The year 2012 which has just gone by unfortunately witnessed more Downs than Ups. What with price increases of many consumer goods – especially sharp ones when it came to diesel, petrol and gas – coupled with contaminated oil which damaged countless number of vehicles for which as usual no one has been made responsible or accountable.
We were treated to several spectacles such as the Museum robbery where a culprit has now been nabbed leaving doubts in people’s minds as to how one sole thief took so many artefacts just like a petty thief in a village stealing a bunch of bananas in the night. We also witnessed the burning down of a section of the Colombo Kachcheri destroying valuable documents which has now been established as an arson attack by an interested party.
In the field of education, we were unfortunate enough to see the Z-score muddle and the leaking of examination papers on various occasions thus making the students lose their confidence on the whole system of education – but nevertheless the same set of ministers remain as if nothing serious has happened.
Sadly, the cases of minor girls getting raped by local government politicians belonging to the ruling party went on the increase, but no concrete action appears to have been taken to put a stop to this menace and even the PS Chairman of down South who killed a foreign UN volunteer and gang-raped his fiancé have still not been given due punishment due to political influence.
In the field of sports, although we failed to clinch the twenty-twenty World Cup, we had our own cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara being honoured at the ICC awards and then he himself achieving the feat of 10,000 test runs : the only achievements in the year gone by that we can be proud of as a nation in the face of all enveloping gloom.
World attention is now focused on us due to the controversial Impeachment motion against the Chief Justice and the lowly conduct of the Select Committee members– an episode we should have really avoided in the current context of the country already getting a bad name within the international community.
But, still, all is not gloomy : we have now established a sort of a world record with the most number of hits on Google search engine for the elusive word called “Sex” – and this in spite of advice given by a very loyal, patriotic minister asking the citizens to refrain from using Google!
We were treated to several spectacles such as the Museum robbery where a culprit has now been nabbed leaving doubts in people’s minds as to how one sole thief took so many artefacts just like a petty thief in a village stealing a bunch of bananas in the night. We also witnessed the burning down of a section of the Colombo Kachcheri destroying valuable documents which has now been established as an arson attack by an interested party.
In the field of education, we were unfortunate enough to see the Z-score muddle and the leaking of examination papers on various occasions thus making the students lose their confidence on the whole system of education – but nevertheless the same set of ministers remain as if nothing serious has happened.
Sadly, the cases of minor girls getting raped by local government politicians belonging to the ruling party went on the increase, but no concrete action appears to have been taken to put a stop to this menace and even the PS Chairman of down South who killed a foreign UN volunteer and gang-raped his fiancé have still not been given due punishment due to political influence.
In the field of sports, although we failed to clinch the twenty-twenty World Cup, we had our own cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara being honoured at the ICC awards and then he himself achieving the feat of 10,000 test runs : the only achievements in the year gone by that we can be proud of as a nation in the face of all enveloping gloom.
World attention is now focused on us due to the controversial Impeachment motion against the Chief Justice and the lowly conduct of the Select Committee members– an episode we should have really avoided in the current context of the country already getting a bad name within the international community.
But, still, all is not gloomy : we have now established a sort of a world record with the most number of hits on Google search engine for the elusive word called “Sex” – and this in spite of advice given by a very loyal, patriotic minister asking the citizens to refrain from using Google!
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