Thought of a shadow taunt me!

A shadow from the past
A Graphical Present
To a Blurred Future

Uncertainty looms all about
Past, present and future
The actions so called
Justified by the mind
That day! Till today!
Yet a thought linger with doubt
Am I right? Are they?
Will I ever do right?
Would they? Could they?


Questions I have
Reasons they giveThoughts come by
Taunt me today

Glimps at the past, Tribute to an Old Friend!

Remember I mentioned about feeding Ganga in Gangarama? As promised I found the pics of the Parrots and Raja, so let this post be a tribute to Raja, who was the 2 Longest Tusker in Asia (or south Asia) while he was alive. His life span was about 46 years, if my memmory serves me right.

Being so old, I Stil considered him to be cute! Let me tell you why!

During the time I would visit the gangarama Temple in the early hours of the day, I and a few more who visited the temple would buy cooking leaves, such as Kankug, Mukunuwanna & somedays I'd bring Rasakinda from home to feed him. The moment Raja see he bundles of leaves he would start dancing, I mean swinging from side to side with and a joyful, almost hopping movement. This look so cute! Then when feeding he'll simply grab the entire bundle in one mouthful, then reach out with the trunk for more. It was a sight to see. I had always called him adorable when he does this. What ever amount of food you give him it is never enough. He'll always want more!

So Here are the pics, with a wish from me for Raja! May you attain Nirvana in another lifetime!

Here are the pics of the Parrots, They give rice to them just before they start the thewawa seromony at 06:30 am. If you visit the temple before they are fed then you will hear them screaming away, "Feed Us! Feed Us!" In their own language.

This is a wonderful sight to see.

Getting reaqquianted with an old friend

Been going through the entire blog to see if I had mentioned her before, apperantly not. So I have to recount the history of our friendship.
I occationally visit the gangarama temple, and there was a time when I had to go there early in the morning for about two weeks at a streach. During this time I made friends with both Raja and the parrots who come to feed in the morning. I will put up some of the parrots pics later whrn I can dig them up.

Now you better be wondring who Raja is, because that is what I wil tell you next. He was the owner of the second longest pair of tusks in Asia, untill he passed away last year. But when I was visiting the temple in the early hours he was very much alive and active. I saw that most people buy cooking leaves from the person who bring them to the temple kitchen and feed him. So naturaly I had to start feeding him too. Somedays I would take some rasakinda (herbal plant) that used to grow at home. Raja loved them, and would start dancig, literraly dancing when he see the bag. It was fun and gave me so much joy to see his reaction. Also no matter how much you give him food it will never be enough!

It was during one of these visits that I met ganga, she was sort of visiting the temple to partipate in the katina perahara. I fed her a couple of times too. But she had to go back.

After Raja's death they had brought her back to stay permanently. When I visited the temple recently, I saw her but it was only the day before yesterday that I could pey her a proper visit. She is the cutest baby elephant, with adorable behavior! With two mini tusks hidden behind her mouth, only about six feet tall and only eight years old. First day I paid her a short visit and asked the caretaker if it is ok to bring her food. He said it was ok. So the next day I set off with a ripe big watermellon in my bag and my cousine sister by my side to visit her. The moment I went near her I told her that we brought her somefood, her reaction was to start dancing, well at least the closest thing an elephant could do to dancing. When the water mellon finally came out of the bag, (by the time we got there it had found refuge right at the bottom of my backpack) the caretaker cut it in pieces. Feeding her was no trouble, all we had to do was to hold it in front of her and she would grab it with her little trunk. My sister and I took turns feeding her. When all two killos of the watermellon had dissapeard she would still streatch her trunk asking for more! Naturaly being an elephant that was not enough, poor gal. Next time I visit her I'll get her more.

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Beauty of the fall!

I came accross this when I was digging around in my collection of poems from the schooldays. Thought I'd dedicate it to the trip we went on recently to the KKG resort. Where on the last day we visited Makeli Ella. I didn't want to come back from there. But the guys managed to drag me away. A water fall is a place which you can stare at for hours and not know time pass by.

So Here's to Makeli Ella!

Tribute to war Heros

 

When we were in school we had to sometimes write to the solders as a project to encourage them at the war front, and war was a popular topic for poems those days. Here are a couple which I wrote!



A sad story

This one I wrote when in school. We had a lot of monkeys around (not the human kind) and they were a nuisance at times, but this is a thouching story.


We were studing in class and then one girl pointed at something. To see it was this Mother monkey who was sniffing at something. Further observation revealed that it was her kid who had died. She thought it was playing a prank and was hiding away from him to see if he would get up. It was touching and I had to write about it.

More from school days

I got my poems from schooldays scanned in so I wil publish them in batches when I get time to sort them out. Just remember these were written was when I was a kid of 12 to 18 so excuse me if it seem dry/obvious or too stupid. They are too precious not to share anyway.

When I decided to put all these in a collection Here are my dedications to my mother and father

Before that they were scribbled on the edges of notebooks, exam papers (coz there wern't enoutgh to write as answers I had enough time to scribble away after submiting the answer sheet) (*_-)

Here is one like that written after an exam:

Pros n Cons of having worked as a CSE!

was just thinking about this and thought I had to put them in to words!
These are applicable for phone conversations mostly!


Pros


you don't show emotions in the words when talking to people on the phone!
You make life easy for the people who are talking to you, by using the right words, making them feel happy, even if it is your x-boyfriend who you want to hurt!


Cons
your are not sure If you read the right emotion from what you heard!


You give call coaching to the customer service representative of the phone company or the bank when you need to get details about your account
Your hear every single mistake they do on the phone
you sound like the sunshine when you feel gloomy and want your friends to know it!

Life - is wired
I thought I loved it
but now i hate it
will love it again tomorrow
Why ...........?

Glimps from the Past

This is the first instalment of a collection from my schooldays, will post the rest of them in the near future!