WAR, Human Rights and State of Fear

Well I'm wise enough to know just to utter the word Human Rights these days is good enough to open a can of worms.. But I really can help it. When you look at the articles of every news papers, televisions, radios, Internet and of course even in blogs.. you see every one is talking about WAR and Human Rights (now on I'll refer it as "HR", I don't want to waste my time to type such a long word) so eagerly.. so energetically... so frenetically ...

So it seems that Human Right is the todays new trend, a new life style. Every one wants to talk about.. every one wants to grab other attention and show-off their intelligent by harping about how state violate human rights and how we should devote ourselves to protect it.. But usually these so-called conversations doesn't happen in places where HR get shredded and cut in to pieces or where it get violated grossly... Most of the time they happen in Star Class hotels or very top of the class night clubs.. Where they drink expensive alcohol and smoking top of the range cigars.. or in a top conference hall surrounded by lots of news scavengers (aka TVs,Radios etc)

Every now and then these so-called HR watchers will get out of it and might hold a rally or a protest with fancy names just to burn up those calories they gain.

I really see this as creating a "STATE of FEAR"

What is this "State of Fear" ?

Its a pretty complex thing to explain... I'm not a sociology expert.. so I'll try to define it in the simplest of the form I can.. State of Fear is creating an un-necessary and non-existent fear among general public, So that whoever created that Fear can control the people with minimal effort..

for an example take a look at USA... most powerful country in the world.. but its people live under a constant fear.. They are afraid of Muslims and other Asians and they don't want to fly etc etc etc.... I can go on for ever but I'll keep it simple..
Also USA has this color coded security alert system... So that mean if the Alert reach "Red".. well its the time to stop whatever you do and go inside your bunkers, house or whatever and never to come up until the government say so..

So same thing is going on here.. some bunch of people, who really doesn't have the skill to do something productive, form some organization with an attractive name and some Dollars from west... and talk about HR from dawn to dusk... What will they do to stop HR violation ... Nothing... Why ? Because its their living... thats what they do to earn money and live a fancy life with minimal fuss....

(Before continuing further I want to clarify one thing.. I am NOT a racist.. I do respect other nationalities... So far in my life I haven't abuse any one racially and I'm not planning to do rest of my life.. )

There are creating this HR fear among us... They define HR the way they want... If bus full of Sri Lankans blown up by LTTE or If LTTE chase away any Sri Lankans from north or east..., That's not HR violations.. Those so-called HR watchers will not utter a word against it.. BUT if a LTTE personnel get arrested for suspicion behavior then that is HR violation...

Also they say if you don't support this "Their version of HR" other countries will stop aid... they'll ban us etc etc etc.... If this isn't creating fear or what ???? you tell me...

Just like the other trends we had.. this will also die away... If anyone can remember tell me.. Did we or they talk this much about HR last year around this time ???

And for sure next year around this time they/we will talk about something else.... I really don't know to predict future.. But I'll make a guess... I think it'll be about "Army capturing killinochchi..."..

As for the war i have one thing to say.. We need to fight out terrorism... "HR and war doesn't go along" as some once said in parliament..

What I have to say is don't get entangled in this web of Fear created by Media, So-called activist .. Just study the thing carefully and then make a decision.. Then you'll live without fear for rest of your life..

"I tried my Best".....

When I say "Best" I was not referring to the small village in Netherlands. I was actually referring the word "Best".
Why did I come up with that suddenly ? What is the relevance, I'm pretty sure everyone in this world (well it should most of the people in the world) knows the meaning of the word "Best".
OK without further due, the reason I bought it up is, I sat for two of my final year papers today. Last paper I had today was "Software Engineering Methods and Management"... All I can say about it is "I tried my Best"...
So is that mean I really did enough to get an A+ ???
When you are considering my scenario, I say there are 3 different definitions for "Best"...

1. I studied really hard and I'm really good at Software Engineering. So based on that, you can say "I tried my Best". (This is a sure A+)
2. I studied OK and I'm OK with Software Engineering. So based on this, you can say "I tried my Best". (This is somewhere around B)
3. I studied a little and I really suck at Software Engineering.So based on this, you can say "I tried my Best" too. ( This has a fine line between Pass and Fail. Marker is the only person who can decide which side you'll be end up at the end of the day)

So I guess you'll see there's a certain weight attach to the word "Best". That weight is the thing that gives the word a real meaning and a real value. So without that added weight the word "Best" is just another word in the vocabulary.
So next time When someone says to you "Machan I really tried my Best".... Stop for a while and think what did your "Machan" really mean out of the above 3....

(and for all of the curious kind out there, I meant the third one ... Well to be honest I'm not much of a Software Engineer and I'm much of a S........... )

What is Life.....?

Today I realized I'm 24 years 04 months and 10 days old for 02nd of June 2007.... and I'm 17 hrs away from sitting for first paper of my final exam... Thinking back about my 24 years of existence in Ceilão, I wonder...

Am I really happy about where am I in my life after 24 years ??
Am I under achieved or over achieved ??
What were the things I missed in last 24 years ? Do I regret those missed moments and opportunities ?
What were best moments I had ? Would I go back in time to live those moments again if I can ?
What's future holds for me in Ceilão.. ? Will things in Ceilão get worse or will it get better ?
What are the things I need to achieve in rest of my life ? basically from here to where ???
Whats the ultimate objective of my life, so that I can say "I achieved what I lived for" and I can quit....
Who exactly put me in this universe ? and why earth ?? and why in Ceilão??
Am I serving the purpose of whoever the almighty power behind my existence ?
Is it (All mighty power) happy about it so far ? and When will I get a performance evaluation ??
What will happen to my Astral Life after I die... ? Will it go to heaven(or hell) ? Will I be reborn in this universe ??

Have you ever thought about those stuff ?? Have you ever stop a while to wonder about it ?

I think I know the ultimate answer for the Life, Universe and everything .......... Its 42 ... and you know what, Earth is the powerful computer that was built to figure out, what exactly 42 means... Guess I'll be lucky enough to hang around till it give the meaning behind 42..... (hope Vogons won't come before that :) ).....

My First Blog

First I thought to start this off with the similar fashion that I wrote my first Java program. I know its the first step for all of those Gurus and Pundits out there... Since this is a blog and this something that we do to harp about ourselves to world, I just thought to start off with simple "Hiya".... I thought this is simple enough to not to scare off any souls...
Before starting this, I went through all the Ceilão's blogs available in www.achcharu.org... They are very interesting and very fascinating... Too be honest I learned thing or two about life from those bloggers :D. So basically that made me start my own blog, so that in a way.. in some distant future I may be able to help someone to think about life in a different way (I know its never gonna happen but no harm in trying... right :) )...
Before going further, for those who are wondering "What the f*** is Ceilão ?"... Well yeah I just have to say "you just have to brush up your own history knowledge about Ceylon son :)". Ceilão was the name given to our emerald isle by Portuguese who wondered into Colombo back in 1505.