Two blogs,Flowers seen in Sri Lanka, Photos of birds seen in Sri Lanka, by Philip G Veerasingam.

Two blogs maintained by Philip G Veerasingam.

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Flowers seen in Sri Lanka
http://philipv203.blogspot.com/

Photos of birds seen in Sri Lanka

http://photosofbirdsofsrilanka.blogspot.com/

Stranger on the shore By Lambert Abeytunge

email from Gunsie via Sunil Liyanage.

Please click on the web-link below with speakers on, to listen to a CD released by our batch mate:-

https://youtu.be/TVsbkVAYvhA

Danny Kaye

 as "Madame Schmeckenwasser" on The Danny Kaye Show

https://youtu.be/Gx-yrVWsjrs

Trans fats

http://www.livescience.com/51265-next-trans-fat.html

Swami Vivekananda.

email from  Subramaniam Vignarajah 

When Swami Vivekanand was studying law at the University College,  London, a white professor, whose last name was Peters, disliked him intensely.

One day, Mr. Peters was having lunch at the dining room when  came along with his tray and sat next to the professor.

The professor said, "Mr Vivekanand , you do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit together to eat."

Vivekanandji looked at him as a parent would a rude child and calmly replied, "You do not worry professor. I'll fly away," and he went and sat at another table.

Mr. Peters,  reddened with rage, decided to take revenge. 

The next day in Class he posed the following question: "Mr.Vivekanand , if you were walking down the street and found a package, and within was a bag of wisdom and another bag with money, which one would you take ?"

Without hesitating, Vivekanandji responded, "The one with the money, of course."

Mr. Peters , smiling sarcastically said, "I, in your place, would have taken the wisdom."

Swami Vivekanand shrugged and responded, "Each one takes what he doesn't have."

Mr. Peters, by this time was fit to be tied. So great was his anger that he wrote on Swami Vivekanand's exam sheet the word "idiot" and gave it to Swami Vivekanand.

Vivekanandji took the exam sheet and sat down at his desk trying very hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move.

A  few  minutes later, Swami Vivekanand got up, went to the professor and told him in a dignified polite tone, "Mr. Peters, you signed the sheet, but you did not give me the grade."

. Don't mess with intelligent Indians

Night scene and dawn breaking over 'Jetwing Blue Hotel', Negombo, Sri Lanka.

Looking westward at dawn.

Arthur Hugh Clough. 1819–1861

741. Say not the Struggle Naught availeth

SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;	5
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,	10
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!	15
But westward, look, the land is bright!

Benny Goodman.

Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall (1938): The Performance of a Lifetime

https://youtu.be/0rD1Fu67z2I

 

Rosemary Clooney & Benny Goodman - Memories of you

https://youtu.be/26EVJzc0m8g

BENNY GOODMAN - SING SING SING

https://youtu.be/TIoTpeM6o2A

Sweet Georgia Brown - Benny Goodman 1980

https://youtu.be/0jE2g055zRA

Benny Goodman Biography – Who2 Biographies.

·         Jazz Musician

·         Bandleader

Benny Goodman was a jazz clarinetist and band leader famous for the songs "Sing, Sing, Sing" and "One O'Clock Jump." A prodigy on the clarinet, Benny Goodman joined the professional musician's union when he was just 13 years old and made his first recording as a soloist four years later. In the 1920s he played in orchestras, on the radio and for stage shows, and made several recordings as a sideman (including for Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday). In the early 1930s Benny Goodman formed his own orchestra, and the Swing Era began. He became a world-famous bandleader, appeared regularly on the radio and in the movies and is often credited with introducing jazz to mainstream audiences. (He also had a simmering and long-running feud with competing clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw.) By the end of his career, Goodman had recorded well over 100 hit songs, including "Let's Dance," "Blue Moon, and "Six Appeal."