Odds and ends, Titanic flute,

 Titanic - Flute

'Every night in my dreams

I see you, i feel you 

That is how know  you go on..'

1. https://youtu.be/K69ix4ehy70

2. https://youtu.be/9i2dbxC5GHs?t=29

Queen Victoria

https://youtu.be/PcROekzqJK4

 

Norman Wisdom

https://www.facebook.com/dinakantha.kumararatne/posts/3867284289951589?from_close_friend=1&notif_id=1601937397864981&notif_t=close_friend_activity&ref=notif

Herd immunity against COVID-19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/who-letting-virus-spread-to-reach-herd-immunity-is-unethical/ar-BB19WObS

Odds and ends, Waltzing Matilda

 Waltzing Matilda

https://youtu.be/FqtttbbYfSM

Memorable quotes

‘Life is nothing but a bank of happy memories’

‘In India they love learning but don’t like thinking’

OBE – Other Buggers’ Efforts

"Demodara" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/3DFZn6MTCyY

Trauma of being Asian-American

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-to-stand-in-solidarity-with-the-asian-community-during-the-pandemic/ar-BB19YXJU

Odds and ends, Bridge over the river Kwai,

 Bridge over the river Kwai

https://youtu.be/cayfWrlWgII?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA

Life in British India

https://qr.ae/pNuuLw

Dehena Ella - waterfall, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka

http://imagessrilanka.blogspot.com/2011/09/dehena-ella-waterfall-is-about-20km.html#links

What are the fundamental differences between the three schools of Buddhism?

Extracted from 'Quora'

Good question! Simplest answer may be geographical. As the boat of BuddhaDharma docked at various ports, it mixed with the native culture.

        Theravada refers to teachings in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, etc.

        Mahāyāna refers to teachings in China, Korea, Japan, etc

        Vajrayāna refers to teachings in Mongolia, Tibet, etc

        For centuries, these traditions evolved within the borders of nationality 

Some distinctive elemental characteristics :

    Theravada emphasizes the historical Buddha, his teachings as recorded in Pali, and the original community of followers; in this tradition is found also emphasis on mindfulness, and detailed analysis of psychological states and transformation.

    Mahāyāna is more innovative, such as in seeing the Buddha as historical, and also transcendent (humans who become saints, deities who embody cosmic principals such as wisdom and compassion, etc). In terms of practice, there's a shift in initial intention, aspiring towards the trans-human (bodhisattvahood).

    Vajrayāna combines rigorous analytical discernment with devotional heart; particular practices include mantra, visualization.

 

Odds and ends Sayonara

 Sayonara

https://youtu.be/CziVmYd3TJE?list=TLPQMTEwOTIwMjA-qOH84aLANA

Campaign against the Spanish flu- 1918

https://www.history.com/news/1918-pandemic-public-health-campaigns?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history

 

Portuguese names of people in Sri Lanka

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJZJdDrGVGLgFpJsvkSMmSPFTh

 

Nine Arch Bridge Travel with Dilruk

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/R4dn22mGkUM

Obituary, Dr.H.S.R. Wijemanne

 Please click on the web-link below :-

https://medicalbatchcolombo1960.blogspot.com/2020/10/obituary-dr-wmh-wijemanne.html

Odds and ends, Al Di La

Al di la

 https://youtu.be/gwq461GHZGs

Add to your bucket list in SL

https://ta.quora.com/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B3-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D

 

Song of Ceylon – Movie

https://youtu.be/6hZirvnj0kk

 Mosquitos

https://www.thoughtco.com/ways-to-guarantee-youll-get-mosquito-bites-1968301?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=21766045&utm_term=

Odds and ends, Mull of Kintyre

 

Mull of KIntyre

https://youtu.be/bipC8jvgLtw

What is the coolest line in history?

In 1949, Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin were not on particularly good terms with one another.

Tito, the Yugoslav communist revolutionary, had been trying to free Yugoslavia from Soviet influence, which had caused a rift between the two leaders. Infuriated, Stalin sent a team of trained assassins to try to capture and kill Tito to stop what he considered to be a rebellion against the Soviet Union.

Luckily for Tito, he was able to successfully intercept and evade all of the assassins that Stalin had sent. But simply avoiding Stalin’s assassins just wasn’t enough for Tito. In fact, he decided to go one step further and explicitly assert superiority over him, so he sent a message to Moscow which was basically the verbal equivalent of laughing in Stalin’s face:

    “Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.”[1]

Tito lived until 1980 before dying of natural causes at the age of 87, and neither Stalin nor anyone else ever tried to get him killed again.

Wellawaththe – 1950 to 1960

https://roar.media/english/life/history/wellawatte-in-the-olden-days-life-in-the-sandy-garden-of-the-fifties-sixties-and-seventies

 

Ceylon 100 years ago

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/329536897718515499/