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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 30, 2019
Deysha-palana –karaya
email from Buddy Reid
Being passed on>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
.Likewise...couldnt keep up with the ‘language’...if you get my drift..nevertheless...but believe to the tune of
Pururthu-geesee karayaa....written by STC’s Old master DD Ashuboda...all those years ago!!!!!
A funny, candid representation of Sri Lanka today.
Enjoy the fun!
Deysha-palana –karaya
by Kurumba
With full screen + sound
Sunday, December 29, 2019
The Secret to Having No Enemies
The preacher, in his Sunday sermon, used "Forgive Your
Enemies" as his subject. After a long sermon, he asked how many were
willing to forgive their enemies. About half held up their hands. Not satisfied
he harangued for another twenty minutes and repeated his question. This time he
received a response of about 80 percent. Still unsatisfied, he lectured for
another 15 minutes and repeated his question. With all thoughts now on Sunday
dinner, all responded except one elderly lady in the rear. "Mrs. Jones,
are you not willing to forgive your enemies?" asked the preacher. "I
don't have any." Said the old lady. "Mrs. Jones, that is very
unusual. How old are you?" "Ninety seven." "That is
incredible! Mrs. Jones, please come down in front and tell the congregation how
a person can live to be 97, and not have an enemy in the world." The
little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, very slowly turned around
and said: "It's easy, I just outlived the bastards."
A husband and wife were dining at a 5-star restaurant. When
their food arrived, the husband said: “Our food has arrived! Let’s eat!” His
wife reminded him: “Honey, you always say your prayers at home before your
dinner!” Her husband replied: “That’s at home, my dear. Here the chef knows how
to cook!”
Forgot His Prayers
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
More stories about Jansz
Boy
scouts and girl guides
Dr.Janz
took us lectures in the physiology of reproduction. We were young and the
lectures were racy. Lady Chatterly's lover by DH Lawrence, had been published
in the unexpurgated version in the UK at that time. Janz brought a copy of it and
read the most lurid parts of the book, from the rostrum of the physiology
lecture hall. We listened to all this in air-conditioned comfort. The girls
were blushing or could barely suppress their laughter depending on their
earlier experiences. A futile effort to keep a straight face among the girls
was followed by unrestrained giggling as Janz's reading was accompanied by
suitable modulations of the voice and even dramatics. His antics were truly
entertaining, the more so because he kept a straight face.
At
this moment, a boy appeared close to the rostrum with a cup tea for Dr.Janz.
Suddenly there was a pause in the reading. The open book was kept on the table.
He took his cup of tea and introduced the young male who brought the tea to
him. "This is Anthony. He brings me my cup of tea. I call him my
cup-boy". The boy hurriedly disappeared from the scene too embarrassed to
stay there.
He
turned to us and put the question:- "Do any of you know why the Boy Scouts
are called 'scouts' and the Girl Guides are called 'guides'. There was a
pregnant silence. The answer was given by Janz. "Because the boy always
SCOUTS and the girl always GUIDES" it, to the target area". . This
was the essence of a lecture in reproductive physiology by Dr.Janz.
In
our young days we always found it difficult to remember the way in which,
stalactites and stalagmites grew. Later I read that the easy way to remember
was to imagine the scene - "when the mites go up, the tights go
down".
When
we were at the Medical Faculty Dr.Janz told us a similar memory aid. Pubic hair
he told us, a secondary sexual characteristic, appeared at puberty. The pattern
of distribution of the pubic hair was in the shape of a triangle in both the
male and female. The triangle however was placed with the apex pointed upwards
in the male and with the apex pointed downwards in the female. "Remember
the logos of the YMCA and the YWCA" he told us. YMCA stood for the Young
Men's Christian Association and had a logo showing a red triangle with the apex
pointing upwards. YWCA stood for the Young Women's Christian Association and
their logo was a red triangle with the apex directed downwards. It would have
been much simpler to look at our own bodies to verify this but this picture
caught our imagination.
Janz
was no ordinary mortal. He had an MA in English and literally knew "Lovatt
Evans", our physiology text, by heart. He had a ready temper and would go
red in the face at presumed provocations. He would not mix up with the
students. He had this healthy humor, more so in the presence of the blank faced
girls, who would not smile or laugh at his jokes.
It
was told how he had gone to face an interview for selection for a post in the
mental hospital. He was asked a lot of questions and lastly a few questions
about the game of cricket. Janz had asked the interview board whether the
vacancy he was being interviewed for was
to treat the mental patients or
to play cricket with them. He had got up and walked out. Subsequently he had
applied for the post in physiology and got it.
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Solar eclipse, 'Biwwa nedha wadakaha sudiya',
Pictures of
a solar eclipse seen in Avissawella, 26th December 2019.
In the early
1950s there was a Solar eclipse visible in Ceylon. An industry sprang up producing
a drink named ‘Vada kaha sudiya’, which was guaranteed to make one fair and
young if consumed during the eclipse. A lot of people consumed this liquor and
started vomiting with abdominal pain. This ‘Baila’ relates to that incident and
was popular singing at parties of that time.
Biwwa
nedha vadakaha sudiya
Please click on each one of these links to listen to each different version of this song, very popular with 'medicos' of the batch entrants of 1960.
6. https://youtu.be/0WPE50V8YR4
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