Me and my life

Health Camp organized by Medical Students' Hindu Society of our faculty was held on 24th and 25th of this month at Kahawatta Tamil Maha Vidayalyam, Ratnapura. It is my 5th medical camp, in the faculty starting from Mannar, Poonakari, Udappu, Deniyaya. As usual I was assigned to vision care. The first day was for screening of school children which was done by medical students and second day was for the public and referred school children done by doctors. It was crowded from the start till the end. Why do we have to do a free health camp in a country where a health care up to tertiary care is free. Even when government has decentralized the health care, with each province having its own general hospital with specialists. What amazes me is that people come with chronic problems and want to sort it out in one day, but all we do in the camp for them is to refer them to the hospitals. So where is the problem? It is either people are unaware of how to access health care or they are misg...

I follow the same routine everyday, from the moment I get up until I close my eyes. To change even a small thing I have to think it over and over again several times before doing it. What am I afraid of? I guess it is uncertainty. Uncertainty of how a new food item you have never tasted before would taste like keeps you from ever ordering that food item. You just buy the same old food item and go to same old restaurants even though a new restaurant is nearby you are afraid to go to it. So I am being boxed into a very tight space due to my fear of uncertainty. I think it is my worse fear. Uncertainty of the future brings me creepy nightmares. The worst is when you have to decide something about your future like your career and you are presented with many choices. Then we look up to others to make our decisions for us because we are afraid of uncertainty. So what am I going to do about it? I guess answer is simple just embrace the chaos. Make decisions spontaneously do not wait for ...

The 30 year old civil war has done many terrible things in Sri Lanka to people from all the corners of the island. Many losses, loss of loved ones, loss of motherland, etc.... Being a child to a parents who displaced to the hill country from north due to the civil war, I didn't suffer the hardships of the war. First of all, to people who don't know much about Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, mainly two Tamil dialects are spoken, one being the Sri Lankan Tamil spoken by Tamils from North and East and the other is the Indian Tamil spoken by Hill country Tamils. The two dialects are so different, the way you pronounce one word would distinguish you. To the story of me again, so I grew up under the parenting of Sri Lankan Tamil dialect, but in the society I learned the Indian Tamil dialect. So I began to speak a little bit of that and this, mixture of both dialects. But at times I felt like an outcast, a boy speaking a mixed Tamil in a society where they speak the Indian Tamil dialect....

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 r...

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 ...