Christmas!!!!

I spent a lovely Chistmas day with my family and cousins and thought of sharing a picture of all the cousins. Bit busy right now with Christmas and work, so will keep this short.

Back in Sri Lanka!!!

I'm back in Sri Lanka now. Feels great to be home... Even though I really enjoyed the MBA and the experience, I missed my friends and family... Most of last week was spent catching up with all my friends and finding out the latest gossip, going out for dinners and coffees.. As my cousin puts it, it's like Christmas for me!

This pic was taken when we went to a karaoke bar and sang our hearts out!
I've been catching up on more reading and movies lately too. Just completed reading the Zahir by Paulo Cohelo. Most of his books have the message that if you really want something and work hard to get it the whole universe will conspire with you to help you obtain it... It's so true...

Paris... the city of Love

I can't believe that it's been over a month since I updated my blog. So much has happened since then...

This year has been amazing. Another one of my dreams came true, I visited Paris!!!!! I sometimes have to pinch myself to make sure that this is not all a dream.

The HEC Business School Paris organised an inter business school sports tournament in Paris from the 17th to the 20th. So about 60 of us from Cambridge also took part. (when I say took part I mean went along, I didn't play any sports, I mainly went for cheering, partying and of course sight seeing) Many other European Business Schools were also there, including LBS, Oxford, Manchester, Insead...

We walked from Arc de Triumph to Eiffel Tower down Champs Elysee and that walk was simply gorgeous. No wonder they call it the city of love. We also visited the Notre Dame Cathedral and Louvre and the Vasailles Palace. I had been dying to see the Louvre ever since I read the Da Vinci Code, and of course as soon as we went there we did the typical touristy thing of going to see Mona Lisa behind the thick glass and had to push through the huge crowd there to see the painting.
Some of us in front of Eiffel Tower at night
With our Volley Ball team who came to the finals

Partying in Paris
Entrance of Notre Dame Cathedral
Vasaille Palace
Roof of the Vasailles Chapel
Famous pyramids of the Louvre

Here are some of the photos we took there, I've uploaded a lot more to www.flickr.com/photos/roshanthi

I had to take a vacation from my vacation with all the walking and partying till the wee hours of the morning and then sleeping a couple of hours and going sight seeing again! Watching and cheering for the sports was really fun too, and it was cool to see how this brought the kids in all of us. When I came here I thought that everyone will be serious business people but it has been so much fun. I'm feeling sad to have to leave the MBA and join the real world soon...