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“AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR 2018” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ “The A.B.C”.,.to the fore, once again, supported by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, bringing you, the members of eLanka an “on-line” account of what I would term, a most prestigious “Annual-Event” that duly recognises persons chosen by their peers for spectacular achievements carried out for nothing other than making this huge multicultural Continent a better place for EVERYONE HERE, to live in. On purpose, I do not intend to “detail” the names and achievements of 32 different “contenders” for this “title”, I would probably have to keep writing until 2019 to complete “that”, anyway, all the names & achievements of these wonderful people will be in the early morning newspapers of tomorrow, the 26th of January, 2018, Australia-Day & the holiday it entails. However, let me start with the “name” of the holiday. As every eLankan (Lankan/Aussie) should ...

Jan 25, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, Home Tagged Comments 0
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“WE’LL MEET AGAIN” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t when,  But I’m sure we’ll meet again, some sunny day, was a good old song (featured), currently, to announce that our Prime Minister, Mr.Malcolm Turnbull is about to meet, for the second time, in person, the President of the U.S.A., Mr.Donald Trump, and we do know that it will be in the White-House, on the 23rd of February, 2018 (this year). What the weather will be, on that particular day, I haven’t a clue, at the moment, because I have not been able to google the long-range weather forecast as yet, hopefully, it will be a “sunny day”. Why am I writing this ?, you ask. Well, I’ll tell you. They met, for the first time, if you remember, folks, to simply discuss the initial “telephone conversation” that took place between them, where the President ended the ...

Jan 25, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Comments 0
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Alston Koch is the Star of Christmas in Colombo A very pleased Prime Minister in a public gesture made a special presentation to Alston Koch (photo).​​ ​Alston Koch’s star shone brightly, but this time in Sri Lanka during Christmas and as The President’s House opened its doors to celebrate Christmas with people from all religions. Alston was flown down by Srilankan Airlines and invited for performances of Christmas Carols at Temple Trees for the Prime Minister and The President at President’s House by Sri Lanka Tourism Minister John Amaratunge.  Alston Koch was also a privileged guest at the opening of ‘Christmas Street’ hosted by Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Authority & was hosted at the Kingsbury Hotel.  Dinesh Weerakody, advisor to the Prime Minister met Alston Koch in London at the British Writer’s Guild Awards & invited him to headline the festivities for Christmas 2017. KOCH – the Star this Christmas (Source: Island) December 25, ...

Jan 21, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Home Tagged Comments 0
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“DREAM-WORLD” (Revisited) By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’      The song is well-known, as is the “Songwriter”,who got into the habit of writing songs for “special girlfriends”simply because “presents”(decent ones), were too expensive to buy, in Ceylon at the time, and, although it got him into trouble, sometimes, this did not cost him anything at all. “Dream-World” was written by this songwriter at the birth of the fabulous 1950’s at number 38 Lorensz Road, Bambalapitiya, in Colombo, after this enamoured young man who was 15 at the time, had met this beautiful 14 year old girl who lived at number 10, on the same road. He had a dream one night, about this same young lass & the rest was easy. It was just after midnight, & while he had never studied the “theory” of music, “tunes” would come into his head, and he would then compose the ...

Jan 21, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, English Videos, Everlasting songs Comments 0
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“COUNTRY COUSINS” EXTRAORDINAIRE by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’  It has certainly been an extraordinary week for me. To start off, after many a long year, I have been able to contact a long-lost cousin, also living in Melbourne, someone who I remember as an extremely talented pianist, Audrey will not mind the mention of her name because, even though we have been “out of touch” for so long, it is good that, in the twilight of our lives, we have managed to find each other again.       If the title of this article is mistaken for the fact that we are the ‘Country Cousins’ are the ones who originally migrated to Australia from Ceylon, a humble apology. Although I am not certain that Audrey loves “Country Music” like I do, music, in general, has been part & parcel of our families. Some of us also “sing” ...

Jan 14, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY, English Videos, Everlasting songs Tagged Comments 0
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“ROCK EXPLOSION”& THE SHAKING HEARTS” – By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ FROM A JACK TO A KING” What a way to start 2018.!  Welcome my friends,fans, family and each & every reader of eLanka. It has been quite an year, now well & truly past, thank goodness. We, @ eLanka have tried our best to keep you up to date with all the news, both from Lanka & Australia. We have endeavoured to bring you “stories” that matter to everyone of us. We have had “top” health-hints from Dr.Harold Gunatillake, interesting excerpts from Victor Melder, dozens of photographs to look at in the special eLanka “Gallery”, “flyers” that practically fly out to you, special articles about “events” taking place, both in Lanka & Australia, you name it folks, eLanka has it.  I’ll say no more. Please join us. To become a member, simply contact Neil Jayasekera at eLanka, ...

Jan 13, 2018 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Comments 0
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