A coin for a thought

              This week we had an interesting game called a coin for a thought.First teacher collected a coin from each and every student and put them into a purse.The game was purse must be passed among all students and when teacher taps on the table,the student with the purse must take a coin.And then say a most memorable thing on the year which was written on the coin.
Image result for coins in sri lankaThe session was going awesome. My fellow mates brought out their remarkable memories when they got the chance to present their memories. Those were very funny and some are very interesting.Unfortunately I haven't got the chance in this time. But I enjoyed this session by listening to my friends' stories.
So the last session for first year was ended by this activity and all those sessions gave us valuable lessons and good precious memories. So all these sessions were awesome.


The session was going awesome. My fellow mates brought out their remarkable memories when they got the chance to present their memories. Those were very funny and some are very interesting.Unfortunately I haven't got the chance in this time. But I enjoyed this session by listening to my friends' stories.
So the last session for first year was ended by this activity and all those sessions gave us valuable lessons and good precious memories. So all these sessions were awesome.

Most Inspired Leader

     As the other days this week also we had an interesting session and not a game which is about the leadership qualities.Summery of that session was we have to be leaders of ourselves.The leader that inspired me most is Steve jobs the founder of the Apple company.

        He was known for being demanding and hard working, yet possessing a certain Zen and simplicity. While many of us will never be able to mimic the unique characteristics that made Steve Jmobs such an inspirational leader, there are a number of lessons that any individual can learn from his unique leadership style.
      Confidence

         While most individuals know that it is important to have a certain amount of confidence in a leadership position, Steve Jobs showcased just how important this was with his own efforts with his products. If there was one thing that Steve Jobs had it was confidence and it is something that gave his team members the self-assurance they needed to break barriers and create some of the most innovative pieces of technology in our world today.

       Adaptable 
While Steve Jobs’ adaptabilit
y is a more subtle quality than his confidence, his ability to be adaptable is something that Jobs used to his advantage in multiple situations. When Jobs was ousted from Apple when he was 30 years old for his lack of empathy and leadership skills, the innovator spent the next 12 years adapting his skills and his unique style of leadership to better fit the needs of the company. He was known by many for being too focused on work to care about others’ feelings which was one of the reasons Apple cut ties with him in the first place, but he adapted, came back and went on to pioneer some of Apple’s greatest creations ever.
     Vision
     Above all things, Steve Jobs had vision and this creative vision challenged his employees and drove them to act with vision as well. He was always thinking of the future and always had a clear idea of what he wanted to move towards. This vision helped Jobs pull his team together and helped them work towards a common goal whenever he had a new idea for the future of Apple.

Culture

                     In last week also we had an interesting game.Actually it is not a game,it is kind a act.The teacher asked us to think as we are in an island which we have a own language which is differ than existing languages and we have an own culture and as well as a dance.And also we have our own theme song as well .So we thought of language that we will speak ,and the name of our island was "hooba lanthaya".  And the language was huba huba language.

After that teacher asked us to act it in front of the class .So went to front and started to speak in huba huba language.That went well and we started to sing in that language as well . That was really an interested thing.We had a unique dancing way as well .But not the culture.So we had'n had a strategy for act our unique cultural activity.So we failed at that point.

My future goals for next ten years

               In last week we were asked to write about our future career goals for next ten years like below.And we had to present it into our class.



So one by one presented their presentation .So if we consider about my future career goals I'm planning to continue my studies in order to get a phd .In my personal attitude is to have a proper house and a car in ten years time.And the same time I want to open a saving bank account and start saving for the future use.

If we consider about my career goals ,I want to do a proper job and I want to climb up the career title ladder .So I can earn much more.And personally I want to be healthy and I want to look after my family.That was my goals to be achieved. 

When we hear others future goals we heard some interesting speech.So he took teacher's complete attention as well.He said that he want to get married and live a happy life before even get the degree. And teacher questioned how are going to live happy life if you don't have money or a proper job.

And she explained before getting married we have to achieve some goals.Which is we have to have a proper job with a good salary and so on.So the presentation ended with a teacher's brief description.

Paper tower

                   Today I’m going to talk about another enjoyable game which we played in last week.It's name was paper tower.We were divided to three groups and given six papers with tapes.We were instructed to create a tower.The tallest and the most steadiest tower will be the best tower. How ever we had only thirty minutes and happily we could manage the time.


First we planed about our tower. We had so many different ideas and finally we decided to a way to create our tower. That was a really good one. We decided to create a huge foot of the tower. And that makes the tower steady very much. We cut a paper into two and scroll it like a stick. After that as I mentioned early we needed a big foot, so we used four legs in a pyramid and have achieved that target. For gain strong of the feet we used some holder legs as well .After that we only had four papers and like early we scroll them as well and pasted them as a long stick using a sellotape.

On the top of our tower we pasted a flag of our group as well.When the time came we place our tower in the front with the rest of tower which others made. And we never knew what teacher is going to do to towers inoder to find the best tower.At first we were very sad ,because there were a tower which were taller than our tower.Then teacher said that she was going to blow wind to the tower and she did.

First tower she tested was failed ,because it fell down at the first blow of wind.And there was a cheated group as well .They pasted their tower to the floor using sellotape.They were failed as well .
Since we had a big feet of our tower it didn't fall down because of the wind.So the only tower left without falling was our tower.So we won the game.
We learn how to work as a team and learnt to respect every one the team and their ideas.

Standing on a paper

          The teacher entered to class with few papers and we knew this is also a for an interesting game.And then teacher gave a brief description about the game that we about to play.As every game this game also have some rules.So the first one is we cannot break the paper.Then she said that after first round she say what to do next.

So the first round started and Our team hadn't had a strategy how to stand on that little paper.Because all teams had eight members in their team.So the game began. Everyone stand in a way that they like.So in result of that we ended up tearing the paper into few pieces.So we were out on the first round.

There were three teams left.And teacher announced the next rule to the next round.Which was to fold that paper into two whole team should stand that paper without touching the floor. On that round one team was out from the game.

Rest two teams had to fold the paper again to two and stand on it.So they decided that they all cannot stand on that paper and they tried to find a solution for that .For a solution the have decided to climb two members in others shoulders.So out of two teams one team succeeded it.Because they were stable when other team wasn't. So they were the winners of that game.

Lava river

Another day we were asked to play a game called lava river.And it was awesome game. There were four teams in competition.Our task was to cross a lava river using given stones.As any game this game also has several rules.They are each and every stone needs human touch otherwise the team will lose that stones and if you touch the ground it means you have step on the lava.So that team has lose the one attempt and have to restart crossing the lava river.And hardest thing was each and every team has four paper sheets as stones and team consist of eight members.

We had a strategy to cross the river with given four stones.First one put the stone and step on the stone.And like that eight of them manage to stand on three stones and hand over the last stone to the front gamer. So like that we manage to cross the river within eleven minutes.Every  other team spend more time than us.But at the end we were misdirected by our other team mates and finally we lost two of our stones at the end of the river.But how ever we manege to cross the river.But we had to take two attempt as well.There was a team who completed the task in their first attempt and they spent sixteen minutes for that.How ever they were the winning team.

There was a team who had lost their two of stones at the beginning and they said there was no way that they win that task.But the point was they didn't really know about the rules of the game.That was the main reason to lose.There was a rule that if you step on the lava then you have to restart the game you will get all of stones which is all four stones.If they stepped on the lava they may have a chance on winning.But they didn't know about the rule.And from that we learnt to study the rules and every thing before we start any task.

That was really a great game and we learnt a lot things such as how to work as a team.Because in future we all have to work in teams or with different people.

Bata puzzle

                   Another day our teacher asked us to do something,which is she divide us into 5 groups and gave us a nice picture.Then she ask us to cut into ninety five pieces .Some teams have pass that level and cut 125 pieces .Since the every team should get the equal amount of pieces we also had to cut it to 125 pieces.We cut different shapes and different sizes. Because we didn't know what is about to happen. Now the pieces are already shuffled. Teacher got some of our pieces and shuffled them with others pieces and did the same to the other teams as well.The task was to find our missing pieces and rearrange it.
Then teacher ask us to rearrange it as a whole picture in given time of one hour.After that we were in a hurry to rearrange it .All the team members participated as one.That helped a lot.

No one succeeded to complete the given task within given time.So the time of the class also ran out.Because of that teacher asked us to number the pieces that we have arrange up to now in order to start completing the task where we stop in next class. So we numbered them and unfortunately we only arranged only 32 pieces out of 125 pieces.  

Next day we came and got our pieces and it took around thirty minutes to rearrange the pieces that we numbered.Next day we only had one and half hours.So we tried do our best to complete it. 

Finally time ran out.The teacher ask us to bring the remain pieces of picture and she got a count of all teams because no team finished the task.So the team who has the less count of remaining pieces is the winning team.

So we didn't win the game. One team failed because the all pieces are arranged but there were misplaced pieces.We failed game because we didn't have enough patient. 

Egg cover and match sticks

There is an interesting game called egg cover.And we were divided into five groups and given five papers and an egg. After that we didn't know what to do. The teacher told us to create something to protect the given egg with given papers. So we had a lot of ideas to protect the egg. One is to create a parachute. The second one was to create a box and put that egg to it and have piece of paper inside the box as well.We consider both of their ideas and we came to an conclusion to combine both ideas.
From that we had a proper strategy. Our group had five members and they worked as one to achieve our goal within given time period.

So finally we have completed the egg cover and the we place it on a table.And we thought that was the end of that game.But it wasn't. The teacher ask one student to come forward and throw the eggs one by one to a same high. And he did.One out of five groups has lost the game.Because the egg cover that they made didn't protect the egg. The egg was broken.After that we were asked to present what went wrong and what are the strengths.


Every group said what they did and they explain what went wrong.By the way our egg was protected. The  games main idea was to build our contribution with a group and respect each and every ideas of team mates. Finally it thought us how to achieve a goal with a team.

After that teacher gave us some riddles using match sticks,and one of student succeeded to find the answers for the riddles.

Emerging Technology Trends

          Yesterday was vrey different from other days.Very interesting session was held by Mr. Srinath Perera who is the vp researcher in WSO2 on Emerging Technology Trends. Thanks to GNCT lecturer Mrs. Sarasi Senadheera we gained a lot of knowledge which we need to have.

            If you want kaow about something then first you you need to know about the past or the history of that thing.So hear, this is the history of treands.

            There are two main trends which are current trends and emerging trends.Let’s talk about current trends.

•      API -  Expose service behind organization
•   Analysts amd AI - Enable computer based data driven divisions 
• Conversational Bots - idea that bot makes a much natural interface for human

    Now we consider on emerging trend.

• Sharing Economy - Extending per use idea from cloud to everyday life.
• AR/VR - Immersive virtual environments.
• Quantum Computing - Use the strange ability of subatomic particles to exist in more than one state at any time solve search problems faster.

 So those are the things we gained form that session which we never knew.So basically the session was great.

Expert Game

                    Expert game was the most interesting game I played in the class.This game was a two days game.And funny thing was we never knew about that until the end of the day.That game was about team members' talents and creating a good product form each and every one.
       
                   In our team our members can play music instruments.So we had an idea to conduct a class or create a concert. Finally we decided to conduct  classes for students for grade eleven. Since we don't have a place to conduct classes we decide to go to the students' houses and do classes for a lower amount of money.

                  First day we have to present our product proposal. Our team leader Mr. Nabeel presented our project proposal.After that we heard that we have to do a little presentation about our product on next day. It went well.Each and every one of the team speak and express their ideas and have a brief idea about our talents.And how we are going use for good.

Round Robin Game

             Round robin game  is also a very interesting game which we participated last week.As every game,this game also has rules.One of the best rule is we have to close our eyes in whole time unless you are writing on the board.This game is a building a story.Funny thing about this game is one student must write only one word in one round.The students who are not writing on the board should keep their eyes closed.We don't the last written word or the sentence until we go to the board.

We should think quickly and have to decide a word which can continue the sentence as well as the story.In our class we were divided into three groups and played the game.It contained three rounds which provide a chance to write three different words in three different rounds.Basically we all participated in the game and we really enjoyed.

There were so many mistakes in those sentences and marks were deducted as well.I think it's a normal thing to make mistakes in this game .Because we have to decide a word in a short period of time.And specially there was a very talented policeman who was looking for the cheaters and if they were caught marks were reduced from their team marks.

 Finally the marks were given to us and i can't believe that my team was the winners.

Bingo game

      In our university we have a lecture called gnct which is a very helpful subject for our carreer.In that subject we normally do so many games.Now I’m going to talk about one of them.
            That game is named as bingo game.That game is all about collecting information about our friends.Well we got to know about a lot of things about our frinds which we we never even think of. As every game, this game also has a set of rules.One of rules is we should speak in English which helps to improve our speaking skills and the English language.

As you can see above paper was given to us and we were told to gather information from our friends.We had go and ask some questions.For examp we had to ask who’s vegetarian.If we find someone vegetarian we have to write his name below the vegetarian word.Just like that we have to fill them all.The first one who fill them all have to say bingo.And then the best part which is checking whether he completed it correctly or not.If he fill them correctly he is the winner.

                                     We really enjoyed the game.

My friend

           When we are talking about a friend, special one comes to my mind And his name is Dilan Senevirathna. We are friends for more than ten years.First I met him at school and our school was St.Thomas Collage Kandy.But now he is studing at university of Colombo.I wasn’t good at playing football but his favorite game is that.Therefore he was the best player and the team capton in or school.
             He has two sisters and ont of them is a under graduate in university of Kelaniya.Younger sister is still studing advance level.As the sisters,my frind did physical science for the advance level.Now he is studing information system at Ucsc.

           As you can see he is crazy a as hell.He is really good at studing and loitering.When he was in grade 12 he had a huge crush on a cute girl who was is in grade nine.Thanks to that girl I also didn’t go to some classes.To be honest that is not only because of my friend,I also had a crush on a girl who is the best friend of my friend’s crush and that’s another story.

  

    I have never seen more generous person than my friend.One day in few years back he was kind enough to gave up on his lunch for a beggar.As I said we never liked the same sports but we have played computer games very much.We had so many sleepless nights not for the studing but for gaming.Now we don’t meet often but yet he is my best friend.

University of Kelaniya

University of Kelaniya is one of the greatest university in Sri Lanka. When we are talking about a university then we have to  talk about not only education but everything. A university creates a man who obtains good soft skills and educational qualifications. So the University of Kelaniya is the same. It provides a good education , a good place to learn and teach , an opportunity to play a lot of sports and the same time it provides great hostel facilities to students who live in remote areas.

Ven. Welamitiyawe Dharmakirthi Sri Kusala Dhamma Thero is the present chancellor and the vice chancellor is Prof. Semasinghe Dissanayake. 




This is the Faculty of Science. 

Not only faculty of science there are seven faculties. Such as,   

• Commerce & Management
• Computing &Technology
• Graduate Studies
• Humanities
• Medicine
• Science
• Social Sciences

 IF this university contains only students then that is not a university.University of Kelaniya contains 600 academic members and 650 non-acedemic members for now.



This photo on right side shows that the university is still growing.This university got birth on 1987 as Vidyalankara Privena for Buddhist monks.The Vidyalankara Privena became the Vidyalankara University in 1959,later the Vidyalankara campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972 and ultimately,the University of Kelaniya in 1978. 

As you can see there are huge play grounds.

      

                                                                                                   

This pandol meant the bond between first year students and second year students.This is how they welcome first year students.

 Vison

To become a centre of excellence in creation and dissemination of knowledge for sustainable development.

Mission

To nurture intellectual citizens through creativity and innovation, who contribute to the national development.