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May the Good Lord Bless and Keep you
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Our best wishes to You all.
May the New Year 2021 bring you Happiness and Joy.
From Philip and Ramya
Kandy lamissi
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Halleluja – Monks
Perfume capital
Christmas ward song
https://www.facebook.com/philip.veerasingam/posts/3903317389680519
London symphony
Vaccine problems
Post Brexit Britain
10 best photos 2020
Christmas flashmob, Berlin
Testing obedience
Port-city Sri Lanka
Cave carvings
Scarborough fair - Celia Pavey
The ‘Jingle bells’ story
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/jingle-bells-christmas-song/
Christmas 1950 in Ceylon
https://roar.media/english/life/history/christmas-in-ceylon-in-the-50s-swing-bands-and-grand-galas
COVID visitor management
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjwzbHtMfDRMbQVkBftMQvqjw
Flash mob - Felis Navidad
All you got to do is to have a loving and caring heart for
others without expecting anything in return. If you help others even with a
little things you can do... you will be bless in one way or the other...
Christmas is a time for giving and sharing.
Celebration in a ward during Christmas.
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Halleluja – Monks
Perfume capital
COVID visitor management
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Time to say good bye
Electoral college
Astrayogi
Embarrassing moment
https://www.quora.com/?pa_story=MTM0NTU3OTM5ODY3NDc5OTg4NnwyMTExMDYyMzU1Mjg3Nzl8MA**
Tibetan gratitude
Indoor dining and COVID transmission
Chinese words in English
Hanukkah
I just called to say I love you
GBS and Chesterton
This bird was not in the mood to be saved.
Parrot
tells firefighter to 'f*ck off' during rescue attempt
By
Morgan Sung
Aug
14, 2018
Jessie,
a bright yellow and turquoise Macaw parrot, escaped her home in Edmonton, UK
over the weekend and stranded herself on her neighbor's roof for three days.
Concerned that she was injured, her owners called the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) for help. When the RSPCA was
unsuccessful in coaxing Jessie down, the London Fire Brigade stepped in.
Jesse's
owners told the firefighter to say "I love you" to try to bond with
the bird and lure her back to safety. But when a firefighter trekked to the
roof to tell her, Jessie started hurling expletives at him.
Watch
manager Chris Swallow told Metro, "We then discovered that she had a bit
of a foul mouth and kept swearing, much to our amusement."
Although Jessie responded
with "I love you," she also told the firefighter to "fuck
off."
Recalling the Spanish flu of 1918
This was written by Kathleen O'Mara,
in 1869 after the Irish famine, reprinted during 1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic.
Photo taken during the Spanish Flu Pandemic And people stayed at home And read
books And listened And they rested And did exercises And made art and played
And learned new ways of being And stopped and listened More deeply Someone
meditated, someone prayed Someone met their shadow And people began to think
differently And people healed. And in the absence of people who Lived in
ignorant ways Dangerous, meaningless and heartless, The earth also began to
heal And when the danger ended and People found themselves They grieved for the
dead And made new choices And dreamed of new visions And created new
A summer place
Choosing a suitable gift
British mercenaries investigated over Sri Lanka war crimes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55071099
Kids educational web-links
What a wonderful world
Mark Twain quotes
https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=18411
Historical photos
https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=38121
Moderna COVID trial
Perry Como - Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
Parrot
tells firefighter to 'f*ck off' during rescue attempt
By Morgan
Sung
Aug 14,
2018
This bird
was not in the mood to be saved.
Jessie, a
bright yellow and turquoise Macaw parrot, escaped her home in Edmonton, UK over
the weekend and stranded herself on her neighbor's roof for three days.
Concerned that she was injured, her owners called the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) for help. When the RSPCA was
unsuccessful in coaxing Jessie down, the London Fire Brigade stepped in.
Jesse's
owners told the firefighter to say "I love you" to try to bond with
the bird and lure her back to safety. But when a firefighter trekked to the
roof to tell her, Jessie started hurling expletives at him.
Watch
manager Chris Swallow told Metro, "We then discovered that she had a bit
of a foul mouth and kept swearing, much to our amusement."
Although Jessie responded with "I love you," she also told the firefighter to "fuck off."
The Breast Tax or Mulakaram.
I was completely shocked to know
about this disgusting part of history.
Women in Kerala used to pay a
whooping sum of tax to cover their breasts, Those who were unable to pay, they
kept their upper body naked.
This tax was imposed on the Shudras
and Dalit’s to show this class their ‘AUKAT’
The breast was bared as a symbol of
respect to higher-status people only. A society where men even stare at the
cleavage, these women faced the oppression with naked breasts.
Torn Self respect, deteriorated
confidence and the noxious stares eating the very pieces of diligence everyday.
Even the women who covered their
breasts were not spared, the officers used to come and examine the size and
weight of the taxpayer women with their own hands, utter disgrace.
Later, A women named Nangeli
protested against this law by cutting off her breasts and presenting them in
front of the officer, she died of blood loss, which eventually resulted in mega
protests.
Finally, the heel piece law was
removed, but only at the cost of a sacrifice.
CREDITS: MULAKARAM (SHORT FILM)
Otto Von Bismark – Quotes
“If you like laws and
sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”
“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards,
children and the United States of America.”
"Moon River"
http://www.youtube.com/shorts/SneFlvjTS0YSongs
Jews of Ceylon
"The Small Escape."
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Bertha Benz
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Scientist’s death due to their discovery
https://www.quora.com/Which-scientists-died-because-of-their-discovery
Traffic fails
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=317636992207513
Humans using weapons
What a wonderful world
The band-wagon fallacy – ‘The majority is right’
20 wacky inventions
https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=38020
Writing Tamil on name boards in Sri Lanka
Moon River
https://youtu.be/SYHbqLUevn8?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA - Orchestra
Success of RAW
https://defenceupdate.in/the-ganga-hijack-drama-how-raw-fooled-pakistan/
Oxymorons
Cancer causing home products
https://sciencenaturalsecrets.com/50/
"Shankarabharanam Title song by veena srivani"
World’s first locomotive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40XrR67fas&authuser=0
Butterflies
https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=21010
"Creating a sculpture from a tree trunk using a
chainsaw. Wood Carving"
"Timeless Tunes' by Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh
Formation of cyclones
Audrey Hepburn – Secret life
https://www.quora.com/Which-celebrity-had-the-most-horrifying-secret-life
Insect repellents
https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=37613
"The End Of The World" - Skeeter Davis
Seven years in Ceylon – Mary and Margret Leitch
How Corona virus causes COVID 19
Rolls-Royce owner
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-been-treated-differently-because-of-the-car-you-were-driving
Titanic - Flute
'Every night in my dreams
I see you, i feel you
That is how i now you go on..'
1. https://youtu.be/K69ix4ehy70
2. https://youtu.be/RigyRr5B_gY
Being a Jew in Sri Lanka
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/jewish-and-sri-lankan-identity/
The HOPE diamond
Earliest people of Sri Lanka
Sayonara
https://youtu.be/CziVmYd3TJE?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA
Making ‘Ginger Beer’
Prolonged sitting
Zorba
https://youtu.be/K8Li-IkbdgI?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA - Violin
Frozen food and COVID
Yawning
Old Ceylon
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMZQpqZxMjlGckMMdPWVslnGX
Titanic - Flute
'Every night in my dreams
I see you, i feel you
That is how know you go on..'
1. https://youtu.be/K69ix4ehy70
2. https://youtu.be/9i2dbxC5GHs?t=29
Queen Victoria
Norman Wisdom
Herd immunity against COVID-19
Waltzing Matilda
Memorable quotes
‘Life is nothing but a bank of happy memories’
‘In India they love learning but don’t like thinking’
OBE – Other Buggers’ Efforts
"Demodara" on YouTube
Trauma of being Asian-American
Bridge over the river Kwai
https://youtu.be/cayfWrlWgII?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA
Life in British India
Dehena Ella - waterfall, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka
http://imagessrilanka.blogspot.com/2011/09/dehena-ella-waterfall-is-about-20km.html#links
What are the fundamental differences between the three schools of Buddhism?
Extracted from 'Quora'
Good question! Simplest answer may be geographical. As the boat of BuddhaDharma docked at various ports, it mixed with the native culture.
Theravada
refers to teachings in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, etc.
Mahāyāna
refers to teachings in China, Korea, Japan, etc
Vajrayāna
refers to teachings in Mongolia, Tibet, etc
For centuries, these traditions evolved within the borders of nationality
Some distinctive elemental characteristics :
Theravada
emphasizes the historical Buddha, his teachings as recorded in Pali, and the
original community of followers; in this tradition is found also emphasis on
mindfulness, and detailed analysis of psychological states and transformation.
Mahāyāna is more
innovative, such as in seeing the Buddha as historical, and also transcendent
(humans who become saints, deities who embody cosmic principals such as wisdom
and compassion, etc). In terms of practice, there's a shift in initial
intention, aspiring towards the trans-human (bodhisattvahood).
Vajrayāna combines
rigorous analytical discernment with devotional heart; particular practices
include mantra, visualization.
Sayonara
https://youtu.be/CziVmYd3TJE?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA
Campaign against the Spanish flu- 1918
Portuguese names of people in Sri Lanka
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJZJdDrGVGLgFpJsvkSMmSPFTh
Nine Arch Bridge Travel with Dilruk
http://www.youtube.com/shorts/R4dn22mGkUM
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Mull of KIntyre
What is the coolest line in history?
In 1949, Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin were not on particularly good terms with one another.
Tito, the Yugoslav communist revolutionary, had been trying to free Yugoslavia from Soviet influence, which had caused a rift between the two leaders. Infuriated, Stalin sent a team of trained assassins to try to capture and kill Tito to stop what he considered to be a rebellion against the Soviet Union.
Luckily for Tito, he was able to successfully intercept and evade all of the assassins that Stalin had sent. But simply avoiding Stalin’s assassins just wasn’t enough for Tito. In fact, he decided to go one step further and explicitly assert superiority over him, so he sent a message to Moscow which was basically the verbal equivalent of laughing in Stalin’s face:
“Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.”[1]
Tito lived until 1980 before dying of natural causes at the
age of 87, and neither Stalin nor anyone else ever tried to get him killed
again.
Wellawaththe – 1950 to 1960
Ceylon 100 years ago
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/329536897718515499/
By Mahendra Gonsalkorale
Under such circumstance was the Vespa born.
The word Vespa means Wasp in both Italian and Latin.
Up to 138 different versions of the Vespa have been built since production
began. When Vespa celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996, more than 15 million
of the scooters had been sold worldwide, making it the most successful scooter of
all time.
This picture shows the
early M6 model with a central section. This was replaced by the more familiar
one without the central bar with room for placing the feet behind the shield
(wings) housing the handgrip controls.
Vespa is an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by
Piaggio. Piaggio was founded in1884 in Genoa by 20 year old Rinaldo Piaggio as
a luxury ship building company that expanded into producing rail carriages,
automobiles, marine craft and later aeronautics. Enrico
Piaggio and his brother Armando inherited the family engineering business on
their father’s death in 1938. Enrico decided to move the business from aircraft
to scooter production after the end of the war as there was a need for low cost
transport.
Upon seeing the first Vespa (MP6) for the first time,
Enrico Piaggio exclaimed: "Sembraunavespa!" ("It
resembles a wasp!"). Piaggio effectively named his new scooter on the
spot. If he was a Sri Lankan, he would have uttered the immortal words “YakomekaBambarek
wage!” and Vespa would have been known as “Bambara”.
The move to scooter production proved to be a prudent
one as the company would eventually become one of the biggest manufacturers of
two-wheeled vehicles in the world and in fact the Piaggio group is now Europe’s
largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles and the world’s fourth largest
motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales. The group own 7 companies. Piaggio,
Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Derbi, Vespa, Gilera and Ligier
From their inception, Vespa scooters have been known
for their painted, pressed steel unibody which combines a complete cowling for
the engine (enclosing the engine mechanism and concealing dirt or grease), a
flat floorboard (providing foot protection), and a prominent front fairing
(providing wind protection) into a structural unit.
In 1950 Piaggio opened a factory in Germany and a year
later in the UK (Douglas of Bristol). The Vespa was soon manufactured in 13
countries and sold in 114.
As a result of the MOD subculture that developed in
the 1960s, the United Kingdom became Vespa’s second largest global market.
When Vespa celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1996,
more than 15 million of the scooters had been sold worldwide
Sadly, in its country of birth Italy, Vespa popularity
is declining. According to data published by ANCMA, moped sales in Italy have
declined from a peak of 600,000 in 1980 to 26,727 in 2014 - a vertiginous fall
of 97 percent. Economic crisis, demographic shifts, and the changing habits of
the younger generation are all conspiring to end the moped culture widely
associated with Italian life since World War II."The younger generation is
just not as interested in mopeds as it used to be," Claudio Deviti, head
of the motorcycle unit of ANCMA, the National Association of Motorcycle,
Bicycle and Accessories, told Al Jazeera.
The great rival for the scooter owning fraternity in
the Medical Faculty was the Lambretta, made in Milan by Innocenti, but that is
another story.
I would like to refer readers to a previous post by
Lucky,"Two Wheelers" of the Batch, 25th November 2015. In
this post, he named some of our Vespa owners. I hope readers would add to this
list. Those who owned the newer Vespa models (the handle in particular
was different) were: SanathLamabadusuriya (I think it had
registration number 4 Sri 955), MahendraCollure and the late
LGDK Herath. Douglas Mulgirigama owned an older model Vespa. Rajan
(Patas) Ratnesar was the other who used an older model of Vespa.
Lucky, and the comments, cover the Vespa. Lambretta, BSA.MotorGuzzi and Honda.
Does anybody know a lady Medico who
owned a Vespa? I would have thought it was very suitable for a lady who would
like to avoid straddling for reasons best known to her!
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