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M a Naval Officer and I'm Proud Of Wednesday 19th January, 2011 3 e reproduce today, extracts from a consequence. Prime TV’s Round Table Celeb Yoshitha: Yes. This happened a long WChat hosted by Kumar de Silva, time ago. We were in Tangalle, and I was featuring Sub Lieutenant Yoshitha about 3. This was in 1989. There were Rajapaksa. This programme was telecast problems in the country then and we had last Monday, 10th January 2011. to face it. Kumar: When you go out, your guards Kumar: Good evening friends and a are always there, looking after you, always warm welcome to this week’s edition on with you. There is no privacy.How do you Prime TV Round Table Celeb Chat. My handle security? guest today is a young man. A very simple, Yoshitha: We have been provided with unassuming very shy young man, despite security from the government. And the fact that he comes from Sri Lanka’s although I do not like, I have no choice but first family.Today is also his maiden to live with it. appearance on local television. Please wel- Kumar: I shouldn’t be asking this come Yoshitha Rajapaksa. question but are there times that you Prime TV plays a photo montage intro- sneak out without informing security? ducing Yoshitha Rajapaksa. Yoshitha: (smiles in acknowledgment) Kumar: Good evening Yoshitha, wel- we try. come to our show Kumar: (chuckles) Yoshitha where are Yoshitha: Thank you for having me.. you most comfortable in staying? Colombo Kumar: What are your best memories or Hambantota? of your childhood? Yoshitha: Both. We went to pre-school Yoshitha: There are few good as well in Hambantota. Every school holiday we as bad memories.. would go to Tangalle and spend the whole Kumar: The good ones first please.. month with friends and family.We went to Yoshitha: We had an auto gear school – St. Thomas’ College in Colombo Yamaha bike when I was about 10 – 11. We so this is also home. used to ride it in our garden after school - Kumar: Do you miss the freedom you Kumar: In your garden? had when your father was only a minis- Yoshitha: Yes in the garden. We were ter? not allowed to out of the house… (smiles) Yoshitha: Yes. Back then no one recog- So we all got astride the bike and drove nized us. But now it’s a different story. world without laddu and icecream? Yoshitha: (bashful and surprised smile again) I can survive.. but it’ll be hard because I have a huge sweet tooth. ‘I’m a naval officer and Kumar: Your two passions in sports I know are Rugger and pistol shooting. Tell us something about them. Yoshitha: I didn’t start with Rugby.I was a Hockey player. I captained under 13 I’m proud of it’ Hockey and totally changed my sport to Rugger. Kumar: It’s recorded at STC Mount as around the garden on this rainy day.The Kumar: When you go out have there the first instance where all 3 brothers bike skided and we fell off. My younger been times when people have been nasty played together. Tell us something about brother escaped without a scratch . Elder to you because you are from the first fami- this brother had some minor bruises and I got ly. Yoshitha: This is exactly why I totally under the bike and suffered with a Yoshitha: Not directly.But there changed over to Rugger. We feel like home. fractured arm and burns all over and got might be people who do that behind my In 2005 all 3 of us played in the first 15. scolded. (smiles in reminiscence) back Even thought I captained in 2006, 2005 was Kumar: Who is the stricter one, your Kumar: How do you handle slander? the best year where I could play with my father or your mother? Yoshitha: The best way is to ignore brothers. I had the feeling that there was Yoshitha: Both are strict when they and move forward. If you do not react in always a backup for me. (Smiles) have to be strict but I’ll give the first place anger they will realize that they fail in Kumar: Being in the rugby field play- to my mother. their task. I just keep a cool head and Kumar: Were you the good one or silent. ing the game, and seeing your parents up there watching you, what do you feel? were you the naughty one? Kumar: Tell me about your MA from Another 2 classmates joined the Army. Yoshitha: It’s a huge morale boost to Yoshitha: I think I could be ranked in the Ukraine University And one went to the Air force. At that time see your parents watching you play.It the middle with being good and bad both. Yoshitha: Yes. I finished it about 4 all of us had one mission – to join the Sri bothered us during war time. I used to tell (chuckles) months ago. I did Defense Management Lankan forces, to serve the country.It was my father.. “Thaththi, no need to come Kumar: Hey you are playing safe and Defense Strategies in tactical level. I after about 26 years that a bunch of because we might lose this match” but he (smiles) tell us about your brothers Namal faced a problem in not being able to speak Thomians joined the Forces together. would come. He would stay in a corner and Rohitha. Ukrainian. I had to resort to sign lan- Kumar: Has work been easy for you? without anyone noticing and watch the Yoshitha: Namal is more serious in guage. Given the fact that you are you? character. He is responsible caring and Kumar: Did it work? Yoshitha: Not at all. Because in the match. plays the role of second father. My Yoshitha: It works anywhere in the forces, it doesn’t matter of you are the Kumar: How do you see Prime TV’s younger brother is more playful, fun lov- world Kumar…(chuckles) I learnt a bit of Army Commander’s son, the President’s mission in making your father’s dream of ing and cool. Russian and during the final months I was son or a laborer’s son. All of us are the taking English to the masses a reality? Kumar: As a family do same. It’s all about discipline. If you are Yoshitha: It’s a very good initiative. you get together, laugh, assigned with a task, you have to achieve English opens doors to the world. Prime talk and discuss life and it. I don’t have any advantage in the Navy TV’s mission will help take English to the discuss issues at home? because I am my father’s son. people who do not speak the language. Yoshitha: Yes of Kumar: Give me reasons as to why This channel should be shown across the course. As a normal Sri any young man would join the forces. length and breadth of the country so more Lankan family, we have Yoshitha: When I was very small. A Yoshitha: First of all you have to have people from outside of Colombo could be our own fun-time, we bug long time ago. Since then I was aiming for a country to live in… benefitted. I come from Down south. So I each other, crack jokes… this. Kumar: Which we have now.. know how difficult it is for those people to Kumar: Who bugs Kumar: Why the navy? Why not the Yoshitha: Yes. And the best thing you come forward and speak to someone in whom most? Who is the Army or the Air Force? could do in your life time is to serve your English. There are people in rural areas victim? Yoshitha: Because Navy is the best country.As a Sri Lankan you will have who can write and read English very well Yoshitha: We take force (smiles) My grandfather was also a your personal pride that you served your but they cannot speak because they do not turns. (smiles) sometimes Naval officer during the Ceylon Navy peri- motherland. have a resource to listen to and watch. I me, my mother and very od. Unfortunately I have never met him. Kumar: Yoshitha if I tell you right know a lot of people like that. rarely even my father.. But that could’ve influenced me. I still now, That there is a spider running up Kumar: A question a lot of people who Kumar: With a terribly busy father able to have a conversation in Russian. have his sword and his cap with me. My your leg, what would you do? (hides a know you and don’t know you have…when like your father, what role does your moth- Kumar: So this Masters Degrees grandmother and my mother have told me smile) are you going to enter politics. er play in the lives of her three sons? would’ve helped you in your naval career stories about his naval life. I loved to wear Yoshitha: (revolted) I might jump! Yoshitha: Never. Yoshitha: My mother looks in to our undoubtedly? uniform and march when I was small. It (laughs) Kumar: Why never? studies, sports, what’s happening in the Yoshitha: Definitely.That is why Sri was in me all along. When I was doing my Kumar: what about dogs? Yoshitha: I haven’t thought about poli- house… she is the one who is behind us Lanka Navy sent me there to study and A/Ls, most of my class mates were of the Yoshitha: Chichi (my younger broth- tics and I don’t think I ever will.
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