Gaining Something beyond What you have

Since this was the last ppd session for the semester, We had kind of a different session, It was actually a guest lecture which was done by Dr.Ajith Colonne. Dr. Don Ajith Rohana Colonne is a student of Ananda College (Colombo), Thurstan College (Colombo) and Ananda Sastralaya (Kotte) in Sri Lanka. From 1974 to 1975, he attended the Loveland High School in Colorado, USA under the American Field Service (AFS) Cultural Exchange Scholarship Programme and graduated from there. Upon his return to Sri Lanka in 1975, he entered the University of Colombo and got a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1979. Subsequently, he obtained the Master of Business Administration Degree from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura in 1994 and the Master of Arts in Economics Degree from the University of Colombo in 1996. In 2014 he obtained the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the International University of America.He's currently holding many ...

University of Kelaniya, My University has become one of the top five Universities in Sri lanka at the time. And it has grabbed the 4th position overall in the top list of the state Universities in Sri Lanka. It has become a mother to gives higher education to her children in different different areas like Humanities, Medicine, Science, Social Sciences, Commerce & Management, Computing & Technology and this mother commits and contribute alot for the development of the country. When I first entered into the University on my veryyy first day for student registration I this giant board infront on the University.  Every time i see this big board i feels like this board gives an enormous look to the University premises. As u you enter into the University you see this first, The statue of Lord Buddha and whenever you see this it gives us some kind of a metal relief and a relax eventhough I'm a catholic student. And this statue in the middle of the Universi...

You all must be wondering why i say it's a field visit. So everyone has a dream to visit some places they love to go during their life. So mine is kind of different, Yes I too have a dream trip to visit the company Nissan in Japan and have a look how it's made Nissan GT-R in their production plants. The Nissan GT-R is a 2-door high performance car produced by Nissan unveiled in 2007. It is the successor to the Nissan Skyline GT-R although no longer part of the Skyline range itself, It's independent now and it has come a long journey from 2007 to 2017 introducing their newest Nissan GT-R R36 model with all the functionalities a sports car should have and it's able to compete with Lamborghinis even without a struggle. It's stunning body design makes everyone attractive. GT-R is stands for Gran Turismo Race which is a Japanese name and Australian motoring publication Wheels has given a nickname to the GT-R as "Godzilla" which itself tells us how p...

        Last Tuesday i was unable to attend for the PPD session as i had to join with an induction programme on that day. This induction programme was for a project called 'Wasser 4.0' which we are planing to work on it form 17th Monday, 2017.This is a project we are doing with some foreign people who are Undergraduates like us from their Universities in China And Mexico and this project is mainly based on water conservation. With our Sri Lankan team and our foreign students we are mainly planning to do some kind of awareness programmes about the above mentioned matter with specially school children and of course there are many fun activities included in this project. At the very beginning we just gave an brief idea about our counrty to them and told some guidelines for them inorder to make their lives safer during the period they live in here Sri Lanka. This was done by me and it was my first experience infront of an Foreign audience. ...

This was kind of a different new experience to us since two activities went at the same time. Barter puzzle was the main activity and meanwhile we had to explain about our projects in front of the class. At the very beginning we were divided into 4 groups and had to appoint a leader to our group. Our group leader was Pasan. Madam asked our Team leader to come with a group member to infront. And then she gave  A3 size pictures to each group and she asked them to make it into separate pieces to start the Barter puzzle activity. And after all they came back to the group with a different pieces of a picture which has done by another group. At the very first to be honest we were like "No way, how can we make this again." And to the worst Madam has mixed some of our pieces with other groups and we were asked to get those pieces which belongs to us some how by negotiating with them. We launched the initial step, we just had a good look on each and every piece and star...

Activity Name: Taking the Helium stick to the ground Things we used:  PVC pipe Brief explanation: This was the first day that we attended to a PPD session according to the timetable. Dr.Upamali and other staff members brought some poles to the classroom. Therefore we were wondering, because we were expecting a normal lecture which is using a graphical presentation. We were grouped and there are about 10 members in a group. This game was introduced as ‘Helium stick’. We had to pull that stick down by using only thumb .First we thought that it’s a easy task. But it wasn’t a simple task. We had to hold the stick by using our thumbs, and bring that down. Our major problem was miscommunication. It was a hard task to explain what to do as a team to bring that stick down. Finally we all agreed to bring stick down after counting to 3.At the beginning that wasn’t successful too. But gradually we were managed to bring that stick down. We learned that working ...

A word about PPD This is not yet another lecture which we sit inside a lecture hall and listening to what lecturer says. It is a course module included in our Degree program which helps us to develop our Personality, Self Confidence, how to over come with stage fear, Public Speaking, Decision making, teaches us Team spirit and so on. Simply this course module has established to makes us a fulfilled person with everything you need as a Professional in this society. They conduct various kind of sessions to accomplish above mentioned things and since they are not just ordinary sessions we do in university, every  single session makes us interesting since it's always an new experience for us. Nowadays most of the students get failed in their interviews since they have no confident to face it properly, and lack of communication skills, don't know how to talk with the interviewers with respect and politeness and lot more weaknesses. But we as undergraduates are fort...