{"id":16943,"date":"2017-04-26T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:01:34","slug":"follow-leader-desmond-kelly-star-elanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/follow-leader-desmond-kelly-star-elanka\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FOLLOW THE LEADER&#8221; \u2013 by Desmond Kelly \u2013 \u2018the Star of eLanka\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;FOLLOW THE LEADER&#8221; \u2013 by Desmond Kelly \u2013 \u2018the Star of eLanka\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/desmond-1-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13515\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/desmond-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"desmond kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), there used to be this childrens&#8217; game called &#8220;follow the leader&#8221; The rules were simple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">You chose a leader &amp; tried to follow, as best as you could, anything the &#8220;leader&#8221; did. Whoever did mimic the leader as closely as possible, won the game &amp; the plaudits that followed. The game, at times was hilarious, at times, rather dangerous, too, as was the time when I, as &#8220;leader&#8221;, led the rest of the team (about five others), into a fairly large tunnel, ( drain) which began at the &#8220;bottom&#8221; of Lorenz Road, Bambalapitiya, where we guys all lived, running the total length of, &amp; underneath the Sports-Ground of St.Peter&#8217;s College, &amp; practically into a Canal, on the other side of it, about a thousand metres away.The rest of my &#8220;gang&#8221; included my younger brother Ian, Maureen Hingert&#8217;s older brother &#8220;Budgy&#8221;, R.I.P.,Sydney deJong, Carl Jansz &amp; Denis Roberts, both. also now, sadly no more, the actual tunnel was a huge concrete &#8220;half-pipe&#8221;drain of stagnant water, at the bottom, which we had to then &#8220;straddle&#8221;, crouched very low, your&#8217;s truly leading the way with a rather dim torch, a few startled &#8220;bats&#8221; flying past our heads, and I remember Denis saying to me, &#8220;Desmond, I don&#8217;t think I can make it, I&#8217;m going back&#8221;, but, looking over his shoulder I think he realized that it was just as far to get back, as going forward, and then Carl Jansz, our buddy, who always made bad matters worse, &#8220;came across&#8221; a &#8220;man-hole&#8221; cover above his head and decided to lift it up to get some welcome fresh air into this gloomy situation we now found ourselves in, &amp; there he was, CarlJansz, in the middle of St.Peter&#8217;s College cricket ground, which would have been quite o.k. except for the fact that the then head- curator of this piece of land, saw this &#8220;head&#8221; coming out of the ground, screamed out a choice &#8220;ranting&#8221; of Sinhala blasphemy &amp; ran at Carl&#8217;s head with a rake- handle set to strike. Carl did the only thing he could do and ducked while he slammed the&#8221;cover&#8221; back in it&#8217;s place. The curator was not game enough to re-lift it, not knowing what lay underneath and we were able to finish our underground journey, have a bit if a wash in what was a filthy canal &amp; head back home. Things like this, spending entire weekends at the beach, body surfing.and generally, having a good time with very little money was our &#8220;lot&#8221; in Ceylon, at the time, giving me cause however, for a million happy memories of those bygone times. Every day spawned something else that was exciting to do.<\/span><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">Many of us have since migrated to Australia, many of us are still playing this old game. For a.start, I am not sure if too many of our people are aware of the fact that the little Victorian Suburb of &#8220;Baddaginnie&#8221; (near Benalla) was named after a Sinhalese man who was possibly a very early &#8220;migrant&#8221; who found himself looking for something to eat, and, not being able to talk English, walked around this unnamed Suburb, pointing, in turn, from his stomach to his mouth, saying &#8220;mata baddaginni, mata baddaginni&#8221;, until some Aussie cow-cockie (Country bumpkin) felt sorry for this guy and handed him a couple of snags off a barbeque at his home. The story goes that this good Samaritan was a local Councillor who, at the next Council meeting, put it to his fellow Councillors that this Suburb would in future be known as Baddaginnie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">&#8220;Students to the grave&#8221; that&#8217;s who we are. We live and learn, but do we? !.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">Right from the start, I did notice that Australia seemed to &#8220;follow&#8221; everything done by the Americans. America seemed to be the &#8220;leader&#8221; with Australia following suit, all the time. Australia ALWAYS had great, talented, &#8220;Show-biz&#8221; personalities BUT they had to go to America to make a name for themselves. Australia always had the capability of making great films., but not until quite recently, has this Country shown that their &#8220;actors&#8221; are World class &amp; we are able to make films, some of which are far better than the American ones. What is happening? , Australia, priding itself as being one of the most multicultural Countrie at the moment, started with &#8220;the white-Australia Policy in the late 1950&#8217;s, determined to &#8220;admit&#8221; ONLY people with sickly, pale, white skins, made it almost.impossible for &#8220;Asians&#8221;(as Pauline Hanson, put it).to come here, then, instead of &#8220;closing the gate&#8221; on ALL undesirables from the 1960&#8217;s, slowly but surely, began letting in the RIFF-RAFF-RUBBISH who migratwd here with just the one idea, and this was to RORT Australia for everything she was worth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">This writer has pointed it out, over many years now. &#8220;SCREEN EACH &amp; EVERY MIGRANT &amp; &#8220;REFUGEE&#8221; TRIPLE-THOROUGHLY, BEFORE LETTING THEM IN&#8221;!!.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">SKIN COLOUR MATTERS NOT A JOT. RACE\/RELIGONS, NEITHER. EVERY COLOUR, RACE, OR RELIGON HAS IT&#8217;S &#8220;PARIAHS&#8221; Throw the pariahs out and admit ONLY those who will be an ASSET to what is a Baby-Country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">Adopt a strict ZERO-TOLERENCE POLICY for EVERY MIGRANT OR REFUGEE. &#8220;Toe the bloody line or we&#8217;ll THROW you out, lock, stock &amp; barrel. Do NOT hand out the DOLE willy nilly &amp; keep getting back into a black HOLE. Use tax-payers&#8217; money wisely . Australia should NOT have any employment problem, period.!! A young Country, with white-collar, blue-collar, brown-collar and multi-colour- collar jobs, in both Town &amp; Country situations. Here, work is available for &#8220;Clerks or Cherry pickers&#8221;. No excuses for unemployment are necessary<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">There are jobs, both full &amp; part-time. So, with the ONLY exemption of the severely handicapped, young people should accept ANY job offered to them . Every one of them cannot aspire to being a Politician. Perish the thought. We already have too many of them anyway. In Australia there is absolute DIGNITY OF LABOUR. If it is impossible, due to marital or family reasons, a job (away from the home enviroment) cannot be accepted, give these jobs to the Refugees who should be willing and able to accept them,thqt makes them Assets to Oz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">Australian jobs however, SHOULD BE offered to Aussie Citizens first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">Unemployed? , The &#8220;DOLE&#8221; should be paid for 6 months ONLY.. Unemployed for 7 months? Be then prepared to WORK FOR THE DOLE or BE DRAFTED INTO ONE OF THE ARMED FORCES to put on a smart uniform and fight for your Country, if need be. You will be well will be well looked-after., don&#8217;t worry about that. Believe me, compared to the discipline we guys went through in the Royal Ceylon Navy, especially having to put up with the &#8220;cooking&#8221; of some of our Navy Cook -Stewards, life in the Royal Australian Navy would be a &#8220;cake-walk&#8221;. The &#8220;cakes&#8221; in the R.A.N., much softer too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">To finish this hopefully interesting &amp; informative article (if I say so, myself, because nobody else will), &#8220;Follow the Leader&#8221; seems to have &#8220;followed&#8221; me to Australia. President Trump has already introduced his &#8220;elaborate &#8220;VETTING&#8221; procedure in America. Prime Minister Turnbull has echoed the &#8220;Trump- Triumph&#8221; &amp; extended vetting procedures will now be in place for those who want to come to this Country. After all is said &amp; done, Australia MUST &#8220;Follow the Leader&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">LEST WE FORGET &#8211; ANZAC DAY- TUESDAY 25\/4\/2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">&#8221; How sleep the brave, who sink to rest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">By all their Country&#8217;s wishes blessed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\">Desmond Kelly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #008080;\"> &#8220;Star of eLanka&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;FOLLOW THE LEADER&#8221; \u2013 by Desmond Kelly \u2013 \u2018the Star of eLanka\u201d In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), there used to be this childrens&#8217; game called &#8220;follow the leader&#8221; The rules were simple. You chose a leader &amp; tried to follow, as best as you could, anything the &#8220;leader&#8221; did. 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