For the first time Arugam.info has received a comprehensive UN OCHA directory of all ‘active’ Organizations, in the Ampara area.
The 33 page pdf file is attached herewith – open it; it is virus free!
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Arugam.info had one last, but very difficult choice to make before the end of this year.
During our 2006 (party) season we started our “Most Romantic Photo” competition.
Inspired by more happy and pretty couples visiting the Bay than ever before, we published many nice shots in our gallery:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arugamsurf/MostRomanticPhoto06
However, the winning photo has come as a surprise; here are our winners:
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Many young, pretty, active couples came to Arugam Bay this year. And without doubt they had a great memorable holiday.
Only one single couple, however, left a legacy behind; this is why they are our Winners:
Not all reasons for our panel’s decision are public, but this Happy Couple managed to achieve much more than just enjoy a nice holiday in Sri Lanka.
Their East Coast visit inspired and supported many, including folks further North like in troubled Batticaloa and Kalkudah.
More so, their generous actions gave us hope and provided some long overdue self-recovery and breathing space to a few of the most hard working people in Buy endep drug Arugambay itself.
The winner is in this case not just the actual photo itself, taken at a beautiful BBQ evening in the Bay, nor is it the unusual cremation of hundreds of insects on top of the spotlight seen on the left.
Why did this photo win the competition?
It was mainly the thoughts, our memories, as well as the hope and support received at that very moment coupled with our heartfelt thanks which led us to vote for this shot to mark the end of this very difficult year.
Thanks to all of you for visiting Arugam Bay! Spread the word, how nice & peaceful our Bay actually is. And please help us to promote neglected Arugam Bay:
YOU, the HAPPY visitors are our only chance for Self – Recovery.
Who needs an NGO – if You are coming?
Congratulations! Monic & Philip!
You are confirmed to be the winners of AbaY’s “Best Surf Photo” competition.
Your photo, as below is this year’s winner!
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Reminder:
Our Pyridium 200 mg price “Romantic/most Memorable Couple Photo” competition closes Tomorrow.
Please send your final entry Quickly to:
ArugamFoto@Gmail.com
The winners will be announced and published HERE before the end of this Year, 2006!
To see all the contestants so far click here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arugamsurf
Arugam.info regrets to inform that there will be No Two Year Rememberance How much rogaine foam to apply Celebrations this Christmas, as planned.
The traditional Christian Midnight Mass was also cancelled last night.
There are, simply, NO people in town.
In fact we are advised that in the past 30 Years or so it has never been as quiet at any time.
The weather is actually fine, although there is rain all around the famous Bay.
A few local surfers have been seen in the Bay – that’s all.
The photo above shows this years Best Surf Photo, taken by Cc Philip.
It shows our mood, too: We take it all lying down and in our stride.
However we are pleased to be informed that the following places are open:
Beach Hut, Stardust, Tri Star, Hideaway and the Siam View Hotel.
The Detrol la price comparisons SVH wishes to advise that there will be a small staff party on Christmas day as well as New Year’s Eve:
Everyone in need of a bit of friendly Company, traditional Free food or Entertainment is said to be warmly invited to attend.
A very Happy Christmas and a much more Peaceful New Year 2007 is what we pray for!
Arugam.info recalls that a few months ago an exhibitition was traveling around the hotspots of the Nation.
They never went East, of course.
In vivid pictures, photos, sound & vision someone BIG like the UN staged a few shows around the western part of the island recalling the Country’s saddest day, just two years ago.
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Nature’s huge event could have been a blessing in disguise for this little island; but what did we make of this unique and rather unparalelled opportunity?
Why not take a look yourself at what is what it was like 24 months ago?
A bit later, if we are connected to the East Coast, we may be bold enough to attempt to show you how much similar it still looks there, in the forgotten East.
Nothing, it seems has changed.
To this very day; two years on.
In fact, the road is worse now than after the Tsunami.
Today, and all day there is no electricy at Arugam Bay.
The phones are largely dead, there is no proper Internet access.
All shops and outlets have stopped selling GSM mobile phone cards and nobay can recharge their accounts
There has not been a single prepaid Internet card for sale for ages.
In other words, many feel that the Bay is a lot, lot worse off than one, or indeed two years ago.
One important, pretty sad observation:
All local hope that things get better have almost vanished.
Shelton is Arugambay’s unemployed hero.
Today we bring you a real life story from Arugam Bay.
Uncle Shelton was perhaps the only fit person to report for duty at 07:00 sharp! just over two years ago. Typical, because during the past 20 years or more he never missed a single day’s work.
His pride and joy was to create and look after the perhaps best tropical garden at Order ethionamide prothionamide Arugam Bay. The owners had collected many unique seeds and saplings on their global travels and uncle Shelton took care; in the days when Ceylon had no such import restrictions.
Two year’s ago, just when the rest of Arugam Bay retired, after extensive Christmas and Full Moon Party Celebrations, this wise old man notice a strange behaviour out at sea. Fearing no good, uncle Shelton became (then) our first and only Tsunami Early Warning System: He run around, waking everybody up, yelling at the neighbors, evacuating the sleepy, drunk crowd onto higher ground and into the restaurants upstairs.
The rest is well documented and history: Our uncle Shelton was celebrated and reported to be Arugam Bay‘ s hero, having saved many lifes that morning.
But: What has since happend to our hero?
In the wo full year’s with hundreds of organizations erecting huge banners, “creating jobs and sustaining livihoods” and so on?
Today Uncle Shelton, who speaks good English dating back from his perfect colonial schooling, is a broken, unemployed, old man.
Without doubt, the biggest blow for him was to see quarter of a Century’s caring work, creating a tropical paradise destroyed in just one hour.
The second huge disappointment is that nobody seems to care for him. There is no more garden, the Tsunami sand is far too salty, the owners are too poor to buy new plants. This particular establishment lost more than anyone else in the entire region – but they never, ever receive a single rupee from any organization or the Government. So they can’t help even themselves these days and may have to close up; for the first time in 20+ years.
(Even on Tsunami day afternoon they reopened for ‘business’!)
Plenty of NGO’s donated trees for various publicity purposes; most of them have since died by the roadside where nobody takes care of them – and of course the ENJOY’s have long left.
No trees or plants were ever given to private premises, no compensation offered to Shelton. He is not a direct flood victim. The owners could not afford to continue to employ a gardner; also because there is no more garden to look after.
Shelton has saved many Souls: Has anyone ever contacted him, or helped him?
We wonder: Is there anyone out there who hears uncle Shelton’s own : “SOS”
Before this brave, but now very sad, broken and depressed old man is no more?
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Top photo shows the tropical garden @ around 10:00hrs. 26/Dec/2004
And below, just the day before, Full Moon Party day 25/Dec/2004
If you like to hear of more Real Life Stories and accounts, please let us know!
We have plenty tales to tell; or please come and meet the people in person.
“The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being laid in the Indian Ocean. The buoy is being placed between Thailand and Sri Lanka, two of the countries worst-hit by the 2004 tsunami which killed more than 200,000 people.
The buoy, provided by the US, is able to detect sudden increases in pressure deep under the sea and give coastal communities early warning of a tsunami.
The US already operates a similar system in the Pacific Ocean.
The cost of the US-designed device is being shared by the US and Thailand.”
see the full article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6197766.stm
At Arugam Bay, the first and still only Hi Tec Early Warning Centre in Sri Lanka exists to this very day.
The system is privately funded by the SVH and came into full operation on 29th December, 2004 (!). This reliable system is still powered by a direct Inmarsat link to the Pacific Early Warning Systems based at Hawaii and Alaska.
More recently these old existing contracts have been suplimented by Japan and most received Data has been replaced by a permanent connection to the brand new, and regionally much more relevant Thai Monitoring HQ at Silom, Bangkok.
Indeed, to this day Thai expat staff of the Siam View maintains very close and personal contacts with their fellow Nationals based in Bangkok ensuring that a timely warning is given in the event of any ocean surges in the future.
Three sirens Buy betnovate ointment online located on a water tower are activated to warn the population.
In addition, SMS messages are sent at once to multiple recipients who have registered with the AbaY Centre. These include Governmental departments, military and civil authorities as well as individuals who long placed their trust in this unique local self-help project.
Arugam.info has been asked to publish a scanned reply, reproduced below.
Some concerned people and many generous donors are beginning to question why no help seems to get through to the poor Eastern Provinces; after 2 full years.
A translation will be posted soon if requested or of interest.
Over years, and with various, polite requests on behalf of the Community, Arugam.info has actually written to all Foreign Missions resident in Colombo, on more than one occasion:
Most did not even acknowledge our letters; or indeed reply to our plight.
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Translation
Dear Herr Poos (translator: a fitting recipient, maybe??),
Many thanks for your letter dated 23 October, 2006. The Tsunami-disaster on 26th December, 2006 indeed created a lot of desruction and suffering. A large proportion of Sri Lanka’s costal stretch has been affected.
In recent history there has rarely been any event of a similar magnitude which moved the emotions of all peoples. Many Germans donated towards this natural event. The Federeal Government started an immediate Help program. Many National and International Aid Organizations were concerned with the reconstruction; even now some are still enganged in this very activity. Many destroyed houses were rebuild, many schools reconstructed, many hospitals were repaired or relocated.
The German Embassy, working together with our partners and also in connection with some bilateral Emergency and Development Programs also are in Cooperation with the EU and the UN manged to assisgn funds to various tasks connected with Tsunami relief.
The Sri Lanka Government is responsible and also accountable for the coordination and the overall control of all the tasks concerning the reconstruction efford. This very difficult task has been carried out with various results in differend parts of the Country. The continued civil war/unrest has resulted in the fact that many organizations have long cancelled their programs.
The fate of the (one) mentioned hotel operator is deeply regretted. The Embassy as well as any of our partners are not responsible to respond to, or indeed assist in, any possible way to any isolated enquiry from such a hotel, no matter how severely affected they may have been.
For example, this view was mentioned to the owners of the ‘Siam View Hotel’ in our email dated 9th March, 2005.
On January 12th the Embassy outlined their position again in a letter to the operators. However, a request for assistance has not been received.
with friendly Greetings,
on behalf of
Cornelious Hupperts
PS: (Translator:) “What to do”?????
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see the link below:
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It remains to be seen if there are any actual activities locally, and specially in the most severely affected area of Arugam Bay
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Arugam.info managed to send, for the first time ever, representatives from the East Coast to attend a Forum Meeting held at Beruwella recently.
Although known to each other through Internet discussion web sites such as www.sri-lanka-board.de nothing can replace a person-to-person, personal contact.
A common feature of everyone attending was obvious:
All share a deep love and concern for Sri Lanka.
Also present were Mr. Ibrahim,of PottuVille and Mr. Kapila Amarasinghe.
Arugam.info Order danazol medication Purchase tadapox tablets does not get involved in politics.
But we are certainly very much committed to the safety and security of our visitors.
Following credible information received it is felt that there is a fair possiblity of some sort of attack on a high profile, political or military target.
Please take extra care and avoid places which could be considered as such.
Rural Sri Lanka and tourist zones are considered to be as safe as ever.
Watch this space for further news as we receive it, direct from the source!
Arugam.info hopes and prays to be proven wrong this time in its prediction.
Ever since the early 1980’s DW (Deutsche Welle Radio Station) has been continiously broadcasting in dozens of languages throughout Asia from a remote location in North East Sri Lanka.
The huge, very impressive site is situated near Nilaveli, Trincomalee on the East Coast.
The relay staion’s own power plant produces more than the city of Trinco, 2.7 Mw (11kV).
Broadcasts are transmited on Mw as well as Sw (medium and Short wave radio) and recently a digital transmitter has been added (the blue box below).
Perfectly run and maintained by German Expat staff this enclave may serve as a symbol that certain installiations continue to have a total stability which the rest of Country seems to be looking for – These days.
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Ever since the early 1980’s the German National Radio Station “Deutsche Welle” has been continiously operating a repeater radio station in the North of Sri Lanka.
(above: actual location of the DW station, upon sunset at Nilaveli, NE Sri Lanka Cheap cardizem generic name )
On a recent trip to the area our very own East Coast resident expat correspondent decided to accept a long standing invitation to visit this huge, impressive and totally self-contained site maintained by German experts.
The initial idea to travel all that way was to admire all the great work the international NGO’s claim to be doing up in North Eastern Province…….
In sharp contrast, DW is actually ‘active’ and this German mini enclave is working fine, transmitting on Mw (medium wave) as well as Kw (Short Wave), throughout Asia and in dozens of languages from this remote location.
Arugam Bay certainly enjoys certain programs of DW; and more so: our critical and (technically) highly qualified reporter was impressed with the totally open, free and apparently also very welcome inspection.
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DW‘s own, totally independent Deutz Diesel power station produces more than 2.7 MW of 11kV Mains Power!
Is this even more energy than the whole of nearby Trincomallee requires for its entire population…..?! Who knows the answer?
above: Digital transmissions equipment and the external radio masts @ Nilalveli
More and better photos will follow!
The National Museum, Colombo
What is the connection to the East Coast and Arugam Bay?
Enlarge the photos below; maybe you understand the reason for this post.
To explain:
- Three exhibits are from our local area
- Arugam.info is there to promote Arugam Bay
- The new sectionA? was opened with our friends participation
- All signs were printed by Silver Circle with a Xaar digital printer
- Which has been located at Arugambay during recent election times
In the entire Arugam Bay and PottuVille area there are only two Banks.
Both, the People’s Bank as well as the Bank of Ceylon are State owned and there is no competition or private Bank locally.
Accordingly, the service offered is not comparable with modern expectations found elsewhere. For example, there is no ATM machine and all Visa and MasterCard fabilities have been withdrawn.
However, to preserve a piece of ancient ledger book Banking proceedures and 21st Century history we took a few photos to show how all monetary transactions are performed in our area, up to this very, modern day.
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Arugambay is lucky to have an Oktoberfest all year round.
Our very own, special brew is available only once a year elsewhere.
All our testing, sampling and quality control efforts are put to the test at the BIG brewer’s event at the Colombo Hillton Car Park, the Sri Lanka Oktoberfest.
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