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have theodd badmood day butdepression ismuch more seri-ous than just feeling a bitgrumpy. It’s an illness causedby a chemical or hormonalimbalance that’s either prompt-ed by a high-stress situation oris part of your genetic program-ming. It can dominate and seri-ously disrupt the lives of suffer-ers – they become both physi-cally and emotionally fragile.

T he ‘Lamhaa’ movie isbased on the KashmirValley. An unknown com-pany, whichis generatingmillions ofunaccount-able dollarsbenefitingpoliticiansand bureau-crats in theIndian andPakistaniintelligence, which is likely todisrupt and possibly paralyzeKashmir.

Money can buy you security butnot excitement, a new study claims.

By Richard Alleyne, Science

CorrespondentA worldwide sur-vey of happiness of more than100,000 people has shown that

there is a link between feelings ofsecurity and income but not betweenmoney and fun.

The new analysis, which has sam-ples of people covering 96 per cent ofthe planet, found that life satisfaction,rises with personal and nationalincome. But positive feelings, likehaving fun and enjoyment, are muchmore strongly associated with otherfactors, such as feeling respected,being independent, having friendsand working at a fulfilling job.

“The public always wonders: Doesmoney make you happy?” said

Professor Ed Diener, a psychologistat the University of Illinois.

“This study shows that it alldepends on how you define happi-ness, because if you look at life satis-faction, how you evaluate your life asa whole, you see a pretty strong cor-relation around the world betweenincome and happiness.

“On the other hand it’s prettyshocking how small the correlation iswith positive feelings and enjoyingyourself.”

The findings, from an analysis ofdata gathered in the first GallupWorld Poll, appear in the Journal ofPersonality and Social Psychology.

The poll of 136,000 people covered

a wide range of subjects in a repre-sentative sample of people from 132countries from 2005 to 2006.

The poll used telephone surveysin more affluent areas, and door-to-door interviews in rural or less-devel-oped regions.

The countries surveyed representabout 96 per cent of the world’s pop-ulation, the researchers report, andreflect the diversity of cultural, eco-nomic and political realities aroundthe globe.

This “first representative sampleof planet earth,” the authors wrote,“was used to explore the reasonswhy ‘happiness’ is associated withhigher income.”

(C) The Telegraph Group London 2010

Kanchana Ratwatte.LL.B (Colombo)

Attorney at Law

TCK 1972 – 1985kratwatte@gmail.com

About 6 months ago I had theopportunity to visit TrinityCollege to hand over an invi-

tation to the Principal to attend afunction. When I walked in I foundthis place full of little kids who hadcome to face interviews for admis-sion. I had to explain to Gnane thatI had not come to admit my son butto hand over an invitation. Borderand immigration formalities over, Iattended to my business and camedown and stood in front of the hall.

My memory took me backalmost 39 years. I vaguely remembercoming for an interview at the TCKPrincipal’s office sometime in 1971. Iwas shown a few colour pencils andasked to name the colours and thusmy fate was sealed.

A few months later I wasdropped at the matron’s dormitorywith a trunk full of things and mylife at Trinity started. We were wel-comed by Julius, Jayasinghe andSirisena and the Matron Mrs Janz.Tom, Gunaratne and Simon tooneed honourable mention here. Iremember Roger, Prasad , GehanRamanayake, Sahan whom theschool authorities had figured outhad come to school one year tooearly, Mark, Tyronne, Ramesh,Raymonds, Berman, Patrick,Shirley, Kalyana, Jadis,Moorthy…20 or 30 of us kids in that group.Following morning when we attend-ed classes we realized there werethe day scholars as well…Gehan,Anuruddha,Hiranjan,Intikab,Roshanka, Rajeew,Rajeewa,Sanjeewa,Royce,Salman,Anura, Nalin, Manoj, Nafees,Dharmalingam, Amalan,Rukmal ,DJ,Pawas, Nithyananthan,Nanthakumar,Badri,sean,Periyasamy,Ravichandran, , Thahir,Roshan,Mahesh ………along with 3 girls Gimhani,Heshani and Lalani. Unfortunatelyby the time we got our act togetherthey had left for Girls High School.This talent pool was enhanced overthe years with the inclusion ofmany others who joined us fromthere onwards. Sanjaya,Jayanthasiri, Upul, Manik, Srinath,Gota, Nanny, Anton,Sajith,Lalindra, Jeewa, Suresh,GB,Juhardeen

From the junior school to theupper school and that was such anenriching experience. Ours was oneunique batch which producedLionsmen in almost all the fields.Cricket Anurudhdha and Gehan,Rugby Ikram, Hockey Prasad,Cadetting Anura , Basketball Antonand Shirley, Boxing Udeni, Sajith,Ikram and so goes the list. Manymore coloursmen were also pro-duced.

Our lives were not restricted tobooks and the hectic schedule thatour kids go through today in orderto face the challenges of globaliza-tion and open economy.

We were inculcated with the bestof gentlemanly qualities. When wewalked out of this hall after thefinal assembly we were ready totake on the world. We were fiercelycompetitive but not to the extent ofbeing unfair or brutish. Many anemployer has stated that we weretoo gentlemanly at times to face therough and tumble of it all. They saythat we play too much by the book:that has not by any means let usdown. We as a batch have done fan-tastically well. Srinath is a success-ful Medical practitioner in Urology,

so is Ayodya,Sanath, Thahir and Pradeepan

successful engineers, Rajeewa anacademic at Peradeniya with a PhD,Prasad, Uminda, Punchi, Sanathand Manik holding top level posi-tions in the logistics field the nextboom to happen in Sri Lanka,Upul,Kalyana,Manoj,Asokar andSampath successfulentrepreneurs, Gehanand Udeni top posts inthe insurance field,Sumith a farm Managerwith the golden touch inagriculture,Naleen,Sanjeewa andGota top bankers,Sahan, Suren,Patrick,Sanjaya, Sajith, Kumar,Mark, Sumane ,DJ, Jadisall senior planters,Intikab in the exporttrade, Salman andNaushad in the importtrade, Anura and Roycehighly decorated officersin the defense establish-ment, Tiru the engineerat ADB and then out ofthe overseas ‘85ers Rajiv after hissuccessful Princeton and Harvarddays a COO of a multinational USpharmaceutical giant, Ravi,Kanishka and Roshanka engineersin Aussi and the Netherlands, inNorth America Anandaraja a doc-tor, Amalan a software engineer inthe US, Dharmalingam,Nathan andNande 3 doctors out of the 15 Batch’85 doctors in North AmericaRukmal,Roger Hiranjan, Suresh,Ramesh, Roshan,Lalindra,Nafees,Nalindra, Shirley, Tyronne all help-ing the global economy stay afloatand the list is far too long for me toelaborate. Be it in Sri Lanka or theUS, Australia, New Zealand,Canada, England, India. We haveguys from all fields: all over theworld.

Years afterleaving school some time in the

ninetees I happened to travel toToronto with an official delegation.Travelling from Colombo on thoseearly morning flights after 11 or 12hours one lands in London. Sixseven hours of transit and six and ahalf hours later we landed inCanada and were driven into theWestin in Toronto. There I heard a

voice I hadn’theard in almost 15years but which Irecognized themoment I heard it.To my pleasantsurprise it was amaster from TCK.We hugged eachother and the per-son related hisstory. He said hewas living like aking at Trinity andhow much hemissed his king-dom.

He told me thathe was drawing atleast 50 times overwhat he was earn-

ing at Trinity but never has hefound a place on the globe likeTrinity. It was such a closely knitfamily and he went on to explainhow he had come to the PeradeniyaUniversity and how he had fallen inlove with this lady from Kandy andhow he found employment andstayed back. If there was anotherchance he would not leave this placefor all the money in the world.These are the legendary figures thatenhanced the true spirit and flare ofeducation at TCK.

Mr Jeyaraj, Mr Ariyasingham,Mr and Mrs Kulatungam, Mr Theode Silva, Mr and Mrs Percy de Silva,Mrs Rodrigo the sick room matron,Mr and Mrs Fonseka, MrAlahakoon, Mr Chandrasiri snr jun-ior, Mr and Mrs Weerakoon, Mrs

Pathirana, Mrs Seetha Perera,MrHastings, Mr and MrsHerathge,Mr Daniels and MrDaniel, Mr Gnanapragasam, MrsNavaratnam,Mr AsokaWeerasinghe, Miss Pilimatalawasisters all spent the better parts oftheir lives at TCK. Unfortunatelypeople speak of the Frazer era butnot all the teachers are recognizedin the same spirit.

It is with deep gratitude to thisinstitution that we as the batch of85 have been doing a few things tosay thank you TCK. Over the last

few years we were able to assist theU 18 Rugger team in our own smallway. That was a contribution thatwe were able to make as a batchwith contributions coming from allover the world. We had a bigger rea-son to make the contribution as ourbatch mate Manoj was involvedwith the side on a voluntary basis.On a few occasions we have comeforward hosting the team, while theteam was in Colombo. We have pro-vided energy supplements and somemembers have provided assistancewith boots to certain players. Thenwe also made our best effortthrough our batch mate Anton toprovide technical services for thebasket ball court construction witha generous contribution from theWashington DC OBA which wasalso suggested and negotiated by us.However with many trips to Collegethis has not yet gone through.

Our main contribution with theactive participation of the schoolPTA and well wishing old boys ofdifferent batches, which will be forposterity is the Middle School IT labproject. The sheer magnitude of theproject required a humongous efforton the part of the IT Committeewith Srinath, Sanath, Uminda,Manik and Naushad all contributingin great measure in time and moneyfor the successful completion of theproject. This will be a living monu-ment for generations to come as acontribution made by the 85 batch.

This is not a monument the sizeof the college hall donated by theAHT Soysas nor is it the Asgiriyastadium of the late Hon GaminiDissanayake. This is the small wayin which we could say “thank youTrinity” for everything you gave us.

I would fail in my endeavour if Ifail to mention the sacrifice made byall our parents to send us to thisgreat institution. Out of the manyoptions they had of spending theirmoney they decided to invest on us.

In conclusion let me say we aretoday what we are because of whatTrinity gave us. It gave us the selfconfidence to stand up to any situa-tion.

Men’s shouldaccessorize

The bestway torebootyour existingwardrobe isto acces-sorize. OK,so maybe thethought ofwearing

accessoriessounds too girlie for some, butback in the golden age ofmen’s fashion and long before

minimalism took hold, menknew that the fashion acces-sories they wore added a dashof personal style to their look.

Money cannotbuy total

happinessHappiness poll

(For the handing over of the Middle

School IT lab on 26.06.2010)