I am now in China to attend the Game Developers conference in Shanghai, this is an annual conference that is been held in China with its main chapter held in America and the European chapter held in Germany.
I was able to compile all what I have learnt there, however I had an issue in publishing them because the following web sites are restricted in China.
Google (Which includes blogger)
Facebook
Twitter
Youtube
And a host of other sites as well.
Therefore all these had to be posted after coming home, which will be serialized in this blog.
Good poetry has always inspired me, it is difficult to identify where the exact source of inspiration is hidden, but let me repeat Good Poetry is always an inspiration.
In Poetry it is often not the content that is captivating, but the way the words are positioned, the way the words trick the mind to convey the content and the way a complex thought is written in a few words that kindles inspiration.
As writers thoughts keep flowing, so by condensing these thoughts to a few words and positioning those words in a way that directs the human mind to an unknown destination is indeed an artistic blessing. As a result of my acquaintance with poetry, I have tried my hands on writing my own proses, which have either ended up in some discarded book or my faithful waste paper basket .
Hence I decided to include all the proses that I write in my blog with the Title: Poetry Time.
Therefore have a nice day until I post my first line of prose.
With the end of the Colombo Book fair I thought of writing about books, it's good bad and the ugly pages.
Reading has been encouraged in this part of the world as a powerful tool and the only tool for learning (this was way before internet and multimedia teaching materials were popular). However like everything, Books and Reading has its good, bad and ugly sides to it.
The Good
You do learn a lot - Yes this is true, you get to learn a lot
You can kill your time - While going on a bus, waiting for someone or to kill the idle time, this is the ideal thing to do.
Peaceful - You don't have to depend on anyone, you can do it by yourself.
The Bad
Forgetting - However good or fast you are in reading, it will be of no use if you are unable to recall what you have read. Imagine you read a book on First Aid and when you try to apply it and you forget the series of steps.
Rate of being an Introvert increases - If you are addicted to reading the last thing you want to do is to talk with visitors who visit your home or to go out of your house (or library for that matter)
The Ugly
Reading is not something that you can do for a long time
Reading may not be possible as you age, naturally your eyesight might be weak and as a result your interest to read will go away with time - At that time you will always want someone who reads to stop it and talk
Yet with all that Reading is an act that we all do at some point of time providing your literal.
I remember one gentleman who had visited a country in Scadinavia mentioned that in that Country people are allowed to camp on private properties.
This amazed me and my family members for some time. How can a government of a country allow outsiders to camp on someone else's private property?
but...., he continued, when they leave the site, not even a 'tissue paper' could be found on those properties.
I visited the Dehiwala Sunday Fair, once it was over and the merchants have headed home, this was what I was able to spot.
For some reason, I recalled the story.
Garbage Thoughts. After all Sri Lanka is not Scandinavia.
I thought of writing this post after seeing the popularity of the video shown below
This video had a clip of two girls (seems to be from a middle eastern Country) singing inside a car and one of them dancing while driving. Unfortunately the Car met with an accident (as shown in the video).
What interested me was the song that those girls were singing as it had a nice tune, when I looked through the comments I realized that I was not alone as there were so many people requesting for the name of the song.
Until one Samaritan posted the song and the song had a video as well. This is the video
One of the first comments I saw in that video was 'It was the video of the two girls that brought me here'.
Today this singer and the song has received international popularity. When writing this post I realized that Tragedy has a possibility of begetting popularity
After a long lapse I decided to write about a topic that shocked the Country, shocked to the extent that a debate erupted about Social Netwoking sites (Facebook in perticular).
Amanda Todd who had been one of the victims of Cyber Bullying and harassment , posted a video about the trauma that she had undergone as a result of online harassement, for some unfortunate reason Sri Lankans did not pay much heed on to this, if they did, such a dialogue would have taken place some years back, the video she posted could be viewed below
I have been a verbal critic of Social Networking, yet I must admit that Facebook has been tightening its security and improved with time where security is concerned.
Another factor tends to blame the parents/family for negligence, I am not afraid to say that this view is endorsed by another section of society who want to safeguard Social Networking sites, and these social networking sies can't avaiod these criticisms.
Social Netwoking is similar to a Park, where individuals, families, friends and gangsters all get together when they are free.
Imagine two children of the same family (A and B) decide to enter this park called Social Networking. Child A meets family C where the Father is a Professor, Mother is a Scientist, Son is a Lawyer and Sister is a teacher, while Child B meets Family D, where the Father is a Swindler, Mother is drug dealer, son is a contract murderer and sister is a drug addict. What would be the fate of both these children (Much similar to the Buddhist Jataka story on the two parrots)
