Delon's Message for Sri Lankans
Delon can speak sinhala? um ...he tries to answer
then he has a cool message for his people.
from nov 2004. (tj at lj's sinhala is not that good either)
a personal glimpse. සිංහ வால சிங்கம்
Live Jelly started a public access show in May of 2003 called the Original Recipe. We were looking back in our archives and had many clips that we never youtubed since youtube was started feb of 2005 or so. In November of 2004 we got the opportunity to interview a young up and coming musician who had gotten into the dj scene some years back when he was 12. His name: Delon and since then he has won awards and have gotten on the charts. We thought his music was awesome and our show only aired in four local southern cali channels at th time, now we have to chance to give you an in depth glimpse of Delon and his views! then he talked about songs from his upcoming CD the connection. we had to break it down to 7 parts.we featured this on
public accesss minus the language(as in edited out words) but this is unedited with full content and words.
go to www.youtube.com/livejellyvision
TJ letter to Obama Administration
TJ has written lettters in past weeks to the White House regarding union stuff and situation in Lanka as well. May 9th Sat. after hearing about Secretary of States comments about Sri Lanka TJ decided to write to president about thoughts.
Here is the letter in its entirity with misspellings and other stuff, cause sometimes when you write you have to write with your heart and not worry about the commas.
Dear President Obama and team,
Ultimately you have to take responsibility for decisions made on your watch --im concerned as a citizen of the USA for your support of terrorism...harmful terrorism. I think that you and yr admin needs to research more about sri lanka and question all people. It was a disgrace to hear Ms. Clinton's comment, while supporting Israel's action against palestine, in the next breath she condemns sri lanka' government's action against LTTE (cowardly harmful terror group who have been keeping people of lanka in fear) in sri lanka there are sinhalese, tamils(sri lankan tamils, and indian tamils) some moors, burgher and Veddhas. They live in harmony. LTTE who started out as speaking up for minority, as time went on, turned into an extreme terror group that started killing its own people as well as take their own people as child soldiers. It seems that since you admind maybe be getting dirty money from LTTE related sri lankan tamil people, you are bending toward the money instead of the root cause of the problem. Sinhala people have not carried any rioting every year--why do the ltte tiger terror group carry sucide bombings? why do they put lies and misinformation out in the media? i m sure you know what it is like to have misinfo about situations, so i tell you seek the truth for yourself. LTTE are harmful terrors who need to be handled. Since sri lanka is a small country, some may think this is not worthy of attention, but any palce anywhere is worthy of attention. aren't all people important. But the situation is about the people. Innocent people: sinhala, tamil, moor, burgher, veddas are in fear of LTTE terrors who have stopped the growth of sri lanka. they have also gotten weapons with money sent to them by their supporters instead of helping the tamil people up north prosper. If LTTE is a banned terrorist group, why are their front orgs allowed to raise funds in America? is it because america is a free country?
they spread lies according to american biases: saying that the ethnic conflict is about dark tamils and light skinned sinhalas and discrimintion: if so u seriously need to visit lanka to see that thereare extra dark sinhalese and light skinned tamils. LTTE want to feed on past fears. peoplelike mia has used her projects to spread misinfo and glorify the terror group going far as to say, since peopledo not know she will spread misinfo as she did on the Tavis Smily show. for us bombing innocent people is not ok, and those who are doing it are the ltte!!!
We need your admin's support to stop terrorism in Sri Lanka. Please advice your Secretary of State to visit Sri Lanka if she has not done so.
Yes there are many LTTE supporters in South India, that does not mean that they are right. They may have given to your campaing, you may get misinformation from some . that is why i advice you to go to sri lanka and talk to all kinds of people to get the real situation.
thousands have suffered at the hands at LTTE and it needs to stop now. How can USA set a bad example when people who have been made miserable by terrorism finally takes a stand against the big bullies who bomb people if they speak up?
no--this is not a case of one person's freedom fighter is another persons terrorist. Do freedom fighter's kill their own people?
thank you for your time.
Here is the letter in its entirity with misspellings and other stuff, cause sometimes when you write you have to write with your heart and not worry about the commas.
Dear President Obama and team,
Ultimately you have to take responsibility for decisions made on your watch --im concerned as a citizen of the USA for your support of terrorism...harmful terrorism. I think that you and yr admin needs to research more about sri lanka and question all people. It was a disgrace to hear Ms. Clinton's comment, while supporting Israel's action against palestine, in the next breath she condemns sri lanka' government's action against LTTE (cowardly harmful terror group who have been keeping people of lanka in fear) in sri lanka there are sinhalese, tamils(sri lankan tamils, and indian tamils) some moors, burgher and Veddhas. They live in harmony. LTTE who started out as speaking up for minority, as time went on, turned into an extreme terror group that started killing its own people as well as take their own people as child soldiers. It seems that since you admind maybe be getting dirty money from LTTE related sri lankan tamil people, you are bending toward the money instead of the root cause of the problem. Sinhala people have not carried any rioting every year--why do the ltte tiger terror group carry sucide bombings? why do they put lies and misinformation out in the media? i m sure you know what it is like to have misinfo about situations, so i tell you seek the truth for yourself. LTTE are harmful terrors who need to be handled. Since sri lanka is a small country, some may think this is not worthy of attention, but any palce anywhere is worthy of attention. aren't all people important. But the situation is about the people. Innocent people: sinhala, tamil, moor, burgher, veddas are in fear of LTTE terrors who have stopped the growth of sri lanka. they have also gotten weapons with money sent to them by their supporters instead of helping the tamil people up north prosper. If LTTE is a banned terrorist group, why are their front orgs allowed to raise funds in America? is it because america is a free country?
they spread lies according to american biases: saying that the ethnic conflict is about dark tamils and light skinned sinhalas and discrimintion: if so u seriously need to visit lanka to see that thereare extra dark sinhalese and light skinned tamils. LTTE want to feed on past fears. peoplelike mia has used her projects to spread misinfo and glorify the terror group going far as to say, since peopledo not know she will spread misinfo as she did on the Tavis Smily show. for us bombing innocent people is not ok, and those who are doing it are the ltte!!!
We need your admin's support to stop terrorism in Sri Lanka. Please advice your Secretary of State to visit Sri Lanka if she has not done so.
Yes there are many LTTE supporters in South India, that does not mean that they are right. They may have given to your campaing, you may get misinformation from some . that is why i advice you to go to sri lanka and talk to all kinds of people to get the real situation.
thousands have suffered at the hands at LTTE and it needs to stop now. How can USA set a bad example when people who have been made miserable by terrorism finally takes a stand against the big bullies who bomb people if they speak up?
no--this is not a case of one person's freedom fighter is another persons terrorist. Do freedom fighter's kill their own people?
thank you for your time.
Masks and Dances
Pictures to Music of Masks & Dances Event
at UCLA Fowler Museum. SLF was a sponsor
of the event.
at UCLA Fowler Museum. SLF was a sponsor
of the event.
SLF March Community
Glimpse from the Sri Lanka Foundation's March Community Meeting Event.
Sri Lanka Foundation held a community meeting event in Los Angeles to talk about various projects including a housing project for seniors in March. They unveiled another project to help those in Lanka. Community leaders, volunteers, organizers attended as well as spoke at the meeting. For more info. go to www.srilankafoundation.org
Sri Lanka Foundation held a community meeting event in Los Angeles to talk about various projects including a housing project for seniors in March. They unveiled another project to help those in Lanka. Community leaders, volunteers, organizers attended as well as spoke at the meeting. For more info. go to www.srilankafoundation.org
Actress Thushari
Sri Lanka Foundation featured an article by Nishantha Wickramasinghe on Sri Lankan-American Actress Thushari Jayasekera. She has done wonderful work in stage dramas and taken part in student films & short films in the USA as well as hosting a few TV shows for public access channels. Currently she is experimenting with some internet performance arts pieces.
She had a great up & coming career but took some time out when her mother fell ill & then started out again on stage. "I m not scared to start over, even in school, I started with small roles & when directors & producers knew I do good work, they started to book me more." She creates her own performance arts projects. She started her film career with some bits & she is a fresh face with ways to go. She is not your typical beauty but she has a certain oomph with a genuine personality combined with niceness & outspokeness . She reflects candidly,"I have a Shah Rukh Khan Face, " and laughs ,"no, no I don't mean a manly face, I just mean that when my face is still it looks good-all even & maybe somewhat beautiful but when I speak & express myself my face breaks up into every which way, giving it the ugly, but I m not afraid to get ugly to give a good performance worthy of what ever character I may play, watch some SRK films & see what I m talking about."
Recently she was invited to do an item number in a South Asian production slated to start in October 2009 and have not decided whether to accept or not. "I know I'd be crazy to say no but I have to see what the production is about, sometimes I m choosey."
Sri Lanka Foundation Article on Thushari.
Her recent performance as Savi on Yal Devi was ok: a nice start. She wasn't
playing her usual wicked character roles or sweet hyper girl, nor any
sketch character like the super super model or
the village comedic type role, she didn't over power, she just was.
This was something new & she seem to bring something new to
the table with each different production or role.
She does a speako shout out to the current film that is out Yal Devi
in process of working on her new project Dolls R Us.
She will be also appearing in a South Asian
Classic to be in May. These days she is doing
a documentary projects & taking
a behind the camera post to take a break
from being in front of it & experiment with
some new & innovative projects.
She had a great up & coming career but took some time out when her mother fell ill & then started out again on stage. "I m not scared to start over, even in school, I started with small roles & when directors & producers knew I do good work, they started to book me more." She creates her own performance arts projects. She started her film career with some bits & she is a fresh face with ways to go. She is not your typical beauty but she has a certain oomph with a genuine personality combined with niceness & outspokeness . She reflects candidly,"I have a Shah Rukh Khan Face, " and laughs ,"no, no I don't mean a manly face, I just mean that when my face is still it looks good-all even & maybe somewhat beautiful but when I speak & express myself my face breaks up into every which way, giving it the ugly, but I m not afraid to get ugly to give a good performance worthy of what ever character I may play, watch some SRK films & see what I m talking about."
Recently she was invited to do an item number in a South Asian production slated to start in October 2009 and have not decided whether to accept or not. "I know I'd be crazy to say no but I have to see what the production is about, sometimes I m choosey."
Sri Lanka Foundation Article on Thushari.
Her recent performance as Savi on Yal Devi was ok: a nice start. She wasn't
playing her usual wicked character roles or sweet hyper girl, nor any
sketch character like the super super model or
the village comedic type role, she didn't over power, she just was.
This was something new & she seem to bring something new to
the table with each different production or role.
She does a speako shout out to the current film that is out Yal Devi
in process of working on her new project Dolls R Us.
She will be also appearing in a South Asian
Classic to be in May. These days she is doing
a documentary projects & taking
a behind the camera post to take a break
from being in front of it & experiment with
some new & innovative projects.
SLAASC Party:Rutnam Style
Jayam & Gina Rutnam hosted a party/get together
for past Presidents and leaders of the community to meet
the Consul General Ananda Wickramasinghe in the
for past Presidents and leaders of the community to meet
the Consul General Ananda Wickramasinghe in the
Los Angeles area.
Photos contributed by President of SLAASC
Sri Lankan New Year Festival
Sri Lankan New Year Festival or Avurudu Uthsavaya
will be celebrated at the Woodely Park on Sat., April 11th, 2009
The actual dates of the old year & new year are April 13 & 14th respectively.
will be celebrated at the Woodely Park on Sat., April 11th, 2009
The actual dates of the old year & new year are April 13 & 14th respectively.
Film Yal Devi Pictures & Blurb
Here is a blurb on the Film Yal Devi's Producer-Director Dr. Sumedha Jayasena.
We were able to get some secret pics from the set to give you a little pre glimpse. (below)
Film Yal Devi, produced by Pixel Place Productions, is based on a fictional love story in the backdrop of the Sinhala/Tamil ethnic conflict.
Pixel Place Productions is a company recently formed by Dr. Sumedha Jayasena with a vision to put Sri Lankan films on the global map.
Yal Devi production was an effort by the Sri Lankan expatriates residing in the greater Los Angeles area to bring this story to life. This is considered to be the first ever Sri Lankan feature-length movie produced in the USA for showing to the public. It is directed & produced by Dr. Sumedha Jayasena and co-directed by Bhadraji Mahinda Jayatilake(who is a well known musician & artist).
Dr. Jayasena checks a take.
Dr. Jayasena taking a still shot of the set
Dr. Jayasena giving direction to actress Shirani Kaushalaya
Shirani Kaushalaya with Thushari
Cast Includes:
Bhadraji Mahinda, Shirani Kaushalaya, Sumedha Jayasena, Kithsiri Rajapakse, Thushari Jayasekera,Rajika Natkunanathan, Madara Jayasena, Sisira Senavirathna, Thusitha De Silva, Seruk Indika, Ray Crase, Carl Everts, Ananda Markalanda
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