CoMSAA get together at Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

Nalini & Daya

Thenabadu, Daya & Nalini

 

Nalini, Vigna, old emails

Dear Phillip,

Daya had chickungunya ( did you know it meant a crouched old man in tanzanian where it originated) & is still a bit lethargic (I've lost my young husband for the moment!) so I'm sending you a few of the million pics!!

 Your stories are certainly interesting & I'm sure lots of folk are reading them - but have no time to reply!

Are you going to print a book? Should be interesting.

Good luck with it!

Nalini

Hi Phillipo,

I have seen lots of your emails.I am a computer iliterate and a bad one finger typist.I heard that our next reunion is in Melbourne in Dec.2006.Are you coming?.David did enjoy his Anaesthetic appointment in Colombo. Pl;ease say Hello to your wife and your Daugters especially Queenie. Dr Meyers was impressed with her organisation.

I am going to Mt Kailash in July.Nadanachandran,his wife,his BIL and his wife are hoping to join us.Your note about Patchaya and Ganeshanayagam brought memories of the past!.Please keep in touch.I have three email addresses.

Home address: vigna@internode.on.net

Surgery addrtess: vigna@bigpond.net.au  

My laptop on my consulting desk is vigna-rajah@hotmail.com .I can access this email from any computer.

My surgery computer is busy as it is used by the girls for typing letters and sending accounts.I can access it only afterhours,

vigna

email joke

 

John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said,
"Here's to spending the rest of melife,

between the legs of me wife!"
That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary,
"I won the prize for the Best toast of the night"
She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?"
John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life,
sitting in church beside me wife."
"Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies
on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said,
"John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary."
She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself.
You know, he's only been there twice in the last four years.
Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by
the ears to make him come."

Reading old emails

A popular song in the 1960s

I am in love with a wonderful guy - From the musical South Pacific
Please click on the web link below  with your speakers on:-
 

https://youtu.be/CQBQsKJcPrU


Hello Thava,

Welcome to the club of Grand-fathers. My daughter Queenie, completed her MD Anaesthesis  & Intensive care in SL. She had to do a one year overseas to become fully registered as a specialist. She got 2 years study leave and is working in Romford. She has already finished one year and is doing well in UK. Her husband and son joined her 3 months later. Wife & myself went and spent a 4 month holiday with our grand son. It was getting cold hence we got back to SL. I met quite a few of our crowd and quite a few of my students from Kandy and Colombo in the UK. It was a round of dinner parties and trips.

Wish your better half and children all the best. Enjoy life with your grand-child.

Philip

Dear All

 Vijita and I are hoping to move forward in the grandchildren stakes but don't know when as our younger son Ashok (Clinical Oncology SpR) marrried Leonie (SpR Paediatrics)last year!. Our daighter Sharmila and husband  James  have two lovely daughters who we spend quite a lot of time with -41/2 and 3 yrs. Sohana and jacinda. Oldest son Damita film producer - I have trouble keeping track with girl friends so no grandchildren!

 Congratulations to all the grandparents in our group.

 Anula Nikapota (nee Aluwihare)

Dear Phillip,

Daya had chickungunya ( did you know it meant a crouched old man in tanzanian where it originated) & is still a bit lethargic (I've lost my young husband for the moment!) so I'm sending you a few of the million pics!!

 Your stories are certainly interesting & I'm sure lots of folk are reading them - but have no time to reply!

Are you going to print a book? Should be interesting.

Good luck with it!

Nalini

Phillip:

 I have been reading you stories with great interest and in fact look forward to receiving them.

 I have a suggestion based on a book I got from my friend Neil Halpe.  This was a history of the Peradeniya university through the eyes of about 15-20 people who spanned the years from 1943 to 1993.  The essays were wonderful,  especially because I had no idea what life was like in the 1970-1990 period in Peradeniya with rise of the JVP and the like.  I wonder whether you would consider a similar venture on our experiences in the sixties in the Colombo Faculty.  Perhaps you could ask for volunteers to write a chapter to be included in a book - I suspect you may receive about 15-20 volunteers. I could help you to edit it and get it ready for publication as I have some experience in this area (if you need my help!).  There are so many interesting stories we can recall which would be worth preserving - before our memories fade altogether!

All the best,

Tissa

Kamalika Weeratne (nee Abeyagunawardene).

Incidentally, did you know that Sr Reginald Watson-Jones had a Rolls-Royce, with a number plate, RWJ 1. He was brought to Ceylon in the late’50’s to attempt some spinal surgery, on my sister in law’s brother through Lord Francis himself.

My husband and I, have been auto enthusiasts, from even before we got married, we used to do rallyes in Ceylon, with the Ceylon Motor Sports Club. We still do Rallyes here in the US, and my husband does some auto cross events, and he was second in his class at a national event, a few years ago in a Mercedes SL.

Prof Milroy Paul also had a red three wheel car, that students called the Red Peril.

Kamalika

Dear Philip,

Thanks for sharing your Batticaloa Cyclone experience with us.

I was at the Southeast Asia Anaesthesiologist Conference organaised by our anaesthetist colleagues 2 years ago when a video showing the devastation of tsunami and its effects on the hospitals left many in the audience crying. Again Batticaloa was badly affected.

I have now fully recovered from the CABG. As an anaesthetist, it was a great experience being on the other side of the surgeon's knife and full of fun! Thanks for your kind wishes at that time.

Regards,

Victor.

The emails which made me to become an author and print 4 books

Dear Philip,

I think it would be well worthwhile writing your memoirs from medical college days to your retirement into a book.

It would not only be interesting and enjoyable reading but will be a historical record of the experiences of a doctor from the 60’s, which will be lost to posterity for ever, unless they are recorded. You have the unique flair of a chronicler and writer and also the recollections in detail, from those yester-years. You also have a distinctive style of writing which brings those memories and incidents to life. So please do think of it seriously.

Best regards.

Sena.

Dr. D C Senaratne

DearPhilip,                                                                                                                                                                                           

 Many thanks for your many letters.Shall respond in suitable fashion in due course.Be assured that they  are much appreciated:pride,joy,excitement,nostalgia,gratitude,sadness,grief,reflection,contemplation,pensiveness,        helplessness,frustation,a renewed commitment to the re-examination of that which is taken to be the  inevitable and even natural course of societal events  were among the feelings evoked!    

I forgot to mention amusement - seeing oneself with  fellow yokels from days of yore!

Dr. L D Karalliedde

At 03:01 AM 7/25/2007, you wrote:Dear Philip,Your memory, attention to detail, poetic language, and a keen observation of the changes that have ravaged our country amazes me and it is a joy to read your letters when I come home in the evening. I usually pour myself a glass of wine and the next thing is looking forwards to your letter. Any chance of writing a novel?. After all Ms. Rowling was an ordinary house wife when she wrote the first Harry Potter novel. 
Love and good luck, 

Harischandra Piyasena.

Phillip,

I love receiving your stories.  Sometimes it brings up feelings of sweet nostalgia but very often regrettably, thoughts of lost opportunities.

All the best,

Tissa

Phillip:

 I have been reading you stories with great interest and in fact look forward to receiving them.

 I have a suggestion based on a book I got from my friend Neil Halpe.  This was a history of the Peradeniya university through the eyes of about 15-20 people who spanned the years from 1943 to 1993.  The essays were wonderful,  especially because I had no idea what life was like in the 1970-1990 period in Peradeniya with rise of the JVP and the like.  I wonder whether you would consider a similar venture on our experiences in the sixties in the Colombo Faculty.  Perhaps you could ask for volunteers to write a chapter to be included in a book - I suspect you may receive about 15-20 volunteers. I could help you to edit it and get it ready for publication as I have some experience in this area (if you need my help!).  There are so many interesting stories we can recall which would be worth preserving - before our memories fade altogether!

All the best,

Tissa

Hello Tissa,

Thank you for your suggestions.

I have called already for contributions to the memories. I will trouble you for the editing in due course. I still could not contact Kapu but will keep trying.

Philip

Dear Phillip,

Daya had chickungunya ( did you know it meant a crouched old man in tanzanian where it originated) & is still a bit lethargic (I've lost my young husband for the moment!) so I'm sending you a few of the million pics!!

 Your stories are certainly interesting & I'm sure lots of folk are reading them - but have no time to reply!

Are you going to print a book? Should be interesting.

Good luck with it!

Nalini

philip-  very beautiful -the finepix is obviously very fine.

from where do you get these little snippets of information - a book is a must .Can I book an autographed copy.

Regards

daya