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A Gift from South Korea Finally, I remember... (The continuation of the first part ...) Hearing this news, my parents and I were wondering throughout as to who would send a package to us through the post as we had not even ordered anything online. Yet the thought of the gift from the competition never crossed my mind as I had completely forgotten that I even participated to such an online competition. Once arriving at the post office, a person working in the office handed me over the so called package they were talking about. I could understand nothing on that bubbled package as most of the things were written in Korean. As soon as I saw that Korean written text, I had a slight feeling that this might be the gift sent to me, meaning, I had become a winner of that competition. So I opened the package to find out an original album of the boy band EXO all well packaged and sent all the way to Sri Lanka from South Korea. After all, I have been selected as a winner of th...

A Gift from South Korea First, I wondered what it was... Have you ever encountered a moment when you receive a gift from another country and, that too, the day before your birthday? Well, I did come across such a moment in January. Although I wanted to share this experience with you for the past months, I couldn’t do so due to my university finals. But now, since it is done and dusted, I found a peace of mind to share this wonderful surprising experience that came up early this year. Last December, while surfing the internet, I came across a competition which was organized by one of the governmental Ministries of South Korea. It was not that of a hard online competition, but was more of writing skills. I just kept on typing on the topic they had asked the participants of the competition to write on. At the end of the page which the competition was loaded, a series of gift options were displayed to be selected in case I win the competition. This was an opportunity given ...

Trip to Kataragama Part III- Kirivehera Temple and Devalaya (Visit my previous posts for  Part I  & Part II of this post ) Kataragama Devalaya Speaking of the Kataragama Devalaya, it is believed that it is the place where the Kataragama God resides. The premise is situated a few meters away from the Kirivehera Temple. The passage from the temple to the Devalaya consists of several small stores which sell fruit baskets, garlands and flowers for the purpose of donating to the Kataragama God and other gods. It is really colorful when you see these stores during the night. Usually, regardless of which time of the day it is, this place is always crowded with thousands of people. But the day which we visited was a special day as it was the presidential elections, therefore, everyone has decided to stay at home instead of going anywhere. Well, we didn’t do that apparently. This is a picture of the passage from the temple to the Devalaya that I could capture. I g...