Old age - email from Kamalini K

While you are alive, don't worry about what others will think or say
> about you - just do what you believe is right without paying much
> attention to praise and criticism.
>
> Don't worry about what will happen after you are gone, because when you
> return to the dust, you will feel nothing about praise or criticism.
>
> Don't worry too much about your children for children will have their
> own destiny and find their own way.
>
> Do whatever you can to help them grow into responsible, caring and
> productive human beings, but don't be your children's slave.
>
> Don't expect too much from your children. Caring children, though
> caring, could be too busy with their jobs and commitments to render any
> 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
> property.
>
> Your children take for granted that they are rightful heirs to your
> wealth; but you have no claims to their money.
>
> As you grow older, don't trade in your health for wealth any more...
> Because your money may not be able to buy your health …
> Know when to stop making money and how much is enough (hundred
> thousand, million, ten million?)
>
> Even if you had a thousand hectares of good farm land, you can only
> consume one quart of rice daily;
> Even if you had a thousand mansions, you need only three square meters
> of space to rest at night.
>
> So as long as you have enough food and enough money for your essential
> needs, that is good enough. So 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 and longevity.
>
> Dont worry about things that you can't change because worrying doesn't
> help and it will affect your health.
>
> You have to create your own well-being and find your own happiness.
>
> Strive to keep yourself in a good mood, think about happy things, do
> happy things daily and have fun in doing them, then you will pass your
> time happily every day.
>
> One day passes, you will lose one day;…One day passes with happiness,
> and then you gain one day.
>
> In good spirit, sickness will cure; in happy spirit, sickness will cure
> fast; in good and happy spirit, sickness will never come.
>
> With good mood, suitable amount of exercise, lots of sun, variety of
> foods, reasonable amount of vitamin and mineral intake, you will enjoy
> years of healthy life.
>
> Above all, learn to cherish the goodness around ……FAMILY and
> FRIENDS……..they all make you feel young and "wanted"
>

Many toilets in the house.

A Consultant had a loquacious, wealthy female relative, visiting him at home. The woman kept on boasting about a new mansion she had completed recently. She said that she had included an attached bath for every room in her new construction. The Consultant had exclaimed 'Wedak nay ney. Eva pavichchikeranne eka pukak ney thiyenney' ( What is the use there is only one arse to use the toilets). That put a padlock on the visitor's mouth.

Taxi drivers - email JKSW

Taxi Driver

A woman and her ten-year-old son were riding in a taxi in Toronto . It was raining and all the prostitutes were standing under the awnings.

"Mom" said the boy "what are all those women doing?"

"They're waiting for their husbands to get off work," she replied.

The taxi driver turns around and says "Geez lady, why don't you tell him the truth? They're hookers, boy! They have sex with men for money."

The little boy's eyes get wide and he says, "Is that true Mom?"

His mother, glaring hard at the driver, answers in the affirmative.

After a few minutes, the kid asks "Mom, what happens to the babies those
women have?"

"They become taxi drivers," she said.

Lady Ridgeway Interns 1965.

For cricket lovers.

Forwarding a picture of Buddy Reid opening batsman Ceylon,  as intern House Officer at Lady Ridgeway Hospital. He is the tallest slim one at the rear.

I am also in the picture seated.

Susiri  

Test your memory batch of 1960 entrants.

Some stunning photos - email Gallege De Silva.

Click on web-link below:-

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Colombo Medical Students financial assistance scheme - email from 'Kalu Nana'

Subject: Colombo Medical Student financial assistance scheme, update 2012

  Dear all

This is a letter I received from Dr Atapattu( chairperson/medical students
financial assistance scheme) from Colombo Medical Faculty.

This is the latest update re. the offer of regular funds to 2 deserving
medical students from the combined donations you all made in July 2010.

So far the monthly payments of Rs.2000.00/student is made from the interest
income with the total capital continuing to accrue interest at variable
rates.

The 2 students will continue to get the financial assistance monthly for a
total of 5 years(till they complete their medical student career) and from
the interest collated, 2 more students will receive similar funds every 5
years( and recurring).

You must be pleased with your efforts. Some of you may consider further
efforts to improve medical education in Sri Lanka in what ever way we can.
It may be worth thinking of a last will provision if not already done.

If you need any more details please let me know.

Best wishes

Nana

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The church that’s opened its doors to Islam: Christians roll out welcome to Muslims who were having to pray in the wind and rain because their mosque was so small

Posted by Sailanmuslim on March 21, 2013 // Leave Your Comment

• The Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque was too small to fit everyone in
• Church minister Rev Isaac Poobalan saw worshippers praying outside
• Now he has handed over part of St John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen
• Bishop says: 'It would be good to think we can change the world'

By HELEN LAWSON

A Scottish church has become the first in the UK to share its premises with Muslim worshippers.

St John’s Episcopal Church in Aberdeen now welcomes hundreds of Muslims praying five times a day in their building as the nearby mosque was so small that they were forced to worship outside.

The minister of St John's, Rev Isaac Poobalan, has handed over part of the church hall to Chief Imam Ahmed Megharbi and the imam has led prayers in the main chapel.

Rev Poobalan said today that he would not be true to his faith if he did not offer to help.

Sheikh Ahmed Megharbi, left, and Rev Isaac Poobalan, right, behind the altar at St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, which is also being used as a place of worship for Muslims

Rev Poobalan, right, said he would not be true to his faith if he did not offer to help his neighbours with their overcrowding problem

He said: 'Praying is never wrong. My job is to encourage people to pray.

'The mosque was so full at times, there would be people outside in the wind and rain praying.

'I knew I couldn’t just let this happen – because I would be abandoning what the Bible teaches us about how we should treat our neighbours.

'When I spoke to people at the church about the situation, someone actually said to me this was not our problem, but I had seen it with my own eyes, so it was a problem.

Rev Poobalan said: 'They were out there praying and the snow came on for the first time in winter, it was really hard to watch.

'When they were doing the prayer they had their hands and feet exposed and they were sitting on on the pavement, which is very rough.

'You could even see them breathing because it was so cold and I think when I saw that, the visual impact was such that I just couldn't walk past.

'It felt wrong, mainly because the church is next door, it's a big building and it remains empty on a Friday lunchtime which is when they need the place most as that's when they are at their busiest.

'We had something we could offer and they were just standing out in the cold and I said to my congregation "we need to do something".'

Rev Poobalan said he wanted the move to help build bridges between Christians and Muslims after some initial resistance from his congregation about the move.

 

He said: 'It's a move that is so basic and fundamental. It has nothing to do with religion – it's all based on human need.

'The religious divide shouldn't divide us as people. 

Best regards