Election campaigns!

As a hardcore UNP supporter many of us really want a change in the government of this country! Thus we are supporting the opposition candidate general sarath fonseka! My friends and I have planned on having a election victory dansala, (which is an occasion where you give away free food for the joy of it). No matter who wins we are planning on giving away one to spread awareness and the joy among the Sri Lankans!

Photography

Having continued photography for the second year i was able to come up with some pretty amazing photos. I found that my pin-hole camera had a light leak in it and did not act as a complete black body. with the help Mr. Lockwood I found where the light leak was and i used a hood to cover it. This helped minimise the light leak and I got some great photos. Some which ccan even be used for my IB visual arts exhibition.

I took pictures which reflect my visual arts theme, culture and these will be exhibited.

There will be a few photos which I will upload on this. Over all it has been a great month with photography. I gained more knowledge last wek in using Photoshop in editing my photos.

Photogaraphy 2009/2010

Having done model united nations last year i decided to do photography. Since this would entitle me to a lot more creativity which i will benifit because am art student.

Saisa swimming 2009/2010

Saisa swimming 2009/2010 was the last opportunity we seniors got to show our talents and skills in an international community. The training period went for 6 weeks which included a local swim tournament on every saturday, which helped us over come our tournament fear and nervousness.

As a senior member of the swim team many of us shared a common goal, that was to break our PB's (personal best). We weren't the strongest team which participated but we weren't the weakest either.

Having trained for 6 intence weeks, the day of departure finally came. We were going to Bombay, to participate in the SAISA swim tournament 2009.

In one word i can sumerise the yournament, it was jusr "amazing" we were able to shatter our personal bests, and over all we came in 4th place which i think is a very good achievment when looking back at the team we travelled with. There weren't many swimmers who came with it the top 3, but most of us got in to the finals.

I broke my personal best by 28 mili seconds in my 50m free style, and 1.2 seconds on my 100m free style and moreover 1.23seconds on my 100m breastroke.

In the two relays (400m freestyle) and (200m IM) the OSC team came in th and 3rd respectively.

One thing we wanted to win was the sportsman ship award, we cheered our throughts out for all the teams that took part and well at the end of the day its us who walked away with the sportsman ship award.

All in all my last SAISA was an amazing adventure, which was nothing but fun fun and comepetition.

War victory dansala!

Amazed by the great patriotic victory on the 19th of May 2009, we planned to give out a dasala. Dansala is where we collect money and make food and give it to passer by's....

We made 40 leters of mixed fruit nectar.... It was a bomb! And since it was directly after the vesak dansala there was a good responce to it....

Vesak Dansala

A dansala is an opportunity we get to provide food/drinks to people who go about the city to see the beautiful vesak sights. Inorder to do this we had to collect money by visiting people and telling them about our plan. We collected 11000 rupees, which was more than enough. This is the third time my friends and are organizing such event. We are giving chickpeas and nectar, which i think is a pretty awkward combintaion but yes!

We created a banner which looks pretty cool.... Photos will be uploaded soonish!

Hoping to have a blast during vesak (eventhough we are spposed to observe sil! )

One of my main goals in this is for non Sri Lankans to join me with this.

The big day came finally! I was amazed by the quick servings we did! I managed to squeez some of my friends from their busy schedules.... Ruwinda Gehan and Seong and Umeshan made it, it was nice to see unity in diversity ih a vesak dansala! The goods went like hot cakes, and we were quite happy.....

Photography

After MUN i had to select an elective. I selected photography as an elective. They were in the process of developing a Pin hole camera. The camera is simple but creative. My pin hole camera was not bad as a starter. The photos i took with it were upto a particular standard, and Mr. Lokwood was impressed with my pinhole photography. The process is simple, you take a tin and cover its inner side with black paper and make a hole on the outer side. This will allow the light to come in dirent on to the photography paper.