Friendship

                                                                              Friendship is one of the most precious gifts of life. A person who has true friends in life is lucky enough Friendship makes life thrilling. It makes life as pleasant experience. Friendship is indeed, an asset in life. It can lead us to success or to doom. It all depends on how we choose our friends. True friendship is a feeling of love, sharing and caring. It is a feeling that someone understands and appreciates you as you are It gives a feeling that you are ‘wanted’ and that you are ‘someone’ and not a faceless being in the crowd. A true friend stands by you through thick and thin. True friendship knows no boundaries anything like demarcations of caste, creed, race and sex.

                                      Friendship is both good and necessary. People cannot live all alone. Man is a social being. He needs someone to share his joys and sorrows. Generally, it is only the people of the same age, character and background, mentality, etc., who can understand him and understand his problems. Friends are needed for support and for sharing. Friendship is an elixir which is essential for a happy life.

                                  We should need to select our friends very carefully. We have to remember the maxim “All that glitters is not gold”. In the same manner, we must not be moved by apparent show of friendship. Many remain with us in the guise of good friends and lead us to the wrong path. Today, many youngsters have become social nuisance mainly due to wrong company and bad friends.

                                       We spent much of our time with them. Their mental outlook, behaviour, attitudes affect us too. Therefore, we have to choose our friends very carefully. We have to distinguish between fair-weather friends and true friends. True friends remain with us through thick and thin while fair-weather friends are found only during sunny days.Lasting friendship is indeed, a blessing. Good friends are great pillars of life. They help us to stand tall and erect in life. Friendship can make or break us. It can lead to good careers and proper living. It does not matter how often you meet your friends, but how much you care and feel for another in good times as well as in bad times. True friendship is a great thing in life

LIFE

                                                                                       As life goes on, things get more complicated. You are no longer a child, but an adult who faces reality. To you, real life is nothing like fairy tales which we can seen in the movie or some other fairy tales. Problems are not being easily solved and confusions are everywhere. But if there a problem, sure there will be a solution. There is never a long period of rest and peace. You should always be aware of everything preventing you to live an easy life. Moments of sadness and misery are much more frequent than those of happiness, filling your head with indescribable madness. Life is not only black and white, but is different shades of grey. No one is really right or wrong. Every person you trust may suddenly be gone. Now you wonder if every choice you make in life is a bet.

                             What you can only do is to trust your instincts and prepare for the worst. 
Despite the dark side, life can be full of excitement and surprises. As long as it is interesting and fulfilling, this world is no longer cruel and cold. Warmth and smiles still exist. Although there can be many bad times, never give up for a moment until your last breath. As there is a saying that every cloud has a silver lining, hope is always there for us. Hopes are support to live us. Don’t be a failure of life. Life is an attractive thing which we can feel in a better way. Don’t think undermind on your self. Be your self and go ahead. Then you can understand what is the real meaning of the life.

                           As students we have a good knowledge about the society. we can understand various lives with various characteristics. Those are the best things to learn what is the real life. Don't fear to go to the society and also the world. If you go ahead with a good understanding world will welcome you warmly.

MONEY

                                       
                                                There is no any doubt that money is so essential for our healthy living. Money is almost everything for us to live a life and maintain the good stats in the society. It is the money which fulfils the need of bringing necessary comfort to of the life. If one has money, he or she  can get anything in their life. It is the money which helps us in developing good personality, improving confidence, makes us able to creditworthiness, improving capacity, increasing capabilities and enhancing our courage to a great level. Without money we feel helpless and alone in this world where no one is ready to help and assist. In the current materialistic world, money is very important and powerful thing without which one cannot live and survive.

                                             Modern world, in order to earn more money in wrong ways, bad people are taking help of struggling, murder rich people of the society, and other bad activities by degrading the moral and ethical values of the humanity. Lazy people follow wrong ways to earn money as they understand that these ways are simple and easy however it is not true. One can earn more money in less time and effort but not for long; surely he would be lost in the near future as he is following wrong and weak way. The people who are earning money by following all the rules of humanity earn less money but for long time and they become the high status personality of the society.

                                      People doing corruption save their money as a black money in other countries to keep hidden from the common public and use that money for bad works or increasing their physical luxury. However, common people of the society respects a lot to the people earning money using wrong techniques as they have fear of them and little bit greediness that they can get some money in return whenever required by giving them respect. Money cannot buy or stay the time as well as cannot give true love and care however highly required by all of us to run the life on the right path. It cannot give time and love however gives happiness, confidence, satisfaction, feeling of well being mentally and physically, makes life easy by solving all the difficulties, and many more. According to my thinking there are so many things which we have to achieve more than the money.

Junk food is not a friend

                                             The word junk food speaks itself a lot and indicates its harmful nature to the health. Junk foods are trash food to the health because they are high in calorie, fat, cholesterol, sugar and salt components. Nowadays kids and teenagers are more like to eat junk foods daily .It has become a major task in their daily life. They are leading their lives towards danger through their unhealthy lifestyle. We generally eat chips, french fries, cracks, snack, chawmin, burger, pizza, pasta, and other junk foods whenever they feel hungry.It is a normal thing to us. but we should know that no junk foods are beneficial and provide no nutritional value.

                                              It affects the health in all ways of the people of any age group, weight and health condition. Junk foods are considered as high in calories however one who eat end up easily getting exhausted and need more food frequently. That is the truth. Junk food does not provide appropriate level of energy thus the eater develop tendencies of craving more food frequently. What we generally acquire from the junk foods are unhealthy fats and not healthy ingredients thus we feel lack of oxygen which causes poor brain functioning. We absorb much cholesterol from such type of foods which causes plaque formation in the arteries and creates problems for the heart to pump normal amount of blood. That’s why we feel high level fatigue. High level of bad cholesterol destroys our liver and put more weight at the same time.

                                          According to the researchers about the health, kids and children eating more junk food on daily basis are overweight and obese and highly prone to the heart and liver disorders. Such kids are more prone to become diabetic and lethargic because of high sugar collection in their body in the early ages. They get high blood pressure because of high amount of sodium mineral in the junk foods. Kids and children should be trained by their parents to follow healthy eating habits from the childhood.

                                    From the childhood we should know about the results of eating junk food. Not only us we should aware about this others. From it we can avoid the untimely deaths and also untimely weaknesses.

We should think about this…………………..

                                                    

                                                Globalization is a process of worldwide spread of science, technologies, businesses, etc through the means of transportation, communication, and trade. Globalization has affected almost all the countries worldwide in various ways. Those are socially, economically, politically etc.. Globalization is a thing which going on continuously. We can’t say the exact time or date which it started or ending. The effects of globalization can be seen on the tradition, environment, culture, security, lifestyle, and ideas. There are many factors affecting and accelerating globalization trends worldwide.

                                                         The reason of acceleration in the globalization is because of the people demands, free-trade activities, worldwide acceptance of markets, emerging new technologies, new researches in the science, etc. Globalization has huge negative impacts than the positive things on the environment and given rise to various environmental issues like water pollution, deforestation, air pollution, soil pollution, contamination of water resources, climate change, biodiversity loss, etc. All the ever growing environmental issues need to be solved on urgent basis by international efforts otherwise they may finish the existence of life on the earth a day in future.

                                            In order to prevent the loss of environment, there is need of globalization of eco-friendly technologies and huge level environmental awareness among people. In order to deal with the negative effects of globalization, companies need to develop greener technologies which may replace the current status of the environment. However, globalization has helped a lot positively to save the environment by improving various resources like producing hybrid cars etc. Everything has two sides. Likewise globalization is the same. If we use it in a good manner we can produce eco friendly things and also we can promoting education.

                                                   Apple brand has also aimed to manufacture Eco-friendly products to reduce negative impacts of globalization and exceed positive effects. Increasing demands of the ever increasing population lead towards extensive deforestation causing great level environmental issue. Till now, almost half of the useful forests have been cut in the past years. So, there is a need to make globalization under control to reduce its negative effects. All of the people have the responsibility of it. Why because since the morning to evening we also supporting to the accelerating of globalization automatically. Therefore it has become a logically thing. We should think about the now and also the future. If we want a bright future we should think about the every second which we live in the world.

Personality

                       

                                                 In the modern world we haven’t time to think about ourselves. Everyman has their own job to do in their daily life. Sometimes we can’t remember even that who am I? And also we can’t identify our weaknesses and our strengths. When we talk about personality we should talk about our weaknesses and strengths. Why because through them we can identify ourselves easily.

                      When we tell the word “Personality” what comes to your mind. Actually an actor or actress will come to your mind. Why don’t you think about yourself?That is a major weakness of us. Personality has to do with individual differences among people in behavior patterns, cognition and emotion. Personality is different from each one. It has various definitions according to the person who should describe. Then we should think about what is personality development. When we tell the word “development” what comes to our mind. Does it mean physically growth? Actually it isn’t. That meant the relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguish individuals from one another. There are some personality types. They are Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing – Intuition, Thinking – Feeling, Judging – Perceiving etc. Not only that there are some personality theories. Namely Trait Theory, Psychodynamic Theory, Humanistic Theory, Social Learning Theory etc.

                       Then we should know about how we approach for good personality. Firstly we should be our selves. At many times people are trying to imitate others. Specially peoples are going to be like actors or actress. It is not a suitable thing to develop personality. We should have unique characteristics. Not only that we should adaptable to change. We have to face various situations and various problems. At that time we should have a strength to adapt those things.  Likewise we have to ability to smile. Smile is a strong thing which we have. When we smile we can give a warm welcome to others. Actually beautiful smile also a good quality in our personality.

                                     Not only that we should think and feel good about ourselves. We shouldn’t under mind ourselves.  Why because we should think about ourselves are the best. Through following these things we can have a better personality. If we have a good personality we have Self Confident, Ambitious and hard working, we can do our job properly and we can achieve high results in our career.

Walk to the “Elephant Rock”

                                                     

                                  

                                               

                                                   Kurunegala was a citadel in the 13^th century. It was the capital for half a century. Starting with the reign of king Buwanekabahu 11  followed by king Parakkramabah. It is a beautiful city with a cultural heritage. The “Ethugala rock” or the “ Elephant rock” in the heart of Kurunegala town  is a unique feature. The rock is about 325 m High.

                                   You have to go about 2km to reach the top of the rock. You can also take the main road adjacent from the top to the bottom or the natural pathway. The entire area is an eco tourism destination with adventure based activities. ‘kurune’ means an elephant with protruding teeth and’gala’ in Sinhala means rock. Kurunegala’s old name was Hasthishaila pura, which can be translated as the city of the elephant rock.

                                  The Kurunegala rock resembles an elephant a mythical legend says that when the animals in the city wanted water during a severe drought. They were magically turned into a gigantic rock. Thus the city is situated on a high altitude and you will find a panoramic due to the plain land of the Kurunegala city with a number of rocks. A marvelous aerial view of the Kurunegala city and the lake can be seen from the top of the rock. The entire path is full of butterflies and birds. Many people climb the rock too venerate the Buddha.

                                Kurunegala has a tropical climate and a mild temperature throughout the year. You can visit Athugala, Ibbagala, Yakdessagala and elugala along with the Athugala. It will be though but it will be at a great climb for the family and friends. There is and 88 ft giant Buddha statue on the top of Athugala. You can see the white Buddha statue on the Athugala rock from the city. Devotees offer flowers and light oil lamps at the Buddha statue. Travelers can enjoy bike rides mountain biking races and mountain climbing. One might feel quite thirsty as it is very warm at noon. So ensure to carry a bottle of while climbing

Let’s prevent Dengue

                                                  

                                          Dengue fever is an infectious disease carried by mosquitoes. It also known as break-bone fever. Because it sometimes causes serve joint and muscles pain. Now a days it has become a major problem. Specially it effects for the developing countries like Sri Lanka. Because our health sector hasn’t improve like developed countries in the world. Therefore we should take actions to prevent Dengue.

                             We know that prevention is better than the cure. As same as when we talk about the Dengue we should know about the ways which are support us to prevent Dengue. As I mentioned before dengue carried by mosquitoes. If e prevent mosquitoes we can prevent dengue. For that we should think about our environment. Mosquitoes that cause dengue breed in standing water in crowded urban environment. We should pay our attention towards the places where gather water like tyres and also other water containers etc.

                                 Not only that we can clean out empty flower pots and not to over water potted plants. It is advised to not have any stagnant water around as it acts as breeding ground for the mosquitoes. Specially in home gardening we should consider about that. Specially there are some natural ways to prevent from the dengue. There are some plants which have properties that don’t allow mosquitoes like “Thulsi” plant. We can use like those ancient methods to prevent dengue. As same as we should used to use a mosquito net. Specially small children are they sleep during the day time. That is the time mosquitoes bite highly. We can  avoid it from using method like these.

                                    Likewise we can prevent dengue doing the things like that. If we start to prevent dengue from the our own house it will become a responsibility of all the people who live in the society. Do a little thing. It will prove that prevention is better than cure.

My opinion about a good teacher

                                                                                                              

                                

                                              Good teacher is a good guide to children. On the hand a teacher is a facilitator and on the other hand he or she is a good friend for students. According to my view I believe that a good teacher should have number of qualities.

                                   Initially good teacher should have a sound subject knowledge. He or she should be able to explain the things which are relevant to his or her subject in a way that students can understand it clearly. Teacher should have a clear idea about the subject matters. A good teacher should treat all the student equally. There shouldn’t be favoritism. All the ideas of children should accept and if there any clarification teacher should describe it clearly. After that he or she can correct them or add more facts to them.

                                       Moreover a good teacher should be a good listener. He should be able to listen students at any time. Teacher should not be a dictator in his class room. Then he can be friendly with students and support them to overcome from the difficulties. A good teacher must have a sense of humour in the activities in classroom. If not a classroom become a dull place for students. Teacher should conduct the activities in classroom and make all the students participate in them.  Then the teacher could build unity in the class room. A good teacher should always appreciate the students when they do good things. Public appreciation lead the particular student to improve their personality. At same time other students try to be good.

                                        A good teacher can always teach his students good habits. Not only that, good teacher teach about the life and also real meaning of the life. At this point he becomes a guide. Moreover, if a student has a personal problem, a good teacher should be able to help the student to overcome his troubled mental condition. He should help the student to find a proper solutions.

                                        Thus, there are many qualities that a teacher should practice. Some of them are inborn. But some should be practiced. However, if one practices them he or she could definitely become a good teacher and he or she will automatically earn appreciation from the society. 

Dessert Flower

                                                  My favourite movie is “Dessert Flower”. It is a German biographical film directed by Sherry Hormann. It is based on the Somali-born model Wari's autobiography. In 2012 I watched that film. It could catch my heart strongly. The character of waris had become an immortal women in my life. Before I watch that film I have read the book “Dessert Flower”. But film could imagine the real situation of her life.

                                                               Main character of that film was Waris. Waris was born into a nomadic family in Somaliya. She had to face lot of incident in her life. But all these things became a strength to her. At the age of thirteen, she fled to another place in order to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man. It was a harassment for her. At a very small age she happened to face lot of problems. However she has become a model lastly and social activist.

                                                               Through that movie I taught many things. Though problems come to our life we should bare and we should find a permanent solution for them. Not only that I knew that women can change the world at any time. For that the best example is Waris. Though various people enter to her life and struggling she never reluctant to go ahead. Lastly she was appointed as the UN Special Ambassador.

                                                                I have watched various movies. But this movie gives lot of things about the life. It tells that how we deal with the society, what the real meaning of a family etc is. Though we have various bonds we should understand others feelings. Also waris could meet various people. Some are spend time with Waris as real friends. But some are trying to get their chances from waris. It is the thing happening in the world. That movie shows the real qualities of man with sensitive scenes. Not only that the things which was came to the Waris life is very uncomfortable. She lives with various problems. But she never discourage.

                                                            Likewise through that movie I could teach so many important things about the life. Not only the character of Waris, the flowing style in that movie was caught my attention. The incidents which were in that movie are very memorable. Every scene has a speciality. Likewise the method which were supported to flow the movie and also the charcters took my attention for that movie. Because of all these facts I can say that it is my favourite movie.

My opinion about conservation of Galle fort

                         
                                                                          Galle fort is a place which has a high historical value. It has brought a pride to Sri Lanka. Not only that there is an architectural value. It shows the Dutch architectural features. Because of these facts conservation of Galle fort has become important. According to my opinion existing of Galle fort depends on the conservation. But authorities should take actions with a better understanding about conservation.

                                                When we consider about the conservation of that area, mainly Galle Heritage Foundation, Galle Municipal authorities and the Galle police station is doing their jobs about the conservation. But when we pay our attention towards the conservation I feel sometimes the legal frame work has become a harassment for the life style of the people who live in the Galle fort. People can’t live according to themselves. They have to become robots and they happen to live under regulations. They can’t even the change a small part of their houses without getting permission of archeological department. Permission of archeological department has become a very important thing for people who live in the Gale fort.

                                                  Though they get the permission they should have pay huge amount of money to get an advice of an architect who is in the archaeological department of Galle fort. It can’t an affordable. Therefore the people who own those properties from Galle fort are selling them for foreign people. They think that is the only solution for that problem. Not only that sometimes people are not going to renovate their houses. They live in their old houses with low strength features. They take the risk of their lives on behalf of paying lot of money. According to my thinking characters of Galle fort are disappearing day by day. All the houses have become guest houses. It may be a threat for the Galle fort why because then entire Galle fort will functioning as a holiday resort one day. Likewise the prices of the houses in Galle fort are very higher than Colombo 7. It can afford only for foreigners and also high class people who live in Sri Lanka. Actually I don’t think mean of conservation is annihilation of poor people.

                                                     When we discuss about the conservation of Galle fort we should emphasize about the Southland girl’s college, army camp and also about Sudharmalaya Buddhist temple. According to my point of views their functions may effect to the Galle fort and also functions which are happening within Galle fort also effect for those public places. When I talk a friend who was a student of Southland College, she said in her school time their principal madam wanted to build a concrete wall near the back gate of the school. But it has become a struggle after madam talk with authorities. Likewise according to her because of the some activities of foreign people children also confuse. Some foreign couples behave like gay or lesbians. And also some are not consider about children and behave like beasts. Same thing happen for other public places also.

                                                        According to me though we get funds from foreign countries to conserve the Galle fort authorities should pay their attention more about our culture and also tradition. Then we can think about the conserve the attitudes of foreigners about the Galle fort. If we neglect about the Sri Lankan, Galle for will become a paradise of foreigners or it will be a great monument.

Galle fort visit

                               

                                       Under the module Heritage in planning we learnt about the Galle fort & also the present condition of the fort. After studying about the Galle fort we went to the Galle to visit Galle fort. We went from the university around 8’O clock on 15/10/2015.

                     We went to visit Galle fort as groups and we had to study an area for each group. Our area consisted with four major roads. Namely Rampart road, Parawa Street, Chando Street and Light House Street. When we go through that area we studied about the land use and also about the activities. So many buildings have renovated in that area as Dutch era. We could see about the architectural patterns which have in Dutch era. The court yard is the most common feature of those houses which are in the Galle fort. Not only that, most of the houses have converted in to guest houses and also cafes.

                      When we go there it is not the season of travelling of tourists. Therefore at that time there were less number of tourists in that area according to the people who live in that area. Among the people of there most of them are Muslims. Likewise so many people had rented out or sold their properties to foreigners. After doing our studies we walked around the Galle fort. Within the Galle fort my favourite spot is a small guest house. It was located in Church street.

                      Before I enter it I saw the logo of that cafe. That logo also gave a meaningful idea about that place. And also meaning to the name of the cafe. It was consisted with the image of a pigeon which flying with an earhead of paddy. It was a very special feature of that place. According to my point of views that logo can attract the people who are walking along that street. Why because I could understand that logo says thousand word about the prosperity of that café with comparing others.

                                                 Then I entered to the cafe. The staff was very friendly and told many things about that. According to them it was a hundred years old Dutch house. Now it has renovated and owner of it is a Muslim person. But now it has rented out for a Sinhala person who known as G.A.Samantha. There were 4 rooms. All of those were A/C rooms. One room was rs.5000 and customers were offered by 25% discount for each room in season. Not only that there were hammocks and Wi-Fi. The specialty of that guest house is, they only offer their services for foreigners. In front of that café they have mentioned their menu on two black boards. That café offers a good variety of western and sri Lankan foods.

                                                   Actually the Galle fort is a proud for us. It improves the connection between sri lanka and other countries. We should protect this world heritage proudly.

Town planning.. For whom??

                                 

                                                     Planning is a very useful thing for every task. Before doing some work we should have a better plan to go ahead and achieve the target. That’s why we can say through a plan we can manage every things. Likewise we can do anything according to a better plan. In modern world space also planning. In past it has done automatically. But in the modern world space planning goes ahead with methods. Through the town planning people could arrange their space perfectly. When we discuss about town planning the question “Town planning for whom” comes to our mind.

                  Every work should has a fruitful purpose. Likewise there should be a purpose. According to my point of views I can say that “Town planning is for all the human”. Not for only one special group of people it provides its service for all the people who live in earth. There are large number of towns. But they should be livable. Town planning is not considering about the level of society or level of that community. They want to success the space.

                 Planners haven’t boundaries. Specially they haven’t physical or mental boundaries. When they are planning towns they only consider about the comfort of the people who live in that area. Why because all the things which are done by the planners effect to the life of human. Therefore planners pay their attention every and each factors when they are planning. They want to see a high quality life style. Then they can say we have come to our purpose. Therefore planners should have a better understanding about the people and also about their life style. According to these facts I think “all the people take advantages from town planning and town planning is belonging to the people.”

How can we make our cities “Livable Cities?”

                             

                                           Cities are one of the main place which can people have settled down and also gather to do their daily activities. Around the cities there are so many people doing their own business. Though cities have much more infrastructure facilities actually the living conditions in our city are getting worse and worse. Therefore we should pay our attention towards cities. Not only cities we should pay attention how can we make our cities. Urbanization must not just be about building new infrastructure, but also about managing cities sustainably to deliver the energy, water, transport and public requirements etc. Why because the main part of the city is People who are living in the city.

                                         Actually how can we make our cities livable? When we are talking about it we can’t think about one thing. All the things are in the city has connected with that problem. Specially we should understand the current situation of the city. Through that we can identify the things which make cities ugly. One big problem is the amount of rubbish. To reduce the amount of litter, we could make some recycling schemes. Also good things to do might be to add more bins to the city centers etc. As a result we could have cleaner streets and less diseases.Likewise through improving the public transport facilities we can make an attractive environment. Why because through the improving public transportations we can reduce the number of vehicle which are running through the city Centre. Then we can make a green environment and also environment friendly transport service.

                                         Not only that when we are talking abou cities we should talk about water pollution. The best example for that is “Kelani River”. All the factories and residence who have settled down near the Kelani River pollute that river day by day. Likewise all the other cities face problem like this. To solve that problem government should take very clear actions against to reduce this kind of works.

                                         Actually every problem has a solution. The problems which are push cities into hell also can stop. But for that there should be a good community.  Then only all the people can stand against the offenders. All things considered, there are many solutions to all the problems. The sooner we put them into practice, the better our lives will become. Then it is not a dream, live in the best city in the world.