Comments on: Saying what I want, when I want…

By: DD

DD — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:58:52 +0000

I love you too old girl! Now shoo…

By: Pearl Thevanayagam

Pearl Thevanayagam — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:54:44 +0000

Pent up anger and frustraion run through DD and London Dole not to mention sarcasm, the lowest form of wit.

By: DD

DD — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:05:46 +0000

Indefinite leave to remain, secretary for a recruitment consultancy and living in the wonderful (shivers) environs of Harrow. I am sorry old girl I did not know it was bad as this. My apologies, far cry from the WONDERFUL PARADISE, SRI LANKA, isn’t it?

No wonder your so angry.

I genuinely apologise.

By: DD

DD — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:49:53 +0000

Googling ‘Tamil diaspora who conned Praba’ will bring the best results old girl.

Warning – Chips carried on shoulder will lead to obesity.

I am sorry for you old girl.

By: London Dole

London Dole — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:19:59 +0000

Pearl Thevanayagam,

I am so glad that you are a church going journalist. We have helped quite a number of asylum seekers from Sri-Lanka, many of them journalists. Out of those journalists, the only ones who were ashamed to be affiliated with any religion were the Sinhala Buddhists. Their reasoning was that, in going to temple, they would automatically be branded as Sinhala racists/nationalists by Tamils. How pathetic can they be?

We just heard it through the grapevine that somebody has mistaken you for some LTTE supporter who is pretending to be reporting from Jaffna under a Sinhala name. This bogus journalist is probably making lots of money just sitting in a comfy place. Our church frowns upon such deceit.

Anyway, Pearl, I don’t have time to do a Google search on The Drama Queens’ Club – aka Exiled Journalists Network.

By: Pearl Thevanayagam

Pearl Thevanayagam — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:02:47 +0000

Answer to London Dole:

I would love to go Jaffna and I will. I am still in Harrow and I do go to M&S. But today I went to church and I did not go to M&S. Please google Exiled Journalists Network and my name so you will get a picture of what I am up to.
My learned mentor HLD Mahindapala is Down Under but some may have got the wrong end the stick and assumed I was in Jaffna. But then standing on their heads London may look like Jaffna.

Answer to DD:

It’s a bit late for me to `learn’ thy kind of journalism. I learnt under Manik De Silva, late Ivor Milhueisen, late Darryl de Silva, Prof. S.B. Dissanayake, and in the US intrepid journalists from Wall Street Journal, Washington, prize-winning journalists at UC Berkeley and of course BBC, Reuters and Guardian in the UK

Best of all from late Bonny Fernando, who often told us in journalism class to, `murder your darlings’, meaning to drop pompous sounding words and instead use plain English. He also introduced Plain English by Sir Ernest Gowers to us who thought we should use words like paradigm and polity if we are to be taken seriously.

I enjoy a full life and I work with exiled journalists the network of which I am the founder member. There are at least 200 members from 40 countries.

Please DD, feel sorry for those who are ignorant.

By: wijayapala

wijayapala — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:42:31 +0000

DD,

“His downfall was the fact that those closest to him sold him out.”

Who sold him out?

By: DD

DD — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:49:46 +0000

@ pearl
Further if you were a journalist, I would suggest you learn to write like one too.
I was out with my friends last night and stopped to get a takeaway after the bars closed. Two Sri Lankan Tamils were working there and this really drunk guy came into get some chicken. The two boys were flinching and stepping back every time the drunkard talked to them. They were visibly scared of him and obviously have taken some type of abuse before and expected the same. After we got our take away I politely thanked them and said goodbye in Tamil.
I thought of you immediately.

By: DD

DD — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:42:45 +0000

@ wijayapala
It’s history now. When Ranil signed the CFA, many LTTE cadre who had never ever been out of the north and east got the opportunity to visit Colombo. They were all young men in their 20′s. They believed that the Sinhalese were given everything by the government.
What they saw amazed them. As any human being they started to wonder what the hell they were fighting for in the north and east.
That’s when the corruption of the LTTE began. And their downfall. The capture and death of one of the most elusive men in the world after Bin Laden was Praba. His downfall was the fact that those closest to him sold him out.

@ pearl
I like the sudden loss of ‘sarcasm’ from you. However your tone still does not hide your bitterness and apathy of living in the west as a third citizen. Nor your jealousy of seeing other people enjoy living in the west with access to WONDERFUL Sri Lanka. Unlike you I am here by choice, not as an asylum seeker. Nor do I depend on anyone for my daily pittance. Unlike you, I in my 40 something enjoy life.
I strongly suggest you get one too.

By: SomeOne

SomeOne — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:12:15 +0000

Dear Heshan,

“…So that is the cold hard bitter reality of SL… that there is a general climate of dishonesty which prevails. From where did it come? I do not know….”

Heshan, we need to redefine the honesty.

The act of walking away with some thing (which is NOT yours) is NOT stealing.

The act of getting 10% on a contract is NOT corruption. It is an accepted norm. If you don’t know it is your fault.

I understand your anguish because we are on the same boat.