Drama Queen

Ha exams are over but have another sociology assignment ahhaaaa ya I'm busy and I have a rocky internet connection without any cash I wouldn't be able to recharge:-( I am right now reading Chimamenda Ngozi Adichie's latest book Americanah and will write a review of it within this week. Anyways let's get to the review and guys/machangs pls pray to your various gods to help all the people with Ebola and to let it not spread.

The ministers are speaking after the Prince Kunndasaly ( I'm so sorry guys the Crown Prince's name is not Pundasala it sounded solo similar I'm soo sorry about that mistake). The good minister states that just because one King takes a Queen from India doesn't mean all Kings should. It doesn't mean that it should be the tradition of the Kandyan kingdom. "You as the Maha Adikaram has the duty to protect this kingdom in this rare occasion where there is no King in the Kandyan Kingdom." The good minister continues to warn "One day these Waduga people in that particular(can't remember the name) street will one day become a problem to out country" could he be any more truer?

Sad song in the background. We see the Prince all alone and the song in the background has the following meaning "Is this palace a prison Kunndasaly, these traditions are your jail guards. I will never be able to live as I wish." With this the Prince goes to his table and starts to write a letter in poem form. This he recites beautifully as follows:
This palace it a dark place and the only light that it had was you

Our dreams will not happen Mí manike ( sweetheart)
Only when you come to be with me
Will there be light in my life and the palace
The sun will rise in the Sankadagala hills only when
Mí manike(sweetheart) comes to be my wife
But destiny has said otherwise.
( this is in my own words not exactly as sung by the Prince but same meaning)

This is soo sweet and sad. This scene really makes you really sad and shows how much sacrifices a Prince has to make to be a good King he can't even choose whom to fall in love with. He loves the noble lady really and you could that love in the Prince's eyes. This is soooo sad.
Daskon comes running into the room and the Prince gives him a letter and says that this should be sent through a messenger but he thinks the noble lady should get the message through Daskon and the prince gets emotional and his voice cracks a little. Daskon understands the deep trust the Prince has on him. He leaves to Matala to give the letter to Monaragala Wallawa( I think that name also I miss named.sorry)
The sad poem song starts again and just thinking of the noble ladies reaction makes you soo sad their relationship will have no hope - this is so sad and you feel like crying thinking of what their future could have been.

"I will not be able to live without your love and the palace would remain in darkness without you in my life."

Daskon thinks well a lot of messengers could come and go with this letter many times before the Queen arrives and so he stops to write in his journal. He questions everything and why the love affair was not allowed when live is such a strong emotion ( ironic you'll see in the future why)
Daskon writes how a genetic orphan takes a letter to Matala to statue that it will not have a privilege of getting a Randoli/Queen from there.

The noble lady and the servants are caring loudly. The servants when questioned point out that they are caring because the Prince couldn't see the lady before the King died. The noble lady gets so pissed off and kicks the servant away ( in real life the actress who is the servant who always sings is the Prince's elder sister). The servants point out that there is nothing to worry as if the Prince Gabe up on here there are other noble men who will want to marry her. The lady screams and says everything that could possible happen has happened to me and you take the Prince's side that mirror over there knows about me more than any of you.

So all the servants go near the mirror and point of and says this is not like a magic mirror in fairy tales to tell these kindsy of things. What I feared has happened. The lady has looked in the mirror in the earlier episodes to see if she is pregnant. She says the Queen will need a palace and a marriage to make love by to a real lover anything will do. She had believed in the Prince and she gave eherself to him and the servants are shocked.

We have another sad song sung by the servant who sings and we see a flashback on how the Prince carried the noble lady away. So sad this is such a sad episode.
Daskon somewhere in the forest is yet questioning why life is what it is. To be continued next Saturday......

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OK this week flew by no? Well Sri Lanka had a long weekend this week Saturday,Sunday,Monday &Wednesday:-) Maybe this is why it feels like the week flew by:-) Haaa its a relief that Sri Lanka is having our own history dramas because all these years we knew who King Sukjong and Yi San were but knew little of the Kings who reigned in Sri Lanka when the Dutch and the Portuguese were in Lanka. Korean drama is good but we need our own history to no? Well OK TV Derana is finishing their history series Swarnapali and is starting a new drama Dombi(I think that's the name) maybe I'll do recaps for that too but I'm watching Podi Mama at that time maybe I'll do recaps for that. Time for recap:

Setting is in Monarawila Wallawa the Prince's girlfriend's( Bandarawela Podi Kumarahami) house. The girlfriend is really pissed off she gives the Indian saree/shawl to her servant for her wedding. The servant is freaked out she says she is from a low cast and can't wear such things but the noble lady insists and the servant shyly puts it on and the noble lady says she is so pretty that she will find a hubby in no time:-) The whole wallawa is in chaos and I think everyone is thinking the Prince is going to name the Queen/Randoli from this wallawa. The servant tells the noble lady that a wallawa chosen to have the Queen usually is given specail attention such as palace guards everywhere to show people this is the wallawa in which the future Queen lives in.

Yes! My guess is right Kapitipola nilamà is the noble lady's father and he arrives in his carriage with his guards and whippers* to inform people that a minister is arriving. He is pissed off he tells all the workers. To get the hell out of here and tells the wife/Kumarihami to come inside. BAD NEWS I see that the Prince has not arrived at the wallawa so the noble lady is not going to be the Queen/Randoli.

The Palace meeting hall is full with ministers from all regions of the country and the Queen mother's father arrives. The maha adikaram greats him to take seat. The Queen mother's father tells the minsters that the Princess Pramila from the Suriya clan the nearest to the Indian royal family is coming on a Portugal ship in two weeks. The minister who supports Patiya Bandara(I think his name is yalapola I wrote about him in episode 4. I'll call him bad minister after this.) ask how his sickness is. The father says well the Lankan ayurwadic treatment is better than in India and the bad minister l says I'm sure you should bring a good doctor from India to which the father says the Lankan ones agree much better. Here he tells the Princess's name which Pramila Devi here we get a real close up on Daskon I'm sure this is a foreshadowing of what's going to happen.

The minister the Prince likes and the one who is loyal to the Prince (Alawida nilamà I think) says who is going to pay for the expenses of this. To this the maha adikaram says the Portuguese governed in Colombo will pay for all this. The good minister I'll call Alawida minister that after this is pissed off he doesn't like all this rubbish I think he wants to see the Prince to marry a Sri Lankan noble lady as Randoli. He says "ya ya we'll have to pay the taxes" the bad minister agrees to this. (First time you are good no?) The father gets up to go and calls a nilamà and tells the other look at this head gear he is wearing the bad minister says its form Waduga desha (India or a district in there). He says everyone will get gifts like this from Waduga desha** when the Crown Prince marries Princess Pramila. The good minister then gets solo pissed off he says "ya the whole country wants gifts from your Waduga desha no?" The others start to look shocked and wola! the Omaha adikaram screams the good ministers name out.....oppps..To be continued next week....:-) see you then:-)

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Episode 5 is to start and here we go. Sorry about the delay guys but my data package expired and so I had to renew it before uploading this recap.I would like to say that this episode was fun. The most hilarious thing in this episode is that everyone keeps on thinking that the Crown Prince is the King, which he is not since he still hasn't had the coronation ceremony. So here is what happens:

The scene starts where it finished last week and the ministers leave the palace to rest and one maha adikaram (minister) comes to tell Daskon that the Crown Prince told him to meet the vistors who have arrived at the vistors hall in the main Palace. Daskon seems to not like this and tells the minster to meet them. The minster laughs and tells you meet them minister Daskon because the Prince Pundasala says so I'm just the messenger then he leaves.
Daskon leaves and comes to the vistors hall to meet two people dressed in red and from the look of them they are Catholic priests. Guess what I am 100 percent right. This part is hilarous the elderly priest says some thing in a foriegn language. He says Ja ma apple or something and I know thats French and I also know I written it wrong;-) . Daskon looks baffled he just doesn't know what to say. He speaks in Sinhalese and the priest still speaks in French and then the younger priest tells the elder one that Daskon speaks no French. Then he tells Daskon that they come from Goa and are Priest Joshep Vass's students they come to Lanka to preach the "truth" the fact that there is only "one God". This time Daskon looks gone he just keeps looking at them shocked. Is it because he doesn't like it or what?
He comes back to his sences to say he knows about them and how they spread a European religion. He says there is no King in Sri Lanka now just a Crown Prince who is awaiting his coronation. Learning this they say sorry but the elder preist asks a question which the other translates as "why don't u know your mother language?" To this Daskon laughs and says he is a "genetic orphan" as his mother is Portugese his father is French but he was born in Kandy and knows only Sinhalese but he says he is a poet. The younger priest says then he is not a orphan if he is a poet and tells him to show them the island Daskon says he will tell the minister about this and tells them to come with him.

The Prince is alone in his room and the maha adikaram arrives the Prince says he wants to go to Matala with Daskon but he is always running around with people and writting poems. To this the minister laughs and says you told him to do so. The minster points out that the Prince can only go in his carriage to meet the people after coronation but can't go anywhere else until he is the King. The Prince is furious and screams what bloody rules are these! The minister says they aren't bloody rules they are ones with meaning which other Princes have followed for centuries in the Kandyan Kingdom. The Prince says then show this in the law books and the minister gets angry and says "I the Maha Adikaram is the law book my family for centuries have carried out these traditions and even at your father's coronation I was there.

Ok I'm waiting for the Prince's girlfriend to say something today and yah my wish was fulfilled! Here she is pissed off staring at the mirror and her servant asked why my lady doesn't wear the sari the Prince presented her she goes crazy here and I was shocked...and it ends here she says let this Prince of yours do whatever he wants.........to be continued next Saturday at 8.30 pm on Swarawhahini Sri Lanka.
My thought:
Well today I expected the Indian Princess to arrive but she didn't. The Prince's girlfriend is a Bandarawela Kumarihamy this means she is one of the highest noble ladies in the land and I think her father is a minister. Also a minister/Nilamà called Kapitipola wanted to meet the Prince which he was not allowed to, Daskon promises he will bring the Prince to Matala to meet him. I have a feeling he may be the father of the Prince's girlfriend. Also the Maha Adikaram is the Chief Minister while a minister is called a Nilamà.

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Hey it is Daskon time again and its time to write another episode recap. Hope u guys enjoy this one as much as u did the last on. OK time to see what happens in 1707 Kandyan kingdom Sri Lanka:-)
The scene starts with the narrator saying that the Prince has ended his 7 day fast and is to be taken to the Temple of the Tooth Relic (Dalada Maligawa) and is to offer flowers to the Buddha and promise he will protect Buddhism and look after his people. After this he is shown to the people. There is a stage in front of the people which is covered with white curtains and I have to point out that I was impatient to see the new King. Daskon goes to aside to write in his journal about what's happening and the last white curtain is lifted and lo and behold there is the King of Sri Lanka/Ceylon/Taprobane. He lifts his hand and the people and minsters fall on their knees to show him respect and shout long live the King. Patiya Bandara the eldest son of the last King watches on but doesn't bend to show respect and he angrily pushes some things and goes away.
The next scene is another cute scene about the Prince's girlfriend. She is having a fake marriage imagining one of her servants as the Crown Prince. There is a song and we see that they believe that this noble lady is going to be the Queen and carry the Crown Prince in her womb.Then comes the talk about where she is going to live and how she is going to leave all the servants behind. The lady is shocked when they say she will be taken to the Kandyan Palace but she points out that the Prince said she will be taken to the Palace nearby. The servants are shocked and say that thats the Palace of the Yakaladoli. They say that she will live in the same chamber as the King as the Queen of Sri Lanka and after this they say that when she gives birth to the Crown Prince they will sing the poems sung by Queen Mahamaya when she gave birth to Prince Siddharatha. It was hilarious when the lady imagines herself being carried away by the Prince to the Palace and all of a sudden she falls only to find that she was carried by her servant. They image the coronation and how the lady keeps giggling which cause the mnister to ask why she is giggling which causes the servant dressed as the Prince to say that the lady has accidenty swolled a kitten and that when it moves it tikkles her causing her to giggle. Then the minister says that let the lady fly a kite and let the Prince take the crown.

The minsters meet and they say that the ceromony before the coronation was successfull but the minister called Yalayagoda points out that Patiya Bandara owns the Crown which cause the minister who is on the Prince's side to tell him not to takePatiya Bandara's side.
In the Mother Queen Palace a letter arrives from Indai to say that the next Portugal boat will bring the Princess Premila to Sri Lanka.tThe next thing we know is that a messenger comes in a hurry to the ministers to tell some news but what is it.....to be continued next Saturday 8.30.
Overall it was a good episode....

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Hey guys its time for Daskon again it is episode 3 recap. Well I have to say these few episodes are all facts but it is mainly because this is the first time a history drama of this scale is shown in Sri Lanka and so there is a lot of history to cover:-) Here we go time for episode 3:

Again all the ministers are are at it again. Who is going to be the next King? This is the question eryone in the palace is asking. The fate of the whole nation lies in the hand s of the ministers. The fat elder brother's name is Patiya Bandara he is the son of Yakala Doli (the Sinhalese queen of Sri Lanka).

Time for some history : A Sri Lankan King from Kandy is only to have two Queens one of them is a Southern Indian Buddhist princess while the other is a noble woman from Sri Lanka again a Buddhist. The Sinhalese noble lady is called Yakala Doli like Suk Bin and Hee Bin in Korea. Usually the Crown Prince is the son of the Indian princess.

Patiya Bandara is called a illiterate man by some ministers while the other ministers call him a man with Sinhalese blood. The Crown Prince who's name by the way is Prince Pundasali is having a hard time in his own palace and Daskon arrives to tell him that the ministers are yet arguing.Saying this Daskon leaves to know what is happening in the main palace hall.

The ministers have decided that the King is going to be Crown Prince Pundasali and points out he will change his boyish ways when he becomes King but one minister keeps on pointing out that the Prince is yet 17 years old. Daskon takes the news to the Crown Prince Pundasali.Here we get to know a little bit of Daskon. He says Prince Pundasli and he are very similar because their parents are from different countries and different nationalities. Daskon's father is French while his mother is Portuguese while the Prince's mother is Indian and father is Sri Lankan. The Prince is offended and he says they are different people that Daskon is a "pitadashakaraya" - a man who came from another country but he is the Crown Prince of Sri Lanka. Daskon then replies his father came to Sri Lanka after reading a book on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Robert Nox. He points out that he is luckier than his father since he can see the coronation of the new King.

In the Queen palace the Queen,s father asked the Queen why her son doesn't come to see her here the Queen says that the Prince is doing a fasting in memory of the King. The father asks what stupid traditions these were. Ironically,the traditional rituals to make Prince Pundasali the King is being done in the main palace and Daskon watches on. The seven days of fasting passes by and Daskon says he is surprised how a bit of religious meditations could makes a boyish Prince into a wise King. Daskon days he will do ranging to get the religious bliss the Prince is experiencing and the Prince says he was with his father the whole time even though he was not with him when his father died. Daskon asks what the Prince's Royal name would be and then we he in the background traditional chants the name King Nerendra Sinha. To be continued....next Saturday 8.30 pm.

My thoughts: wow I can't wait for next week. Like I said this drama will get better when the Princess and the Sinhalese Yakala Doli arrives:-) You will be surprised to see who the Yakala Doli is:-)

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Daskon is the latest drama by Jackson Anthony. Since it had a interesting start I thought I will do the recaps for it. The background of the story is the forbidden love that was between Daskon the French descendent Sri Lankan Prime Minister and Pramila Devi the Queen of Sri Lanka. It will be a story of love, betrayal,power and royalty. Set in the Kandyan Kingdom (1600 - 1782 AD) one of the strongest in its time as it prevented the Dutch and the British from conquering Sri Lanka for 19 years.

Now to recap what happened on the first episode of this epic love story or may I hint that it is a love triangle? It started on the 6th of September at 8.30 and will be shown every Saturday on Swaranawahini.

The opening scene is of a beautiful waterfall showing us that the setting is in the Kandyan Kingdom. A couple of ladies are singing a song to a handsome youth who is playing around in the water while another is writing in a book while narrating to us and for a moment there I thought he was Shakespeare. It turns out that the handsome young man/teenager is the Crown Prince of Sri Lanka. He shouts out "Ko mage manika..."meaning simply he is looking for his girlfriend who he finds behind one of the bushes and I have to say she looked so pretty with all the flowers all over her. This pretty girl dressed like a flower girl turns out to be a Radala caste (noble class) lady and as we see the crown prince's friend points out the prince will never be able to marry her as it is not the way the kingdom is run as she is a Bandara.
This is kind of a mystery but I think the answers will come next week. Oh my god the prince is really cute when he takes his girlfriend to his arms and carries her of where they could have a romantic time. When the noble lady's servants protest the Crown Prince replys "This is my country I own it" simply saying I am the future king and I can make love to any woman I am in love with.

We also find out that the Crown Prince's boyish ways are not approved by the ministers of court but of course his friend covers up for the noble lady and her servants and the Prince's absence by saying it will take awhile before they get sick of the water. This atmosphere is broken by a messenger from the king and it seems to be really important. The next scene is set it 1707 Kandyan kingdom and we see the Crown Prince and his friend hurrying to the King's palace it does seem like bad news.... to be continued on next Saturday.
My thoughts:
Well I have to say the story seems good. The camera angles and the way the waterfall scene is shown is just superb. Well if you are guessing who the Crown Prince's friend is it is Daskon. This is why the Prince says "Have you seen this many pretty ladies in your mother land?" So as Daskon narrates the Prince is very boyish and it is cute to watch how the servants are so freaked out that the lady's father the minister would find about this love affair but the Price is so cool about it and so in control. I also have to say the Crown Prince Narendra Sinha is played so perfectly by Akila maybe its after the practice he got when he played King Parakamabahu in the high film Sri Parakum. I just wish this story was on weekdays because then we could watch it continuously but well what to do..

It has been seventeen years since we moved to Earth 2. Seventeen years since the destruction of Earth. It all happened too fast. Our mortal friends and pets all died before our very eyes all due to the consequences of the 3rd World War. All due to the nuclear war that our human friends couldn't survive. Only we survived. We are the supernatural the former Guardians of Earth. Well it is not exactly "we" since I was just a baby when it happened but even my great grand father the "Great Black Dragon" couldn't save Earth. Since the Guardians were the only living things on Earth after the nuclear destruction we moved to the new found planet Earth 2. This planet was found by the S.S.R.G(Supernatural Space Research Group)At least this is what our textbooks say at G.H.S ( Guardians High School). It will take another 2 million years till any life form can start on planet Earth. So official the human race is extinct. The only human that survived the war was Frisha the human wife of the Demon King Shar. She too died of old age recently.

O.k time to introduce myself. I am Princess Shanrila of the Dragon race the great grand daughter of the "Great Black Dragon" I come from the royal family of the Dragon race. Our race has the ability to transform into dragons from our human form. The problem is that this talent only given to a few especially in the royal family. Since my great grandfather the "Great Black Dragon" the only dragons from our family are the 3 black dragons who are my cousin brothers who are official Guardians unlike me. A member of the Dragon race would know if they have the ability to transform into a dragon at the age of 18 which is also the age of maturity in the Dragon Kingdom. Since I'm still 17 I still don't know if I have this ability but everyone is hoping I do. I tell you why they are hoping next time but now I have to tell you more about Earth 2 and the Guardians.

The Guardians consists of 5 different races. The first being the Dragon race where its members could transform into dragons. They are known for their temper, strength,and their loyalty. The second race are the Demon race where its members are know for their ability to control Agni (fire) and the ability to read and control the minds of mortal beings. Also I have to admit they are known for their good looks and absolute strength. The third race are the Elves these are the most intelligent beings on Earth 2 you could recognize them from their strong since of humour, fightings skills and pointed ears. The fourth are the Werewolves these have the ability to transform into wolves and the ability to see in the dark. It is said they got this ability from the goddess of the moon(Venus). The last race are the Amazonas these are human hybrids who have magical abilities and they have the ability to see the future.

(To be continued..........)

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