Aba's 2017

Stories Dec 31, 2017

★ Walked into Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel with sweaty T-shirt + bottom + muddy slippers at midnight and then into Pettah police station at 2 am on the same day
★ Camped on 31st night next to a graveyard, on the most beautiful beach of Sri Lanka, on the island furthest away from mainland!
★ 7,000 km of motorbike, boat, train, bus, ferry, jeep, rosa, bicycle... in sixty days - Best summer of my life with Bhanuka, Yan Lam and team! bit.ly/AbaBestSummer
★ Roller Coaster Week: bit.ly/AbaRollerCoaster2017
★ Got caught in traffic police and lost my licence for #nothing
★ Three of the best dept trips: Kithulgala, Jaffna and the Mega Trip to Nuwara Eliya
★ Motorbike tours in Mullaitivu (war tourism) with Siva Abis & Ruchira
★ Hitchhiked to Sripada in a lorry with Assad at midnight to take a single photo!
★ Cycling trips in Anuradhapura twice!
★ Three motorbike tours + 1 dept tour + 1 with EPs in Jaffna, visited Delft thrice
★ Hanguranketha Pseudo-Camping with #Mattis bit.ly/HanguAba2017
★ Group Dance with CK, Praga, Darukeesan and gang in Abhina
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★ Conducted Robotics workshops for over 20 schools and 160 students with Janaka, Ashwin, Chinthana, Praga and others...
★ Co-Founded Kavigai Foundation with Thanujan, Bavatharny & Praga
★ District Coordinator for Island level model A/L Exams #MoraExams with Aynkaran, Sajjad, Uzama, Akmal
★ Wired 8 homes in Deltota with #SwitchOff4
★ Started working with some of the biggest hotels and Miththapala in tourism industry of Sri Lanka.
★ Started giving tuition classes
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★ 10 days of heaven and three months of hell!
★ First time of many MANY things!! ;-)
★ Favorite Grandpa passed away... :-(
★ Got and lost a dream phone #Nexus5X
★ Gained so many friends, lost a few... :-( Learnt a lot!
★ Gained the most unbelievable EPIC story of any university student! #TwoHourTale #Love, #War, #Friendship, #Betrayal, #Thugs, #LifeThreats
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★ Built a battlebot for 5000 rs with Chinthana, Praga
★ Learnt PHP, CSS, HTML from scratch and built a web based donation system within 7 days with Chinthana, Rashmin, Mayuka, Iresha
★ Read Thousand Splendid Suns, Kite Runner, A Road from Elephant Pass, Half Girlfriend, Short Stories of RK Narayan, with Sachini