She was the teacher in charge of the fifth grade and in the new year she stood in front of her class and told pupils a lie that every teacher usually tells. That's she loves all the children in the class alike well and they are all the same to her. The closest reason for the statement to be ...
This is an eight years old story one of my friends once told me pointing to his pet cat. "This is our pet cat. As we considered it's our duty to make his horoscope when it was born, we met the well known astrologer at the neighbouring village one day. We handed him the time at which it was ...
The image in this post shows the world's most expensive biscuit. You will be surprised to know that its value is around 23000 USD. Also you will be surprised to know that this is an ordinary cracker type biscuit that is around 108 years old. This kind of biscuits were manufactured in England around 1912. Although it is 108 ...
Vihangana Ariyasinha a nineteen year old clever school girl at KurunegalaMaliyadewa girls' school in my country Sri Lanka has passed advanced level examination with three distinctions according to the recently released results by the examination department of Sri Lanka.A success that can only be acheived by a few in a compititive exam like that .At first glance, nobody sees a ...
The world famous kissing rocks in Vietnam are in danger of collapsing a report says. The reason for this is the rising sea level and the fishing boats passing near the rocks. Therefore the rocks are at risk of erosion. Kissing Rocks are a lovely place that many people remember when they say Vietnam. In 2019 more than 4 ...
August 26 is the international dogs day. Is it worthwhile declaring a day for dogs. The story of faithful dog Hachiko would throw some light to discide.achiko was an Akita Inu dog born in a farm in 1923 and later adopted by Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor of the University of Tokyo. The two fell into a daily routine: Ueno and ...
The dry season has started in my country. People are long waiting for water for their crops.The irrigation tanks have begun to dry up, that supplied water for the farmers to cultivate their crops and the hydro power plants are severely affected by the drought without water to generate electricity. As the undergrowth of the jungles too have dried ...
The image featuring my post today is "The Plastic Garbage Elephant" a creation by the well known sculptor and artist Lalith Senanayaka in my country Sri Lanka. This creation had been selected by the national geographic magazine for a children's almanac along with other top artistic creations. This garbage elephant had been mounted on the beach of Uswetakaiyawa in ...
A young couple moved to a home in a new area. The next morning, while they were having breakfast, the young women saw through the window of the dining room her neighbour washing clothes outside. Later she saw the neighbour hanging washed clothes on the cloth line to dry. Seeing this the young wife said to the husband " ...
This is Jake fruit. Very delicious. Grown specially in tropical countries like mine Sri Lanka". People, both local and foreign, love to eat it. It can even take as a staple food when eaten raw before it is ripe. This fruit is so special to my country is that there was a person dearly called " uncle Jak " ...
Diving is a sport everybody knows. Well-to-do pay and send their kids to swimming pools in sport stadiums. It's nice to watch the stylish way the girls and boys dive into the pool. Some trained teams of girl divers even perform drill display on the pool clever than dolphins. But see how poor village boys do the diving. They ...
Do you believe that there are flowers that resemble the figure of a lady. Believe or not, when you search the internet you may find such flowers. One such flower is Narilatha flower. The publishers of the posts depicting the Narilatha flowers say that these flowers bloom once in twenty years in the dense forests of Himalayan mountain range ...
There's a saying "old is gold". But does it have meaning for Dingiri Amma. The stages of life like Infancy ,childhood , youth, marriage might have spent happily. She would have brought up children , she might have been employed and earned money and spent for kids, might have had a good reputation in the village. Now today nobody ...
Resplendent Quetzal""""""""""""""""""""""""Resplendent Quetzal is a bird.It belongs to Trogan or Trogondae family. The zoological name of this bird is Pharomachrus Mcinno.As it is a very beautiful bird,it is very famous. It's body is green colour and the breast is red.The green colour body shows iridescence,that is when angle of view and angle of illumination change,the colour of the body changes ...
Banaue Rice Terraces"""""""""""""""""""""""""The picture in this post shows a cascading terraces of cleverly irrigated rice fields in the mountains of north central Luzon,Philippines.People know this by the name "Banaue Rice Terraces. These rice terraces were created more than 2000 years ago by indigenous aborigines called Ifugao people. Some of these terraces were designated "UNESCO world heritage sites.Because of the marvellous ...
A BIT OF SCIENCE ABOUT SLEEPThere are two types of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement sleep (REM) and Non Rapid Eye Movement sleep ( NREM ).When you sleep you go through both of these two types.You start with NREMand then step up to the second phase,REM. Sometimes you wake up before going to the second phase or somebody may wake ...
The king coconut boutiqueWhat you see in the picture is a king coconut boutique. This has been built in the middle of a river called Madu river in Balapitiya in down south in my country Sri Lanka. At first glance, one may wonder to whom this old man seated on the stall would sell king coconut. But he is confident ...
There is a river called Aragvi river in Georgia. It has a speciality that attracts the visitors. That is,in one point its water gets two colors. The area from which the river gets its water is in the southern slopes of the Caucasus mountains. Much of Georgia's hydro-electric power is generated from its water. It has many tributaries. Two of ...
Have you ever visited a forest park.To be exact a rock forest park. Such a rock forest park is there in China. This is an ideal destination for those who are interested in visiting natural forests for excitement of unseen natural beauty. It is located in Zhangjiajie city in Hunan province in China.This is a forest with a uniqueness. Because ...
SLEEP WALKINGHave you seen people walking in sleep? I remember my grand father relating a story about a sleep walker who was a relative of him. According to him the sleep walker gets up from his sleep in the midnight, unlocks the door and walks in the garden until he treads on water or crosses a waterway.As soon as the ...
