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https://youtu.be/q1_o8HjZTAY?si=0ObCl5JJKsC6CBJG
St Joseph's Māori Girls' College 2012
Iwi Anthems on Māori TV
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Friday, September 29, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Pos-Graduate 25th Anniversary Get-together, Kandy, Kothmale.
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Post graduate 25th anniversary get to-gether, of the 1960 Medical entrants, Kynsey road. Photo taken at a lunch at a hotel, near the Kothmale Dam. See how young they all look.
Elephant hunts and lightening strike.
Lightening - Have you heard this story ?
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 | Elephants were a threat on the highways in the 1950s.. I remember having to break our school trip to Anuradhapura from Point-Pedro, at Medawachchiya as it was past 6pm and the fear of meeting wild elephants on the road. We slept overnight in a school and did the journey to Anuradhapura the next morning. The Skin of the feet of hunted elephants were used as umbrella stands and the the skins of the penis of elephants, made handy golf ball carrier bags. Those were the days when plastics were unheard of. |
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Annunciation Zarathustra + Wedding March + Ave Maria I Exciting Entrance of the Bride Raíssa Wedding
Beautiful to look at and lovely music to hear. Please click on the web-link below :-
Dr. Ernie Peiris Consultant Physician and the 'thrill'.
‘Ernie’, to the medical students, was short, chubby and was nattily dressed. He was fair with a round face. He had a subtle sense of humor but a blushing red face was a dead give-away for a subtle joke. He thus earned the nick name ‘thakkaali’ (tomato) Peiris. He would drive in, in his green two tone Austin Cambridge. The white satin drill suit was a perfect match. He had noticed a young couple in our batch who were in the early stages of ‘getting hitched’. A patient with ascites was on the bed. Ernie demonstrated to us the method of ‘eliciting a thrill’ to show that there was fluid inside the peritoneal cavity. Ernie got the male member of the couple to stand on the left side of the patient and made him place his right palm on the patient’s left flank. Then he got the girl to stand on the right side of the patient and place her right palm edgewise on the abdomen from the epigastrium to just below the umbilicus to dampen the thrill travelling across the abdominal wall. He then gave a flick with his finger on the left side of the patient’s abdomen. He asked the male whether he felt a thrill. The male medical student answered ‘yes’. Then he got the girl to use her left hand and flick on the right side of the patient’s abdomen. He asked the male student whether he felt a thrill this time also. He answered ‘Yes Sir’ with a beaming face. Ernie remarked ‘Now you know how to thrill each other’. At the same time true to form, Ernie went red in the face. The whole class burst into laughter.
‘Errnie’ to the medical students was short, chubby and was nattily dressed. He was fair with a round face. He had a subtle sense of humor but a blushing red face was a dead give-away for a subtle joke. He thus earned the nick name ‘thakkaali’ (tomato) Peiris. He would drive in, in his green two tone Austin Cambridge. The white satin drill suit was a perfect match. He had noticed a young couple in our batch who were in the early stages of ‘getting hitched’. A patient with ascites was on the bed. Ernie demonstrated to us the method of ‘eliciting a thrill’ to show that there was fluid inside the peritoneal cavity. Ernie got the male member of the couple to stand on the left side of the patient and made him place his right palm on the patient’s left flank. Then he got the girl tostand on the right side of the patient and place her right palm edgewise on the abdomen from the epigastrium to just below the umbilicus to dampen the thrill travelling across the abdominal wall. He then gave a flick with his finger on the left side of the patient’s abdomen. He asked the male whether he felt a thrill. The male medical student answered ‘yes’. Then he got the girl to use her left hand and flick on the right side of the patient’s abdomen. He asked the male student whether he felt a thrill this time also. He answered ‘Yes Sir’ with a beaming face. Ernie remarked ‘Now you know how to thrill each other’. At the same time true to form Ernie went red in the face.
'Capping' incidents humor.
Bowled and caught by the future mother in law.
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https://imagessrilanka.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-very-timid-visit-to-ladies-hostel-at.html
Friday, September 22, 2023
Evolution of Toilets - Water Closets - WCs
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Excerpts from Prof. OER Abheyratne's lectures on designing an out-door toilet.
1. The squatting plate is designed, so that one would always hit a 'bulls eye' every time when one used it, when defeacating.
2. A tin roof was -
"Hot in hot weather,
Cold in cold weather, was
Noisy during rainy weather and was
Not open to the skies"
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Watch "India all out just for 54!" on YouTube
Memories
Forwarded by Nihal Gooneratne
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Semmelweiss who taught us the importance of washing our hannds.
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865) | The Embryo Project Encyclopedia (asu.edu)
Monday, September 18, 2023
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Falls in the elderly
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Saturday, September 16, 2023
Show-Dog, handler and audience.
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WhatsApp Video 2023-09-16 at 06.16.24.mp4
Super performance at a dog-show competition.
Watch the disappointing beginning. The dog's reactions. The handler's reactions. The Judge's reactions. The audience's reactions. Do not let youe emotions get hold of you.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Looking back over the years
My hobbies are music, photography and bird-watching.
Please click on each of the web-links below, to see a few of the photos, that I have published on the internet:-
At the bottom right hand of each web-page, click on the words 'older posts' to see the earlier postings..
Falan Andrea
Monday, September 11, 2023
Obituary - Harry de Sayra OAM - Husband of Imelda.
Harry de Sayrah OAM (86) passed away on September 11, 2023 in Sydney, Australia.
Beloved husband of Dr. Imelda de Sayrah, father of Shehan and Dilhara. Brother of Freddie and Anoma.
Harry was a race horse owner in Ceylon. He was honored with the title of OAM in Australia.
He was President of the Lions Club in Ceylon and Australia.
A proud Old Joe! VR the SJC!
Nihal S. Gooneratne
Do you have Imelda’s E-mail add. Can you please copy it to me.
FYI, she lost her husband on Sep 11th. (see below)
Thank you
Nihal
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Imelda did keep in touch & also got the sad news about Harry.
I did send my sympathies & will call her when she is less engaged .
Address
44 Duffy Avenue
Thornleigh
Sydney 2120 NSW
Her email:
Regards
Nana
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 11, 2023, at 9:37 PM, Nihal S. Gooneratne <nihal408@att.net> wrote:
Imelda, The Batch grieves at your loss. May the happy memories remain with you and sustain you in your loss.
My Rowdy friends by Derryck de Silva
1. Derryk's contribution..
Postscript by Philip –
We were waiting at the Habarana Hotel to receive our
batch mates, coming by the luxury buses arranged to transport our batch-mates
and their families, from Colombo to Habarana, for our 50th anniversary reunion of entrance to the Medical College.. The first one to jump out of the first bus, as it pulled in was Derryk saying
laughing loudly and saying for all to hear, ‘Machan, the seats were over
booked, I volunteered to have my wife sitting on my lap, all the way from Colombo to Habarana’.
Saturday, September 9, 2023
'Tetany' in an exorcist in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.
JBS Haldane’s lecture to our batch of 1960 medical entrants
We were invited for a lecture in the newly air-conditioned Physiology lecture theatre, by the famous Physiologist JBS Haldane. He had done a lot of pioneering work in the physiology of breathing, while working in the UK prior to the 1960s. He had got an attachment to India and had opted for Indian Citizenship. He was large built and more on the heavy side a white Englishman, dressed in clothing worn by Indians, white national upper garment and verti.
Haldane took Indian citizenship; he was interested in Hinduism and became a vegetarian.[40] In 1961, Haldane described India as "the closest approximation to the Free World’.( J. B. S. Haldane - Wikipedia) In Florida, he met, for the first and only time, the Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin, who had developed the origin of life theory quite independent of his own in the 1920s. It was while there that he started feeling abdominal pains.[15]
Haldane went to London for a diagnosis. He was found to have colo-rectal cancer, and had a surgery in February 1964.
His surgery in London was declared successful. But the symptoms reappeared after returning to India in June, and in August, the Indian doctors confirmed that his condition was terminal. Writing to John Maynard Smith on 7 September, he said, "I am not appreciably upset by the prospect of dying fairly soon. But I am very angry [at the English doctor who performed the operation]."[15]
He died on 1 December 1964 in Bhubaneswar. On that day the BBC broadcast his self-obituary as "Professor J.B.S. Haldane, obituary."
He was introduced by Prof ACE Koch, our Professor of Physiology, in the year ?1962. When he came on to the podium to address us, he was made to wear a stethoscope-like gadget containing a microphone, with a long wire connecting the microphone to an audio amplifier, placed on the stage
The microphone was tested and he was given permission to proceed with his lecture. I remember well the first words he uttered were something like ‘I feel tethered like an elephant ..’ referring to the wire for the microphone hung round his neck. One of the main points he referred to was how, for all the blood shed by the British in the Colonies, Queen Victoria gave birth to children who married into the families of the crowns of Europe, carried the genes for Haemophilia and most of them lost their crowns, due to the bleeding disorder. Hemophilia — The Royal Disease That Started From Queen Victoria I | by Hdogar | Lessons from History | Medium
I came across a book published in 1936 titled ‘Quest and Conquest’, in which there was an article published by JBS Haldane in which I found an answer to one of the mysteries I was puzzled about.
I was working as a Relief Surgeon at the District Hospital Nuwara Eliya in the mid-1970s. The District Medical Officer invited me for a dinner. I found a Swiss Psychiatrist as another guest invited for a performance by an exorcist, seated in the sitting room. He was using using a ‘Minox camera’. We were told that there would be a performance by an exorcist in the DMO’s quarters before dinner.
We were seated around in a circle and the exorcist, a young male in his early 30s arrived. He had an acolyte to help him in the exorcism ceremony. He had brought some ‘margosa’ leaves which he tied round his waist and head. There was incense burnt in front of him. He started chanting in a loud voice inviting various Gods to come to partake of his performance. At one point he started breathing forcefully and rapidly for quite some time, when he went into a full rigidity of the body. He invited any one of us to try to bend his elbow stretched in spasm. None of us present were able to bend it. He stopped his forceful breathing and after a few minutes his rigidity of the body disappeared and he became normal. The Psychiatrist was taking a series of pictures on his minox.
I made the suggestion that the rigidity of his body had something to do with his forced breathing. We had an enjoyable dinner, and went back to our residences.
I had a habit of purchasing second hand books and came across a book titled “Quest and Conquest” An anthology of personal adventures First print in 1936. There was an article authored by JBS Haldane, the famous Physiologist, in the book. The article was titled “On being one’s own rabbit’ by JBS Haldane. The main relevant points in the article referred to how breathing and the level of Carbon-dioxide in the alveoli controlled the very sensitive ph of the blood. The shift towards acidity in the blood, caused tingling sensations in the body and convulsions and led to ‘tetany’.
The forced breathing, altering the acidity of the blood of the exorcist caused the stiffness of the limbs. A simple physiological explanation given by research. All the mumbo jumbo about chanting leading to the tetany, was shot to pieces by this simple physiological explanation, of the prolonged forced breathing which followed the chanting.
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