OBA Day Feb 2011

Photos from college and the OTSC

Asitha Perera, SVM De Mel, Michael Illangakoon, Barr and Richard Simon

Mr. Edirisinghe

Walking up toward the Dining Hall

The Library

Swimming Pool and New (as in then) Science Block

Dining Hall

The crowds enjoying, Beef Curry, Parripu, Boiled Egg and Pol Sambol. It was pretty good, quite liked it.

Looking from Dining Hall toward Miller Chapman

From near library, with Dining hall in background to the right

Up Lavos, inside looks worse as in cleanliness than our days. OBA maybe time to give it a face lift. Update: Kumar David says this area will be used to "construct a new commerce block which will house twenty classrooms. The building alone will cost about Rs75 million and state of the art equipment another Rs25 million."

Duck Pond. No duck, lotus flowers or for that matter much water. This and the Up Lavos take away an almost picture perfect campus.

Bathrooms, pretty clean and fancy

Chapel

Old Book Shop

Chemistry Lab, New Science Lab

Sajith Dantanarayana's son

Wickramarachi and Aponso at OTSC

? and RS Perera at OTSC

Muttetuwagama, Chanaka Atukorale, Raneel Wijesinghe and ? at OTSC

? at OTSC

RS Perera, Mr Jayawickrama and ?

The Wilson Brothers with Lechtumraj in the middle at OTSC

Get-together at SSC on 7th Jan'11

Meet up with Kavan Wijesinghe and C. H. Mendis visiting from over seas. Added bonus, Neomal Dias Abeysinghe, RAE Amerasekera and RT Fernando also turn. Nesa and Peter turn up like band pennies just a few minutes before I had to leave.

BCG De Zylva, DP Dissa, Weera and Neomal Dias Abeysinghe

Weera and Neomal Dias Abeysinghe and R.A.E Amerasekara

Kavan Wijesinghe, Jagdish Mirchandani and Neomal Dias Abeysinghe

R.T. Fernando, C. H. (Hiran) Mendis and B.C.G. De Zylva

JAI (Asitha) Perera and Paddy Mendis

Kavan Wijesinghe and Rajapakse

Kavan and Sepala

LR: BCG, Nesa Gnanaratnam, Charith Abeysekara, Rajasingham, CH and Kavan

Rajan Rajasingham

CH, Kavan, RAE and DP Dissa

Some Photos from Nesa Gnanaratnams Dec 2010 visit

So photos from Nesa's trip to Sri Lanka in December. The camera played up so did not get to take as many. Must have been just Nesa's face jinxing the camera.

Oosha (Nesa's wife) and Yasmin Gunasekara (Lakshan Amarasinghe's sister). Quite a few us almost made Lakshan's home our second home. Yasmin was mostly always helpful making sure we had meals, typing up letters for our various schemes, legit and otherwise. At other times, for no fault of our own I "think" (we were well behaved teenagers) she would yell and call us "Pests".Kemil (Peters Son), Jessica (Nesa's daughter) Oosha and Yasmin

Jessica

Oosha, Jessica, Peace (Barr's mother), Nesa and Herman Tikka

NS's Birthday in July

NS Silva's bday party which was essentially an all Thomian affair, 90% being college guys, senior and junior to us of Class of 74. Yes, they also sang the college song before singing Happy Birthday and cutting the cake !!. Ever been to a bday party where they sang the college song, before cutting the cake, this was a first for me.
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