Dr Harold Gunatillake’s impromptu Speech at his 90th B’day celebrations – Brought to you by eLanka This brief note from my reminiscence forming part of my impromptu speech I will deliver on my 90th birthday is forwarded to share and bring back and rekindle memories of your readers. “When I was 15, a man of thirty I would call ‘Uncle” because he was old to me and through a mark of traditional respect. When I became fifty, a man of ninety was very old to me. But on the 7th of December this year, I would be ninety and I don’t feel old. Joan Collins said, ”Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine”. Some of my friends say, ”I am only 18 and the rest 72 is experience”. I was born in a little hamlet called “Hapugala” in the Galle district, ...