This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Australian citizens - email from jksw
When I was fauna: citizen's rallying call
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Jonathan Pearlman and Joel Gibson
May 23, 2007
May 23, 2007
LINDA BURNEY remembers her childhood well - those days when she was counted among the nation's wildlife.
"This is not ancient history," says the state's first Aboriginal minister. "I was a child. It still staggers me that for the first 10 years of my life, I existed under the Flora and Fauna Act of NSW."
Then came the 1967 referendum, when Australians voted to extend full citizenship to Aborigines. Now, just days before the 40th anniversary of that vote, Ms Burney has described the referendum as a high tide in both the nation's history and her own –
the moment when her status was elevated from fauna to citizen.
Subject: RE: Interesting -
A vintage Rolls-Royce - email from Kirubs
HE OWNED AND DROVE THE SAME CAR FOR 82 YEARS...
They certainly don't make them like that anymore...
This man owned and drove the same car for 82 YEARS.
Can you imagine even having the same car for 82 years!
Mr. Allen Swift (Springfield, MA.) received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly-P1 Roadster - brand new - from his father as a graduation gift in 1928.
He drove it up until his death last year... at the age of 102! He was the oldest living owner of a car that was purchased new.
It was donated to a Springfield museum after his death.
It has 1,070,000 miles on it, still runs like a Swiss watch, is dead silent at any speed and is in perfect cosmetic condition (after 82 years). That's approximately 13,048 miles per year (1087 per month)...
Now feast your eyes on this...
What a beauty!
1,070,000 - that's miles, not kilometers!
That's British engineering of a bygone era.
I don't think they make them like that anymore...!
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Bharathi's song 'Chinnan chiry kiliye' - a rendition. Forwarded by Krishna Ragupathy
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:25:55 +0800
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Chinnanchiru Kiliye - A twist to Baharati's song with western instruments
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Chinnanchiru Kiliye - A twist to Baharati's song with western instruments
Date: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:18 AM
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Memories of Dr.Barr Kumarakulasinghe - Philip G V.
In the period 1965 to 1966 I was doing internship after completing my MBBS, with Dr.Stella De Silva - Consultant Paediatrician - at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr.Barr Kumarakulasinghe was also Consultant Paediatrician there at that time. Dr.A.S. Thavarasa, my batch-mate did internship with her. She was very gentle and made her contributions at our clinical meetings in a quiet and unruffled manner.
I heard from an aquaintance how after the riots of 1958, she went with milk powder and food packages to the refugee camps in Colombo. She apparently met with opposition from members of the Tamil Congress who remarked that she was a relation of the Federal Party leader Mr.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam. She braved all this and helped the refugees.
May the Good Lord Bless and Keep her.
Rest in Peace.
I heard from an aquaintance how after the riots of 1958, she went with milk powder and food packages to the refugee camps in Colombo. She apparently met with opposition from members of the Tamil Congress who remarked that she was a relation of the Federal Party leader Mr.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam. She braved all this and helped the refugees.
May the Good Lord Bless and Keep her.
Rest in Peace.
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