Find Your Way

It was the most wonderful PPD session for all of our batch mates. Though, some of us experienced this outbound training in the Leadership training program conducted by government for the students those who selected for universities, we enjoyed these two days with our university gang more than that 3 weeks. Because this was not like other lectures there were so many outdoor activities organized by navy officers there. The most wonderful thing for me is most of those activities were at the beach side. First we went there they have organized a delicious lunch for us. Then one of the navy officer told us rules and regulations in the camp. After that we were grouped into four groups, each group had 19 members including both male and female. Then we enjoyed with leadership activities with our groups. In there we could identify our weaknesses as individuals and as teams and could improve our soft skills like time management, decision making, leadership skills etc. At the same time we en...

Actually it was a very delicious PPD session with lots of delicious foods at Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management.😋 We learnt lot about table ethics as well as how to dress properly for special events, how to behave in official meetings like occasions etc. As future software engineers we have to have discipline and knowledge about how to behave in a meeting and how to express our views without putting down others and how to brand our self  like important criteria s.  There are some important things which we should not do in the official meetings. Some of them are, Interrupt others when they are talking speak louder put down others ideas Use any non-verbal communication to show your displeasure with what others are saying Not only the official meeting, we also have to participate for the non-official dinner parties and other meetings. In these kind of occasions, we should not talk about gossips and other non-important, in-apposite things like p...

As another PPD session there were two resource persons, HR manager and a software engineer came from industry(hsenid Mobile company) for giving us a brief introduction about latest trends in software engineering field. First, the HR manager conduct the session and she gave us an idea about how the industry does recruitment and what are the skills we should improve before enter to the industry.  After that the software engineer conduct the session. He slowly came to the main topic by giving brief introdu ction about history and many other IT related topics. Some of those, even topics I have never heard before th at..😊 Although he is from a mobile company, he talked about not only the mobile development side, but also other things like web frameworks, networking etc.  Trends, reflect movements with staying power. Trends last longer and affect multiple industries and markets. Therefore, trends are extremely important to software professionals. These are the few tr...

The Art of Living It was a different from other PPD sessions. Usually we are doing some activities and learn things to our lives in this session series. We enjoy that time period because it is different from other lectures, because we people are not like to sitting at the same place around three- four and listening to a lecture.  At that day, first we thought that it also another lecture. Dr. Ajith Collonne conduct the lecture on “Art Of Living”. Actually, we were wrong, it was not like other lectures. It is the most interesting lecture that I heard in this year. He was such an awesome person with capable of conducting lectures in an interesting way. As he said we live in this world because of 3 reasons Happiness Environment Enjoyment Before that lecture, we are not forced to think about that or even I didn’t think about those things. According to him there is an art for everything. If we see the world with keep that in mind we can see those beautiful arts. T...

Beauty of the University of Kelaniya I was very lucky to be a student of mother UOK..😍 As the first green university in Sri Lanka we have a beautiful environment with various kind of trees, flowers and plants.💚🌳🌸🌿 I never expect such a pleasant environment in this congested city, before I came here. Although seasonal changes are imperceptible in the climate of the university, most trees begin to bear flowers in early March giving a campus a touch of spring. “IT gaha, Thalwata” procure a beautiful environment to the faculty of science. Not only the environment but also the university provide many facilities for extracurricular activities. Indoor and outdoor sports facilities are available for students and the staff of the university. These sporting facilities include cricket, football, hockey, netball, tennis, basketball, volleyball court and athletic facilities.  The university has large gymnasium with indoor facilities available for badminton, carrom, ches...

Expert game As every Tuesday morning, we were looking for an interesting PPD activity in the class room. As same as most of other days, madam came and we were formed into 5 groups and asked us to identify 3 people who are specialist👊 in any field. Each group had identified 3 specialist people. Then each specialist had to talk about his/her specialist field like, interesting memories with this field, good things and also drawbacks in that field to their group members within 5 minutes. After this, all the members in each group got some sort of idea about those field.  Our group had specialist people in fields of cooking, cricket and riding motor bikes.💪 Then we were asked to make a one product by combining all 3 specialist fields. Our idea was to make some foods to cricket matches delivering through our motor bike delivery service. It was really nice idea and we enjoyed very much.💗 We could improve Presentation skills Team work Creativity Positive thinki...