Programme for the get-together of the 1960 entrance batch to the Medical College, Kynsey road, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 Decisions  taken on 23^rd May 2015.

10 am -  Arrival and welcome drink at the Jetwing Blue, Negombo, Sri Lanka.

10am to 1pm – Fellowship.

1pm to 3pm – Lunch.

4.30 pm – Reminiscing the departed.

5pm – Concert.

7pm to 7.45pm– Group singing with Sam the Man. Song books available with the Programme.

7.15pm to 8pm – Drinks.

8pm to 8.45pm – Sing along.

8.45pm to 9.30pm – Dinner.

9.30pm to 10.15pm – Sing along.

10.15pm to 10.30pm – Drinks.

10.30pm to 11.15pm – Dancing.

Paraphrase of Kipling's Poem by Prof. Rjasuriya

I am attaching an edited version of the Prof. Rajasuriya’s paraphrase of Kipling’s Poem “IF” in memory of my colleagues in Medical College, many of whom became and remain extremists to this day, because of what they had to undergo while students.

Regards,
Lalith Perera

Consultant Urologist, Colombo

IF (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling) Professor Kumaradasa Rajasuriya LMS(Cey), MD, DCH, FRCP

IF you can keep in mind that you are dealing with human lives and not with cases, pray.

IF you can treat them without discrimination, whether they are labelled pauper or to pay

IF you can consider every being as equal, be they Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim or Burgher and treat all your STUDENTS as you would treat all patients without discrimination of Caste, Colour, Creed or Race

IF you can, rush with equal alacrity, to see a patient who needs attention STAT. IF it is no matter that there is no ‘buckshee’ in it, yet, if offered, you can refuse it flat.

IF you can, by a smile, cheer up the ailing, or by a touch, relieve a sufferer’s pain. IF you can, by a word, console the dying, who will never taste this earth’s tortures again.

IF you can, force your heart, nerve and sinew, to work overtime for those who need you still. IF all that counts is just the joy of serving, it matters not what happens to the bill.

IF you can wait, and not be tired of waiting, for the fame that one day perhaps you will earn, cheap notoriety the while disdaining, nor rush to print, because there is much more to learn.

IF you can, leave the trick of administering, to those who have made it a crooked art, knowing it is but a quack’s one accomplishment, of honest men, it never forms a part.

IF you can talk to touts and keep your virtue, or treat big bugs and not lose the poor’s touch. IF neither wealth nor fame can yet corrupt you, IF all beings count with you, but none too much,

IF you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds of work well done. 
YOU WILL THEN HAVE REACHED A NOBLE PROFESSIONAL’S SUMMIT AND WHAT IS MORE, 
YOU WILL DIE CONTENT, MY SON. 

All True –Statements of the finest

PAUL ANKA - DIANA HD

https://youtu.be/ar-zZ21iW9w

Paul Anka - Puppy Love

https://youtu.be/UuG_fTwoUoU

Lonely Boy - Paul Anka

https://youtu.be/KKcCaCgMLBE

Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder (1963 Version)

https://youtu.be/TY4uxdAt4-M

Paul Anka

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Anka
Anka at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival
Background information
Birth name	Paul Albert Anka
Born	July 30, 1941 (age 73) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Pop, soft rock, jazz, doo-wop
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1955–present
Labels	ABC-Paramount, EMI Columbia, RCA, United Artists,Columbia
Website	Official website

Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka became famous in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby". He wrote such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones's biggest hits, "She's a Lady", as well as the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way" (originally the French song "Comme d'habitude"). He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2005.

In 1983, he co-wrote the song "I Never Heard" with Michael Jackson. It was retitled and released in 2009 under the name "This Is It".^[1] An additional song that Jackson co-wrote with Anka from this 1983 session, "Love Never Felt So Good", was since discovered and was released on Jackson's posthumous album Xscape in 2014. The song was also released by Johnny Mathis in 1984.

Anka became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.

Early life[edit]

Anka was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Camelia (née Tannis) and Andrew Emile "Andy" Anka, Sr., who owned a restaurant called the Locanda.^[2] His parents were both Antiochian Orthodox Christians.^[3] He is of Lebanese descent. ^[4]

Anka sang with the St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church choir under the direction of Frederick Karam, with whom he studied music theory. He studied piano with Winnifred Rees. He attendedFisher Park High School, where he was part of a vocal trio called the Bobby Soxers.^[5][

A SMARTer approach to stroke care

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/LcuFosqgQp4/150513211136.htm

New age of genome editing could lead to cure for sickle cell anemia

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/yP3ql2rifpw/150514085921.htm

Bid for bandages to enter the electronic age

: Electrical stimulation promotes healing

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/1otkzr5a-Bw/150514095243.htm

Pompeii - Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

email from Nihal. Gooneratne	8:52 AM (8 hours ago)

 The power of nature 
  
 
Animation made for the Melbourne Museum , which recreates how the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii.

You can witness the eruption of a volcano of over 2000+ years ago.....
Be alert to EVERYTHING ( sights & sounds) that is happening including:
1. The clouds gliding by,
2. The birds fleeing,
3. The dogs barking,
4. The first steaming of the volcano,
5. The earthquakes,
6. The tiles falling from the roofs because of the earthquakes,
7. The sky turning dark with volcanic debris,
8. The accumulating debris on the roofs,
9. The pyroclastic flows coming down the left side of the mountain,
10.The fires,
11. The buildings collapsing,
12. The pyroclastic flows overcoming the city, 
13. The end of the city...... :-(

And be sure to

Go Full-Screen. 

History Buffs will be fascinated 

Not to be missed. It's excellent! 

Pompeii - August 24, 79 BC   

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dY_3ggKg0Bc    

Popular music from Walt Dysney

Please click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :-

Bare Necessities - 
Do not forget to spot the mistakes made in the accompanying cartoon:-
1.Husked coconut is plucked from the tree.
2. Banana plant has many bunches.

https://youtu.be/9ogQ0uge06o

Colonel Hathi Elephant March - Jungle Book Songs

https://youtu.be/PrQQZuLru9s

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs - The Silly Song [16:9]

https://youtu.bhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrQQZuLru9s&feature=youtu.bee/GB_74i-aHRk

Snow White ~ Heigh-Ho

https://youtu.be/1qG2A9EN5T4

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (from Cinderella)

https://youtu.be/VNKuARjkWEg

Salaga doola, menchicka boola, bibbidi bobbidi boo.
Put’em together and what have you got?
Bibbidi bobbidi boo.

Salaga doola, menchicka boola, bibbidi bobbidi boo.
It’ll do magic, believe it or not.
Bibbidi bobbidi boo.

Salaga doola means menchicka booleroo,
but the thingabob that does the job is
bibbidi bobbidi boo.

Salaga doola, menchicka boola, bibbidi bobbidi boo.
Put’em together and what have you got?
Bibbidi bobbidi, bibbidi, bobbidi, bibbidi bobbidi boo.

The importance of Public Health.

Baltimore-health-commissioner-public-health-is-tied-to-everything?

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/15/407071623

Antibiotic use in infancy leads to gut microbe disruption

, and disease later in life are all linked, say researchers

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/293968.php

Cinnamon intake and statins

http://www.livescience.com/50838-cinnamon-supplements-statins-liver-risks.html

All about Jazz.

How Jazz Was Born - Danny Kaye

https://youtu.be/FOQ-mBy70Jg

Danny Kaye & Louie Armstrong - When the Saints Go Marching In

https://youtu.be/Fsx6mUoTHUM

'IN THE MOOD' - Glenn Miller - (Enhanced HQ Sound) HD

https://youtu.be/FAQgXPTekOU

Battle of Swing - Benny Goodman Vs Glenn Miller - John Packer Events

https://youtu.be/Fgsw7hlocTE

Jazz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. It emerged in many parts of the United States in the form of independent popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European Americanmusical parentage with a performance orientation.^[1] Jazz spans a period of over 100 years and encompasses a range of music from ragtime to the present day, and has proved to be very difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note,^[2] as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music,^[3] the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and ragtime.^[1] The birth of Jazz in the multicultural society of America has led intellectuals from around the world to hail Jazz as "one of America's original art forms".^[4]

As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, giving rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collectivepolyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized Musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.

The 1950s saw the emergence of free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures, and in the mid-1950s, hard bop, which introduced influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing. Modal jazzdeveloped in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments and the highly amplified stage sound of rock. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other jazz styles include Afro-Cuban jazz, West Coast jazz, ska jazz, Indo jazz, avant-garde jazz, soul jazz, chamber jazz, Latin jazz, jazz funk, loft jazz, punk jazz,acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, M-Base, spiritual jazz and nu jazz.

Prominent jazz musician Louis Armstrong observed: "At one time they were calling it levee camp music, then in my day it was ragtime. When I got up North I commenced to hear about jazz, Chicago style, Dixieland, swing. All refinements of what we played in New Orleans... There ain't nothing new."^[5] Or as jazz musician J. J. Johnson put it in a 1988 interview: "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will."^[6]

Testing the power of a patient's hand-grip.

Testing hand-grip strength could be a simple, low-cost way to predict heart attack and stroke risk

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/7cGHJYDizI4/150513210142.htm

Six times more expensive to travel by car than by bicycle.

: Study

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/H-S4RmYjsco/150512104023.htm

Arthur Ashe, The Legendary Wimbledon Player was dying of AIDS.

Inspiring story.. A Beautiful Message

 Arthur Ashe, The Legendary Wimbledon Player was dying of AIDS

which he got due to Infected Blood he received during a Heart Surgery in 1983!

He received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: 

"Why did God have to select you for such a bad disease??" 

To this Arthur Ashe replied:

50 Million children started playing Tennis, 

5 Million learnt to play Tennis,

500 000 learnt Professional Tennis, 

50 Thousand came to Circuit, 

5 Thousand reached Grandslam, 

50 reached Wimbledon, 

4 reached the Semifinals,

 2 reached the Finals and 

when I was holding the cup in my hand, 

I never asked God 

"Why Me?" 

So now that I'm in pain how can I ask God "Why Me?"

Happiness keeps you Sweet!!

Trials keeps you Strong!!

Sorrows keeps you Human!!

Failure keeps you Humble!!

Success keeps you Glowing!!

But only,

Faith keeps you Going.

Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life,

while many people in this world are dreaming of living your life.. 

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead dreams of flying. 

But, A pilot on the plane sees the farmhouse dreams of returning home.

That's life!! 

Enjoy yours...

If wealth is the secret to happiness, then the rich should be dancing on the streets. 

But only poor kids do that.

If power ensures security, then VIPs should walk unguarded. 

But those who live simply, sleep soundly. 

If beauty and fame bring ideal relationships, then celebrities should have the best marriages. 

Live simply. Walk humbly.

and love genuinely..!