Palmyra is the iconic palm in Jaffna – the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The beauty of the Borassus palm is that each part of the tree, from the root to the tip has an economic use.
Palmyra Palm Tree in Jaffna
The leaves of the palm is fan shaped and the mono-cot could grow up to 3 meters. A fermented drink toddy (kallu) is also made from the sap of the young floweret (inflorescence). The chosen photo would be the Cover art if I had to write a book about Jaffna oh my Jaffna!
Glowing Tricycles in Melaka, Malaysia- January 2014
photo credit : alfietjan2014
This entry is in response to the photo challenge Nighttime.
Just this morning while I was scanning my Twitter account, I came across a photo which is suitable for this weeks photo challenge.
The photo has been transferred from a face book account. Be appreciative of the unknown photographer who captured this split-second -fall.
Credit also goes to @vilambaram the Twitter account from Chennai, India.
https://twitter.com/vilambaram/status/472605227456004096
The photos below were taken at the Town of Melaka during our visit to Malaysia in February 2014.
Melaka was ruled by Portugese, Dutch and then by English for many centuries. Each coloniser has left a mark of their own (either good or bad) in the port city of Melaka.
Meleka reminds me so much of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon ), which was also ruled by the same three colonial rulers for over 45o years. These photos were taken in the streets of Melaka
Photo credits: AlfietFebruary14
Some of my favourites from Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life.
1. Giant puppets in San Fermin Fiesta in Pamplona, Spain
March 20th 2014., is the second international Day of Happiness . The day was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2012.
How do you measure happiness? (Photo Credit: Canberra Times.com)
Happiness contributes to 16 scrabble currency
(Photo Credit:Sites.Google.com)
Content with Social media? (Graphic credits: Blogspot.social maximizer.com)
A song about Happiness “Dont worry, be happy ” by Bobby McFerrin (Video Credit to YouTube)
BITTER TRUTH OF HAPPINESS
Happiness is not something ready-made
It comes from your own actions
– Dalai Lama-
Happiness depends upon ourselves
– Aristotle-
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
– Oscar Wilde-
A bouquet of Lavender (photo credit: alfietSept2013)
Related article: Weekly photo Challenge : Object
Some of my favourite entries:
1. The fox and the crow from Aesop’s fable
2. Manneken-pis
This is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge ” Juxtaposition “
Modern South Africa has lost his father. The international symbol of the world, admired by young & old, blacks & white has left this earth for a better place.
Rest in Peace Madiba!
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela born as a tribal prince, who lost his freedom to fight for the freedom of others. Faught for the freedom of the black South Africans against the anti apartheid government of that time and jailed for treason for 27 1/2 years (1964 – 1990) in the notorious prison Robben Island.
Won a Nobel Peace prize in 1993 (shared with de Klerk) and became the first democratically elected black President of the modern South Africa in 1994. He had the great ability to bridge the gap between the blacks and whites of the Modern South Africa. He also became an advocate for fighting against Aids .
Nelson Mandela was also known as Madiba by his tribal name retired from public life in 2004
I have re-blogged the article which I wrote on this blog in June 2013 while he was admitted at the hospital.
Finally Heaven has got ready to accept the great leader of earth.
There are only a handful of men & women on this earth who became the Masters of the situation and sacrificed their whole lives for the good will of fellow human beings.
Martin Luther King (Jr) from The United states of America, Mahatma Gandhi of India, 14th Dalai Lama in Exile , Mother Theresa of India , Aung San Suu kyi of Burma , Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai and Nelson Mandela (Madeba) are few of them.
While I type, the nonagenarian Nelson Mandela of South Africa is fighting for his life in a hospital.
I would like to share some of Nelson Mandela’s quotes below.
Thousands of Catholic families from around the world gathered at the Vatican over the weekend to celebrate the Year of Faith with Pope Francis.A small group of children was invited to sit on the pope’s platform to listen to speakers from across the world speak about their faith and families.
Pope Francis was visibly amused when one child stayed on the stage instead of returning to his seat on the steps.
Let the children come to me and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Luke 18:16
See more photos here. Source: NCR Staff
SABAS LOG 
