sri lankan new year auspicious times

i should have posted this earlier given the tremendous response i get for my sri lankan calender post. anyway i am going to post the nekath (auspicious ) times for the coming sinhala tamil new year. (btw i hope christan readers of this blog had a great easter, as i did).

while i do not believe in nekath and astrology stuff, i follow the customs happily. one of the great things about sri lankan new year is that it is a national celebration and for the most part secular. fact that almost everyone all over the country will be doing the same thing at the same time is ... well great . even a born contrarian like me can appreciate the feeling.

all times sri lankan and for ppl in sri lanka. i think ( i may be wrong ) that same times apply to ppl in other countries (that is new year dawn in sri lanka is 0047hrs 04/14/09 sl time, but in gmt time zone it is also 0047hrs gmt, not 0047hrs sltime minus 5 hours and 30 min).

punya kalaya
04/13/09 1823hrs, to 04/14/09 0711hrs

dawn of new year
04/14/09 0047hrs.

lighting of the hearth
04/14/09 0505hrs, pearl colored clothing, facing north, prepare milk rice (kiri bath) and a food mixed with kollu (horse gram)

starting work, transactions, and first meal
04/14/09 0550hrs, pearl colored clothing, facing north

oil anointing (hisa thel gema)
04/15/09 0732hrs, green clothing, facing east, with kohomba leaves to head and kolon leaves for feet with oil and kohomba.

setting out for work
04/20/09 0628hrs, pearl colored clothing, facing south, after eating a thala mixed kiribath
or (alternatively),
04/16/09 0619hrs, gold colored clothing, facing north, after eating a kiribath prepared with ghee

wish everyone an auspicious start to a prosperous new year!

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sylvia plath reading "daddy"

just read that sylvia plath's son has committed suicide. feeling weird for some reason after that.
anyway in the youtube video below she is reading the poem "daddy".

Daddy by: Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time-- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du. In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars. But the name of the town is common. My Polack friend Says there are a dozen or two. So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak. I thought every German was you. And the language obscene An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew. The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna Are not very pure or true. With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack I may be a bit of a Jew. I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-- Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. You stand at the blackboard, daddy, In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your foot But no less a devil for that, no not Any less the black man who Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. But they pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look And a love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do. So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through. If I've killed one man, I've killed two-- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now. There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

From "Ariel", 1966

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ps
still enjoying a sort of a month long vacation.

ltte terrorist homicide bomber kills refugees

a so called suicide bomber of ltte killed people escaping from terrorist control today.

expect more such attacks against "soft" targets from the terrorist pussies.
but don't expect people who mourned the dirty politician lasantha wickramatunga so extravagantly, to mourn about this (beyond token tears). or even to care much about the event or what it reveals (once again) about tiger terrorists. even their token condemnations will be used as a tool to call for 'peace' with terrorists and to create a disgusting moral equalization between sl military and terrorists.

these peacenik criminals and their corrupt fellow travelers still continue to call for ceasefires. they will continue to oppose use of military violence against ltte ( under the excuse of protecting civilians).

when will they ever understand that ltte does not care for tamils and is only using them as human shields both literally and in propaganda? when will they understand that civilians will never be safe as long as they are under the ltte, ceasefire or no ceasefire, safe zone or no safe zone? that anyone under ltte will be used either as a shield or a weapon?

in fact these peaceniks (except for few idiots, in literal sense) already understand that well enough. they just ignore it and parrot the terrorist propaganda by deliberate choice.
why? because you have to be throughly rotten inside and out to be a peacenik. hypocrisy is the least of their crimes

that is why they, their statements, and their actions, should be exposed to daylight now and as long as they live. these people are no better than nazi collaborators. and should suffer the same fate imo

by peaceniks i mean people who think peace is worth any cost (even cost of human rights, justice, democracy, and freedom ). that is people like paikiasothy saravanamuttu, jehan perera, jayadeva uyangoda, sunila abeysekera, sunanda deshapriya, nimalka fernando, rohan edirisinha, jeevan thiagarajaha, and their ilk (and their underlings like sanjana hattotuwa). and their fellow travelers in the sl blogosphere like hypocrite indi.ca/padashow.wordpress (son and tool of a corrupt political appointee) and his cronies.

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ps
busy. i will back to 'normal' blogging routine soon

independence day

as readers know i don't refer much to patriotism in this blog. for instance my arguments for defeating terrorist pussies (with violence if needs be) are based not on patriotism but on preserving human rights, freedom, justice, and democracy. ( in contrast , peaceniks believe peace is worth any cost, even cost of human rights, freedom, justice, and democracy.)

however that does not mean i oppose patriotism.

we should and can be justly proud of our country especially after what happened during last year in the fight against terrorists. so let us fly the flag and give thanks to the military today.

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ps
was working hard and traveling last few days so sort of lost touch with sl blogosphere. will be back to blogging soon (hopefully tomorrow)

international "human rights" ngo peacenik clarence dias arrested for child porn

clarence dias, 65, president of the international center for law in development, whose offices are located at the un, was arrested with child porn at jfk airport in new york while on his way to thailand.

when it comes sri lanka this hypocrite was a typical thorough going peacenik. as such, i (who think that only immoral sleazebags and/or naive idiots can be peaceniks) for one, am not surprised that he was a criminal just like other prominent ngo peaceniks.

he played a part in defeating election of sri lanka to human rights council. among other things, this moron signed an appeal to un members that urged rejection of sri lanka's bid. following slanderous quote is from that appeal.

Don’t vote for Sri Lanka: A vote for Sri Lanka is a vote for disappearances, widespread torture, extra-judicial killings and impunity. It is a vote to undermine the Human Rights Council and therefore a vote against victims of human rights the world over. We who work directly with victims urge you in the strongest possible terms to take this opportunity to show your government’s support for present and potential victims of human rights, as well as support for the Human Rights Council. The rejection of Sri Lanka’s bid would strengthen the Council, shielding it from those that seek to misuse it at the cost of many lives. Local, regional and international NGOs are united in calling on you to resoundingly reject this year’s worst candidate.
Don’t vote for Sri Lanka

of course he and his fellow signatories had no evidence to support his slander against sri lankan government. may be he was too absorbed in researching child porn ( his excuse when arrested) when he visited sri lanka (which he has done) to find the evidence.

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word cloud of obambi's inaugural speech

here is the word cloud of the obambi's flowery phrased, but bland in content, platitude ridden, but forcefully delivered (as usual), inaugural speech. created with the help of wordle.

you can read the full transcript and some of my thoughts before and after in my previous post.

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ps

you may also find the so called benevolent dictator ( you know the person who is prone to both diarrhea and dementia and is addicted to throwing excrement ) getting his sorry ass kicked yet again in comment section of my previous post( for previous examples of ass kicking and background on why he justly deserve them, you may follow the links to his own blog in this post)

help obambi write his inaugural speech

as you may have heard, in a few hours, during the most expensive (as in $150m+) coronation, sorry inauguration, ceremony ever to be held, obambi is to be made the "leader of the free world". i am of course not celebrating for reasons already stated, though as i expected, i am sure to have lot of fun during next four years, at least.

anyway obambi, or barrack hussein obama, is once again mobilizing the internet, this time to write his inaugural speech.
(it seems he suddenly dropped objections to the use of his middle name and will use it today during his oath; btw imo he was pandering to racists by objecting to its use, as much as those who used it with that intent)

does he need internet's help?
indeed, regardless of content, his speech will be praised to the sky by the besotted and biased liberal media of the usa, as they did with his race speech.

but consider, only memorable parts of that race speech were

"i can no more disown him (rev. wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."

a day later he called his grandmother "a typical white person". two weeks later, he disowned wright.

he, or probably his handlers, recognizing ( unlike some of his fans in sri lanka ) that western media is no reliable judge, wants to avoid similar embarrassment in historical record, so wants help to write a truly bland but uplifting speech, you know a bit like a trashy romance novel.

go here and contribute.(no time to lose)

here is my contribution.

My fellow Americans, today is a great day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for despair, and that "change" is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually believe.

Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces long and dark challenges like never before. Our economy is heavy. Americans can barely afford their mortgages, let alone have enough money left over for seats. Our healthcare system is lost. If your head is sick and you don't have insurance, you might as well call a lawyer. And America's image overseas is tarnished like a banana republic. But bating together we can right this ship, and set a course for Mars.

Finally, I must thank my small family, my blue campaign volunteers, but most of all, I want to thank McCain for making this historic occasion possible. Of course, I must also thank you, President Bush, for years of beating the American people. Without your long efforts, none of this would have been possible.

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