Chaparanga's Creative blog

The Light at the end of the road We know it is there, and we know that it will comes to all of us. Yet we could not be more oblivious. The end is shrouded in so much mystery for we have never been there. What is out there? Does it not give you the chills just by thinking about it? There are so many answers to what is out there at the very end but we might as well be blind people trying to comprehend what the colour white is when we come to talk of it. It might be a white light, a flashback of the life as we lived it... Then would we go on? Do we just cease to be? Just like a light bulb burning out, leaving nothing but an empty shell devoid of its previous luminescence behind? The thought itself is too appalling to even have. How can we think of a time when we would not think? Of a time when we would not feel? Of knowing no warmth or cold, no light or dark, no sound or silence? To me it is frightening. I suppose you would agree as well. But would we be extinguished at the end? ...

Which came first? Chicken or the egg? Quite the question isn't it? This is one of the questions that has baffled the humankind for centuries and has generated so much controversy that it rivals the controversy generated by all the political scandals in the world. Even the ones here in Sri Lanka. Well, anyway..What is the thing that is so fascinating about this question? Well, at its core, this is a question of the reason and the result. Reason and result serve as the basis of human knowledge,logic and analysis that it is so monumental that it could promote a seemingly silly question to a very "controversial" one. As we know, the cause comes before the effect, such is the nature of the order of the universe. So what came first is the cause and what came later is the effect. So is chicken the cause of eggs or eggs the cause of chicken? The interesting thing is that both can be the cause and/or the result of each other. So we are stuck in a vicious cycle of logic and...

The gap between reality and fantasy can become so thin that one day you will stare right ahead of you and feel the fabric of reality unraveling and the maddening fantasies that you keep locked inside your head creeping through the veils of reality, teasing you to loose yourself in the ecstasy of whimsical bliss. Reality can be harsh for the human mind at times. It can be more or it can be less. The more troubled the environment becomes, the more compelling it becomes to seek refuge in the safety of a fantastical realm. To some, the reality can be a restriction, a lead weight pulling them down, not letting them soar into the heights they aspire. Of course, those heights "they" seek to rise to are tinged with the astute flavors of madness, but to some, madness ca be a good thing. Perhaps what we should really do is consider what our perception of reality actually means. To some, it may seem as straightforward and easy to figure out, as simple as the green colored grass, or the...

Writing to you about Friday the 13th on Saturday the 14th. Actually many people seem to believe that yesterday was a bad day. But was it? Maybe for some, but my personal experience denies it. Well you find an explanation about this day from the infamous "Da Vinci Code" but I am not sure about it's validity. But Jason Voorhees might have something to say about why this day is so horrifying for some of us.(And oh, his mother too) But don't our beliefs here represent the superstitious part of our lives? Friday the 13th and even the number 13 they are considered to give us bad luck. But how much bad luck do they bring? Not as bad luck as some of your friends and girlfriends and boyfriends I would like to notice. Actually we ll hold beliefs that are not completely logical. For instance I think that rain gives me a hefty boost of energy every time I am lucky enough to see it. But there is a place we should draw the line. Sometimes these beliefs may get a little bit out o...

Well, this might be a happy day for the Americans but it is an average day for us. Well for university students like myself it is a special day but it is as special to us as is the day Aung Sang Suki (Leader of Myanmar, sorry if I have misspelt the name) was placed under house arrest was special to her. I am happy to declare that we have another strike on our hands, this time by the lecturers. And by the way the non-academic's strike is over but it is to no good end as it is obvious from the following shortcomings. Well, we can always blame the government for this. Well actually it is not as it seems. I am not blaming the government needlessly. Exactly a year ago, the same situation occurred and we were "grounded" for a month. The government promised a pay rise for the lecturers but it was never given. That is why this action is taking place, yet again. Government has surely been very unenthusiastic about increasing the salary of the civilians or rather the commoners. CO...

Being a university student in Sri Lanka sure sucks sometimes.Being a student of the University of Moratuwa can even be harder. Of course currently we are ranked number one out of all the universities in Sri Lanka, but I would say sometimes that it would be better if we were allowed to be more HUMAN than being like machines at times. Some say after a long pause tomorrow, the university will be opened. How naive I might add because the non academics' union action is still not withdrawn. God save us all! Sri Lankan government surely is stubborn. Actually they play with the lives of the future generations. But of course they are politicians and politicians need empty headed people in the society so their regime will not be questioned. No matter what their party is, majority is the same. And we have seen how meaningless parties are, these people will just go into the most powerful party most of the time. Anyway I want to  know how long it will take for the government and the union t...

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