Behind Closed Doors

Of grammar monsters, malicious

By Rasputin

What’s bigger than grammar mistakes?

Milk-Ella, the man who is ‘milking’ the Higher Education sector ran into fresh trouble last week. And of all things it was over a politically correct, but grammatically incorrect press communiqué on the HNDA issue. The communiqué sent out to media immediately after the Police attack on HNDA students had several glaring grammatical and spelling mistakes that served to spice up the whole controversy surrounding the HNDA matter.

At a recent informal discussion, a University pundit asked Milk-Ella about the grammatically incorrect communiqué to which Milk-Ella angrily responded, “If grammar is the main problem, I can find hundreds of grammar mistakes in your university documents.» He then launched his own salvo at the university pundit saying there were bigger issues in the country than grammatical errors.

Vituperatively viral

A slanderous Facebook post that went viral on social media put a spoke in young Hareen’s holiday in London. The post accused this young firebrand from Uva of using State funds for his holiday in London, where he also attended the finals of the Rugby World Cup. Keeping him company was another young politico from Gampaha, who holds a key position in the government, and a group of their mutual friends.

Saddened by the Facebook vituperative comment against him, the firebrand politico countered that the trip was planned nearly a year ago. «Not a cent of State money was used for this trip and when it was planned I never thought I would be a Cabinet Minister by this November,» he lamented to his friends back home.

The young firebrand, who overlooks the digital infrastructure sector it is being whispered, is exploring the possibility of taking legal action against another politico from the Southern Province for masterminding the Facebook attack.

Baba’s Big Day

Baba, the apple of the lawmakers› eye for the past five years, has now taken a back seat in political with her not so surprising defeat in August. However, she still has to make random visits to the PRECIFAC as her name has been mentioned in connection with alleged misappropriation at the national carrier.

Amidst the PRECIFAC hullabaloo, Baba is also getting ready for her big day, which will, in all probability, fall in December. She is no alien to ‘Big Days’ as she has played this role before, although her first experience ended up in disaster.

The man who robbed Baba›s heart is a businessman who has hitherto stayed away from the media spotlight. It is learnt that the second nuptial bond will officially bring Baba›s short-lived political career to an end.

Verbal fracas and Maara-pora’s grit

A group meeting of the green party, which took place at the temple of green foliage on Friday ended up in a major verbal fracas as a rabble-rouser Minister from Kalutara kept firing salvos at the Maara-pora overlooking the law enforcement sector. The rabble-rouser, alluding to Maara-pora said certain bigwigs in the present china cupboard obtained monthly allowances from the deposed king. He also charged that some of his ministerial colleagues telephoned the deposed king during inner circle meetings of the green party and allowed him to listen to secret conversations at the party’s inner sanctum.

After this string of attacks, many were under the assumption that Maara-pora would bid adieu to his post on Friday post-haste. But they forgot that Maara-pora, who is at the centre of this controversy, is a man who spent his entire life in the corridors of the New Kade, which is in fact the home of the thick-skinned.