DOCTOR KILL OR CURE (Revisited) – by Desmond Kelly “Star of eLanka” Seriously speaking, We Lankans, especially, seem to get a lot of headaches for one reason or the other. If we are married,heterosexually, our “partners” are generally to blame. Homosexually, I haven’t a clue because I have never been married in that fashion but. As I have said, and “written” before, I live in a Suburb called Hampton Park in Melbourne, Victoria.. Just a few kilometres away, there lies another little Suburb named Noble Park & here reside a very good percentage of Lankan/Aussies. If, for any reason whatsoever, I was to use my catapult and fire a stone into the nobility of THAT PARK, it would land on the head of a Sri Lankan & that Sri Lankan would have Diabetes. The main reason for this is simply because Lankans LOVE chocolate. I do, too, and am supposed ...
DESMOND KELLY
Money Very important little spiel, on something that’s very real, it IS the real “deal” when you’re looking for a meal, something you might steal, but becomes an ordeal WHEN YOU FEEL You might have some strife, if you hide some, from your wife, but such is life, because, as you know “YOU CANNOT TAKE IT WHEN YOU GO” Please, my readers of eLanka, Lanka Times & Sooriya websites (+thousands of others), Read about some very important aspects of MONEY. MONEY HAS VARIOUS NAMES. In a Temple, Church, any other religous institution or (genuine) charity, it is called :- “A DONATION” In Marriage, be it “Love”, “Arranged by Parents”, “Arranged by either Partner” or “Same-Sex”:- “A DOWRY” In Divorce, it is simply known as :- “ALIMONY” In “owing Anything to Anyone”, it is:- “A DEBT” All Government payments, of course,:- “A TAX” In “Court”(depending on the crime) :- “A FINE” ...
Read More →GREYHOUND BAN Anyway you look at it, this was not the easiest of decisions coming the way of the N.S.W. & the Premier with a name that suggests that you’re damned if you do & Baird if you don’t. This is “big news” at the moment. Recently, total greyhound bans were ordered by the Government of N.S.W. after ample proof was submitted to them, that the cruelty to, not only the greyhounds, but the other “live-bait” involved, as well, deserved the toughest penalty available for this so-called “SPORT”. The Premier “bit the bullet”, “bared his teeth”, “barked his order” & ” banned the bloody sport”. When the bans were announced, this writer for one, was 100% pleased and happy that this decision was made. THERE IS NO EXCUSE WHATEVER FOR ANY ANIMAL CRUELTY IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM,NOW OR EVER. In dozens of ways, ANIMALS are better than human beings. ...
Read More →POETRY FOR PEACE The predecessor of “song-writing” for me, has been “poetry”. From a very early age, not only did I enjoy reading good poetry, I started writing my own. Proudly, after coming to Australia, my poetry has not only been “accepted” Internationally, it has been “published” in a beautiful hard-back volume, “The Tide of Hours” featuring the best poets & poetry of 2003. As a result, I was “invited” to the U.S.of A. many times but, because of an extremely busy “work schedule” it was impossible for me to make it to America. The following were a trio of “poems” of mine, submitted. One was “Poetry for Peace”(my advice to the World), & the other”Old Ceylon,my Island of dreams”(later composed as a song,with music added)& to begin with, was “The Butterfly”. Please read and hopefully, enjoy :- “THE BUTTERFLY” Like the wings of a butterfly, emerging at last From ...
STRIFE OF THE SRI LANKAN HOUSEWIFE How many times have we heard “stories” like this? !! “My biscuits were too hard Not like HIS Mother used to make He did’nt like my curries Or even the love-cake The coffee was’nt brewed right Nor was HIS herbal-tea The buriyani was “not nice” Nor was the mulligatawny Shirt-buttons “missed” the button-hole Tie knotted on askew I did’nt mend his socks Just like HIS Mother used to do” I stood there, quite dumbfounded While HE kept finding fault “The eggs are NOT boiled right Where IS the pepper & the salt”? “I think I’m getting tired” I said “I’m going to take a nap Can’t blame your Mum for giving you A thundering bloody slap You’re just a great big grumble-bum Who knows sweet bugger-all And you can go and get your sleep On the couch, out in the hall” I’ve heard this ...
Read More →SO, WHATS NEW – By Des Kelly THERE IS HOPE FOR ME YET!. With previous American Presidents telling the World “I did NOT HAVE intercourse with that woman”. Of course, he did’nt. Everyone should know that . He summoned her to his office, had intercourse (spoke) to her and after giving her the position she applied for, told her to go ahead with the job, or words to that effect. Now, he’s helping his 1st lady to get the Presidency and thereby, him, the head-job in the White House. Then, we have another hopeful President who has NEVER “groped”. He has no time for all this stuff when he is so busy trying to rescue the neighbour’s cat trying to hide in a bush in his garden. It certainly did’nt help when he knew not the cat’s name, so as he “groped ” around in the bush; he grabbed her ...
” 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 ...
“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 ...
SILVER THREADS AMONG’ST THE GOLD A beautiful old song and an apt description of a group of beautiful people who form the Committee of Retirees from one of the very best Companies that I had the pleasure of working for during the 1980’s & into the 90’s, the Pilkington Glass Company, in Dandenong, Melbourne, Australia. The name of the Committee I write about, simply call themselves the “Silverthreads”, the work they continue to do, even after retirement, themselves, certainly have golden flecks amply strewn through the “silver”.They don’t have to do it, but then, in my book, they could also be called “Pilkington-Patriots-Past”. The “Silverthreads”, however, keep on, keeping on. If ever the word “caring” could describe a Company, “Pilkingtons” fit this description like a glove They were a great “bunch” to work for. Together, we produced what was undoubtedly the best glass in the World. If one used Pilkington “toughened” glass ...
Read More →The International Song Of Sri Lanka In continuation of the birth, death & rebirth of the ORIGINAL SRI LANKAN NATIONAL “ANTHEM” which is now sung under the “title” SRI LANKA MAATHA”, or simply “Sri Lanka Mother”, as the Sinhalese word implies, the latest is my personalized version of what I term “The International Song of Sri Lanka” which includes “English Lyrics”(not a translation), of the chorus of “Namo Namo Maatha”, simply stating that :- WE SALUTE OUR LAND FROM NEAR AND FAR IT’S OUR MOTHERLAND, OUR COUNTRY, SRI LANKA HER FLAG, WE FLY, WITH HEADS HELD HIGH FOR SRI LANKA NOTHING CAN EVER TAKE AWAY ALL THE PRIDE AND ALL THE GLORY THAT IS SRI LANKA IN FAIR OR STORMY WEATHER ALL SRI LANKANS STAND TOGETHER SINGING PRAISES OF OUR BRIGHT SHINING STAR IT’S OUR MOTHERLAND, OUR COUNTRY SRI LANKA HER FLAG WE FLY, WITH HEADS HELD HIGH FOR SRI ...
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