Theory Freak

By Venerable Panyananda Bhikkhu from his book Love Your Children The Right Way  DEAR PARENTS, Please listen to me again about this important matter. Several days ago, a lady came to see me at the temple. She said she had only one son but he was trouble for her. I asked her how. She told me that her son was very stubborn. He did not listen to her at all and always acted as he pleased. Any time she disagreed with him there would be big trouble. When he became angry he would break things, which were close to him at the time. I listened and could not help feel pity on her and on that boy as well. Mothers always have problems with stubborn children. If the children cannot be cured, the stubbornness will become a bad habit. When they grow up they may become hotheaded and cruel. I knew another boy. When he was young he would always be angry at something. When he became angry he would hit his head against the wall every time. The parents had to help each other hold him and tal...

If one day I realize that there is no life after death, I would commit suicide instantly. I am not depressed. I experience a fare share of depressive moments as everybody else. I experience extremely joyous moments as well. I am loved. I have people around me to love. But its still more filled with trying, troubles, pain, monotony, expectations, grief, separation. I undergo all those negative feelings to achieve those limited periods of joyous moments. A hot cup of tea is refreshingly delicious. But the feeling doesn't last for a long. We get bored. We might not have money to buy another cup. We buy an SUV, only to find that there is a better car in the market. We are always worried about the safety of the car. The bliss of sex last for a very short time. There are so many luxuries in the world that we cannot afford. We have all the luxuries but we are  still jealous of others. By committing suicide I can avoid all those. If there is no life after death, people will be forced/in...

If the world, specially companies can adopt a "No ironing required" policy for their employees, it would be humongously beneficial. In several ways. First it would be earth friendly, thus making companies more ;), i mean genuinely sustainable. Ironing requires a hell of a lot of energy. My meter goes crazy when ironing. Ironing eats up time as well, reducing the efficiency of the employees, getting them late to come to work. No-ironing policy saves money by cutting of the electricity bill. (which is a hot issue for Sri Lankan middle-class these days). Ironing destroys fabrics sooner. The heat speeds up the decay. Ironed shirts becomes thinner and it washes out the color. Ironing is utterly useless. Ironed shirt doesn't make employees efficient or effective. It does not have any effect on the quality of the work. Its just for the show. I mean who are we kidding right? Gosh, some people even iron their underpants and wests. Nonsense. If you are wearing a coa...

I had the opportunity to attend the annual Sinhala/Tamil New Year festival of my not three year old nephew's day care center. The daycare, which also runs a preschool as it's main business is the oldest and the most-heard place for the little children to get themselves ready for to step into the depressive, torturous school life where they are expected to survive the competition that promises them a high-paid government job. As the preschool was located in a small, confined area, the festival was held in the ground situated in the heart of the city. Nearing the ground, I heard the sounds of loud speakers announcing the games and the events. Bright colored vertical flags decorated the sides of the road that leads to the ground. The ground had six or seven canopies dedicated to the parents of the respective section (Baby Class, Upper, Lower etc. ). The purple canopy was reserved for the special guests. I found the nephew's grandmot...

DONT WATCH Sirasa News First has become a very unprofessional, biased channel. So ironical that they ask the viewer to decide what they report. Sirasa has already decided what viewers should decide. News is heavy with propaganda. Shameless media behaviour.   Only alternative at this point is Ada Derana. 

ඇමතිතුමෙක් සිය පුත්‍රයාගේ ගුරුවරියට ලියූ ලිපියක් දයාබර ගුරුතුමිය වෙත, ලොව සියලු දෙනාම රජ වන්නේ යහපත් රාජ්‍ය පාලකයන් යටතේය, නුවණින් ඒ පාලකයන් සවිමත් කිරීම අදියුම් දෙන්නන්ගේ ශක්තියෙන් බව ලොවම දන්නා කරුණකි. එබැවින් යහපත් රාජ්‍ය පාලකයෙක් වන්නට සිටින මාගේ පුත්‍රයාට මේ තතු කියාදීම ඔබ සතු යුතුකමක් මෙන්ම එය ඔබට මතක් කිරීම මා සතු වගකීමකි. කුඩාකල පටන් රිදී හැන්ද මුවේ තබා පැමිණි රජ පැටියන්ට මහපොලවේ කර්කශ්ඨක බව උරුම නැති බව මාගේ පුත්‍රයාට කියාදෙන්න. අතට පයට දැසි දස්සන් ගෙදර සිට මිදුලට යාමටත් යාන වාහන ලැබෙන්නේ පෙර පිනෙන් සහ සිය පියාගේ මානව දයාව හා කැපවීම නිසාවෙන් බව ඔහුට කියා දෙන්න. කිසි විටක සාමාන්‍ය පන්තියේ මිතුරන් ආශ්‍රය නොකිරීමටත් හැකිතරම් ව්‍යාපාරික පන්තියේ හෝ රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික මට්ටමේ නැතිනම් නමගිය අපරාධකාරයන් මට්ටමේ මිතුරන් පමණක් ආශ්‍රය කිරීමට ඔහුට මග පෙන්වන්න, එය අදටත් වඩා හෙටට ඔහුට මහා ශක්තියක් සහ පසුපසින් පැමිණෙන් බලමුළුවක් වනවා නියතය. මේ ආසනය ඔහුගේ දේපල බවත් මේ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය ඔහුගේ ඉලක්කය බවත් ඔහුට පෙන්වා දෙන්න, දේපල මතින් ඉල්ලක්ක වෙතට පිය මනින්නට ඉදිරියට එන කිසිඳු බාධකයකට එම ගමන ...

I did not want these red lines. They are not really lines. They are spaces between the divs. Red is the color I set for the container div inside which other divs rest.  Unwanted spaces between the div tages totally confused me. They appeared on every browser. Made me think that I know nothing about HTML/CSS. Made me feel like an incompetant loser. I was frightened. Disillusioned. Frustrated. nuff said.  paragraph tag is the culprit.  Put this awesome little code in your CSS.  p { padding: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0; } TADA. Spooky spaces gone.