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Sri Lankan Street Parade at SL vs Eng match

email from Daya Jayasinghe

I hope you will enjoy this 3.5 min video clip. Please click on the link.

Never seen most of these Sri Lankans before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3HQg1_Bupw

Birds of Paradise Project

Email from Daya Jayasinghe

The pictures related to these were on National Geographic recently .. Came across this video ..  itsWOW all the way..  http://www.cornell.edu/video/?VideoID=2398

Irish Bus Thieves.

 email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

Two Irish friends leave the pub. One says to other, 'I can't be bothered to walk all the way home.' 'I know, me too, but we've no money for a cab and we've missed the last bus home.' 'We could steal a bus from the depot,' replies his mate. They arrive at the bus depot and one goes in to get a bus while the other keeps a look-out. After shuffling around for ages, the lookout shouts, 'What are you doing? Have ye not found one yet?' 'I can't find a number 91' ‘ Oh fer goodness sake, ye t’ick sod, just pinch the No. 14 and we'll walk from the roundabout.

Here are some laughs for you.

email from Gallege De Silva	08:54 (22 hours ago)

 

 MEDICAL EXAMS

1. A man comes into the ER and yells . . .'
My wife's going to have her baby in the cab.'
I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs - - - and I was in the wrong one.

Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald ,
San Francisco 

2... At the beginning of my shift 
I placed a stethoscope on an elderly 
and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. 

'Big breaths,'. . . I instructed. 
'Yes, they used to be,'. . .replied the patient.

Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes , 
Seattle , WA 

3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad 
news when I told a wife that her husband had 
died of a massive myocardial infarct.

Not more than five minutes later, I heard her 
reporting to the rest of the family that he had 
died of a 'massive internal fart.'
Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg 

4. During a patient's two week follow-up
appointment with his cardiologist, he informed 
me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with
one of his medications..
' Which one ?'. .. . I asked. 'The patch...
The Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hoursand now I'm running out of places to put it !' I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see.
Yes, the man had over fifty  patches on his body!

Now, the instructions include removal of 
the old patch before applying a new one.
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair , 
Norfolk , VA 

5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, 'How long have you been bedridden?'

 

After a look of complete confusion she answered .. . .' Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive.'
Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson- 
Corvallis , OR 

6. I was performing rounds at the 
hospital one morning and while checking 
up on a man I asked . . .' So how's your 
breakfast this morning?' “It's very good 
except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem 
to get used to the taste,” Bob replied.
I then asked to see the jelly and Bob produced
a foil packet labeled 'KY Jelly.'
Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf , 
Detroit , MI 

7. A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, 
entered . .. . It was quickly determined that 
the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was 
scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green and above it there was a tattoo that read . . .' Keep off the grass.'

Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon
wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, 
which said 'Sorry . . . had to mow the lawn.'
Submitted by RN no name,

AND FINALLY!! ! . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 

8. As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB. I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams... To cover my embarrassment I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. 

The middle-aged lady upon whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassing me. 
I looked up from my work and sheepishly said. . .
' I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?' 
She replied with tears running down 
her cheeks from laughing so hard . ..

' No doctor but the song you were whistling was . . ..
' I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener .' ' Dr. wouldn't submit his name.... 
ONE MORE 

Baby's First Doctor Visit 

This made me laugh out loud. 
I hope it will give you a smile! 

It's my favourite of the lot !!!

A woman and a baby were in the doctor's examining room,waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby's first exam. 

The doctor arrived, and examined the baby,

checked his weight, and being a little concerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed or bottle-fed. 'Breast-fed,' she replied.. 

'Well, strip down to your waist,' the doctor ordered. 

She did. He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts

for a while in a very professional and detailed examination. 

Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said, 'No wonder this baby is underweight.

You don't have any milk.' 

I know,' she said, 'I'm his Grandma, 

But I'm glad I came.

Amazing trees.

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

http://www.duskyswondersite.com/tag/amazing-trees/ 

Take a peek at History..

email from Piyusha Atapattu

Do you know the best residential area in Colombo during the Dutch times?  Yes it was 'Grandpass' : (from Grande Passo) Some old Dutch houses and even a Dispensary are still there? Other interesting names that still survive from those days: Main Street: (Roa Direto). The Dutch remembered one of their governors – Hulftwho died during the siege of Colombo, withHulftsdorp and recalled some of their native place names like Leyden and Delft. The Dutch named Maliban Street to identify the fashionable promenade in Pettah – Maliban meaning the MMall. Kayman's Gate refers to 'kayman' – crocodiles that were found in the area where the rivulet entered the sea. Wolvendaal meant the dale of wolves. Bloemendahl is a vale of flowers. Korteboam means short trees. Beira (mythology), the mother to all the gods and goddesses in the Celtic mythology of Scotland. There was a time when Kollupitiya was known as Baradeniya. It was a beautiful rustic village with coconut gardens and cinnamon trees that grew wild and narrow cart-tracks which connected the few villas and homes here with the rest of the country. For the purpose of postal services `Colombo 03’ consists of Kollupitiya.  How Baradeniya became Kollupitiya - The year was 1664 and the king was Rajasinghe II whose cruel acts embittered his subjects. Three Kandyan chiefs sought to slay the king and place his 12-year-old son on the throne. One of the conspirators was Udanuwara Ambanwela Appuhamy. When the plot failed, the king had two of the rebel leaders beheaded. However, instead of executing Abanwela Appuhamy, the most feared of the rebels, he handed him over to the Dutch to undergo what he thought would be a more brutal torture. Instead, the Dutch set him free. Ambanwela Appuhamy took the Dutch name of Van Ry-cloff and built up a good relationship with the Dutch who gave him a large plot of land by the sea where he grew a coconut plantation which soon expanded over the ancestral farms of the natives who dared not complain. They could only retaliate by calling the plantation Kolla-ke-pitiya meaning 'Plundered land'. Today, there is still an area in Kollupitiya that is calledPolwatte. The footprints of Galle Face (Colombo 03) begins with Galle face south of Colombo Fort (Colombo 01). Originally a vast swamp, thePortuguese and Dutchused this piece of land as a strategic defense. It was the British who developed the Green into a leisure ground.  The 19th century paintings of John Deschamps, show the Galle-Face esplanade with a high road running through the centre of it. Added later was a promenade by the sea and a driveway bordering the lake where the Dutch Military cemetery was. Deschamps describes it as forming not only the principal exercising ground of the garrison, but also the general promenade of the inhabitants of Colombo and its vicinity. On foot, on horseback, or in carriages, people flocked to this salubrious setting to inhale the delicious breeze which is almost always to be found by the sea side of this part of the Island. The Galle Face esplanade or Green was established byGovernor Ward in 1859. An inscription reads "in the interest of the ladies and children of Colombo". Cricket, football and polo were played on the Green. In 1829, horse racing was established under the auspices of Sir Edward Barnes. Everyone enjoyed a day at the races: the vendors poured in from earlynoon, servants on leave spent their day there, as well as schoolboys who didn’t make it to school, palanquin carriages with shutters down and curtain drawn conveying Mohammedan ladies and of course the European community. A circular race stand was built by subscription. Initially it was a building of brick, coated with a plaster of chunam. Its conical roof was covered with an excellent thatch of kehjan(woven coconut leaves). From here a view of the whole course could be obtained. The race-balls were held here, the upper room being cool and airy for dancing; card-tables were placed in the verandahs, whilst the lower portion formed a good supper-room. Subsequently the roof was tiled. By the 1870s it had become a more substantial building and was known as the Colombo Club. This building still stands, even though maybe not in its original modest form, and is now the Crystal Ballroom of the Taj Samudra Hotel Colombo. At one end of the green was the Galle Face Boarding House, forerunner of the present Galle Face Hotel, which was constructed in 1887. Today the green has lost much in its extent; but after a long period of neglect has recently been restored back to the chief leisure ground of modern Colombo for people of all walks of life. A temple, a church, a school, Kollupitiya Walukarama Buddhist Templeis said to be the oldest temple in Colombo. It was founded in the 1800s by Ven. Panditha Valane Sri Siddhahatta Maha Nayake Thera, who was also the founder member of the Maha Sangha Saba of theSiyam Nikaya of the Kotte Chapter. The land for the construction of the temple was donated by a famous indigenous medicine physician of Kollupitiya, Arnolis Silva. St. Andrew’s Scots Kirk founded in 1842 as a Church of Scotland by Scots living in Ceylon, has today become the International Church in Colombo welcoming into its fellowship people of all nations and denominations of the Christian faith. Jinaraja Kanista Vidyalaya down Dharmakirthi Ramya Road dates back to 1898. Then named "Jinaraja Buddhist English School" this was the oldest Buddhist English mixed school in Colombo. This school was established for boys and girls of Colombo managed by the Buddhist Theosophical Society, Colombo, under the guidance of Col. Henry Steele Olcott. A jeweller, a textile dealer, a baker, a grocer, anoptician and a private hospital in Galle Face Court 1was the first multi storey block of flats in Sri Lanka and the domed addition which followed as Galle Face Court 2 were both buildings that were initiated by theMacan Markar family as residential, business and real estate ventures. The dome housed an observatory. The road here was renamed Sir Macan Markar Mawatha on account of the contribution of the Macan Markar family towards industry, business, trading andpolitics Hope you enjoyed the interesting History lesson!!