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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
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