Adventure trip
Posted by Nazly on Sunday, 20th February 2005 23:21:04 (GMT +0530)After all the stressful working days on the shopping cart, the team Cenango was given the opporunity of having the weekend off for an adventure trip to Nuwara Eliya. We all left Colombo on the 18th of Friday around 19:00. When we reached Nuwara Eliya it was around 02:00 the next day. It was really cold when we reached there as we all started pulling out all our swetters to keep us warm. We then slept for about three hours and woke up for an early morning walk in the mist towards the nearby lake. Had a lot of fun along the way. After breakfast we visited a tea factory. One guy was guiding us through the process. All the team members were quite curious as they were like in a required gathering phase of a project. On our way back we bathed in freezing waters in a lake. We tried to swim but we rarely could as it was so freezing we couldn't stroke through.
In the evening played couple of cricket matches. The last match we played was so thrilling till the last ball. I missed out on batting as I got out for just five runs to a teasing fulltoss which ended up as a yorker. When I hit a thrashing cover drive for a boundary, I thought today will be my day. We were bit struggling after two overs in this five over match. But we ended up scoring 40 runs thanks to some hard hitting by Ajzal. He hit three sixes in his innings. In reply the oppositions started off well by hitting boundaries in the first couple of overs. Though Ajzal and myself made life bit tough for them by removing important wickets at regular intervals. I had to bowl the last over which required five runs for them to win the match. Though I got a wicket in the first ball, couple of miss fieldings and drop catches got them to score two runs off the last ball which they did by driving the ball in the air above the head of the long off fielder. Though they won this match we played at our level best and it was really thrilling at end.
In the night after having dinner we had a long walk around the town. It was really cool to walk in that time of the night as it was really cold as well.
Today morning we visited Horton Plains. We had to walk walk and keep on waking through the tough course to this hilltop called the World's End. We kept on questioning once in a while "R We There Yet?" to this place which seemed far far away. During the pathway we crossed this beatiful waterfall called the 'Bakers Falls'. We stopped there for a while to rest. The last bit was really tough as we had to go through the trees and bushes. After walking for about 2 hours we reached the World's End. It was a great sight to see from the top as the ground was thousands of feet below. There was no mist at all when we went there. The best part came when mist started rising up when we were on top. In few minutes it was totally covered and we couldn't see a thing. Then only we realized that they call it the World's End because when the mist is covered u really feel like u have reached the end of the world.
From there we returned at around 13:30 and took the longest shortcut to Colombo. We had loads of fun on this trip. It was a great trip to get relieved from the stress we had for the last couple of weeks. The hardpart is to realise that I have to goto work tomorrow
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Relaxing a bit
Posted by Nazly on Sunday, 13th February 2005 19:37:25 (GMT +0530)After completion of few modules that I had to code on the shopping cart, I ran to Kandy for a timoff from all the workload I had. I had to finalise few things on Friday evening before leaving to Kandy on Saturday morning. But I was feeling really sleepy so that I had to finish them on Saturday morning. I was supposed leave around 06:00 to catch the train but when I left it was around 11:00. Enjoyed my weekend without any work stress. There are few modules that are still pending that I have to start working from tomorrow.
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Mission Accomplished
Posted by Nazly on Wednesday, 9th February 2005 19:03:31 (GMT +0530)It was one of those tough challenges that I had to face for the last couple of days. I was working with Cenango development team on a website integrated with a Shopping Cart System. The launch of the website was successful after all the effort that was put in by the team. I feel really great to be one of them as each an everyone made a huge a contribution to get the site up and running. There are few modules that I have to code though, they can be plugged in while the site is running. Its a complete dynamic site written in PHP using Smarty as the template engine and MySQL as the database.
Sleepless nights have made me really tired and have to get some good sleep for couple of days. All and all it was really challenging and feel really great after the launch of the site.
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Visit to the NE and my 1st sea trip
Posted by Nazly on Tuesday, 1st February 2005 22:52:46 (GMT +0530)You might be wondering why I was missing for the last couple of days. I visited the Tsunami affected areas in the North East part of Sri Lanka with a group of 15 members. This was my first trip to the North East. We left Colombo on the 27th evening. By 28th afternoon we went to Nilaveli, an affected area in the Trincomalee District. We stayed there till today morning. A lot of people were in a camp where almost all of them have lost their houses. We focused on repairing the houses that are suitable for living so that they can continue with thier lives. Till then they didn't make any effort as they couldn't do it alone. We did our level best to clear things up at most houses during our short stay. The people shared their experiences with us. Specially how they lost their loved ones infront their own eyes as they had no chance of fighting against the giant waves
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Yesterday evening we all visited Muthur, a small village affected by Tsunami. From the Trincomalee harbour (one of the natural harbours in the world) we had a one hour journey across the sea in a ferry. It was quite interesting as this was my first sea trip. Also visited Kinniya on our way today morning. In Kinniya we met a group of Italian medical officers who were involved in the aid work. It was great to see all communities get together in helping out the people who are affected by Tsunami.
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