009-01-31T00:53:00.014+05:30

I’m disturbed by Tamils. No. I’m not disturbed by everybody. If you are a Tamil gentlemen live in Canada or somewhere else in the world, who subscribed to “One cyanide capsule per a child” program runs by LTTE, them I’m not mad at you. If you are a hip-hop star who has not visited Sri Lanka since puberty, but talk about Sri Lanka like you know everything, then you cool. I’m not mad at you either. If you shamelessly steal credit card at the pump for LTTE, you are smart. I have no reason to mad at you since you have not stolen my credit card yet. If you are in a hunger strike to force the government to stop the offensive in north, I’m not mad at you at all. God bless you all.

But if you are not any of the above, but a proud Sri Lankan Tamil, then I am extremely mad at you. Why is that you asked? Because you people honestly don’t care about your own people. You live in relative safety in south, complain (rightfully) about all the difficulties you have to go through in south, but you don’t have empathy for the thousands of innocent Tamils LTTE caging inside the war zone, for their own benefits. You didn’t bother to open up your mouth and say, “let my people go”. Or at least write a single blog about it. Just a one blog. At least a comment. No. Nothing. You don’t care.

The only Tamil person who care to say something about that is Mr. Ananda Sangari, that I start to admire more and more every day. But other than that, I hear no voice at all, like when LTTE do things to Tamil people; it does not hurt them for some strange reason I’m not capable of understanding. I see, I hear so many Sinhalese passionately talk, argue, blog about misconduct of the government or injustice happened to Tamil people. Worry about collateral damage. But haven’t seen any Tamil person say anything remotely opposed to the conduct LTTE deliberately putting Tamil people in harm’s way and using them as human a shield.

Sometimes this not so pleasant behavior of moderate Tamils makes me thinks, I may be wrong. May be all Tamils are terrorists. May be they all single mindedly support and sacrifice for LTTE. That is why they never ever say anything against LTTE, no matter whatever they do to Tamil people. Because they all assist LTTE. But, I want to be wrong.

Journalist Murder Mystery & Stabbing Upali Thennakoon

2009-01-23T20:47:00.020+05:30

They said it is Sirasa who attacked themselves. Well, it sounds sort of like a lie I used to tell my mother when I was a kid, after breaking stuff she specifically warned me not to touch. “It is not me. A cat walks in, broke the sugar jar, eat two chocolates, and run a way”. But then again, it can be true too. May be it was a cat. Maybe it was Sirasa who destroyed their own premises. Well, if that is the case, I can’t blame them either. Have you seen some of their programs? Sometime even I entertain thoughts of destroying my own television box, when I see some of their programs. But I always have my remote-control next to me and with a press of a button I can turn it off and go read a book.

Then I heard the news, they kill Lasantha. And I was upset. Not that I read anything he wrote. Because he was part of the surrounding I grow up in. I think, I felt just the same way we all suppose to feel when someone we know got shot on the head on the way to work, Thursday morning. Upset. Tell you the truth; I didn’t know how I’m supposed to feel like in such an occasion. But now I do. We don’t know who did it. Governing party say it is the patriots, and the opposition say is the government. Patriots say it is the opposition. I don’t know who to believe, because it is not their job to investigate such activity in the first place, it belongs to the noble institute call Police. I assume our Police busy these days with other important activity like cleaning up moonshiners or catching cat-burglars, and as soon as they succeeded in that, they will look in to this matter with most interest. Till then we have to wait.

But meanwhile they went on stabbing, another journalist, Upali Thennakoon, on his face. Now I can’t really think who did it or why they did that sort of terrible thing. Mr. Thennakoon is a deferent journalist than Lasantha. I think. He even don’t have wikipedia page. He was the Divaina Editor, if I remember correctly; he helps this government quite a lot. And Rivira is not a controversial newspaper like Lasantha’s newspaper either. That is fairly decent newspaper and he is a decent journalist. May be it is a conspiracy to make the government look bad as they say, so they stab an unbiased journalist too. But that’s the same thing government said when it was Lasantha, a critic of this government too. Now I’m confused. Don’t you?

Since we are playing the conspiracy game, I’m at liberty to make my own conclusions. So, maybe it was the government who killed Lasantha, and then stabs Upali too, just to make it looks like it is someone else. I have seen that sort of storied in detective dramas. Or maybe it is the LTTE, freely roaming around our capital city, stabbing and killing people as they wish, while we are busy north part of the country looking for them. Or maybe it is the UNP, because they have nothing else to do these days.

No matter who is doing this, this need to be stopped. This is not helping anyone. If it is a conspiracy as government says, they have full responsibility to produce conspirators front of a Jury. But I don’t have much hope about that. So like we always do when we are in trouble, we look above and beg for help, from Europe. So I strongly suggest all the remaining journalists, pursuit your happiness elsewhere, apply for political asylum you are rightfully deserve. Don’t try to be noble like Upali Thennakoon and stay in this country, a scar on your face or a big parade to your funeral not worth it.
So friends, Run.

You might be a Sri Lankan

2009-01-20T20:33:00.023+05:30

Here VIC wrote a very good post about Sri Lankan identity. If you have not already done so, I strongly suggest you to read that and join the spirited debate going on there. Why should I read that, you asked? Because that is a very interesting investigation to elect Sri Lankan identity, if you are interested in that sort of things. But I felt VIC had left out most important pointes, in the process of writing a sober post. Therefore here I intended no to be sober and write as much as pointes he missed out. If I miss anything too, I hope you will write it down in the comment section for the future generations.

- Have you ever entertain the thought of dating your cousin-sister? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you have list of things you would like to do, “if you are the president”, Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you had Hoppers for breakfast, Dosa for lunch and Chinese for diner? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you discuses Buddhism (or any other relevant philosophical topic) while you are getting drunk? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you urinate by the main road side, along side of your friends who doing the same? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you stopped your vehicle and check out what other group of people looking at by site of the road? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you accused fellow driver who just passed you, engage in sexual relationship with his mother? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you hate Sri Lankan Police, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you ever ridden a bus without paying? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you ridden the train, on the footboard? Then you are a Sri Lanka.

- Is one of your neighbors, a asshole? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you think only Sri Lankan offer seat to pregnant woman and elderly, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Has one of your relatives disrespect you vigorously? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you lied on your child’s school admission? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you bribed a cop with more than the ticket cost? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you dine in a restaurant, while vigorously chasing out flies with one hand? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you strike a homeless dog? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you engaged in a celebration for a first menstrual cycle of a young lady? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you got beaten up constantly when you were a child? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you hate one or more TV channels, but still remembers prime time schedule by hard, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you a female-fashion critic, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you enjoy the smell of Maldive Fish, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Are you always late? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have your mother ever publish an advertisement in Sunday paper looking for a doctor or a lawyer from Australia or Canada to be your life partner? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- Have you called a girl, a prostitute, because she had more than 2 boyfriends at deferent occasions in her life span? Then you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you think rich people are evil, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you born in a government hospital, educated in government institutes and engage in government job, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you wear bathroom slippers outside, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you refuse to wear a Sarong outside, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you don’t know the Sinhala or Tamil word for “Litter”, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you use the horn more than the break paddle, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you could not stop yourself wanting to take a public bath in any tank or a lake you pass by, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- And when you do so, If you bath wearing all your cloth on, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you accuse someone who not necessarily agreeing with you, suffers from erectile dysfunction, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you note down grammar and spelling errors, while you reading an English post, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you call anyone well dress, an uncle or an aunty, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you learn about sex at your wedding night, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you happy because number of LTTE carders killed in action higher than number of soldiers killed in action (or vise-versa), you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If your full name does not fit in airport embark form, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you have to prove the reason prior to visit any country in the world, (except Singapore), you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you have to light crackers to express your joy, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you force your visitors to eat biscuits and drink tea, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If you can find a distance relationship to any stranger you met outside your home town, you might be a Sri Lankan.

- If your racial differences starts after you cross the shore, you might be a Sri Lankan.

Please. Mr. President.

2009-01-16T20:01:00.007+05:30

Our president gloriously said today “Buddhists can soon visit Solosmasthana without fear”. It is wonderful. Fear is always a bad thing, if not the worst. It is always a fearful thing to drive in Kandy road or any other road, to Solosmasthana or to grandmother’s house, Monday or Sunday. I’m delighted to hear; soon I can drive toward any direction of the country without been scared of a TATA bus run me over at the next junction or a VIP convoy pass me by at the speed of light without considering whatever happen to me or to the old lady across the road holding her three year old grandson. But most of all, most of us like to call Sri Lanka a "Buddhist country" and it is wonderful now not only my grandmother, but all the Buddhists around the world, and beyond, able visit those places without fear and enjoy a cold glass of “pol-pala”, we sell front of those religious places. It can refresh you any time of the day.

Since we are at it, Mr. President, could I kindly request you to be kind enough to grant visa to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to visit Solosmasthana too. It must be awfully bad feeling for him to be rejected again and again, all these years, by so call a Buddhist country, for him to visit temple of tooth. As far as I know, he have the all the three mandatory requirements to visit the temple. He doesn’t have headwear on. No footwear on and his legs are all covered. And if it not, still we can provide him a sarong, just like how we do with all the fat old retired white people and those Japanese tourists in shorts. So why Sri Lankan Buddhists keep on rejecting him visa to visit Temple of Tooth? Not to talk politics or anything that sort. Just for him to visit Temple of tooth, have lunch at Awanhala if he like and take a photo front of the baby elephant and go back to his place. Mr. President, You end the war. You brought peace. So let one of the most peaceful men in the world visit Solosmasthana too. Please.

මෙන්න මගෙනුත් බ්රේකින් නිව්ස්! ඔය ගොල්ලොත් බ්රේකින් නිව්ස් ලිව්වැයී?

2009-01-09T19:50:00.010+05:30

මේ දවස් වල බ්රරෙකින් නිව්ස් කියාපු නැති ගොයීයලාට අම්බානට කන්න හම්බු වෙනවා නොවැ. මනුස්සයෝ උන්හම අනිත් අයට වුනු අතුරු අන්තරා දැකල පාඩමක් ඉගන ගන්න ඕනෙනේ. ඒ නිසා ඕන් මමත් බ්රේකින් නිව්ස් එකක් ලීවා. අනේ හත්තලාමේ ඔන් ඔය කවුරු කවුරුත් මට අඩත්තේට්ටම් කොරනවා එහෙම නොවෙයී.

මෙන්න බ්රෙරේකින් නිව්ස් !!!
සිරි ලංකා හමුදාව ඔන්න බෝලේ අලිමන්කඩ අල්ලාගෙන. ඒ නමය පාර සම්පූර්නයෙන්ම හමුදාව සතුයී.

දේශද්රෝහී නොවෙන හැමොටම බ්රෙකින් නිව්ස් එකක් ලියන්නයැයී කියලා මම මේ කියන්නේ. එහෙම ලියපු නැති බ්ලොග් කාරයෝ ඔක්කොම දේශාදෝහීයී කියලා අම්බානට පලු පැලෙන්න හම්බු උනදාට ඕන් අඩාගෙන අපේ ලගට එහෙම එනවා නෙවෙයී.

ඕන් එහෙනම් ඕය ගොල්ලන්ගේ බ්රෙකින් නිව්ස් කියවන්න අපි සිහලේ ගැන කැක්කුම්ත් තියෙන හැමොම බොහොම ආසාවෙන් බලාගෙන ඉන්නවා.

Anagarika Dharmapala - A Kalu-Suddha.

2009-01-06T21:32:00.014+05:30

Kalu-Suddha is a common term in Sri Lanka which has the same meaning of Twinkie or Banana in Chinese culture, yellow outside and white inside, or Oreo in the hood, black outside and white inside. And it has the contrary meaning to "Marmite Sandwich" in urban language - White outside and black inside. Direct translation of Kalu-Suddha would be "black-Caucasian". An insult to any none-Caucasian fan of Caucasian society or Caucasian ideology. And Anagarika Dharmapala used that word a lot.

Anagarika Dharmapala is a great hero; I learned when I was kid. Or rather they forced me to learn that just like everything else. He was born in a time Sri Lanka was one of the richest countries in Asia and there were rich elite group of locals, who own ships and even received knighthoods. Dharmapala belong to that privileged few. There is nothing wrong with that. It gave him chance to complete his grand tour in Europe and in the New World, and finally joined with a American NGO, goes by the name of Theosophical Society.

Theosophical Society is a racist organization that believed in root race call Aryans which originated from a place call Atlantis. They intentionally or unintentionally presented philosophical support to Nazi party and work toward to achieve supremacy of Aryan society.

King Asoka the great builds his empire using Buddhism. He didn’t control his empire with weapons or by law. Buddhism was his tool. He was so successful in what he did, his system control us Sri Lankans to this day and other so call "Buddhist countries" in Asia too. Buddhism never meant to have a leader or controlled by one. So no one had to take his place to continue what he started. That is the brilliance of it. But there were one weakness, just like everything else in the world. Regardless Buddhism never meant to have a controller, if someone take control of it, one way or another, that person can take control of the functioning empire Ashoka left. May be he knew it. Maybe that is why he makes sure his children will not take his place afterword him. It works, until Theosophical Society comes in, from America, and takes control of Buddhism.

It was a time white politicians rule our countries and white solders marched our roads. They did every thing possible to take control of every aspect our life. It was not that difficult for them to take control of Buddhism too. It never had a leader. All they had to do was, walk in, and take control. So they did. And they changed it as they wish. They injected all the western principles and values in to it, taught us what to do. And to this day, we call them Sinhalese Buddhist Values, and we are proud of it. Buddhism never had a flag or a logo, because it never meant to have that sort of things. But they created one anyway. I guess you have to have a flag if you rule something. While you at it, why wait, why not declares a new Buddha. Pope does it with his saints. So they did. They declared a Hindu lad as the new Buddha.

And that is how white man conquered king Ashoka’s empire. The same way he builds it in the first place. And Dharma-Pala (the Controller of Buddhism – which Buddhism never meant to have) did exactly his white master, who he worked as a translator, wanted him to do.

Sri Lankans were divided by castes, but we were never divided by racial grounds until British came up with their brilliant "divide and rule" policy, that creates problems every corner of the world to this day. Great people like Mahathma Gandhi understood the dangers of that and he did everything humanly possible to stop it. That old man walked on his barefoot, village to village preaching unity. Not just unity among deferent caste of Hindus, but unity among Hindus and Muslims and uncountable numbers of tribes in India. And he made been just an Indian a cool thing.

Dharmapala rode his automobile village to village playing his Phonograph, preaching Sinhalese to wake up and compete with other tribes. Until Phonograph, humans never heard of anything talks other than a living and breathing human. Talking machine was magic. In America, they charge a nickel to play this gimmick for a minute. And then there is this Anagarika Dharmapala playing the magic talking machine to villages for free. Doing exact thing what white rulers wanted him to do. Divide. And he was doing his part in a big plan. There were Tamil leaders doing exactly the samething as British wished them to do too. And Darmapala completed them. You need two sides to play ball.

This Sinhalese nationalist and Tamil nationalist (correctly, Sinhalese racist and Tamil racist) movement created by both elite Sinhalese and Tamil leaders, later on gave opportunity for Sinhalese nationalists to grab power. By people like Dharmapala creating race base movement, they silence deferent sort of uniting movement to grow in Sri Lanka. He made been a racist a cool thing. And he did that with American aid.

I don’t say Anagarika Dharmapala or his NGO no good at all. Indeed they did good things. Without them there won't be an YMBA, where we have annual shoe sales or strip malls. But he did so many things I wish he didn't. I wish if he was like Gandhi. But he was not a one.

Goodbye my old Friend. VHS Tape.

2008-12-23T23:59:00.021+05:30

There is no more VHS Tape. It’s officially died today when last manufacture of VHS tapes ship its last shipment out.

VHS used to be one of my valuable friends who showed me new things for the first time. Not just Rambo and Lion King, it showed me much more vital things for human race, such as human reproduction procedures and Amitabh Bachan’s movies. Sometimes I wonder, if not for VHS, there may be a generation of people out there right now not knowing how to engage in reproduction business and the whole human race may be wiped-out from this planet. Alright, it may be farfetched, humans survived past thousands and thousands of years without those educational materials came in VHS. But if Pope can farfetched in his talk, when he talking about how homosexuals can wipeout human race from the plant, why not I fetch the truth a little bit. I think you get my point, we learn Important things in life from VHS tape. And we did that with utter most secrecy and pleasure.

There was so call Video library in every little town in Sri Lanka. Even though we called it a library, it is a small shop with bunch of movie posters in front, mostly the posters of girls wearing racy dresses or just Samtha Fox. Those posters did not gave any good reputation to those shops. Sri Lankan woman normally do not go in to those places, even when rains. Whenever they feel like watching a Hindi movie, they call her husband, brother or any other human male, whom willing to go to the town to fetch the tape.

Rent a movie for a day or two costs somewhat around 10 – 20 Rs. But if you want an adult movie, which goes by the unholy name of “blue film”, you have to pay little bit extra, because in Sri Lanka it is illegal to sell, rent or watch anything that shows human genitalia. And anything illegal is expensive. I didn’t know anyone who has a membership with those “libraries”, never seen a library card or something like that sort, but if you personally know the owner, they will lend you the VHS without a guarantee of returning it. If not, they are all happy to hold your national identity card until you return the VHS tape in good condition.

Depending on the type of tape you rented, you have to decide the time to watch it. If that is a Hindi picture or a Disney movie, then you have to wait until everyone is ready. Sundays are better. Wise men make sure to forward the first few minutes and make sure there aren’t any bit and pieces of phonographic movie clips lefts in that VHS tape from original movie in it, before the library recorded that Hindi movie from the television. If it is type of a movie that you may possibly go to jail by watching it and be mentioned on the front page of the Sinhala newspaper, then you must wait until you get an opportunity to be alone in the house. If you lucky enough to be alone and happen to have an R rated VHS tape with you too at the same time, it is perfectly alright to invite your friends to witness the spectacle.

The generation after VHS, do not have to do any of that. They don’t have to worry about the tape getting stuck in the player while you are watching a girl on girl scene or your parents finding the VHS tape under your mattress. Or plan a week ahead and visit your friends’ house while his parents on the way to hospital to visit sick grandparents, so you can watch pizza delivery to a lonely housewife or a blond girl engaged in pleasurable job interview, all in VHS. Now it is all digitized, encrypted and secured. Common and free. But we grow up differently, we grow up with VHS. That is how we found the wonders of Forest Gump and that is how we learned the detail of human reproduction.

Goodbye my dear friend. You always be remembered.

කබුරුපිටියේ නන්දාරත්න හාමුදුරුවනේ, මගේ ගෑනීගේ දරු බොක්ක සාංගික දේපලක් නොවෙයී.

2008-11-29T21:53:00.016+05:30

මම මේ වංගියක් තිස්සේ ලියන්නයැයී කියල හිතාගේන හිටියේ. වංගියකට උඩහං මේ කබුරුපිටියේ නන්දාරතන උන්නාසෙයී තවත් ආගම්පාලුවො කාන්ඩෙකුයී, පිලියන්දල ඉස්පිරිතාලෙට කඩා පැනලා, තගදාලා, උපත්පාලනය කොරගන්නයැයී කියලා තිබුනු සායනයක් කඩා කප්පල් කොරලා තිබුනානේ. මෙන්න මෙහේ ඔය ගැන ප්රවුර්තිය තියෙන්නේ.

මේ සිංහල ජාතිය නැති කොරන්න ජාතියන්තර බලවේග කොරනා කාරනා කියලා තමයී උන්දෙලා දොඩන්නේ. මුසිලිමානු ඇත්තො කෙලවරක් නැතිව නැතිව දරුවො වදනවාලූ, මොකැයී දරුවන් වැදීම, දෙවියො උන්දෙලාට පවරලා තියේන දේවකාරියනේ. ඒ හින්දා, උන්දෙලාගේ ප්රතිශතය වැඩි වෙනවාලූ, සිංහල බෞධදයන්ගෙ ප්රතිශතය අඩු වෙනවාලු, සිංහලයො වඳවෙනවාලූ. ඔන් ඔහොම තමයී ඔය හාමුදුරු ගොල්ලො කියන්නේ. ඒනිසා, මගේ ගෑනිගේ දරු බොක්ක සිංහලේට පැටව් හදන ෆැක්ටරියක් කොරගෙන, දිගට හරහට පැටවි ගහන්න කියලා තමයී උන්දෙලාගේ අවවාදය. දැන් උන්දෙලා බණ පැත්තකින් තියලා, ඉස්පිරිතාල වලට වැඩල තග දාන්නත් පටන් අරගෙන. හරියට කව්ද ඔය, තලෙයීබාන්දයැයීද කවුද කියනා උන්දෙලා වගේ.

අනේ අපේ හාමුදුරුවනේ, අනුන් කියන විදිහට ලමයී හදන්න ඕනේනම්, අපිත් කතෝලික හරි මුස්ලිම් හරි ආගමක් අදහන්න තිබුනානේ. එහෙම කොරන්නේ නැතිව, අපේ උන්දෙලා මේ ලෝකයේ අනිත්යය මෙනෙහි කොර කොරා පන්සිල් ගන්නේ, බුද්ධාගම ඔය වගේ ආගමක් නොවෙන නිසායී. අපේ ගෙදර උන්දෙලට මීයො පැටව්ගහනවා වගේ දරුවො වදන්නයැයී කියලා බුදු හාමුදුරුවො කියලා නැහැ. ඒ ඔක්කොටම්ත් වඩා අනිත් ආගමුත් එක්කලා බූරුවො වගේ තරග කොරන්න කියලාත් අනේ ඕන්, බුදු හාමුදුරුවන් දෙසලා නැහැ නොවැ. අනේ එහෙමත් අලංකාරයක්. අනේ එහෙමත් නිදහසක්.

හාමුදුරුවනේ, ඔබ තුමා අහලා නැති උනාට, ඔය බුදු හාමුදුරුවෝ කියලා එක්කනෙක් ඉදලා තියෙනවානේ. උන්නාසෙ, චරත බික්කවේ බහුජන හිතාය, බහුජන සුකාය කියලා කීවේ, ගමක් ගමක් ගානේ වැඩලා ලමයී වදලා බෞධදයෝ ප්රමානයෙන් වැඩි කොරන්න කියලා නොවෙයී. ඔය බහුජනයැයී කියලා කීවේ, ඔය සිංහල බෞධ්ද, දෙමල කතෝලික මුස්ලිම් සියලුදෙනමයී. ඒ සියලු දෙනාගේම සුකය තකා වැඩ කොරන්න කියලා තමයී උන්නාසේ කීවේ. නැතුව බෞධ්දයන්ට අනෙකුත් ආගම් එක්කලා තරග කොරන්න උගන්න කියාලා නොවෙයී. අනේ හාමුදුරුවනේ, මේ අනුකම්පාවෙන් කියන්නේ, ඔබ වහන්සෙට අනිත් ආගම් ජාති එක්ක තරග කොරන්න ඕනෙනම්, ඔය සිවුර ගලවලා පිච්ච වැලක් උඩින් දාලා, පව්නොදී ගිහිල්ල කිරිස්තියානි අගමට හරි මුස්ලිම් ආගමට හරි බැදෙනවද? මොකැයී, ඔබ තුමා ඔය කිරියාත්මක කොරන්නේ, ඒ ආගම්වල උගැනුම්නේ. ඉතින් මොකැයී තවදුරටත් උගුරට හොරා බෙහෙත් කන්නේ, සිවුරකුත් පොරවාගෙන.

Is War Expired?

2008-11-28T22:44:00.002+05:30

There are stories about great warriors in those history books with brownish papers with peculiar smell. I like reading them. They are entertaining. They explain how Genghis Khan blows like a wind from east to west and created the largest empire this planet ever had to this day. They explain how King Alexander the Great marches from west to east. Great warriors they are, they said.

But war is a brutal concept. In a war, one group or groups, physically and socially eliminates other group or groups for some reason relevant to that time. Most probably Genghis Khan woke up one day and thought, “What a lovely day today, I feel like been an emperor, so let’s go on a killing spree and become an emperor”. So he did. He killed. And he killed more. Nothing special about it, everyone expected that in a war. At least back then.

Now war is deferent. We don’t expect to get killed in a war. We rather sit here and blog about it. And have a hot tea. We want someone else to engage in that. Professional solders, we call them. I don’t know exactly when this change started. May be it started with first Geneva Convention, or may be after WWII. But one thing I can say for sure, that change came from west. They come up with concepts like human rights, pow and most of all, they created this group call “civilians”, that we have not heard of before. Civilians turn out to be rather special bunch of people. They do not carry weapons nor wear uniform. But they fund the war and everything about it. War cannot exist without support of civilians. They provide solders and they provide moral support. But at the same time, they have special rights. Such as not be harmed by any means. That makes the war very hard game to end.

I think by the time WWII ended, west seen enough of war. They experienced the distraction they have done to others and to themselves. May be that cause them to tighten up rules of war. Or one can say its western philosophy or industrial development. But because of one reason or another, west created this set of rules and, I must say, it worked pretty well for them. West didn’t kill each after they tie themselves up with those set of rules, because it is not practically possible to start a war and win it too, under this set of rules. It is like trying to butcher an animal without drawing any blood. Almost impossible to do.

Now if one do not follow this set of rule and engage in a war old fashion way, like how Genghis Khan and King Alexander the Great did as worriers, we call them Terrorists, simply because they terrorize people such as hotel guests, school children or train passengers, commonly known as civilians. Genghis Khan did not had any super powers like one of those comic book heroes when he become an ampere, all he had was the reputation he build up as a terrifying person by terrorizing everywhere he go, villages, temples and farmlands. He is a terrorist.

Now the problem we have today is, only one group gets to play with old set of rule, and terrorize civilians, bomb hotels and school buses, forcing them to surrender fast, while other side forced to respect civilians and allowing them to continually fund the war. Now this make it harder, when the “terrorists” even do not follow the simple rule of wearing a uniform or been a professional solder, but rather been an ice cream vender in day time and suicide bomber at night. Now as we all know, this make very hard to defeat terrorists. We see that in Afghanistan, we see that in Iraq, we see that in India and even we saw that in Sri Lanka. Now Sri Lankan government is wining, partly because LTTE also evaluate (somewhat) as a conventional army that have to respect set of modern rules. (And that is why Ranil’s peace process is also an important event of wining this war). Sri Lankan army won the war against JVP whitch is not conventional army, because army got to terrorize people at the same time, more dramatically than JVP ever did.

My point is, terrorism is an important part of warfare. One might say war is terrorism altogether. How modern way of fighting of tying ourselves with set of rules, keep up with old ways of fighting or terrorism as we call it now, where no rules? It is impossible. That makes me thinks; modern way of war is expired. Either we have to give up our set of rules, and start behaving like Israel (which I hope not), or after some terrifying event, South Asians who are the breeders of terrorists right now, also somehow understand the impotency of respecting civilians. If either one did not happen, we have to find some alternative ways to engage in our conflicts, like King Ashoka did. In such an occasion, I suggest food eating contests as an alternative.

Support Our Troops. Click Here.

2008-11-28T08:40:00.005+05:30

I just finish watching Band of Brothers, for the second time. Watching a good movie is like having delightful sex. You want to talk to someone at the end. Since I don’t have my dear friends around me, I’m doing the next best thing. Writing to you guys.

First time I watch that in HBO some years back. What a movie it was. 12 long hours. I don’t know how humanly possible to create such a movie, long 12 hours and still every millisecond of it very well planed, and most of all, very well done. Only way I can explain that is, Spielberg, Tom Hanks and others who made this movie are above normal human capacity. So I watched it again.

I’m not a big fan of war. I’m a type of a person, who likes to send other people to do evil things to evil people, so I can sleep tight on my comfortable bed every night. Been such a person have lot of advantages. It gives me chance to have my hot Ceylon tea and discuses about war with my friends or argue about it in blogs. It gives me chance to be proud about those men and woman we send out there to do evil things to evil people in evil circumstances. And click forward button in my outlook and show how much I care about those people. Or write something like let triple gem protect our solders or Gold bless our solders. And then go on doing other things such as look at funny emails or have Chinese fried rice with deviled chicken.

Even you like war or not, everyone must watch Band of Brothers. Not because it is a good movie. Because it can make you little bit closer to the experience solders go through in every millisecond, so you don’t have to do what they are doing. It will make you think twice before next time you say yes or no to war. It will make you shame of yourself if you click on the link minutes before, because you thought somehow you can support our troops by clicking on a link.

Sinhala Nationalists, Are You Ready to Lose The War?

2008-11-16T23:30:00.030+05:30

Whenever I talk about ending the war in Sri Lanka, always prefer to use the word IF. We grow up with the war, it was shadowing our life every single movement, and it would be very odd for us when the war is over.

When war started I was a tiny kid, and been a kid I absolutely had no concept what war is, until I heard the news of Star-toffee factory is on fire one day. I liked Star-toffees, Red once. When you are a child, you don’t ask long questions from your parents. So I asked my father, “Why?”. I guess he didn’t knew how to answer that question. So he simply said, that was a Tamil business.

They looted and destroy every Tamil business possible. We use the word “they”, when we are not absolute about who “they” are. But I suspect “they” are some sort of disgusting thieves who call them Sinhalese according to the opportunity. Reason I don’t say they are just Sinhalese, because I saw the same sort of people doing same sort of utterly discussing things in the time of Tsunami too regardless of race, without any regard to human decency. Regardless, I don’t hesitate to leave the blame to Sinhalese as a group, since it was Sinhalese nationalism that introduced to the country by the first closeted Tamil president in Sri Lanka, who went by the adopted family name Bandaranayke, provided political meaning to all of that. At least I wish we Sinhalese were capable of catch the leader of those disgusting group of people and 700 those disgusting souls, shave one half of their heads and exile them, so they can float away to some island and start their own country by cheating on the woman who help them. But we didn’t bother to do anything that sort. Instead capable Tamil people left Sri Lanka to develop other countries, like Singapore, while others migrate to north by thousands, to develop the world most organized and well oiled terrorist organization.

I know every Sinhalese are not racist or every Tamil. I’m not talking about those good people in this post. I’m talking about the group of people who misleadingly call themselves Sinhala Nationalists or Tamil Nationalist or “any other tribal name” + Nationalists. Let me make it clear, all of them are racists. There can’t be such a thing call Sinhala nationalism nor Tamil nationalism because neither of them are nations. There is only one nation and it goes by the name of Sri Lanka.

So far in this racist game, Sinhala nationalist are winning like Jayasuriya & Kalu pair in 90s. They achieved this mainly by destroying Tamil business every possible way. When group of people depend on each other’s supply-and-demand to run their business, their differences become secondary. Trading is what keeps capitalistic society connected together. Not only setting fire to Tamil businesses, they achieved this by making commercial capital utterly difficult to Tamil people. Destruction of Tamil business did not make Sinhala business any better or successful, if not worst. All it did was, kept Tamil people out of mainstream success. I can’t pass all the credit to Sinhala nationalist alone for their success. They could not do that without tremendous support they received from LTTE again and again. They provided enough fuel for Sinhala racist to run while they themselves kept Tamil people suppressed and unsuccessful.

When the war is over, we have to open up the commercial capital to all Tamil people, who are very hard working and capable people. Tamils are the people who fought with Sri Lankan army for more than a decade and assembled their own airplanes and own ships, while Sinhalese tried to do exactly the same thing two times without what so ever success and could not assemble anything more than a “gal katas”. I’m not praising LTTE’s distraction power or barbarism, I’m just pointing out Tamil people are capable and when put the mind in to productive things too, they should be able to do wonders. When the war is over, when LTTE lost its military power, Tamil people will not go in to a dark corner and fade away.

My commonsense tell me they will be very successful once again, even more than before the war. And I wholeheartedly wish that. Even it may possible for them to have the backup of the same finical machine that funds the world most profitable terrorist organization, but for development of Tamil people this time. Growth of Tamil business will help all the business, big or small, Sinhalese or Muslims. But that will indeed create new problems to Sinhalese Nationalists, by making Tamils + Muslims business becoming proportionally larger than Sinhalese business, in this capitalistic society, if it is not already so. Most importantly, it will make Sinhalese business tied with Tamil business in a trading web, making it difficult to Sinhalese to live without Tamils in long run. Economical success always comes with political power and cultural significance and other things. Minority political parties already have significant political power, and that will increase further more.

As you see, end of the war cannot be a good thing for Sinhala nationalists. They will lose everything they build so far and they wished. And most impotently they will lose the platform they are working on – war and separation of north and south. America won the Cold War, just like how Sri Lanka going to win the war against LTTE. But that made countries like Russia, India and China opening up their economy to the world and rise higher and stronger than America, beating America in its own game. Colombo elite who ran the country for so many years, won the southern rebellion, but by doing so, they lost their power to southerners. Same thing will happen, exactly the same way, with this war too. Tamil people will achieve larger share of democratic power and success, and north will rise again. North will rise higher than ever before.

Sinhalese nationalists, get ready to lose.

(I'm Tagged) Here Goes My Favorite Books

2008-09-09T19:07:00.021+05:30

Mixedblessings tagged me sometimes back. Now I have to shamelessly take shelter behind the excuse, "I have been quite busy and absolutely had no time to do whatever the thing I supposed to do, at that time". Even though it is the cheapest excuse we regularly use, when we forget to call our mother or forget to ask her how the father is doing, sometimes it is quite legitimate, specially when you are forced to do things you do not like to do, such as meet a deadline or going to work everyday.

Mixedblessings tagged me to blog about my three favorite books. Simple enough. Having my morning Ceylon tea, I tried to figure out what are those, but all I could figure, it is not easy to pick just three books. I grew up in a time Sri Lanka used to be one of the most literate countries in the world, if not the most. We used to read a lot. Until we decided to start a rebellion and overthrow the government. Idea was make the country better. So we came up with catchy slogans such as “Country First – Education Second”. And we closed down schools and forced the government to stop regular exams, burned down libraries and whatever things that catches fire without heavy effort. Now here we are. Not the most literate country in the world anymore. To be exact we are the 87th in the list and Georgia is the most literate country in the world with 100% literate rate. Well done Georgia.

Talking about Georgia, War and Peace have to be my all time favorite. If there is nothing to watch in TV while I’m having my diner, and if there is nothing new to read except “Brides and Grooms” section in a Sunday news paper, where mothers publish public notices seeking a bride with a dowry for her engineer son in Canada or Australia, whom shamelessly depending on his mother to find himself a wealthy father-in-law, War and Peace is the book I always grab and put my mind to peace.

If you ever read War and Peace half way and found it is boring and too long, you need to go out and collect some real life experience for your name, like fall in love, watch the girl you love getting married not to you or simple things like walk alone in dark. Because you need to have that sort of experience by your side to understand this book. If you are one those engineers, need your moms help to pick woman, you may not understand this book that much. But once you do, it will alter your taste in books, for rest of your life. There are around 500 individually rendered characters in this book. They act differently, think differently and talk differently to each other. Because of those complex characters and so many settings changes, you must read a proper translation. Cyril C. Perera did a marvelous job in translating this in to Sinhala, and it is the best translation of this book I ever read. Also BBC radio done a quite good job making a radio drama, which you can download from torrent network if you are the type of a person who has no respect for copyright laws, but if you do, let me laugh at you, you can buy it from Amazon in a cassette!

The Count of Monte Cristo, another favorite that I can start reading from any page and still enjoy the plot. It is more or less old days Ian Fleming book. Woman, drugs and a rich white man. This is a type of a story I like to read when I hit the rock bottom time to time as I do, because it energizes me. I don’t mind been a character inside such story, travel all around the world in my own yacht, with a beautiful slave girl and best drugs, while revenging my enemies. So all the bloggers out there, specially Sinhala bloggers, who have questioned my sexual orientation or my mother’s profession in answer to a comment I happened to made, like most of Sinhala bloggers usually do when they do not agree with others views, you better wish I will not come cross such a treasure belongs to a old Sri Lankan king. But then again, if I do, I may spend it on finer things, like been with a gorgeous looking girl like Mixedblessings or Shakira.

Autobiography of Malcolm X – a book that will change the way you look at the world. Malcolm X, once a hustler, thief, a drug addicted, a drug dealer among so many other things you may don’t want your children to be, invited to speak in the Harvard University, and when he on the stage looking out the window, saw the apartment where he once lived and planned those burglaries. Reading that, I cried.

If you read this post you are already tagged. Blog about 3 of your favorite books and tag another 3 people. And if you do, you will find the love of your life in 7 days and win a lottery. If you don’t, some terrible things may happen such as your in-laws may visit you.

අපහාසය, තලෙයීබාන් බුද්දාගම සහ තහනම් සංගීතය (පුද්ගල අපහාසයට පිලිතුරු)

2008-08-10T20:39:00.020+05:30

දැන් මේ හාමුදුරු ගොල්ලක් බුදු පිලිමයකට පිටිපාල ජායාරූපයක් අරගෙන නොවෑ. ඉතින් ඕක ගැන කල බැගෑනියයී. මේ පිලිබද හොද සාජ්ජයක් මෙම වෙබ් පිටුවේ තිබුනා. අනිත් අයගේ බ්ලොග් පිටු වටලට හොට දාන එක මගේ පුරුද්දනේ. මමත් ඉතින් ගිහිල්ල මගේ අදහස පැදුරෙ කොනක වාඩි වෙලා කීව. සාජ්ජය බොහොම හොදයී. හැබැයී පොඩි පරහකට හිටියෙ, මම ඔය පින්තූර කලබැගීනිය ලොකු වරදක් විදිහට මම දකීන්නේ නැති එකයී. ඉතින් අපේ උන්දෙලා, සාජ්ජය පැත්තකින් තියලා, මට පුද්ගල ප්රහාර එල්ල කොරලා තිබුනා. පුද්ගලික බස් වල යන අපිට, ඔය වාග් ප්රහාර තකන්න දේවල් නොවැයී. මම ඒ ගැන උත්තරයක් මෙතන කුරුටුගාන්න හිතුවේ, මගේ අදහස් උදහස් ඒ බ්ලොග් පිටුවෙ පල කොරන්නෙ අනුකාම්පා උපදවාලාය වගේ කතාවක් වටින් ගොඩින් දොඩලා තිබුන නිසා. නැත්තම් මගේ අදහස් පල නොකර ඉන්නවා යැයී දොඩා තිබූ නිසා. කොහොමත් ඉතින් ඕනෙම ආගමක්ගැන කතා කොරනකොට, කතා කිරීමේ නිදහස බොහොම අඩුවෙන් තමයී තියෙන්නේ. ලංකාවෙ බුද්දාගමේයී කියලා දැන් දැන් වැඩි වෙනසක් නැහැ.

පහුගිය කතාව කෙටියෙන් කීවොතින්, මේ හාමුදුරුවරු ගොල්ලක් බුදු පිලිමයක් යටට වෙලා පින්තූරයක් අරගෙන. නමුත් ඉතින් අනිත් උදවිය කියන්නේ, බුදු පිලිමයට පිටුපා පින්තූරකට පෙනී සිටිනවා කියලායී. විවිද පුද්ගලයන්ට විවිද දර්ශන තියනා එක අමුතු දෙයක් නොවැයීනේ. ඒ නිසා, ඉස්සරහද, යටද, පැත්තෙද කියන එක ගැන මම විවාද කොරන්න යන්නේ නැහැ. මේ පින්තූරයේ ඉන්න හාමුදුරුගොල්ලනව රජයේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් සාසනයෙන් අතුගා දමන්න ඕනෑයී කියලා තමයී අපේ උන්දෙලාගෙ යෝජනව.

වගේකට උඩින් මම ගරුත්වය, මොහිදීන් සහ ලාංකිකයැන්යැයී (Respect, Mohammad and Sri Lankans) කියලා පිටුවක් හමාරක් ලීවා. ඒ ලිපියෙදී මෙවැනිම කාරනයක් ගැන හොද සාජ්ජයක් තිබුනා. මතකනේ, බෝනික්කෙක් මොහිදීන්යැයී නම් කලායැයී කියල, බාලන්සේ ගුරුවරියට කසපහර දෙන්නයැයී කාන්ඩයක් මහා කල බැගෑනියක් කොලා. ඒ කාරනයයී මේ කාරනයයී අතර මහා වෙනසක් නැහැ. දෙකම එක වගේ. එකම පදනමයී.

මේ පින්තූරයට පෙනීසිටිය පුද්ගලයන්ට රුපියල් ලක්ශෙක දඩ මුදලක් සහ අවුරුදු දෙකක හිර දඩුවමක් දෙන්න සිරි ලංකා ජන රජයේ නීතිය අනුව පුලුවන්. කිරියාත්මක කොරන එක විතරයී ඉතුරු වෙලා තියෙන්නේ. ඔය කාරනයේ තියන බරපතල කම ගැන මම හැම විටේකම කියලා තියෙනවා. ඒ පිලිබදවම මම මෙතෙන ඉංගිරිසියෙන් කුරුටුගෑව.

මේ ජායාරූපයේ කතාවට ආවොතින්, මම පලමු සාජ්ජයේදී අහපු කාරනය තමයී, බුදුපිලිමයක් ඉදිරියෙන් සිටගෙන සිටීමෙන් අපහාසයක් සම්පූර්න වෙන්නට, බුදු පිලිමයට කොතරම් දුරින් සිටගෙන ඉන්න ඕනැද, කුමන ආකාරයේ කරුනු සම්පූර්න විය යුතුද යනාදිය යැයී. නමුත් මගේ පුරස්නෙට උත්තර නොදී, මගේ ශරීර ප්රමානය, දැනුම ප්රමානය, සංගීත රුචිකත්වය යනාදී දේ ගැන අපේ උන්දෙලා කතා කොරන්න හදිස්සි තීරනයක් ගත්තා නොවැ. මම ඔය කාරනය හැගිස්සුවෙ බොලන්ඩ වෙන මක්කටවත් නෙමෙයී, මේ ජායාරූපයේ ඉන්නා උදවිය වසර දෙකකට මහ උලුගෙදර යවන්න රටේ නීතිය අනුව අපි බැදුලා ඉන්න නිසා. නීතියක් තියනවානම් ඒවට පැහැදිලි මිනුම් තියෙන්න ඕනෑ නොවැ. ආවාට ගියාට අපහාස කොලා කියලා බැහැ නොවැ.

මේ දශකයේ ලෝකෙ මුහුන දීල තියන ප්රදාන පුරස්නය ආගමික පුරස්නයී. අපිටත් ඔය රැල්ලෙන් ගැලවීමක් නැති හැඩයී. අරම අපහාස කොලයී, මෙහෙම අපහාස කොලයී කියලා ලෝකෙ පුරාම ගජරාමෙට අර්බුද. ඕන් වංගියකට උඩදි, බුද්ධ රූපයක් බිකිනියක ඇදලායැයී, සපත්තුවක ඇදලායැයී වස කාල ගෝට්ටියක් කොලා. පත්තරේ ඒවයේ රූප පල කොලා, රූපවාහිනියෙ පෙන්නුවා. මමත් කාලයක් තිස්සේ රෙදි සපත්තු ගන්න යනවා. කවදාවත් බුදුරූප තියෙන සපත්තු කූට්ටමක්නම් හම්මුවෙලා නැහැ. දන්නා උදවියගේනුත් ඇහූව ඒගොල්ලන්ටවත් කවදහරි ඒආකරයේ සපත්තුවක් බිකිනියක් හමුවෙලා තියෙනවාදැයී කියා. අනේ ඕන් උන්දෙලා දැකලත් නැහැ, ඔය ගැන පත්තරේ දකිනකන්. මේ උදවිය මොන රාජ්ජේන් හොයා ගෙන ඇවිල්ල අපේ ලේ රත්කරන්නයැයී අපිට පෙන්නවාද දන්නෙ නැහැ. ඊලගට ඔය රූප හැම තැනම පල කොරනවා. ප්රසිද්ද කොරනවා. හැමෝටම පෙන්නනවා. ඒක දැක්කහම ඇතතටම අපහාස කොරන්න ඕනෙකම තියෙන්නේ, අපේ උන්දෙලාටයැයී කියලත් සාදාරන දෙගිඩියාවක් එනවා.

ඕව දැක්කම මට මතක් වෙන්නේ ඩෙන්මාර්කෙ පල කරපු මොහීදීන් උන්නාසෙගෙ කාටූන් රූප ගැනයී. කාන්ඩයක් ඔය රූපවලට අතිනුත් රූප දෙකක් දාල, ලෝකෙ පුරාම ගෙනිහිල්ලා පෙන්නලා උද්ගගෝශන සංවිදානය කොලා. ඉක්මනට ප්රසිද්ද වෙන්න පුලුවන් විදිහක්නේ. අනේ ඉතින් ඩෙන්මාර්කෙ ලෝක සිතියමකවත් දැකලා නැති උදවියත් තමන්ගෙ දරුවන්ට කවන පොවන එක නවත්තලා, තමන්ගෙ ආගමට අපහාස කොරලාය කියලා පාරට බැහැල කල කෝලහාල කොරලා මලා, අතපය කඩා ගත්තා. ඔය විජ්ජුම්බරේ බලාගෙන ඉදලා මමත් අපේ අම්මාට කතා කොරලා කිව්වා, “අම්මේ, ලංකාව බෞද්ධ රටක් වීමේ අගේ දැන් තමයී තේරෙන්නේ” කියලා.

අපහාස කියන කාරනය ගැන බුදු හාමුදුරුවො අලංකාරෙට පැහැදිලි කොරලා තියෙනවා. අනිත් කිසිම ආගමක මට එවැනි අලංකාර අවවාදයක් හමුවෙලා නැහැ. ඒ එක අවවාදයකින්වත්, අපහාස කල පුද්ගලයන් පන්නා දමන්න්වත්, දඩුවම් කරන්නවත් කියලා උන්නාසෙ කියලා නැහැ. කම්පාවෙන්නවත් විස්සෝප වෙන්නවත් කියලා නැහැ. එහෙමත් අලංකාරයක්.

බුදුන්ගෙ කාලේ, බුදු රූප ඉස්සෙරහින් හිටගෙන පින්තූර ගත්තු උදවියනම් නොවෙයී, ඊට වඩා බොහොම බරපතල නොක්කලේ දාපු උදවිය හිටියා. උන්නාස්සෙ ඒ උදවිය එක්ක අරෝවට ගියේ නැහැ. පිය රජතුමා ලගට ගිහිල්ලා, මහ උලුගෙදර යවන්න නීතී සම්පාදනය කොරන්න යැයී ඉල්ලා හිටියේ නැහැ. බුදුන්ගේ මේ නොසැලෙන කරුණා ගුණය දැකලා සමහරු බුදුන් සරණත් ගියා කියන්නේ ඕන්.

ඉතින්, අපි ඔය බුදු රූපයක් ඉස්සෙරහ ඉදගෙන පොටෝ කෑල්ලක් ගත්තාය කියලා, දඩුවම් කොරන්න යනවානම්, ඒ කාරනය කොරන්න වෙන්නේ, බුදුන් දෙසාපු ධර්මයට අති මහත් නිගරුවක් කොරලායී. බුදුහාමුදුරුවෝ කියලා තියෙන්නේ, තමන්ගේ පිරුනුවන්පෑමෙන් පසුව ධර්මය තම තනතුරේලා සලකන්න කියා මිසක්, බුදු රූප තමන්ගේ තනතුරේලා සලකන්න කියලා නොමෙයී. අනේ ඕන් මට දැනෙන ආකරයටනම් නම්, බුද්ධ ධර්මයට අපහාස කොරනවා කියන්නේ, බුදු හාමුදුරුවන්ට අපහාස කොරනවා කියන එකයී. බුද්ධ ධර්මයට ගරු කරනතාක්, ඔය ඇලෙක්සෙන්දර් මහ රජ්ජුරුවො එක්ක ඉන්දියාවට ආපු ග්රිසියෙ උදවිය ඉස් ඉස්සෙල්ලාම හදාපු බුදු පිලිම වලත් ගෞරවය තියෙයී. වරද වරදක් බවත්, වරදට අනුකම්පා කොරන බවත් පෙන්නුවොතින්, අනිත් ආගම් වල උදවියටත් ආදර්ශයක් වෙන්න පුලුවන්.

මම කියන්නේ නැහැ, අපි මෙවැනි කාරනා ගැන කතා බහ නොකර ඉන්න ඕනෙයැයී කියා. වරදක් කාරුණිකව පෙන්වා දීමත්, පෙන්වා දුන් වරද පිලි ගැනීමක් හොද ගුණයක් නොවැ. පුරස්නෙ මේ දේවල් ගැන කතා බහ කිරීමෙ වටිනාකමක් දැන් නැති කමයී. ඒ කියන්නේ, මේ ගැන කතා කොරනකොට අපහාස කොරන එකවත්, මඩ ගහන එකවත් ගැන නෙමෙයී. අපි දැන් මෙවැනි කාරනා සමතයකට පත් කොරන්න කතා බහ කෙරීම වෙනුවට, අරාබි රටවල වගේ නීති කෙටුම් පත් සකසලා තියන එක ගැනයී. අපිත් ඉතින් පකිස්තානය, ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය වගේ වෙන්න පාර කපාගෙන ඉවරයී. ඔය පරේ යන්න දත කට මැතගෙන, බත් මුලකුත් බැදගෙන ඉන්න අය ගජරාමේට ලංකාවෙ ඉන්නවා.

පහුගිය සාජ්ජෙදී මගේ සංගීත රුචිකත්වය ගැන දොඩලා තිබුන නිසා ඒ ගැන කියන්නේ නැතිව කතාව ඉවර කොරන්න බැහැ. මම Buddha Bar සංගීත එකතුවට කැමතියැයී කොහේදෝ කියලා ලියලා තිබුන නිසා අපේ උදවිය මගේ හැදියාව ගැන පුරස්න කරලා තිබුනා. ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානේ සංගීතය තහනම් කොලා වගේ ලංකාවෙ උදවියත් Buddha Bar සංගීත එකතුව තහනම් කොරන්න යැයී කාලයක් දඟ දැම්මානේ (මට මතක හැටියට තහනම් කොලාද කොහෙද?). ඔය ගැන කියන්න තියෙන්නෙ අමරදේව උන්දෑ හැම වංගියෙම කියන කාරනයමයී. " සංගීතය රසවිදීමේ හැකීයාව හැම දෙනාටම ලැබිලා නැහැ. සංගීතය රසවිදින්න පෙර කල කුසල් තියෙන්න ඕනෑ" ඕන් අහපු නැති උදවියට අහන්නත් එක්ක මම Buddha Bar සංගීත එකතුවෙන සින්දූ කීපයක් මෙතනට එකතු කෙරුවා.

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මේ වෙබ් පිටුවට ඇතුලුවීම සිංහල බෞධ්දයන්ට තහනම්. (අණපරිදී : මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ)

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මේ දවස්වල ගජරාමෙට වැඩ. අනිත් බ්ලොග් වලට සැරින් සැරේ හොට ඔබනවා මිසක්කා, වෙලාවක් නැහැ කිසිම දෙයක් කුරුටු ගාන්න. ඒ කොයී වුනත් මේ ගැනනම් කිසිම දෙයක් කුරුටු නොගා ඉන්න බැහැ.

ඔන්න ඉතින් මහින්ද ගොයීයා ඉන්ටර්නෙට් එකේ අසැබියැයී කියන එවාට කඩුලු හදන්න කමිටුවක් පත් කොරලා. අපි ආන්ඩුවෙන් ගොඩක් දේවල් ඉල්ලුවා තමයී. ජීවන වියදම අඩු කොරනැයී කීවා, දූශනය නැති කොරන්නැයී කීවා. ඒ වුනාට මම දන්න තරමට කවුරුවත් "අසැබිදේට" කඩුලු දාන්නයැයී ඉල්ලා හිටියේ නැහැ.

සුද්දා කාලයක් තිස්සේ මුලු ලෝකෙම තමන්ගේ ආගමට හරවාගන්න දඟ දැම්මා. වැඩිපුරම දඟ දැම්මේ ඇමෙරිකාවෙ උන්දෙලා. (පස්සේ පස්සේ ඔය කෙරුවාව අලුතෙන් සල්ලි හොයාගත්ත අරබිය, ඉරානය වගේ රටවලුත් කොරන්න පටන්ගත්තා තමයී) කොහොම උනත් වැඩේ හරියට හරි ගියේ නැහැ. උන්දෙලා පටන් ගත්තා අලුත් වැඩක්. මිනිස්සු අබෞධ්ද කොරනවා වෙනුවට බුද්ධ ධර්මය, සංස්කෘතිය, අබෞධද කොරන්න. රටේ නීතී රීතී අබෞධ්ද කොරන්න. උන්දෙලාගෙ ගුණධර්ම අපිට පුරුදු කොරන්න. හිමින් වැඩේ වෙන තරමට හොදයී. කාටවත් දැනෙන්නේ නැහැ. වැඩේ කිරි ගහට ඇන්නා වගේ හරී.

ඕල්කොට් ගොයීයා තමයී පලවෙනීයා. (උන්දැගේ Theosophical සමාජයේ දර්ශනය තමයී හිට්ලර් ගොය්යත් පාව්ච්චි කෙරුවෙ) උන්දෑ ඉස්සෙලාම බෞධද කොඩියක් කියලා මලදානයක් හැදුවා. බුදධ ධර්මය කියන්නේ ලක්සෙට කොඩිදාන කෙරුවාවක්වත්, කොඩිදාගෙන කල්ලි ගැහෙන කෙරුවාවක්වත්, ලෝකෙට පේන්න කොඩි දාන කෙරුවාවකුත් නෙමෙයී. බුදධ ධර්මයෙයී අනෙක් සමහර ආගම් වලයී ප්‍රදාන වෙනසත් ඒකයී. ඊලගට උන්දැ පුරුදු කොරා කාඩ් යවන්න, කැරොල් කියන්න, පන්දන් පත්තු කොරන්න... පන්සල් වල ගන්ටාර හයී කොරන්න… කොටින්ම කියනවානම් ක්‍රිස්තියානි ආගමේ දුරු තුනපහ මල්ල ගෙනල්ලා හැලුවා ලංකාවේ බුදධ ධර්මය ඇතුලට. දැන් අපිත් කොඩි දාගෙන, කාඩ් තැපැල් කොරනවා.

ඊලගට පටන්ගත්තා බෞධද ඉස්කෝල කියලා කෙරුවාවක්. ආගමික පාසල් වලින් ආගමික කල්ලි හදන එක බුදධ ධර්මයට අදාල දෙයක් නෙමෙයී. මමත් ඉස්කෝලෙ යනකම් අවුරුදු 12ක්ම ගුටිකන බයට දවසට දෙවතාවක් ගාථා කීවා. හරියට කීවෙ නැතෙයී කියල ගුටිත් කෑව. ඒ මදිවට, පල්ලියෙන් කොපි කරල ඉරිදා ඉස්කෝලෙකුත් පටන් ගත්තා. කවි පාඩම් නැත්තම් ගුටි කෙලියයී. හරියට පකිස්තානේ පල්ලියෙ ඉස්කෝලෙ වගේ. මම මේ කියන්න හදන්නේ, උන්දැ කතෝලික ආගමෙ ඔක්කොම කෙරුවාවල් ගෙනල්ලා බුද්ධ ධර්මයට පන්ගාත්තු කොරල, බුදධ ධර්මය, බුද්ධාගම කොරපු බවයී. පලවෙනි පියවර සාර්තකයී. දැන් අපී බුද්ධ ධර්මය පිලිපදිනවා වෙනුවට, බුද්දාගම අදහනවා.

ඊලග කෙරුවාව තමයී බුද්ධගමට අලුතෙන් ගුණධර්ම හදුන්වලා දෙන එක. පටන් ගත්තා ඇදුමෙන්. ගෑනු ලමයී බයීබලේ දොඩලා තියෙන විදිහට අදින්න ඕනේ, කලිසම් ඇදීම නරකයී. මොකැයී, බයීබලෙ දොඩලා තියනවා ගෑනු පිරිමි ඇදුම් අදින එකයී, පිරිමි ගෑනු ඇදුම් අදින එකයී අපායෙ යන කෙරුවාවක්යැයී කියලා. ඉතින් පන්සල් වදින්න යනවනම් බවලත් උදවිය ගවුමක් හරි සාරියක් හරි අදින්න ඕනේ. මමත් ඉතින් කාලෙකට ඉස්සෙලා කැප්පිටිපොල වගේ කොන්ඩෙයී දැලි රැවුලයී වවාගෙන ගියා පිරිවෙනට ලොකූ උන්නාස්සෙ හමු වෙන්න. උන්දැ, "මොකොයී මේ ගෑනු ලමයී වගේ කොන්ඩෙ වවාගෙන" කියලා දාපි උලක්කුවක්. මට ඉතින් ඕව අහලම පුරුදු නිසා ගානක් නැහැ. ඒ වුනාට කාරනාව තමයී, අපිත් දැන් බයීබලේ තියන විදිහට කොන්ඩෙ කොටට කපන්න ඕනේ. නැත්තම් ඉතින් සිංහල බෞධද සමාජෙන් අපහාසේ.

කසාද නොබැද කෙල්ලෙක් කොල්ලෙක් එක්ක ඉන්නවා කියන්නේ ලෝකෙ හූලන්නෙ නැති වරදක්. ඔය ලගකදී පත්තරේ හෙඩිමක් තිබුනෙ "අනර්කෙලීට තහනම් ගසේ ගෙඩි තිත්ත වෙයී" කියලා. ගස තහනම් වීම සහ ගෙඩි කෑම නරක් වීම කතෝලික අදහස් මිස, බෞධද රටක තිබිය හැකී කාරනා නෙවෙයී. දැන් ඉතින් හොද සිංහල බෞධදයෙක් කියන්නේ, බයීබලේ තියන විදිහට ඇදුම් ඇදලා, කොන්ඩෙ කපලා, කසාද බැදල, ලමයීට තලලා ජීවත් වෙන උදවිය. ලමයීට තලලා හදන හැටි විතරක් නෙමෙයී, හවස දෙකෙන් පස්සෙ කාන්තාවන්ට රස්සා කොරන එක තහනම් කොරන්න ඕනෙ කියලත් දවසක් එක උන්නාසෙ කෙනේක් බණට කීවා. ඒ විතරක් මැදැයී, බයිබලේ තියන ලෝක විනාසෙ ලග ලගදීම එනවායැයී තව උන්නාසෙ කෙනේක් කීවා. (බය ගන්වා, ආගමික කිරීම බෞධද නොවේ). කවුරු මොන බයීලාව කීවත් මේ වෙනකොට අපේ ගුණධර්ම පද්ධතිය සම්පූර්නයෙන්ම කතෝලික කොරලා ඉවරයී. ඒවා ප්‍රචලිත කොරන්න, අලුත් අලුත් දේවල් ඇතුලත් කොරන්න, දැනුවත්ව හෝ නොදැනුවත්ව සිවුරු ඇදෙගෙන ඉන්නා උදවිය කටයුතු කොරනවා.

"අසම්ජ්ජාතකයා" කියන්නේ දැන් සිංහලේ අපහාසයක්. දෙමාපියන් කසාද නොබැදීම බෞධද රටක අපහසයක් වෙන්නට බැහැ. කාමය සහ බැදුනු දේ දැන් "අසැබ්යී". සිංහලයා හෝ, බෞධද ධර්මය කාමය අසැබ් දෙයක් ලෙස සැලකුවෙ නැහැ. කාමය නැත්තම් සාසනයට ලමයී කොයී? කාමය අසැබි දෙයක්යැයී අපේ ගුණධර්ම පද්දතියට ඇතුලත් කලේ, කතෝලික පද්දතියෙන්.

ඇමරිකාවෙ කතෝලිකයෝ සමලිංගිකයන්ව හම ගහන්නේ නැතිටික විතරයී. ඒ උදවියට ඒරටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාව නිසා කිසිම දෙයක් කොරගන්න බැරිවෙනකොට, අපේ රටවලට ඇවිල්ල අලුතින් නීතී පනවන්න වැඩ කොරනවා. අපිත් සාදු සාදු කියලා උන්දැලාගේ දේවල පිලි ගන්නවා. අලුතින් නීතී සම්මත කොරනවා. පීරිස් ගොයීයා, පාප් වහන්සේට ඕන විදිහට ලංකාවේ නීතී ඕක්කොම වෙනස් කොරා. කොටින්ම කියනවානම් දැන් කතෝලික, ඉස්ලාම් ආගමේ වගේ, අපිත් පෝයට ආගමික නීතී පනවනවා. නීතී රීතී දාලා, මිනිස්සුන්ව හදන්න පුලුවන්නම්, සිද්දාර්ථ කුමාරයත් බුදු කම පසක තබා, සක්විති රජ වෙලා ශරියා නීතිය වගේ නීතී හදන්න තිබුනා නොවෑයී.

තවමත් අරාබිය, ඉරානය සහ ඇමරිකානු පල්ලි (Mormons, Evangelicals, etc...) ඒ අයගේ ආගමික ධර්මතා ලෝකය පුරා ප්‍රචලිත කොරන්න විසාල මුදල් සම්බාරයක් වියදම් කොරනවා. ඇමරිකාවේ (සහ යුරෝපයේත් ) වැඩිහිටියන්ට පමනක් තියෙන කාමය සහ බැදුනු දේ, "අසැබි" යැයී ලේබල ගහන්න විශාල වැර වෑයමක් දරනවා. තහනම් කිරීමට විශාල උත්සහයක් ගන්නවා. ජෝජ් බුශ් ගොයීයා තමයී War On Porn වැඩසටහන පටන් ගත්තෙ. ඕන් ඕකෙ ප්‍රතිපල තමයී දැන් අපේ රටේත් මතුවේගනෙ එන්නේ. අපිත් ඉතින් සාදු සාදූ කියලා උන්දෙලා කොරන දේවල් අපේ දේවල් අපේ ජාතික චින්තනයයැයී කියලා බාර ගන්නවා.

අන්තර්ජාලය කියන්නේ මනුශ්‍ය ඉතිහාසයේ පලවෙනි වතාවට ලෝකයේ ඕනෑම පුද්ගලයෙකුට වේගයෙන්, පහසුවෙන්, නිදහසෙ අදහස් ප්‍රකාශකරන්න ලැබුනු අවස්තාව. සී ක්ලාක් මහත්තයා කියාපු විදිහට මනුශ්‍ය ශිෂ්ටාචාරයේ, දෙවෙනි පියවරේ ආරම්බයෙන් කොටසක්. ඕකෙන් වැඩි හරියක් පහර වැදුනේ ආගම් වලට. උන්දෙලා ඉතින් පුලුවන් හැම විදිහට අන්තර්ජාලය මොට කරන්න දඟ දානවා.

ඔය උදවියගෙ ප්‍රදාන කතාවක් තමයී, ලමයී, වැඩිහිටියන්ට පමනක් තියෙන වෙබ් පිටුවලට යනවාලූ. හොද තර්කයක්. ඒ වුනාට ඒක වලක්වාගන්න රජ්‍ය නීතී නැතිව යස අගේට දෙමව්පියන්ට පුලුවන්. පරිගනකය ගෙදර සාලෙන් තියන්න. Content Adviser පනගන්වන්න. තවත් ඕනෙනම්, පරිගනකයට දාගන්න ඕන තරම් content watch සහ parental controls වැඩසටහන් තියනවා. ආන්ඩුව අනිත් වැඩ නවත්තලා ඕක කොරන්න ඕනේ නැහැ. අනේ ඕන්, අපේ ලමයී ගැන ඔච්චරම කැක්කුමක් තියනවානම්, ලමයීට යන්නත් එක්ක පාර දෙපත්තෙන් පදිකවේදීකා හැදුවෙතින් මොකෑයී. හැප්පිලා මැරෙන එක, හෙලුවෙන් ගෑනු දකීනවාට වඩා නරකයී නොවැ.

අනිත් කාරනය තමයී, ඕවා නිසා ස්ත්‍රී දූශන වැඩි වෙනවාලූ. ලස්සනට කියනවා මිසක් තහවුරු කරපු දෙයක් නෙවෙයී. ඇත්තටම කතාවෙ අනිත් පැත්ත. පහුගිය අවුරුදු පහේ, ඇමරිකාවෙ හොදටම අන්තාර්ජාල පහසුකම් තියන ප්‍රාන්ත සහ නගර වල ලිංගික අපරාද විශාල වශයෙන් අඩුවෙලා තියනවා. පහසුවෙන් කාම රූප බලන්න, අනිත් උදවිය සමග කතා බහ කොරන්න තියෙන අවස්තාව නිසා එහෙම වුනු බවයී සිහි බුද්දිය ඇති අය කියන්නේ. යාච්ඤා කිරීමේ ප්‍රතිපලයක් බවයී අනිත් උදවිය කියන්නේ.

කොහොම උන්ත් මේ සියල්ලගේම යටි අරමුන තමයී, අන්තාර්ජාලය පාලනය කිරීමයී, කතෝලික ගුණධර්ම හැකි පමණ අපේදේ ලෙස වගා කිරීමයී. මටනම් ඉතින් ඕවාට සාදූ සාදූ කියන්න බැහැ. තව ඉස්සරහට තමයී හොද හොද දේවල් බලාගන පුලුවන් වෙන්නේ.

My Favorite George Carlin Quotes. Goodbye Old Man.

2008-06-23T22:49:00.008+05:30

George Carlin died today. I have to stop my work and write something about him. I own to this man and other comedians like Lenny Bruce who had went through enormous trouble improving the freedom of speech, without much gratitude. When we talk about political topics like Freedom, we always thinks about politicians like Gandhi or King jr, and we easily neglects the court jester whom have outspoken more than all other politicians combine. When we talk about philosophy, we talk about writers like Hobbes or Nietzsche. And we easily forget comedians like George Carlin whom question everything in this world, from God to school buses.

One thing I like much about George Carlin is not his logical political incorrectness, out spoken truth, nor excellent hummer, but he never changed his materials or performances, even when they were arresting him while his performance, again and again. Even after US high court ruled that his “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” is indecent, he refused to give up the materials. And I heard him saying exactly those seven words in his last stand-up on HBO.

He was schedule to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this year, but looks like he didn’t cared about it that much. Goodbye old man. You made me laugh. Most of all, you made me think.

George Carlin on Death

George Carlin on Religion

George Carlin on Saving the Planet

Thou Shall Keep Thy Religion to Thyself – Carlin on Ten Commandments

George Carlin on White People

George Carlin on God (Touch by an Angel)

George Carlin on American War

George Carlin and his Classic Seven Words, that went all the way to high court

ආන්ඩුව සහ හොරු හතලිහ.

2008-04-23T21:16:00.018+05:30

එකෝමත් එක කාලෙක ආන්ඩුව කියලා දෙයක් මේ ලෝකෙ තිබුනේ නැතෙයි. මිනිසු ගංගා නිම්නවල ගොවිතැනක් බතක් කරගෙන, පොඩි පොඩි ගෙවල් හදාගෙන තම්යි දවස ගෙව්වේ. උදේට වැඩට යන්න කියලා ඕනැ කමක්කුත් නැතෙයි. බිල් ගෙවන්න ඕනෙත් නැතෙයි. තම්න්ගෙ පාඩුවෙ කුබුරක් කොටාගෙන, හරකෙක් දක්කාගෙන, කාලා බීලා නිස්කලන්කෙ ජීවත් වෙනවා. අනේ, එහෙම්යි කියල ඉන්නහැදුවාට, පාඩුවෙ ඉන්න හැටියක් නැහැ නොවැ. ගොයම පැහෙන කාලෙට, අහල පහල ඉන්න තක්කඩි රැල ගමට ඇවිල්ලා, තගදාලා, බොහොම අමාරුවෙන් වගා කොරපු අස්වැන්න අඩලාගෙන යනවා. අස්වැන්නනම් ගෙනිච්චත් කමක්නැතෙයි කියමුකො. අස්වැන්න විතරක් නෙමෙයි, උස්මහත් වේගෙන එන ගැනු දරුවො ටිකත් උස්සාගෙන යනවා. අනේ ඉතින්, පලවෙනි හොරු රැල ඇවිල්ලා ගියායැයි කියමුකො. තව හොරු රැලක් ඇවිල්ලා ඉතිරි වෙලා තියෙන ටිකත් උස්සාගෙන පල. මොකෝ කවුරු කියලා හොරුන්ගෙන් ගම පරිස්සම් කොරන්නද.

දෙවෙනි කන්නෙ ගොයම් කපන කාලෙට පලවෙනි හොරු රැල එනවා ආයෙත් උන්ගෙ පංගුව අරගෙන යන්න. ඒ එනකොට එක්කෝ මිනිස්සු ගම දාලා ගිහිල්ලා, එහෙමත් නැත්තම් මැරිලා. මේ කෙරුවාව හැමදාම කොරන්න බැහැ නොවැ. හොරැ කල්ලිය, හොරු වුනාට, මෝඩයෝ එහෙම නෙමෙයි. ඒ නිසා මේ තක්කඩි රැල, වෙනත් හොරුන්ට තමන් අඩලාගත්තු ගමට එන්න දෙන්නෙ නැතිව ගම පරිස්සම් කරනවා. වැඩේ දෙන්නටම හොදයි. ගමේ මිනිස්සුන්ට කප්පම් දෙන්න වෙන්නේ එක්කෙනාටයි. හොරුන්ටත් වැඩිපුර කන්න බොන්න හම්බුවෙනවා.

ඔය තක්කඩි රැල කාලා බීලා තර වෙනකොට, ගෙදරට වෙලා හැමදාම අත බැදගෙන ඉදාලා බැහැ නොවැ. දැන් ඉතින් ඔන්න මගෝඩි රැල යනවා, අනිත් හොරුන්ට ගහලා තවත් ගම් දනව් අල්ලාගන්න. ගම් ගොඩක් අල්ලාගත්තු හොරා තම්යි හපනා. හපන් රැලේ නායකයක හොර ගෙඩියාට රජෙකුට වගේ සතුටුයි. රජ්ජෙක් කියලා කිව්වට, ඔය වෙනකම් මිනිස්සුන්ට රජෙක් කියල එකෙක් හිටියේ නැහැ නොවැ. දැන් ඉතින්, ඔන්න බෙලේ මිස්සුන්ට රජේකුත් ඉන්නවා. මිස්සුන්ටත් හරි සතුටුයි. මිනිසු හොර ගෙඩියට “අපේ රජ්ජුරුවන්වහන්සේ” කියලා දන නමස්කාර කොරනවා, කප්පම් ගෙවනවා, ඇහැට කනට පේන ගෑනු දරුවො වාසෙට ගෙනල්ලා දෙනවා. ඒ වෙනුවවට හොර ගෙඩියා, අනිත් හොරුන්ගෙන් රට තොට පරිස්සම් කොරනවා. නිවාඩු පාඩු වෙලාවට, විනෝදෙටත් එක්ක රටේ තොටේ පුරස්නත් විසදනවා. රට තොට බලන්න යනවා. උත්සව පවත්වනවා.

ඔන්න ඉතින් අවුරුදු ගානක දිග කතන්දරේ කොට කොරලා කියනවානම්, කාලයක් කාලයක් යනකොට, රට්ටු එකතු වෙලා, හිත හොඳ චන්ඩියෙක්ව මුරෙන් මුරේ හොර ගෙඩියා විදිහට පත් කොරගන්නවා. සමහරු ඔය හොර මුලේ නායකයට රජ්ජුරුවෝ කියලා කියනවා, තව සමරු අගමැති කියලා කියනවා, තවත් සමහරු ජනාදිපති උන්නාසේ කියලා කියනවා. දැන් ඉතින් හැම දේකටම අලුත් නම්ක්. කප්පම් දෙනවා වෙනුවට, බදු දෙනවා කියලා කියනවා. හොරු මුලේ චන්ඩි රැලට පොලෝසිය කියලා කියනවා. හොර ගෙඩියාගේ සගයන්ට ඇමති උන්නාසේයි කියලා කියනවා. දැන් අපිව පාලනය කරන හොර රැල ඉස්සර තරම්ම නරක නැහැ. ඉදලා හිටලා, ගමේ උදවියටත් හොර මුලට බැදෙන්න දෙනවා. රෑට රෑට ගැනු දරුවො ගෙනිහින්ල්ලා දෙන්න ඕනෙත් නැහැ. පිලිවලට වැඩ. ඔය කොහොම උනත්, පරණ කතාන්දරේ තවමත් එහෙමමයි.

තවමත්, වගින් වගේ නානාප්රකාර නම් කියාගෙන, එක එක චන්ඩි මතුවෙනවා. සමහරු චේගුවේර කාරයෝලු, තව සමහරු, ජාවීපේලූ, තවත් සමහරු කොටිලූ. තව ඉස්සරහට තව මොන මගෝඩි මතුවෙයිද දන්නේ නැහැ. ඔය මොනනම කිව්වත් හැමෝටම ඕනෙ එක දෙයයි. අපි හරි හම්බූ කරනා දේ ඩැහැ ගන්නයි. හිත හොද චන්ඩියාගේ වගකීම මොන දහන්ගැටේ දාලා හරී තමන්ගේ යටත් වැසියන් අනිත් චන්ඩි පිලට යන්න නොදී රැක ගැන්නා එකයි. ඕන් ඔය කෙලියටැයි අපි දේශපාලනය කියන්නෙ.

බතට තිත.

2008-04-22T18:12:00.010+05:30

ලංකාවෙ හාල් පොල් මිල ඇමරිකාවටත් වඩා වැඩියි නෙවැ. අපියි කියලා කොයි විදිහකට ඔය ගානට හාල් පොල් ගන්නෙයී. ඔය කොහොම උන්ත් ලංකාවෙ අන්ඩුවනම් දෙවියෙක් වගේ. අපි ඉල්ලන ඕනෙ දෙයක් අපිට හනි හනිකට දෙනවා. ලංකාවෙ අපිට දරුවෙක් වදන්න බැහැ, ආන්ඩුවෙන් නොමිලේ වින්නබු වැඩේ කොරන්නේ නැතිව. කොලුවව ඉස්කෝලෙ යවන්න බැහැ, නොමිලේ අධ්‍යපනේ දෙන්නේ නැතිව. ඌට පනුබෙහෙත් දෙන්නෙත් බැහැ, ආන්ඩුවෙන් නොමිලේ පෙති දෙන්නේ නැතිව. දැන් ඉතින් අපිට බත් කන්නත් බැහැ, ලාබෙට ආන්ඩුවෙන් හාල් දෙන්නෙ නැතිව.

ආන්ඩුව කියලත් මොනවා කොරන්නද. ලාබෙට පොහොර දුන්නා. වතුර දුන්නා. වැව් හැදුවා. කොරන්න පුලුවන් හැම දෙයක්ම කොරා, දෙන්න පුලුවන් හැම දෙයක්ම දුන්නා. ඔය මොනවා කොරත්, ඇති ප්රයෝජනයක් නැහැ. ආන්ඩුවය කියලත් හාල් මවන්නද. ඉන්දියාවෙන්, "අනේ අපිට අනුකම්පා කරලා කොරලා, අඩුමිලට හාල් ටිකක් දෙන්න" කියලා ඉල්ලුවා. අපිත් ඉතින් හැම පුර්ස්නෙකටම අඩා දොඩාගෙන යන්නෙ අල්ලපු ගෙදරටනේ. ඉන්දියාවත් ඉතින්, "පවුනෙ, අසරනයනේ" කියලා අපිට උදව් කරනවා. මෙදා සැරේ ඉන්දියාව, පොඩ්ඩක් ඉන්න, අටුවෙ වී තියනවද කියලා බලලා එන්නම් කියලා ගෙට ගියා ගියාමයි ආයෙත් එලියට ආවෙ නැහැ. ඔන්න ඉතින් මෙදා සැරේ ඉන්දියාවෙන් ලාබෙට හාල් නෑ පුතෝ. බුරුමෙන් ගත්තු හාල් ටිකත් ගෙන්නා ගන්න හදිස්සියකට නැවක් හොයාගන්නත් නැහැ. කිසිම වැදගත් කමක් තියෙන රටක් බුරුමයත් එක්ක ගනුදෙනු කරන්න කැමැත්තක් නැහැනොවැ.

මොන දහන් ගැටේ දාලා හරි අපිට ලාබෙට හාල් දුන්නේ නැත්තම් මෙදාපාර ආන්ඩුවත් ඉවරයි. අපිත් ඉවරයි. ගොවියොත් ඉතින් කාඩාහැලිච්ච වැහි කන්දරාවත් එක්ක අඩව් අල්ලලා, කපාගත්තු ගොයම වේලලා ගෙට ගත්තා කියමුකෝ. ආන්ඩුවෙ ගොයියලාත් බලා ඉදලා ඉදලා කියපි, හාල් විකුනන්න කියලා ඒ උන්දෙලා කියනා කියනා ගානට. පාලන මිල කියලා නොවැ ඔය කෙරුවාට කියන්නේ. ඕකට මොනවා කිව්වත් හාල් මෝල් අඩා වැලපෙනවා, සල්ලි දීලා ගත්තු හාල් ආන්ඩුව කියනා කියනා විදිහට ලාබෙට දීලා දාන්නෙ කොහොමද කියලා. අනිත් උදවිය දැන් තුට්ටු දෙකට හාල් ගොවියගෙන් ගන්නවා. මට නම් ඉතින් කාට මොන කෙලිය උනත් කමක් නැහැ මෙදා මුරේ ලාබෙට හාල් ලැබෙනවානම්.

හැබැයි ගොයියෝ නිදහස් වෙලදාම කියන්නේ ඕක නෙමෙයි. අපි ඉස්සෙලාම ගොවියාට සලාක පොතට පොහොර කාරිය දීලා, වගා වියාපාරය විනාස කොලා. අපි හැමදාම ගොවිතැනට අතදරුවෙකුට වගේ කිරි පොවනවා. ඉතින් උන්දැත් කවදාවත් දෙපයින් නැගිටින්න ඉගනගන්නේ නැහැ. හැමදාම ලාබෙට පොහොර, සහනාදාර ඉල්ල ඉල්ලා අඩ අඩා ඉන්නාවා. ඒවා දුන්නේ නැත්තම් මැහි තෙල් බොනවා. මෙදාපාර ගොවියාට හොඳ ගානක් හොයාගන්න මුරේ ආවහම, අපි තග දාලා පලදාව උදුරාගත්තානෙවැ. ගොවිතැන දියුනු කොරනවා කියනනෙ ඕක නෙමෙයි. කොහොම උනත්, මේ කෙරුවාවෙ ප්රතිපල එන්නේ බර කරත්තෙන් ඊලග මුරේ.

දැන් ලෝකෙ හැම තැනම ආහාර අහේනිය. බොහෝමයක් දෙනා ගොවිතැන දාලා ගිහිල්ලා. අනිත් උදවිය, ඉරුඟු වලින් ඩීසල් පෙරනවා. මෙදා පාර තමයි ගොවියන්ටත් රජ වෙන්න පුලුවන් කාලෙ. කොම්පුටර් රැල්ලෙන් සමහර ගොයියෝ සල්ලි හෙව්වාවගේ, ගොවියන්ට ලග ලගදිම වගාවෙන් සල්ලි හොයන්න පුලුවන්. ඒ නිසා පුලුවන් කමක් තියෙන උදවිය, තියෙන දේපලක් උගස් තියලා, සිංහලේ පැත්තේ වගාවක් කෙරුවට පාඩුවක් නැහැ. ඒත් ඉතින් කවුද ඕහොමයි කියල තව දුරටත් වගා කොරන්න කැමති, ආන්ඩුව තග දාලා අස්වැන්න අඩලා ගන්නකොට. ඔය යන විදිහට ගියොත්, පොලවත් එක්ක හැප්පෙනවට වඩා හොදයි, තියෙන දෙයක් විකුනලා, ජීවන් මහත්තයාට ලක්ෂ දහයක් හමාරක් දීලා, කොහොම හරි ඇලෙස්කාවට ගිහිල්ලා මාලු ෆැක්ටරියක රස්සා කොරන එක.

බත් කෑම, ගොවිතැන සහ බුරුමය.

2008-04-20T20:16:00.003+05:30

අපේ උන්දෙලා වී වගාව ගැන කෑමොර ගහන්නේ මම දන්නා කාලේ ඉදලා. වී වගාව ගැන කවුරු කාතාවක් පටන් ගත්තත්, අදෝ වැඩියාවකින් තමයි කෙලවර වෙන්නේ. එක්කෝ යල මහ දෙකටම වතුර නැහැ, එහෙම නැත්තම් ගොයම පෑහෙන කාලයට අනෝරාවට වැස්ස, එහෙම්ත් නැත්තම් ගෙටගත්තු වී ටික විකුනාගන්න බෑ. පොහොර ගහන්න සල්ලි නෑ. බිත්තර වී නෑ. කරදර වල කෙලවරක් නැහැ.

කොහොම කොහොම හරි ඔය පුර්ස්නත් විසදගෙන අන්තිමටම හාල් ටික කුබුරෙන් සතොසට ආවයි කියමුකො. අපේ නැන්දා හාල් ගන්නැයි කියලා ගියාම, ගෙදර ඇවිල්ලා අලුත් අඳෝ වැඩියාවකින් තම්යි ඉවර වෙන්නේ. උන්දැ කියනා විදිහට, මේ යන විදිහට හාල් ගනන් ගියොත් ලගදිම අපිට පස් තමයිලු කන්න වෙන්නේ.
මටනම් පස් උනත් කමක් නැහැ, හොදට ලුනු මිරිස් දාලා උයලා තියනවානම්. එහෙමයි කිව්වහම නැන්දාට තද වෙනවා.
“ඔව් ඉතින්, තම්බල දෙනවනම් පස් උනත් කයි තමයි.” කියලා නැන්දා මල්ලත් අරගෙන රෑට උයන්න කුස්සියට යනවා. ඔන්න ඉතින් නැන්දා පැයක් හමාරක් හාල් ගරලා බත ඉව්වාය කියමුකො. ගල් හපාගන්නේ නැතිව බත කන එක තමයි ඊලග කෙරුවාව.

ලංකාවෙ හාල් පොල් ඇමරිකාවට වඩා ගනන්. ඒ ම්දිවට හන්දියෙ කඩේ පාන් රාත්තලකුත් රුපියල් සීයක්. ඇමෙරිකාවෙ පාන් රාත්තල සත හැත්තැපහකට විතර ගන්න පුලුවන්. ඒ කියන්නෙ රුපියල් වලින්නම්, රුපියල් හැත්තැහතකට විතර. මේ යන විදිහට ගියොත් නැන්දා කියන විදිහට අපිට පස් තමයි කන්න වෙන්නේ. ඇමරිකාවෙ පොල් කිරි ටින්කක් සත අසුවයි. පොල්ගෙඩි දෙකක විතර කිරි පදමට තියෙනවා. පොල් බිදින්න, පොල් ගාන්න, මිරිකන්න කිසිදෙයක් ඕනැ නැහැ. අබරං උන්දැගෙ කඩේ පොල්ගෙඩියක් රුපියල් පනහක්. ඒ මදිවට, ඒක පුවක් ගෙඩියකට වඩා පොඩ්ඩයි ලොකු. රුපියල් පනහකට ඉන්දියාවෙ රතුළුනු පොහොර ගෝනියකින් එකක් හම්බු වෙනවා. මල්ල සයිකලේ පස්සෙ බැදගෙන තම්යි ගෙදර එන්නේ. ලංකාවෙ ළුනු කිලෝ එකක් ඒගානට ගන්නත් බැහැ නොවැ. රුපියල් පනහක් අරගෙන සිකුරාදා පොලට ගියොත් සිලිං මල්ලකට ළුනු බාගයක් අරගන තමයි ගෙදර එන්නෙ.

ඔය අව්ව අස්සෙ අපිට ඇති තරම් හාල් ලංකාවෙ ඇත්තෙත් නැහැ. දැන් කන ටිකත් රටින් තම්යි ගෙන්නන්නේ. ඉන්දියාවෙ හාල් අපනයන සපුරා තහනම්. වියට්නාමයේ, මැලේසියාවෙ කුබුරුවලට හාමුදාවෙන් මුර දාලා තමයි ගොයම රකින්නේ. හාල් ගෙනියන්නෙ හමුදා වාහන එක්ක. සමහර රටවල හාල් පොල් නැහැ කියලා මිනිස්සු පාරට බැහැලා, ආන්ඩු ගෙදර යවලා. ලෝකෙ හැම තැනම හාල් පොල් පුරස්න. ඕක ඔහොම වෙනවා කියලා සමහරු කාලෙකට ඉස්සෙල්ලා කිව්වා. අපිනම් ඕවා ගනන් ගත්තෙ නැහැ නොවැ.

දැන් අපි බුරුමෙන් හාල් නැව එනකම් බලාගෙන ඉන්නවා. බුරුමෙන් අපිට හාල් විකිනුවාට, බුරුමේ මිනිස්සුන්ට කන්න හාල් නැහැ. බුරුම හමුදා ආංඩුව මිනිසුන්ව වැඩ කදවුරු වලට දාලා බලෙන් වැඩ ගන්නේ. එහෙ මිනිස්සු ලව්වා බලෙන් වවාගන්නා හාල්, හමුදා ආන්ඩුව අපිට විකුනනවා. බුරුමේ මිනිස්සු බඩගින්නෙ ඉන්නවා. ඊයෙ පෙරේද අනේ අපොයි කියලා බුරුම හාමුදුරු ගොල්ලන්ගේ ඔලු පැලුවෙත් බුරුමෙ හමුදා රජයෙන් නොවැ. බුරුමෙත් එක්ක හැදියවක් තියන කිසිම රටක් ගනු දෙනු කරන්න කැමති නැහැ. අපිට කන්න ලාබෙට හාල් හම්බු වෙනවානම්, අපිටනම් ඒ ගැන කිසිම පුරස්නය නැහැ. හාමුදුරුවරුන්ගේ නෙමෙයි, බුදු හාමූදුරුවන්ගේ ඔලුව පැලුවත් අපිට මොටැ.

ලංකාවේ දැන් වපුරන හාල් ටිකත් වපුරන්නේ බතලේගොඩ වී පර්යේශන ආයතනයට පින්සිද්දා වෙන්න. අපි කන බත් කටක් කටක් ගානේ අපි උන්දෙලට පින්දෙන්න ඕන. උන්දෙල වී මුහුම් කරලා අලුතෙන් වී වර්ග හැදැවේ නැත්තම් අපිට මේ කන හාල් ටිකත් නැහැ නොවැයි. කිරි සම්බා (බීජී 360) එක්ක පොල් සම්බෝලතරම් රස කැමක් අම්මපා ලෝකෙ වෙන කොහෙවත්ම නෑ. ඒ කොහොම උනත් සමහරුන්ට බතලේගොඩ කෙරුවාව අරහං. උන්දෙලා කියනවා, අපේ පැරණි වී වර්ග ඔයිට හොඳයි කියලා. අනේ අපොයි, බඩ පිරුනහම අපේ මිනිස්සුත් සුද්දො වගේ දොඩවන හැටි. තවත් සමහරු තෙල් බෙහෙත් ගහනවට විරුද්දයි. ඔය ගැන වැඩිපුර කැකෝගන්නේ සිංහලයැයි කියාගන්නා උන්දෙලා තමයි.

කෑම තෝරාබේරාගෙන කෑමේ සැපත ලෝකෙ බොහොම දෙනකුට නැහැ. අක්කර කාලකින් දෙලොස් දෙනකුගෙ බඩපුරවන ගොවියෙකුට ඕවා විහිලු කතා. මුහුන්කල වී නැත්තම්, තෙල් බෙහෙත් නැත්තම්, අපි කාගෙ කාගෙත් බත් මුට්ටි හිස්.

මේ යන විදිහට, මුහුන්කල වී වර්ග විතරක් අපිට මදී. වරිගේ (ජාන) වැඩිදියුනු කරපු වී වර්ග හෙට අනිද්දාම අපිට ඕන වෙනවා. කොයි දවසක් කියලා අපි බුරුමෙන් වී ගේන්නද? ඒ උනාට අපේ අයට ඕවා අරහං. උන්දෙලා රූපවාහිනියෙ වරිග (ජාන) වැඩිදියුනුවට විරුද්දව දෙකයි හතරෙ කතාන්දර දෙසාබානවා. උන්දෙලට මොටැ, උන්දෙලාගෙ බඩ පිරිලා නොවැතියෙන්නේ. ඒ අතරේ ඉංදියාව, පාකිස්තානය වරිග දියුනු කරලා ගජ ලාබෙට අල ළුනු විකුනනවා.

තෙල් බෙහෙත් නැතිව, මුහුන් කල බෝග නැතිව, වරිග දියුනු කල බෝග නැතිව, හාල් එළවලු ගන්න තියනවානම් හොදයි තම්යි තමා. ඒවා, ශරීරයට හොදයි තමා. ලෙඩ රෝග අඩුයි තමයි. ඒ උනාට බඩගින්න හැම ලෙඩකටම වඩා ලොකුයි. ලංකාවෙ පොඩ්ඩෝ සීයට හැටකට මන්දපෝශනේ. අපි බුරුමෙන් හාල් නැව එනකම් දත මැදගෙන ඉන්නවා. හදිස්සියේ හරි බුරුමේ අසරන මිනුස්සුන්ට මිනිස්සුන්ට නිදහස ලැබුනොතින්, අපි බත් කාලා ඉවරයි. අපේ හෙට කන නොකන වගෙ තීරනේ කොරන්නේ බතලේගොඩ වී පර්යේශන ආයතනයි. උන්දෙලා වරිග වැඩිදියුනු කරලා, අලුත් වී වර්ග හැදුවේ නැත්තම් ඕන් ඉතින් ගොය්යෝ අපි කාට කාටත් බත් නෙවෙයි, පස් තම්යි කන්න වෙන්නෙ.

ඔලිම්පික් කෙලිය.

2008-04-18T21:06:00.031+05:30

ඔන්න බොලං මේ පාර ඔලිම්පික් කෙලින්නේ චීනේ. චීන්නුන්ට හරි සතුටුයි. බාල කෙලීගෙ පොඩි එකී ශිෂ්‍යත්වෙ සමර්ථ වුනා වගේ. මේ දවස් වල චීන්නු ඔලිම්පික් පන්දම අරගෙන ලෝකෙ පුරා දුවනවා.

ඒ කොහොම උනට අනිත් උදවියටනම් චීනයේ කලකිරියාව ගැන වැඩි පැහැදීමක් නැහැ නොවැයී. පරිසර දුශනේ. මද්දහනෙත් මී දුම. මී දුම කීවාට මීදුම නෙවෙයි, කළු දුම. කොල්ලො කෙල්ලො නහය වහගෙන ගම හරහා දුවන්නයි ලැස්තිය. කොහොම උනත් මේක ඔලිම්පික් කෙලිය නොවැ. ඕක හඳේ කෙලියත් දුවන උන්දෙලා දුවාවි.

පන්දම අරගෙන ලෝකේ වටේ කරක්ගහන කෙරුවාව ඉස් ඉස්සෙල්ලාම පටන් ගත්තෙ හිට්ලර් ගොය්යා, ඔලිම්පික් කෙලිය ජර්මනියෙ තියපු වතාවෙ. මේ පාර පන්දම යන හැම පාරෙම ගිනිගොඩයි. ගිනියි කියලා කිව්වාට පන්දමේ ගිනි එහෙම නෙවෙයි, මිනිස්සුන්ගේ ගින්දරයි.

පන්දම හාහාපුරා කියලා ගියේ ලංඩන් නුවරට. චීන රහස් පොලිසිය පන්දම වටකරගෙන, ධාවකයාව ගොන් හරකෙක් වගේ පාර දිගේ දක්කාගෙන යනවා. ධාවකයාත් දැක්කෙනවා. නවතින්න කිව්වහම නවතිනවා, හය්යෙන් පල කීවාම දුවනවා. නැගපන් කීවාම නගිනවා. හැන්ගියන් කීවාම හැන්ගෙනවා. පාර දෙපැත්තෙම උද්ගෝශනේ. එක පැත්තක උදවිය පන්දම නිවන්න ලක ලැස්තිය. ඒ උන්දෙලා චීනේත් එක්ක ආරවුල්, ටිබෙට් රට බලෙන් අල්ලාගත්තාට. තවත් සමහරු මානව හිමිකම් ගැන කලකිරිලා.

ඔය කෙරුවාව එංගලන්තෙන් නැවතුනෙ නැතැයී. පැරිසියෙදි වැඩේ දෙකයි. පන්දම නිවල, ගුටි කෙලලා, හරියට පිටකොටුවෙ උද්ගෝශනයක් වගෙයි. ඔවා ගැන, චීනෙ මිනිස්සු කිසි දෙයක් දන්නේ නැහැ. දැන ගන්න කවුරු හරි කියන්න එපායැ. මෙකෝ චිනේ කටක් ඇරලා යමක් කියන්න පුලුවන් රටක්යැ. ඉන්ටර්නෙට්වලටත් කඩුල්ල දාල නොවැ තියෙන්නේ. කවුදැයි හිරේ යන්න කැමති. ඒ මදිවට යුද්ද ටැංකිවලින් යටකරොල කොල්ලො කෙල්ලො තැලුවෙ කූබි වගේ වැඩි ඈතක නෙවෙයි නොවැ.

ඊලගට ඕං පන්දම ගියේ ඇමරිකාවට. එහේත් එක සෙල්ලමයි. පන්දම එක්ක හොරා පොලිස්. මිනිස්සු එනකොට පන්දම හංගනවා. හැතැම්ම ගානකට එහයින් පන්දම මතුවෙනවා. ඕං මිනිස්සු දනි පනි ගාලා ආයෙත් පන්දම තියන තැනට ගියැයි කියමුකෝ. එතකොට ආයෙති පන්දම හංගපි. ඔය කෙරුවාව බලං ඉන්නකොට මට අනේ මොකටයි කියලා හිතුනා.

ඔය ගිනිඅවිව අස්සේ ටිබෙට් රටෙත් උද්ගෝෂණේ. දළෙය් ලාමා උන්නාසෙ කියනව, තුවක්කුවෙන් නෙම්යි, කරුණාවෙන් මිනිස්සුන්ට සලකන්න කියලා. ඔය කිව්වාට, කරුණා සමාධිය කියනාදේ සාමාජවාදි ලොක්කන්ට තේරෙන කෙරුවාවක් නොවෙයි නොවැ. උන්නාසෙගෙ මජ්ජම ප්‍රතිපදාව ගැන ටිබෙට් මිනිස්සුන්ට දැන් වැඩි පැහැට්දිමක් නැනිවා වගෙයි. මජ්ජම ප්‍රතිපදාවයැය් කියලා මිනිස්සුත් කොයි දවසක් බලා ඉන්නද. මිනිස්සු උද්ගොෂණේ. උද්ගෝෂණ කොරපු උන්ට මහජන චිනයෙන් ගජරාමෙට නෙලලා. මදිපාඩුවට සීයක් හමාරක් විතර මරලා. ආයෙත් කෑගහුවොත් කිසිම සමාවක් නැතිව කට කඩනවා කියල්ල ටිබෙටයේ චීන ආංඩුකාර උන්නාන්සෙ කීවෙ නැතැයි.

ටිබෙට් උන්දෙලා කියනවා, චින රහස් පොලීසිය, සිවුරු පොරෝගෙන උද්ගෝෂණ මැදට පැනලා, කෝලහාල රඟාපාලා, ඒවා ලෝකයාට පෙන්නනාවා කියල්ලා. කොහොම උනත් දළෙයි ලාමා උන්නාස්සෙත්, තනි මිනිහා උනාට චීනයත් එක්ක හැප්පෙනවා. චිනෙට උන්දැව අරහං. උන්නාසෙව කිසිම රටකට වැස්සකටවත් වැද්දගන්න එපායැයි කියලා චිනෙන් තහංචි දාලයි තියෙන්නේ.

උන්නාසෙ අවුරැදු ගානක් තිස්සෙ නුවර දලඳා මාලිගාව වැදපුදාගන්න එන්න ඉල්ලනවා. ඒ වුනාට අපි මොකටැයි උන්දැව ලංකාවට වැද්දැගන්නේ. උන්දැ හිතන්න ඇති ලංකාව බෞධ්ධ රටක්ය කියල උන්දැට හිතෙන හිතෙන හැටියට වන්දනාවෙ එන්න. අපි දෙයි උන්දැට වීසා.

ඕවා ඕවා කොහොම උනත්, පන්දම තවමත් රට රාජ්ජ ගානේ යනවා. හැම රටකම දැන් තද බල නීතී. උද්ගෝශන සපුරා තහනම්. උද්ගෝශන කරන අයට නෙලන්න පොලීසියෙන් ලැසිති වෙලයි ඉන්නේ. අනේ අනිච්චන්. ඔලිම්පික් කෙලියටත් ගිය කලක්.

සිංහල වියාකරණ මොටැයි?

2008-04-15T19:32:00.030+05:30

සිංහලෙන් බ්ලොග් ලියන හැමෝගම චාරිත්‍රයක් තමයි සිංහල වියාකරණ ගැන කතා කිරීම. ඔකගැන ලිව්වෙ නැත්තම් හරියට මලු පාන් කාලා, තේකක් බිව්වෙ නැතිවා වාගේ.

ව්යකරණ කීවහම මට මතක් වෙන්නේ අපේ ඉස්කෝලේ සිංහල ගුරුතුමියයි, උන්දැගෙ වේවැලයි, උන්දැගේ පස්සට කරලා බැදපු කොන්ඩෙයි. මම හිතනා අකාරයට උන්දැගේ අරමුණ උනේ සියලු දෙනටම සිංහල වියාකරණ එපා කිරිමයී. අපි හිතාගෙන උන්නේ වියාකරණ කියන්නේ මහා දඩුවමක් කියලයි. පාසලෙන් ඉවත් වීම ජීවිතයේ ලොකුම සැපතක්. තවදුරටත් වියාකරණ සමග හරබ කරන්න ඔනැ නැහැ. ගුටිකන්න ඔනේ නැහැ. ගිනි අව්වෙ හිටගෙන ඉන්න ඔනේ නැහැ. ඔන් ඉතින් මමත් වියාකරණ සහ ඒ හා බැදුනු ගුටි සහ දඩුවම් සියලු දේ අමතක කරලා දැමුවා. එදා ඉදන් අද වෙනකම් මට කිසිම වියාකරණ පුරස්නයක් ඇතිවුනේ නැහැ. අපේ සිංහල ගුරුතුමීට ජය. මම උන්දැගෙන් ඉගනගත්තු වියාකරණයක් නැහැ.

වියාකරණ නොමැතිව කිසිම භාශාවක් හරබ කරන්න බැහැ. අපි හැමෝම යම් තරමකට වියාකරණ බාවිතා කරනවා. වචන පිලිවලකට ලියනවා. කිරියා පදේ අගට යොදනවා. ඒ වුනාට සමහරුන්ට පුරස්න. වියාකරණ පාවිච්ච්ය මදි. මම හිතන්නේ ඒ අය අපේ සිංහල ගුරුතුමිගේ යහපත් ගෝලයෝ. ඒ උදවිය වේවැලක් අරගෙන දැන් අපිට තලන්න බලාගෙන ඉන්නවා. උන්දෙලාට හරහට හිටලා තියෙන්නේ, වියාකරණ උන්දලාගේ බුදලයක් නෙමෙයි.

බාසාව හරියට බත් පිගානක් වගේ. අපි කන දේ තමයි ඒකේ තියෙන්නේ. කවුරු කොහොම කිව්වත්, මගේ බත් පිගානට කාටවත් හැමදාම බලෙන් බත් බෙදන්න බැහැ. පරිප්පු ලාබ නිසා අපි හැමෝම පරිප්පු කනවා. තලප කන යකෙක් දැන් බෙහෙතකට හොයාගන්නත් නැහැ. වියාකරණ නොමැතිව අපිට ලියන්න කියන්න පුලුවන්නම්, බලෙන් වියාකරණ පරිස්සම් කරන්න බැහැ. බලෙන් තලප කවන්නත් බැහැ.

ඒ කොහොම කිව්වත් දියවැඩ්යාව තියන උන්දෙලා තලප කනවා. වියාකරණ උවමනා උන්දෙලා වියාකරණ පාව්ච්චි කොරනවා. ඒ අය එහෙම කරන්නෙ වියාකරණ ගැන තියෙනා කැක්කුමකට නෙවෙයි. ඒක අත්‍යවශයය නිසයි. එහෙමත් උදවිය ඉන්නවාද?

ඉන්නවා නේන්නම්. එගොල්ලො නවකතා ලියන අයවත්, පත්තරේට ලියන අයවත්, ප්‍රවෘති කියවන උදවියවත් නෙමෙයි. කලා විෂයන් හදාරන අයවත් නෙම්යි. බ්ලොග් ලියන අයවත් නෙමෙයි. අපි ඔක්කොටම ගජරාමෙට වියාකරණ හරබ නැතිව ලියන්න කියන්න පුලුවන්, පහදන්න පුලුවන්. බනින්න පුලුවන්. සින්දු ලියන්නත් පුලුවන්, කියන්නත් පුලුවන්. ගැණුළමයට ලියුම් ලියන්නත් පුලුවන්. එහෙනම් වියාකරණ කුමැටැ?

වියාකරණ නැතිව කරන්න බැරි එක දෙයක් තියනවා. වියාකරණ නැතිව නැතිව කිසිම මනු නීතියක් ලියන්නවත්, කියන්නවත්, පහදන්නවත් බැහැ. උසාවිය පවතින්නේ නිවරදිව අදහස් ලිවීම සහ නැවත නිවරදිව පැහදිම මතයි. උසාවියේ නීතී රීතී වල තේරුම පුද්ගලයාගෙන් පුද්ගලයාටවත්, කාලයෙන් කාලයටවත් වෙනස්වෙන්න බැහැ නොවැ. ඒ කාරනය සදහා උසාවියට නිවරදි වියාකරණ අත්‍යවශයයි. උසවිය සිංහල බාසාවෙන් නීතී රීති ලියන කියනකම් සිංහල වියාකරණ රැකෙයි. එහෙම නැති දාට, අපිට තදබල වියාකරණ නීතී පාවිච්චි කරන්න හේතුවක් නැහැ. තේරුමකුත් නැහැ. ඕනැම භාශාවක වියාකරණ රැකෙන්නේ හන්දියේ කඩේවත්, නාන ලිද ලඟවත්, ඉජිනේරැ විද්‍යලයේවත් නෙවෙයි. දියවැඩියව නැති අයට බලෙන් තලප කවන්න බැහැ. වියාකරණ රැක ගන්න ඔනෙනම්, ඒක කරන්න පුලුවන් උසාවියෙයි. සහිත්‍ය පොත්වල නෙම්යි, නීති පොත් වලයි.

බ්ලොග් ලියන උන්දෙලට නිදහස්ව ඉක්මනට ලියන්න කියන්නයි ඔනේ. අදහස් කියන හරහට අනවශ්‍ය වියාකරණ හරස් කරගන්නා එක හරි ලොකු වදයක්. ඒවගේම අවශ්‍ය වියාකරණ නැතිකමත් කරදරයක්.

සිංහල වියාකරණ ඇත්තේ අදහස් කියුමට විනා, අදහස් ඇත්තේ වියාකරණ කියුමට නොවේ. වියාකරණ වැරදි දුසිමක් සමග රසවත් අදහසක්, සම්පුර්ණ වියාකරණ සමඟ දියාරු අදහස් දුසිමකට වඩා වටි.

ඔන්න බොලේ මමත් සිංහලෙන් ලිව්වෙ නැතැයි.

2008-04-15T04:21:00.012+05:30

ඔන්න ඉතින් මමත් සිංහලෙන් ලියන්න පුලුවන්ද කියල බැලුවා. හිතපු තරම් අමාරු නැහැ නොවැ. ආනන්දවර්ධනගෙ හොරකම් කරපු බ්ලොග් පිටුව කියවනකන්, “යුනිකෝඩ් එසැණින් පරිවර්තකය” ගැන දැනගෙන හිටියෙ නැහැ. සිංහලෙන් ස්තුති කරන්න එක ලේසි වැඩක් නෙවෙයි. ස්තුතිය් කියලා කියල විතරක් අපිට මදි. ඒනිසා අපේ නැන්දා කියනවා වගේ "අනේ ආනන්දවර්ධන, මේ කරපු උදව්වට ඔයාට කොහොම ස්තුති කරන්නද දන්නෙ නැහැ.." කියල ආනන්දවර්ධනට ස්තුති කරල ඉන්න ඔනේ ඔක්කොටම ඉස්සෙල්ලා. මම “අපේ නැන්දා” කියලා කිව්වට, ඒ ආනන්දවර්ධනගේ නැන්ද එහේම නම් නෙමෙයි. සිංහලෙන් කතා කරනකොට අපි හැමදේකටම "අපේ" නැත්තම් "අපි" කියල තමයි කියන්නේ. “මගේ නැන්දා”, හරි “මගේ මාමා” කියලා කියන්නේ නැහැ නොවැ. ඒවුනාට "අපේ කාර් එක හරි අපේ බත් පිගාන කියලානම් කියන්නෙ නැහැ කීයටවත්. එතකොට ඉතින් මගේ බත් පිගාන හරි මගේ කර් එක තමයි.

අපේ මාමා දවසක් කියනවා "අපේ ගෑනී එක්ක කිසි දෙයක් කරන්න බැහැ, මේ ගෑනී කියන කිසි දෙයක් අහනේ නැහැනේ" කියලා. මාමා අපේ ගෑනී කියලා කිව්වට, ඔන්න ඉතින් නැන්දා “අපේ ගෑනී” නම් නෙමෙයි. එහෙම දෙයක් ඉංගිරිසියෙන් එහෙම කිව්වොතින් ඉතින් ලොකු කුනුහරුපයක් තමයි.

අපි සිංහලෙන් පුද්ගලයෙක් ගැන කියනකොට මොන කෙහෙල්මලකට "අපේ" කියල කියනවද කියල මම දන්නේ නැහැ. "අපේ" කියලා කියනකොට, මම හැර තවත් අය ඉන්නවා කියලා ඉගියක් නම් තියනවා. මම හිතන්නේ හදිස්යකට වලියකට එහෙම ලැස්තිවෙලා ඉන්නවානම්, ගොඩක් උදවිය ඉන්නබව වේලාසනින්ම ඉගිකරලා තියන එක ශරිරයට හොදයි. කොහොම උනත් අපේ කියලා කිව්වහම පොඩි ලෙන්ගතු කමක්නම් තියනවානම් තමයි. ඒ හැරුනහම වෙන කිසිම තේරුමක් නම් තියන යෙදුමක් නෙමෙයි.

ඒ කොහොම උනත් අපේ නැන්දානම් සිංහලෙන් බ්ලොග් කියවන්නේ නම් නැහැ. සිංහලෙන් තියා ඉංගිරිසියෙන්වත් බ්ලොග් කියවන්නේ නැහැ. බ්ලොග් කියවනවා තියා ඉන්ට්නෙට් දකින්නේවත් නැහැ. දකිනවා තියා දකින කෙනෙකුට දකින්න දෙන්නේත් නැහැ. උන්දැ හිතගෙන ඉන්නේ ඉන්ට්නෙට් කියන්නේ මහා කුනුහරුප යන්ත්‍රයක් කියල. උන්දැ ඉන්ට්නෙට් එකෙන් ළමයි පරිස්සම් කරන්නේ හරියට කුකුළන්ගෙන් වී පැදුර පරිස්සම් කරනවා වගේයි. අපේ නැන්දා විතරක් නෙම්යි ලංකාවෙ වැඩිහිටි කවුරු කවුරුත් එහෙම තමයි. අලුත් අලුත් දේවලට අපි කොහොමත් බයයි. දවසක් කොල්ලා ඉන්ටෙර්නෙට් කාඩ් එකක් ගෙනල්ලා, ගෙදර උන්දැ අපේ ගෙදරට අඩා ගෙන එනවා හරියට කෙල්ල බඩදරු වෙලා වගේ. කොල්ලා ඉන්ටර්නෙට් එකට ගිහිල්ලා මොනවා බලයිද කියල බයවෙලා. කොල්ලාගේ පාසළ් මල්ලේ ඔයිට ඉස්සෙල්ලා CD එකක් තිබිලා අහුවෙලා ගුරුවරයා හොදටම නෙළලා, දෙමව්පියෝ ගෙන්නලා ඉන්ටනෙට් එකේ අයහපත්කම ගැන අවවාදත් දිලා. ඒ මදිවට කොල්ලා දැන් ඉන්ටනෙට් ගොහින් චැට් කොරලා. උන්දැ මගෙන් අහනවා මොකද කොරන්නේ කියලා. අනේ ඉතින් මමයි කියල මක්කා කියන්නද?

Ceylon Post Cards – Topless Rodiya Girl

2008-04-06T21:48:00.015+05:30

Rodiya Woman

I quite like this postcard. Printed in early 19s. My guess is most probably between 1900 – 1910. Printed by The Colombo Apothecaries Co. Ltd and product number is 36. I don’t know if that company still exists. But there is good collection of color postcards by them out there. Most of them are black and white photographs, hand painted in color, and then Lithographed. So does this card. Most probably Lithographed in Europe.

I quite like the cloth this girl is wearing, or not. She looks very confident and lovely. I don’t know if those colors are real or not, if not, artist has picked very good matching colors for her cloths and jewelry. This card is not very difficult to find, in color and black & white version. Value is between 30$ - 40$. I purchased this from a UK seller, which is always the best place to find Ceylon postcards.

Prabhakaran the Movie, Ramayana the Comic Book, and Sri Lankans the Losers

2008-04-04T07:07:00.031+05:30

We Sri Lankan are losers. I don’t know why we are, but my closest guess is we are too lazy to win anything as a nation. And then again, I don’t know what cause our laziness. Some may say it is the rice we eat or the plain tea we drink. May be it is not. May be it is something to do with our genetics. If you are one of those people who go to your aunt’s house to see your girlfriend, I apologies, I don’t mean to disrespect you. But the truth had to be said. Inbreeding is not a good thing. When you see a picture of Prince Charles, you should have recognize inbreeding do not create good output, before you start daiting your aunt’s daughter, generally known as your cousin sister. Nevertheless, our genes can’t be the only explanation to our laziness. I think it have more to do with we our exceptional talent in freeloading.

We start ourselves by freeloading on India’s freedom struggle. We didn’t “won” our freedom, like most of Sri Lankan teaches wrongly inform their pupils. Freedom was “given”. So here we are, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Now we can’t go to university without tutoring for free, or have a child without delivering it for free, or have a cow without giving it for free. While we are the people freeloaded on our government, they annually freeloads on numerous donor countries. This whole chain of freeloading turned us in to an incompetent vagabond, wonder house to house, pleading for help, telling tsunami stories and bullied by neighborhood bullies, such as India.

India never enjoyed Sri Lanka that much. If you do not agree with me, talk to any middle class Indian gentlemen, in India. They may say something like, “oh. Verrry good my good frrriend, now Srrri Lanka also have computerrrs eh? You got those frrrom Indian aid?”.

If you don’t have luxury of excellent health to visit India, I strongly suggest you to read one of their comic books, such as historical comic book, call Ramayana. Indian comics are all together interesting. There are superheroes like Monkey Man, Elephant Man, Blue Man and all sorts of characters in heroic nature, and the most vicious supper-villain from Sri Lanka.

Comic books can be very addictive. But in India, it not an addiction, it is a religion. They build gorgeous statutes of the Monkey Man and worship him, thank him daily, for helping Indians to defeat the dreadful Sri Lankan villain and burn down part of Sri Lanka. Monkeys are always fun, hence he is my favorite superhero too.

Indians are eagerly waiting to see the second part of this story been made. In event of it made, I guess they may come with names like “Hanuman Returns” or “We set Sri Lanka on Fire. Again.”. I imagine that may have chapters like the Monkey Man driving an Ambassador Padmini newest edition car (the one with an Altrerntor instead of the Dynamo) on Galle Road, and burning down buildings such as Majestic City or Hotel de Pilawoos. May be my imagination is utterly wrong. May be that will have deferent sort of chapters like building a team of superheroes and sending them to Sri Lanka, so they can burn down buildings such as the Central Bank. Either way, those Indian comics has been denigrating Sri Lanka for past couple of thousand years.

We Sri Lankans are cool with that. We don’t mind Indians dress like monkeys, dance like monkeys and burn effigies of Sri Lankan villain and denigrate Sri Lanka in an annual cultural ritual.

With great sadness I must say, Indians are not very cool people like we are. They got hold of this Sri Lanka movie director Thushara Peiris and beat the shit out of him like in a Rajinikanth movie, just because of him making a movie about reincarnation of God Vishnu, also known as Prabhakaran. I don’t know why Indians are so irritated by this movie business. They say because that movie denigrates Indians. May be it is true. Come to think of it, it is very hard to roll a camera in any Indian street without denigrating India, unless you film in a real cold day, so nobody is engaging any unhygienic activity by the road side. But it can’t be the reason at all, since this movie is not about India or not filmed in that place. So I believe this is a bilateral trade issue.

Thushara Peiris tried to release this movie in India as we all know and Indians are pretty upset about this potential competition coming from the place they hated for past thousand years. The theme of this movie may attractive to an average Indian, since it talk about reincarnation of Vishnu, whom not only by Indians, some Canadians and Norwegians also worship as a superhero. So Indians bullied Thushara Peiris, steal his original film, and now they are waiting till this movie to be banned as a precaution of any unlikely event of it been released in disk format in India. What a discouragement to a young director! This is not fair trade. But Indians are not known to be fair.

I highly doubt we can protect our trade interests in this event or any other similar events. It is not that we don’t have capacity to do so. We have this excellent weapon call Boycotting which named after the Irish gentleman Captain Charles Boycott. There are so many underrated Indian movies and soap operas we can use in boycotting without whatsoever lost or cost to our side. But I suspect we are absolutely not capable of engaging in such an activity, because we are lazy people. Therefore we always loose.

Chandrika's Third Mistake? (Dare to make a Guess?)

2008-03-31T19:11:00.005+05:30

Two of the best kept secrets out of three, are out this week. I’m not talking about three Secrets entrusted to those three girls by the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima. These are bigger than that. I’m talking about Chandrika Bandaranayake. She is no Virgin, but she got three secrets and she reviewed two of them. Nothing holly about these secrets, these are her mistakes when she was the president that I had to pay for.

The first secret is her unholy alliance with JVP. I don’t know why she now thinks that is a mistake; it works pretty well for her back then. I’m quite happy her alliances with JVP, considering, at that point she could even alliance with the Devil, if that was an option.

Second secret is the dismissal of UNP parliament in 2004. I think it was pretty bad one. She should not have used her executive powers that excessively.

Now the third and the biggest one is still a secret. No one knows what is it yet, and she said she may reveal that in the future (or may be to the Holly Father). I try to guess what it could be, but I have hard time to pick just one out of all the things come to my mind. Can you guys guess/gals guess what it could be? Her third and the biggest mistake?

Life in Sri Lanka.

2008-03-27T23:35:00.034+05:30

Sri Lanka is the country I happened to born in to for some reason. When I was young, they told me Sri Lanka is the best country in the world, there are no earthquakes, volcanoes or any natural disasters, there is Buddhism and most fabulous history behind us and therefore we are the pearl of the Indian Ocean and I born in Sri Lanka because I’m lucky. They told me those sort of things for 12 years, repeatedly, in the place call School that they forced me to go to and make me do awful things such as stand up under the sun every Monday morning or do math. That do not mean it is a bad place to be. I had the opportunity of involveding in things like making fun of girls, cricket or rioting. So it was fun.

Life outside school is unexpectedly deferent. I won’t say it is better – but it is deferent. For an instance, now if somebody whips you, you really can go to the police. A police constable will write down your complain in a large book after making you wait couple of hours inside the dingy police station. But waiting is not that boring; you get to watch all the drama going inside the place. If you get amused by things like watching a skinny moonshiner getting manhandled by a police constable or a woman with a black eye telling about her husband, may be also happened to be a moonshiner, to another constable with a smirk on his face, that is a interesting place to be. You don’t have that kind of human rights to complain about been whipped, or been forced to stand up under the sun, when you are in the school. Not even right to choose your haircut or urinate without permission.

After all that, if your parents happened to have capable friends or relatives, you get to find a job relatively easily. If not, you may have to do further rioting and be a public nuisance, until government decide to make up some jobs, start paying you monthly using public money, for a job public absolutely not in need of. Even though it may sound difficult getting a job, it is not as difficult as getting to the job. Normally we hold on to a footboard of a fast moving Tata bus, and try protect exported vital body parts, such as the whole body from hitting a passing electric or telephone poles. The alternative to this daily adventure is buying your own car, which is quite possible once you work few years, but fuel price is beyond our daily affordable level. So we use our cars on more important life events such as going to arrange a marriage for the elder daughter, or washed, waxed and parked outside the house when prospective relatives visit the house on fact finding mission before decide on the marriage proposal.

Driving in Sri Lanka is not as bad as driving in other south Asian countries. Unlike in India or Bangladesh, we get to keep side mirrors and also we really use it too, usually when someone endlessly honking behind you, so he can overtake and stop front of you at the next traffic light. We use the horn in every possible reason we can think of, a single short beep is usually to thank other drivers or say hello. A normal one for just to alert your presence or request the way. A long one to accuse the driver, whom have just annoyed you, engaged in some sort of illegitimate relationship with his mother. If somebody start to honk behind you for no particular reason you can think of, most probably he want to alert something wrong with your vehicle, such as the door your mother-in-law forget to close properly or the part of her Sari hanging out of the door. Two short beeps usually means “you are cute” or “I like you” to a passing girl. I don’t know what we expected those girls to do when we men honk at them and drive away nonstop. We know they cannot run behind our cars and thank us for our generous nature, or say “I like you too”, but we do it anyway for our own amusement.

Nothing else can amuse us as much as Liquor does. Any day is a good day to get drunk, but Friday is the best day. Drinking in Sri Lanka need three elements. Liquor been the number one obviously, spicy food and good company are the rest. We are not specific about food, as long as it is spicy and have enough salt in it to cause an instant heart attack. But we are very picky about the company we are getting drunk with. We don’t do serious drinking with ladies or anybody else we don’t wish to expose our worst behavior. We don’t care where we get drunk; it can be under a tree, a restaurant, a friend’s house or grandmother’s funeral. Normally who ever the person thinks himself the most experience in this drinking business, opens the first bottle and drinking starts for the day or for the night or for the day and night. In the first half an hour of this activity, we engage in normal conversation such as about work or children. We complain about living cost and advice the friend whom thinking of buying a car. After soft subjects like that and few more drinks, we switch to deeper matters like politics. Express our deepest unhappiness about the president of the country, who ever happened to be at that decade. And we utter our suggestions what the president should do, or if it is the cricket season, how they should select players for the next game in Britain. Unlike British, we don’t consider speaking loud to our company is improper. It simply mean I'm making a point and I’m absolutely right. Laugh out loud as we can mean, we agree with the whatever the point someone just made. When we are drunk, we like to make lot of points and agree a lot, so that makes this whole drinking business a very loud affair.

There is three way to end any drinking event no matter how we started it. We can always end in Irish way, with a fight. All we have to do is disrespect one of our friends or just stand up with the glass in one hand and holding to a chair with other, declare somebody’s mother is a prostitute for no particular reason. Sri Lankans tend to forgive bad behavior when you are drunk, so people quite like to take the advantage of that excuse regularly. Second way to end up the event is, wait till one of your friend puke all over the place. This is a common ending among young people. But seniors tend to end their event quite differently. After talk about politics, they softly switch to more philosophical subjects like Buddhism. If you are a fan of philosophy, I suggest you to get drunk with senior people. They already passed the age of puke or fight for no reason, so they choose the only option left, go to sleep.

There are many more things I can write about life in Sri Lanka, but now I’m getting sleepy too, so I should leave rest of the things for some other day.

Art of War, Amnesty International and Civilian Casualties.

2008-02-25T23:07:00.020+05:30

First of all, If you live in Sri Lanka or in any other third world country with some sort of hideous military conflict, which all the third world countries could not afford to avoid, but if you have not read the book “Art of War” by Sun Tzu yet, I strongly recommend you to stop all your important work, such as reading this blog or having a haircut, and read the “Art of War” by Sun Tzu right now.

Looking at war in Sri Lanka and all other endless military campaigns all over the third world, I could not stop saying to myself “Art of War” is expired. At least it is expired in third world countries like ours. By the time Art of War written, anyone who secures the land, wins the war. But the time is changed now. We cannot win a war by simply gaining the power over the land. We need to get the seal of approval from western authorities, which we normally refer by the more appealing name of “International Community”. Thinking about this whole situation make me feel like writing an additional Chapter (14) to Art of War, which could have been very bad idea if I ever did. But I scrabble few lines just for my enjoyment, such as..

“If your men are ready to attack, if you know the ground is ready for victory, you are only half way to victory. But if your men are ready to attack, and if you enjoy the most romantic relationship with the international community, you are on the definite way to victory.”

“A good General delights the International community just like how an old man pleases his mistress.”

“Just like a good Pigeon tippler send his tamed birds and bring back more pigeons, send your tamped journalists to gain more of them. Shower them with money, gift and liquor. Organize your journalists inside the enemy territory, and use them to create controversy.”

After I wrote few of those sorts of lines, I had this vivid picture in my mind, Sun Tzu coming from his grave, shaking me by my arms, asking me “How come people like you never seen a battle, get a chance to have opinion about warfare? Since when, any idiot get chance to write anything on the internet?” Since I do not know answers to such questions, I stopped scrambling any further about Art of War.

So here we go with my usual blogging again.

After WWII, west gain military, financial and moral victory over rest of the world. West does not directly control us anymore, like how they used to do. But they keep the authority of approving or disapproving most important events in our life using deferent front organizations such United Nations.

It is quite a nice idea of having universal moral code when we engage in military conflict, so we can engage that in more civilize manner. That was our intention when we join UN, or at least that is what they told us. When we play football, we get FIFA to be the referee. When we engage in military campaigns, we get UN to be the referee. It was a nice simple idea.

But unfortunately things changed over the time. UN turns in to an obese woman on a wheelchair that happened to push and pull by few rich countries. Human rights and that sort of issues, outsourced in to third party organizations such as Amnesty International. Now those organizations have yellow and red cards and they get to be the referee when we play ball. That is not what we wished for. We wanted simple democratic transparent organization. But the world have funny way of treating third world countries.

Organizations like AI, are not structurally designed to be transparent or democratic institutes, UN at least still pretend to be one. Those organizations are openly funded and operated by individuals with specific interests. It is quite easy for anyone to buy out decision makers inside those organizations or appoint their own people. All you need is one or two wheelbarrow load of money. Then you get to openly buy the referee of the game. At this point, the whole ball game turns in to something ridiculous like World Wrestling Entertainment.

Been a referee is a challenging job. In the military ball game we play, referee must have good ground intelligence before making critical decisions, such as giving a yellow card. Unfortunately INGOs like Amnesty International, whom declares themselves as the umpire, do not have such capacity. They basically depend on news briefs, reporters and rumors. Occasionally they engage in short fact finding missions that they spend most of the time in star class hotels complaining about thread counts. Now at this point, we have an organization incompetent and more ridiculous than a WWE referee giving yellow cards as they wish, deciding who get to keep the lands that someone willing to die for. This situation worsens everything that we wish not.

Right now, if a good general wanted to win a war, not only he have to ignore Sun Tzu’s manual, he have to be the one who receive higher civilian casualties. If not, pretend like he receive civilian casualties by making false statements, or create civilian casualties by his own. We see this unfortunate situation quite well in Sri Lanka. We cannot blame GOSL or LTTE for this matter. They were forced by so call “international community” to score points by receiving civilian casualties in order to justify and win the war. It is not only natural they be tempted to artificially create civilian casualties, since the referee is so incompetent; it is also become a necessary tactic of war. This is not the kind of a situation we had in our mind. Sun Tzu never thought, a good general have to carry group of cinematographers when he go to battle like he is fighting for an Oscar.

But right now, presenting the opponent originates more civilian casualties by any means, one get to win the war and justify civilian casualties he makes. Nobody can avoid civilian casualties all together in a war. Not even NATO or US. But when such a terrible thing happen, it should not turn in to anybodies advantage and add a price tag to it. But people like Amnesty international and are likes, do just that. Even though how terrible it is, I like the warfare in Sun Tzu fashion. At least that way, a good general have a responsibility of protecting his own people, not scoring points by making them getting killed.

Disrespecting Your Religion. Part One – Where Your Morals come from?

2008-02-13T01:02:00.002+05:30

First time when I heard the Carl Marx famous quote “Religion is the opium of the masses”, it makes me awfully angry. For my excuse, I was a teenager back then and just like any teenager, it didn’t take much to make me angry. I thought “if there is no religion, then where our moral come from? How arrogant Carl Marxx was”. I was actually felt insulted he (and his followers, including JVP back then) not believing in the same values that I have brought up with. My Religion is the ultimate good of all things.

But later I came across the question, are we good because of our religion?

When every time we talk about Sri Lanka, majority of people who happened to be Buddhist, bring up the impotency of Buddhist Culture we been having for past couple of thousand years and how that make Sri Lanka the wonderful country it is today and how terrible it used to be before Buddhism was introduced.

This is a common argument every religion make. Without their religion, the world will be immoral terrible place. And immediately after that statement, they claim the exclusive copyright of my morals. That is where fun starts. Some religions start to sell their moral value with discount prices while some give it away with numerous financial incentives. Some take more radical approach and fly planes in to buildings and that sort of things. While We Sri Lankans take kind of deferent approach; and typically use identity and cultural blackmailing, with occasional vandalism.

The story says when the son of Emperor Ashoka, Mahinda, introduced religion to Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan king, Tissa was chasing after a deer like a hungry dog. It is quite possible the king was engaged in recreational hunting that day, taking the advantage of moon light. But I don’t think the king was running after a deer quite desperately like the story tries to paint it out. I’m absolutely sure Tissa knew no humans able to outrun a deer and no hunter can shoot while running. So when next time a monk say this story, just before he go and have lunch with rice and curry chicken, I want to tell the monk, “no, it is not terribly immoral thing for a king to engage in recreational hunting”. After all King Tissa must be very athletic, with extra time on his hand and quite safe country for him to run around, which is the kind of moral I would desperately like to see in our current leaders.

The story does not mention anything immoral like killing first born babies, raping virgins, or killing children. So I assume, Sri Lankans were very intelligent and moral people even in the absence of Buddhism, and Buddhism have nothing to do with you not killing your neighbor or not raping your sister today.

Next comes the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. After Jews follows Moses, his long difficult journey, Lord gave Moses the Ten human moral guidelines, at the Mount Sinai. Jew’s book was not good enough for Christians, so later they wrote down a deferent book, but regardless of the book, they all consider without those Lord’s guidelines; the whole world will be immoral terrible place. If that is the case, before Ten Commandments was given by the Lord, in the absent of religious moral guidelines, those followers of Moss’s should have been some sort of rapist, raping each other's daughters, killing their neighbors while performing adultery. But I do not believe possibly that is the case. If they were immoral in the absent of religious guidelines, none will be able to make that long difficult journey.

So it is impossible to buy the argument judaeo-christians are some sort of immoral group of people that we all have to be extremely careful of, because in the absence of their religious guidelines, they all may burst in to some sort of murders.

Not only Judaism, and Christianity, Islam also comes with good set of moral values. Respect your parents, do not kill your children, do not commit adultery, be honest, etc.. I do agree they are extremely good morals we all would like to seen in a person. I’m willing to bet my house on, in an absent of Quran, none of my Muslim friends will not turn in to some sort of immoral, child killing, dishonest adulteress. Because I know for sure they are not that sort of people. They all have sense of morality and responsibility by nature.

It is not only humorous, but also humiliating, when those religious leaders suggest our morals come from religions and in the absence of it, we all will turn in to immoral bunch. In reality, even those most extreme religious leaders, careful enough to pick most suitable teachings from their books and even after that, interpret according to current situation. As an example, no religious leader with a bit of a commonsense will not say anything remotely appealing to slavery or raping virgins, no matter how much of those are encouraged by their religions, because we are the society have better sense of morality than the one in those old religious books. There is nothing wrong with they pick and choose from their books and ignore large some of text in that process.. Matter of fact, I’m quite happy they do that.

Then where does moral come from?

Humans have very delicate physical body without any sort of inbuilt protection mechanism. We have no venom, no long teeth, and no long nails or no camouflage. But we do have advantage in large collective numbers with strong connection. We care for each other. We feel extremely uncomfortable in absence of other humans around us. We have empathy. We help others in danger. We try not to break away from our social pack. We know without the protection of the pack, we cannot survive in this world or any other. We do understand that. Also we understand for us to receive that protection and accept in to the pack, we have to follow set of social responsibilities, call morals.

As technology advances, our pack expands beyond families, countries and continent and we help and protect each other. Not only humans, now we know, we must care about environment too, for us to survive. That makes our moral values expand beyond human species, to other species and even in to every bit of nature.

Bottom line is, you did not jump over to your neighbor’s house today and kill the whole family not because your religion told you not to do so, because you are by nature a good human being.

In a future post, I will try to write, how religion (no matter what religon it is) could make you jump over to your neighbor’s house and kill the whole family tomorrow. Unitl then, be a good.

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

2008-01-26T02:27:00.001+05:30

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)

2008-01-09T21:23:00.001+05:30

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.

Rupawahini, Mervin Silva and The Broken Society

2007-12-28T23:16:00.000+05:30

Most of the Sri Lankans are absolutely delighted to see Mervin Silva getting a good old kick on his behind. We watched that news over and over again, like it is Sanath and Kalu batting the 1997 world cup. We record it. Watch it in slow motion. When every single time we saw it, we enjoyed every bit of it. We Put that in youtube, then discussed about it months to come with smiles on our faces. We feel proud finally we witnessed that exciting minute, which we know as a fact, we are the people, absolutely deserved to witness.

We are happy, not because Mervin Silva the person got painted in pink , like the Barney the Dinosaur, because “we are the people” were able to do something about those dreadful politicians finally. Mervin Silva is a fine specimen for a dirty politician in any Democratic country. By humiliating him, we representatively humiliate all the filthy politicians. So I believe.

Talking about Democracy, we Sri Lankans don’t know the value of Democracy. It was artificially planted here in Sri Lanka. And since that day, we could not sleep better. We tried to bring it down every time we can, but failed miserably. Still Tamils in North of the country, do their absolute best to make sure their children and grandchildren will live under a dictator whom they believe as a reincarnation of the God Vishnu. And I wish from bottom of my heart, let them be failed miserably, just like others.

Democracy is the most vulnerable political system we humans ever created. It had never lasted more than 200 years straight before one way or another a dictator took over it and become royalty or declare himself a God. But after the invention of the news paper, media become the soul guardian of Democracy. And it is, till this day.

Media didn’t like Marvin Silva that much. That is not because he was not an elected Parliament member, but because Marvin seems to have this cute habit of bashing in to media institute with his entourage, like Michael Jackson in famous Bad music video, and beat the shit out of journalists like he is Tony Montana in Scarface. And it seems journalists didn’t take it very well.

Now I understand everything up to this point. I understand journalists getting beat up and even getting killed. That is the nature of the job. That is why I’m not a journalist and I respect everyone one who is brave enough to do that kind of a job. I also understand politicians like Marvin hate journalist’s guts. Now my questions and fears come to surface from this point.

Journalists suppose to be the most powerful entity in a democratic system. They seems to go in to the trouble declaring, they have something more powerful than a gun, which is commonly known as the Pen, which I really started to doubt the whole statement right now..

Journalists indeed pen about Marvin Silva. They even went as far as protesting front of Fort Railway station with big posters and screaming loud as they can, trying to get in to the ears of “we are the people”. But nothing changed. Marvin went one institute after another, beating shit out of people. Even his son went on doing the same, giving pure delight to his father and president uncle. I can’t figure out how. Is that our journalists are doing such a terrible journalism, or “we are the people” not listening to journalists anymore?

But at the end, proving the pen is not as powerful as they say, journalists turn around and beat the shit out of Marvin Silva. I believe journalists didn’t have any other choice. I don’t want to hide my amusement about the whole drama. But at the same time, I’m sad and feared it was the journalists who did it. I wish it never come to such a point journalists have to leave their pen behind, start beating up people physically in order to get things straight. I wish if they were able to get things done by using ink in the pen, rather than pouring it on politicians head. And worst of all, we are happy about it, because we know as a fact that is the only possible way a thug like Mervin Silva can ever get closer to justice.

If “we are the people” have to beat the shit out of politicians, then unfortunately there is no democracy left. If journalists have to beat the shit out of politicians, then there is no journalism left. I wish if we had never come to this point.

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry, LTTE is Coming to Town

2007-12-09T04:15:00.000+05:30

LTTE had excellent run past few years. They flew over to Oslo, Geneva and all other beautiful places, had tea with sandwiches, with smiles on their faces. Foreign diplomats visit them in their gorgeous office and discuss gorgeous things. LTTE raised large sum of money, enough to even envy any multinational cooperation. LTTE Leaders’ kids graduated from foreign universities giving pure delight to their fathers. Even they assemble some flights. Brought more ships, more weapons, went after Sri Lankan intelligent officers very successfully, killing mostly all of them. They enjoyed peace.

But unfortunately, peace didn’t work out for them, or for Sri Lankan government. LTTE should have honestly taken the offer for a federal state and hold military operation all together, if they were interested in politics. But they didn’t. Chandiraka should not have dissolved the parliament. But she did.

So Things changed. 911 happened. New Yorkers shit in their pants. Bush got a second term. Tsunami happened. We shit in our pants. Mahinda got himself a term.

Things are not working very well for LTTE these days. FBI is after their international operations quite badly. LTTE lost very valuables weapon stocks with ships and significant amount of ground control. But most importantly LTTE lost their experienced leadership. They can have all the money in the world, but they cannot buy experience leaders. When I say "They", I didn't mean LTTE, I mean UNP. But LTTE is also in the same scenario now, as same as UNP. No more good leaders! All the experience leaders are dead or left the house. Karuna left, Thamilchelvam dead, Balasinham dead, now everything back on Piribaharan.

No one to influence LTTE leadership anymore, Piribaharan returns to his favorite tactic, simple textbook terrorism in it is finest form. Including but not limited to, Bomb public places (checked), mostly in Colombo (checked), bomb Tamil leaders (checked), slaughter border villages (checked), bomb in a bus (checked), bomb in a train (waiting), bomb in a temple (waiting) and slaughter Buddhist monks (waiting). We should expect more of those in current stage of LTTE behavior cycle, which we have experienced so many times before.

Normally, at this stage, we Sri Lankans, start to do what we know how to do best, which is Complaining. Since Sri Lankans are not as intelligent as Jews, we jump in to "peace stage" right away. That makes some of the western countries and INGOs get so excited, like it is their favorite grandchild running the marathon. But, peace process fail naturally, – Canadians brake down and cry, LTTE go back to suicide bombing with extra strength, and we go back to "peace stage" just another time, and keep on looping same steps over and over again, like it is a Karagam dance.

I don’t believe this cycle is totally bad as some might think. Just like any other Sri Lankan, Tamils also delighted to leave here and move to better countries. This war offers them, a fast lane to do that, which they could not have done otherwise. Just like Indian Tamils migrate to Sri Lanka looking for better work back then, Sri Lankan Tamils are migrating to Europe, Canada and Australia now.

Sri Lankan Tamil population in it is record low 3.9% right now, even less than Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka which is 4.6%. Fast lane to migration is still open. Tamil females are still the best suicide bombers in the world. There is a great demand for Tamil kids in LTTE. There for I suspect with great sadness, Sri Lankan Tamil population will go further down.

Anyway, it looks like wind is changing this time. Military delivers good results on the ground and the sea. LTTE leadership capabilities reduced significantly. We have a good defense budget. People complain, but they didn't come to road banging kitchen pots yet. Extreme political groups like JVP force the government to stay in the cause. We are at war, honestly this time. Finally, we may able to reestablish borders back again.

LTTE is not a terrorist organization base only in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan operations are just the tip of the ice berg. LTTE have tea parties even in South Africa. Even British parliamentarians fly over, have tea with sandwiches and listen to LTTE leader talks, in the big screen TV, like that’s the Queen’s annual speech. There are professional LTTE money collectors all over the world, colleting liberal donations from Tamil Diaspora. There are professional human smugglers capable of smuggling any Tamil to Canada or Europe, if the price is right. There are International shipping operations, shopping centers in Malaysia, weapon dealers in Singapore, pimps in Thailand, sex slaves, bootleggers, and suicide bombers, even already purchased US senators and NGOs.

Those international establishments of LTTE will not fade away overnight, even LTTE lose militarily in Sri Lanka. LTTE is NOT after a separate country for Sri Lankan Tamils. They are after Separate country for all the Tamil people, all over the world. So they say.

This is the time of Globalization. LTTE knows they cannot survive in the Sri Lankan market alone. It is quite thin, and it is getting Thinner and Thinner. They have to expand. US$ 300 million profit margin per a year is not something to lose. It is a great enterprise by in any mean. That is something to expand. There is no other greater place to expand any operation right now, than rising far-east. Looks like LTTE did their initial marketing survey in Malaysia this month, with great success.

I wish all the Malaysians top of the luck.

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry, LTTE is Coming to Town...

Respect, Mohammad and Sri Lankans.

2007-11-27T21:30:00.000+05:30

54 year old, Primary school teacher in Sudan to be wiped 40 lashes and serve 6 month in jail for allowing her seven year old students to name the class teddy bear "Mohammad". I’m all for occasional spanking in the bed room. But 40 lashes on a 54 year old primary teacher sound not right. That sound very curial and unforgiving, or shall I rather say, sound very Islamic.

I don’t know why this British teacher decided to work in an Islamic country so poor, which runs their charity advertisements in Ethiopia. When I travel, I try my best to avoid, if not possible, stay minimum time possible, in any Islamic country. Just because I’m simply fcking scared of inhuman social system still remains in that part of the world, regardless of considerable material development they gained recently.

Here is my travel advice of the day. If you have a choice, don’t go to any Islamic country between longitude E70 to W30 (Pakistan to Africa). (Bangladesh not in that list, which is a very colorful Islamic country). But if you do, don’t complain when they chop off your head for a silly reason.

Mohammad is a religious leader, and I sure do understand we should respect good leaders. But leaders are as good as their followers. Looking at the way how Muslims treat other realigns, like how they treated Bamyan Buddhist statues and so many others, gives me no sensible reason to respect him. I respect Mahatma Gandhi and Mandela, because I have first-class reasons to do so. Muslims can force me and i can pretend, they can threaten to whip my ass or chop my head off, but it does not mean I will respect him any better. Don’t declare how great your teacher is; show it to me in action. Show me how you Muslims treat poor and weak. Show me how you Muslims forgive mistakes. Show me how happy you are. Then I will even consider convert myself to Islam.

I’m pretty sure this primary school teacher didn’t intend to disrespect Mohammad. Mohammad is the most common name in the world. Even liquor drinking, pork eating, movie watching, news paper reading, fully shaven, Internet browsing, fake Muslims carries the name Mohammad too. Then why can’t a teddy bear have the name Mohammad?

I really don’t want to pick a fight with Islam. I understand why they behave the way they do. Forgiveness and compassion are not very significant Islamic morals, but Laws and punishments are. Muslims have all the rights to put those values into effect in their countries. Sudanese have all the rights to whip that primary school teacher. I wish they don’t – but I do understand they do that according to their principles.

Now some Sri Lankan Buddhists may thinks, we are so compassionate and forgiving, we are far better than Muslims in that part of the world. But we are not - We are worst. That’s where my real problem starts.

Islam demand respect, but Buddhism demand nothing. Islam enforces punishment, but Buddhism enforces forgiveness. But we Sri Lankan Buddhists, keep on brining up new bills, not very long ago, one bill for sent anyone misuses Buddha’s image two years in to jail, and then anti-conversion bill, no selling meat in restaurants law, and so many all other sort of laws and sentences to "gain respect and protect" Buddhism. Who are we following? Buddha or Mohammad? Top of that we have monks making laws, collecting Taxes and doing parliamentary duties like Ayatollahs in Iraq.

When Muslims bring up those hideous laws to enforce religion, they do that according to their religious principles. They do what their prophet told them to do so. But when Buddhists do religious policing, we do that against Buddhist principles. That is why I say, we are the worst of kind.

Aren’t Sri Lanka becoming a one of those countries that can possibly jail a woman for religious reasons?

This is how airport baggage handlers steal your stuff.

2007-11-25T20:27:00.000+05:30

Loudspeakers, “Buddhist like” Monks and Nirvana.

2007-11-13T20:46:00.000+05:30

Finally Sarath N Silva did something I can thank him for, banned loudspeakers at night. 10 pm to 6 am. Not enough – but a good start. Now monks are appealing against it for reduce the time period to 5 in the morning.

If these monks don’t know, people have a thing call Radio now days. If we want to listen to chanting, we can put it on, and actually voice come out of it! You don’t have to “broadcast” that metallic irritating noise in the morning and disturb my morning meditation.

Please, stop “broadcasting” that all night. Last thing I want to hear when I’m trying to have sex with my wife is, you people chanting. You don’t have to put that on loudspeakers, I know you are staying up all night and chanting at my neighbor’s house already, because I just send them tea, coffee and bottle of old arrack.

Once I happened to live in a terrible place close to a Buddhist temple, which “broadcast” Pirith for three nights straight. I’m pretty sure even Buddha could not have stand up for that noise for three days straight. I’m so glad now I’m not any closer to any Buddhist temple.

Ruwanweli Maha Seya, is one place I always love to visit. There is nothing peaceful in the world like just sitting by the inner wall and look at that big white emptiness. It is so peaceful and relaxing, until… they installed loudspeakers around it, and destroyed the whole purpose of that place. A temple supposes to be a peaceful, quite, place so we can have an escape from our everyday loud busy life and have a movement of silent and meditate.

I have nothing against some good natural chanting, but I don’t want it in daily loudspeaker dose. I don’t want an early morning short of Pirith either. Let me have it organic next time. If you really want to chant early in the morning, get up early, and chant in your natural voice. And then go out and help someone in need, like Buddha did. Running a cassette on loudspeakers is not chanting, That is a playback.

Remember monks, back in the days, Buddha told monks to stay inside the temple in the rainy seasons just because he didn’t want you to disturb people in name of Buddhism. When Buddha said Niravana, he didn’t mean the rock band nirvana, what he meant was the quite peaceful statues of mind. So before you put on your loud ass speakers next time, learn the spirit of Buddhism. Be a Buddhist. Then you will realize how important to have some silent in our life.

The Dead Terrorist [YouTube]

2007-11-06T20:20:00.000+05:30

I'm teaching Sri Lankan criminals how to kidnap. You can do nothing about it! Suckers!

2007-10-24T18:16:00.000+05:30

They did it again! This time University of Peradeniya students kidnapped group of university works, including lectures and Deputy Vice Chancellor. Their demands? Drop all criminal charges against them and let them go back to university. (and escape helicopter, free Mahapola money, government jobs, and change the university’s name to their grandmothers name).

Malaka Silva’s mother phone up Malaka this morning and said, "Dummy! If you go to a Sri Lankan university and get a proper education, you won’t go to jail like a stupid. Even don’t know how to kidnap someone and get your chargers dropped! Idiot!”. And Mervin Silva, more a loving man, told his son Malaka, ‘look son, I got a Phd, learn from me!”

Al Qaeda, Saudi, this morning came forward with highly paid job offers for Sri Lankan University graduates. Minister of foreign affairs said, he already start discussion with Taliban and now we can send housemaids and graduates to Middle East.

Meanwhile NASA started an internal investigation to find out if any Sri Lankan scientists influenced Lisa Nowak’s kidnapping incident.

University of Peradeniya said they are planning to bring down O.J Simpson as a guest lecture for next semester.

With all these wonderful news, I feel proud today. I work hard, pay my taxes and fund our universities, so they can teach ‘101 ways to kill a fellow student using a computer’, ‘101 ways to kidnap’, ‘Mahapola for Dummies’ and so many unique subjects you cannot find anywhere else in the world. Aren’t our free higher education system is the best in the world or what?

Other rural universities also wanted to include those subjects in their curriculums and Education minister said, "we have to increase petrol price up to 200Rs a liter next year, so we can provide sufficient funding for our wonderful higher education system".

Sri Lankan Universities, Assholes and Waste of My Money.

2007-10-03T18:23:00.000+05:30

I asked myself the question few times, “is it worth we spending our tax money on Free Higher Education?”. Over the years my answer turned in to “No. Not the way we are doing it right now”. Right now, I’m pretty much tired of looking at those assholes milking the government cow (that is us), and we are not getting any return out of it at the end of the day.

I do understand the value of free education. I myself and my parents, even our president, all are products of free education. Government investment on Free Higher Education was necessary at the time when we were new to that system. Back then government even invest on toilets, so we can get out of the habit of going on nature walks. But once toilets become standards, government stop investing on it, and now we build our own toilets with our own money. Don’t we all understand the value of higher education by now and aren’t we willing to spend our own money for it personally?

Don’t misunderstand me. I’m all for FREE Education. Education is a human right and everyone should have freedom to accrue it, no matter what. No matter you are poor, rich, smart or a retarded. But unfortunately we don’t have a FREE higher education in Sri Lanka. We have financially subsidized higher education, but in that process we take out the right for education form majority of citizens. Some fortunate people are able to leave the country, and accrue higher education elsewhere. (Fortunate people always able to leave this country.) But not so fortunate have to give up their rights to have formal higher education. If you were not able to score higher enough in A/L, government labels you, a dump mother fcker who is not worth of getting a higher education. I don’t like that. Education should be FREE. Even for rich people. Even for stupid people. Even for dumbass Einstein who acted retarded till his midlife.

We are a poor nation. If we invest on something, we need to gain some returns out of it. We as a nation spend our hard earn money on our universities (Mind you, our wives work in Middle East, doing all sort of dirty work for make that money). First of all our curriculums are duplicates of western universities. And eventually the students we train with our money, get jobs in Europe or some other smart nation than us, and move out there. Why the hell we train people with our money for other countries? Then Rest of the assholes that were not able to get a work permit in UK, US or Australia, start picketing front of Fort Railway Station. So the government (that is us) has to provide them some made up jobs and pay them monthly salary with our pocket till they live. Sri Lanka already has highest number of Government works in the world. Let’s stop producing more.

Now come to my most important question. What our free higher education system has done to our country LATELY, which we could not achieve by open higher education system? Did our universities invent anything? No! We had free higher education for so long, does our country become any better? No! Are we become any smarter? No! Does our university graduates become masters of the trade and create jobs for rest of the dumb mother fckers who dumb enough to fail A/L? No!

Then why We just keep on pumping our money in to higher education system and create some products either end up in some other country for free, or we end up maintaining afterword just because we are stupid enough to created them? Why?

"There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies."

~ Henry Ward Beecher:

Monk's Protests in Myanmar, They are so out of touch!

2007-09-26T02:35:00.000+05:30

- Myanmar

Myanmar was isolated for so long from rest of the world, those monks have no what so ever sense in Monk Fashion. It’s about time for Sri Lankan monks to give those old plain Myanmar monks some fashion lessons, like latest hairstyles, footwear trends and those shiny silk brand name robes.

- Sri Lanka

Look our Sri Lankan monks, been so fabulous in latest Tom Cruise haircut. Our monks even apply for driving lessons there days. So fly! And those poor Myanmar monks, they even don’t have flip-flop on their foot. Ouch!

Most of all, what is with all that chanting? World is changed now, you Myanmar monks, don’t have to be like that anymore. Look, in Sri Lanka people bring food to the temple, so monks do not have to go beg for food, like that old Buddha fellow teaches back then (oh! He is so out of touch!). Do you know Even monks can work and get wages now? How tight is that! Pimp out Myanmar; learn the correct way to protests from Sri Lankan monks.

- Gngasta Protest - Sri Lanka

Genetically Modified Food, Children and Hunger

2007-07-18T00:20:00.001+05:30

We always have good crowd of people in Sri Lanka busy impress on white men and their way of living. Bash on GM food in Sri Lanka also belong to that group of people. They may looks like Environmentalists, Nationalists, hardcore traditionalists or even Buddhist monks – whatever their appearances are, they always love to talk about white men’s way of living in TV and News papers as that is their own – as that is our own. I was looking at this unfair bash on GM food for last couple of years. Let’s see if the devil dark it they says.

GM food is not natural?
Almost all the food we consume today comes from genetically modified sources. Those plants may change inside a lab or inside a farm over the years. But one way or another we always modify plants to produce more, tastier and use less resources.

We humans survive today because of our ability to modify plants. Even the plate of Rice you eat today came from modified plants. My favorite modified rice is BG 360 created by Bathalegoda Rice Research center. That is absolutely delicious, 105 days maturity duration, required less water and produces more. Common name is “Kiri Samba”. Give it a try next time with Pol Sambol.

I do agree Organic food is better, “Natural” and healthier than GM food or any other food we buy from Village Market. Also I agree Benz looks better, faster and safer than a TATA bus. There is no hunger in Western European and American white community. They have more than enough food, now they have luxury of “choosing” better and healthier food. But we don’t have that luxury. We are not there yet. TATA buses are loud, uncomfortable and unsafe. It is true. Benz are safe and comfortable. It is true too. But only an idiot can tell us not to go in a TATA bus. And only an idiot can tell us not to produce GM food.

GM food is unhealthy?
Most of the natural plants are not edible for humans. Even the edible plants, we can’t eat right away. We need to boil them first, so delicate human stomach can handle it. Majority of the natural plants are not healthy for humans.

Then we produce selective plants - mostly grass varieties inside farmlands. They are not all that healthy either. Some have short-term effect and some have long-term effect. If you really want to experience short term effect, dine at the halal restaurant in Town Hall front of Muslim mosque (and HNB, and 128 bus halt) ;)

When it comes to Long Term effects, every food we eat have some sort of long term effect. Some food increase cholesterol, some increase blood pressure – some increase blood sugar, some food simply makes you fat. Some may increase sex drive and some decrease. Some even can create cancer. There is no perfect food out there. Every food genetically modified or not, has some sort of after effects. You can pick any food any time, do some research on it and find some bad after effect.

Then what is the big Deal?
In 1930s America and much of Europe faced great depression after Wall Street Crash in 1927. People were hungry, no money, no jobs, no international trade and everyone went bankrupt. Just like everyone invested on “.Com” business couple of years ago, back then everyone invested on Coffee, especially coffee in Brazil. With huge interest coming in to coffee market, every Brazilin farmer produces coffee and more coffee. Eventually the supply went bigger than the demand, causing sharp price drop and investors loosing their money originally borrowed from somewhere else. This creates a chain effect ultimately end up in Black Thursday Wall Street Crash. Increase food production not that good for Wall Street.

World food production dominates by few companies. More production means low prices and less profit for them. They don’t want that to happen. They want to maintain the demand vs the supply. They don’t want us farm wheat in Sri Lanka (or any other country in that case). They don’t want rice price to drop significantly than the wheat price.

So what they do? They use the Steve Jobs iPod trick. When every time someone asked Steve about mobile video device, he always said “bad idea! It will never work! People will never watch movies in a tiny screen”. Doing so he discourage his competitors enter in to the market until Apple released an iPod with video and iPhone with video. Bash on GM food also works the same way. That gives time for big companies to develop their own technology and ultimately dominate the food market on their own terms.

60% children under 5 in Sri Lanka suffer from malnutrition. Look at them. They are dark, skinny and hungry. They need food. They need more food. They need milk and eggs. Even it comes from chickens with three heads. When we have more than enough food, then we can talk about health food or organic food in TV. But till then, Bathalegoda must use whatever the technology available to produce more and better plants.

“The right time to eat is: for a rich man when he is hungry, for a poor man when he has something to eat” ~ a Mexican Proverb

Global Warming, Environmentalist and Sinners.

2007-07-09T01:15:00.000+05:30

Al Gore’s Live Earth Concert was very successful last two days. It’s defiantly a wonderful thing to organize simultaneous musical concert all over the world. Without a doubt that makes media talk about Global Warming more – at least this weekend. Other hand Gorge Bush and American republicans does not believe in Global Warming, evaluation, fossils or anything else that is not in the Bible. But Europeans always seems to be more rational than American Republicans or Islamic radicals.

Al Gore was with Larry King other day. He introduced pledges that you can also sign online here. That brings me to the question, why - we Sri Lankans - should sign up for Al Gore’s pledge? Are we all Carbon sinners?

Now I don’t mean we should not care about Environment. We Sri Lankans are – most Asians are – very Environment friendly people indeed. It is in our roots. It is in our philosophy. We never believed the world was created for our use or we didn’t kill Jesus. And we didn’t create Global Warming either. But it seems there are people in our part of the world always busy trying to impress on the westerners that they are “Deferent from those uneducated primitive others", even willing to be Sinners if they can be closer to the white man and their believes. Even a carbon sinner.

When those people take over Environment issues in our part of the world, it starts to look very stupid. Just like our Polythene ban. We ban the thin polythene less than 20 microns, eventually ended up using more, thicker polythene.

And then there is other group screaming bloody murder for genetically modified food in Sri Lanka. Westerners have luxury of choosing what they eat. But we are not. By not using new technology, we end up using more land, more fertilizer, more pesticide and more environment damage at the end, not to mention number of children going to bed hungry.

Then we have another group always go against anything to do with rural development. New roads, power plants, air ports, harbors, you name it. Mostly that’s the urban middle class visit village side once in a while for leisure, while villages struggle to survive the day. As a result of stupid Environment friendliness, we end up burning more fuel in the traffic, having individual power generators making more environment damage.

China and India seems to be the biggest topic in Global Warming. Some are screaming in the west and westerners are like, they cannot save the plant while India and China is producing more carbon. Bloody hell! Giver the poor man a break!

Global average carbon emission is around 1.27 tonnes per a capita.In India it is 1.9 and in China it is 3.2. But in America it is humongous 19.8, Australia 5.6 and Britain have very good records this year: 2.5 per capita. Even though figures are low this year; Brits were producing more carbon in large numbers since our great great grandparent’s time. Even it is looks like China have a big number compared to UK, products they make ultimately end up in western consumer’s hands who demand for cheaper goods from China. And they are more a less responsible for China’s carbon emission too.

For me it looks more like, bunch of boys went in to a brothel there is only one whore. West went in first, while we wait behind the line. After they satisfied their needs - in every hole they can find, they come back to us and say “look guys, she is tired. Poor girl.. Do not go to her... Look .. Look.. we are fair. We won’t go to her any more too”.

You know what? Fuck you!

Hunger and poverty is more important than the Environment. When Westerners talk about Public Transportation, they do not talk about how we hold our dear life on a footboard of a TATA bus. When they talk about CFL bulbs they do not talk about how we can afford one or the fact half the country even do not have electricity. Having a bright light at night is a luxury in this part of the world. When they talk about energy efficient electronic, they don’t know how I studied under a kerosene lamp just like majority of Sri Lankans. When Westerners stomachs are full, they have luxury of talking about things like Environment, that they have fucked up in the first place.

If they want to introduce Carbon Tax to our part of the world, we should calculate that for last 200 years because we are paying now for what they have done in past 200 years.

We didn’t fuck up the environment. We don’t have Bling Bling. We don’t drive Hummer. We didn’t kill jesses. We are not Carbon sinners. West should pay for their sins first.

Somawansa's Letter to India

2007-06-06T01:56:00.000+05:30

H.E. The High Commissioner for India in Sri Lanka
The Indian High Commission
Colombo.

Your Excellency,

India Should Not Return to Bad Neighbor Policy

Mr. M.K. Narayanan, the Indian National Security Advisor has said “We [India] are a big power in the region. We don’t want the Sri Lankan government to go to Pakistan or China for weapons. Whatever may be their requirements, they should come to us”.

Mr. Narayanan headed the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) from 1987 to 1990. This was a time when after secretly arming, training and sending to Sri Lanka all the Tamil separatist groups in an indirect invasion, India forced Sri Lanka to sign with Indian gunboats outside Colombo harbor an unequal treaty, the so-called Indian Accord. Mr. Narayanan undoubtedly participated in formulating and implementing all these anti Sri Lankan acts by the then Indian government. This was also the time when the Indian Air Force intruded into Sri Lankan air space to drop self-styled "food parcels" on Vadamarachchi at a time when the Sri Lankan government was about to defeat the LTTE in Jaffna peninsula.

This behavior of India to Sri Lanka was a strong contrast to the behavior of many other countries in the region notably Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Iran and Malaysia who have never interfered in our internal politics. These policies of India have been just the opposite of correct relationships that were mooted by India herself together with other ex-colonial countries under the “Panchasheela” principles of noninterference in other countries.

It is also no secret that in spite of India claiming to change her policies towards Sri Lanka she had been very reluctant to help us. When the LTTE was to overrun Jaffna peninsula a few years ago, India refused all our requests for help for sea transport. It is also no secret that when China was to give us under very favorable terms a 3D radar system, India interfered and dissuaded us from getting that.

The JVP’s internal policies are for democracy and full equality of all citizens. To reach this goal requires the elimination of the racist and totalitarian LTTE structure. Recently, our MPs have been increasingly interacting with Indian political parties especially of the left who have understood our principled position. A few weeks ago our delegates were well received in Tamil Nadu.

The foreign policy of the JVP is very simple. It will side with any country, whatever their other ideological views, which support Sri Lanka to regain full sovereignty. The only country to have intruded on our sovereignty in the postcolonial period is India.

The JVP over the recent years have thought that India's bad neighbor policy had been changed. Hence the JVP began to think of India in very positive terms. But the recent statement of Mr. Narayanan, one-time head of Indian spy agencies, gives us to doubt that. As a sovereign nation Sri Lanka has the full right to trade with any nation including from where we should buy the best arms.

India and Sri Lanka share a common heritage in many areas of culture. The JVP will always foster correct and amicable relations between our two countries but at the same time it will not shirk from its responsibility of standing for the full integrity and sovereignty of the country.

Thank you

On behalf of the political bureau of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

Somawansa Amarasinghe
Leader,
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.
5th June 2007.

Jesus, Mother Fuckers and Death Penalty.

2007-05-28T20:59:00.000+05:30

Killing people is an exciting subject, I was reading Ares's post "Death: Is it ours to take?" and that make me write my own post. Please read Ares's blog first - that is a very analytical post.

Capital punishment is always a crowd pleaser and entertaining event. We used to drag the subject around the city with drums and horns and large crowd stop their daily work and gather to watch the exciting event. They talk about it afterward. Nowadays we do the same thing with Newspapers and Television. We simply like to kill people who do not follow our values - we may execute them, we may bomb them, we may fly them in to buildings. No matter how we do it, at the end of the day humans get excited by killing other humans.

Some times back China had a policy of sending a bill to the surviving family for the cost of the bullet used to kill their loved ones. Now china has mobile death bus shuttle from town to town. America keeps juveniles in death row until they grow in to legal age. We Sri Lankans are lucky not to practice capital punishment. Even though Sri Lanka pretends to be a Buddhist country, we reactivated the death penalty couple of years back.

Capital punishment perfectly fulfill 5 Buddhist conditions of 'evil act of killing'
1) a living being
2) knowledge or awareness it is a living being
3) intention of killing
4) effort to kill, and
5) consequent death

Ares's post ask an question "If your family was hacked to death by someone, will you not want that person to suffer the same fate?". Well. We are talking about a mother fucker right here. So let's assume for a minute it is alright to hang a mother fucker... But can we prove every time we are killing the correct offender? Answer is NO. With DNS evidence, significant number of people in American death row were able to prove they are innocence. Now compare US government and Sri Lankan government. Do you honestly thinks same people who can't operate a CTB bus or balance a budget or deliver a mail, should take life and death decisions?

Now here is the paradox. If we wrongly execute one innocent human, we all deserve capital punishment for wrongly taking a life of another person. There are large number of proven wrong executions in USA. So why not they kill who have funded, backed and take those wrong decisions. How it is possible to wrongly kill someone and not get killed for it, if you are wearing a black coat, but not if you are wearing a black t-shirt?

Anyway, I don't think personal pain justify killing a human. Yes. We should eliminate those mother fuckers who rape and hack people to death. We have a place call Jail for it. We may even get scientists or doctors to figure out what is wrong with them in the future and fix those loosen nuts in their heads.

There are no evil people in this world, only people who have done evil act. Prabkaran a good father; Gandhi is not, Hitler known to be a vegetarian, world worst serial-killer becomes a Buddhist monk, Virginia Tech Killer a Bullied Autistic. We don't even treat for autism in our schools.

Death Penalty is just another way to get to gather and kill a human. We don't get any exclusive productive output form that except illusion of control and and satisfaction of revenge.

We execute people for any reasons - for killing other people, use of drugs without prescription, adultery, theft, not only that, we even execute people for not believing in Jesus. Oh! Jesus? We executed him too!

Sri Lanka Achieves Her Educational Goals. I'm Sooo Proud! Yeh!

2007-05-21T23:53:00.000+05:30

I just jump in to this news today. Sri Lanka as a low skill labor provider we finally achieve our education goals. I'm so happy of our achievements, I feel like jump with joy!

"In this year's General Certificate of Education-Ordinary Level (GCA-OL) exam, held after 11 years of schooling, 51 per cent had failed. The failure rate in Maths was 57 per cent; in Science, 51 per cent; and in English, 63 per cent."

"A recent survey conducted by the National Education Commission (NEC) found that out of a representative sample of 4,054 students from 70 schools taken from across the country, 18 per cent of the 6 th. Graders could not write at all! Only 35 per cent of the 10th graders could take down a passage dictated to them."

Now we have Sri Lankans with perfect skills to work in Middle East households and construction yards. Aren't we the best of the world or what?

This kids start schooling under Chandrika Bandaranayake, whom also an education minister back then. So I want to take movement to thanks Chandrika and Mahinda Governments and SLFP for the greatest achievement EVER! Thank you so much guys! Without you, we could not even come closer!

Sri Lanka!!! Number one!!

BBC Documentary - History of Sri Lankan Conflict

2007-05-12T14:03:00.000+05:30

60 minutes of Sri Lankan stupidity and weak leadership..

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Hey.. Monkey.. Monkey.. Monkey.. Come Here...

2007-05-07T00:52:00.000+05:30

If you do not agree, you shouldn't have come here in the first place :-)

Police Vesak

2007-04-30T02:55:00.000+05:30

Vesak is coming. Police is ready. Alcohol is ban in the Vesak week in Sri Lanka. We are ready to hunt down anyone who sell or transport alcohol in Vesak week. We are ready to Vesak.

This whole thing puzzles me a lot. Why we ban alcohol especially on Vesak week? Is that because of 5th precept? Even though 5th prospect is not a rule should oppose by the police, why we only police that? How about other 4? Would Buddha have request for an alcohol ban and religious policing for his birthday?

I have no issue with policing Alcohol as a separate issue. But I cannot understand how we mix that with Buddhism. Especially do we need police to practice Buddhism in Sri Lanka? I know the triple gem - Buddha, Dharma and Sanga. Isn't Buddhism in Sri Lanka using the Police as a fourth gem in Vesak week?

I understand there are good arguments out there. People may get drunk in Vesak week and spoil the party. But if Buddhists get drunk, is that because of so call Buddhists does not understand Buddhist teaching? If it is so, is police the right tool for that? Isn't there already a group call Monks in Buddhism who suppose to teach Buddhism to people who want to learn? If people do not understand Buddhist principles, isn't there something wrong in that mechanism? Shouldn't we fix that first of all instead using police to force us to fake like good Buddhists?

Should we fake ourselves in Vesak week trying to be like good Buddhists? Isn't that a big giant lie? Aren't we all collectively breaking 4th prospect ? Aren't we insulting Buddha and his teaching in this process?

By the way Excise department open a new Vesak hotline, if you know anyone who sell or transport alcohol in Vesak, call 2300170 and put them behind bars.

Happy Police Vesak to all.

Malgudi Days ~ R.K. Narayan

2007-04-21T04:31:00.000+05:30

What can I say? It is Narayan in South India. Just like Mark Twain in America and Martin Wickremasinghe in Sri Lanka. It is Swami in Malgudi, Upali in Koggala and Tom Sawyer in Mississippi.

If you are a Sri Lankan, you may already have seen this stories number of times. Why not another time!

Missing Mail

Old man of temple (A Ghost Story)

Hero

Leela's Friend

A Hoard

A Horse and Two Goats

Seventh House

Pussy Cat Jump out the Amnesty International's Bag

2007-04-10T23:49:00.000+05:30

Amnesty International started new campaign call play by the rules at Cricket World cup this year. We all know the story. Basically the face intention of this campaign is force government and Terrorist groups to fight by the rules, like a nice cricket game in a sunny day. First I thought how wonderful Amnesty International is. That is exactly what I wanted to see. I want terrorist groups to give up their weapons and play it like cricket - inside the parliament according the rule call Democracy.

But for my disappointment I found out that is not what AI is aimed for. IA wanted us to keep on killing each other and they want to monitor how good we slaughter ourselves. Then I thought what stupid idea it is. The Amnesty International I admired the most really after something so senseless? They have no regards for democracy?

Cricket is the biggest event we all can sit down together and drink beer and scream at TV screen regardless of tribes, religion or political views. Except weather, cricket is the only topic we all can talk comfortably when War is the all time biggest news in Sri Lanka. When we Sri Lankans crave for something for us to be united around, How stupid AI jump in and divide Cricket fans are likes?

But today I found out why! A pussy cat jumped out the AI's bag.

"I hope in a similar fashion the campaign started by Amnesty International will evolve into an international sports boycott against the Sri Lankan cricket team," terrorist's spokeswoman Selvy Navaruban told AFP today.

Now finally it makes sense to me. Amnesty International is not as stupid as I thought after all. They were just working for terrorists this time. I hope AI will utilize funds they received from LTTE for good cause. I have no ill feeling against Amnesty International by the way. Every one allowed to make mistakes once in a while.

LTTE other hand been the most brilliant terrorist group ever and the head-master of the word terrorist school, they make brilliant a move this time. They bombed Central Bank, Air Port, harbors, commander-in-chiefs, but this time they went beyond material destructions. Now they are after our cricket team in international level. How can I not amaze by the brilliant tactics LTTE make all the time? Destroy Sri Lanka's pride-and-joy instead materials, and hire the world's best Organizations to work for them? Aren't LTTE is the best terrorist group ever or not?

Cops Love Crime ~ Amnesty International Love Conflict

2007-04-04T03:19:00.000+05:30

Cops love crime. The whole survival of a cop depends on amount of stabbing and muggings around the corner. If there are no crimes around the neighborhood, then cops will starves to death - we dam sure will not spend our tax money on cops if there are no break-in or stabbing. Cops love crime. Cops will never stop crime. They will Fight crime! But they are not stupid enough to stop it.

I'm a big fan of Amnesty International - love the voice against Death Penalty, Guantanamo bay, fair trial, free education, prison conditions and lot of other things... It is good Amnesty International works in Sri Lanka. It is good they talk about civilians. It is good they make more and more human right violation reports. According to Moynihan's law, AI prove Sri Lanka have more freedom, than in most of other countries. I do appreciate it. But leave the mother fcking cricket team alone. Are you nut Tim Parritt? I bet your cannot pull something like that front of Manchester United.

"Just as all cricket teams need an independent umpire to make objective decisions, so too does Sri Lanka need independent human rights monitors to ensure the Sri Lankan government, Tamil Tigers and other armed groups respect the rules and protect civilians caught up in the conflict," - Tim Parritt

You get whole thing so wrong Tim. Death Penalty must be stopped. Guantanamo bay must be closed. Terrorism in Sri Lanka must stop too. It shouldn't be played at all - not like Cricket or not like ice hockey. It is not a suitable game to play at all. Tim, you may live in relative comfort and watch the bloody game in Sri Lanka and wish us to play it like cricket - So you can have broadcasting revenue. But we don't want to want play that game with an umpire or without an umpire. We want to stop the dam thing. We want to see all teams lay down their weapons so we can live in peace.

Oh! Sorry! I forgot. If we stop the game, what would you do! My mistake! Ok. You give us an umpire ~ We will kill ourselves as you wish.

Maybe Sri Lankan Cricket team Should Defend the Country.

2007-03-27T01:25:00.001+05:30

As any citizen supposes to do, I support our military no matter what. We civilians may not the best supporters, I know we cannot afford best infrastructure our military need, but we do our best. We scarify our education budget, healthcare budget, we pay double the price for petrol, and we do best as we can. But at the end of the day is Sri Lankan military doing their best?

I'm not a military analyst or an expert. I'm an average Joe (or rather 'average Siripala' in this case). But I know our military did not bring us any significant victory in my life time, except victory over JVP boys some time back. Meanwhile our cricket team won the world cup and beat Australia by 7 wickets. I say 7 dam wickets! I can say I'm proud of our cricket team anytime, anywhere. And I'm. And I do.

But can I say same about our military too? Not very likely. I'm not underestimating the sacrifices our military make everyday - I'm grateful for all that - but those sacrifices should not just a waste - there should be results worth enough those sacrifices.

We are not fighting with another army, not with another country. Our military is struggling with bunch of boys and children. They even don't have real officers. Officers rank themselves front of privates who happened to be kidnapped children.

But Sri Lankan military is nothing like that. It is a properly organized army. We have real officers. Our officers have legal age privates. Even some times our privates works as servants in our officer's houses, take children to school, drive the madam to beauty salon. With all that luxury, our military is struggling with bunch boys for 14 dam years! Boy's commander-in-chief getting fat every day - Sri Lankan military even not able to hurt his pinky! But our military lost one commander-in-chief and almost lost another one. In other hand our cricket team sends India home by 69 runs.
How many our Generals go home for poor performance so far?

The bottom line is SL Army was not able to protect the land from bunch of boys for last 14 years even though this is a tiny island one can walk up to down in two weeks. The conflict area is little more than couple of days walk for Infantry. Nothing I can be proud of on the sea too. Now for the first time, our military even fail to defense sky. Mind you, all this is against bunch of boys and children.

I saw in 'The Defense Blog' Indunil said 'thanks God our fighter aircrafts are safe'. How come our military come in to a point, we civilians have to thanks God for the safely of our military equipments?

Why our Cricket Team is Better than Our Military?

Men are Superior. Females are Low-grade. That is the hard truth.

2007-03-06T03:05:00.000+05:30

Sri Lankan Men are superior to females. Females in general have no capacity to decide what is right or wrong for themselves or for their children. Even they are not capable of carrying out the job available in the job market. But Sri Lankan Men other hand capable of doing anything and take care their own jobs and even look after children, better than Sri Lankan females does.

You don't agree with me?
Sri Lankan Cabinet had granted its approval to prohibit of migration for employment, of mothers having children under the age of five years. According to the Minister, the imposition of these limitations on migration will ensure the welfare of children who are left alone without the warmth of their mother's love. Here is the news page.

Females in Sri Lanka so incapable of look after interests of children, government had to take step to handle Sri Lankan female human animal, so they won't harm their youngsters in tender age. But at the same time, there is no action against fathers with young children because Sri Lankan men are just better.

I know you may have deferent point of views, deferent experience - but remember this is the policy of the Sri Lankan government. I can remember quite some time back Gangodawila Soma Thero suggested females should not allow to work after 2pm (after school hours) so mothers can stay with their children. I guess eventually we may end up there alone with alcohol prohibition suggested by the same monk.

Meanwhile five women and two men taken into custody from a Karaoke entertainment and night club in Mt. Lavinia and produced before Mt. Lavinia Magistrate. Magistrate Ayeshani Jayasena discharging the karaoke employees observed that the female staff goes back to their villages, as such work places are unsuitable for females. Here is the news.

Even Sri Lankan justice system recognizes Sri Lankan females are not suitable for all the jobs available in job market. I'm just a layperson and I could not argue with a Judge no matter how much I would like to do so; the honorable judge Ayeshani Jayasena pointed out female should stay in villages.

Decent humans like you may not agree with me on the fact "Sri Lankan men are better and females are not", but I hope I prove that is the hard truth. Or rather Sri Lankan cabinet and justice system proved that point.

That is not how it should be. But that is how it is. We are on the way to Islamic republic of Sri Lanka.

People Who Want to go to Heaven, Don't Want to Die to get there. - Steve Jobs

2007-02-12T01:23:00.000+05:30

I never liked Steve Jobs for the reason for building the Apple computer or iPod. Those rich people's tool didn't help me very much as much as PC does, since I was born in a third world country. I still don't like any of those expensive toys very much even I can afford them right now.

But I like Steve Jobs for his life story. I read this speech some time back, before flash video and YouTube. Today I was looking for it, found it on YouTube in video format. Have a look. I'm sure it will teach all of a leason or two.

Famous Buddhists

2007-02-11T06:02:00.000+05:30

Here are some famous people around the world happened to be Buddhists. I don't know are they good buddhists or not. In the other hand, I even don't know is there such a thing as "Good Buddhist" or "Bad Buddhists".
Richard Grer said 'Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists'. So I like to say here is a list of some famous serious Buddhists.

Lisa Simpson
My favorite Buddhist.
According to Indian reveals that she will be the "first straight female US President"

Steve Jobs
CEO & Founder, Apple, Pixar and a Cancer Survivor

Jennifer Lopez
She is intrigued by Buddhism after being introduced to the philosophy by Hollywood convert Richard Gere.

George Lucas
"I was raised Methodist. Now let's say I'm spiritual. It's Marin County. We're all Buddhists up here"

Tina Turner
"I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things."

Harrison Ford
Actor, Carpenter
"Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice"

Angelina Jolie
Angelina tattooed a Buddhist Sanskrit prayer on her right shoulder.

Peter Norton
Creator of Norton Software.
Once a Buddhist Monk & spend five years in a Buddhist monastery.

Alanis Morissette
Bisexual Canadian singer, Seven time Grammy winner.
I used to love this girl and I still do!

Roberto Baggio
Italian footballer.
Always just a little outside of the box, practicing Buddhist in a country full of Catholics.

Kate Bosworth
Actress. Superman Returns,Bee Season,The Rules of Attraction.

Boy George
Good Old Crazy Homosexual Boy George!
Any one can be a Buddhist!

Goldie Hawn
"I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything."

Michael Stipe
Lead Singer - R.E.M
"I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual"

Uma hurman
Actress, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction

Herschel Savage
Porn Star
Slept with all the pretty ladies and got paid for it! Enjoying Good Karma!

Ricky Martin
"Livin' la Vida Loca"

Jackie Chan
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Bruce Lee
"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"

Jet Li
"Especially in the past eight years, the Buddhist thoughts shaped my ideology"

William Clay Ford
Executive Chairman of Ford
President, CEO, and COO of Boeing till 2006

David Bowie
English Grammy Winning singer
"I was a Buddhist mime songwriter and a part-time sax player."

Orlando Bloom
Actor, Pirates of the Caribbean, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, The Lord of the Rings, Black Hawk Down

Richard Gere
"Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are."

Steven Seagal
"I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life."

Tiger Woods
"If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?"

Fuel Saving, Mileage Improving Tips and Myths

2007-02-10T03:30:00.000+05:30

Petrol, Diesel or Gas what ever you call it, we all want to get the best mileage out of it. There are tons of advices & tips out there for save fuel and improve mileage. Some tips actually helps a lot and some are not at all. I tried all of them.

Here are the tips actually helps me a lot to improve mileage.

Drive Sooth.

Try to reduce unnecessary speeding-ups as much as you can.
There is no point drive fast just to wait front of a red light or a train.
Once you stop, accelerate gradually. Don't struggle to be in front of the pack.
Do not speed up over the speed limit just because someone keep on honking at you or flashing at your behind.
It do not matter are you driving a Maruti or a two ton SUV, improve your driving style is the best way to get better mileage.

If not moving, take the foot out

Do not use the accelerator to stop the car and keep it in place - use the break. If car is not moving, avoid pumping the gas pedal or racing the engine for no reason. When the car is moving, take the foot our of the break pedal.

Keep the engine in good shape

Clean the air filter. Follow recommended tune-ups. But be careful not to over spend or use expensive engine oil or oil change unnecessarily.

Wheel alignment

Make sure your wheels are properly aligned. Just drop by wheel alignment joint when you have free time. You don't have to wait till everything goes out of order. Simple adjustments can save you a lot in long run.

Do not "over" warm-up

Best way to warm up is drive your car. 15 seconds idling time is more than enough to warm up the engine in tropical country like Sri Lanka. Steering, suspension, transmission, tires, wheel bearings warm up only when the car is moving. Drive slowly in the first minute or two if your car is not in good shape, but no need to keep it idle for long time.

Do not needlessly idle the engine

If you're buying fuel, waiting for a friend, waiting for the slow train to pass by, stop the engine, if it is more than a minute. Starting an engine takes very little extra fuel, it is negligible.
Do not look for better parking spot or wait in long lines. Walk. It saves you time and fuel.

Don't carry unnecessary weight

Empty out the trunk.

Now here are the myths. Do not believe just because I said so. Try them out yourself.

AC Off gives Better Mileage.

No help at all if you are driving a late model. Yes, air compressor pull power from the engine. But at the same time keeping the window down while moving, increases the drag. Aerodynamics are more important at high-speed. Tiny profit you get at moderate speed is not worth enough of discomfort. After all modern car ACs are very effective. But if you are stuck in none moving traffic, no matter how evil it is to keep the AC off, you can save fuel big time. But practically I never experience any mileage improvement by sweating myself without AC.

Set The Thermostat Low.

As long as AC is on, no matter what the dashboard setting is the belt connected to the compressor is turning at the same power. If you want it to disengage, turn the AC off, not low it down. No saving at low thermostat.

Automatic transmissions are less efficient than manual

Partly true. But in some cases, automatic transmissions are more efficient nowadays. But mileage always depends on your driving style. Automatic transmission car required deferent driving style than a manual transmission. If you drive it correctly, you won't see much deference.
Anyway automatic transmission consumes some energy for run its mechanism.

Buy fuel in the morning when the fuel is cooler, thus denser

I didn't see any significant deference.

Small engines deliver better mileage

If the engine is too small for the car, it has to work hard and burn more fuel. When there is a same model with two deferent engine capacities, it is always wise to go for higher engine capacity.

Always keep full tank

Fuel gauge always move faster at the lower half. That happens because middle point in the meter is not exactly the half of the tank. Most of the time fuel tanks are irregularly shaped. Also the gauge works inconsistent too. HowStuffWorks explain this better.
In contrary when the tank is full, you are carrying more weight with you.

High Octane

Higher octane than the recommended value doesn't give you higher mileage or tiny improvement not worth the extra price. Always follow recommended values and save.

Here are My Own Advices and Tips

Make sure you get exactly what you paid for

Get down from the driving seat when you are at petrol station and pay attention to the meter.

Plan the trip ahead

Plan the routing before you get in to the car and let your passengers also know the routine.

Always look for alternative routes

We all have our own fix routes that we don't like to change. Keeping that a side, get a map and study your every day route - I guarantee you can fine more pleasant route.

Drive when others are not driving

This will defiantly save fuel and peace of mind.

Have a good Audio System

Calm your self when you are behind the wheel. Ignore all the hunks and head lights. Forgive all the morons drives next to you. Car is not a medium to express your emotions.

The bottom line is, the car itself can do very little to save fuel comparing to the driver. One of my friends once finish full tank petrol in less than 40 minute driving and the same person drive to Katharagama and back with full tank petrol too.
Understand your car and drive with your car - that is the best way to improve mileage.

A 'Sinhala' (Filthy) Video Jumped in to Google's popular List

2007-02-08T01:02:00.000+05:30

I always thoughts there is no significant business prospective in common Sri Lankan internet community. I'm not talking about specialized business web sites. But content base web sites for common Sri Lankan users. Well. Look like I'm wrong. At least looks like it is time to change my mind.

This is the first time I found a Local video in Google Video home page. Anyway this is a filthy talk with a girl. Adult related content is the starter-motor of the internet. Keeping that a side, this video has no visual attraction and it is in Sinhala. But still this made in to Google.com (not Google Sri Lanka) popular list. I have no idea how it made. But I defiantly like to know the secret.

Looks like finally Sri Lanka have enough internet user-base for feed profitable internet business. But still we are lacking local internet advertising platform - a critical wheel of the internet business machine. Most of us use Google AdSense for make a buck or two. But I don't think Google AdSence can provide necessary support we really need for build up Sri Lankan internet business.

By the way if any one wants to listen to utter filth, here is the link :-)

Good News! A Rare Treat!

2007-01-25T22:30:00.000+05:30

I rarely come a cross good news these days. Today I bump in to this news at theage.com.au that inspired me.

MELBOURNE'S Shanaka Fernando was named Australia's Local Hero for his work founding not-for-profit restaurant chain Lentil as Anything.

The group of four restaurants, which employs about 80 young people and provides space for artists and writers, does not set prices for dishes.

Instead, diners are encouraged to pay what they can afford or what they think the meal was worth.

Bravo! Bravo Brother!

I know it is defiantly very challenging for first generation of migrant to establish in a foreign country. Most of all I know how hard it is for some one to do what they like to do in their life. Top of that I know how hard it is for run a 'good' restaurant.
He did all that!

Way Forward to Buddhist Taliban Sri Lanka

2007-01-22T01:05:00.000+05:30

A new bill is about to be passed. A two year jail term or a fine of Rs. 100,000 is to be imposed on those found guilty of misusing the image of the Lord Buddha.

That is the most hideous illogical thing I heard in quite some time.

First of all, how would they plan to define the image of Buddha? Is Chinese laughing Buddha included in this? How about Japanese Buddhist images? How about almost naked bodhisattva images in India and Afghanistan?
First Buddhist statues created by Greeks whom never seen Buddha in flesh. Till then people used different symbols to represent Buddha, that practice till today. Even those statues we have today, still looks like Greek statues with soft manly body and curly hair.
How do they plan to prove each image of Buddha is really an image of Buddha?

Next, what is misuse? Misuse of 'Buddhist image' for gain political power? Or use Buddhist statues for collect money from poor people? Or use 'Buddhist image' for control people? Can a painter use Buddha's image in his painting anymore? Can I use a Buddhist statue as paperweight?

Who going to make the final decision of 'misuse or not'? There must be some kind of judicial body implemented for take that decision. Are they planning to implement religion police or similar institute in Sri Lanka? Isn't such a conceipt itself contradictory with very basic teaching of Buddha?

Buddha told to treat Dharma (his teaching) as equal and same position as himself once he was gone. So he was gone quite some time back and Dharma is the Buddha now. That means, 'misuse of Buddha's image' automatically equal to 'misuse of Buddha's teaching' too. Since who ever the person passes this bill and executes this law, violate and misuse Buddha's teaching of forgiveness and compassion, he himself viable to two year jail term or fine of Rs. 100,000 automatically.

Holy Crap! If this law executes, Judge, diffendant and accuser - all three parties should go to jail at the same time for misuse of Buddha.

Taliban demolished the Buddhist statues - they are just bricks and rocks. They are forgiven. But those religious extremists in Sri Lanka are demolishing very foundation of Buddhism..

Test Your Karma with SanDisk Sansa MP3 Player.

2007-01-20T09:29:00.000+05:30

I used couple of mp3 players so far. m:robe, 2 RCA players, iPod - But SanDisk Sansa was my favorite player. It is lightweight, tuff, 2GB with inbuilt radio. I let it fall number of times, never baby it - even I recommend that to others - it works perfect until yesterday.

When I was transferring files yesterday, USB cable got disconnected in the middle and I noticed there were two corrupted files because of interrupted data transfer. But I left the files alone and copied rest of the file. Restart the player. It starts with SanDisk logo with 'Initializing' message - but keeps on looping around the same start-up screen after that. Connect back to USB - but it was same. The computer even does not recognize the player any more.

Then I noticed what happened. The player could not read the corrupted file. Instead of ignore those corrupted files, it restarts the system. Next I did exactly same thing every one else do. Google!
I'm not the only one face this problem. Almost every one unfortunate enough to buy a SanDisk Sansa eventually face this problem.

Looking at the bright side of loosing 9000Rs (89$) I thought this is a good way to decide your Karma. It is like Russian rootlet. Keep on copying mp3 files in to SanDisk Sansa until you copy the corrupted file that will kill the player on the spot. Depending on time you use the player, you can see how much good Karma you have. I use the player like 3 months - so I guess I don't have much of good Karma left. Need to do something about it.

Islamic Republic of Sri Lanka

2007-01-15T00:01:00.000+05:30

Most of the times I bump in to news I'm wish not. Today I bump in to this news in Sunday observer.

Several Karaoke restaurants in the Colombo city, in suburbs and elsewhere in the country will come under the scrutiny of the police with the amendment to section 360 of the Penal Code being passed in Parliament. A Korean proprietor of the exclusive restaurant was produced in Court and remanded pending further investigations.

Acting on a tip off the Police Women and Child Protection Bureau raided a Karaoke restaurant in Colombo 7, and took in for questioning twenty young girls aged between 20-25. Among the women was a university student, who entertained customers who call over at the Karaoke restaurant.

The university student said that several of her batch mates at the university were on the pay roll of the Karaoke restaurant. "We are made to wear skin-tight clothing and dance along with the customers from dusk to dawn," the student had told the police.

Apart from the salary a hostess earns around Rs. 500-600 per night from tips, for dancing with clients.

What is wrong with this country? When does having good time become a crime? When next time I want to have a good time what should I do? Get a guy to wear a skin-tight cloth and dance for me?

How many Humans killed for Eelam?

2006-12-20T23:31:00.000+05:30

Do you know exactly how many humans killed for Eelam in all three parties (Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese)? Do you know the exact number?
I don't know.

All I know is rounded number to last 3 digits. I don't know how we round number of human lives to last thousand. Are Sri Lankan lives that worthless to round up to last thousand? Is my life not even worth of counting?

Here is the closest figure I was able to find. Please count yourselves and see how many humans got killed because of Elam since 1983. Ask yourself 'is Eelam worth for it' or even 'is united SL worth for all this'.

Hey, this page may take some time to load and even your computer may freeze. But I guess it is not as bad as getting killed.
[Take a Risk. Click Here. Hope your computer can handle number of deaths]