While surfing through the net, I came across this name on a obituaty website.
Sivapathasomasuntharalingam!
All in one word with 28 English alphbets.
If dissect the name, one will end up with at least 5 Tamil names.
Siva-patha-soma-sunthara-lingam.
However the trader from Northern Province of Jaffna, Sri Lanka has shorten his name to Sivapatham.
Just wondering how he managed to write his name on a passport form or on the online forms?
Rest in peace Sivapathasomasuntharalingam!
Believe this is a response by a student which is shared via internet which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:
Question : Is Hell exothermic (release heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct….. ….leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’
Every 15th of March referred as “The Ides of march” and once again we are having it today.
So why is it referred as the IOM?
Once upon a time March was the first month of the Roman calendar. The ancient Romans did not number the days of the month, instead based on 3 phases of the moon. The 3 lunar- phase- markers were named Kalends, Nones and Ides. The Ides indicated the full moon of that month, and being March the first month of the year, the first full moon was called “The Ides of March”. Romans marked the Ides of March with celebrations to welcome the new moon.
But Everything changed on 44 BC Ides of March .
A coup was plotted against Julius Caesar. Emperor of Rome was assassinated on the Ides of March. History would tell you that his best mate Brutus was involved too.
Then came Shakespeare the playwright who quoted “Beware of the Ides of March” in his play “The tragedy of Julius Caesar” (~1599-1623). Since then the day has been scarred as bad omen. Would you classify this as a bad omen? I will let you decide.
140 years ago (1877), the inaugural Test Cricket Match also started on an Ides of March.
It is a lovely depiction of peace if and if all the religions come together. the image is poached from a facebook page author- unknown.
Many faiths with one future
Just came across some images on BBC News Asia published in 2014. These are black and white images of women taken in the era of 1850 to 1950
Group of Marathi women in 1875 (Credits: BBC News- Asia)
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Chair posture a type of Yoga? Diversity of Art from China.
There are times that you have to be at the right time at the right place!
Here is a photo captured by an Aus-Lankan while touring in Sri Lanka. One of the infants of the monkey is enjoying a drink from his mum while the other is having a cuddle.
Daljit Raj Chelliah a keen photographer captured this moment at the top of the cave- temple hills of Dambulla (தம்புளை) located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
The cave temple is archeologically conspicuous land mark of Sri Lanka whose inhabitants dates back to the third Century BC. During 10 -12 CE Dambulla was ruled by the Viceroy of Raja-Raja Cholan of Tamil Nadu.
Family time! (Photo credit: Daljit Raj Chelliah)
Wishing everyone a very bright peaceful new year!
Savoury milk rice with hot chillie sambal (kattai sambal)
Jaffna specialty for the first day of the year!
Quite innovative!
Once again December has arrived for yet another Christmas season. Some do call it as a silly season. Commercially it is a busy time for the supermarkets. A supermarket in Germany has turn the festive season with an innovative musical idea. Please check the short video below.
SABAS LOG 