Dreamsmademe Blog

An uninvited guest visited my house yesterday with the torrential rain which swept the Colombo area.

My palce is still all a mess without a sign of ever receding an inch of water that came in. Anyway it was kinda fun since all my friends helped me to save the things to my last pair of socks from getting soaked. So while I am enjoying the rain here, plz send me some dry rations!

I just don’t know how exactly it feels if we are to caged in eternally. I am sure it ain’t any good even though you are well fed and taken care of. Anyway that’s how these wonderful creatures from the wild are packed into a small area at Dehiwala Zoo in Colombo suburbs.

We visited the zoo for the weekend. Sometimes felt little sad though regardless I enjoyed the journey with my lovely company.


Hippos up and close, where else on earth I can touch these magnificent ones by my own hands?


Sorry, penguins you don’t get any ice here


Even we humans sometimes felt caged-in with the flowing crowd


Sorry, no fishing or fly-away home here for you sea eagles


At least small aquariumed fish had some freedom to wonder around


Bigger ones had no such space


I hear one lion maintains 30 km kingdom in the wild, sadly these folks don’t even have mere 30 meters


For this colourful there’s no trouble at all finding their delicious on time


Glorious horny males in the wild, big or small still you have your fences and senses surrounded

These are few shots I’ve taken from my lousiest phone-camera. Nonetheless we had our times and enjoyed the wild tour. Enjoy!

The weekend was fabulous.

Our gang went on a trip to Namunukula for the weekend and stayed in one of the Hill Country Tea Estate Circuits called Tonacombe which was built in somewhere 1800 AD.


The dusk was colourful

And when you look down the from the garden we saw heaven below.

This is one of the most beautiful Estate Bungalows I have ever seen surrounded by so much of nature. The Muttu and the staff feed us with heavenly food to make sure this is actually the heaven.




The morning was serene

Our gang virtually sang all the songs we knew for the night. And spend the following morning in the lawn playing each other and a little bit of cricket until the continuous torrential rain stormed the area. Got soaked wet in the rain despite of the chilling water and gusting wind coming from the mountains.



It was like a dream. We everybody wants to stay in there eternally.

Theory One - I am the centre of my universe.
 
I have a system, a well layed out one, a network of people, in the same level of mine, a network of relationships, friends, people I gathered all of my life. It's simple, mostly pool proofed, shielded, prooven over the time. So no there is hardly any noice, miss communication and I am comfortable with the setting. Looks like the following digram when I picture it.

Since this system is settled to x number of people, made out of my people and I am sort of being in the centre of that universe. Each and every individual in the system have their own universe, may be in a different level. We all do.

So question # one - How would you introduce another planet to the system?

Simple, shuffle around the existing and you make place for another in between, in the same level, so no one feels odd, offended or crowded. Interactions the same. So the system co-exists, no problem. Like bellow. Sounds cool.

Question # two - How would you introduce a new to a different level, undisturbed?

This is little tricky, and involves most careful thinking and sometimes sends a dejavu within the system. (I remember The Matrix, the movie) Soon after system re-acts, sends across turbulance, too much noice, becomes unbalanced which is mostly not worth the hassle sometimes.

I have tried this recently but without much of a success. Like below. Connections become weaker, lot of noice occur.

Question # three - So what can be done about this, best practises, if there’s any?

What I have missed, have I done it wrong? How come? When I looked at it, analyzed. I see I myself is not the problem but the system itself.

I guess I see where the problem lies. If I was going to join it next to me, not in between the system and me, choose a level up or down like the digram two, in theory there shouldn't be any problems.

Anyone should understand that “Nobody is replacing anybody”. The new entry has it's own system, own level and can be in the centre of it just like me. All can co-exists with the newly added connections. But I needed serious interconnection so I let the new entry and the system to place themselves where they are comfortable, in between the system and me, not really in the centre though. My fault. The result was too mach noice. Chaos.
    
So what I am saying here finally ?

I learned a good lesson. If I am the centre of the universe, I should be the one to place the new entry somewhere, most likely right next to me, and only if that succeeds, should allow the other links. So until such time comes I should take the noice and reflect only what is needed rather than they themselves hear it. Anyone?