1948 VALE – MAX WALKER 2016. So very sad to hear about the death of a great Australian, taken away far too early, aged just 68. He was a Cricketer, bowled his “medium pacers” with a smile during the halcyon days when cricket was indeed “a gentleman’s game” Nicknamed “tangles”because of his bowling style, he also played “Aussie-Rules” football for Melbourne, was a “Speaker” who held his various audiences in the palm of his hand simply because, where there was Max, there was humour, both subtle & “hilarious”, was a “draughtsman” by trade, intelligent & well-read. In addition to all this, he was an Author, wrote as many as 14 books, the talents of this man were many. Max, I have many of your books and I read them with pleasure. You were a funny bloke, your smile certainly lit-up many a room. On behalf of all Lankans in Australia ...
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THE BULLDOG BREED There were not too many Lankan/Aussies around in Australia in 1954, when the A.F.L. Club “The Bulldogs” won their one and only “Premiership” in Melbourne. Not much can be written as regards that particular “Grand-Final” when the “dogs” fought and won the not too spectacular, but still precious “Cup” from the old “Melbourne”. Club. During those early years the 1954 winners called themselves the “Western Bulldogs”.because they were from the Western Suburb of Fooscray, originally, the Foorscray Football Club. Then, 7 years later, in 1961, I had still not heard about “Aussie-Rules” football simply because I was then getting ready to migrate to Melbourne, but, IN MELBOURNE, the Bulldogs played St.Kilda in the preliminary-final and unfortunately missed out on getting the Premiership cup for that year. Close, but not close enough. I arrived in Melbourne in 1962, but had no time whatsoever to worry about football of any ...
Read More →” HAPPY CHRISTMAS “ Christmas comes but once an year And when it comes, it brings good cheer But, not in Australia, it’s dear (and) It’s always Christmas, over here. (anyway) D.K. I have been given to understand that, as far as our major “shopping malls” are concerned, mince pies & Christmas cakes are already available, and it’s only September, for crying out loud!. They have already celebrated Christmas in JULY as well. How many times was Jesus born? . Easter eggs adorn the shelves long before Jesus has risen fron the dead and gone to Heaven. This is great news for chocolate lovers, but the rise in diabetes type 2 is the result, especially with the Lankans living here. I now live in a Suburb called Hampton Park but if I could manage to come outside and “throw a stone”, it would most probably land on the head of a ...
Read More →” NO-ONE NEED EVER KNOW “ NO-ONE NEED EVER KNOW HOW MUCH WE MEANT TO ONE ANOTHER THEY NEED’NT EVER KNOW HOW MUCH I CARED NO-ONE NEED EVER KNOW THAT WE PLEDGED TO ONE ANOTHER ALL THE LOVE THAT YOU & I ONCE SHARED HE’LL NEVER EVER REALIZE THAT YOU WERE MINE & MINE ALONE BUT IF HIS ROMANCE WITH YOU DIES HE’S SURE TO FEEL THE PAIN I’VE KNOWN STILL, NO-ONE NEED EVER KNOW HOW MUCH I WANT YOU NIGHT & DAY NO MATTER WHAT I SAY MY LOVE FOR YOU WILL GROW BUT NO-ONE, NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOW. LYRICS & MUSIC BY : DESMOND KELLY. ...
Read More →” WHERE CREDIT IS DUE ” “WHERE CREDIT IS DUE”, GIVE IT WE ARE “AUSTRALIANS”, LIVE IT BOTH HANSON AND HINCH KNEW IT OUR DEPT.OF IMMIGRATION “BLEW IT” HOORAY FOR HANSON, HOORAY FOR HINCH WHILE THEY’RE IN PARLIMENT,IT IS A CINCH ELANKA APPLAUDS THEM, THEY KNOW THE “SCORE” THEY TREAD THE BOARDS, OTHERS FEAR TO GO HANSON HAS “BEEN THERE”, HINCH IS STILL “NEW” STILL, BOTH OF THEM KNOW JUST WHAT TO DO COMING TO OZ? , THEN, ASSIMILATE WANT TO BE “AUSSIE” ?, THEN DON’T SEGREGATE! SO, HOORAY FOR HANSON, HOORAY FOR HINCH THEY STAND THEIR GROUND & WON’T GIVE AN INCH I DO SUPPORT THEM A HUNDRED PERCENT I’VE NOT ONLY “BEEN THERE”, I’VE GOT UP & WENT.! There is “another” famous quote that says “Women first, even to the gallows” and this shows in what could quite possibly been another “title” for this article of mine, so ...
Read More →” COUNTRY-STYLE “ I’ve said it before, & I’ll say it again, as far as “telling it like it is”, there will never be ANYTHING like “Country Music”. Good or bad, happy or sad, “Country” tells us the “Story of Life”, like no other music can do. This is the reason that, although I LOVE all types of music, my “forte” is “COUNTRY-STYLE”. There are many kinds of music And some “last” for just a while Now & then, there’ll be a new “beat” But I just sit back & smile For when the latest “craze” is over When it’s run it’s last long mile They’ll still play “our kind of music” Good old “Country-Style” Good old “Country Music”, fiddles & guitars A good old Country “hoedown” underneath the stars Nothing can replace it, walk down a Country aisle Good old “Country Music”, good old “Country-Style”. Once AGAIN we’ll hear ...
Read More →PROBLEMS WITH PILES by Des Kelly “the Star of eLanka” This writer has heard everything now!. As a former Lead/Rhythm guitarist, over the years, I’ve lost them, had trouble with them, they were either too big or too small, too stiff or too soft, found it very difficult to get one that was “just right”& for my readers who are not musicians, I am talking about “plectrums” or “picks”. These were little pieces of plastic held between thumb and forefinger in order to “pluck” the steel strings to make them more audible to the audience. Sounds extremely “technical” does’nt it? Expert guitarists did’nt need plectrums. They used their fingernails to do the job but I was just an average instrumentalist and have used bloody dozens if the “things”(picks, I mean). What has plectrums got to do with “piles” Des? . Stick to the bloody subject! .My humble apologies folks, piles ...
Read More →” THE NIGHT OF THE PLEBISCITE ” by Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” “It was a night, oo oo what a night it was, it really was such a night” sang Elvis Presley, and he was’nt singing about the night of the plebiscite, that’s right!, but Desmond Kelly is getting himself a little ahead of himself, now writing about the “night” of the 11th of February, 2017, the day set aside by our Government for a very important plebiscite in Australian History. “Same-Sex-Marriage”. With everything that is happening in our magnificent Parliment Rooms, at the moment, no-one can even be sure that this multi-million dollar “event” will OCCUR. As such, this “article” of mine will have to be taken with “a pinch of salt”. 160 million (more or less), of tax-payer- dollars to decide the fate of ALL the same-sex couples who wish to seal their own FATE by ...
Read More →” LEST WE FORGET ” by Des Kelly “the Star of eLanka’ A phrase, unfortunately, that we have been hearing far too often nowadays but, at the same time, a phrase that is MOST IMPORTANT, in modern times, to help us REMEMBER terrible incidents that have happened over the past few decades, incidents that should NEVER have occured, but for the fact that we DO live in a CATASTROPHIC WORLD,that only seems to get WORSE with each passing day.(I’m sad to say). WORLD WARS, (a multiplicity of them), still go on, even as I write this “sad story”, National conflicts, like the ones that never should have happened in God’s 2nd “Garden of Eden”, Countries that have ended up in the senseless genocides of their OWN bloody people. Earthquakes, Tsunami’s, & the like, unhappily caused by HUMAN BEINGS, many, who are under the stupid impression that they can tamper with ...
Read More →HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF – by Desmond Kelly “The Star of eLanka!” Around 500 b.c. , people calling themselves Snhalese migrated from Mother India to the little Island that was once a part of it (India) as settlers, led by a man called Vijaya. “This”was also the name of the FIRST Ship, a mine-sweeper that was “presented” to our Senior Force “The Royal Ceylon Navy” in which I proudly “served” by “The Royal Navy” in England in appreciation for the “service” provided by our Sailors during World war 2. “H.M.Cy.S. Vijaya” was not a large ship but then, we were not a large Navy, still proud of a vessel that was like a cork in heavy seas, tossing around but still afloat just like this writer, in my endeavour to give my eLanka & Lanka Times readers a very brief but hopefully interesting “history” of ” my lovely Island home’, ...
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