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Saturday, March 19, 2016
India
Email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai
I do not know who compiled it ,
Goodness gracious me, most of it is true...
India is a country where, on the streets, everyone seems to be in
a hurry, but no one is ever on time.
India is the only country where people fight to be termed
'backward.'
Being one in a million in India means that there are 1241 Indians
just like you.
In India , you don't cast your vote, you vote your caste.
The ABC of what sells in India - Astrology, Bollywood and Cricket
- in that order.
In India to become rich you have to become a
politician to become a politician you have to be rich.
The most crucial part of a traffic signal in India, without which
it doesn't work at all, is a policeman.
The four most crucial pillars of Indian Society are –
Religion, Caste, Corruption and Hypocrisy.
The only country where the reserved enjoy more benefits than the
deserved ones
India is a place where the only rights people get are the last
rites.
India is the only country where it takes 15 minutes to reach a
place by walking, whereas it takes an hour by car to reach the same
place.
In India , there are two types of roads: Under Construction and
Under Repair.
In India , the Capitalists are greedy and the Socialists are
envious.
Where people worship Goddess Durga, but kill a girl even after a
healthy delivery.
Where an Olympic shooter gets 3,000,000 (crore) rupees for a gold
medal, but a soldier who dies getting shot while fighting with another
nation,gets a mere 100,000 (lakh).
India is a place where rules are made to be broken and roads are
built to be dug.
Is your land in danger of being acquired by the government? Don't
worry, keep calm and build a temple there.
India is the only country in the world where more fighter pilots
are killed and more fighter jets destroyed during peace than in a war.
In India, any time is tea time.
India is always on a list of developing countries.
In India, it's okay to piss in public, but not kiss.
India doesn't have roads with potholes, but potholes with a bit of
road around them.
In the West people have sex and hope for a marriage In India
people marry and hope for sex.
In India, you don't drive on the left of the road, you drive on
what is left of on the road.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Reid brothers, Sri Lanka.
The photo of the Reid brothers has not come up.
Recall, Ronald was outstanding bat for St. Thomas 1956 or so.
Buddy and Ronald played for Ceylon in the 1960s.
Buddy was Ceylon Table Tennis Champ as well.
Working as intern in his first
year at Ridgeway Childrens hospital 1965, for the first time ever Buddy took to
Badmington with us. He said he never ever played it before.
From the first day, he was better than any of us.
The Health Dept Sports meet was due in a couple of months.
We got him to contest. He trained; improved with each game.
Soon we got him to play
against two at once( R.S. Thiagaraja and me)!
At the meet too he improved with each game. He had that
impossibly late long reach return, forte of his table tennis.
At the finals, he lost the first two to the reigning champ; but
improving yet further, he fought it out to the last, losing 2/3.
He was runner up.
Given another half day of practice, he would have won.
(R.S. and I were no slouches, being doubles runners up!)
Bet modest buddy (b simple)has forgotten all this by now!
Susiri Weerasekera.
By Corinne King, the daughter of the late Mr. D.N. Pereira
The “unveiling of that
epic photo” of the 5 Reid brothers was taken on the 30th September
2012 by my husband - Ian, who when he requested the 5 Reid brothers to come
over to stand in front of the College flag, it was mentioned by them all that -
(a) they had never stood together as 5 brothers in
a group,
(b) they had never had a photograph taken of
themselves in front of the STC Flag
AND
(c) ironically, they all automatically
walked towards the flag in order of age and stood in order of age from the
eldest Claude to the youngest Johann (Tiny). The order being Left to
Right: - Claude, Ronnie, Buddy, Barney & Tiny
There definitely was a
first in more ways than one and it was such a wonderful idea of my husband -
Ian King - to initially think of getting all the 5 brothers together as it was
quite a rare event to see them all attend any STC function.
This was the Charity
Lunch function organized by Barney to sponsor a young lad at STC who was a
budding cricketer!
So very happy that the
photo is now proudly displayed in the Sports Pavilion at College.
Congratulations to
Milinda Hettiarachchi for expediting this situation which became an “epic”
event to display an “epic” photo for all time!!
I am also attaching
for good measure that “epic” photo!!
Esto Perpetua,
The Island : Sunday 6 March 2016.
The Reid brothers made
a huge impact representing S. Thomas’ College. Mount Lavinia in cricket in
1960s and the school unveiled a photograph of the five brothers at the pavilion
of the cricket ground yesterday during the second XI fixture of the Royal –
Thomian. Claude, Ronnie, Buddie, Barney and Johann all played for S. Thomas’
with distinction. Johann, the youngest passed away two years ago. The other
four brothers were present at the ceremony that took place during the tea break
of yesterday’s play. The Warden of S. Thomas’ Rev. Marc Billimoria was present
at the occasion.
Photo below - Reid brothers at STC Charity lunch, 30th Sept 2012
Best regards
Dawood
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Banana picking
Day! Oh! Day! Oh!
Come, mister tallyman, tally me banana!
Daylight come, and I won’na go home!
jksw
Harry
Belafonte Day-O ( Banana Boat )
Lyrics
Day O! Day O!
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Day me say day me say day Me say day me say day o
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Work all night and a drink a rum
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Stack banana till the mornin come
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day me say day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Hide the deadly black tarantula!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Day me say day me say day Me say day me say day o
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Work all night and a drink a rum
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Stack banana till the mornin come
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day me say day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Hide the deadly black tarantula!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Harry Belafonte’s 1956 single “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” from the album Calypso is an adaptation of a vernacular Jamaican work song. This version of the song was adapted by Barbadian singer, Lord Burgess or Irving Burgie.
The song hearkens back to an era when the banana trade thrived in Jamaica before the predominance of banana republics. The call-and-response and repetition used in the song speak to the monotony of the work of loading bananas on ships in the Caribbean.
“Day-O” reached number 5 on the Billboard Charts in 1957, and remains a famous song cited in a number of more current pop culture references such as the possession scene in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988) and Lil' Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot.”
Subject: Fw: FW: Banana Picking in Costa Rica. Don’t miss. 5 minutes.
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This is a great video on how bananas
get sent to market. Fascinating.
Banana
Picking.
Watch the
video.
Manipulating the DNA
We're Doing Things with DNA Nature Never Tried
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Why Isn't Edward P. Tryon A World-famous Physicist?
Creative
Commons via Wikimedia Commons, The History of the Universe Why is there a
Universe? Scientists simply don't know how to address why questions. They are
out of the present formulation of modern science....Nor do we know, or have any
prospect of ever knowing, why there is a Universe. Eric ...
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The Oldest Human Genome Ever Has Been Sequenced
, & It Could Rewrite Our History
Time for a new family tree? Scientists have sequenced the oldest human DNA
ever, extracted from 430,000-year-old samples of fossilised tooth and a thigh
bones, found in Spain’s Sima de los …http://flip.it/YYeQI
Earliest DNA Evidence of Neanderthals ID'd
To
put a human face on our ancestors, scientists from the Senckenberg Research
Institute used sophisticated methods to form 27 model heads based on tiny bone
fragments, teeth and skulls collected …
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
PARAPROSDOKIANS:
From Kalu Nana to our batch mates
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Please share
E mail from Nana: To all my batch mates
Winston Churchill loved them- So will you
PARAPROSDOKIANS are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected.
Winston Churchill loved them. You may like them too ( if you have the patience to read these)
1. Where there's a will: - I want to be in it.
2. Since light travels faster than sound - some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
3. Women will never be equal to men - until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer belly and still think they look sexy.
4. Behind every successful man is his woman. - Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
5. If I agreed with you: - we'd both be wrong.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
7 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. - Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' - then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism. - To steal from many is called research.
10. In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'
.
11. A clear conscience is - the sign of a bad memory.
12. I used to be indecisive - Now I'm not so sure.
13. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be - Nor is there any future in it.
14. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than -- standing in your garage makes you a car.
16. Finally: I'm supposed to respect my elders - but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.
.
(Hope you do not have this problem)
sena nanayakkara
Please share
E mail from Nana: To all my batch mates
Winston Churchill loved them- So will you
PARAPROSDOKIANS are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected.
Winston Churchill loved them. You may like them too ( if you have the patience to read these)
1. Where there's a will: - I want to be in it.
2. Since light travels faster than sound - some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
3. Women will never be equal to men - until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer belly and still think they look sexy.
4. Behind every successful man is his woman. - Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
5. If I agreed with you: - we'd both be wrong.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
7 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. - Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' - then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism. - To steal from many is called research.
10. In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'
.
11. A clear conscience is - the sign of a bad memory.
12. I used to be indecisive - Now I'm not so sure.
13. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be - Nor is there any future in it.
14. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than -- standing in your garage makes you a car.
16. Finally: I'm supposed to respect my elders - but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.
.
(Hope you do not have this problem)
sena nanayakkara
Scientists have created a painless patch that can control diabetes without injections
Scientists
have been struggling for decades to free diabetics from regular insulin
injections. One of the main goals has been to figure out how to transplant
healthy beta cells - the …
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How to Grow Potatoes in a Bucket
In
other words, anyone with a bucket (or the ability to get one) and a bit of
oomph about them should continue reading. This potato bucket thing might be
fun.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
On coconut oil
Please click on the web-link below:-
THEY SAID COCONUT OIL WAS GREAT FOR YOU, BUT THIS IS WHAT THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU
THEY SAID COCONUT OIL WAS GREAT FOR YOU, BUT THIS IS WHAT THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU
Monday, March 14, 2016
'Chinnachchinna asai', Tamil song by AR Rahman.
Chinna
chinna aasai song by Chinese artist
https://youtu.be/9DiI1va3WdA
Chinna
Chinna Aasai Roja Arvind Swamy and Madhu HD
https://youtu.be/ls1irCsEPaU
Chinna
Chinna Aasai - Roja - HQ Tamil Karaoke by Law Entertainment
https://youtu.be/wVilnxIVY7I
Tea production in Japan in 1900
Early 20th Century Photos of Japan Showcase the Detailed Process of Tea Production
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A German City Has Banned Single-Serve Coffee Pods and Plastic Water Bottles
Coffee
capsules have been taking hard hits in recent times, from a "Kill the
K-Cup" video that went viral on Youtube last year to remarks by John
Sylvan, one of the founders of Keurig's K-Cup, expressing remorse at ever
having invented the now ubiquitous coffee pod. Yet the latest news on the cof...
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Could Jackfruit Be the Hot New Meat Replacement?
In
the past decade, we have seen a number of advisories released, both from health
experts and organizations to environmental and animal welfare activists, all
urging the same message: people need to …
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
A taste of Donald trump
President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner!
Donald Trump's Most Idiotic Moments
Donald
Trump Sues Bill Maher over Orangutan Joke
Bill
Maher VS Donald Trump 2015 - The Full Story Part 2
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