සැමන් ටින්ද පිරිත් පැන්ද?

සිල්වා - මොකද මිස්ටර් පෙරේරා මේ එලියට බැහැලා කලු කන්නඩියකුත් දාගෙන උඩ බලන් කරන්නේ?

පෙරේරා - නැහැ මේ හෙලිකොප්ටරයක් උඩ කැරකෙනවා ඇහුනා.

සිල්වා - ඉතින්?.

පෙරේරා - මම මේ බැලුවේ පිරිත් පැන් ඉහිනවද නැත්නම් සැමන් ටින් එකක්වත් දෙනවද කියලා.

සිල්වා - පිරිත් පැන් ටිකක්නම් පන්සලේ ලොකු හාමුදුරුවන්ගෙන් හරි ඉල්ලගන්න පුලුවන්නේ, ඒත් සැමන් ටින් එකක් ගන්න පැය හයක්වත් අඩුම ගානේ පෝලිමක රස්තියාදු වෙන්න එපැයි.

පෙරේරා - ඔව් ඒක ඇත්ත.

සිල්වා - දැන් ගන්න තරමක් තමයි ඔය නිකම් දෙන ඕනේ මගුලක්.

පෙරේරා - ඊට පස්සේ උන් උඩින් යනවා බලාගෙන අපිට කට ඇරගෙන ඉන්න තමයි වෙන්නේ.

සිල්වා - ආයේ ඔය දඩුමොණරේ එනවා ඇහුනෝත් මටත් කතා කරන්නකෝ.

පෙරේරා - හරි මම කතා කරන්නම්. දැන් මොකද කරන්න යන්නේ.

සිල්වා - අර මුහුණුපොතට අරක්ගෙන ඉන්න මිහරක් ටිකක් ආයේ කුලප්පු කරන්න.

Ostracize or Embrace ?

Today, we live in a complex society.

When innocent other family members of someone suspected to have contracted an incurable sexually transmitted (STD) are castigated, ostracized and later chased away, to set their hard-earned moveable and immoveable properties on fire by lynch mobs from towns and villages are not something new to us.

Now the conditions have changed.

Instead of having someone with an incurable sexually transmittable disease among them, they have to deal with a psychopath among them who have been let loose while serving his term for brutal murders including a child.

How would the neighbour react to having to live with a notorious psychopath in the neighbourhood?

Will he be chased away with his other innocent family members too or will he be treated like a hero returning home after a war?

Now the ball is in the open court of the society and how the society would react to the scenario of having a psychopath among them will be a good gauge to determine the trajectory where the society indeed heading.

To ostracize and or to embrace is the question now.

Thinking Loud ( a midst Corona epidemic)

• Presidential pardon instrument should not be abused to release Killers who are serving their sentence for heinous crimes committed,

• මිනීමරුවෙක් නිදහස් කර මට, කලුකඩ කාරයා මහ කජ්ජක්ද?

• Why can't banks switch their Debit cards to Credit card as a temporary measure until the crisis situation is under control?

• No qualm of Appreciation of something needed to be appreciated;. But sudden surfacing of hypocrites in high numbers living in other parts of the world on social media is a worrying sign (at least) to me.

• Why confuse people with foreign measuring units. Arm's length is a good measure even in a literary sense.

• The recent Kapruka incident proved again my long-held notion that to be successful in business in Sri Lanka; one has to be a crook.

• Over-reliance on the military in a serious health crisis has exacerbated the situation even more.

• For the first time in the history of Mankind, the Coronavirus has managed to prove the theory of "Together We Win" is wrong.

• What would it be called in 9 months’ time? Corona Boom!

• තල් අත්තට බෙලි ගෙඩිය වැටුන කතාව පොඩිකාලේ අහලා තිබුන නිසා හොදට ගියා.

@KingSasanka

Anytime DATA - Sri Lanka Telecom

Most Internet providers allocate Data for a connection, split into two segments.

A certain portion is for Day use and the remaining is for Night use.

Unfortunately, the Day portion is smaller compared to the Night allocation.

However, whether one uses the entire allocation or not within the given billing period, the service provider will be charging for both used and unused segments, unless if the user had not exceeded the allocation.

It is not a good business practice and especially when there is a lockdown in many parts of the world due to the epidemic situation.

The Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is no different and time to change their stance when many well-known businesses around are opening their gates to be able to access their other portals otherwise only possible by subscription.

Neither the user nor the service provided will be harmed if they can switch to Anytime Data mode than still continuing with a very archaic business model.

Over to you, if anyone with the authority to do the change is listening.

Looking for a Scapegoat is not Real Forward Thinking.

Looking for a scapegoat is not real forward-thinking.

At a time when the rest of the World is looking for answers to deal with the Corona epidemic, looking for a scapegoat is not going to solve the issue.

If the person who has returned to the country from Italy a few weeks ago and sought treatments for some other ailment from a government-run medical facility but alleged to have failed to divulge full details is found, he will be lynched by many.

Even the authorities are on the same page with those who are calling for his blood but they have gone a step further by suggesting all his immovable properties to be confiscated even.

Is this the way forward?

I do not think so.

If the failures are to be counted, then the number one citizen of the country should be on the top of the list for failing to close all borders immediately when the experienced professionals were asking him to do so but waited for all his family & friends' kith and kin to return from aboard to go ahead.

So is that member of the parliament and well-known drug dealer for instigating and stopping the efforts to turn one of the government-run hospital facility to a quarantine facility to deal with suspected corona infected cases.

Despite the curfew and ban of people gathering in numbers, many politicians have organized their political rallies.

Some have even conducted Bodhi Puja, some went on dispensing Holy Water and some others distributing face masks and finally given the one he had been wearing all day to another person.

The way forward is to admit failures and to address them in such a way not to repeat them again in future.

Do not just look for a lower place to let the water flow.

Reading Facility at Makumbura Multimodal Facility.

Reading Facility at Makumbura Multimodal Facility