Can Duminda Silva beat this guy when comes to style?

Bruce Lee..i'm pretty much impressed with this guy! watch all his old Hong Kong era movies and man.. check out all the suits and the bell-bottoms.. i wonder if Duminda Silva can copy Bruce Lee and least have some style and colors in his (Duminda's ) massive cutouts (since no one is going to remove them..unless my D.the EC himself dose that !!) that we see on every corner of Colombo District!

The Kandyan Convention..195 years on...

"its  a sunny and warm fine day"...said John D'Oyly in his Diary ... describing 2nd March , 1815...

After the capture of King Sri Wicrama Raja Singha by the British with the collusion of few Kandyan Chieftains,a Convention was proclaimed on March 2, 1815 between the British King's representatives and the Kandyan Chieftains acting on behalf of the people (so they said..!!!) , and the Kingdom was ceded to King George III of England. Thus ended  2358 years of continuous existence of a Sinhala Kingdom of Sri Lanka!

The Kandyan chieftains replaced the Nayakkar dynasty with the King of England and the country was ruled by a government representing the King of England who was never physically present in the kingdom.

Soon after,the convention of 1815 became restricted to a piece of paper and the chieftains found their powers, ancient customs and above all Buddhism gradually restricted and this disillusionment reflected itself in what came to be known as the Great Uva Rebellion of 1817-1818,our first war of Independence, where nearly every section of the society along with the bhikkhus and the dissatisfied nobility made one last glorious attempt to rid the country of its English rulers and in return the English waged a genocidal campaign and annihilated several thousands of Kandyan Sinhalese people, including children, the sick and the old using terror and superior firepower and troops brought down from India.

The struggle was bound to fail due to the military might of the English and in some measure due to the bickering and failure of the Sinhalese to decide on a single strong leader. in the end the family jealousies surfaced breeding traitors who were prepared to seek favour with the British for office and wealth.

Sadly today, even before we celebrate a year of gaining freedom from separatist LTTE terrorism ,we are at loggerheads..petty party politics are the order of the day and we go on undermining our laws and freedoms we enjoy...

Betrayals continue..sad!

Kalaweddhah addressing media following his defeat (or Victory as he see it) ..

Yet, Kalaweddhah is seen here yesterday (27th) at Cinammon Lakeside hotel, still defiant and expecting his adopted homeland, US will use force to install him as President..while the looks of the rest of the band of Gembo are of pure hopelessness in the face of peoples power!

What i respect about Ranil Wicramasingha and Rauf Hakeem is that them being astute politicians, they accepted defeat and was seen silent and in pensive mood at the same Press Brief while strangely ..the main architect of this unholy alliance of a motley collection of jokers ,Mangala Samaraweera was no where to be seen!

one momentous day..

its time we think about our Republic and let go of the past..look to the future.. i believe 6,015,934 of our citizens made that choice today...

1st vote free of terror

The Dictator -'EKA ADHIPATHI' -stage drama by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake

No, not about Gen.Sarath Fonseka (ret.) this is EKA ADHIPATHI, or The Dictator , the sinhala stage drama,Written & Directed by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake to be staged again after a decade or so at Elphinston Theater,21st January 2010 [3.00 p.m. & 7.00 p.m].

 

Dear Leader..oh i miss that chap...

No, Not the Dear Leader of North Korea.. i meant our own late V.P...kinda sad to know that he got part of his head blown off by some skinny soldier from Kurunegala or Anuradhapura (where most of the Army comes from..) .. oh.. all that 'Sun Goat' and the works.. the Poems and the Pongu Thamil gigs...ah.. all down the toilet amongst the marshes of Puthumathalan....