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.