shehal's blog

this is a reply to
The Need to Transit in blink.lk which was a reply to a comment i had made in blink.lk titled "Journalism 2.0"

i disagree with opinion blink.lk is endorsing:

Journalism 2.0 is all about journalists like me using these applications in an innovative man

How we humans are discriminatory by nature and how our cultural, religious and social values contribute in countering or encouraging such behavior.

Discrimination

Discrimination can be defined as "the denial of equal access to social resources to people on the basis of their group membership." Preferential treatment towards a person based on caste, religion, skin color, etc.

Read this article titled: Slaughter in Sri Lanka by Times Online.

I don't know how the educated author came to the conclusion, based on remote sensing, that the alleged mass graves are of civilians killed as a result of shelling by the GoSL and not

• civilians killed by th
  

some pictures i took of rag doll

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tabooට ගල්‌ ගහන්‌න ඉස්‌සරලා පොඩ්‌ඩක්‌ සවන්‌ දෙන්‌න (මමත්‌ ඉල්‌ලං කන්‌නද කොහෙද යන්‌නෙ මේ සති අන්‌තයේ!)

මෙය taboo විසින්‌ කරන ලද ලිපියකට ප්රතිචාරයකි.

ලේඛකයා අමතන්‌නේ සමස්‌ත ශ්රී ලාංකීය සමාජයට නොව “චිරාත් කාලයක පටන් සිංහයා පය ගහන්නවත් තැනක් නැතිව තුන් කුන්දෙන් අහසේ පාවී පාවී හිටියේ නිව්ටන්ගේ ගුරුත්වාකර්ෂ

the reason i am writing this note is because i got a few e-mails ridiculing the opposition and previous regimes. this is part of my reply to them.

state and regime are two different entities. extremists and some nationalists may interpret being anti-chinthanaya is to betray the state. but i strongly disagree.

quoting the president "I value my motherland first, second and third.

By Wilson Gnanadass
source: http://www.nation.lk/2009/05/19/news6.html

The incessant fighting for nearly 30 long years came to an end at around 3.30 pm on Sunday, May 17, with the announcement by the LTTE’s Head of International Relations Selvarasa Pathmanathan that the Tigers have finally decided to silence their guns.

This announcement was a true sign of LTTE defeat on the one hand and vi

i saw this statement in a comment made by a friend of a friend: "Your hatred lies cos 4 the fact LTTE's attack which killed 100's of Sinhalese"

that is one way of looking at it.

but i'm sorry i don't share that view.
but before that let me ask you these:
name one school, hospital, road, bridge, etc.

source: http://president.gov.lk/speech_New.asp?Id=74

Address by HE President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the ceremonial opening of Parliament, Sri Jayawardhanapura - Kotte, May 19, 2009

I declare open this fourth session of Parliament at a time the people of our country, as well as the entire world are celebrating a great victory.

I address this session of Parliament at the historic occasion

better presentation. the tagging feature is also pretty cool. no smug or drama associated with achcharu.org
:)

watch this youtube video.

විද්යාවේ නියම අපි ඉගෙනගත්‌තා පාසලේ - නිව්‌ටන්‌ගේ නියම, ශක්‌ති සංස්ථිතිය නියමය, ගම්යතා සංස්ථිතිය නියම අාදිය. අැයි මේවාට නියම කියලා කියන්‌නෙ?

නිව්‌ටන්‌ගේ නියම පදනම්‌ කරගෙන බොහෝ වාද ගොඩනැනා. මෙම වාද වලට සංසිද්‌ධි බොහෝමයක්‌ පැහැදිලි කරන්‌න පුලුවන්‌. හැබැයි එ්‌වාට පැහැදිලි කරන්‌න බැරි සංසිද්‌ධි කීපයක්‌ තියනවා.

ගෙදර සාදා ගත්‌ කොත්‌තු, කුකුල්‌ මස්‌ සමග. පුදුම රසක්‌. රස තාම මකයි.

home made kottu

ScienceNews.org is reporting: "Using the natural inclination of young chickens to cluster in large groups, researchers show that the birds are hatched with a numerical sense.

අවුරුදු නැකත්‌. මූලාශ්රය - අල්‌ලපු ගෙදර ලිතක්‌. දන්නෙ නැහැ ළමයෝ! වැරදි නම්‌ කියන්‌න. පුන්ය කාලය, අාහාර පිසීම, අලුත්‌ අවුරුදු උදාව, වැඩ අැල්‌ලීම, ගනු දෙනු කිරීම සහ අාහාර අනුභවය සහ හිස තෙල්‌ ගෑම යන චාරිත්ර චල නැකත්‌ වේලාවල්‌ බලාගන්න. සභ අලුත්‌ අවුරුද්‌දක්‌ වේවා! මම නම්‌ අලුත්‌ අවුරුද්‌ද සමරන්‌නේ තරු බලලා.