The CocoJET

Dual face of America

Yesterday I read what was published in the Divine Divaina  Sinhalese Newspaper with a map of suggested (by whom?) future administration divisions of our country.

Now, America is engaged in a war against what objective of whom?

And here in this country, same country above mentioned raising awareness on federalism. They are sponsoring for the awareness?

Dear friends, do you think that America is doing that knowing pure objective of the requested of the federal administration?

Which part for whom?

All what the LTTE wanted was the political power of that geographical segment.

What is the meanings (literal and otherwise) of political power by the way?

Those who have the political power has the Decision Making Power.

Are you suggesting our people to go for an ‘administration system that Pakistan once had?

Now who is monitoring those awareness Campaigns?

In what languages they do these awareness programmes?

The content?

Who are the speakers?

Were they given permission to do so, by the Administration of our country?

very well knowing the current political trend of the world and knowing the history of the country, are you not afraid of this suggested 'federal mechanism'?  

Now anyway, no Sinhalese get chances to appoint as Member of Parliament in Jaffna Peninsula because I am very sure no one is willing to vote for a Sinhalese contestants?

Already there is such a system or tradition established in the area. And if you take the description of a government worker, they cannot refuse to work in another geographical or administration divisions other than the area they live, residential areas, village etc.

Now, what is this new system they are requesting for and suggesting for that is not in current practice?

Who wants the Eastern part of the country?

Who wants the southern part of the country and Northern?

Now previous government/s implemented a system that every government worker should learn TAMIL language and if not they are not given any chances for ‘promotions or salary increments. According to what I know it is still in practice. If you visit Batticaloa there is an area that the street names are written in Arabic Language if my memory is accurate. But I cannot remember them reading in Sinhala which is not a big issue because the names are written in English the matter is solved.

America I do not understand your objective of you trying to raise awareness on the subject, Federal’, ‘Federalism amongst our country people.’

Now our students, teachers and others learn history of Europe including the History of America. I like to ask America whether you have started studying the history of our country.

What are the differences between the terminologies, Ealam and Federalism, according to your own awareness?

Is Federalism another term for Ealam or a modern analysis?

Dear government, what is your kind opinion on this? 

  

The Album of History

For me Photography is an amazing therapeutic subject in every way and cameras helps you bring the entire world closer to where you live. It helps you recapture your memories or supports you to recap them without a struggle.  I am an amateur to this subject and I do not even know at least five or six letters of the subject.

I see some magic and wonder in the subject called ‘photography’.  

From the first day of invention of the mechanism and the equipment, amazing camera, every moment of histories can be reviewed or reread through the pictures or photographs.  

I like the era that you couldn’t change a picture of its originality / original form through any other system or mechanism.  Implantation of organs of someone else through advance technologies the modern world, photographers or engineers who work on the similar subjects have innovated. Such mechanism I know some use for various ill will purposes. Through the newest mechanism one can easily change a head of a person or a face of a person without any issues. Such systems has the ability to mislead or leads to miscommunication.

I believe that you can say millions of things viewing unedited photographs taken by war photographers of those days, during World Wars. But today, if any one wishes can misguide even a jury or a Supreme Court through edited or changed photographs. Especially now that you live in a digitalized world where you and I use no negatives / reels for private captions. I am not doubting the supremacy of the system (law and order) yet you can find evidences from history if you try to read court cases heard in courts here or there of the world, I guess.  The justices are or were always given based on evidences available. Beyond evidences what can you do? If you cannot justify falsifications of photographs provided as evidences of something, weight of editions (photographs) you can imprison a person or hang till death. Therefore I do not trust the modern photographs as true evidences of something. Unless you have an accurate mechanism to identify such things.  

Photographs / photographers still play an immensely important role as a provider of evidences of events of histories of mankind.

I guess the history of European Segment were captured through this mechanism very before the Asia was captured and framed or put them in albums.

The students of histories can use the old photographs as secondary guide to either justify or prove incidents or events happened in the past or to learn about their social or cultural or even political behaviors of human beings of gone by decades or centuries.

You can capture every singular wrinkle of a man or a woman and at the same time you can teenalize the wrinkles appear on the photographs giving it a nourishing look. But, I do not like such mechanisms.

In a way, digital systems are low cost mechanisms. All what you need is a good quality camera, no need to worry about buying negatives / reels and thinking of taking them to a laboratory or to a studio.  

I guess for an honest secret agents it’s a good tool. Though you can lists the differences between video mechanisms and still photography mechanisms, I still think ‘photography as a strong way of communication.

This mechanism can tells you or has the ability to tell you very many stories. In some cameras you get the date and time of the photograph taken / event / incident captured marked on the photograph.

There are evidences of stolen photographs from family precious albums and treasured, I read.

It helps to analyze war zones through the cameras I guess.

There are ways to capture geographical segments of a country from the angle of your preference.  It is a 360 degrees job, you think?

Sometimes, I feel that future is just a ‘click’ away.

In this modern world we live you cannot revisit exact place that you visited about a decade or so or even a week ago. It is like one cannot step into same river twice. The world is keep changing keeping memories captured with us.    

You may not see any slums along the railway tracks of Kelani Valley if you visit them in about a year or so I like to believe. Like you cannot revisit the same Geographies of Egypt, ancient or Venice or Thames or surroundings of Nile or Amazing Amazon like in 1500 or later. But through these amazing mechanisms you can revisit them in the future recap them through your memory lenses, I believe.