Several Diyawanna members were caught in some crazy love entanglement no. I don’t know about you paradisians, but Siripala won’t be talking 277 times to some old Jhonny without a reason, ah. If it was
a woman Siripala would be singing love songs, and if it was a man- Sirpala would be making plans to party or plans to make some moola.
Love- Siri however, seems to be the one playing it all cool and dandy though. Trying to act all statesman and be like “ yes machang he called me, I called him and we met once and I said no”. Don’t you know the usual bullshit we paradisians are used to. Well, Love - Siri, Siripala ain’t no normal paradisian, no. Like tell me men, you were sitting as a judge. What kind of judge meets the accused and has a ‘hello how are you’ session ah?
But that’s not really it, no? Our journo fellows are also idiotic. They sometimes just miss the wood for the trees, no. Love Siri had spoken to our bond boy 18 times during a few months and had spoken to him twice during the COPE sittings. They took the latter and not the former, and Love- Siri is not one to make merry of a small slip. “ Yes machang, he called me once and I called him once...” is the tune he will be playing, until some person with a brain points out to him, that some of us have got our upstairs working pretty alright. Tsk Tsk..
Na-Mal gets an earful
Now guess who tried to put a small nondi to Banana Suji? Our dreamy prince no. And Suji, like a true man with guilt pounced on him like never before. “Give me one sentence from the Civil Procedure Code men?” he shouted at Namal in Parliament.
How will Namal know Civil Procedure men, and Banana- Suji knew where to hit. “ Malli we all know how you passed your law exams”, he said and then insisted on a section of the Civil Procedure Code.
Annnaaa and Namal’s face turned red. Like a balloon he beamed redness out. “ Why did you kill that boy men, he played rugger with you no?” Banana boy then put another Kaney and the House erupted.
Banana boy was to tell Kanchi boy from Matara that he appeared for Kanchi boy’s father in a ship case and defended the corrupt deal of his father too. How was that for a slip? only for the discerning isn’t it?.
Ma-Ra and the lesson in Economics
Guess who decided to give us paradisians some lessons in Economics, ah? None other than Mara himself. Now of course, we will have to “ marila nagitinna oney! ( be reborn) if we were to take an ounce of what he has to say about the economy seriously, but he had the gumption to say “ I say this is not how you do it men, this is how I did it”!. What a joke.
He must be thinking we have forgotten what a mess he put the whole paradise in.
With the dollar rate fluctuating and the interest rates going helter skelter and the inflation rate tampered with so as to show a lower inflation and with poor Siripala not having enough money to put a small drink, Ma-Ra is the man to tell us how we have to do it now. Aneyda kiyanne. All we know of Mara’s time and the economy is that he robbed it so dry, that we can’t figure out how such robbing could’ve been done. Haiyo, Haiyo.
Petrol polima findings!!
So like every cock up in Paradise, there is a panel appointed to check why it happened. That’s as far as such fact finding panels go, no. And guess what this new ministerial panel was appointed to look into? The oil fiasco. Paradisians are a forgetting lot, but only last week there was no Paan polima, but instead, a petrol polima, remember?.
Right, so this was about the petrol polima, ah. And a few from the Cabinet were told to look into why it all happened. Pat came the report. Any guesses on what the finding was? That the officials were to blame.
Like Siripala didn’t know where to look. It doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to tell us that the officials were to blame, does it dear? Obviously, they were to blame, but how and why are the damn questions, and if we could go a step further and figure out how on earth we could stop it from happening again, that would be the victory. But that’s too much to ask for no?
Judge says nothing doing
So Basil gave out calendars remember? Not that Basil wanted us to be keeping track of the dates and times he said “ give me 20 percent”. Instead, he wanted us to be reminded of who’s the king and who to vote. Well, in the civilized world it’s actually called bribing and even in the uncivilized world it’s done with money given by some wheeler dealer. But, none of that for our man. Take the money from the state coffers and pay the bribe, he told.
Now, he didn’t stop at that. You remember the High Court judge who gave the verdict against our Lalith boy, no. Basil didn’t want him hearing the case.
Obviously, Basil knows that a call and some money won’t buy the man, isn’t it? So he wanted the case transferred, but our Judge said nothing doing. Until the Court of Appeal tells him that the case is transferred he will hear the case, and fixed the case for trial.
Sin Aney, back in the day remember? One phone call to the judge and say “ adey shape this fellow ah” and that was it.
These days, he has to run helter skelter just to get his case heard before another. Karma sometimes works in some funny way.