Treating a simple viral cold with Yogurt A simple common cold is a viral infection affecting the upper respiratory areas, including the nose. Signs and symptoms appear about two days following exposure. I did contract one before we left Sri Lanka last week, after being in a salubrious moderate climate environment in Kandy considered as the hill capital. Unfortunately, the city centre is polluted due to blockage for traffic in the vicinity of the Temple of the Tooth. It started with a sore throat, then the nostrils got blocked partially with mucus, and the worst was the irritating cough due to a “post-nasal drip” of the mucus at the back of the nose. Repetitive coughing with no production was annoying and disturbed everyone in the vicinity. Tried antiseptic throat lozenges: they do soothe the throat for about an hour. It is best to avoid cough mixtures because that can increase ...
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US Presidential election; Shoot the messenger, but not the message By Raj Gonsalkorale Donald Trump appears to be slipping from one election catastrophe to another with relative ease and without anyone else’s help. Besides the scandals that have erupted demonstrating his disdain for women and regarding them simply as sex objects whose mind, soul and body are for sale to anyone who has the ability to pay for it. As his opponent Hillary Clinton said during the debate, Donald Trump has hurled insults at a variety of people including Hispanics, Muslims, Latino’s, disabled persons and a host of others. Women with any self- respect should surely make their feelings known in no uncertain terms. ...
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Read More →” IT’S FUN TO PUN ” by the “Star of eLanka” Desmond Kelly! Upun my sole, I now have my feet up and feel in the mood to have a “play on words”,which of course, ends up in a pun. As I’ve said, many times now, English is a very strange tongue indeed. . Being the International language that it is, one would not expect it to be as complex as it is, but unless you are well-read, or read well(take your pick), you will not see the fun in a pun,as I put it, but I will put it to you, that there are many puns in something that is very dear to me. ” Musical Puns” to the sound of music, many of which I have read and now write for you. I used to work on a farm as a pilot.I used to pile it here ...
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“AS TIME GOES BY” by Desmond Kelly : the Star of eLanka! A beautiful old song from an era that spawned them. Now, a “true story” with a difference.It was during the 1980’s in Melbourne. I had already been resident in my new Country for more than twenty years, now 48 years old, I had already been working here for 22 years, having started permanant/part-time employment less than a week after arrival. I still remember my very first job here, as a “mail-clerk” in Melbourne Town, rushing to the Spencer-Street railway station each morning to pick up the mail-bags from the “Southern-Cross” rail & “back at the office” sorting out the thousands of letters, cards, etc., (parcels were dispatched from another section), for the Australian Postal Service, then sending them off to each & every corner of this huge Land. It was my “first job”, it was a great job ...
Oct 11, 2016
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A better way to check your diabetes: Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS-Health writer Most Sri Lankans do ignore a simple test to check for diabetes when required after the age of 40, as they do not realise the serious issues of the disease and the ability to control better when detected early. Those who have a family history of diabetes do check to find out whether they have got high blood sugar levels. To check for fasting blood sugar finger prick test would do. If you have your own glucose testing monitor, you could check it at home when required. In a normal non-diabetic person the reading would be about 90mg/dl. (6 mmol/l). When it reaches 126mg/dl (6.9mmol/l) you would be considered a pre-diabetic. The complications with pre-diabetes and full blown diabetes are similar. So, it is important at the pre-diabetes stage to nip in the bud by eating ...
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Aiyo! Aiyo! Aiyo! Aiyo! It’s officially In Oxford Dictionary Now! “Aiyoh”, a common expression in Sri Lanka, South India, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa. Now it is among more than 1000 newly pinned words that made it into the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary last month. Oxford Dictionary is the most widely referred book for English nuances. The Oxford dictionary is 150 years old and for people who swear by it, if a word is not included in this book that word is not English. Period. It keeps updating its list of words each year by adding some commonly used words. ...
Read More →Five Haikus by Alok Das (Writer’s note: Haiku is a Japanese genre of writing poems) 1. Train to Richmond The train goes home everyday I also want to go home Not sure where home is. 2. Note to my destiny You took me from my village You failed to take my village Out of me 3. Sonai river Sonai river sings to me I can hear her songs Does she hear mine? 4. The bank teller The bank teller knows Too many stories Anyone knows his? 5. My hidden treasures Walking down memory lane I visit childhood days Whenever I want to. ...
Read More →Sweet and sour Sri Lankans have something to smile about Australia showed what a champion team is made of by shrugging off the 3-0 whitewash in the Tests to totally annihilate the Sri Lankans in the one- day and T20 series and returned home with some of their tarnished image somewhat intact. ...
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