Me and my life

With the start of the second tear, this is my first post. Having helped my friends for their repeat exams, I find two reasons why they repeated. One is that they lack the proper English knowledge and they couldn't adapt to the university system. And also they want the university to change for them (want the everything repeated in their mother tongue) rather than they adapt for the system. The other one is that some of them don't want to be doctors.  They are being carried on by their fates. They passed the A/Ls and came to medical faculties. And studied for one year without ever realizing what they really wanted. They should discover their destinies. But before chasing the destinies, make sure that it is the one that you really want it. So my friends stop waiting for the life to turn around for you but chase your destiny and the dreams.

An amazing story on racism by depicting the South African rugby during the initial year of Nelson Mandela's rule directed by Clint Eastwood. Invictus Poster The main characters are the rugby team captain portrayed by Matt Damon and Nelson Mandela portrayed by Morgan Freeman. After Mandela being elected to presidency after 30 years of imprisonment. He chooses to continue the South African Rugby team which consists of white people and has lost very badly in recent matches eventhough his officials ask him to cancel it. But he doesn't stop with it, he believes that the team will win the world cup that is held in South Africa that year. He makes the team to do training camps in all parts of the country, visits them and supports them. And finally the team wins the world cup. The film is very heart warming. Morgan Freeman is best in his acting in this film. It's a good film for racists to change their attitude or point of view. With Sri Lanka,  my homeland playing in the t

Just watched the series finale of Eureka. Five seasons of science and imagination with a new adventure in every episodes while continuing a main story arc. It tells the adventures of a sheriff in a town filled with scientists and nerds. Through this TV show, I was introduced to the world of gravitons, worm holes, FTL drive, virtual reality, organic computing, body printing, time travel, teleportation and artificial intelligence. What I found in separate movies, TV shows, I saw all of them in this TV show. I was fascinated to see, that an entire episode included a setup similar to what was done in Biosphere 2 project, a real research done in Arizona. Biosphere 2 site The other thing that fascinates me is the smart home, in which the lead character lives. The smart home is run by an artificial intelligence called SARAH. I really hope to live in smart home like that in the very near future. It is a really good sci-fi because, some of the concepts used in the show are really bei

Immediately after IBSS, I had to go to the medical camp organized by our faculty's Hindu Society. The participation to that was compulsory for every member of that society. At first I felt a little reluctance towards participating in it. But at the end I was so glad that I took part in it. It was a two day camp. The organization of the event had little short comings and it was the first medical camp for me and I was a little bit off the charts. On the first day, we did screening to school children. As I was a first year student, the things I could were the presentation on snake bites and first aid as part of health education and checked the visual acuity using Snellen charts. As for me I sucked at the presentation. I had to do it in Tamil and luckily I had to do it only once. But checking visual acuity was okay. There were students who had 6/60 and still hadn't consulted a doctor before. And there were students, who wore spectacles but stopped wearing them.  On the second

After waiting in the line as the first person in the queue, got the tickets for the movie at Liberty Lite.  Although the space in the theater was very cozy, the film distracted the discomfort. Amazing Spiderman Poster Marvel is doing a great job in taking superhero movies, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and Avengers. The cast of the movie was good. Andrew Garfield portraying Peter Parker, looks like a grown up version of Freddie Highmore. And both of them are British. He is very much different from the Tobey Maguire, who portrayed the character in previous trilogy. Emma Stone was just awesome, as she did in Easy A and The Help. She portrays the character of Gwen Stacey. It's kind of interesting that the girlfriend is revealed the double identity of the hero early in the story, unlike the other superhero movies and the previous trilogy. Director Marc Webb does a good job, in creating a good romantic storyline while including a lot of action sequences. The dial

Every heroes in all movies I have seen have their own set of secrets and lies they protect. For example, "Album Dumbledore was a man of secrets and lies." All the superheroes from Superman to Spiderman kept their true identities a secret and tried reasoning it to have a normal life. I sometimes wonder why do I keep so many secrets and tell all the lies to protect them. What would be my life, without these secrets. I can't imagine that life. In that kind of life, I would lose all that is precious to me, family, friends and the society. It's agonizing to tell lies everyday, from the moment you wake up until you close your eyes. Sometimes I wonder why all this pretence. What would really happen without these secrets and lies. Maybe I should really try atleast once and see how it goes. Am I really afraid that others will see the true me or am I afraid that I will see my true myself.

If some friend of yours does something bad to you. You suddenly stop being friend with him. But after sometime, you start talking with him and soon enough you are friend with him. But it also has its limits. If the person has done something that would question the friendship or the person's character is bad, he does not deserve to be your friend. But that does not include that you should suddenly stop talking with him or make an enemy out of him. You don't have to forgive him. But the best way to do here is treating him like a stranger. Friendship But even better, what you can do is do something good for him, according to the following Thirukkural. But for that you don't have to be his friend. " இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர்நாண நன்னயம் செய்து விடல்" The translation of it, as follows. "The proper punishment to those who have done evil to you, is to put them to shame by showing kindness, in return and to forget both the evil and the good done on bo

If anyone asks me the least favourite day in a year, I would say it's my birthday without a second thought. Birthday which is an event to publicly announce someone's age and to give a party and to receive gifts in which corporates can sell birthday cards, gifts and party arrangements. What makes me angry is giving superficial gifts, which doesn't mean anything to the giver or the receiver. I don't know what I fear the most, that I am getting older by one year, or that I have spent the last 12 months without achieving anything I wanted to achieve in my life. I sometimes wonder how time has slipped through my cupped hands on my birthdays. And the other personal reason is something bad always happens to me on my birthdays.  So if anyone asks me for birthday party, I would say that I hate birthdays. When they ask for a birthday treat, I would quite oblige to them as it is what social protocol demands of me. Or sometimes when I'm out of control I would shout at them.

As first year for us at the University of Colombo, Faculty of Medicine is ending, everyone in the batch are acting in different ways. Some people are not coming to the faculty preparing for the exams. Some people are coming to the faculty taking photos of their last days as the first year students and the places where we studied, suffered, and enjoyed. But I would say this would be a nice time to reflect back how we have changed over this past 10 months of so called first year. Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo  When I first came to the faculty I despised learning medicine and practically hated it. Now I am cooperating with it. I won't say that I love studying medicine. But now I don't really hate it. And also enjoy some of parts of the lesson I study. I don't know the real reason for this but I think most of it is due to my friends. So to all my friends, who are not letting themselves enjoy these last days as the first year students. Please enjoy life, while

Waiting for the last 30 minutes to get into the theater to watch Billa 2. People are trying to break through the crowd, even coming through the barred roofs. It's hilarious when someone trying to fit into the gap which they know that they really can't go through it. Why would they really do this thing knowing that they are putting the people who are  really waiting in the queue at a disadvantage. Are human beings only capable of thinking about themselves only? What about social protocols and courtesy of respecting others rights. But I have made the decision to really see this movie tonight. Await for what really happened.