Developed, they are!

Today was a hectic day for me. One way I went out on shopping, which I didn't enjoy that much! I know, it is quite unbelieveable from my point of view (which female is there who wouldn't enjoy a shopping spree??!), but the main incident today was a free ride day in CityBus! Well, we missed the bus and had to take a walk to catch the next. The hot Sun did not help us at all. And when we finally caught the Bus, it was halfway packed with children. As my little girl still too small to stand and go in the Bus, I had to carry her and get in. I basically did not have a place to keep my self properly. In one hand I was carrying Hazelle and from other hand I was holding one of the bars to keep me balanced. Too bad to say, there were many a people who was staring at me but did not offer to help. I carried Hazelle for about half way of my journey and I just couldn't believe what was happening.

I kept wondering. Sri Lanka, my motherland is a heaven, a Land like no other. Nobody will go through an incident like mine in our country. Because, our people are more developed than people of these so-called developed countries. We have a strong foundation of ethics and moral discipline embellished our lifestyles. The kindness and support of our people are priceless.

So I say to this world, please try to evaluate a country by both morality of its people as well as wealth it possess. Because money is not Everything!

Provincial Council Elections... Here comes..

Sometimes its hard to think on a single stream and write something when quite different situations begins to rise on their own during a short period of time. All people in our country are just trapped in the middle of too many incidents happening at once. One side war is getting to its peaks and rising prices of commodities and on the other hand, provincial council elections! ( a country who is already suffering on its expenses of war is having elections!)
Tomorrow is the closing date for handing over nominations for western provincial council election. Ruling party and the opposition parties have already started their campaigns through private mediation. I heard one party accusing the government of using the government media very freely for the last elections held. That is no surprise. Government will highlight the subject "war" and will try to catch a few floating votes.
Anyway an interesting game of gambling awaits in the Western Provincial Council election. Lets see who wants to win this time.

Hope this is the last...

Last Friday night became a scary night to Sri Lankan city of Colombo and suburbs as a LTTE air attack was carried out targeting the Air Force headquarters and the the Katunayake Air Force base. The electricity was cut off in city limits and two light air crafts were dancing in the sky. The activation f Air defence system in the city was able to destroy one air craft within entry to city which collapsed to the Building of Inland revenue dept and the other was brought down near the Katunayake Air Force base.
This is not the first time this happened but the first time where the Military was able to destroy both air crafts of LTTE.
I sicerely hope this would be the last attempt made by this ruthless terrorists ever to perform as already they have done enough damage to this country as all Sri Lankans should live together and value eachothers ideas. That will take our country to prosperity.

Sri Lankan Rejection on the UK Envoy

It was in headlines all throughout the day that Sri Lankan government has rejected the nomination made by the British premier a special envoy to Sri Lanka.
Reports say that this appointment was done without consulting the Government of Sri Lanaka! But why? Can a country act at its own wish to intervene in another country's affairs?
Even though the British government was humiliated by this act internationally, this will be a message conveyed to the world at large. Sri Lanka is capable of handling her own problems as yet. I believe that Sri Lankan people have a right to see this war ended and peace be restored. If somebody is thinking that what Sri Lankan Government is doing causing harm to the innocent civilians in this country, where have they been all this time in the past? When lot of Sri Lankans killed infront of Anuradhapura Bo Tree, a sacred place to most Sri Lankans? Where were they when the terrorists blasted bombs in our commercial hub killing and injuring innocent civilians? Where was the humanity at that time?
Sri Lankan people underwent an immense cruelty because the help to resolve a small problem was not handed out at the needed times in our past. Now they have decided to go ahead and win this military operations so that they can control the effects of terrorism in our country.

War alone will not lead us to peace, that we all know. But, this war got to end by eradicating the terrorism operated inside our island. For that let nobody interfere.

National Day!

It is 4th of February, Independence Day of the Sri Lanka. This small island was under foreign rule from 1505 to 1948 and we gained Independence from British in 1948.
Today, the 61st Independence day celebrates the unity and harmony which should be combined with our lives. All Sri Lankans will remember today amidst the war against the terrorists in North of our country, that we are one big nation. We are one big family of all races, languages, religions and cultures. This is our motherland. Protecting its identity and integrity is our responsibility.

War Against Innocence or For Peace

Sri Lanka is undergoing a major situation as the Military is involved in heavy fighting in the Northern part of the Island. It is after so many years of agony that now we see a ray of hope of a united Sri Lanka with all religions, races and people of all kins.

Many media and non governmental organizations have come forward at this time to comment on what is happening in our country and some neighbouring countries have taken defensive steps to even threaten the Government to go for a ceasefire.

From the point of view of a normal civilian in this country who has been born with the war and now waiting to see an end to war, I believe that it is time that everybody realize that Sri Lanka has suffered enough from other parties who are trying to gain their own benefits out of our problems. People of our country has suffered enough. Even now they are suffering more than ever. North people with a terrible war right in their faces and southern people with an inflation high as the sky. But everybody is waiting. With long hope of Onions of Jaffna in market again. There will be many costs for this war like what is described in BBC yesterday, Wounded Sri Lankan Civilians Rescued but one day or the other this terrible war must end. And for that People of Sri Lanka are willing to pay its price!

Hail President Obama!

Yesterday was a historical day for USA as the 44th President was sworn in with a crowd of over 2 Million people.
The first ever african origin President has created much hope in the hearts of all citizens of USA and the whole world is watching what his international relations are going to be. As the American economy is having difficulties recovering its position and many a people left without jobs, the newly sworn in President has much responsibility to do greater effort to bring back all what has been in total crisis during last 12 - 24 months.
"We gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord," those were the words of the President. And he asked all Americans to "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America". He gave the new hope for his people, created the courage and urgency to act together to build a nation.
I think that our Sri Lankan politicians including the head of state have lot to learn out of the speech made by this new President. The courage he's creating, the hope and understanding to act on the need to build back a nation, should ring sirens on our politicians. Rather than pointing finger to eachother on things that'll never benefit the country or its people, our members of parliament should learn to work in hand in hand.
I heard that President Obama has a family of brothers. If President Obama was a politician and elected as president in "our country" would he create a cabinet of ministers with all his brothers?

Energy, scarce in origin

Energy, today's one of the most spoken words in day to day life. Every human being is unknowingly affected by this crisis all their lives.
Energy sources have become type of a luxury item during the recent past as the main natural resource, the crude oil started gambling with peoples' lives. Due to many economical and political reasons the price of crude oil increased itself by more than 250% of its original price. This affected to almost every aspect of daily lives of all as transportation cost rose sky high. This gave way to price hike in all commodities which paved way to increased living costs all over the world. Most economies started suffering as many business entities started drowning in the high operating costs.
After most of the trades collapsed the oil price finally came back to normal dropping itself to its earlier stages in price. And the citizens expected with relief that all the prices will come down as the most essential cost came down. But alas. None showed happy faces!
Amazingly not a single thing in the market moved down. Not even OIL.
Every trader, manufacturer started to take opportunity. They keep the commodity prices at hike blaming the oil price and try to make the lost profit during the recent past.
Who is to blame? The government? Or God?

Festivity in the Middle of the Road!

The brave warriors of Sri Lanka Army, navy and Air force are fighting a battle against terrorism in the northern part of our country these days and all Sri Lankans are waiting cautiously to know what is happening in war zone.

There were victories on its way to liberate the North and our brave soldiers have advanced further toward their target in success. Hail the victories!!

Our His Excellency the President takes these victories as means of public speech to give away the "happy news" to all Sri Lankans himself. I don't see anything wrong in this. H.E. the President should inform the people of this country what is really going on in the North, as its the only means of knowing what is happening in the North (whether true or false).

And I agree our people who love freedom from terrorists should get opportunities to celebrate these victories. But these celebrations should be not in ways of lighting crackers in the middle of so called highways in Sri Lanka! All towns were covered with smoke and white paper dust these evening proving the amount of fireworks that have been lit to celebrate these victories.

Dear Sri Lankans, have you already forgotten that behind these victories how many innocent families have lost their loved ones? Have you already forgotten how many soldiers sacrificed their lives for you to be safe in South? Have you forgotten how many are lying in their death beds at this moment?

Its time to think. The money you waste by lighting fireworks can help those people, families who are suffering from this war.

Yes we should celebrate! But in a meaningful way...

Freedom Media

Today became another day with terrible attack against a media personnel which resulted death in the end. An unknown gun man has shot dead an Editor of one of leading English news papers in the mid day.

This journalist had a voice for almost everything. He captured people's attention to various types of fields and one was the political arena which was creating a mess in the society. He had a voice for what he believed as wrong and made everybody understand his views.

He may be wrong in his aspects of judgment. BUT no body had the right to silence him this way as what happened to him today.

Today should be a day where the Sri Lankans should understand that every individual in a democratic society has a right to voice his/her ideas. If somebody doesn't approve of it, let that person shut his ears and wait!

Political Mess...

In our country it is breaking news that a media station being under attack by some unknown masked ninjas. Everybody has turned their attention as to what is going on without any clue on things that are happening. Many has a say in this. As a country where almost every individual is operated by the hands of politics, the real picture and the earthly truth is mislead.

Our country has been governed by two political parties in the last six decades after we gained "Independence" from British in 1948. These two political parties have created massive changes in all aspects of culture, economic policies and thinking of the people lived during these times. Some from the point of view of making a better society and some are for their own well being as politicians. These acts of the past only created a devastating impact on the people and their beliefs rather any betterment in lives.

Today Sri Lankans are covered with masks of rivalry over each other. Their political misconceptions have created havoc by influencing their decision making. People fight each other for a colour/party to please their political leaders.

When will the Sri Lankans realize that they should come out of this dungeon and see light? When will they realize that its time to build this nation they have so desperately destroyed?