Sri Lankan Twitter Hashtag Memories – #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka
TweetupSL, the biggest social media activity in Sri Lanka is about to take place for the fourth consecutive time on 7th of December at MCA grounds. To mark this event, diGIT and the rest of the Tweeps are digging up their tweets to share the moments they had on Twitter with #TweetUpSLBook and Sri Lankan hashtags. So here am I, in a quest to pen down another article on Sri Lankan Twitter Hashtag memories, unearthed #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka which ruled the timeline on August 10, this year.
Who doesn’t dream? Well Poorna (@PoornaCW) dreamt too. He dreamt of becoming the President of Sri Lanka.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka Free WiFi EVERYWHERE ^_^
— Poorna Chathura (@PoornaCW) August 10, 2013
Isn’t it sweet when President is giving free Wi-Fi to everyone?
Well this is just the beginning of a series of creative tweets where Tweeps tweeted their thoughts on it. Following tweets are some of the best considered by the writer.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka I'll appoint @GayanMW as The Nation's social media coordinator and English language proficiency Instructor.
— Poorna Chathura (@PoornaCW) August 10, 2013
I will never ever going to watch a Cricket Match #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka
— Shashika Atapattu (@shashika24) August 10, 2013
Well Shashika at least trying to remove the bad omen of Sri Lankan cricket team by not watching cricket matches any more, Way to go Shashika.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka Ex-Alien ගීතය ලංකාවේ ජාතික ගීය කරනවා
— Sahan Vindhika (@Chooty_kuku) August 10, 2013
Popularity of Ex-Alien song eh?
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka I am going to teach journalists the difference between army and STF. #lka
— W.G.T.Fernando (@gihangamos) August 10, 2013
Gihan in a sarcastic manner pointing out the mistakes that journalists sometimes make when tense situations arose in the streets with STF personnel.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka Galle would have two harbors.
— Gayan Wijewickrama (@GayanMW) August 10, 2013
Gayan wants another harbor in Galle because it is too mainstream to have just ‘one’ harbor.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka කුරුණෑගල වරායක් හදනවා
— Isuru Hettiarachchi (@isuru71) August 10, 2013
Isuru wanted to build a harbor in Kurunegala, I wonder how the Sri Lankan map would look afterwards though.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka I would make Sarath Fonseka a General(retired) again & re-award every medal he deserves as a war veteran.
— Mahesh De Silva (@CharterKubiya) August 10, 2013
Mahesh in a very diplomatic manner highlighted the importance that General Fonseka played in fighting and winning the war.
Remove Chemistry from A/L maths sylabus #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka
— Sachitha Weerakkody (@Sachitha1994) August 10, 2013
Sachitha, a recent A/L student letting out his frustration at Chemistry subject.
And there was some tweets on food and beverage too.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka Car, Mobile Phones, Electronics සඳහා වන බදු ඉවත් කරනවා. අම්මපා!
— Nimila Hiranya (@nHiRanZ) August 10, 2013
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka "බත් බැරිනම් මන්චි කොමේ කාපන්"
— Anjula Ranasinghe (@AnjulaYR) August 10, 2013
වතුර බොන්න බැරිනම් වයින් බීපල්ලා #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka
— Poorna Chathura (@PoornaCW) August 10, 2013
With food and beverages we also saw Hiran hinting at the massive stomachs that is prominent among Sri Lankan ministers 
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka ඇමතිලට දිනකට පැය 5ක් Gym අනිවාර්ය කරනවා!
— Nimila Hiranya (@nHiRanZ) August 10, 2013
And we had a comic-con fan too.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka Next Comic-Con is going to be in Sri Lanka.
— Shehan Wisumperuma (@lakshidoc) August 10, 2013
This was the scary part, Dodan threatened to deport everyone who used this hash tag 
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#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka I will hunt down and deport everyone who used the hashtag #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka.
— Isuru Dodangoda (@dodan123) August 10, 2013
Some bus-song fans too joined in.
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka I will punish people who make bus songs.
— ♥ (@Shani_Broad8) August 10, 2013
Ashen wants to send a Sri Lankan astronaut to moon. A good ambition Ashen!
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka ශ්රී ලාංකිකයෙක් හඳට යවමි.
— Ashen M. (@Ashenr2) August 10, 2013
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka Ill extend the school vacation for 6 months twice a year.
— Shehan Wisumperuma (@lakshidoc) August 10, 2013
Doesn’t every kid love this?
#IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka 'Ya, Depineetely ' would be the national 'Affirmative'.
— Gayan Wijewickrama (@GayanMW) August 10, 2013
Ya. Depinitely!
RT @RajapaksaNamal #IfIBecomeThePresidentOfSriLanka I would appoint my brothers into ministerial positions.
— W.G.T.Fernando (@gihangamos) August 10, 2013
Well, Gihan had his own ulterior motives and created this fake tweet.
This is the third article of our prequel to #TweetupSL4. You can find our first article covering all the interesting tweets that were tweeted under #TweepsAsCabinetMinisters here and the second article on #SriLankaInThe90s here