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WITH YOU. WITHOUT YOU – by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’     Oba ekka, oba nathuwa, (with you, without you), OR, the other way around, as far as this “title” was concerned, was a video-movie, made in Sri Lanka recently and now “features” on eLanka as well, especially for our Lankan Aussies (with sub-titles in English), BUT, because I say it like it is, whether it be the Lanka Times, eLanka, or any-bloody-body else, please do not watch this if you are feeling a bit down in the dumps.      For a start, “oba nathuwa”, is pessimistic. it should have been the other way around. Not only that, but, at the same time, I now intend writing a song with, what I think, is a beautiful “title” for one, namely ” WITH YOU, OR, WITHOUT YOU” (there you go, my copyright for it). The Sinhala video-movie should have been ...

Dec 8, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , Comments 0
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“OUR COCK-EYED WORLD” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ A terrible thing to say, I suppose, but it IS a cockeyed (cross-eyed), call it what you “like-eyed” World, we are living in, at the moment. It has GOT to be something in the air.  Just a short time ago, in this particular season of “Spring”, in Australia, the only ones who had to worry would have been the hay-fever sufferers. Bushels of pollen, floating in the air, would now be preferable to the “bull-dust” flying around, at the moment, in Australia. In Lanka, it would be powdered, dried “Cow-dung”. A “hole” in the o-zone layer around Earth, has suddenly become a hole blasted into the sun!.How anything got close enough to the sun, to blast a hole in it, is anybody’s guess. Maybe “Google” did it. They can do anything, I believe. Besides this, if there IS a big ...

Dec 2, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , Comments 0
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“GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ Except for Politicians, Mining Magnates, C.E.Os, Bank Managers, Casino-Owners, Plumbers & Electricians, most “ordinary Australians” pay their taxes, work long, tiring shifts & still find it difficult to ” manage” comfortably. Nearly everyone though, has a television set, watched whenever possible. Most Aussies & Lankan/Aussies who I know, are gamblers anyway. Watching television nowadays (especially), hardly a few minutes pass, when the above advice comes into view, after the rest of the narrative tells you how much & how easily you could win big money.      Every day of the week, you can win big money at the Casinos. Every day of the week, there would be a horse-race somewhere & provided the jockey was “light” enough and the horse “fast” enough, again, you could win big money. I don’t gamble too much, but the last horse I had a ...

Nov 26, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , Comments 0
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“TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ English phrases that are rapidly becoming extinct, because of this very reason. Too much of this new-fangled “Internet”. Too much of “Cyber-Commotion”, too much of iphones, earphones, headphones, tele-phones which are no more, now, of course. Too much concentration on tiny internet computers”, where once, there were humoungous “machines”lining walls of “offices” everywhere, that kept us in touch with the World (and THAT wasn’t too long ago), too many CHILDREN nowadays, depending far too much on little “contraptions” that they carry around with them, everywhere. These children are going to be the “ADULTS” in a World that seems to be regressing, rather than progressing, simply because WE, present adults, cannot seem to understand how to point them in the right direction. Too much of giving-in to their “whims & fancies”, with far too little discipline, BECAUSE, too much of ...

Nov 26, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , Comments 0
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“RATS POULTRY” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’  Latest “BREAKING NEWS” This writer would like to BREAK the NECKS (not news) of the “POULTRY-RATS” which is a much more suitable arse-about name than “STAR”, if they are “found guilty” by the R.S.P.C.A. of boiling their chickens “live”, as they have been suspected of doing. This is not something “new” to me. Animal-cruelty is something that I have always been passionate in eradicating, & this latest news about the mob in Keysborough has me totally flabbergasted with the absolutely inhuman behaviour of anyone capable of torturing these poor defenceless chooks      Yes, chicken flesh, together with the flesh of many other animals, birds & fish are essential for human consumption, but State Governments, Federal Governments and any other bloody Governments, should make it their responsibility to ensure that the flesh of these dumb creatures are obtained without any prior ...

Nov 23, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , Comments 0
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“70TH ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARY” WOW!! – By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ (image source: ABC News) Image Source: Hello Magazine A “Platinum” Princess & Prince, Elizabeth & Phillip, married on the 20th November, 1947, exactly 70 years ago, live presently in Buckingham Palace, London, England, as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the 2nd & her Consort, His Royal Highness Prince Phillip. They have just celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary, termed the “Platinum” one, on rather a low key, in comparison to their other significant ones, but still released 4 official photographs of this great occasion.      Both the Queen & her husband are nonagenerian, but still “look the part” (She was one of the prettiest princesses in the World, while.He looked every bit, the handsome prince, especially in his Naval Officer’s uniform). They met, and fell in love,  but theirs was a very special (separate) love story. They have 4 ...

Nov 20, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , Comments 0
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“PRIME” MINISTER.. By Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ Something a little bit different, especially for those Lankan/Aussies & ex-Patriots around the World, who are still “Internetless” for any reason whatsoever, I take my chance to pay a “sincere tribute” to the Man who, I believe, was the “Prime” Minister of Ceylon, Mr.D.S. (Don Stephen) Senanayake, the very first, & to my knowledge, the very best “Father of Ceylon”, as he was known.      Personally, I do not “think, too much” about Politicians., in total, nowadays. I do not think about “POLITICS” at all, if I can help it, either in Sri Lanka OR Australia, but, unfortunately, everything stems from the “Political Situation” in one’s Country of residence.      Strangely, however, the first two individual Prime Ministers I remember who were undoubtedly the very best in the two Countries I have been involved with, Ceylon & Australia. In Ceylon, the ...

Nov 18, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , Comments 0
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Image source: Wikipedia      Two lines of a song,” once upon a time”, ending with “never comes again”, sung by the multi-talented, very handsome Bobby Darin, gave me the idea for this particular “article”, written especially for my fellow- entertainers of Sri Lanka. Once again folks, just TWO lines of a meaningful SONG, say so very much. As “entertainers” which carry a gamut of talented professions, we are all born into this World for one purpose ONLY, this being to “entertain” others on the “lower rungs” of life’s ladder. I only use the term “lower rungs” because of the fact that, as entertainers, WE are generally seen “on-stage, screen, or television”. There may be Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers or Scientists in the “audience” out there, but entertainers are, in a manner of speaking, on a “higher level” & the much more affluent, highly educated, influential audience have actually PAID to see or ...

Nov 3, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , Comments 0
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“DRIVEN TO DRINK” – by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ With everything that is happening around the World at the moment, most of what we hear about today, is nothing but bad news. As we grow older, the natural progression of everything around us is expected. However, The Australia that most of us, Burghers from Ceylon migrated to, was so very different, in so many ways, it is nearly impossible to imagine that, in barely half a century, education of the young,general living conditions, employment, medical benefits, nursing homes, palliative care, right down to undertakers’ yes, everything has changed & changed drastically, I must add.      This writer lived one hectic lifetime of 26 years in Ceylon, came to Melbourne (in the middle of a “White-Australia-Policy) only because I was a “sickly-white” colour after “having to leave” because of a “Sinhala-only” Policy, which meant that my skin had to ...

Oct 30, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , Comments 0
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“BREAKING NEWS”!!! by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ That is what we NEED right now in Australia. Some Bloody “breaking news”. Now that the little “rocket-man” has gone a.bit quiet, President Trump is concentrating more on “Presiding” rather than “sacking’ or “tweeting”, President Putin is “putting-in” more time at the “Russian” Parliment instead of just “rushing” out to confront Trump, Channel 10, in Melbourne is concentrating on some woman who “bared her boobs” for whatever reason, and Shane Warne being the next “bachelor”(all very interesting news, but, at the same time, a lot of rubbish), we DO need something that can stir the lethargy in our brains. CATALONIA in Spain, has been the “top” headlines on Melbourne television for the past few weeks. That is certainly “big news” in Catalonia, Barcelona & Spain, but what the hell has it got to do with Hampton Park, Melbourne & Australia? , I really ...

Oct 30, 2017 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , Comments 0
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