Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts hosted Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer of Google X and Best-selling author, at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo last week to enlighten a Sri Lankan audience of IT specialists, businessmen, professionals, and corporates on the future of Artificial Intelligence.
As an entrepreneur with a 30-year career in technology, he gave profound insights into where AI will lead society. “The seriousness of AI is that earlier, we used to write coding to solve the problem. With AI, we don’t do that anymore, we tell the machine to look for solutions which prompts them to develop their own intelligence,” he revealed speaking about the pros and cons of deep learning.
Mo also brought to attention how jobs will be changed at a pace that people will be required to be ahead of that inevitability. For example, there will be no low-level code developers in the next five years and only those who are highly specialized in the area and know how to work profoundly with AI will be having work.
Speaking about ChatGPT, he put into perspective, “If you take the smartest person in the room, they would have read a maximum of 2000 books, but AI would be connected to that information immediately. If I need 45 minutes to go through a document, AI needs only a matter of seconds. This
kind of seismic change must be taken with a lot of attention.”
Further, bringing attention to the rapid increase in the intelligence of AI, Mo says, “If you took some information and removed the fact that it was done by ChatGPT, you’d think this was done by one of the smarter humans. There are estimates today that ChatGPT 4 has an IQ of 155, and Albert Einstein is 160. We are that close to having ChatGPT 5 to be smarter than Einstein. This is something to reckon with.”
He imparts that no attempt on earth can stop AI, especially because of capitalism. “If Google hasn’t developed AI, they will lose business. A good example of it was when Elon Musk and others sent a letter to the big AI players, asking to halt AI for 6 months and the CEO of Google, Sundar, who is an amazing person, responded by saying he could not do that because he couldn’t guarantee there would be advantage, and even so this would be continued to develop in countries like China nevertheless.”
The panel discussion that followed on AI and Sri Lanka, invited Ramesh Shanmuganathan, Executive Vice President, and Group CIO, John Keells Holdings PLC, and Director and CEO, John Keells IT and Harsh Subasinghe, CEO, CodeGen Group of Companies together with Mo Gawdat, moderated by Gayathri Seneviratne, Founding Secretary, and Secretary for 2022/23, Digital Marketing Association of Sri Lanka.
In the discussion, Mo advised “We are at the cusp of intelligence we have not seen before, soon AI will be so much more intelligent than humans that by 2037, it will be a billion times smarter than us. In perspective that means how intelligent you are compared to a fly, as in a fly wouldn’t know what we are talking about,” he completes.
He says that with AI, intelligence is commoditized to a point where the top human value is not intelligence and that the key trait would be human nature. “The very instinct of humanity is we didn’t survive as we were the smartest species, but since we were the species that worked together the best,”
Lastly, with his years of research on the meaning of happiness, Mo shares an inspiring perception on the topic, having authored three international best-selling books, Solve for Happy, Scary Smart, and That Li5le Voice in Your Head. “My simple theory is, that happiness is not found in getting what you want, but in loving what you have. A computer game would be so boring if it wasn’t this challenging. The reality of life is the level of acceptance that we don’t write the rules of the game, we just play the game.” More of his thoughts on happiness can be heard in his popular podcast, Slo-mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat.
While in the country, he was able to get some exposure to the development of AI in Sri Lanka and was awed by the progressive potential here. This speaks for something as he was chosen to lead Google’s special projects division, Google X, trialing the most far-fetched technological ideas from flying cars to machine learning, thus his understanding of AI is truly undisputed.
He deeply appreciates Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts for inviting him and for the hospitality received such that he wishes the hotel to be available everywhere else in the world, thus he would come back to Sri Lanka for another visit.
“The potential here is mind-blowing. You think less of your country than I do. Life does come with difficulties like everywhere in the world, even in the biggest cities. But if you were to enjoy what life is giving you, here in Sri Lanka, you have beautiful minds, beautiful people, and beautiful nature which I think is much more valuable than what the rest of the world is seeing as important,” Mo graciously commented in relation to his visit to the island.
Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts presented ‘Mindful Solutions with Mo Gawdat’ in association with John Keells IT and powered by CodeGen while supported by Sri Lankan Airlines as the Official Airline Partner, 88.3 E FM as the Radio partner, Wijeya Newspapers as Media partner and Scope Cinemas as Cinema partner.
Did Mo mention that he quit Google AI programme because he got scared of what AI could potentially become – SENTIENT, and was of the view that we perhaps should move with caution, or a stance similar?
Nevertheless Mo sure is an inspiring speaker to listen to, and I wish that I attended this programme, but I can recall attending one workshop on “How to develop AI based software for exportation?” organised and hosted by the Export Development Board (EDB) of Sri Lanka, and, if my memory is right, Sri Lanka Association for Artificial intelligence, and conducted by a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Open University of Nawala, and a colleague of his, a medical doctor, more than 20 or so years ago.
During the programme formally, and the tea break informally, mingling with the participants, he explained in vivid detail, the potential not only of artificial intelligence but technological innovation in general, that we could and should as a country harness in order to develop export oriented ventures and stay ahead of the game.
I do not know what happened to the initiative afterwards, but I guess judging from the fact that we haven’t achieved much in terms of developing the kind of technologies this Professor advocated and even prophesied that we one day could develop, that it may not have been followed up to the realisation of the ideas presented and discussed in it.
If we were to have done that we may have been even ahead of Sundar of Google or Sam Altman, in develeping AI products.
For example during the tea break I overheard this Professor quite animatedly narrating to another participant the trajectory of technoligical development and innovation we should embark upon, where one day Jinasena who currently manufacture water pumps would some day be manufacturing artificial hearts and kidneys to be used as transplants in humans. Such was his vision and foresight that we have not taken the trouble to benefit from.
So yes, Mo is right no one in this country think about its development except focussing on rather petty self serving agendas, and when they encounter someone who has silently done and come up with some development programme, they all rally round in unison to sabotage not just the programme but also its creator and his entire family including his personal and private interests such as romances. I regret to say among such saboteurs is also the entity, John Keells, the sponsor of this Programme on Artificial Intelligence.
While it is a commedable act to have sponsored Mo’s visit and programme by John Keells addressing the topic of AI, my personal experience with them is far from impressive to say the least, particularly in relation the American Express credit card that I have obtained from Nations Trust Bank, which I believe is a part of their group of companies.
To highlight my disappointment I’d state one example. During Covid19 pandemic my Amex Credit Card for some reason stopped working on Keells Supermarket online store – another entity belonging to John Keells Group. Upon complaining though the bank responded in an extremely polite manner they could neither fix nor explain to me what the issue with my card was. After taking close to two months and a numerous email and over the phone communications back and forth with the bank I was told that there appears to be a bug in the system, and I appeared to be the lone victim of this bug, as nobody else among their customers have complained of a similar issue. Though they finally fixed the issue after taking an extraordinarily long time they could not provide a satisfactory explanation as to how this happened, that I became the sole victim of a bug in their system. This is despite them having their own IT venture indicating they could not have been in short supply of IT talent to fix something of this nature.
In retrospect given quite a number of other experiences with the said bank I’ve had I have a strong suspicion if this time period during my card was defunct and they were supposedly and allegedly investigating the issue, whether details about my financial or credit card transactions were snooped into by someone and shared with third parties?
Given certain other experiences I’ve been having for about 15 years not just with John Keells but others as well that are now surfacing, because of the efforts of a few friends of mine working from overseas – Leila Reid, the Research & Corporate Services Director of Hepatitis C Trust, the United Kingdom et al. who also are victims of certain such misdemeanors that include criminal ones in nature, simply because their association with me.
If anyone wants more details of what they are please do get in touch with Leila, she would tell you the kind of people occupying positions of power and influence in this country – politicians, businessmen, academics, and professionals to teachers, and so many others inbetween.
Just to give an idea of the kind of harassment and torture that we have been subjected to, here are few examples.
To begin with my mother was murdered, I believe under the instructions of Basil Rajapaksa; both my father and myself have been poisoned, with heavy metals in such a way that cognitive capacities are diminished, and with a muscle toxin to make lower limbs weak in such a way that certain physical activities like having sexual intercourse with a partner is made difficult, respectively.
Having killed my mother these deplorable criminals have violated every single woman in my life sexually. They include my sister and her two kids, girls, as well, who are just 10 and 12 years of age.
To give an insight into the kind of mentality with which these people operate the aforementioned two nieces of mine have been violated sexually soon after their births by inserting a finger to their vaginas and destroying their hymens by the very medical doctor who has been entrusted to care for them, and perform the routine essential neonatal examinations that is carried out on every new born, to ensure that everything is alright, that they do not have any problems, such as congenital malformations that may require medical attention before discharging them from the hospital.
In addition attempts have been made to groom them for sexual activity with the aim of using them by paedophiles. This seems to have occurred at the Wycherlyhe International School, Bauddhoka Mawatha, Colombo Seven, to which my two little nieces attend, that appears to harbour a paedophile in their staff and other members of which who are supportive of him and help to groom kids for sexual activity.
For example my older niece was selected to act in a certain stage performance, in which her role including those that are of others except for the lead character was to perform a certain act, a dance, that involves kneeling down, and crawling in all fours on the stage. This appears to be a deliberately scripted and choreographed to get these kids to familiarise with various positions that are involved in engaging sexual activities. For example kneeling down to perform oral sex on a male – the so called act of going down; and crawling on stage in all fours in such a way to acquire a position in which you let a male to enter you from behind either vaginally or anally.
Both my nieces’ hand held devices that were bought for them during the Covid pandemic for the purpose of distant learning have been hacked into for the purpose of forcefully exposing them to pornographic material. This has been carried out under the instructions of the Tamil Parliamentarian from Jaffna, the lawyer, M A Sumanthiran. At least on one instance the hacker had been Iraj Weeararatne who calls himself a hip-hop artist and a music producer. The father of the two kids who have been a victim of these mafia gangs and had become a part of them appears to not only not care but also had been present when an erect male penis was flashed across the screen of one of my niece’s tablet device.
Additionally Engineer Wasantha Udayarathne their father seems to be a very abusive personality along with his mother (children’s grand mother) who too resides in the same household. Their mistreatment of my sister had taken a considerable toll on my sister’s psychological health that her Psychiatrist Dr. Kapila Ranasinghe either willingly ignore or has no clue of, as he has never inquired into and paid any attention to the relationship between my sister and her husband except prescribing medication that often includes expensive vitamins and other supplements which appear to be prescribed by him rather arbitrarily.
My second niece hardly eats anything now and has lost considerable amount of weight to look like a stick figure. Additionally she hardly speaks and shun away from people without facing them including family members. Even if she speaks her voice is so faint its hardly audible. This is quite in contrast to her built and behaviour when they used to live with us and were still little kids. This appears to be a result of the abusive treatment she is subjected to at the hands of her very own paternal grand mother, that their father either do not know or care.
Getting back to ways in which these heinous criminals violate women, another one of their favourite acts have been to cheat and devirginise almost all the girls I have had some sort of romantic inclinations towards, at various stages in my life, but never acted upon them or pursue them, as the friendships made were made online, and they resided overseas, by using various males.
Making unconsented deepfake videos of them performing various kinds of sexual acts with individuals of all sorts and distributing them among selected people and groups of people, with the promise that they will get to have sex with these virls in the ways depicted in these videos have been another very recent favourite act of theirs. This appears to have been carried out to seek support for their cause while helping them to sabotage and destroy me and my family. Such videos have been made with various individuals who had wanted to have sex with these girls amongst the network of people that were carrying out these pervasive acts and they sadly include the Parliamentarian monk, Athuraliye Rathana Thero, bringing even Buddhism and Buddhist clergy to distepute, probably the objective of those behind these perverted acts as well. My nieces weren’t spared either. Such deepfake videos featuring them too have been made. Amongst those who want to have sex with these two kids are Mahinda and Basil Rajapaksa as well as Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka. Another person whose real name I do not know but comments using the pseudonym “LankaScot” on the online forums of Colombo Telegraph, a tobloid magazine, operating from the UK, appears to want to have a threesome with these two kids.
This is just to display the kind of perverted minds these individuals have and is no way an exhaustive list of things they have been doing, some of which are difficult to write about in decent civilized language.
All this is currently happening not just with full knowledge of the President Ranil Wickremasinghe but also with his active participation. He in fact in addition to being a closet homosexual appears to be a sadistic person too who advocate violating women sexually by inserting a fist to either their vaginas or anuses and twisting them once inside these paasages like a cork screw.
Among a host of others who are behind these perverted activities is also the law Professor G.L. Peiris one of Sri Lanka’s most eminent intellectual, and an individual by the name Nirmalan Dhas from Kollupitiya, a self proclaimed Psychotherapist among numerous other roles he play, his wife Pushpalatha Dhas, and his son Arjun Dhas.
So why have we become the subjects of these cruel and human treatment?
It is because of among other reasons, certain presntations and proposals that I have made and submitted to couple of international organisations and forums. Primarily a proposal I have submitted to the World Bank Group (WBG) on “How to transform Sri Lanka’s economy to a world class one by making it an innovation hub?”. A proposal that seems to have gained the recognition of the WBG, wider international community, and investors, who are willing to channel funds, and invest here in Sri Lanka to implement the work and the programmes proposed by me in this submission to the WBG.
The total sum of such funds we may receive over a period of several years are in the range of 100 to 200 billion USDs and they would be channelled through me and my friends I have referred to above living overseas who are expected to be recruited for positions suitable for this purpose at the World Bank Group most probably at the IBRD or International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
There is a group of people both within the country as well as scattered around the globe, regionally in India and in various other countries who do not want this to happen. They want the funds to be channelled to Sri Lanka through their networks so they could be the beneficiaries of them. Hence are trying to sabotage us carrying out various acts mentioned previously. One of the primary reasons for this also appears to be the fact that I am a Sinhala Buddhist with a black skin to the dislike of some of the international and regional players that comprise of white Christian Supremacists of America; the LTTE and Tamil Diaspora scattered around globally; and Tamils in Sri Lanka and India.
In addition locally the fact that I am a member of the Karawa caste, which according to Govigama caste, an inferior caste to theirs, a caste that should not be given such positions of priviledge. They seem to be driven by a certain hatred towards our family that has been also identified by some of these investors as a family of people with intelligence and integrity in whose hands they could trust their money. These are some the reasons for this international well coordinated attack on us in the most concise manner explainable.
To those who partake in these activities against us has been promised 15% of total funds that my proposal may attract to be channelled to implementation of projects of their choice through networks known to them by others who act behind the scenes.
To be continued later…
Hello Ruchira,
Interesting comments regarding AI. Sentient AI will definitely be dangerous, going forward. However, I would say it’s development is inevitable.
Hello Lester,
Sorry I did not see your comment earlier. I believe you to be the same Lester from Colombo Telegraph. Nevertheless I do not know the exact answer to what you have implied – what the future of AI could hold for us? I only have inputs from, if at all, various Hollywood movies, from I, Robort in which Will Smith is the the star to Bicentinnial Man of Robin Williams fame. Not forgetting Steven Spielberg’s movie named AI itself. Yes, I could agree that progression of technology is inevitable, and progression of human evolution with ethos and skills that surpass AI may be the only long term solution ahead of us – as Homo sapiens. Thank you for your comments.
Ruchira,
Nice to see you here. Yes, I am from CT. I was kicked out by the “journalists in exile” after replying to the fraudulent Scotsman and his mentally challenged henchmen, the pervert “Codger” and village bum “Leela.” Anyway, WP is very hackable, so I will return there eventually and show those a-holes who is boss.
Back to this article. AI is the future. Human intelligence has peaked (refer to the reverse Flynn effect). Take an activity like physics. There hasn’t been a major breakthrough for around 40-50 years. It’s logical to argue that the next great leap in knowledge will have to come from machine learning. Such a leap will transfer from the scientific to the technological domain, completely changing existence as we know it. It’s also worth mentioning, AI will not be “static”, as it is now. It will be dynamic. In the form of human-like robots and other devices. This is difficult to imagine now. It’s equivalent to telling someone in the 19th century that communication would be overtaken by smartphones. It will happen because technology has always been the primary mechanism that improves human living standards.
Lester,
Good to see you here too.
CT itself is a bloody fraud. It is apparently funded by Bajaj, the Indian three wheel (tuk tuk) company, to promote pro-indian, and pro-tamil content, under the guise of free press that is devoted to seeking truth (and perhaps means of “reconciliation” too, whatever that means). It is full of mis and disinformation published by people like Wigneswaran to Sankaralingam (Gnana). It is nothing but a propaganda site masquerading like a news site.
The so called “journalist in exile” is nothing but a traitor that works for the Indian Intel jeopardising the interests of his motherland where he still is a citizen I believe. What he does amounts to treachery and perhaps punishable by law, if we had good laws and law enforcement mechanisms to begin with, here in Sri Lanka.
The Scot, the Codger, and leela are part of their game plan – promoting Sinhala Buddhist hatred, with the sole goal of creating a Mono-ethnic Federal State of Tamil Ealam in the North and East of Sri Lanka where neither the Sinhalese Buddhists nor the Muslims are welcomed.
According to these Tamil fundamentalists both Sinhalese and Muslims are low caste descendants of Tamils of the most Supreme Indus Valley Civilization and the equally Supreme Dravidian race.
It’s funneh how the “journalist in exile” is blind to the race and caste based harassment and discrimination that takes place in CT forums – led by old codger, leelagemalli, sj, native vedda, and most recently LankaScot among others. LankaScot appears to be nothing but a sexually perverted criminal with links to international crime and terror outfits including Italian Mafia, the regional agent of which, appears to be none other than Rahul Gandhi of India – the son of Rajiv and Sonia Ghandi, the contemporaries of the much famed Nehru-Gandhi family of India.
Rahul’s local agent here in Sri Lanka appears to be another a$$ hole called Sugath Hewapathirana, and his family. He is the current Chairperson of the Western Province Tourist Board.
His criminal work is well supported locally by a lawyer, amongst other people, by the name, Buddhike Illangatillake who has a law firm operating from World Trade Center in Pettah, by the mame of IP Chambers.
Despite claiming they help you to secure your IP or Intellectual Property rights, what Illangatillake and his associates seem to be doing is nothing but stealing their clients’ intellectual properties and give them to their friends like Jayampath Attanayake in the case of Illangatillake. I know this because I am one of the victims. More about it perhaps later.
Your views in relation to AI are noted with thanks. I will give them some thought leisurely, and get back to you. Meanwhile you may benefit from reading Nobel laureate late Daniel Kahneman’s book titled: “Thinking Fast & Slow” if you have the time to invest.
CT is run by Uvindu Kurukulasuriya: https://www.qurium.org/fighters/uvindu-kurukulasuriya-going-into-exile-is-a-big-decision/. He was no doubt writing BS about the Rajapakses like that other liar, Lasantha W before running from the country passing gas. Lasantha & Sunday Leader were getting big bribes from various NGO’s and others to defame the Rajapakses. By the way, it was not Gotha who killed LW. It was Sarath F, who is a real psychopath. Gotha is not homicidal, you know that he pardoned over 10K LTTE terrorist cadres, giving them zero jail time. Should’ve deported all of them to Toilet Nadu. Also, you noticed Uvindu has never once put out an article critical of Fonseka, though it was Fonseka who was really running the show, till the very end (May 2009). These fake journalists are only critical of the Rajapakses. Why is that, I imagine these assholes are getting a lot of money (funding) from NGO’s to put out their hit pieces. Fonseka doesn’t know English and he’s not in the government, so they focus attention exclusively on Raja clan.
I know the Rajapakse’s were also corrupt as hell, I’m not arguing against that. My point is, there was a real agenda to divide the country, backed by foreign NGO’s and LTTE terrorist Diaspora. The journalists, like this Uvindu asshole, were part of the effort to divide the country. They made a good living through crisis, off people dying and sensationalizing so-called “human rights violations” that never happened. Rajapakse put a permanent end to the war, ending the easy NGO money flow. That’s why these journalist fuckers put a target on his back.
You are correct about CT being a gathering hub for Tamil terrorists. The lies and propaganda they write about SB’s is similar to the Nazi propaganda about Jews. Donald Sankaralingam is a big-time LTTE donor. Raj UK is another one. LankaScot (real name Alan), I’m not sure what his agenda is. Like you wrote elsewhere, he is some broke loser who couldn’t afford to retire in the UK. This guy pretends to know everything, but if you probe a little deeper, he quickly becomes agitated. He has some superficial knowledge, like names and dates, but in reality knows shit. It seems that the Tamil terrorists on CT are trying to recruit him.
WP stands for “Word Press.” It’s a kind of “content management system” (CMS) that can be used to host blogs and other online content. It’s a prime target for hackers for various reasons, e.g. it’s open-source, meaning anyone can see the source code and some weaknesses in the plug-ins & themes.
Lester,
Thanks for the explanation.
Word Press, Yeah I know. I should have figured that one out.
Anyways you are dead right about NGOs. Because when the Sri Lankan forces defeated the pariah LTTE I was working in one, called BasicNeeds Sri Lanka (BNSL). The Sri Lankan outfit of a British charity that claimed to work towards uplifting the lives of mentally ill. Founded by a sorry ass white dude called Chris Underhill who has even got an OBE for his work. I was thoroughly impressed of him, his work, and the organisation, at the beginning. But my enthusiasm did not last long, when I gradually learnt the inner workings of how they operate and what their hidden agends were.
So I am well aware of what these NGOs are all about and the kind of shit that goes in them. The ghosts that I have attracted during my one year tenure at this joke of an organisation that claimed to work at the intersection of mental health and development still haunts me to this date.
They tried their best to recruit me for the agenda you have stated in your comment and failed. That is one of the reasons that I am at the receiving end of all kinds of harassment and mal-treatment.
If I went along with their agenda I would have by now leading an NGO with a PhD in some human rights shit under my belt, from a well reputed university in Europe, earning a fat salary and perks simply for doing nothing, except perhaps bashhing the government and particularly anything progresive they do.
Speaking of BasicNeeds here are a list of employees that unleashed a well coordinated personal insults, attacks and harssed and discriminated me in numerous ways possible including sexual harassment:
(001) Tilak Karunaratne –
He was the head of the Sri Lankan outfit when I joined, the Country Programme Manager, and was a soft spoken personality that resorted to most peaceful ways of resolving conflicts within the organisation.
He, I thought even up to quite recently, is a decent bloke. But it looks like, as in the case of my assessment of Sinhala Man or Panini Edirisinhe in Colombo Telegraph who is famously from Bandarawela, the ardent supporter of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and everything and anything that is National People’s Power (NPP), I was wrong about this fellow too.
One of his major problem was not being assertive enough to establish the authority of his position required, so that the organisation functions effectively. Though his passive nature I thought was a plus, looking back I feel that it was not. Because this led to his subordinates being behaving erratically and the most unruly manner, particularly the person who was looking after Finance and Administration. The second senior most person within the local office. A tamil woman by the name of Vanee Suredranathan, whose character requires a separate pyschological analysis. More about her later.
Karunaratne’s inability to assertively lead the organisation not only left others behaving unruly but also resulted in him being manipulated by others, particularly by the second in command, Tamil woman Surendranathan. This I believe ultimately led to his own premature departure from the organisation under circumstances that were not clearly and fully explained to the rest of the staff.
Most disturbingly as in the case of Sinhala Man aka Panini Edirisinhe, Karunaratne too seems to have joined the group of people that has been harassing me the manner in which I have explained in my initial comments here. His motivation too has been a casteist one – he it appears belongs to Govigama caste and even approved the sexually perverted activities that were unleashed by the above mentioned people, against me, my family, friends, and colleagues.
More about him and others after I get back as my father is up from his evening nap and requires his evening tea…
Lester,
You have written above: “Donald Sankaralingam is a big-time LTTE donor. Raj UK is another one.”
That explains, I think in addition quite a lot of them do the dobi job for the LTTE too, by laundering LTTE dirty money. Looks like quite a lucrative trade, and very widespread one too.
“LankaScot (real name Alan), I’m not sure what his agenda is. Like you wrote elsewhere, he is some broke loser who couldn’t afford to retire in the UK.”
In addition I have a feeling that he is a paedophile too. Sri Lanka is well known to be a safe haven for paedos, and I believe the current leader of the LTTE known by the short name KP, runs a ‘paedo ring’, and is heavily into child sex trafficking. One of the ways in which the LTTE raised money in addition to trafficking women for sex trade. Not to mention drug trafficking – famous Kerala Ganja suppliers not just to the region but also to Europe and beyond, to the True North aka as Canada. That Sinhalese joker leelagemalli seems to be well plugged into this network of criminals.
With overseas LTTE and pro-LTTE elements, supportive Tamil Diaspora and their sympathisers, including the likes of Kamala Harris, Rishi Sunak, and the sorry excuse for an artist by the label MIA, all being still very functional in pushing the separatist agenda forward, along with Indian hegemony in the South Asian region, there’s a great danger in giving any form of further autonomy to the North and East Provincial Councils via the much contraversial 13th amendment. This also include the still living (unfortunately), Prabhakaran’s own sister in some down town shanty in North America, and an alleged Prince that claims he is the current heir to the throne of an equally alleged Kingdom called Jaffna Kingdom. This joker who is living in Norway, seems to be the driving force behind Eric Solheim
Based on my experience on CT alone, it looks like the LTTE is the entity that still call the shots, when it comes to politics of Tamil people with the mandate they get from the above mentioned network and their sympathisers in the Western World, Toilet Nadu, and in other places, from Dubai (where they seem to park their ill gotten money – particularly in the Standard Chartered Bank under the watchful care of a sales guy named Angello Anthony – originally from Wellawatta) to Singapore, Malaysia, and other Australasian locations.
This is not only dangerous to Sinhalese Buddhists and those law abiding citizens in the Southern part of the island, but also to the average Tamil citizenry, who wants to lead a decent life without being extorted by criminal elements like the LTTE.
My biggest worry is not because the LTTE was a militant or even a terror organisation but because they are essentially an organised crime network that raised money by engaging in various international crimes – finacial crimes, drug trafficking, to human trafficking including children, for sex slavery, with links to other established traditional organised crime networks such as the Italian Mafia.
It is dangerous to let an entity of this nature to have any influence in your political and economic discourse. This will be more detrimental to Tamils than others as they will be the ones who have to live under the thumbs of these criminals. I don’t think that it will be a pleasant experience to be dictated by organised criminals, on how to live, what to eat, what type of music to listen to, what to wear, how to cut your hair, and last but not least with whom to have romantic and sexual relationships with.
Hence we must crush these both active and sleeper cells of the remaining LTTE network scattered around the globe from ghettos of Scarborough to the White House and London, where the joker who just got kicked out from #10, Downing Street, the Proud Hindu – $hitty $hunak lives. Sooner we do this the better. And their ill gotten moneys frozen and confiscated.
Getting back to your reference to the Scot on CT, you have also said:
“This guy pretends to know everything, but if you probe a little deeper, he quickly becomes agitated. He has some superficial knowledge, like names and dates, but in reality knows shit. It seems that the Tamil terrorists on CT are trying to recruit him.”
Yes. He tries to give the impression that he is an Engineer of some sort but when I confronted him about his credentials, what he readily came up with were, first some sort of a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, and secondly a MCSE certification (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer).
Then he made a rather unconvincing attempt to pass the latter as an Engineering qualification. I wonder what this guy thinks Sri Lankans are, to make such a lame attempt to claim that he is an Engineer because of his MCSE certificate? May be these are the claims with which he fool the people in the area where he lives in Central Province, probably some rural village where people aren’t that much educated?
So this is the kind of personnel that fuel the Tamil political discourse, that’s why they are probably interested in recruiting him. A man right down their alley, and what’s more one with a white skin – a bonus. A God’s gift to Tamil strategic apparatus.
Don’t be surprised come next February, if he comes up preaching Human Rights and Sustainability, or eradication of poverty, womens and child rights, dressed in a sleek, expensive suit, and get appointed to the United Nations or even to the World Bank, as some sort of a Consultant or a Public Relations guy, with a fat pay check to take his otherwise impoverished home, recommended none other than by the most powerful individual on the planet Earth – POTUS – Kamala Harris!
Ruchira,
The answer is to deport all the Tamils to their original homeland of Toilet Nadu. I know it’s an unpopular solution but who gives a fuck what other people think. Tamils are 100% responsible for screwing up Sri Lanka, they need to pay some kind of price. As you said, they will never give up on the separatist agenda, which poses a threat to the stability of the country. We also need to do something about Muslims. These guys are even more brainwashed than Tamils and they breed exponentially. As I wrote on CT, land and other resources are finite. If and when the Muslim population reaches something like 30%, there will be a big conflict with the majority (Sinhalese).
Once the minorities are gone, Sri Lanka can focus less on national security. Significantly downsize the size of the armed forces, allocate more money to education & human development.There is also greater opportunity to elect more capable politicians.
I see a lot of potential for Sri Lanka, excluding the interference of minorities. It can grow organically like South Korea or Japan. Unlike its shit neighbor to the North, there are no issues with casteism. Many Indian men are seriously fucked up, they are born with a rapist or slave mindset. The women are also ugly as shit.India is the biggest shithole on the planet, just check any Internet poll.
Lester,
You have said: “The answer is to deport all the Tamils to their original homeland of Toilet Nadu. I know it’s an unpopular solution but who gives a fuck what other people think. Tamils are 100% responsible for screwing up Sri Lanka, they need to pay some kind of price.”
No need to further elaborate, yes, that’s what should be done – chase them away to Toilet Nadu. I mean did the jews thought what others were thinking when they unleashed a brutal attack on Palastine? If not, why would we care about what others think? I totally second that.
“Many Indian men are seriously fucked up, they are born with a rapist or slave mindset. The women are also ugly as shit.India is the biggest shithole on the planet, just check any Internet poll.”
True that too. Natural born rapists these people are!. It’s in their DNA. Its high time we take measures to protect our women both young and old.
I was in the middle of reading this when I noticed that you have made new comments here. Thought I’d share it here for you to have a look at too: https://www.smh.com.au/national/roys-full-speech-20041104-gdk1qn.html
You are right about the Muslim mofos too. What do you think we should do to them?. I mean, I know they prefer to be buried, but that’s a waste of lot of land, don’t you think?
To start with they have their women covered from head to toe in some black sack, but want to oogle at and rape our women. I have few more things to say about these perverted halal jokers, but before that I’ll have to order something for dinner. Will get back with responses to your other comments soon..
Btw your comment on Bell Curve and IQ I thought was pretty neat. Well structured and organised, in manner that anyone could follow. Written in the most simplest form, with bullet points, sub-headings, and using bold fonts etc etc. Have you ever thought of venturing into Technical Writing?
The Jews are an interesting lot. They could live anywhere and still be relatively wealthy, yet they specifically choose a neighborhood surrounded by angry Muslims. These angry Muslims are backed by Iran. Eventually Israel will have to go to war with Iran, given the sophistication of its proxy attacks, as we saw with 7th Oct. The economic damage to the Israeli economy, especially the tourist industry, is massive. The fact that thousands of young men have been conscripted also takes away from normal economic activity.
From the link you gave, “It is becoming more than clear that violating human rights is an inherent and necessary part of the process of implementing a coercive and unjust political and economic structure on the world.” That’s what I’ve always said, when it comes to politics, human rights is secondary to the economic interest. The US military budget is nearly $1 trillion USD (annually). Of course diplomacy is the cleaner option. But if that fails, there is another option, which is armed aggression.
What should we do to Muslims, the same as Tamils. Exponential population growth combined with poverty is the source of many world conflicts, e.g. COVID-19, Palestine, Kashmir, etc. People who are born into this environment can become very dangerous later on. In fact, this is the source of Islamic terrorism. As I understand, Ranil has been cutting deals (bribes) with Muslim ministers for decades now. Some of the land used to train the Easter Sunday bombers was given by Ranil. That’s why these ministers were quick to resign following the attacks. Not that Ranil understands anything about terrorism or terrorist ideology. He would sell the mother for votes.
“Written in the most simplest form, with bullet points, sub-headings, and using bold fonts etc etc.”
Well, I took those particular stats from another website and copy/pasted them here.
“He tries to give the impression that he is an Engineer of some sort but when I confronted him about his credentials, what he readily came up with were, first some sort of a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, and secondly a MCSE certification (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer).”
LankaScot is definitely not an engineer. He made the ridiculous claim that someone without a higher education can perform as well as a qualified (licensed) engineer. This is nonsense, as the point of an engineering education is rigorous training in both design and analysis with the use of expensive software. There is also an emphasis on soft skills such as teamwork, documentation (communication aspect), and ethics.
He also made some nonsense claim that gravity is not a force of attraction. When shown the elementary equation (Newton’s Law of Gravitation), he still insisted that gravity is not a force of attraction. His argument (appeal to authority) is “Einstein said so.” In fact, the gravitational effect (attraction between two bodies) is always there even if space is bent, as in the general theory of relativity. This is the point I was making when that piece of shit “Uvindu” banned me from his garbage blog. I strongly dislike people who are dishonest about science, this is the high end of retardation, that’s why I chose not to post there anymore. The mentally incompetent Tamil terrorists have no issue with dishonesty, especially if it supports their separatist agenda.
Lester,
Thanks for the comment.
Yes I know about Uvindu Kurukulasuriya though not in a personal sense. I always found the story of him going into exile a little suspicious.
For starters why did the guys, the International Media Support (IMS) only tipped Uvindu off to flee the country becuase of possible life endangering risks? Why couldn’t have they tipped Lasantha too off and saved him, after all he was a bigger fish as far as journalists here at the time was concerned.
Anyways I do not want to speculate much without knowing facts but I did realise after patronizing CT for the past several months, that Uvindu is not the person that he is projected to be by media and also by himself through CT and other channels.
“The mission of “Colombo Telegraph” is to report the under and miss reported, censored stories in Sri Lanka” – from your link provided
This I believe is quite far from the truth. CT appears to be a safe haven for those who spread mis and disinformation. Nothing but a propaganda site for Indian intel guys and Tamils, which invariably means LTTE also, that are essentially anti-Sinhala Buddhists, who want Sri Lanka to be unconditionally submit to the growing Indian hegemony in the region, while splitting the country across ethnoreligious ideologies probably further enhancing rifts between different ethnic communities.
Your comments on SF and the Rajapaksas are noted. Will keep them in mind. Similar to Uvindu, Fonseka too appears to be not the kind of a person I initially thought he was. So I am not at all surprised by your comments.
Lester,
Pardon my ignorance, you have above stated:
“… WP is very hackable, so I will return there eventually…”
What exactly is WP?
Lester,
WRT your following comments on AI & Technology, that I said I will give some thought leisurely and get back:
“AI is the future. Human intelligence has peaked (refer to the reverse Flynn effect). Take an activity like physics. There hasn’t been a major breakthrough for around 40-50 years. It’s logical to argue that the next great leap in knowledge will have to come from machine learning. Such a leap will transfer from the scientific to the technological domain, completely changing existence as we know it. It’s also worth mentioning, AI will not be “static”, as it is now. It will be dynamic. In the form of human-like robots and other devices. This is difficult to imagine now. It’s equivalent to telling someone in the 19th century that communication would be overtaken by smartphones. It will happen because technology has always been the primary mechanism that improves human living standards. ”
I do tend to agree with most of what you have said but also disagree with some others.
To start with I would be cautious in making claims like human intelligence has peaked.
In fact I myself have taken a slightly different view in one of the presentations I refer to in my couple of first comments here, presentation I referred to as one of the reasons why I’m being persecuted.
A ten minute oral presentation I made at a Neuroscience conference organised by International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO), under its Visiting Lecture Team Programme (VLTP), having mentored by one of the resource persons, now deceased neurobiologist of international fame, Professor John Nicholls, that was held in Colombo, 12 years ago, in 2012.
It looks like the ideas presented in this ten minutes presentation have now been accepted as valid, and some preliminary case studies too have been conducted to ascertain certain evidence to this end.
I may be able to publish them along with the results of preliminary studies done, to the same end, pretty soon in an accepted peer reviewed journal. Hence I will refrain from going into detail. But let me give you a sneak peek as to what the gist of my argument presented in this oral submission titled “Evolutionary Genetics of Scizophrenia”.
Bssed on some genetics research conducted by a group of scientists led by Bernard Crespi (1)(2), on the same topic, they have concluded that genes responsible for Scizophrenia are positively selected secondary to genes implicated in the development of human cognitive capabilities during the course of human evolution. This is somewhat of a paradox as the trait Schozophrenia offers no survival advantage. Hence the contemporary evolutionary biologists and psychiatrists refer to it as an Evolutionary Paradox and concludes that Schizophrenia is a by product of the evolution of human cognitive capabilities.
I, in my aforementioned presentation, challenge this conclusion, taking the view that Schizophrenia could instead be a sign of unrealised evolutionary potential – that we have errorneously pathologized.
I back this claim further in a second presentation, an academic poster, presented in absentia, at the annual joint meeting of International Society for Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH) and European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), held in Groningen, Netherlands, back in 2017, which too have gained recognition.
In this latter presentation I refer to the view taken by the Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist in his book titled “The Master & Emmissary – the divided brain and making of the western world”(3), that Schizophrenia in fact is a result of assymetrical use of human brain hemispheres in building what we broadly consider as the Western Civilization over the course of several millennia.
I combined this and the view I have taken in my former presentation challenging Crespi et al, based on a principle in systems science called “Priciple of Sub-optimization”, and suggests that human evolution may progress if we restructure the human civilization to allow unrealized human evolutionary potential that I make reference to.
Therefore the conclusions I have made in my above mentioned two presentations go against the idea that human intelligence has peaked.
I know it’s a little tough to grasp unless you are familiar with the different principles from several disciplines I use in formulating the above hypothesis, but they are easy to understand if you put some effort. I will keep you posted the full contents of presentations when they are officially published. For now here are the references to sources of couple work I have cited above of Crespi & McGilchrist:
(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2288689/
(2) https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070903/full/news070903-6.html
(3) The Master and His Emissary https://g.co/kgs/WC6NHMw
Anyway it’s almost dawn here, need to go fix breakfast, catch you laters perhaps.
Ruchira,
I don’t know if you’re familiar with the “Bell Curve” or incorporated it into your research. The basic idea is that if you take a large enough sample from any population, the corresponding IQ levels will form a normal distribution.
The bell curve suggests that most people have IQ scores near the average, with fewer individuals at the extremes of the distribution.
Now why does this matter? In my opinion, its those 2.5% people scoring above 130 who are responsible for the technological and scientific progress we see in society today. People like Elon Musk, with great vision, who are able to fundamentally transform society for the better. You also have dumbasses like Osama Bin Laden or Trump who have quite a lot of vision, but any transformation they make is obviously negative. Now think about if AI could match the IQ levels of the 2.5% of geniuses. You would be essentially traveling in the future. It wouldn’t take 100 years to create cutting-edge tech; it might take only 1 year. Human society in general would progress at an accelerated pace.
This is just my opinion, I need to look more into it. I will try to read McGilchrist’s book and take a look at the papers you mentioned.
Lester,
Thanks for the comments.
Of course I’m familiar with the Bell Curve. It’s the first lesson in medical statistics. Yes, I know the Mean +/- 2SD concept – the so called “Normal”.
In fact this is the first practical in Physiology at Med School. Instead of IQ we use height, of the students in the batch/class. We measure them and plot the values on a graph.
This particular knowledge is central to the practice of medicine, because that’s how you interpret if someone’s particular investigation (lets say blood sugar level) is healthy or not. In the case of blood sugar – if you take blood sugar levels of a population and plot them on a graph it will give you a bell shaped curve and you determine what is normal by taking the two values at each end of the M +/- SD range.
In blood reports you get from the lab you have something called a reference range against which results of your own test is compared. This ref. range is basically M +/- 2SD of the normal distribution. If your test result is outside this range doctors consider it pathological, or abnormal lets say, and depending on the case and the condition may decide to treat you.
But as you have correctly shown by taking IQ as an example and per the principles of Bell Curve, and normal distribution of values of naturally occurring variables, the values outside ref. range are just extremes of a distribution of values that are still normal – and may not necessarily indicate an underlying pathology unless there’s other evidence to suggest so.
I always had an issue with this in Med School but never got it resolved. Some values for certain variables investigated may not indicate a pathology simply because they lie a little outside the reference range.
Take the case of blood pressure. Normal is considered 120/80 Hg mm. If it is increased > 140/90 it is considered hypertension or high blood pressure. My concern is given that in anycase we do not have a Bell curve for blood pressure measures of all the people in the world or as the case may be in a given specific community or a constituency, to arrive at a precise Mean and subsequently M +/- 2SD, how do you know if a blood pressure reading above this limit is truly indicative of a pathology or just normal for the specific individual who happens to be an outlier, or to his family at least as far blood pressure is concerned?
This factor is in fact taken into account when conditions like short stature in children are studied. A child may be considered short according to afore mentioned criteria, but that may not be an indication of a problem in his / her growth and development. He could be just coming from a familiy, in whose members are nutarally short
I’ll get back to your other comments after lunch.
“the values outside ref. range are just extremes of a distribution of values that are still normal – and may not necessarily indicate an underlying pathology unless there’s other evidence to suggest so.”
That’s a good point. In fact, the further you go away from the mean, the less reliable in general the test becomes. E.g. the sample size may decrease. So you would have to do further testing to ensure accuracy.
I have concluded my above comment stating that I’ll continue later. There’s much to be said on this topic but simply not enough time at hands, especially since I was bogged down with household chores unexpectedly since of late – from cooking to doing dishes to laundry, and ensuring my soon to be octogenarian father, with whom I live, is looked after. His meals, tea and medications given on time.
In addition I have been monitoring his blood pressure too, at home, on a daily basis, as I have a suspicion if he was initiated on antihypertensives by one Dr. Tripti Deb, an Indian national Cardiologist, who at the time worked at Apollo Hospitals, Colombo, now Lanka Hospitals, to where my father still goes to consult most of his doctors, arbitrarily, without due diligence, especially ignoring concerns I raised, as to whether his single or a few blood pressure measurements taken at the doctor’s office, were indicative, if at all, what is usually referred to as White Coat Hypertension (WCH) – and whether further assessment of his blood pressure is necessary, perhaps in the form of an Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM). This, if I can remember right, is because I found his blood pressure to be normal when measured at home, when he was initially found to be hypertensive by the said doctor.
Though I can not recall the exact turn of events, she was also ready to assume that my father’s coronaries may have gotten reoccludded since his CABG, or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, that has been done many many years ago, when we first consulted her. Her suspicions were later found to be not true.
On the issue of blood pressure upon my mentioning that his pressure at home was quite normal and if his raised pressure at the doctor’s office could be WCH, she again was quick to dismiss the idea, stating that his blood pressure could be fluctuating, and a fluctuating blood pressure is riskier than a stable one, and therefore requires antihypertensives being initiated, this was after I have introduced myself to her as the patient’s son and a medical doctor.
But looking back I now have the concern if she was too eager to initiate him on antihypertensives without taking my observations seriously and paying them due attention. I can understand that a fluctuating pressure being riskier and the need for initiation of medicines, but I believe blood pressure in any case would vary during the day to some degree. For example after sleeping overnight and measured while the person who is still on bed, when the person is having a full bladder, as opposed to soon after emptying a bladder, different moods, and experiences, external events, all I believe amongst others may have an impact on blood pressure. Therefore certain variations are I believe to be expected even in a normal healthy individual.
When things are such, I feel that, whether there was an abnormal variation or fluctuation of blood pressure that warrants initiation of treatment should have been established by further investigation, in the form of a simple ABPM, also exluding or confirming any WCH, before starting him on medicines, which Dr. Deb failed to do.
It is still too early to say, as I have only taken a few measurements, but there seems to be a fluctuating diastolic pressure that at times go to very low and concerning levels, raising the concern if his antihypertensive medication doses require any correction.
This exercise has already generated a context within which many R&D activities are not only possible, but are essential in optimizing the treatment of hypertension, that has implications on the overall management of other Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) too, and how we approach the health of an individual in the context of building healthy societies and a planet to live in.
Broadly speaking the role of smart garments and wearables could play in continuous monitoring of vital body functions and how you could use such data not only to manage health just of individuals but also that of entire communities; and the public health implications and ramifications of the same, are a plenty and far reaching. The roles that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies could play in this context is of paramount importance.
This also opens the door to many entrepreneurial activities in the form of product optimisation and development opportunities and initiatives.
For an example whether some people with fluctuating blood pressure could and should be treated with antihypertensive pumps similar to insulin pumps used in the management of diabetes mellitus requires trials and attention, possibly opening doors to designing, developing, manufacturing, distributing, and marketing such products.
Well, that being said getting back to the topic I started off with about the political landscape the prevails in the country, please also read the comment I have made under the below linked article here on LBO as well: https://www.lankabusinessonline.com/un-hr-commissioner-says-call-for-historic-transformation-is-far-from-being-realised-in-sri-lanka/
R.
Jassi’s are like viruses: https://aseannow.com/topic/1333528-indians-pooping-on-the-beach-in-canada/
Lester,
You must be wondering how I know all this so well. It’s simply because Dr. Weerasinghe and I are not only from the same batch (batch 94/95) of the Colombo Medical Faculty, but also were good buddies back then.
We belonged to a small group of friends about 10 to 12 within the batch that hung out together. We studied together often at Dr. Weerasinghe’s house in Nugegoda, Chapel Lane, where he used to threw parties to his friends and us from med school. He had a small annex upstairs which he occupied with a separate entrance and a staircase from outside the main house. That is where we used to study. His mother was a kind lady who had no hesitation to make tea and cook lunch for us, whenever we hung out there. He had a sister too but I don’t think she was much into studies. Think she had a guy back then, hotel school type fellow not sure if sge got married to him, as he was bit of an average fellow, compared to our Weerasinghe’s.
Anyways continuing on things that we did, we went out together. Went to buffets in hotels during the vacation. Went to movies together – I think Kàma Sutra (an indian production I believe) and a movie called Blade or something in which Wesley Snipes starred as a vampire who could even walk in the day light, hence called the Day-Walker were couple of movies we may have gone to watch together, sometimes on the spontaneous suggestion of Dilendra, even cutting lectures. Such was the bond within our group.
There were couple of girls too that often hung out with us. One Dileema, who too now in the US, somewhere in New York. Sunera who is a Psychiatrist now based in Australia, were the regulars; as Dileema kind of carried on somewhat unoffocially with Ranjuka and Sunera was officially hitched to another guy in our group called Anthony, who later dumped her.
There were others too. Dinithi who was Asitha Dias’s girl friend is another one. Dias was another member of our group. Dinithi studied at the Management Faculty of the same university and often came to hang out with us. They too are now in the States having won Green Card lottery. There were originally in North Dakota but now I think in Minnesota. There were othters too that came to hang out with us on and off, like Suruchi and Aroona.
We went to parties together. Dr. Weerasinghe did part time stints of Dee Jaying for the TNL radio station and some clubs and private parties, during the gap period between ALs and university entrance. He was originally a Thomian and came to Royal where I studied from grade 6 onwards, having gained admission to it through Royal Entrance Examination, to do his Advanced Levels. Though we were hardly known to each other at Royal during the Pre- University Admission English Language course cinducted I believe by the University Grants Commission and in the Medical Faculty we knew each other well and belonged to the above same clique. The so called “cool kids from Colombo Schools that went night clubbing”, a habit we got introduced to by Dilendra and another guy in the same batch, now the Consultant Vascular and Translplant Surgeon at the Teaching Hospital, Katapitiya – Dr. Ranjuka Ubeyasiri, apparently to the disaproval of some other medical students. Because in this part of the world medical students are not supposed to go clubbing contrary to the reputation of medical student in places like the UK, who, according to my friend from there, Shennie, are not only known to party hard but also consume various types of substances while at it – a practice that they engage in to deal with otherwise monotonous and stresfull life at med schools.
Our clique was a safe haven for Dileema and Ranjuka, who carried on a secret relationship, but quite ironically, quite openely. As the saying goes – if it was anything – it was complicated. Ranjuka was a bright case from Colombo Seven (Longdon Place) and like Dilendra, a part time model who has won a couple of modelling contests to his credit. One was an island wide modelling contest held back in the day called Man-Hunt. He was a runner up in perhaps 1994. Then while still in med school he again became the runner up of Mr. University International, a modelling and a beauty contest amongst university students world wide held in that particular year in Japan.
He is a looker. A fit guy. Played Basket Ball and had College Colours, at Royal, but unlike me, having studied there from Kindergarten itself, belonged to the other half (of Royalists), a full blooded Royalist. He appeared in several TV adverts too. Very famously one which advertises Keells Chicken Meat Balls, in which a couple of girls refer to him as “Niyama Kukula”, a nick name some use to refer to him even today. Here’s the Youtube video of the advert: https://youtu.be/rZou7RO7jag?feature=shared
Recently I noticed that he has upgraded himself from a model to a role model and given a speech at the Prize Giving Ceremony at Lyceum International school for which he had got invited as the Chief Guest. Here’s an edited version of his speech, uploaded to Youtube : https://youtu.be/rZou7RO7jag?feature=shared
Yes it’s the same guy. While he was busy gaining surgical qualifications he has lost his hair.
The video used to be more than 20 minutes with him explaining the kind of child he was when he was a young student at Royal Primary. Someone who always got into fights with other students and beat other students up, a rowdy fellow of sorts. Ubayasiri in his speech tells the Lyceum audience that he fought to safeguard weaker students from bigger bullies in senior classes who tried to beat the younger weaker ones. But my class mate in the Advanced Level class at Royal, Jayampath Attanayake, omce told me, Ubayasiri because of his problematic behaviour, was referred to as “Madaviya” back in the day, at Royal Primary. Madaviya means something like a “Thug” in English.
To be continued…
Very interesting. Ranjuka sounds like a classic psychopath.
He used to be my best friend at med school, but now only I see his true character.
Well, I guess it is in times of crises we learn the true nature of those who are around us – friends and family.
I used to think that true friends are those who help you when you are down and struggling, because that’s what Ranjuka, and even Dilendra and few others I considered friends including Dileema did when I referred two subjects at my final MBBS.
I have never been so strong.
Firstly those who stick with you when you are down, kind of draws their satisfaction by helping someone who is down, which gives them a sense of superiority. It is that sense of superiority and authority that motivates them to help you and stick with you.
The very same people, in my case Ranjuka, Dilendra, Dileema, and quite a heap of others, including Asitha, also a fellow called Anthony, not just readily abandoned me, but also actively worked to destroy me completely, in ways that I never thought anyone could possibly resort to, when they realized I was about succeed into hights that they never could have or ever could reach. Instead of joining me in my success, sharing its fruits, to which I have paid in ways that perhaps no other living person has, they decided to unite in working against me motivated by greed and lust displaying traits that I never saw in them.
That said now looking back I see that their friendly help extended when I failed two subjects at my finals, was not at all about me, it appears to have motivated by the prospects of passing Dileema, the woman Ranjuka secretly carried on while in Med School but didn’t want to marry, on to me.
Dileema to her credit when she first migrated to the UK finally expressed her willingness to get together with me in a very creative way, in one of her emails to me, to which I replied in an equally creative manner suggesting its time she moves on with this other guy, who too was in the background, to whom she also have been referring to in her writings, to whom she I believe is now married.
I was kind of smitten by the fact that she fancied me even if it was after Ranjuka, her first choice, but though I truly liked Dileema back then, I don’t think I’ve ever had any feelings other than the kind I have for a friend, for her.
Anyways it is kind of shocking to realize what a person like her is capable of doing, what she, along with almost all of my past friends, have been doing to destroy me. Motivated mostly by greed and lust among various types of envy, including what is known as zip code envy.
But in the case of at least in Dileema what the motivating factor seems to be among other things perhaps, what I have come to term as “Cup- size Envy”. She seems to be rather envious of the fact that several females who are endowed with better anatomical assets than her, are helping me out, and do fancy me, and I them. One of them happens to be Dr. Dineshani Hettiarachchi Sirisena of the Human Genetics Unit of Medical Faculty Colombo.
I was kind of shocked by what Dileema, Dilendra, Ranjuka et al , did to her, particularly the fact that Dileema, a woman, a mother, could do something of the nature, to another fellow female, one in the same profession, another mother. I will leave out the details as it involve information that is extremely sensitive and personal in nature.
The presence of cup-size envy was confirmed when she, Dileema, along with others tried to destroy another girl, Leila Reid, in the UK, despite knowing that I have expressed my love and the desire to marry her. I had a hard time coming to terms with the fact that people whom I used to hangout for the most part of med school life for five years, people whom I considered my best friends, particularly Ranjuka, not so much Dilendra (because being the Thomian that he is, he always made sure to let you know in subtle ways that he is a notch above than me, especially when he moved to the US and settled down as a specialist), were even capable of the kind of things that they were doing and plotting to do. Particularly when they all knew that I had a difficult time finding a female partner to my liking despite some of them trying to help me in the task. I thought they would be happy when I finally found someone – alas I have never been so wrong! All these people are way more successful in their careers and life than me, yet they were united in their efforts to destroy me. I guess they would have been happy if I succeeded but not as much as them, so they could maintain their status quo of superiority.
Well the world seems to work in ways that I never expected. The more these petty individuals try to bury me, more it seems I become popular, including amongst people that I do not even know, with whom, the few friends that stuck with me through this crisis, have shared my story.
I seem to have earned the love and affection of girls, ranging from famous celebrities, with whom I wouldn’t have had any chance whatsoever with, to debutantes across the world that I still have no clue who they are. What’s more? Quite a lot of them do not want to stop at displaying their affection but also seem to want to have a child from me! I’m at a loss for words.
This is because one of the primary reasons that there has been a major international effort, of a kind, that you encounter once in the human history, to destroy me and my family, is motivated by the fact I seem to have endowed with what is colloquially referred to as the “Aryan Gene”, which in fact is a genetic mutation in Y chromosome, inherited by males desceding from those humans that once inhabitted the European Steppes in Central Asia region, and later migrated to other parts of the world including South wards to Iran and India, hence eventually to Sri Lanka too.
But as far as my so called mythical Aryan Gene is concerned, I seemed to have inherited it because of a chance encounter my great grand mother, possibly some ignorant but pretty and desirable village lass, had with a Scottish Major that worked in Sri Lanka during British Colonial times.
This Scotsman while going on an excursion down south had stopped to skinny dip in a small rural village water pool called “Gonapinuwala” (translated to English as ‘that pool of water in which the Sambar Deer swam in’) in the Galle district to which my said great grand mother too had come to have a bath, perhaps dressed skimpily in what you call a diya-redda in Sinhalese. A single piece of garment the village women wrap around to cover their body from torso downwards when they bathe in public, which I believe was the norm back then in villages.
To be continued….
Ruchira,
If you feel something is missing from your life, e.g. companionship, age should not be a barrier. As long as it’s not a gold digger. Keeping in mind that many women don’t age well, so your choice should not be based on appearance alone. In other news: https://www.reddit.com/r/srilanka/comments/1f4panc/girlfriend_is_scared_of_traveling_to_sri_lanka/?seed=t3_1axw456&chainedPosts=t3_1axw456
DonCaliente
• 11d ago
My very blonde and very tall wife was harassed on a daily basis in India. In Sri Lanka people (read: men) hardly batted an eye. The difference was day and night.
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I’m very glad to read that. Poverty can do horrible things to a country. People should retain their dignity regardless.
Lester,
“I’m very glad to read that. Poverty can do horrible things to a country. People should retain their dignity regardless”
True.
Ranjuka obviously fits the description of a psychopath. Calm, collected and presentable outside, cold, heartless and ruthless inside. I’ve read that psychopaths make good surgeons of themselves.
Speaking of gold diggers there’s also this other old man who once told me there isn’t much of a difference between the minds of a serial killer and surgeons, but he turned out to be the biggest psychopath above all of the others, or more precisely psycho-the-rapist. Who designed gang raping of a young pretty rich british virgin girl by two black men with monster c*cks, in a bathroom at this year’s Wimbledon finals in London.
Her crime was that her family having heard about the recognition that my above mentioned work has received was interested in investing in Sri Lanka, including buying Sri Lankan Airlines and making it a profitable business. At the same time this girl who is supposed to be not just pretty but a girl that guys would call sexy and/or hot, was proposed to me for marriage, purely because they thought me and my family was a decent, intelligent family who were not corrupt and never compomised ourselves, our integrity and honesty, seeking monetary and other gains, like promotions etc, even if it meant, being victimized politically and other means, and therefore a family with whom they should form a bond with, eventhough wealth wise we are worlds apart.
I have been introduced to them by Leila’s mother – the other girl to whom I started liking when we met back in 2009 when she came down here for a holiday. Having gotten to know that we were attracted to each other the Tamil diaspora mother fuckers used their networks and contacts in the Sinhalese community in London to poison Leila with lies – telling her that I do not like her, and I have been bad mouthing her and looked down upon her. That I am sime egoistic self abosorbed guy who thought she is some petty worthless wiman, when in fact my sentiments were quite the opposite.
These lies were initiated by the same old perverted man and his wife in Sri Lanka that designed the above mentioned gang rape, and guess what they are Indian Tamils, and their names are Nirmalan Dhas and Pushpalatha Dhas.
When this two old desperate and frustrsted couple along with one of their sons, Arjun Dhas, a heavy metal musician (well self proclaimed) turned cook, designed and directed the gang raping of the girl that was proposed to me, they made sure to make it one of the most violent and ruthless rapes.
They in consultation of number of others who were behind this act that included President Ranil Wickremasinghe hand picked the kind of men that were to be used for it – black security guards at the Wimbledon finals, recruited from Africa, who had extra large penises. Then they custom designed the whole act by describing the kind of sexual activities that these men should perform on this girl who is in her early twenties.
These acts included but not limited to:
– Raping her by the two men both vaginally and anally at the same time with no condoms (obviously)
– Having violently penetrated her anally by one of them until his penis is soiled with her stools deep inside her anus, and then to get her to have oral sex, so that she have to lick her own excreta off the man’s penis.
– violently raping her vaginally by one man while the other holds her leg wide apart.
– Raping her violently from behind while she is laid on the floor facing the ground
– Inserting the fist of a man to her vagina/anus and then turning it around like a cork screw.
The list goes on. These acts had been included based on the preferences of others who took part in organising and designing this rape, including that of Ranil Wickremasinghe, the President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
Then they video taped the whole act from various angles to get the best views of the girl and her body, for example filming to get a full view of her front while raping her in reverse cow girl position by one of the men…
To be continued….
Lester,
Wrt “If you feel something is missing from your life, e.g. companionship, age should not be a barrier. As long as it’s not a gold digger. Keeping in mind that many women don’t age well, so your choice should not be based on appearance alone.”
I am quite generous. 🙂
In fact that has been my ‘weakness’. There’s no reason to change now at this stage of life, when I can finally actually be…. generous that is…
By the way let me point out regardless of the objectives of the sponsors that Mindfullness is a Buddhist concept, rooted in Buddha’s teachings. Good to see someone like Mo Gawdat recognises the importance and relevance of Mindfulness to today’s society and world. I hope he acknowledges that the idea and the concept is rooted in Buddhism.
Continuing my comments in response to Lester…
I will get back about the duo, Dr. Ranjuka Ubayasiri and Dr. Dilendra Haritha Weerasinghe, and whole heap of others, later.
Instead I want to mention about our trip to AIIMS India. AIIMS or All India Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical school in New Delhi, run by the central government of India, to which each year students from all over India come to study Medicine.
In one year we the students of Colombo Medical Faculty got an invitation to an event called “Pulse”, organised and hosted by the students of AIIMS. It was told that it is a get together of medical students in SAARC countries.
Five of us in the aforementioned cool kids group of ours having expressed our interest, got selected to attend this event, by the students union, along with another who wasn’t a regular in our group but was a member of the student union itself, who closely associated us, particularly Ranjuka and Asitha. They were Ranjuka, Ubayasiri, Dilendra Haritha Weerasinghe, Asitha Dias, Tiran Dias (the union guy), Shamooz Oowise and myself.
We were to self-finance our trip to India. From what I can remember except for me, no one else got money, at least not enough to cover the entire trip, from their parents. Mine were of course generous enough to ask how much I want and were happy to provide the same. Others got enough money collected from various ways and sources.
We were under the impression that this was a high profile event with lots of after parties etc. Dilendra, being the night club experts, particularly thought that their would be pool parties and visits to night clubs in Delhi, some of which according to him occupird large lands, and contained multiple storeys including pools where entertainers dance, like you see in sime hindi movies. Basically we were day dreaming of the prospects of chatting up pretty Indian female medical students clad in bikinis sipping cocktails by the pool sides.
Well to cut a long story short when we went to AIIMs the so called high profile gathering of the medical students of SAARC countries was nothing remotely close what we had in mind. To begin with it was a festival held annually at AIIMS, on its premises, to which several thousands of students flock from all corners of India to take part in various activities. From sports competitions to fun games, hundreds of thrm held in various locations inside AIIMS, some events like debates in lecture rooms, and sports in appropriate grounds. It weny of for several days, perhaps close to a week. In the night were musical concerts in one of the grounds of AIIMS playing various bands live to these thousands of students. On one day there was a fashion show at the auditorium we attended. Basically it was one big carnival for which students came in thousands like to one of those hindu pilgrimages you see on tv, but sithout collectively bathing in a river perhaps jeopardising your health.
Nobody officially greeted and welcomed us as a group. The so called represetatives from India’s southern neighbour, Sri Lanka. We were invisible as far as the organisers were concerned. Well it is to be expected because it was just one big carnival sans ferris wheels and food stalls.
The worst part was there was no accommodation for us! We were of the impression that the organisers would be providing accommodation for us but it wasn’t the case. And the bunch of six cool kids, of the Colombo Medical Faculty 94/95 batch, including the most elite students of it, like Ubayasiri and Weerasinghe, had no money to rent even the cheapest place of accommodation in Delhi. Such was our plight.
So we were basically stranded on AIIMS grounds and somehow found our way to one of their hostels inside AIIMS itself, where we ran into this a little strange character, a bot of a loner named Abay Dhan. He was already a doctor, not an undergraduate student. If my memory serves right, he was a post graduate trainee in Radiology. Single living all by himself in a tiny room in this hostel. I can’t remember meeting him was a chance event or whether someone directed us to him, because he was friendly and helpful. He basically told us not only what AIIMS was all about but also what he was all about too and what his goals were during the AIIMS festival.
This was close to thirty or so years ago, so if my memory is correct Dhan came from a humble family and gained admission to AIIMS purely based on his performance at the entrance examination. Having graduated he still occupied a hostel room, I believe mostly if not purely for financial reasons, as a major share of his post graduate trainee salary was spent to buy books and to pay for USMLE classes, which was a major craze at AIIMS.
USMLE as some of you all may know stands for United States Medical Licenciate Examination, that consisted back then of three parts. It is an examination that intenational medical graduates who have studied Medicine outside the US have to get through and complete if they were to be recognized and registered as qualified medical doctors within the US. Basically it’s your license to practice medicine in the US, if you want to go to the States to practice Medicine.
Theres was a major craze to go to the US among AIIMS students, so much so, it was difficult to find a notice board or even a tree trunk on which at least one notice about an upcoming USMLE class pinned on to them!
Dhan was fully absorbed in this craze. According to him from about 50 graduates that AIIMS produces annually about 35 eventually end up in the United States. So his sole goal was to get through USMLE and go to the US, towards which he was working hard without even wearing proper clothes, as he was wearing something like a pyjama and a worn out t-shirt when he entertained us in his small room. Furthermore he hardly went home or even sent money as expenses for USMLE preperation consumed most of his salary. His friend he introduced to us too had the sole aim of going to US, who may have been from a more affluent family, given that his father, we were told, was a pilot. Well at least they were candid and open about their goals to their credit, unlike some of our own, who would secretly prepare for these exams, of which you only get to know about, once they migrate and secure a job overseas, and proudly send a facebook request to connect, with a name of some bush in Australia, that you have never heard of, given as their location!
This was Dhan’s long term goal. More about Dhan and his short term goals once I get back from tea…
Continuing Re: Pulse of AIIMS India from previous posts…
Before I go into Dhan’s short term goals, it must be mentioned that at the end it was Dhan who found us a place to stay.
A vacant room in the hostel premises that he was staying. It has not been ocupied by anyone for sometime, and therefore lacked any furniture, even the most basic ones like a wardrobe to keep the clothes.
I can’t quite recall but if at all there may have been one single bed or two, that was hardly adequate for the six of us, and as a result most of us ended up sleeping on the floor, throughout our period of stay in India.
So this is how the group of Colombo Medical Faculty students, selected to attend this event; selected for belonging to an upper class of the social strata amongst the students of the particular batch, and a group that is outspoken compared to others, one that could make an impression, not just in academic matters but overall. As the students union wanted to make a good impression of the esteemed institution that we were part of, according to their own views, apparently one of oldest medical schools in region (second oldest if I remember correctly).
But they didn’t even have the smallest amount of extra money to stay at least in some cheap bread and breakfast place, when they were told no accommodation would be provided by the organisers. Had to depend and plea from a random stranger to find a place, and was given a room with minimum facilities in which they slept on the floor. Six of them sleeping at a row.
Just to illustrate how the conditions and atmosphere were let me share some photographs that I traced from this trip. In this first photogrph the guy sleeping in the middle facing the floor with his pants down and exposing his tush is none other young Dr. Dilendra Haritha Weerasinghe!
But i have no idea what the heck is he doing letting Tiran (Dias), the union guy, to pull his pants down while perhaps sliding his other hand up his bum? May be it’s Thomian ritual that we Royalists have not been initiated in….? Perhaps some Thomian in the house could clarify…?
If this is how educated people behave, imagine what the uneducated ones like the Muslim beggar “Old Codger” are doing. My theory is that it comes down to a combination of factors: (1) strong sunlight, (2) poverty, (3) segregated schools, (4) decades of Tamil terrorism that hampered development and some others. The first factor is interesting because in my view, it contributes to mental illness and various forms of deranged behavior. I cannot prove it, it’s just a theory: the extreme radiation from the strong sunlight has a detrimental (adverse) impact on normal brain function. Think about the opposite, if Sri Lanka had a climate similar to that of Iceland, would it produce such a such a large number of messed up personalities? To extend this theory, take a continent like South America. Again, near the equator and supremely screwed up (even more so than Sri Lanka). Europe is no exception. The beggar nation of them all is Greece, a so-called tropical paradise. If I were a researcher in the social sciences, this is a theory I would definitely look into.
Lester,
Thank you for your comment.
Yes. I too am more than surprised by the behaviours of the so called educated. I mean of course we all know how the politicians of this country behave, but I thought the educated professionals would at least a wee bit better, only to be once again proven that I have been wrong in my assumption.
No wonder we are an effed up and banckrupt nation. My only surprise is like I have always been saying how the hell we managed 76 years after independence without going banckrupt earlier than this.
Yes. You are right, this phenomenon described need some academic and scholarly attention why certain countries are lagging behind when others are far ahead of them, perhaps centuries.
This is something I struggled to comprehend for a long time, something I do not think that so far has been systematically studied by schollars. Why the countries in temperate zones succeeded and even built empires of scale, when the countries like ours and others in the region, the tropical countries, still keep on struggling to stay afloat in a fast changing world.
One explanation I accidentally came across was from a young person, an American I believe, to whose name I never paid much attention, who has a You Tube channel called “Srcond Thought”.
This is how this channel describe itself on You Tube: “Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a socialist perspective”
According to him those humans of antiquity who lived in the temperate zones where there are four seasons Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, were challenged by the fact that they could neither go hunting nor gathering food from various plants during the winter.
Therefore purely for the purpose of survival they had to learn how to plan ahead for the winter.
This required perhaps among other things saving, preserving and storing adequate stocks of food in appropriate manners to be used during winter and to perhaps anticipate devastating whether outcomes that may further cause problems to their survival.
This was quite in contrast to the climatic conditions that prevailed in the tropics, except for the rainy seasons, sun would be out in most of the days during a year hence those humans that lived in these parts of the world, required no planning ahead for hardships that winter like conditions would bring about. Therefore they did not develop skills in anticipating hardships and planning for the same, putting them at a disadvantage when compared with those that lived in temperate regions.
Hence over millenia humans who lived in the temperate parts of the world learnt how to plan for the future, anticipate unexpected hard times and be prepared for them.
This, over the course of history according to this young chap, gave people from temperate zones with superior planning abilities that could be easily translated to superior strategic competencies, when compared with their cousins in the tropics. This discrepancy is reflected in the assymetrical development that we can see in today’s world.
I can’t find the exact video 8n which he talks of this phenomenon now in a hurry, but here’s a link to his ‘Second Thought’ Youtube channel:
https://m.youtube.com/secondthought
But you are right we need to study this phenomenon in a more scholarly manner before concluding. Why Suddas seems to have faired better than us!