Aaa sirla nonala,
Youkno youkno me Kolonnawe Pelihouse man then addicted
Kasiya and Ganja.
But ..but I been thinking thinking if Silibiris mightma
be addicted to some other dope these days.
Jesma like them Housos I see in the morning afternoon and
night walking with their iPhone held in front of them….or they are standing,
sitting at bus stop staring at their iPhone. I see some walking with the iPhone
stuck to their ear.
Them Housos are veri similar to we Pelihouse pepol in
some ways. We poor, not knowing where the next meal is coming from with no jobs
no real income and no Government assistance. Them say they are socially disadvantaged
pepol needing Government Safety Net. That’s another stori for another day.
The point is them mustma havu iPhone never mind food
coupons.
Aaa we Pelihouse pepol do have another thing in common.
We mustma havu Kasiya never mind food. Jes like us them mustma havu beer or
bourbon never mind healthy meals. Fish and Chips or sausages would do.
So why why them carri their iPhones evuri where? My
monkey mind wandered evuriwhere. Never mind what Kolonnawe Tampol Lokuhamuduruwo
say on Poya days when we take sil.
Look at the monkey…. Watch the monkey….. still the monkey….
tame the monkey…..
It’s alright for him but but how can we do anything to
the monkey when Kolonnawe Sweetie saunters into meditation hall wearing her
single AC, Dabol AC minigowms then bend down in front of us to worship
Lokuhamuduruwo?
Budu Ammo … we issi issi look when she do a Sharon Stone …like
Basic Instincts in reverse.
We keep sil all day but when we shout shout siddown in
the front to get a better look….all our sil go falling dada baddas.
See my monkey mind digress.
I talking iPhones addiction not porn addiction.
When I hujja kolla time Ambarawa, a Colony settlement
near Kebithigollawa, urgent and important messages came by Telegram to Ambrawa
Post Office. And that was is more that was in Engris too. So pepol had to run
to somebodis in the vilej to turn that Sudda time Engiris into Sinhala Onli Government
time lanvej we can unnerstan.
Ambrawa Villej people got all the news them needed when
them went to Ambarawa General store cum tea shop cum local hangout for the men
who had nothing better to do but sit and talk. Them talked and women spread all
the gossip. That was their social media. Them days Ambrawa pepol might not know
what happened in the Villaj across the Ambarawa Weva let alone in Colombo.
Youkno youkno sirla nonala, them used to come to me to
turn Engiris into Sinhala. That’s another stori you can read all that here .
When the postman arrived bearing a telegram in
Silibiris name Silibiris was not home. Siriyalatha put a thumb print and
accepted it with apprehension. The short message was in English. Postman told
her she could not understand it either. Most villagers ran in search of
Silibiris for translation whenever they received a telegram.
Then if the news
of somebodis somebodi died on Ceylon Agriculture Department Chief Clark mightma
call that person showing a funerl face and say “ Here, take this call” handing
over a black Bakelite phone receiver. Them black Bakelite telephones would be
found only in government offices, Post Offices and them richma rich Colombo 7
pepols houses.
By the time JR
sirge Dharmishta Raajyaya came along, when Kolonnawe pepol went to Dubai and
came back some pepol in Kolonnawe managed to havu telephones at home. That was
a big deal for the neighbours too. If neighbours were in good terms they could
receive calls from husbands or wives working in Dubai in a Pelihouse with a
hora phone line.
Aaa but if them
want to see cricket match on TV them had to go to National Show rooms and watch
through the showroom window.
If Kolonnawe
Pelihouse boyz wanted to see soft porn them watched Adults Onli films, and
later when them mothers and fathers brought VCR from Dubai them could watch
blue movie cassettes. Them could read Adults only cheap newspapers.
Appatahudu, then
came Computers and Cell Phones. Appo, only very impoertant business office
pepol had computers and Cell Phones them days. Aaa but but if you knew
somebodis in a Government Department, maibbe you could give their email address
to your son working in Dubai.
Then a new
business sprang up called Communication Centres evuriwhere.. You could receive
emails, make calls to Dubai and even send a Fax to your potential employer in
Dubai.
Something called
Internet happened educasoned pepol
around the work argued it will create a digital divide between them pepol who had
access to information at their fingertips and those didn’t even havu mobile
phones and the villej schools without computers.
Them good Sri
Lankan communities pepol in Ostralia even collected old computers discarded by their offices and
sent them to Sri Lanka village School. Aiyyo, then them proudly visit that
school tell the Princibal them come representing the organizations who sent the
computers wanting to know how the children are learning “Computers” goodli now.
The Princibal would meekli say “Thank you thank you for sending the computers
but the children can’t use them now.”
Why? The visitor will indignantly demand to know. “Because we couldn’t pay
the internet bill the ISP cut off our account” the Principal might say.
With Chinaman
came not only new Ports Airports and Highways but also cheap mobile phones too.
School going Kollo kello and even the beggars could have one with Rs100 reload.
What digital
divide?
Sri Lanka kollo
Kello became experts using them digits to send short messages, Them told the
parents them mustma havu computer do homework. The parents took poliyata naya
and bought them computers. Then them wanted camera phones. Parents bought them
too by hook or crook.
Aney, see how
their kollo kello study hard after that the parents thoughts because them kollo
kello spent most of the time in them rooms in front of the new computers and
Camera phones watching You Tube clips, exchanging Blue Film web addresses, exchanging
their girlfriends nude photos taken horengli at those rooms to rent for one
hour joints. Good girls and boys at least skyped each other.
Myspace gave way
to Facebook.
Linkedin
replaced job advertisements.
Bosses emailed
their subordinates “You are hereby made Redundant”.
Men divorced
their wives by texting “ I divorce you” and Legal Eagles said that is a legal
document
Kollo Kello
could send them Selfies Luvopics using Instagrams.
.
Presidents sent
Aluth Awurudu Greetings on SMS.
Educasoned sirla
nonala blogged on Wordpress.
For some pepol
blogging was too long so them just tweeted where them went, what they ate, who
they saw jesma like them Gossiping women in Ambarawa.
If them wanted
to havu fun on the side with a spare wheel them could always fins women men
available on many dating sites. Kapuwa Kapothi.
If men wanted to
find men who liked pick up soap in the bathroom them came up with Grinder.
And now…Heteros
can roam with their Tinder App looking for them Friends from Facebook wanting
to hookup and DTF. No dates, no roses,
no dinners…..jes DTF.
What am I
thinking thinking for? Answer is obvious, Silli.
There is no
digital divide for them Housos or Kolonnawe Pelihouse kollo kello. Them united
by one device that can givu them Google, You Tube, Facebook, iTunes, Twitter,
Linkedin, Instagram and Tinder all on iPhones at them fingertips bombarding
them with messages friends and strangers form near and far,
Forget nicotine
addicts, alcohol addicts, drug addicts. We are now Dopamine addicts.
No no, not doped
on Kasiya…..doped on Dopamine. You dontkno what that is? This is what some
educasoned person say.
Dopamine was "discovered" in 1958 by
Arvid Carlsson and Nils-Ake Hillarp at the National Heart Institute of Sweden.
Dopamine is created in various parts of the brain and is critical in all sorts
of brain functions, including thinking, moving, sleeping, mood, attention, motivation,
seeking and reward.
Pleasure vs. seeking — You may have heard that
dopamine controls the "pleasure" systems of the brain: that dopamine
makes you feel enjoyment, pleasure, and therefore motivates you to seek out
certain behaviors, such as food, sex, and drugs.
Recent research is changing this view. Instead
of dopamine causing you to experience pleasure, the latest research shows that
dopamine causes seeking behavior. Dopamine causes you to want, desire, seek
out, and search. It increases your general level of arousal and your
goal-directed behavior.
From an evolutionary stand-point this is
critical. The dopamine seeking system keeps you motivated to move through your
world, learn, and survive. It's not just about physical needs such as food, or
sex, but also about abstract concepts. Dopamine makes you curious about ideas
and fuels your searching for information.
Dopamine loops — With the internet, twitter, and
texting you now have almost instant gratification of your desire to seek. Want
to talk to someone right away? Send a text and they respond in a few seconds.
Want to look up some information? Just type your request into google. Want to
see what your colleagues are up to? Go to Linked In. It's easy to get in a
dopamine induced loop. Dopamine starts you seeking, then you get rewarded for
the seeking which makes you seek more. It becomes harder and harder to stop
looking at email, stop texting, or stop checking your cell phone to see if you
have a message or a new text.
Oi, what you looking at maaite? Aaa Ikno!
Them staring at
the screen waiting for the next hit,,,,delivered not by your local bottle shop
or shady drug by Bill Gates, Steve Jobbs, Mark Zuckerberg waiting to get a
random message saying they’ve been picked, dropped, sacked, divorced or being solicited
if DTF.
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