Happy Easter: by Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” Another “Easter” is already upon us, although the fact is, that according to supermarkets all around us, Easter has been “with us” since immediately after Christmas, 2016. It would not matter if these merchants are losing money and about to go bankrupt perhaps Christmas/Easter combined, would be justified, but “supermarkets” in Australia seem to be making thumping profits with every year that goes by. Why then, must Easter Eggs appear on their shelves and Easter Bunnies run rampant,the first week after the previous Christmas holidays? . Cannot understand this. Also, although the “Happy Easter” cards usually signify “Easter Sunday”, the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead, joined his followers and was finally resurrected into Heaven, too many people who celebrate this fact seem to forget that “Good Friday”,IS the saddest day in the Christian Year. This is not a “Sermon” my ...

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“YOU NEVER CAN TELL” by Desmond Kelly the “Star of eLanka” In life, you never can tell, what happens. CHARLES EDWARD ANDERSON BERRY (known Worldwide as the famous CHUCK BERRY), has just hung-up his guitar & passed on to the greatest rock n roll stage in the sky. He was born on the 18th of October, 1926, in St.Louis, Missouri, started singing, which came naturally to him, at School & at Church in his pre-teens, showed his rebelliousness also very early in life, when he was.sent to prison to serve 3 years for armed robbery, & it was probably here that he learned to become a reckless individual, as tough as they come, stubborn & with a noticible “don’t give a damn” attitude towards life in general. It was now 1950, Among other “things” he was involved in, at the time, Chuck joined a local band, saw, and was suitably ...

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JAZZMEN EXTRAORDINAIRE by Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka”   Monday, the 1st of August,2016, just another Monday, heralding the last month of Winter in our Land Nothing “special” about it EXCEPT that sharp at 8 pm., I switched my television onto Channel 2, in Melbourne to watch “Australian Story”, another favourite “show”of mine, that I can strongly recommend to my “eLanka” readers. Naturally, I do not intend “takng-over” from  “the box” & “filling-in” what viewers have quite possibly,already seen, but this particular episode intrigued me, in that, it featured two Aussie musicians DON BURROWS & JAMES MORRISON, who, in my own humble opinion, would “class” as two of the very best, not only in Australia, but in the entire “Music Planet,” as it is, at the moment. Don Burrows, for a start, was a “music-lover” FROM the start. A multi-instrumentalist, he not only lived for music, music, in his sensitive hands, lived for him. ...

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“CLIMATE CHANGE” CATALYST FOR CATASTHROPE!. BY Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” We are now well & truly into the 21st Century. 200 years ago,”Climate-Change”was a subject hardly spoken about. Our little planet Earth was already well INTO IT, but Plagues, World Wars,Conflicts & other such misfortunes were much more to the fore in the minds of Earthlings, than what was happening in Space, so to speak. Although THIS has been happening since God made the “big bang” actually occur, Adam was too busy looking for UNFORBIDDEN fruit, Eve was trying to avoid “the snake” who was “eying” her & Cain was still running around, looking for Abel in order to “put him down. CLIMATE-CHANGE WAS HAPPENING EVEN THEN. NOT AS NOTICEABLY, NOT AS RAPIDLY, PERHAPS BUT IT WAS HAPPENING, SINCE ADAM WAS A BOY. RIGHT NOW, WITH THE PASSING OF TIME, THE PLUSSES IN POLLUTANTS, PUERILE PRESIDENTS WHO “PASS” ...

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MR MUSIC – DESMOND KELLY Especially for you – Volumes 1 & 2 – CDs out now! CLICK HERE TO BUY ONLINE – $35 for the two CDs (Includes delivery) (ie $15 each X 2 + $5 for delivery) – Please pay $35 on line Listen to a few songs from The Album “Especially for you – Volume 1” below: CLICK HERE TO BUY ONLINE – $35 for the two CDs (Includes delivery) (ie $15 each X 2 + $5 for delivery) – Please pay $35 on line CLICK HERE TO BUY ONLINE – $35 for the two CDs (Includes delivery) (ie $15 each X 2 + $5 for delivery) – Please pay $35 on line “Especially for you” my friends & fans everywhere, proudly presented by eLanka & “your’s truly”, a series of CDs featuring songs I have hand-picked from the hundreds I have sung, composed & recorded over ...

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 “Vale” Vajira Ekenayake by Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” A simple, humble, hard-working Sri Lankan man, firstly, a good friend, Vajira & I had always “kept in touch” even though our “paths” had changed since I left the City of Dandenong nearly ten years ago and because, sadly, Vajira was diabetic, a great deal of his time was spent in dialysis at the Dandenong Hospital, we would speak to each other on the telephone and his first question to me would always be ” Desmond, how is your cat”?. Vajira loved animals, so, after I told him that I had to have “Portia ” put down because she, too had contacted the dreaded diabetes and this was my Vet’s recommendation, we would continue our “chat” on what else was “going on”. Even though he was suffering a disease that generally “passes-by” people such as Vajira, as he was a ...

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LIFE IS FUNNY,SOMETIMES by Desmond Kelly “ the Star of eLanka” My dear readers of eLanka everywhere, I love women, am certainly not homophobic in any sense of the word, but, as I have written before, I now reiterate some of the facts why, on the whole, men seem to be less.depressed than women. NICKNAMES. If Laura, Kate & Sarah go out to lunch, they still refer to each other by their Christian names, but if Mike, Dave & John go out, they affectionately call each other “fat-boy”, “Bubba” & “Dick-head”. Older women “get together” for their “hens parties” etc. They seem fonder of “elite” names for their “groups”, but I do believe that there.is a “club” for men in Sydney Australia that call themselves “the old bastards”. To go even further with this, if these Aussies meet in the Street, the expected cordial greeting would always be “hello, you ...

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TO BEGIN THE YEAR 2017 ON A POSITIVE NOTE  By Des Kelly “the Star of eLanka” Finally, it seems as though some of my “articles” are being read by those in Governments Federal & State, and, the latest news is that “Child-Molestors” or “SCUM-BAGS”, to use a.more adequate term, if found guilty, of course, will be sentenced to “LIFE” which will mean JUST THAT. My problem here is that, in Australia, jails are “a laugh”. Some “no-hopers” in this Country commit crimes just so they CAN GO TO PRISON. There, most of them, whose lives are a shambles, OUTSIDE, happen to be much better-off, INSIDE. 3 square meals, regular exercise, medications (brought to THEM), when they get ill, poor things, books to read, “COURSES” to help them find employment, after they get out, when that rather silly word,” rehabilitation” comes into use as an excuse for letting these Crims out ...

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“COMEDIES OF ERROR” by Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” Usually, the other way around, a normal “comedy of errors” would feature one subject, but, in this day & age, so many “comedies” are occurring at the same time, my “phrase” had to be redesigned to suit these comedic situations. To begin with, when one talks of comedy, automatically, a “Circus Clown” comes into focus mentally. It is a fact that, generally, clowns are happy, gaily-dressed individuals who are especially selected by circus-owners for the purpose of being “funny” and entertaining audiences. A lesser-known fact is that, often, behind the happy, smiling face of the clown, is a man who is stressed-out, sad & suspicious of others around him. The clown is an “actor”, as was James Stewart in “The greatest show on earth”. “Dimples”, the clown was a great example of one, when he was performing, but behind the ...

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45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES by Desmond Kelly Exactly one week to go as I decided to sit myself down to give “my farewell speech”in writing, to the out-going President, Mr. Barak Obama, his beautiful wife, Michelle, & their two lovely daughters Malia & Sasha, and, of course, my “welcome’ speech to President Donald Trump & his family.      On the 20th of January, 2017, Friday, an auspicious day, to say the least, the 45th President of the United States of America will step into the “Oval Office” at the White-house, and the 44th President will step out into relative freedom. Anyone who watched the final speech of President Obama, amalgamated with another excellent documentary on what actually goes on,  in the White-house & what it really means to be the President of the U.S.A., wil realize how difficult and demanding the job can be.      President Obama HAS ...

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