Mojo and Suzanne

Mojo and Suzanne Written by bunpeiris “For never was a story of more woe than this of Suzanne and her Mojo.”  An absolutely stunning angel in a swaying short skirt and a Cashmere sweater floated into the lobby just as a butterfly would. She seemed incredibly light on her feet. I couldn't take my eyes off. Our eyes met, she held the gaze and she began to float towards me. Is the gravity off, where she tread? Lovely black curls framed a fairest prettiest face. Just blinked and she was at my table. She was sultry and serene at once, incredible. Never seen anybody so exceedingly pretty. That's slightly sharp double chin. She smiled:...

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Edexcel Professional Diploma in Teaching

Edexcel Professional Diploma in Teaching  Gateway Graduate School, Negombo has few more slots open for Edexcel Professional Diploma in Teaching. Enrollments are still open as at 25th June 2013. Call Nilanthi (Kurana, Negombo) – 0716492935, 031 222 0029 today.nilanthi.gunathilaka@gateway.lk  Gateway Graduate School, Bambalapitiya already has 25 studentsEnrollments are closed at Bambalpitiya. Designed in partnership with the London examining board Edexcel, initially Edexcel Professional Diploma in Teaching is a one-year level 4 course (i.e. the equivalent of the first year of a degree). Thereafter...

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BLACK TEA

BLACK TEA: HEALING POWERS The tea plantations in the salubrious Central Highlands of Sri Lanka [High Grown Tea] produces the finest Black Tea in the world that still goes by the British Colonial brand name of Ceylon Tea, in spite of the ancient tropical island has now been called Sri Lanka, i.e. the Sanskrit prefix of "Sri" meaning resplendent being added to the most ancient name of the island "Lanka". During your Sri Lanka Holidays visit Ceylon Health Triangle of Sri Lanka to enjoy Ceylon Tea, the finest Black Tea in the world and rejuvenate in the highland sanatariums of Sri Lanka Holidays Nuwara Eliya or  Ella or  Bandarawela...

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BUDDHA'S LIGHT TEA

BUDDHA'S LIGHT TEA On this Vesākha (Pali; Sanskrit: Vaiśākha, Sinhala: Wesak or Vesak) day (another anniversary of birth, enlightenment and the final extinction of Gautama Buddha, it brings me, living in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, a Theravada Buddhist (though not a good one at it), immense joy to present you all guys and dolls with one of those accessible and appealing tales and anecdotes of a book titled “Where is your Buddha Nature?”- stories to instruct and inspire written by renowned Venerable Master Hsing Yun, a whole-hearted Mahayana Buddhist, the founder of Fo Guan Shan monastery, Taiwan published by “Buddha Light and Living Private Limited. Though...

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Priceless ancient Sinhalese sculptures to England

Priceless ancient Sinhalese sculptures to England Following is a gleaning [with the exception of images and labels] off the paragraph titled “Life in Colombo” in Pablo Neruda’ s [1904-1973] “Memoirs” ISBN 0 14 00 4661 5. Pablo Neruda, who went on to win Noble prize for Literature in the year 1971, was Consul of Chile in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] during 1928-1929. The preceding paragraph titled “Ceylon” begins: In 1929, Ceylon, the most beautiful of the world large islands…  A garden doorstep at a home in Devon in the UK has been identified as a rare Sri Lankan artefact expected to fetch more than £30,000 ($47,500) at auction. The auctioneer...

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Sri Lankans First

WE ARE SRI LANKANS FIRSTLet's Tread Lightly, Speak Softly.Let's respect the cultures of all our citizens in My Sri Lanka, Our Island. The defining statement of how, we Sri Lankans, i.e. Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils, Sri Lankan Muslims, Burghers, Sri Lankan Chinese and other citizens ought to view ourselves, has now arrived from a most unlikely source: Muttiah Muralitharan. Muralitharan, by profession, isn't one of those so called intellectuals. He is a Sri Lankan Cricketer, a member of the 1996 World Champions. Most of all Murali, as he is adoringly called by the Sri Lankans, is a patriot, a son of the soil, a man worth his salt. Today...

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DON PERCY

23 April 2009 Mennon calls Gota [1] on his personal mobile phone Gota, the Tamil Nadu problem is hoting up. Things are very sensitive here OK, I’ll call you back Don Percy M. R.: Tell them to come tomorrow morning for breakfast The northerners speak briefly: southerners were laboring under the delusion their brethren were being massacred. Gota, Don Percy M. R. and Weere listen attentively Don : Even if you invade my country, I am not going to stop this. We are just a few weeks away from eliminating terrorism in this country. Don then reminds the neighbors of previous military intervention [2] and loss of two decades of  development. Mahinda...

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China’s Elder Brother: India

CHINA'S ELDER BROTHER: INDIA Marginal Comments by bunpeiris are followed up with gleanings Once upon a time India was a great land that made timeless contributions to the Heritage of the World that no other land, since then has ever matched up, far from exceeding: India was the birth place, cradle and home of sages, philosophers and scholars since time immemorial; India gave the world ultimate epic poems of Mahabharata and Ramayana [both of which refer to ancient Sri Lanka then called Lanka], which pushes the ‘The Iliad”, a cornerstone of the Western Cannon to the distant third in the world of literature; India gave birth to the most serene...

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