Sri Lanka's new road rules. How can it be implemented

Conceptual idea from a citizen who has hardships travelling in Colombo.

-If the protesters are seeing a probability of getting fined, then invest that money(if they think they will break the rules twice a year pay 2x550 and get covered for 2x25,000) to an insurance scheme managed by private and funded by the government with the fund of collected 25k fines and an initial funding .

-The insurance scheme to pay the fine amount for the rule breakers if they break the rule and and the good part is toincrease their premium amount by 5-10% to discourage the wrong doing.

-The insurance will work under normal insurance procedures if they fail to pay the premium the insurance will not be valid.

- The insurance could cover 3rd party, life insurance and other benefits so that all the people who are concerned about the society would also invest in this initiative. Hence a good marketing campaign is essential for the launch.

- The fund could be invested in developing the surveillance camera systems to increase transparency of police patrol, new railway lines, adding more luxury buses to covert private to public transport or any other initiatives to increase public transport , have city limit car park to reduce vehicles entering the city, workplace organized staff transports and resolving core transport problems.

- There could be a rating systems linked with the insurance scheme and link with a performance management system. Where higher rated drivers get some motivational benefits.

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Flower Beds turned into Vegi Heads!!

As I passed a newly built house by the side of the road, noticed a new trend in plantation. Flower beds, infront of the house, decorated with potato,chillie and brinjal plants. This has been a rising trend in middle income households nowadays due to increasing cost of living in the country.

Once the flower beds were filled with Petunias, Gerbaras and flocks ; brings in a sign of prosperity and beauty to the place. Vegitable plants in front of the house? What does that mean ? Think...

Long time no see!

"Long time no see" said my blog to me. Yeah it has been a pretty lengthy period; cricket world cup, the flu and the tooth aches held my fingers back. Well I am not still fully recovered from the above mentioned yet. 

Still am going through the after shocks of the finals, where Sri Lanka lost to India. Sri Lanka did well to reach the finals. But the better team won at the end. Still think to myself that we could have put up a better fight.

I have been having this short and frequent flu like attacks recently. Starts with a sore throat then a cold (sneezing and phlem) and sometimes a mild fever. At the moment though, nothing to be alarmed. But wish it goes away quickly. It is a head-ache.

I, not being a great fan of doc visits is a well known fact among my friends and family. Eventually as my teeth gave me lots of problems, I had my left brain convinced and made a visit to the dentist.

It was a small shabby place and the doctor was well recommended by two of my close associates, who had they tooth mining done there. It was a nerve wracking experience visiting the tooth fairy. The drills, excavators, water sprays all those heavy jargons used in the mining world are used here too, which made my forehead sweat.

She tells me that the pulp close to the enamel and the sixth is discoloured outside which means there should be a rot inside.. What the heck! I thought to myself, never did like the dentist race very much. Yes I am a racist, who stand against the teeth excavators. 

All said and done! Finally I feel that some junk is removed from my mouth, something alien is no-more inside me! Bravo doc you did it! I paid her a fortune and said thank you very much as she smiled ironically.   

Dream Vs Life

Dream- You are the architect of your world and create everything the way you want! You are god.

Life- Your mind says that there is an extra ordinary power which controls everything that happens around you. You're not god, instead you pray to god to change life the way you want!

The concept of a dream is not predetermined, though sometimes when something particular is thought intensely in your unconscious mind, it eventually sets a dream theme.

Dreams which are classified as fun are the ones which are random. You fly, run, scream, float in mid air and sometimes I have tried to pinch myself in middle of a dream to keep a reality check.

Though the concept is not predetermined the content can be moulded to one's wish. A bit hard, but can be done with some mind effort.

                                                                       

Some say that the real world and the dream world are poles apart. And I sure did write this post with that in mind. I did some study on dreams and came to know that the purpose of dreams is yet to be understood and that negative emotions are more common that positive ones.

Am I living in a dream, where I cannot do a reality check? When I pinch I do not feel the difference! Or do I have to do something else, like die... to wake up, like in the movie inception... or take a pill... to go to the real world, like in the movie matrix... Why am I referring only the movies? Do not I have my own creative ideas? Or has the media deprived me of my creativity? Creativity is for dreamers. Oh... there is a sign that says “Dreaming is prohibited”.

When you are inside a dream, have you ever felt that you are in a real world; everything that happens seems to be real. Dreams are made surrealistic in eight hours.

So when life is made surrealistic? I do not know the answer to that my friend. What you and I know is that with some effort, dreams can be modelled... We both know that we are living in a dream, don't we?

Just tilt the moment and think. The Japanese Tsunami, Australian Storm, New Zealand Earthquake and what are to follow? What if all of a sudden the earth splits in two under your feet! It would be called the Splitter. The news stations would be covering the story more efficiently than the previous catastrophe. People all over the world would be opening up charity sites. But the acceptance of the inevitable will be lacking in our human race. As history has proved to us, everything which has a beginning has an end.  

Tomorrow will be unpredictable, yesterday is to be written in the history books and the present is to be created. Created by our dreams, a creation of infinite anomalies.

Cry at Night!! Oh please cry alone....

He witnessed a blanket of blue, "where am I" Michael wondered, as he looked around, he began to realize that there was a colossal distance between his feet and land. As he tried to move, his body grazed softly beneath, it was like cool wool soaked in water and at the horizon he witnessed the most brilliant sunrise, birds flying through a field of gold. 

"Am I in heaven?” he thinks, No! He was on top of a cloud. Before he could think of why he his here, he is taken back by the new experience. His curiosity made him wander over the edge and there was a telescope pointed below.

Wait! If you think this story is about Michael, it is not. He gazed through the glass and saw a life of a little girl. The story is about the little girl, Sarah. Little girl kisses her mom and says goodbye as she leaves her home, holding back her tears, hoping that she would find enough money to make all her worries go away. Little that she knew, the pursuit of money would bring in new worries!

She sets foot on an unknown land, surrounded by unknown faces; all that she knows is that her sisters are in hunger. The city, full of vultures, who hang around in the darkness, until she kneels, wounded, scared. Sarah is not that kind; she is a fighter, a phoenix.

But she cries in the night, all alone, where no one sees her fragility. No one but one, Michael sees her, and he wishes her sorrows ended. He is helpless to help, wished that she would find fortune.

To be continued..................

Feeling that he never fathomed...

"Please talk to me" he says, "I wish I had not met you" she says. It was way too much for him to bear. But it did not start this way, she was his only world. They were like wax and fire, for one to burn other would melt, inseparable until death, they seemed. 

There was fun, passion and care when the two were with each other. She regretted that she had to come out first with her love; she tried to bury the truth, but it exhumed, she had to tell him or lose him. The choice made, was the choice that she will regret.

Lonely he felt, though there were many around him, he felt warmth around her. And when he got the nod, something felt wrong; he knew that in this game of love insanity is the inception. 

You start to play it is like a game of Russian roulette (is a potentially lethal game of chance in which participants place a single round in a revolver, spin the cylinder, place the muzzle against their head and pull the trigger-Wikipedia) either one could get hurt.

The day was strange. "There is something I would like to tell you" she said. Along came the test, a test which every relationship goes through. It was nasty, like a stone thrown at a window, how hard tried; reassembled pieces never looked the same, it broke away...

He pleaded her to return, shores were passed, the journey back was impossible for her, though she wanted, she thought it was not worth the sweat.

It was hard for him to breath, he felt this pain on his back, it was excruciating. Memories were all he had, he does not want to them go, but element called time has other plans for him. The pain gets worse and one night he feels something growing inside him. In curiosity he feels his shoulders and wings pierced through his skin.  He let out a cry in pain and suddenly the pain has vanished.  Shades were open, exposing the outside world. There he saw the moon, the stars, the beauty of it all and jumped of the window. He flew away in pain but with gain, to discover his newly found freedom.

Reflection from the songs-Love the way you lie (Eminem ft:Rihanna), Russian roulette(Rihanna), and the blog http://anunconventionalmind-hannahg.blogspot.com/2011/02/curse-of-loveless.html   

Held Up! An alternate visitor.

Ahh... was held up by a visitors(dishtv repairmen).... who in the end did not appear up to now. So I had to shift the plans of climbing, for tomorrow...

While waiting for them, the door bell rang, and I went outside to open the gate to see who was it. It was my dad. As he stepped closer towards the door there was something crawling on our veranda. There it was it was a small dark cobra. That one was a timid creature but usually aggressive and surely venomous.

He crawled under a mat which was laying there on the car porch floor. Dad was a person who had faced these kind of encounters in the past and he wanted it dead. Damn I killed it. It felt horrible to kill a living creature of the wild. This was not the first time we had an visitor from the wild. A different kind of snake appeared at the edge of our garden about a month ago and it took the same fate as this one.

There had been increased number of human versus animal encounters in recent past due to  mainly deforestation, and extreme weather situations. And incident like this will prevail in the future too.

I hope that i do not meet up with the mother of that cobra!!!! I am very sorry Mrs.Cobra... I really am. I was expecting a different visitor.

Qi- The Energy Within

As I open the blinds in my room, I see bright sunshine majestically entering into my room. The wind is cool, and my feet tickle beneath, so I opt to sit down and write or read. Where I end up doing both. While sipping a cup of ginger tea that my mother made, I feel kind off energetic. Wanting to do millions of things.

Where does this energy come from?.  Have you come across the word "Qi" other than the title of this post!. In Indian yoga terms its called pranayama. The energy flow forming inside of any living thing. The belief is that Qi is the flow of energy that sustain the living beings..

Whatever terminology used, I really think that there is some energy flow in my surrounding. But I am yet to have my breakfast. And it seems to be fast depleting.. So peace to nature. I gotta go. Gonna have my breakfast and go for a walking around the mountains.