Brief Garden ,Beruwala ,Sri Lanka

The Brief Garden, house, which used to be the home of landscape architect Bevis Bawa, brother of renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa.

Bawa was educated at Royal College Colombo, but had to leave school at seventeen when his father died while in England. His mother sent him to be trained as a planter at his uncles estates in order to take up the management of the family estate in Aluthgama know as Brief Estate.

I went to this garden last weekend.There were few Tourists in the garden .But there is only one Sri Lankan family.due to unawareness of Lankan s. It has nice architectural views.Even at Lunch time,the garden was very cool climate.One of the best places i visited in sri lanka.

 

 

Memories of Retirement with 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 start on tomorrow (14th) Feb 2015.It's time to salute few cricketers for their retirement on ODI Cricket during this world cup.

Who ever who won this world cup,these players will get a special attention during this world cup,due to their retirement.

These players serve lot to their Country as well as Cricket World.

These are the names of the players plan to retired from the ODI Cricket with this world cup.

Misbah UL Haq - Pakistan

Shahid Afridi - Pakistan

Daniel Vettori – New Zealand

Ryan Harris - Australia

Brad Haddin - Australia

Shivnarine Chanderpaul – West Indians

Chris Rogers - Australia

MS Dhoni - India

Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka

Mahela Jayawardena - Sri Lanka

Compost Bin

House Garbage is the one of the biggest issue in urban areas. But if you maintain your house garbage properly you can create compost fertilizer.
Nowadays Compost fertilizer is very famous among the farmers. Most farmers used Compost fertilizer instead of chemical fertilizer.
In order to build up the Compost fertilizer,you need a Compost Bin.

In sri lanka you can buy them in many shops or else you can create one using Barrel. If you are using Barrel you need to create air holes your self.

In my research i have found out two shop in Sri Lanka,who sells Compost Bin. There can be many more places. But my reaseach based on these two places.
1. Arpico
2. Land Reclamation & Development Co.Ltd,Nawala

When you compare these two places items.

Aprico item is freely available through out Sri lanka. You can buy it any Aprico store. Also it made out of plastic. So durable.
But Land Reclamation & Development Co.Ltd item is not freely available,It's available only in Nawala,Hingurakgoda,Kotagala,Trincomalee and Ampara. Also it's made out of cement.
When you compare price wise, Aprico item is more expensive compare to Land Reclamation & Development Co.Ltd item.

What are the items,you can put into Compost Bin
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1.Dry items - Tree leaves,news papers
2.Wet items - kitchen disposal items,parts of vegetables,parts of fruits


What are the items,you can not put into Compost Bin
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1.plastic
2.Cardboard
3.Shopping bags,build from plastic

How to step up Compost Bin
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1. first put a coconut coir mat (goni) at the bottom of the bin. It will be destroy at last,but it will help you to pick out the compost,at last.
2. next put a dry items layer
3. after that put a wet items layer
4. next put a dry items layer
5. after that put a wet items layer
like wise you have to maintain layers.


Apart from maintaining these layers,you have to insert water once a week. Also you have to collect kitchen items in a bag and put it to compost bin once a week. Then it will be easy to maintain the Compost bin layers.
In a way this Compost bin concept will be a good solution for the garbage problems. After a three months time,you can take out the compost fertilizer.

Travel Touch card used in Colombo City

Travel Touch card introduce to Sri lanka in 2013 December.Last month i brought a travel card from promotion campaign in borella area.
It cost Rs 200 and it contains value of Rs. 200.you can topped this card in any shop which can reloads to  mobile phones.

Now it is famous among the private buses in colombo city.CTB government buses do not support this feature.

Once you given this card to conductor,he will touch it on his machine.Then it will generate the bus ticket.

It's a good solution for bus service.Because handing money in a bus is difficult.Nowadays most conductors has a less exchangable money.Most of them do not have Rs 1,Rs 2 ,Rs 5 coins.So this card is a suitable solution for handling coins issue on a bus.

Most of the countries now used this system in their bus service.But it's a new experience for Lankans.This system implemented by Dialog,famous mobile service provider in Sri Lanka. 

Hand over Torn notes/damage notes to Bank of Ceylon

In the day to day life you will received  damage/torn notes.Please do not pass it to another person by hide it as a good note.It's not a good practice.Please hand over it to Bank.

If you are live in Sri Lanka you can hand over it to Bank Of Ceylon.But if you are live in another country,then you have to refer the process your country banks follows.But in this article i am talk about Sri lanka currency notes.

It's a natural thing once people use the notes 5 or 6 years,they will be get damage.But some notes will runs more than 10 years.I am point out if the note get damage then you need to remove it from society ,Because people will not willing to take damaged notes.




Process you need to follow to hand over damaged notes to bank.

1. take a A4 sheet.
2. Place the damaged note in the piece of paper.
3. give few minutes to make them dry.
4. after that write your name , Account no , branch name and signature on the back side of that stick damage note.
5. Remember in order to do this process, you need to have a BOC bank account.
6. then count the value of these damage notes, and fill the deposit slip with that count.
7. go to the bank counter 
8. hand over these damaged notes to counter with deposit slip 
9. Then bank update your pass book against the damaged notes value.

Panamure Elephant

Panamure Elephant  is the king of the Elephant Group,who lived on Panamure jungle,near Panamure village,near to Rathnapura Town.Last few month I got a opportunity to read the book called Panamure Elephant.The author of the book was Piyasena Kahadagamage.I would like to share this elephant story in this blog.

Panamure is a village located in the Ratnapura District of the Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. The Panamure Elephant was the leader of a large herd of 22 elephants, including both adult and young elephants, living in Panamure.

In 1950, an elephant kraal (traditional elephant capture) was organized by Sir Francis Molamure to capture this herd. Although the group was caught, the Panamure Elephant proved uncontrollable. He managed to direct and protect the other elephants, attempting to free them from the trap. Eventually, people were able to control the herd — all except the Panamure Elephant.

They attempted to release him by opening the barriers, but he refused to leave his herd. The captured elephants were kept confined for over 30 days. During this time, new elephant calves were born, and the elder female elephants began producing milk to feed the newborns, making the situation increasingly difficult to manage.

Finally, Sir Francis Molamure decided to kill the Panamure Elephant to resolve the situation. According to the rules at the time, an elephant had to be killed with a single bullet. The Sri Lankan Police attempted to carry this out but failed. Sir Francis then sought a skilled marksman and eventually found a man named Kadiragaman, who successfully shot and killed the Panamure Elephant.

Following the incident, the opposition party (the Communist Party) organized protests against the government. As a result, the government introduced a parliamentary rule banning elephant kraals in the future.

Thus, the 1950 Panamure Elephant Kraal became the last elephant kraal ever held in Sri Lanka. Due to his sacrifice, the Panamure Elephant became a revered symbol — remembered as the elephant who gave freedom to Sri Lanka's wild elephants.

optium omega blood glucose monitoring system

I have brought this meter for my father in 2008 at shop name HarCourts in Dehiwala area.

My father had blood sugar since his age forty.That means twenty years back.

This Item is very good for the people who are suffering for blood sugar sickness.We have used this item 5 years.It is very durable and also spare parts are widely available through out the Sri lanka.