To all the girls I loved before

A song sung with gusto at both the CoMSAA get togethers.

‘To all the girls I loved before’   

  Click on each of the links below to listen to this popular hit:-

1. http://youtu.be/Qp9hBPwWqTk

      2. http://youtu.be/51tvZnkn5V8 - With words

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association, CoMSAA, get together, 7/8 September 2013 at the 'Blue Waters', Wadduwa, Sri Lanka.

To get your pictures of the get-together click on the link below. Please keep clicking on the 'older posts' at the bottom right hand corner of each page of the web-link below, to view all the past postings.

http//www.comsaa.blogspot.com

Pictures of Sri Lanka - email from jksw

Introduction to Sri Lanka The pictures here begin with Colombo , move south to Galle , north to the high country, farther north to Kandy and its environs, and farther north still to the country's great archaeological sites.  For more on the status of highland paddy, see Continuity and Change in the Paddy Lands of the Kandy District. Colombo (64 pictures)  Colombo 2 (20 pictures)  Galle (44 pictures)  Nuwara Eliya (48 pictures)  Tea Country (48 pictures)  Highland Subsistence (19 pictures)  Kandy and the Temple of the Tooth (27 pictures)  Kandy: Palaces and Medamahanuwara (11 pictures)  Kandy: Traditional Houses (9 pictures)  Kandy: British Infrastructure (10 pictures)  Kandy: Colonist Life (25 pictures)  Kandy: British Institutions (23 pictures)  Kandy: Christian Cemeteries (20 pictures)  Kandy: Now (17 pictures)  Hantane (27 pictures)  Talatu Oya (12 pictures)  Peradeniya (19 pictures)  Paingamuwa (17 pictures)  Mahaweli Ferry (6 pictures)  Lankatilaka (27 pictures)  Gadaladeniya (17 pictures)  Embekke (17 pictures)  Kadugannawa and Balana (14 pictures)  Gampola (15 pictures)  Atabage (5 pictures)  Loolecondera (10 pictures)  Gurugal Oya (12 pictures)  Minipe (13 pictures)  Lamesuriyagama (39 pictures)  Elephant Power (12 pictures)  Town and Country (39 pictures)  Anuradhapura (37 pictures)  Polonnuwara (26 pictures)  Sigiriya (18 pictures)  Trincomalee (13 pictures)

English in the UK - email 'Kalu Nana'.

Hi Philip

1960 Medical Batch

Please share with our batch mates

Kalu Nana

Written English in UK. I bet you cannot beat these in Sri Lanka 

 

 

 Only in Britain -Complaints to Councils

Extracts from letters(genuine) written by council tenants in UK:

1. It's the dogs mess that I find hard to swallow.

2. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.

3.. I wish to complain that my father twisted his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage.

4. Their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.

5. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other day that blew them off.

6.. My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?

7. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.

8. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant.

9. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen...

10. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster, and 50% are just plain filthy.

  11. The next door neighbour has got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it any more.

12. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.

13. Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.

14. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and now is in three pieces.

15. I want to complain about the farmer across the road. Every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up and it's now getting too much for me.

16. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.

17. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third, so please send someone round to do something about it.

18. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.

19. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.

20. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times but I still have no satisfaction.

21. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get BBC2.

22. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.

 

 

If you have already seen this, Ignore but if not enjoy.

 

Kalu Nana

 

C.S.Nanayakkara

Oklahoma - email sent by jksw

Very educative . . . . .
I want to sharpen my knowledge more . . :)

 

A friend of mine, who is a teacher, once told me that in one of her Geography lessons, she had difficulties getting some of her students  to pronounce the name of a city, OKLAHOMA!
 

A Malay student, read it as O.K. lah Omar 

A Chinese student, read it as Okra Oma !

An Indian student read it as Wok Kla Wo Ma !

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A Chennai student read it as Okkalama!

Don't laugh, but do you know how to pronounce correctly, the word....

" Oklahoma " ?

The Proper Way is:

OKLA...   (with a pause) ... HOMA
(There's a gap between the 'a' and the 'h'.)

let me show it..............................

                                                      

Don't say I never send you educational e-mails !

Life on earth - email sent by Gallege De Silva.

THIS WAS SENT BY A DEAR FRIEND AND I WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH YOU. CHINESE ADVICE TO 50-YEAR OLD OLDER YOUR LIFE'S STAND HERE ON EARTH (Translated from the Chinese). Because none of us have many years to live, and we can't take along anything when we go, so don't be too thrifty... Spend the money that should be spent, enjoy what should be enjoyed, donate what you are able to donate, but don't leave all to your children or grandchildren, for you don't want them to become parasites who are waiting for the day you will die !! Don't worry about what will happen after we are gone, because when we return to dust, we will feel nothing about praises or criticisms. The time to enjoy the worldly life and your hard earned wealth will be over ! Don't worry too much about your children, for children will have their own destiny and should find their own way. Don't be your children's slave. Care for them, love them, give them gifts but also enjoy your money while you can. Life should have more to it than working from the cradle to the grave !!Take an early retirement enjoy life. Don't expect too much from your children. Caring children, though caring, would be too busy with their jobs and commitments to render much help. Uncaring children may fight over your assets even when you are still alive, and wish for your early demise so they can inherit your properties and wealth. Your children take for granted that they are rightful heirs to your wealth; but that you have no claims to their money. 50-year old like you, don't trade in your health for wealth by working yourself to an early grave anymore... Because your money may not be able to buy your health... When to stop making money, and how much is enough, hundred thousand, a Million, Ten Million? Out of thousand hectares of good farm land, you can consume only three quarts of rice daily; out of a thousand mansions, you only need eight square meters of space to rest at night. So, as long as you have enough food and enough money to spend, that is good enough. You should live happily. Every family has its own problems. Just do not compare with others for fame and social status and see whose children are doing better, etc., but challenge others for happiness, health, enjoyment, quality of life and longevity... Don't worry about things that you can't change because it doesn't help and it may spoil your health. You have to create your own well-being and find your own place of happiness. As long as you are in good mood and good health, think about happy things, do happy things daily and have fun in doing, then you will pass your time happily every day. One day passes without happiness, you will lose one day. One day passes with happiness, and then you gain one day. In good spirit, sickness will cure; in a happy spirit, sickness will cure faster; in high and happy spirits; sickness will never come. With good mood, suitable amount of exercise, always in the sun, variety of foods, reasonable amount of vitamin and mineral intake, hopefully you will live another 30 or 40 years of healthy life. Above all, learn to cherish the goodness around... AND FRIENDS...    They all make you feel young and "wanted"... without them you are surely to feel lost!!!

  Wind and Waves, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly
Strong breezes have whipped up the seas around St Mary's. Recorded at Porth Helick, Porth Helick Down, Darity's Hole, and Pelistry Beach.

watch the beauty of the scene

 

http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/204620-Wind-and-Waves-St-Mary-s-Isles-of-Scilly

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Colombo-Katunayaka (New Expressway To The Colombo International Airport) - email from jksw.

Click on link:-

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=106870311&postcount=1668

Mono-cycles - email from Piyusha Atapattu

Make sure you watch the last minute or so. Just outstanding.

        

 

 

This is absolutely amazing !                                           Click here: http://www.youtube.com/v/BOjOGKu3jTc%26autoplay%3d1%26rel%3d0

Podi Nono......Absolute Classic !! - email from jksw

 Remember this? 

 Click on link below :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAgGLxqrE50

Another melody with Portuguese musical ancestry from South India 
(? Portuguese Goa). Click on link below:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lgxXWJhIc

Rush-hour in Bangladesh - email from jksw

 How the rest of the world lives.

Click on web-link below:-

http://safeshare.tv/w/vwncRciSFb

Baila : Dingiri-dingale -minakshi -dingiri-dingale’ - email from Sunil Liyanage.

This is a south Indian Tamil baila song of the 1950s. Initiated or ‘created’ in the 1950s by the then popular actor Chandrababu( comedian).

He was inspired by the baila in Ceylon . He studied at St. Joseph ’s College, Darley Rd , Colombo 10.

This song became  very popular in Ceylon and no party was complete without it. The young  sang and danced to it lustily, mixing in some Sinhala words as well.

As happens with such ‘sing-songs’ as we used to call them, a few funny ribald words too got inserted.

And these young people? All of us.

Remember?

  

Real old Tamil Classic, sort of baila. TAMIL OLD--Dingiri Dingale meenakshi Dingiri dinkale--ANBU ENGE? (Preview)

Appuhamy and Fr. Pinto - email from Sunil Liyanage

Sunil Liyanage	17 Sep (1 day ago)
to Sunil

A Priest dies following a road accident & is awaiting his turn in line at the Heaven's Gates. Ahead of him is a guy, with untidy hair , unshaven and dressed in a khaki coat and sarong tucked up and chewing betel with a tattoo visible in his chest of a cross with the words "YAKKA PARADDAMU" (defeat the devil) wearing rubber slippers with a scarf round the neck. God asks him: Please tell me who you are, so that I may know whether to admit you into the kingdom of Heaven or not? The guy replies: I am Appuhamy the CTB driver from Sri Lanka. God consults his ledger, smiles & says to Appuhamy : Please take this silken robe & gold scarf & enter the Kingdom of Heaven ... In Sri Lanka the clergy is reserved seats immediately behind the driver in CTB buses and so the priest recognizes Appuhamy who recklessly drove the bus into the building at high speed. .. Now it is the priest's turn. He stands erect and speaks out in a booming voice: I am Fr Pinto , Head of the Don Bosco Seminary Ettukala Negombo and one time parish priest of St Mary's Church Negombo and celebrated 40 years as a priest and service to God in December last year. God consults his ledger & says to the Priest: Please take this cotton robe & enter the Kingdom of Heaven ... 'Just a minute,' says the agonised Priest. 'How is it that a foul mouthed, rash Driver is given a Silken robe & a Golden scarf and me, a Priest, who's dedicated my whole life preaching your Name & wins goodness and bringing up priests to serve you has to make do with only a Cotton robe?' 'Results my friend, results,' shrugs God. 'While you preached, people SLEPT; but when he drove, people PRAYED' It's the PERFORMANCE & and not the POSITION that ultimately counts, even  in Heaven.