One
of the obscenely senseless Organizational faux pas of the WCY14 opening
ceremony in Hambantota yesterday, was the fact that 3000 school children lined
up the approach road from the main road to the Convention Center dressed in
various outfits from 9.30am to 12.30 for the guests to see!
They
are not circus animals surely! Anyway these kids some of whom had been up from
5am and been taken from home to where their makeup and outfits had been put on
them, and then bused into the venue to be standing for 3 hours was an uncalled
for violation of their rights, and respect.
Whoever
was in charge of planning such an unforgivable aspect must suffer the same
ignominy and understand why so many of these kids fainted as they were NOT
allowed to even sit down. As I mentioned in my blog, we have some mentally
deficient deviants who are tasked with organizing events to show off to their
superiors so much so that when the VVIPs and President turned up, they were
driven right up to the red carpet not being able to see these kids, permanently
striking out the reason for their presence in the first place.
In
true Sri Lanka fashion the planned for start at 11.30 turned into 12.30 as some
of the buses with guests began arriving only after the President arrived at 12.15!
This meant that the journey took longer than anticipated.
Further
after obligatory photo op and the lunch, when the delegates left at 3, they were
not taken in a tour of Hambantota, as there was NOTHING to see in that wilderness,
but taken to a beach party on Polhena Beach in Matara, laid on my CSN, (which no
doubt would have been paid an obscene amount to organize that) and then late in
the night driven back dog tired back to their hotels in Colombo, with some arriving
after midnight.
Of
course none of this would be in the news. One reason being that only the 5 Press
of the President was allowed inside the Conference Hall, which had plenty of room
to house over 100 press men. All the others had to watch on TV and send their reports
from the press room. That is why only the good photos are from outside the Hall
and the bad ones are from inside, the canned ones for public consumption. I hope
at the least the delegates can send their smart phone photos for us to enjoy some
of the real show!
I
repeat it is NOT sour grapes on my part, just that no one knows the real story.
I am determined to find a photo of these poor kids from one our international friends and post it in a day or two give me a little leeway. If you have one let me know.
5 comments:
Only the President's photographer Sudath Silva and his team were allowed in.
So the unprofessional quality of those inside the hall, are the result of jokers who charge millions for exclusivity, when it could have been done FREE!
If we had a Right to Information Act
we would know exactly how much he was paid for this task. How much do you think?
Dulles please reply anonymously, as I know now that you are pissed off with your fellow ministers who are shitting on you for the pathetic organizational snafus, that they helped create.
it is an unfortunate two-tiered system, where the unfortunate rural Southern youth were forced to line the roads for the jet-setting youth who were wined and dined into the wee hours of the morning. and what did the rural youth get in exchange for their travails in the sun, heat, dust, and elements?
sad that the Master of Ceremonies was not from the many talented youth of Sri Lanka but a much older person. Elementary mistake surely!
How many people born in the Hambantota District were inside the Conference Hall? My guess at most 5 or is that too high?
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