tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10802647515461015392024-02-19T09:20:51.833+05:30"That Veerasingam Boy"Blogging by Ebenezer Breman Veerasingam since 2010, sharing life-moments and thoughts that are imagined, witnessed and relived.Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-62470568509023886152023-09-07T20:00:00.003+05:302023-09-07T21:26:57.167+05:30அண்மையில் வெளியான உயர்தரப் பரீட்சை முடிவுகளை நம்மில் பலர் பகிர்ந்துகொண்ட விதத்தை வைத்து எனது மனதில் எழுந்த கேள்விகள் சில. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>அண்மையில் வெளியான உயர்தரப் பரீட்சை முடிவுகளை நம்மில் பலர் பகிர்ந்துகொண்ட விதத்தை வைத்து, விஷேடமாக தங்களது பாடசாலையின் பெறுபேறுகள் என்று சொல்லி அநேகமான ஆசிரியர்கள் மற்றும் பழைய மாணவர்கள் பகிர்ந்துகொண்ட சில பட்டியல்களை வைத்து எனது மனதில் எழுந்த கேள்விகள் சில. எனது கருத்தில் ஏதும் பிழை இருப்பின் தாராளமாக உங்கள் கருத்தையும் தெரிவிக்கவும். </div><div><br></div><div>எப்போதும் பேசாமல் இருப்போம் என்று நினைப்பேன், ஆனால் இதற்கும் மேல் பொறுக்க முடியாத நிலையில் இவற்றைப் பகிர்கிறேன். ஆனாலும், இந்த "விளக்கமறியா பட்டியல்கள்" மத்தியில் சில மிகவும் விளக்கமான, உயர்தரக் கல்வி மற்றும் பரீட்சை பற்றியதான சரியான புரிதல்களோடும், ஒரு முன்னேறி வரும் சமூகத்தின் அடையாளமான சில பட்டியல்களையும் அவதானித்தேன் என்பதையும் குறிப்பிட விரும்புகின்றேன். எனது கேள்விகள் சில...</div><div><br></div><div>1. உங்களது பிரபலமான தேசிய பாடசாலைகளில், போன வருடத்திலிருந்து வர்த்தகம், கலை, தொழினுட்பம் போன்ற பிரிவுகளை நீக்கி விட்டீர்களா? அப்படி நீக்கவில்லையானால் அந்த பிரிவுகளின் மாணவர்களின் பெறுபேறுகள் உங்களுக்கு ஒரு பொருட்டாகவே தெரியவில்லையா? </div><div><br></div><div>2. பௌதிக விஞ்ஞானப் பிரிவிலும், உயிரியல் விஞ்ஞானப் பிரிவிலும் பெற்ற சிறந்த பெறுபேறுகள் மாத்திரமே நாட்டிற்கு பிரியோசனமானதாய் உங்களுக்குத் தெரிகின்றது என்றால் பின்னர் ஏன் பாடசாலைகளிலும் பல்கலைக்கழகங்களிலும் மற்றைய துறைகளை இன்னும் வைத்து, வளர்த்து அந்த பீடங்களுக்கும் அந்த இலவசக் கல்விக்குமான உங்கள் வரிப்பணத்தை வீணே செலவு செய்கின்றீர்கள்?</div><div><br></div><div>3. மாணவர்களின் வெளியான பெறுபேறுகளின் பக்கங்களில் யார் என்ன துறைக்குத் தெரிவு என்று எங்காவது குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளதா? வெறுமனே ஒரு பெரும் பொய்யைத்தானே முரசடித்துச் சொல்லுகிறீர்கள்! ஒவ்வொரு பல்கலைக்கழக துறைக்குமான வெட்டுப்புள்ளி இன்னும் வெளியாகாத நிலையில் போன வருடங்களில் வந்த பெறுபேறுகளின் விளைவுகளை அடிப்படையாக வைத்தே சொல்லுகின்றீர்கள் தவிர, அந்த மாணவர்கள் இனிமேல்தான் பல்கலைக்கழக மானியங்கள் ஆணைக்குழுவிடம் தாங்கள் பெற்றுக்கொண்ட பெறுபேறுகளின் அடிப்படையில் விண்ணப்பம் அனுப்பி, அதில் நூற்றுக்கும் மேலான துறைகளை ஒவ்வொரு பல்கலைக்கழகத்தினிடமும் கேட்கவேண்டும் என்று அறிவீர்களா? நீங்கள் கொண்டாடிப் பேசும் துறைகளுக்கு அந்த மாணவன்/மாணவி பல்கலைக்கழக மானியங்கள் ஆணைக்குழுவுக்கு அனுப்பும் விண்ணப்பப் படிவத்தில் விண்ணப்பிக்கவில்லையாயின் அவர்கள் அந்த துறைக்கு செல்லமாட்டார்கள் என்று அறிவீர்களா? </div><div><br></div><div>4. சிறந்த சித்தியோடு தேசிய மற்றும் மாவட்ட மட்டத்தில் முன்னிலைகளைப் பெற்றுக்கொண்ட எல்லா மாணவர்களுமே நீங்கள் கொண்டாடும் துறைகளுக்குத்தான் செல்ல விரும்புகின்றார்கள் என்பது உங்களுக்கு நிச்சயமா? அவர்களின் உயர்தரப் பரீட்சை முடிவுகளையும் அவர்களின் rank ஐயும் வைத்து அவர்களின் எதிர்காலத்தை நீங்கள் தெரிவுசெய்துகொடுக்கின்றீர்களா? இது நீங்கள் அவர்கள் மேல் போடும் ஒரு தீர்மான சுமை அல்லவா? உதாரணமாக, பௌதிக விஞ்ஞான துறையில் சிறப்பான முதல் நிலைகளைப் பெற்ற மாணவர்கள் எல்லாருமே பொறியியல் துறைக்குத்தான் செல்லவேண்டும் என்று எங்காவது நிபந்தனை உண்டா? அவர்களில் சிலர் பல்கலைக்கழகம் சென்று பௌதிகவியல், கணிதம், புள்ளிவிபரவியல் போன்ற இன்னும் அனேக துறைகளைக் கற்று நாளை நம் சமுதாயத்தில் ஒரு பௌதிகவியல் பேராசிரியராகவோ, விஞ்ஞானியாகவோ ஆக முடியாதா? உயர்தரப் பரீட்சையில் மாவட்டத்தில் முதலிடம் பெற்ற பேராசிரியர்களும், SLAS அதிகாரிகளும் இன்னும் அனேக துறையில் நமக்கு வேண்டாமா? </div><div><br></div><div>5. விஞ்ஞானத் துறைகளில் தேசிய மட்டங்களில் மிகச் சிறந்த நிலைகளைப் முன்னைய வருடங்களில் பெற்றுக்கொண்ட சில மாணவர்கள் மருத்துவம், பொறியியல் தவிர்ந்து வேறு துறைகளைத் தெரிவு செய்து கற்றது கேள்விப்பட்டிருக்கின்றீர்களா? </div><div><br></div><div>6. எனது மனதில் எழும் ஒரு மிகப் பெரிய அவதான கேள்வி. ஒரு இரசாயனவியல் பேராசிரியராக வரவேண்டும் என்ற இலட்சியத்தோடு இருக்கும் ஒரு மாணவி/மாணவன் உயர்தரப் பரீட்சையில் 3A சித்தி பெற்று, மாவட்ட மட்டத்தில் முதலாவதாக வருவது அந்த மாணவரின் குற்றமா? இதற்காக அவர் பரீட்சையின்போது அளந்து பார்த்து "நமக்கு எந்த அளவு சரியாக இருக்கும்?" என்று நினைத்தா விடைகளை அளிப்பது? ஆகையால், பரீட்சை முடிவுகள் வந்தவுடன் பதறியடித்து "இதோ மருத்துவபீடம் செல்கிறான், பொறியியல் பீடம் செல்கிறாள்" என முரசொலிப்பது அந்த மாணவனை/மாணவியை எவ்வளவு ஒரு அழுத்தத்துக்குள்ளாக கொண்டு செல்லும் என்றும், அவர்களுடைய இலட்சியத்தில் இருந்து அவர்களை அது எவ்வளவு தூரப்படுத்தும் என்றும் அறிவோமா?</div><div><br></div><div>ஆகையால், என்னைப் பொறுத்தவரையில், உயர்தரப் பரீட்சை முடிவுகளை, மாணவர்கள் தங்கள் பாடசாலைக் கல்வியில் பெற்றுக்கொள்ளும் மிக உயர்வான பெறுபேறாக கொண்டாடவேண்டுமே தவிர அதை அவர்களுடைய எதிர்காலத்தின் நமது தீர்மானமாக நாம் வைக்கக்கூடாது. நாம் எல்லோரும் நிச்சயமாகவே நமது பாடசாலைகளின் பெறுபேறுகளை கொண்டாடி மாணவர்களையும் அவர்கள் பெற்றோரையும் ஆசிரியர்களையும் மெச்சிக்கொள்ளவேண்டும். அவர்களின் சிறந்த பெறுபேறுகளையும் அவர்களின் மாவட்ட, தேசிய நிலைகளையும் சொல்லி,</div><div>வர்த்தகம் (Commerce)</div><div>பௌதிக விஞ்ஞானம் (Physical Science)</div><div>கலை (Arts)</div><div>உயிரியல் விஞ்ஞானம் (Bio Science)</div><div>தொழினுட்பம் (Technology)</div><div>என்ற பிரிவுகளில் இத்தனை பேர் இத்தனை நல்ல பெறுபேறுகள் பெற்றார்கள் என்று பாராட்டி மகிழவேண்டுமே தவிர,</div><div>"இத்தனை மருத்துவம்,</div><div>இத்தனை பொறியியல்" என்று பொய் உரைக்கக் கூடாது.</div><div><br></div><div>பெறுபேறுகளைப் பெற்ற மாணவர்கள், முதலாவதாக, தாங்கள் பாடசாலைக் கல்வியில் பெற்றுக்கொண்ட மிக உயர்ந்த இந்த அடைவைக் கொண்டாடட்டும். அதன் பின்னர், தங்கள் இலட்சியங்களையும் விருப்பங்களையும் மனதில் வைத்து அதற்கேற்ப தங்கள் துறைத் தெரிவுகளை வரிசைப்படுத்தி தங்களது பல்கலைக்கழக விண்ணப்பங்களை கவனமாக அனுப்பட்டும். அவற்றின் பதில்கள் வந்தவுடன், நாம் எல்லோரும் மீண்டும் கூடி வந்து, இந்த இந்தப் பாடசாலையில் இருந்து இந்த இந்தத் துறைக்கு நமது சமூகத்தின் பிள்ளைகள் தெரிவுசெய்யப்பட்டு உயர் கல்விக்காக செல்லுகின்றார்கள் என்று புளகாங்கிதம் அடைவோம்.</div><div><br></div><div>வாழ்க கல்வி. </div><div>வாழ்க நமது முன்னேற விரும்பும் சமுதாயம். </div><div><br></div><div>நன்றி.</div></div><div><br></div><div>- எபனேசர் பிறேமன் வீரசிங்கம்</div>Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-25151353585407339802023-02-17T18:34:00.001+05:302023-02-17T18:34:25.548+05:30Watched the Last Show of "Ponniyin Selvan" with Our Elder Generation.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrVi3Sfs7ekCyvr-ki5zbGDxIQPl2TdEj3OXsTJFLQw4HFFNEkxlbIUJBneI5httoyPTuHSSlU1ht7oDhIb-ZFPiUXAY56Oc6ceikWPLmdlnGlLApMmNruDLtcTF0edtDf2OM5OYqiWkmb90xSbJFuE9NelLRBV1n1CUrcg2twPydY3ywrOd15BZY/s1600/Ponniyin-Selvan_Panel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1600" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrVi3Sfs7ekCyvr-ki5zbGDxIQPl2TdEj3OXsTJFLQw4HFFNEkxlbIUJBneI5httoyPTuHSSlU1ht7oDhIb-ZFPiUXAY56Oc6ceikWPLmdlnGlLApMmNruDLtcTF0edtDf2OM5OYqiWkmb90xSbJFuE9NelLRBV1n1CUrcg2twPydY3ywrOd15BZY/s320/Ponniyin-Selvan_Panel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span> </span>My generation of youngsters in our family wanted to treat the elder ones with a movie - a modern cinematic experience for some who had stopped going to the cinema after Prakash Rao's</span><span> </span><i>Vasantha Maligai</i><span> in the 1970s</span><span>. They would experience a full AC theatre with an extended screen, Dolby digital surrounding sound, comfy seats and one of the latest Kollywood movies,</span><span> </span><i>Ponniyin Selvan, </i><span>by the versatile and award-winning film director Mani Ratnam, </span>on the 24th of October 2022 at Shanthi Theatre, Batticaloa. This night's 10:30 show was the last time this movie was being screened. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>All uncles, aunts, periyappas, chiththappas, chinnammas, periyammas, mamas and mamis, everyone was invited and told that we would treat them with a movie. Indeed, teenagers and children had their own claim of free entry included in this initiative. And yes! After days of convincing and assured transport arrangements for the late-night return to their homes (literally midnight), a decent list of film fans was prepared. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>The diplomacy we used to make many of them nod their heads after so many refusals was the trick of wisely playing the card of "do you remember Kalki's story, <i>Ponniyin Selvan</i>? It's in the theatres as a film! Fancy watching it?" Bright smiles suddenly rose on the faces of some of them. They were probably excited about two things - first, they would go to the theatre after decades, and second, they would meet some of their favourite Kalki characters and landscapes that they had only read and imagined with awe in their younger days. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Despite the thrill that arose, some of them even felt awkward coming to the theatre. Was it because going to the theatres in their younger days was a taboo? Or was it that the only people they remembered going to theatres in their days were the loud whistling and hooting young boys who go wild and uncontrollable in the theatres either at the entry of their hero on screen or while the hero gets bashed up by the villain just before the climax? I couldn't guess that. But they indeed felt out of their way to go to the theatre. We had to again convince them by making them aware that some of their friends with the same thoughts were making it to watch this film which carries this epic story they had always admired.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Seeing our elder ones excited about coming to the theatre for a late-night show was pleasant. Many preferred to be casually dressed, while some came dressed in their homely attires. Some of them were surprised and thrilled to meet their friends who had also made it to this show with their children. Even as we waited in the queue outside the theatre, there was a friendly exchange of their 'gone are the days' memories of borrowing Kalki's <i>Ponniyin Selvan </i>from the public library. Some even mentioned that they had been expecting this adaptation from the veteran actor Sivaji Ganesan's era. We could notice the thrill on their faces. Sadly, they had to bear the hard path of standing in a pressing and forcing queue that wanted to anyhow make it inside the theatre before the sunset of this movie in the theatres. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> I was personally worried! I was more worried about the magnanimity of the modern screenplay, the high definition of the visuals and the bombing of the mega sound effects. Knowing very well the severe exposure of war and calamity that the film-maker's cameras had witnessed and the clarity of work that had gone behind Rahman's musicians and the foley artists, I somewhat worried that some of these Uncles and Aunts may not be ready for the shocks. "This is going to be too much for them," I thought. They had been enjoying cinema only with the mono theatre speakers that somehow exposed M S Viswanathan's hard work on the multi-layers of his music in the earlier decades. Now it will be a sound calamity right before them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span> </span>Moreover, the clarity of exposure to the latest visual effects was my next worry. They had only seen fights being enacted. When fight scenes were projected in their days, they knew that there was acting. Gone are the days when harm, murder, death and sexual encounters were left for the viewer's imagination and not explicitly on the screen. These are the same people with whom we always watch movies at home with the remote's 'forward' or 'skip' buttons ready in our hands! And here we were, climbing the stairs to the theatre's balcony. I, for a moment, looked at them like cattle taken to the cinema gallows. This is the transformation of the film-making industry and the cinematic experience of our times. </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span> All were well settled and thrilled in their reserved seats. I noticed them complaining about the freezing airconditioning, and their blankets and shawls came out for their duties from their bags that had coins, water bottles, Vicks balms and paracetamol tablets. The theatre lights began their slow fade away. The movie began with its grandeur, introducing the ones who had invested their money and talents in the big-scale movie. Dr Kamal Hassan's voiceover, narrating the movie's introduction, gave the much-needed momentum. They were all absorbed into the plot already. I just turned to my left and right, front and behind, and watched them with anxiety. Maybe they thought the entire movie would be a mellow narration of a beautiful epic historical adventure. And then...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span> </span>There was that silent fog... That lethargic cloud of suspense, I want to call it... Slowly moving across the screen, which I waited for... And out of that fog came </span></span><span style="text-align: left;">the Crown Prince of the Chola Empire, </span><span style="text-align: left;">Aditha Karikalan, with an</span> enraged face and a charging hard-metal sword. Instead of watching the grandeur of the cinematic work before me, I watched the plight of every one of our Uncle and Aunt who was in a state of shock, just throwing themselves into the world of war, calamity and banging of hard metals, animals, human flesh and blood. The digital surrounding sound added to their SOS situation. And then, slowly, they were immersed into a world they had never expected. The song, "Ponni Nadhi Paarkkanume..." came in as the comforter and trendsetter, putting them into a modern track of movie watching on which their railway coaches of senses enjoyed every bit of shock and surprise in the movie. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>While they enjoyed the screenplay, the songs added to the cinematic experience. I noticed that most of my aunts were thrilled at the display of colours at the various points of the movie. Uncles had stern faces throughout. Some were disappointed by the absence of the much-expected song "Yaarendru sol." The frolic and fuss of Kundavai, the Princess of the Chola Empire, with her maids at the river bank would have added to the majestic storyline of the oriental eyes and ears. As the Tamil cinema actress with the longest shelf life in the industry, Trisha had done what was expected of her in the movie. But I am assured there would have been a solid reason for the versatile director to keep the song away, much to the disappointment of even many youngsters who looked forward to the song's visuals right from the audio-launch days of the movie. However, I felt the director was forced to release it later, maybe for my guess, after the Vikkals of Vikkram youtube channel took a comic take on the song. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Adding to this, the scenes believed to be Lanka brought a bit of hullabaloo within the silent theatre. Not knowing the scenes were shot in Thailand, the older ones made a fuss about the whereabouts of these landscapes in Sri Lanka. <i>"Ithu enna ilangaiyaa? Ithu enga irukku inja? Intha malai ellaam ilangaila irukkaa? Thondaimaanaaru enga?" </i>Later, I realised that some of them had done some preparational studies before the movie, and they had come expecting to see Sri Lanka in it! Sadly, the director had gone searching for Lanka in another land. In the disappointment of this, some of them totally forgot to appreciate Poonguzhali and Vanthiyathevan on the boat. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> Interestingly, as the movie was nearing the end, I was lost in enjoying the storyline of the movie, all the way into the depths of the Indian ocean's waters, the movie announced its end while providing a glimpse of the next episode to be released soon. Sadly, as the credits began and when the lights came on, I realised almost all of them were fast asleep! We had to put them up one by one. In straightforward terms, it was "too much" for them! The severity of the modern cinematic work that has found its specialities and expertise in every little aspect has become a theatrical experience that the older generation cannot adhere to or savour their cinematic flavours. In the end, they had their own opinions about the adaptation itself. </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span> However, Mani Ratnam's "Ponniyin Selvan" brought back the grandeur of Kalki's work. It has also influenced the younger generation to acknowledge and feel the power of literature, especially in Tamil, to create a world and history of its own. It was the last show, and we made it with those who needed this treat. Thanks to my cousins.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Ponni Nadhi Parkkanume" song</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/14nAMb8bYSk" width="320" youtube-src-id="14nAMb8bYSk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Yaarnedru Sol" song</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6rVNSAFcC6E" width="320" youtube-src-id="6rVNSAFcC6E"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A few words from</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kundavai (Trisha Krishnan) and Poonguzhali (Aishwarya Lekshmi)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">about their part in the movie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Qdb2t0pSVs" width="320" youtube-src-id="4Qdb2t0pSVs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ponni Nadhi Song.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A R Rahman, with his singers,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Live in Houston Concert.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbYG8T80SOk" width="320" youtube-src-id="wbYG8T80SOk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Behind the Sets of the Film</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SlIeS3O6c4A" width="320" youtube-src-id="SlIeS3O6c4A"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><br /></div>Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-11765937763371611602021-04-29T18:55:00.008+05:302023-01-27T00:09:54.714+05:30My Gateway To Paradise<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">It was the 26th of February 2021. Appa had passed away three months ago –on 27th November 2020 and only now was I returning home. I was returning to a ‘Sri Lanka’, a ‘Batticaloa’, a ‘Home’ where Appa was no more. My motherland was fatherless to me.</span></div></div></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After a long and expensive flight of ten and a half
hours, taking off from Heathrow, London, the captain finally announced his
landing preparations, confirming that we would soon reach Katunayake, Colombo. The
time was just beyond Lankan noon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The window blinds pulled down by the cabin crew last
night, shortly after the dinner, had to be lifted now. Those blinds had
remained an obstacle to my view from the window seat throughout this long
flight. I did not dare to lift it open, flush the Middle-Eastern and
South-Asian dry daylight into the cabin of masked passengers and disturb their
peace-seeking slumber in the sky. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All of the passengers on board with me probably had
personal and emotional reasons to fly during this pandemic. Most likely, all of
them had their own urgent destinations to reach. A long flight of these many
risky hours would have been their last resort to arrive home soon; to wave a life goodbye to someone whom they love so dearly, to take care of someone who
was waiting for their compassion, to be at someone’s wedding, to cherish love
with their spouse, to celebrate the happy arrival of a newborn baby or to mourn
the sad demise of a loved one with their families. Moreover, some of them would
have had the worst financial and mental situations, and reaching home on the
next possible flight to their motherland was their only way of surviving this
global crisis. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The much-cherished and longed-for ‘Ceylon Tea,’ poured
from the finest teapots in style, was not served on this flight. The magical paradise
words of “cup of tea, sir?” from the peacock-feathered sarees with coral red
Sri Lankan smiles were absent. All the beauty and grandeur were marred by the
Personal Protective Equipment. However, the meals served on time were
promisingly Sri Lankan to the eyes and refreshingly homely to the tastebuds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I looked through the window with a deep breath, and the
dry clouds we were descending through kept in suspense the otherwise
magnificent view of the now pandemic-stricken island. My heart began to become
weak and sunken, realising that I see this sweet home of mine, up from the sky,
in the absence of my father. My motherland was, indeed, fatherless to me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With the gradual loss of altitude of the descending
aircraft, my body and mind began to lose their confidence too. I may have to
face the empty destinations of my home, which were always filled with the love
and cheer my father brought into my life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I leaned towards the window and observed the wide-open
space between the land and the sky from my window seat. More than the ground,
my heart’s yearning was towards the sky. I looked beyond what I could see in
faith. My lips opened, and with tears in my eyes, I silently cried out
those words I wanted to over the last few months of grief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that my
father’s presence is no more within this human space between the land and the
sky. <i>Appa’s</i> body is buried in this ground, his soul will be rejoicing in
heaven, and his spirit is with all those who cherish his life with thanksgiving
and have lovingly imbibed his way of thinking. He is no more in this atmosphere
of human life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the flight’s descent continued, my eyes noticed the
lush green that slowly began to appear from the landing view, spread like a
green carpet over the land’s brown soil. The empty sand beaches had no usual
tourist festivities, and only the silent waves that reached the destined shores
made a move. The welcome was unusually muted all the way from the Laccadive Sea’s
blue waters to the Serendib land’s green vegetation, and the whole landscape
was pregnant only with uncertainties, disrupted routines, emptiness and
anxieties. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Suiting this landing scene’s unusual setting, there
was a turn of events at the final approach. The aircraft’s fully deployed flaps
suddenly retreated to a moderate position, and the almost relaxing jet engines
prepared for the reverse thrust on touchdown began to roar extensively. I
witnessed the aircraft taking off again. It was an aborted landing, and it took
another squared ‘go around’ over the coastal sands for the pilots to align
themselves with the runway for another landing approach. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As a regular visitor of video channels of plane
spotters on the internet, my head, still in its aeronautical infancy, began to
move like a pendulum, trying to guess what would have gone wrong. My spectrum
of doubts went to extremes until the plane landed safely. My words of prayer
were not clichés during this ‘go around’ but innocent calls of seeking divine
help and refuge for a safe landing. Never have I ever had such a delayed
welcome before. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Goodbyes That
Last For A Lifetime…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>I
was standing between the landscapes of green pastures and flowing streams of
water, of ‘physical’ and ‘spiritual.’ There was a long and prolonging dwarfed
wall, stretching left and right from this never-ending path where I stood. The
brick wall stretched all the way to the east and west horizons. A half-opened
iron-fenced gate decorated with creepers of floral fragrance was the only
sign of entry for those destined to walk through it to the other side. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Arched above by blooming and overflowing red roses and
jasmines, the blood and the spirit, the privilege of a last glimpse at life was
given to those who care to turn behind and close this little gate after them.
Whenever someone cares to do so, the metal gate’s slow movement makes an
announcement with high-pitched mourning. It is the refusal of the gate’s rusted
pivot hinges. These farewell sounds echo in both the landscapes, and the souls
of eternity are awakened with the joy of a new arrival while the mortal beings
of life struggle to wave goodbye. This mournful announcement of departure from
human life to eternity ends with a bit of trebled clangour when the gate’s metal
latch, dropped by the passing souls, settles into its counterpart, loosely locking
the gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If not for this gentle courtesy of closing a gate
behind oneself after walking through, these beautiful souls would never turn
back to see what they have left behind. Their way forward looks prettier and more peaceful, and the path that leads to the glorious destination is more welcoming
and attractive than what they would have ever seen, heard and felt in this
world</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Like a swan landing on the lake’s surface to glide
sedately, the plane swiftly landed on the runway, on Sri Lankan ground. As it
began taxiing to the allotted parking space, I began to witness what the
pandemic had done to my country. I had never seen this aerospace hub to be so
barren. Adding to the pensive mood that the view offered, there was an unknown
and unidentified pain creeping into my chest about this my arrival. The pain
began to slowly caress me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I felt the aircraft’s movement finally stopping in
that dry afternoon open space and heard the jet engines lose power after eleven
hours. And then, slowly, the clicks of the unlocking seatbelts took over the
cabin. People were in a hurry, even in that decompressed airport. Indeed, no
relatives will be waiting to receive, no friends to greet, and not even the
taxi drivers of hotels waiting for the names on their placards to be claimed at
the International Arrivals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I somewhat knew that we would have only the Immigration
Officers who look over their specs’ frames to identify our faces, the
Duty-Free’s ambushed sellers who surprise-attack with promotional offers, the
porters who convince us that we are not-fit-enough to pull our own items of
luggage, and then the Customs Officers who may be willing to conduct a luggage
raid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Just a few steps ahead, there would be an unconscious
disappointment awaiting us all as we smile inside our face masks and exit
through those swinging exit doors. We would not have smiling and familiar
faces who would be thrilled by our arrival. Instead, there would be military
officials to whom we will surrender, and they will receive us and ensure that
we are not a threat to national health. They will announce our fate for the
next fourteen days of compulsory quarantine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But I sat frozen in my seat for a while, fearing my
flow of emotions when I stepped foot on Sri Lankan ground. I took my own
time to ease myself. I very well knew, this time, the entire process of arrival
was going to be extraordinarily strange and saddening to me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This was the same airport where, in its
‘Departures,’ I had hugged my father tight for the last time and waved goodbye
to him in September 2019. I felt I couldn’t keep my last assurance to him as
his only child. Before I left for my doctoral studies, I assured him that I
would rush to be with him anytime he wanted me to. I told him, “it is only a
matter of eleven hours of flying, <i>Appa!</i> I’ll be right near you when you
need me.” But, sadly, I did not have the slightest idea on that day that the
global scenario in the technologically much-awaited 2020 would make me wait for
months to organise a trip back home and that London to Batticaloa would become
a flight, a transit, a journey of sixteen days! Indeed, I did not know it
was my last few moments with my beloved father. Some of the goodbyes, we never
know, are the last ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover, <i>Appa</i> was always there at the Arrivals
to receive me in yesteryears; every time I would return home on vacation as
an undergraduate and postgraduate from Bangalore for nearly five years. He
would wait for me there with patience, staring at those swinging exit doors as
passengers kept arriving, and finally, when I made it through the same doors,
he would receive me with an abundance of smiles and with assuring fatherly
love. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sometime during the first week of December, almost a
week after my father’s death, the ears of my heart kept a long wait to hear the
sounds of that ‘half-opened iron-fenced gate. I wanted to listen to the
clangouring of that metal latch settling into its counterpart. I would feel
relieved that <i>Appa</i> has reached the other side, I thought.
Something within me questioned the absent farewell that I could not bid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was an
emptiness within me, creating a vacant space of mystery, with the lack of the
physical waving of that last goodbye I could not afford. I needed the assurance
of meeting again, face to face in eternity, to be said in human words within
our father-son relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though
the tight hug and <i>Appa’s </i>blessings at this airport were literally my
physically-present farewell, my absence at his funeral, my inability to be
there to see him leave our home for the last time, my lack of first-hand
knowledge that his body lies in the grave, tormented me. It always troubled me.
The vacancy of my personal witness of his physical departure made me run behind
him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was seated with emptiness and incredibly
unbelievable senses while my family and friends in Batticaloa were
returning to our home from the graveyard after carefully and dutifully burying
my Appa’s body at the Alaiyadicholai cemetery. I had just watched the burial
via the live video together with many other relatives and friends who couldn’t
make it to the funeral. Their presence in the Zoom room with me made me feel
better and consoled; I did not watch it alone. I remembered the entire way that
Appa’s body had travelled for the last time that morning, all the way from my
home in Kallady to Alayadicholai. I felt the sudden emptiness. My cousin Beulah
and her husband Padman, with whom I stayed during these days, were there with
me during the entire funeral service. Batticaloa’s late morning was London’s
early hours, and all of my early morning memories of the funeral looked like a dream watched on screen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I felt the sun rising in the east and knew that this
day’s sun had witnessed what I couldn’t. This sun that was over Batticaloa
hours before had seen the burial of my father that I couldn’t, and it conveyed
to me the beginning of a new phase of my life, a life without my dearest
father. The sunlight, on that sorrowful morning, was a messenger of comfort.
Days will follow and continue to follow without Appa, I thought for a while.
Tears continued to flow as I realised that my Appa’s body could not be seen
hereafter. My baby niece Hannah was in my hands, smiling at me after hours of
silence. I saw hope in her eyes. I saw innocent dependence on her face. I
hugged her and cried. There was nothing else I could do while my family and
friends returned home, sprinkling water thrice on themselves. My heart, soul
and body were searching for answers. The question of “why?” kept pinching me
hard and sometimes pierced me. Here was a ‘one-and-only-child’ in me who always
wanted to be near his Father and Mother, now lying in desperation so far from
home and trying to be somewhere around where his father breathed his last
breath. Nothing could comfort me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not a week had finished after Appa’s demise, and while I
was in deep slumber, I heard that gate’s “little treble clangour.” Appa, before
setting forth in his journey to heaven, had turned dutifully to close that gate
behind him, and the arch full of flowers above him would have reminded him of
me. While he was about to close the gate, he would have seen me still searching
for him. He came back to wave goodbye. Appa was there in my home in Kallady,
and it felt like it was the day of his funeral. He called me “Thambi” and took
me aside to his room. I followed him carefully. On entering the room, he turned
to me. His eyes were blank and empty, and I could see only a dimmed light
coming from them. His eyes looked like the silent sapphire stones in yellow.
And he said, “Kunju (dear), this will be our last meeting.” My heart of dreams
and slumber felt the pain. I hugged Appa tight and cried bitterly. I said,
hugging him, “I will meet you face to face in eternity, Appa…” From that day
on, my mind felt rested and comforted. Appa bid me a farewell, a farewell that
I had never thought of.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gateway to
Paradise…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I received an email in the third week of February from the Sri
Lankan High Commission in London, a long-awaited response to my registration
for repatriation’ five months before, in September 2020, right at the beginning
of the peak of this “Corona Pandemic.” It had conveyed to me the good news that
the ‘COVID-19 Task Force in Sri Lanka’ had granted approval for me to travel
back home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was also mentioned that the same approval had been
conveyed to the airlines that operated three flights a week, leaving London
Heathrow at 9:30 p.m. Each flight arriving in Sri Lanka was allowed to bring a
maximum of 75 passengers during this pandemic. I was asked to carry a ‘Negative
COVID-19 test result, where the test could either be a Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) Test within 96 hours before departure or a Rapid Antigen Test
done within 48 hours before departing. It was reinstated that no passenger would
be allowed to board the flight without a negative COVID-19 test result, and I
was asked to carry the report throughout my journey. Even those with the COVID-19 vaccine needed to comply with this requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All passengers, the email further stated, will be
subject to a mandatory PCR test at the airport after arriving in Sri Lanka.
Suppose the person is tested negative for COVID-19, then the passenger
has to stay at a paid quarantine centre, recommended by the Sri Lanka Army
during the quarantine period – 14 days from check-in at the hotel. The
requirement to undertake paid quarantine was a condition of the approval of my
travel to Sri Lanka, and quarantining at private residences of the passengers
was not allowed. I understood that I may have to undergo the second PCR test
between the 10th and 12th days of this quarantine. If I am tested positive for
COVID-19 at this second test, I will be admitted to a government hospital in
consultation with the regional epidemiologists. Moreover, before leaving the
quarantine centre, the area Medical Officer of Health would recommend me for
home quarantine for another 14 days. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I remember that I was almost hopeless that morning and
had worried about how long this wait will go on. I was almost at breaking point, not
knowing when the temporary suspension on arrivals from the United Kingdom would
be lifted in Sri Lanka. This temporary suspension was due to the variants of
the virus that have started surfacing in the UK. I couldn’t handle the
disappointments, one after the other. But noticing how the variants
changed the dynamics of English life, I had even feared whether I would ever
get to return home. My heart even bothered to remind me of all the poems I had
read of soldiers who return home on retirement after decades of serving in the army
and finding no one but bushes and creepers alone all around the empty and
vacant houses. The impact was such! I have had dreams of all bridges on my way
home being broken. During this tormenting season, I had woken up a few times,
fearing that I would never see my homeland again. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Until we are trapped in a situational cell, we never
realise how much we long to be with those we love. We never begin to feel those
iron bars blocking us. As long as we are assured of our presence for the ones we
love when they need us, even the emptiest cages feel luxurious. But there are
moments when we wake up, disturbed by dreams of isolated islands, and our hearts
tremble at this. When we scream in our dreams, fearing we will never get to see
our loved ones again, our emotional fists begin to smash the fear walls; our
heads bang themselves unknowingly; we start with muted cries with wide
stretched lips, and saliva overflows from the edges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Finally, there was news that the suspension on arrivals from the UK was lifted immediately, and I received this
email the next day. It took me only half an hour to complete the reservation process and confirm my travel date. Well, this was something
that I urgently waited and earnestly prayed for during the last few months. As
someone who had gone through the sour digestion of bad news over the entire
year of 2020, I wondered whether this just-opened gate would close next week.
The adrenaline flush my fingers felt while searching for the next flight to Sri Lanka made me realise the unseen part of my anxiety
iceberg. It was not just a flight to Sri Lanka – it was my narrow gateway to
paradise; the ladder to the Trojan horse; the little hole on the Berlin Wall;
Andy’s small hammer in the Shawshank prison cell. I had to make use of it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As I began guessing the number of wealthy Sri Lankans
who lived in the UK, the limitation of 75 passengers per flight during this
pandemic worked as a siren, a flashing red light in my mind. It was not merely
a reservation for travelling; it was a commitment to survive. It was a
conscious decision to risk my life after many months of waiting to get
home. It was my only way to grieve the demise of my father with my <i>Amma.</i>
The flight was the only path to take me home to do my best as my
parents’ only child at this time of loss. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A flight on 26<sup>th</sup> February 2021 with Sri
Lankan Airlines, a fourteen-day quarantine at Hotel Topaz in Kandy, and a few hours' drive from Kandy to Batticaloa brought me to the doorstep where I
saw my <i>Amma </i>waiting to end her long wait. Amma and I, we hugged each
other tight and cried out our hearts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 35.45pt;">***</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-53299812549219609052020-07-09T23:10:00.003+05:302022-12-23T20:31:18.570+05:30"The Glory of God"<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KYx8AJ5PIq58C67lbVcpn4kJQJm_-B8juiyvTLDwgWuKNv8D99rH6AM6iFkFZ5CPejxFHNpG_P6jQSYuEikd7r4iSxEbGJS-KOPOGmhvA4B-lXRAIkQc36aHNcOvEYNj5p8dSoZtzLdMnxL4w2QukcLz3MH-Ej3hKtdE9qgsHQB_BOsoJabLfmQ/s4288/CSC_0547.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4288" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KYx8AJ5PIq58C67lbVcpn4kJQJm_-B8juiyvTLDwgWuKNv8D99rH6AM6iFkFZ5CPejxFHNpG_P6jQSYuEikd7r4iSxEbGJS-KOPOGmhvA4B-lXRAIkQc36aHNcOvEYNj5p8dSoZtzLdMnxL4w2QukcLz3MH-Ej3hKtdE9qgsHQB_BOsoJabLfmQ/s320/CSC_0547.JPG" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 20pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 20pt;">The Glory
of God</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Where can we see
the Glory of God?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where can we find it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we find it in the deepest sea?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or do we find it in the wide open sky?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we find it in the distance between east and west?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or do we find it in the boundaries of the earth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we find it in the babbling of a baby?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or do find it in the innocent smile of a child?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we find it in the pride of a youth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or do we find it in the wisdom of an old?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we find it when we rejoice over victory?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or do we find it when He comforts us in failures?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can we find it in the greatness of His majesty?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or do we find it in the sacrifice He made on the cross?<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-24584973381729315972020-05-15T23:07:00.005+05:302020-05-16T02:43:04.167+05:30A Walk Along Belfast Bay Esplanade<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOPUgKwS545dq5USNo4t78qWzoVeFCIAaLOB1undI7LG9roCdtcI761n9riS9eVFY-AM0ZYQhcopCjQ4RjyKb1sKmYoAtqkbwOw1pkmG_wldpFmxnrOUUyLwZSrDNDCjFswasJ8refDzQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOPUgKwS545dq5USNo4t78qWzoVeFCIAaLOB1undI7LG9roCdtcI761n9riS9eVFY-AM0ZYQhcopCjQ4RjyKb1sKmYoAtqkbwOw1pkmG_wldpFmxnrOUUyLwZSrDNDCjFswasJ8refDzQ/w200-h150/IMG_20200515_140727.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyziTObjOsqi1Ky8CNWWVLJ0HUzGiSVkvrZYA4aP0HJ5nl2Rk7VLX3JdGPpUSoacVYJlSFn21SmgmjeLpmgbNnOx5tjRGaXm2r3HnzMKuH1epuZWsIdm4Q8703hvCe21LxShM-psz9tqw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="9856" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyziTObjOsqi1Ky8CNWWVLJ0HUzGiSVkvrZYA4aP0HJ5nl2Rk7VLX3JdGPpUSoacVYJlSFn21SmgmjeLpmgbNnOx5tjRGaXm2r3HnzMKuH1epuZWsIdm4Q8703hvCe21LxShM-psz9tqw/w640-h150/IMG_20200515_142551.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got a chance to have a thrilling walk along Belfast Bay with Siva. It would be an interesting walk if you could start on a late morning or an afternoon. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We began walking on this esplanade from Kinnegar Avenue. It was the time when the Corona Lockdown was a bit relaxed and few people were there, able to enjoy the much-wanted summer breeze.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21zrexTM2Ujfu9_OINGMs0A4auSLoyk7GIDeqOlJ158F9yvg4SdO3DfTHcWjhyxjK7dfnJjr4npgH5FFTYYCeX9dD2uCzYXOF9Qqqorq7LSWXXKjAUHxr2CZAAcWqzxpJSUKSnyvB9M0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21zrexTM2Ujfu9_OINGMs0A4auSLoyk7GIDeqOlJ158F9yvg4SdO3DfTHcWjhyxjK7dfnJjr4npgH5FFTYYCeX9dD2uCzYXOF9Qqqorq7LSWXXKjAUHxr2CZAAcWqzxpJSUKSnyvB9M0/s320/IMG_20200515_140238.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We began walking on the esplanade and Siva reminded ourselves of the social distancing that we were supposed to maintain while on the walk. <span><a name='more'></a></span>The walk began with the bay on our left and the blue iron grills on our right.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHktO8H2l5X4Ytsg7jdRnJcxhmTnOsCHC7mOJxShHpbP-w8RskOw2u18DQyKZoBdgdI_nTOQrjReh_3c1dTr3i8QvPqqHGskHaID0SM8pl0LywSVrO8msIsCsMCLSP1btGUEaSdJWcx5k/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHktO8H2l5X4Ytsg7jdRnJcxhmTnOsCHC7mOJxShHpbP-w8RskOw2u18DQyKZoBdgdI_nTOQrjReh_3c1dTr3i8QvPqqHGskHaID0SM8pl0LywSVrO8msIsCsMCLSP1btGUEaSdJWcx5k/s320/IMG_20200515_140321.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also noticed the Hollywood Railway Station that was on our right. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_XqcmNE12oJghjWN-zpBqG_AsjE0P3fp9LCvKFjg3JqjJjoF4RXbGFbUsA-FTrpwEIPbkyd7W3J1RZeszc8i-g_3eqY2VSjshVomlzws3k_RTxIxqoDpbWCO82cpOQovzKSEUv-ruLcg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_XqcmNE12oJghjWN-zpBqG_AsjE0P3fp9LCvKFjg3JqjJjoF4RXbGFbUsA-FTrpwEIPbkyd7W3J1RZeszc8i-g_3eqY2VSjshVomlzws3k_RTxIxqoDpbWCO82cpOQovzKSEUv-ruLcg/s320/IMG_20200515_140558.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I looked back, I was able to have a glimpse of the Stenaline Ship that was anchored at the Belfast Harbour. I reminded myself, probably, this is the bay through which the famous Titanic ship, after being built, would have first exited in search of the wide-open sea for its first sail. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As we continued the walk, we came across a section of the esplanade where on the left there was a display of seaweeds and green grass with summer blossoms towards our right. </div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhkr4xEJNLEc4vCQ0s-V_xgzaYpEt9ZHYkvuO1eMnj2i105KVJmkZFpwCRkw69wVW6LSMvt34b-LEJRXM20R_wVut31IQW0Mxoal52KkvMFpvWIkzRuTwJfzJn2W91df1vJ3gv8gTQcA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrhkr4xEJNLEc4vCQ0s-V_xgzaYpEt9ZHYkvuO1eMnj2i105KVJmkZFpwCRkw69wVW6LSMvt34b-LEJRXM20R_wVut31IQW0Mxoal52KkvMFpvWIkzRuTwJfzJn2W91df1vJ3gv8gTQcA/s320/IMG_20200515_140950.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking further, I noticed the beautiful open space we were entering into, and it was a panoramic display of what that place could offer. Seashore, green grass and emerging little paths into the esplanade. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4uc6B9VIKwNeW5OYNbTIfbinAuDdkAI7DNyiob0IqQZadEKiDsAt6wEOiCQKaR4dnBdQYxJwdjozx5vzzlQu0kdbHJtoqhUR-UH8LnmqoqnlfqUc-djL5xeKXCBiTnUqHqnh6nv2uNk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4uc6B9VIKwNeW5OYNbTIfbinAuDdkAI7DNyiob0IqQZadEKiDsAt6wEOiCQKaR4dnBdQYxJwdjozx5vzzlQu0kdbHJtoqhUR-UH8LnmqoqnlfqUc-djL5xeKXCBiTnUqHqnh6nv2uNk/s320/IMG_20200515_141207.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmDIdoZ91pC-uA3cYBVnjr5XjddMceeSLq-ex05r-HWGkNwF5H1z2T-o9DFN6rXyBJ1PtoBywLVGOsMafp2srkTL0OW6oMRcvmTZ-9ifbOP0hh9SGvHg5LD5eo94UA2FY1tBSVtoRkJVo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmDIdoZ91pC-uA3cYBVnjr5XjddMceeSLq-ex05r-HWGkNwF5H1z2T-o9DFN6rXyBJ1PtoBywLVGOsMafp2srkTL0OW6oMRcvmTZ-9ifbOP0hh9SGvHg5LD5eo94UA2FY1tBSVtoRkJVo/s320/IMG_20200515_141332.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh5XxQwkwUTJZez0sdd0yg-WWeNkFCb3bSuJZO6RY-E8j3Ong7Y484wFQasGjXFQ71-8-g35J84x9aOU576nx0YAN-c7h7CeX5fDWyNqUDoqwxVjSiROu8f9FjX02uoOmQOgMZ7uVfls/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh5XxQwkwUTJZez0sdd0yg-WWeNkFCb3bSuJZO6RY-E8j3Ong7Y484wFQasGjXFQ71-8-g35J84x9aOU576nx0YAN-c7h7CeX5fDWyNqUDoqwxVjSiROu8f9FjX02uoOmQOgMZ7uVfls/s320/IMG_20200515_141401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After passing a vast area of sand and seaweed, we came across a sharp bend that took us through a series of Tudor Style Houses that have a steeply pitched roof and the front-facing gables (the triangular portions of the roof), exteriors that are brick with decorative half-timbering that have a mock frame of thin boards with stucco or stone filling within them. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV3X-5Mj8iXFurb1M6VLvSQjdM7dH09adqG7N9jQJ38ztnqTfmJfwwwEdoRI3yKgS8BKS3Pcm0o3ROlBmu1OH1BGp6dURkG9fjLPXWXB5bp9w1X3ukNKTl3N_MqmvA2DYeIQ1-h1wIIM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV3X-5Mj8iXFurb1M6VLvSQjdM7dH09adqG7N9jQJ38ztnqTfmJfwwwEdoRI3yKgS8BKS3Pcm0o3ROlBmu1OH1BGp6dURkG9fjLPXWXB5bp9w1X3ukNKTl3N_MqmvA2DYeIQ1-h1wIIM/s320/IMG_20200515_141530.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sibZrsRyYP2qNIdUkTygxXw962k59QXsxm2nWfz3EqzMV9vK8rirdtFGTNT5-9tLE_PNBI5pOTL2vEwKG6Hlm3nePZ71l9nS0oBCh9K14BV7ePh9npn-_yBDn9PwSp-k4-qyt8ELJBk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sibZrsRyYP2qNIdUkTygxXw962k59QXsxm2nWfz3EqzMV9vK8rirdtFGTNT5-9tLE_PNBI5pOTL2vEwKG6Hlm3nePZ71l9nS0oBCh9K14BV7ePh9npn-_yBDn9PwSp-k4-qyt8ELJBk/s320/IMG_20200515_141621_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was also a children's park on the way. So, if you are trying out this walk, then you could assure your kids with a promising time of play at the park on the way.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxn3fpeo9_FJoobMm_bqEpmSehTXkySuXs_8Qm2NPps9Toqzx99n9NxWBX3iCtsASuZuVt4cesPhuJRp2TP7iUvpIdx7Wh2pQyHK3JWdFflsPXcgf77ix_lzzrp35T8plgXkgxFe6AJYQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxn3fpeo9_FJoobMm_bqEpmSehTXkySuXs_8Qm2NPps9Toqzx99n9NxWBX3iCtsASuZuVt4cesPhuJRp2TP7iUvpIdx7Wh2pQyHK3JWdFflsPXcgf77ix_lzzrp35T8plgXkgxFe6AJYQ/s320/IMG_20200515_141832.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You could also enjoy cycling on this esplanade while enjoying the sea breeze.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDku7PoJ6Bg3TSNeJOBYCRvr3RkkPvZpDxxbEr6D_vFi4nEKAq4ZMNN4gOiAdxsa6HI0RKfRqhd9ooxHqFdzeNlHyHCJajeh9XhB4QwjEWf5lPEdtUgAvSqypOiqTpTr3TqvXso97Ek3w/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDku7PoJ6Bg3TSNeJOBYCRvr3RkkPvZpDxxbEr6D_vFi4nEKAq4ZMNN4gOiAdxsa6HI0RKfRqhd9ooxHqFdzeNlHyHCJajeh9XhB4QwjEWf5lPEdtUgAvSqypOiqTpTr3TqvXso97Ek3w/s320/IMG_20200515_142050.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A little bit further, I was able to notice the Hollywood Sea Park carpeted with green grass and noticed a few youngsters playing solo football and rugby. There were benches here and there and ample spaces between little woodlands.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDpJZwuUTKnL-sqGer9srRR6SVxHF72sr7Vr0jUI0bBmqdAGV4fJv7bTLWIfpqojpGSPN6BSxJQu4Z0a8JUPfWsXAWprf3uhPl8ziKisALttaE4xSkm0oPwRQlpwou0bWCJ5Lrt1Xjwr4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDpJZwuUTKnL-sqGer9srRR6SVxHF72sr7Vr0jUI0bBmqdAGV4fJv7bTLWIfpqojpGSPN6BSxJQu4Z0a8JUPfWsXAWprf3uhPl8ziKisALttaE4xSkm0oPwRQlpwou0bWCJ5Lrt1Xjwr4/s320/IMG_20200515_142105.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Proceeding further, we came across the Sea park/front. There were children trying to fly their kites with a sufficient breeze. There were few also groynes on which people were walking until the edge in order to enjoy a better view of the shore while their puppies enjoyed swimming and splashing in the water.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSVcVBF9ZMMzlQRkYvtFsuPalZShlRM_NeoffvCqoArFSX66qs4uYDraLSi5GSxRH0jaGm234GqQwJcwZbfnX_Ej7cJ-Z2f_FH4h6uSYFjYiXPZpwRi0AJ-2rxgalDje2WEyW3hCcIIKw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSVcVBF9ZMMzlQRkYvtFsuPalZShlRM_NeoffvCqoArFSX66qs4uYDraLSi5GSxRH0jaGm234GqQwJcwZbfnX_Ej7cJ-Z2f_FH4h6uSYFjYiXPZpwRi0AJ-2rxgalDje2WEyW3hCcIIKw/s320/IMG_20200515_142137.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFcPUQsPuTuiJt3L7_7dmbCqtGLuyPhzDW-IzpZ_RPYHVmvgurb4FrveepqCAxTpG6AkFogKb8ZXsiTEE_U7gEMVRnbZzKHHyOKX6bZO2kEJODbZN0aNwwzOSFyE4SAsi3WYfuazvYdA/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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You could take some snacks with you, and I recommend binoculars.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSMBjjseKewv8yxoPwq2XXDKs3e8rF6IJMiKyrmie7soKNRRDLPzRFdOhNJyicKmgD4m6lA5ydt1Gao8z7U6Fa4q7b13C-C8EpFfpxQNZ8TJa4-ZLhgk5WWNWy64UDk5Li9lmh3iA2gM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2976" data-original-width="3968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSMBjjseKewv8yxoPwq2XXDKs3e8rF6IJMiKyrmie7soKNRRDLPzRFdOhNJyicKmgD4m6lA5ydt1Gao8z7U6Fa4q7b13C-C8EpFfpxQNZ8TJa4-ZLhgk5WWNWy64UDk5Li9lmh3iA2gM/s320/IMG_20200515_144733.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-40042782649610705352020-05-14T08:58:00.011+05:302023-02-03T21:31:12.986+05:30"Dr. Winston Subramaniam" | A Monologue by Ebenezer B. 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Somewhat lost in thoughts and concentrating on the struggling walk across the stage. But on reaching the centre of the stage, he suddenly becomes aware of the audience, stops humming, and slowly turns with an intelligent smile.)</i></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">"Me..? Winston Subramaniam.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">Hahahaa... ‘Doctor’ Winston Subramaniam.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Brought up at Trinity College; had a fantastic school life there. Then..., you know, I was pruned at Madras. Later, as usual, a PhD from Cambridge. In those days, it was part of our lifestyle; to go to Oxford or Cambridge for doctoral studies. Mmm... That's the summary of my early life and education.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Ahh! And, that beautiful and charming girl that I met in Cambridge, from the Thomas family. Memories of that lady from ‘God’s own country’. Malayali, she was... Cannot ignore that, right? She was a queen! Mmm...</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Later, I returned home, I mean, to my homeland, searching for the right place for me. Spent my whole youth yearning for that place.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">Things went wrong. I became abnormal... They say. Somebody admitted me to the National Mental Health and Research Centre. Haha... They did so much research on me. Agnosia, Amnesia, Dementia, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease; I fell into all categories. Haha... Poor fellows, they couldn’t figure it out. I spent nearly two decades in that place, being the object, subject, specimen and field of interest for all they did. You know what, they should have started a new department, the “Department of Subramaniamology”. Hahahahahaaa...</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><i>(taking time to change emotions and the pace of speech)</i></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">When I came out of that place after two decades, the world outside looked so similar to that research centre. I saw people with wires connected to their ears, went talking to their own selves. Those wires were connected to a small mirror-like device on their palms, which looked like a mini television. They kept on touching those device time and again, used to smile at them, show their anger at them, and some of them made faces at them too. I came to know that’s how nowadays people connect with each other. Pheww...! They all looked so busy. Looked like if they did not press those buttons for a few minutes, then the planets would start moving in a different direction. Waa... I could not find any difference between where I lived for the last two decades and the world outside here. There too, in the mental health research centre, if I could adequately remember, people, laugh and talk on their own, smile at their plates, shout at the windows, make faces at the chairs and keep touching things with utmost concentration. No difference at all!</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">But... The sad part of the story is... Since everyone is busy connecting with someone far away, there is no one to smile at... me! Nobody to listen to me! No one to say even a ‘hi’ to me."</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><i>(The actor slowly turns back and returns to his walk across the stage, humming the song's chorus, and the sound gradually fades away.)</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="ltr"><b>First performed by Ebenezer Veerasingam at Christ University, Bangalore, in August 2013</b></div>
Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-61975944549935508892020-05-11T16:23:00.001+05:302020-05-11T16:23:00.122+05:30Yellow Hawthorne Blossoms in Cave Hill, Belfast<div>It was so wonderful to see the Yellow Hawthorne blossoms during the morning walk at the Cave Hill. The entire hill is now covered with yellow. I wonder how it would be to have a birds eye view from an aeroplane.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fully or partially prepared "TOTE" (take-out-to-eat) foods, including home-delivered meals, are generally referred to as convenience foods. As more women enter the labour force, people's desire to save time increases along with the use of convenience foods. Fast-food restaurants have become very common, and are visited by all types of people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Considering the trend in Sri Lanka, similar characteristics can be found. Sri Lankan cuisine is one of the most complex cuisines in South Asia. Due to its proximity to South India, the cuisine of Sri Lanka shows some influence, yet is in many ways quite distinct. As a major trade hub, it draws influence from colonial powers that were involved in Sri Lanka and from foreign traders. Rice, which is consumed daily, can be found on any occasion, while spicy curries are favourite dishes for lunch and dinner. Some of the Sri Lankan dishes have a striking resemblance to Kerala cuisine, which could be due to the similar geographic and agricultural features with Kerala.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Sri Lanka has long been renowned for its spices. Since ancient times, traders from all over the world who came to Sri Lanka brought their native cuisines to the island, resulting in a rich diversity of cooking styles and techniques. The island nation's cuisine mainly consists of boiled or steamed rice served with curry. This usually consists of a "main curry" of fish, chicken, pork or mutton (typically goat), as well as several other curries made with vegetables, lentils and even fruit curries.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> Side dishes</span> include pickles, chutneys and "sambols". The most famous of these is the coconut sambol, made of ground coconut mixed with chilli peppers, dried Maldive fish and lime juice. This is ground to a paste and eaten with rice, as it gives zest to the meal and is believed to increase appetite. Another well-known rice dish is kiribath or paalsoru , meaning "milk rice." In addition to sambols, Sri Lankans eat "mallung", chopped leaves mixed with grated coconut and red onions. Coconut milk is found in most Sri Lankan dishes to give the cuisine its unique flavour.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Sri Lankan people use spices liberally in their dishes and typically do not follow an exact recipe: thus, every cook's curry will taste slightly different. Furthermore, people from different regions of the island (for instance, hill-country dwellers versus coastal dwellers) traditionally cook in different ways while people of different ethnic and religious groups tend to prepare dishes according to their customs. Although Sri Lankan food appears similar to South Indian cuisine in its use of chilli, cardamom, cumin, coriander and other spices, it has a distinctive taste and uses ingredients like dried Maldive fish which are local to the area.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Sri Lankan food is generally equivalent in terms of spiciness to South Indian cuisine, yet many spicy Sri Lankan preparations are believed to be among the world's hottest in terms of chilli content (Comparable to Sylhet and Bengal). While native Sri Lankans are born into this cuisine and develop a healthy tolerance to spicy food, many visitors and tourists to the country often find the spiciness excessive. As a result, many local restaurants in developed and tourist areas offer special low-spice versions of local foods to cater to foreign palates or have an alternative western menu for tourists. It is generally acceptable for tourists to request that the food is cooked with a lower chilli content to cater for the milder Western palate. The chilli content in food cooked for public occasions is typically much less than in home-cooked food.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Considering the different kinds of ways in which a particular product and the ideas related to it could become popular in the place of importance, there are examples which can be gathered and pointed at from various different aspects. In that way, one of the most popular food, famously known as ‘Kothu’ in Sri Lanka and also known as Koththu Parotta or Koththu Rotti, can be considered a popular food culture in the regions, especially in Sri Lanka. Not just the food, but the ideas and artefacts associated with it which is an important element in this food is considered a popular food culture.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Kothu or Koththu Roti is a Sri Lankan dish made from a Sri Lankan roti called Godhamba roti and vegetables, egg or meat, and spices. Kothu can be found in almost all parts of Sri Lanka and is generally eaten for dinner. The most common varieties of Kothu are beef and chicken, with egg and vegetables, there is Kothu available for vegetarians. Famously known as ‘Beef Kothu’ and ‘Chicken Kothu’, the Kothu trend even extends to various other additions to the categories. Cheese Kothu has recently been introduced and appears to be becoming a mainstay.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>It is traditional to make the Kothu on a heated iron sheet, used specifically for the purpose, and the cutting up and mixing of the Kothu is done using two blunt metal blades. This clashing of metal on metal creates a very distinctive sound — come late evening the beat of kottu being prepared can be heard coming from any small roadside restaurant.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Kothu roti originated in Batticaloa, in the Eastern part of Sri Lanka during the early 1970s by the local Muslim and Tamil people. Etymologically the name is from the Tamil language meaning "chopped roti" (chopped wheat roti mixed with curry sauce). The basic roti is made of Gothamba flour. The name itself is Tamil: Gothamba (a form of Kathamba-meaning a flour made out of a variety of grains-referring to the white flour, and roti). Slowly it has spread to other parts of the country as the strife continued and has now caught up and has become extremely popular. It can be found in many Sri Lankan restaurants in other countries, where there is a large Sri Lankan population. Kothu is a food that has successfully transcended social boundaries in Sri Lanka.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Kothu, which used to be a cheap, takeaway meal for lower socioeconomic classes, has now become almost a staple diet for those of upper socioeconomic classes as well, especially among the young and outgoing. It is now common practice for nightclubs and party-goers in Sri Lanka to end their nights with a Kothu as a midnight snack. As restaurateurs explore ideas, a variety of Kothu variations have become available. The main ones are where the roti is substituted for pittu or string hoppers, hence the Pittu Kothu and String Hopper Kothu.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>It is interesting to notice that through the last four decades this food which originated from the eastern part, has now extended to all parts of the country, especially the capital city Colombo. Several artefacts have been drawing relevance to this food culture which is becoming popular day by day and has the potential to be adopted according to the need of the hour. Several Baila music songs and recent genres of music have incorporated the Kothu culture as part of them. Kothu has also become an important part of the lifestyle of middle-class families. It is a food which has importance in the social gatherings of the middle class. The advertising industry has been experiencing the influence of Kothu in various kinds of soft drinks advertisements, which were advertised as a good companion to have with Kothu, a typical example is the Elephant Ginger Beer (EGB) and Coke.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span>There has been a clear transition observed in the image Kothu had among the people. Earlier, in the days in which it was introduced, it was considered street food, but now it has become a regular contributor to dinner menus and a few places for lunch too. In Colombo, the regularity of having Kothu for lunch began. In some parts of the country, it is only made for dinner. An interesting fact about Kothu is that it has failed to be good homemade food. The Kothu being made at houses is not preferred by many. 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"Foodfest." Trending Stand. N.p., 12 April 2009. Web. 4 Dec 2013.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Weins, Mark. "Sri Lankan Food: 40 of the Island’s Best Dishes." Yaalpaana Samayal. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Dec 2013.<br />Iranga, Sam. "Kothu Roti." Island Nation. N.p., 25 Feb 2009. Web. 4 Dec 2013</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>
Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-75511248271277662622020-01-23T12:03:00.000+05:302022-12-23T10:28:47.630+05:30A Food Tour in Koramangala, Bangalore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The walk begins at Hosur Road, near Forum mall, where the 60 feet road begins. At evening 7:00 p.m., the road is flashed with colours of lights from the restaurants, decorating the whole road with variety. As soon as you begin the walk, you can find Pizza Corner, Café Coffee Day and Mad Over Donuts on you left side. On your right, Punjabi Grill. Following that you will find Raheja Arcade. You have Gramin; a South Indian Restaurant offering delicious South Indian Dishes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once you pass the petrol station, you would find another Café Coffee day on your left and followed by Adyar Ananda Bhavan and Udupi Sagar. They both are another typical examples of South Indian Food restaurants. These veg restaurants, throughout the years have been famous for their maintenance of good quality of food and also great customer care. You feel satisfied eating in such places with the amount of care shown to each customer, which is a rare thing in nowadays. Apart from foods and snacks, these restaurants also provide fresh fruit juices. They are followed by the new addition, Cake Yard, where you get cakes with special recipes such as Black Forest and Butterscotch. On the next road, the 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> main, you can take a left and checkout the places such as Sweet Chariot, Biryani Paradise and Koramangala Chutney; an Indo-Oriental Restaurant. Just above this Restaurant you would also find Corner House Ice Cream Shop. You can have this place as your last destination in this walk. You get some of the best ice-creams in the city. Death by Chocolate served at this place is one of the famous ice-creams and Mango Ice-Cream during the Mango season. As you walk a little further on the same road, there is Ammi’s Biryani, Aalishan Restaurant and also a Bengali Sweet Shop named Banchharam. Here you would be getting curd in small clay pots with various flavours added. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the next few food stalls you have to walk down the road a bit further. You would be passing Sapna Book Stall and few other branded cloth showrooms. Some hundred meters from there, you would be able to see, many number of individual mini stall on both the sides of the road. Momos, steamed corns, Gobi Manchurians, Paani Puris, Bel Puris, Sandwiches, ninety nine different kinds of Dosas, fresh lime juice, sugar cane juice, samosa are few of the many foods sold in those stalls. The stalls extend until Bethany High School. You will be making a turn there and would return back on the same road which we traced earlier until you reach Sapna Book Shop again. On the way back, you will find Prasanna Ganapathi Temple and also Amarnath Park on the opposite side. You can spend some time relaxing in that place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again from there you move on and come back to the same junction where you earlier made a right turn towards Sweet Chariot. Now this time, we’ll be making a left turn, towards the HDFC Bank side, on 1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cross road. You have some of the most famous restaurants in Koramangala in that section. Meghna’s Foods offering Andhra style Biryanis, Empire Restaurant, Barbeque Junction and Goli are few of such places. You would also find fruit juices nearby. There are also Chinese restaurants such as Chungwah and Momos (just on the next road) and also Tibetan Mall’s top floor where you get Tibetan food with a rich Tibetan cultural exposure. One of the latest additions to the place is the Mac Donald’s Branch in that area. You can go by any order mentioned above; depending on your taste for food.</span></span></div>
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With the festive season arriving, the city of Belfast is becoming grand day by day, and the sense of Christmas is in the air. One of those interesting seasonal traditions is the compulsory visit to the Christmas Market which has been set up in the Belfast City Council premises. Traditional music, laughter, steaming chimneys with freshly made food, decorations, chocolates of all kinds, overflooding liquid treats, Christmas crafts, winter clothing and many others are part of this seasonal market. It is hard to be around and decide on one shop to go and have a look. I have given some clicks I took as I was walking around sight-tasting many of these foods while I enjoyed watching the merry-go-rounds and the caricatures being drawn. It was a great Christmas visit, indeed!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-48089104287468453102019-11-20T22:29:00.000+05:302019-12-05T16:45:56.324+05:30Titanic Museum, Belfast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
"Titanic Belfast" is the most famous visitor attraction opened in 2012. It is a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS Titanic was built. It tells the stories of the Titanic, which hit an iceberg and sank during her maiden voyage in 1912, and her sister ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">A fact-providing place for the famous 'Titanic ship.' The atmosphere is very attracting, as the sounds of the sea birds and loud horns of the departing ships even now from the dockyard just steals your heart. As I walked along this dockyard with this monument in the background, I couldn't avoid humming the song and also the memories of watching Titanic movie for the first time at school, displayed in a small TV by the senior students. </span></div>
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An early morning trail on Cave Hill in Belfast gave me such a panoramic and grand view of the beautiful Port City of Belfast. It was beautiful to see the resting city on a Saturday early morning. </div>
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The small trail which I was on would take only a 30 minutes climb and down. If you are in Belfast, do not miss an early morning visit so that you will not miss the awarding panoramic view of the city.</div>
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The story goes that the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology, was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Fionn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet.</div>
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Later, during one of my travel to London, when I was at the Departure terminal of the Belfast International Airport, I found the impression of Giant Finn and the stone blocks near him. That was a nice installation work.</div>
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As I kept walking along this famous Peace Wall in Belfast (on 19 October 2019), erected to maintain peace within two sides, I was able to see the wall being a powerful campaign of peace walls. There were numerous pictures of such 'Peace Walls' around the world that are erected maintain peace over the boarders and for limiting human trafficking and illegal migration. My heart was able to feel the pain of living with a wall in the midst. Pictures, including the latest proposals for the "Trump Wall" to be completed between US and Mexico was also found. As someone who is interested in understanding diasporas and illegal migration, I found this wall so touching, especially with its pictures that reminded of all such walls around the world and the pain on both the sides.</div>
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These are some of the wall paintings that my camera captured as I walked along this wall on 19th October 2019. It was like going through an entire summary of the world's fight for peace, liberation and independence. Interesting to note is that these paintings are not permanent, but they keep changing according to contexts and realtime struggles in the different parts of the world. In a way, it can be understood as Belfast's expressions of solidarity with the entire world of struggles., as this city itself has been going through various seasons of political unrest and liberation struggles. Once in a while, a walk of closer look would summarise the entire present world fights for different causes. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-25831258067842254902019-10-17T04:53:00.000+05:302019-12-04T06:53:00.205+05:30Sandy Row Sculpture | Female Culture and Identity | Belfast<br />
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This sculpture celebrates the female culture and identity of Sandy Row ( a street in south Belfast, Northern Ireland. It lends its name to the surrounding residential community, which is predominantly Protestant working-class.)</div>
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This sculpture erected at the entrance of Sandy Row also celebrates the generational contribution women have made to this community both in the family and workplace. </div>
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It is interesting to note that it is written in capitals "MOTHER DAUGHTER SISTER" at the feet of the sculpture and continues to lead to the famous song "Que Sera Sera..."</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-35109070244700990332019-10-07T04:39:00.000+05:302019-12-04T06:52:35.430+05:30Harvest Sunday Decorations | Joanmount Methodist Church, Belfast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
These are some of the beautiful Harvest Sunday Decorations on the window spaces at Joanmount Methodist Church in Belfast on 06 Oct 2019. The Harvest Sunday is believed to be celebrated much with much more culturally in the Irish countryside. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-18664444499264053692019-09-30T04:29:00.000+05:302019-12-04T06:52:00.787+05:30RISE | The Balls on the Falls | Belfast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RISE is a concept public art spherical metal sculpture in Belfast constructed by Wolfgang Buttress. It was constructed in early 2011 in the centre of the Broadway roundabout which is an important entrance to the city of Belfast. It is also known as The Balls on the Falls as this junction also gives access to the Falls Road area via Broadway. The structure is also believed to be constructed to celebrate the Football (large ball) and Golf (small ball) legends from the city. An impressive welcome into the City of Belfast.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-3193749109194037392019-09-29T18:26:00.000+05:302019-12-04T19:27:21.318+05:30First flight to Belfast from Stansted Airport<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Some clicks that I took while rushing through the pathways to catch the flight to Belfast on 29 Sept 2019. It was my first time flying to Belfast with so many emotions and expectations. A memorable one. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-29841031341649731132019-07-25T17:49:00.000+05:302019-12-04T19:18:25.772+05:30"A Fisherman Mourned By His Wife" | Poetry with Painting by Trincomalee Campus Students<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
This afternoon, the 2nd Year - B.A. Languages Students of our department, who are reading 'Sri Lankan Literature' this semester, attracted the campus crowd passing by with their wonderful painting of Patrick Fernando's poem "A Fisherman Mourned By His Wife." They had presented their perspectives and interpretations of this metaphorically complex poem on this painting and thus gave an opportunity for all those who stopped by under this Margosa tree to enjoy this art of poetry, coupled with the sound of a soft violin played nearby. I was thrilled to see how the combination of poetry, art and music paved the way for a lot of socially-essential discussions to happen under that tree.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-20252565918354315372019-06-30T18:10:00.000+05:302019-12-04T19:18:02.133+05:30Herd of Deers in Koneswaram, Trincomalee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I took this picture of this herd of deers when I was visiting Koneswaram in Trincomalee, just at the entrance of the famous Koneswaram temple. This herd took me by surprise as I suddenly noticed them being camouflaged by the surrounding environment. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-55874494062085751982019-01-29T01:20:00.000+05:302023-01-26T23:38:39.071+05:30Queen's University Belfast, UK<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvDU1Rab9AyJ6i2EQrjWbq7SO43bxEPvSqFtzrYOHOAlbjZhQ2OQjFtpxSIk2_LCIlDXX3YHMf6tlmSjOSo28WtC4S2s0KpN8goseqpjfE2LziHpn7omGtIE32jlk1sV4HiouAv7QEZ4H7ESHsh66i6PAcy9FqAdUWg3nnmZchkzdkEvcjWKJIbM/s3404/IMG_20191118_163226.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1866" data-original-width="3404" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvDU1Rab9AyJ6i2EQrjWbq7SO43bxEPvSqFtzrYOHOAlbjZhQ2OQjFtpxSIk2_LCIlDXX3YHMf6tlmSjOSo28WtC4S2s0KpN8goseqpjfE2LziHpn7omGtIE32jlk1sV4HiouAv7QEZ4H7ESHsh66i6PAcy9FqAdUWg3nnmZchkzdkEvcjWKJIbM/s320/IMG_20191118_163226.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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'Exposure' is an essential part of education. It does not only refer to the mere collective experiences that an individual may acquire during a given period of time, but also the permanent impact that few adventurous experiences would make on the individual in order to perceive and face the significant challenges lying before; experiences that help an individual to foresee, in order to know what to expect where.</div>
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I have personally witnessed and realised the potential impact that exposure could make in a globalised world. As a teenager I have been closely following and ultimately became a hard-core fan of "Discovery-Travel" that was introduced to us when Discovery Channel made its preliminary entry into the Sri Lankan Mass Media. For us, as teenagers who had very limited options of TV Channels at that time, around the year of 2000, this was a revolutionary leap, as the channel catered to the variety of viewers, with few notable categories in the viewership spectrum. As we had only handful of channels (Rupavahini, Swarnavahini, ITN and then Eye) with limited national programs in them (not to ignore the savouring cartoons and educational programs), Discovery came as the saviour as it presented the advancement of the world in all the probable fields of interest.</div>
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What thrills me the most is the effective way in which Discovery Travel exposed us to the various parts of the earth and how it classically conditioned us to respond to the call of the globalised world. I only realised it in the later years, that these episodes had not only made an awareness of the globe we are living in, but it had also enabled us to be aware of what to expect from each region. Even before I had stepped out of my island-country for the time, I wondered at the awareness of the regions I had gained without the least first-hand experiences (even specifically within the sub-continent of India). And when I did for the first time in 2007, I was able to perceive things already and was able to understand the geographical differences by way of prior ideas I had about the place.</div>
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When I began ruminating on this effect that these Discovery Travel episodes had made on me, I narrowed it down to one possible reason that was probably a significant factor in enabling me towards adhering to this conditioning. It was the music!</div>
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As I recalled some of those memorable episodes, my memory retrieved them as music. This TV program had led me to a level where I had begun perceiving and understanding the world through music. I would call it a Musical Cognitive Map that had formed in my mind. For many, the world map was registered as colours and shapes, but for me it is still seen through music. My world map reminds me of the varieties of music that would make me feel the cultural, religious and linguistic nuances of each region of the world. I see the world through music; and this realization led me to the search of 'how' this entire process would have happened.</div>
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Just listening to parts of regional music, randomly from any part of the world, I was able to guess the linguistic background and the civilisation from which this music would have its roots. The sound of the specific instruments themselves were sufficient enough to trigger the image of the landscape with geographical and geological characteristics. At times, the common industrial and fabric details of the place were also possible to be understood. Such was the immense influence music had made on me.</div>
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While recalling and analysing few episodes of Discovery Travel, I closely had my ears fixed to the audio. It paved the way for me to realise that the narration of each episode, with elaborate videographed details, were coupled with each region's signature music. Whether it was folk or hip-hop, occidental or oriental, the music was presented in its pure form without complex fusions. Surprisingly, these music were not used as backdrops for the narration but were intertwined, just as a DNA spiral, in order to provide a similar weight that the narration had in the entire narrative. In this way, the music was able to become an essential element in the narrative and similarly the music also replaced the narration. Thus, as a person who is more inclined towards music than language, if a choice is given between the two, I had always been tending to understand and perceive the entire process through music. I still wonder at the careful delegation of this medium and how much a long-lasting effect it was able to create. The exposure was through music.</div>
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I wonder why, we as a system of education, have failed to utilise the simplest mediums to provide exposure. Our exposure projects extend to the extent of space tour, but we have never pondered on bringing in the same exposure through interesting mediums. There are plenty of latest versions with peaks at levels like XD Cinema, but our laboratory, on-field, ethnographic and simulatory experiences still remain at grass root levels.</div>
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Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-6532122268060223732018-02-08T15:10:00.001+05:302018-02-08T15:10:23.825+05:30Board 02<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ebenezer Breman Veerasingamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217068410480196481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080264751546101539.post-84020665888068272472017-08-16T23:07:00.000+05:302022-12-23T08:26:44.508+05:30"In Those Days..." by Ebenezer B. Veerasingam<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You know,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have heard many a time from the earlier generation,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lines and lines of biographies and histories,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beginning with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In those days...”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A whole list of things<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which they retrieve with pride,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just to show<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How much the present generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">True, really true!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compared to their, “In those days…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where is our, “Nowadays”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We, the present generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just to prove how far away we are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We belong to the space, called Social Webs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook has become our testimony ground,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And E-mail accounts, and Google Drives our treasuries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Husband sends an SMS to his wife “Good night”,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who is relaxing in the next room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When four friends meet for supper at a table,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They do not talk much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead, they chat in their online groups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And are busy checking many others’ status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have become equipped with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Send and receive pictures and smutty jokes freely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But still, we struggle to know and understand each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The old man in that corner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is surprised to see a young fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who smiles at a mini screen on his palm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And laughs and shouts through two wires connected to his ears.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Surely, there seems to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Vast Difference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their “In those days...”, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our “Nowadays”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0