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The "Indiot" is blocking comments on his own blog. That's why I'm bothered to give him a link by writing this post.
The problem with "Sam", Chandler or who ever the Indiot writes on Arm Ball is, thinking that India is the center of the universe (at least the cricket universe). He thinks that, other teams should play cricket, with the sole objective of gaining a result from the match, and that result should be a win for India. The Indiot doesn't understand that every team play for win. He doesn't understand that, if you can't win a test match the next best option is NOT letting the other side to win it, but rather trying to draw it. That's the essence of test cricket in it's tueest sense.
This Indiot thinks that after India scoring 436 within first two days, they must go all the way to win the match! The Indiot doesn't understand the fact that, Sri Lanka cannot declare their first innings without putting a decent first innings lead. The Indiot is jelous about the form of Sri Lankan batsmen, and blame that it's boring cricket. Yes, it's boring cricket for a boring Indiot who thinks that the outcome of every cricket match should be an Indian win. For rest of the world, it was plain good test cricket batting.
This Indiot has some attitude problem, or has undergone some personality issue during his early childhood.
Look here Chandler! World is not India! Open your eyes and start growing up. If you are up for a real open debate during rest of the Sri Lanka tour of India, first open up your comments section. We only need to win one test and draw the rest to become the #1. You guys got to win at least 2, and draw the other!!!. Who's with a better chance???
As at now, India is 276/4 with 58 more runs lagging behind. We still got a chance to break into your middle order and win this test match. But, we are not having over ambitious hopes about it. If at all, we could win this; you would have to print your last 4 blog posts, roll them up, stick them on a rock and sit on it with your ass wide opened!!!
Friday, November 20, 2009
A Reply to the "Indiot" who Writes on "Arm Ball" Blog
Sunday, November 15, 2009
How Can an Unemployed Graduate Afford a Bill of Rs. 200,000/- At Ninewells Hospital?
Last week I posted few words (few??) about the Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates and its present convener Sujith Kuruwita. This blog post received an overwhelming response from undergraduates from different universities, acknowledging the fact that JVP is the fundamental cause of low quality university education in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, a friend of mine who read this blog post recently updated me with another update about Sujith Kuruwita. My friend got a relation working at the Ninewells Hospital. According to him, Sujith Kuruwita’s wife recently gave birth to a child at Ninewells Hospital. New baby and the mother was greeted well by several JVP MP’s visited the hospital. The total hospital bill was over Rs. 200,000/- and it was paid in cash over the counter.
Now, if the convener of the Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates of Sri Lanka can afford to pay a bill of Rs. 200,000/- at Ninewells Hospitals, we have the question of where did that money came from. May be his wife’s parents are rich, but were dumb enough to give away their daughter to an unemployed graduate. Or may be she is doing a well paid job while Sujith stays at home and cook meals.
[If you still don’t get the underlining idea of this post, here it is in plain English before you make a funny comment. Sujith Kuruwita is not an unemployed graduate. He is employed fulltime by the JVP, to line up the unemployed graduates against the government. Those who come to the protest campaigns will suffer, while these guys and their families enjoy luxury lives with money thrown at them by the party]
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What Mahinda Rajapakshe Told General Sarath Fonseka, the Day Before His Resignation
This was reported in Sunday Lankadeepa on 15th November 2009. None of the internet sites reported this discussion in English language, so I decided to translate it into English and post here.
President Rajapakshe has invited General Fonseka for lunch on Wednsday (11th November) after the defense council meeting. This was the first such meeting, after the return of general Fonseka from his US tour.
Only the president and the General was having lunch together. They have talked for more than 45 minutes. General Fonseka has stated about some of offensive comments made by government ministers about the General, and he sas complained to the president about Gotabhaya Rajapakshe’s comments in a staff meeting of the SL Army. General Fonseka has told the president that he was deeply concerned and depressed by these facts.
Then the president has told General Fonseka “Sarath, I understand. You might be in great depression of these things. We haven’t done any wrongs to you. We’ve been good friends during the war time. I treated you as one of my own brothers. I still think that you are one of my own brothers. Don’t fall into the traps of those who pulled your leg during the war time. Be careful”.
After some more discussions, the president has asked General Fonseka “Sarath; are you really going to contest for the presidential election?”
The General has replied “Yes sir. I’ve decided to come as the common candidate of the opposition”.
President replied to General Fonseka “Sarath I wish you all the best. But, you will regret of this decision one day. I will definitely win this election Sarath!”.
After this comment president has further told General Fonseka “Sarath, I’ll tell you one thing. If one day you get into trouble because of this decision; only your wife and children will be there for your support. All other admirers who comes after you will never be aside by you. On that day, if I remained the president of this country, I will definitely help you on any thing”.
This is how it was reported in Lankadeepa, which is NOT labeled as a pro-government media. (In fact the paper is owned by the Wijewardena family, includingRuwan Wijewardena; the western province councilor of UNP).
It is said that, this discussion (in which SF admitted to the president that he is going to contest) was the nearest reason for General Fonseka's resignation decision. UNP has requested Sarath Fonseka, not to resign from the CDS post, until the president declares a presidential election.
I learned from few of my friends in state media (Rupavahini and Lakehouse) that the president has ordered all the state media, not to criticize General Sarath Fonseka or any of his comments to gain political advantage for the president in the up coming election. President has ordered the state media to treat him as a hero of our motherland, who contributed a great deal to rescue our country from terrorism.
[Note: Recent posts on this blog are not getting picked up in Kottu.org home page feed for some strange reason. I have informed the administrator (Indi) about this issue, but haven’t got a reply yet. If you are a Kottu blogger, and if you see that this post is not published on Kottu.org home page feed; I request for a re-post to thispost from your blog]
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Friday, November 13, 2009
A General's Resignation
Hmmm... I must try the same template as soon as I get a new job elsewhere. After reading through the entire "resignation letter" by General Sarath Fonseka, I can summarize everything into a one sentence. "I want more power and authority and your Excellency denied them to me. So I'm going on my own to gain more power and authority".
General Fonseka indeed is a hero. He will remain a her throughout the next 2,500 years of our history. No matter how stupid decisions he will make within next few weeks, he will remain a hero for all Sri Lankans and for me.
But one thing was crystal clear from the beginning, ever since the historic war victory against the LTTE. That is, "General Fonseka is the only one who wanted to be THE ONE AND ONLY ONE HERO of the war victor". All the other contributors to this victory were humble enough to share the credit with the other leaders; both political and military. Navy commander, Air Force commander, the defense sectary and the president; they all contributed to this war victory along with Sarath Fonseka. No one can pin point and say "I contributed more". It was a good example of a team effort and a strong leadership coordination. But, from the day one General Fonseka wanted to say "I must get the full credit of this victory. Navy and Air Force played minor roles. Without me, president wouldn't have done this job".
I'm not going to comment further about this historic resignation. Now the question is, will he come under the UNP (or UNF) ticket in which Mangala Samaraweera (salvation army), Lakshman Kiriella (Ona gonekuta yudda karanna puluwan), Mano Ganeshan (who is an LTTE supporter) are key stakeholders? If general Fonseka do that; that will once again prove the "sorry status" of our political scene.
If he competes alone as an independent candidate; then we have to watch what'll be Ranil's move. Will he contest in UNP ticket? Or will he take a step back? My 99% bet is, Ranil will contest for next election no matter what! That man cannot wait another 6 years to get a chance to accomplish his family dreams.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Few Words About Today’s Unemployed Graduates Protest and Its Convener
The Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates staged a massive protest near presidential secretariat complex in Colombo fort this afternoon which ended up in injuring many of their own members, injuring 3 officers of police anti-riot unit, damaging millions worth of public property and putting thousands of general public trapped in traffic jam for hours. Funny thing is this protest comes as a continuation of a series of similar protests backed by other political hands of the JVP, including the Inter-university Students Association and several other JVP backed trade unions in Ceypetco, CEB, Ports and Water Board. To support this trend; Sirasa TV and MBC network has added a new segment to their News First presentations labeled “Public Protests” (Udgoshana). These are just a few evidence to understand that, these protests are actually well organized by the JVP, lined up one after another, and well supported by anti-government media.
But the point of this post is not to discuss of these growing trend. Point of this post is to talk about the so called Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates in Sri Lanka. Who are they? Who backs them? What are their motives?
From the looks of it, CAUG is an innocent movement of unemployed graduates who seek a collaborative power for their voices. But commonly known truth is, CAUG is yet another JVP arm inside the Sri Lankan university system, just like the IUSA – “Antharay” and “Socialist Students Union”.
By the year 2005, there were about 50,000 members in this CAUG. But the UPFA government offered 42,000 jobs to many of those unemployed graduates. Today, the total membership of CAUG is about 25,000 to 30,000. Many of them had passed out from the University within last 3 years (after the graduate employment scheme). These graduates never voluntarily register with the CAUG. Instead, the authoritative people in the CAUG, takes (steals) the data from the universities and enter them as their membership. In actual statistics, there are about maximum 5,000 volunteers in their membership.
The most powerful figure in the CAUG is it’s convener. Presently this position is held by Sujith Kuruwita (Wait!!! Read on. He got an interesting life story). Convener of CAUG is a transit position in JVP’s career succession plan for their most loyal student union leaders.
Below is the typical career succession path shown to the JVP student leaders inside our university system.
Sujith Kuruwita, Chameera Koswatte, Ravindra Mudalige, Vijitha Herath are few to name who climbed this ladder in the recent past.
When these leaders are building their political careers by organizing protests like the one they did today, the participants become the pawns in their chess board. (remember, JVP do the performance appraisal based on number of hostilities you have organized to the opposing political parties and the private sector business organizations). In another five years, Sujith Kuruwita will be in parliament (if JVP can retain their existing vote base; which I believe they are really struggling to do), and the rest of the “pawns” who took part in today’s protest will keep on protesting under a new convener.
Why Sujith Kuruwita is Unemployed?
Sujith Kuruwita failed to get a job after graduating from the faculty of Management Studies and Commerce in University of Sri Jayawardanapura for a very simple reason. Because everybody knows his name! No one wants to hire a man who is the #1 suspect of the most brutal murder that ever happened inside a local university premises. Sujith Kuriwita is a B.Com graduate from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. He entered the university in 2000, and passed out in 2007 (while rest of his batch passed out in 2005). At the university, he was a star among the rag leaders. Another young lad called O V Samantha; was leading the complete opposite camp in his department (B.Com) of the faculty. Samantha was the leader of anti-ragging movement. In 2002, Sujith Kuruwita was appointed as the president of General Students Union of University of Sri Jayawardanepura. On 7th November 2002, a mob of JVP students surrounded O V Samantha and a few other supporters of him, and brutally attacked them with rods and rocks. They used computer monitors of the office of department of Marketing Management, to crash Samantha’s head. Sujith Kuruwita was the “commander in chief” of this attack. Ravindra Mudalige; the then convener of the IUSA was also present at the university premises on that day. Eye witnesses said, Sujith Kuruwita himself kicked Samantha on his head, while lying on the floor unconscious. These people blocked the vehicle carrying the injured to the hospital, and delayed proper medical treatment (which ultimately caused Samantha’s death).
After the Samantha incident Sujith Kuruwita first escaped to a hostel of Kelaniya University, and when the police was raiding that place he escaped to a remote village in Matale district, with the support of few JVP MP’s. After about a week of the incident, Sujith surrendered to the police through a lawyer (a lawyer who still is appearing for the JVP cases free of charge).
Sujith was among the locked up suspects of Samantha’s murder, up until 2004 where JVP formed a coalition government with SLFP. The new government ordered the police to dismiss the investigations into Samantha’s murder, and release all the suspects. Sujith Kuruwita came back to the university by which time the JVP student union had regained power, by forcefully removing the VC Epitawatte, and killing one of their own supporters and putting the blame on the anti-ragging camp.
By this time Sujith Kuruwita; the “murderer of the biggest headache for JVP inside Japura University” has become a hero among all JVP supporting students. He didn’t have any inconvenience in getting the position of “convener of Inter University Students Association”, which is directly supervised by Bimal Ratnayake and Anura Kumara Disanayake. Sujith is one of the favorites of Anura Kumara Disanayake.
Today, this same Sujith Kuruwita is the convener of Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates of Sri Lanka. This message is to all the family members of unemployed graduates in Sri Lanka. Never let your beloved relative to be a part of these sinister forces. They are using your brother/sister/son/daughter to gain political advantage. If your graduate brother/sister/son/daughter is an unemployed graduate; asked them for solutions “within”. Ask the question, “why am I unemployed, and some others are employed?” Then they will start to realize their own weaknesses. Externalizing their weaknesses is not a solution. Right thing to do is, correcting their weakness and hunt for suitable jobs. Ask them to be down to earth, and start small. No one will offer them 50,000 a month jobs in a golden platter. Graduation is not a guarantee for a job. It’s only a qualifier.
