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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

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LEO CLUB OF UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA

Inside
Davinci 01
Poem 02
Quizzy POP 03
Burn less Save more 04
Ares Championship 05
Golden Netz 06
Water Day 07
LEO Youth Camp 2018 08
Inspiration 09
Editors Note 10

An Imperial Legend of Eminence

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DaVinci - is;=jï ;r.h
වදනින් තම සිතැඟි ල�ෝ�කයයට හඩගා කියන්නට වරම් න�ොලදත් පුංචි සිඟිත්තන්ට තම
සිතුවමින් ල�ෝ�කය අවදි කරන්නට අවකාශය සලසමින් ම�ොරටුව විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයිය ලිය�ෝ�
සමාජය වන අපි, පිළියන්දල ලිය�ෝ� සමාජය, බද්දේගම ලිය�ෝ� සමාජය,මත්තේග�ොඩ ලිය�ෝ�
සමාජය,ප�ොල්ගස්ඕවිට ලිය�ෝ� සමාජය සමඟ එක්ව DaVinci සිතුවම් තරඟය රත්මලාන අන්ධ
බිහිරි පාසලේදී පෙබරවාරි 14 වන දින පස්වරු 4.00 සිට පැවැත්වීමු.
පුංචි සිඟිත්තන් ඉමහත් ආශාවකින් සිතුවම් ඇදීමේ නිරත වෙද්දී ලිය�ෝ� සාමාජිකයන්ද පසෙකට
වී න�ොඉද ඔවුන්ගේ වටපිටාව අලංකාර කිරීමට තමන්ගේ හැකියාවෙන් දායකත්වයෙන් ලබා
දුනි.
තමන්ට ස�ොබාදහමෙන් සිදුවූ අසාධාරණය හමුවේ න�ොසැලී ල�ෝ�කය දිහා නවමු ක�ෝ�ණයකින්
බලන්නට දිරිය ලබා දෙමින්ද, න�ොමැකෙන මතක සටහන් රැසක් පුංචි හදවත් වල ඉතිරි
කරමින්ද DaVinci සිතුවම් තරඟය නිම වූයේ තවත් අති සාර්ථක ව්‍යාපෘතියක් ලෙස ලිය�ෝ� දින
ප�ොතේ සටහන් වෙමිනි.

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mila lrñka f.jk fudfyd;
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tluq ; = l ï˜‍ lreKdj˜‍ wdorho
fkdhs j is , s ;dreKHfha úma , jho˜‍
wvq fkdwvq úYa j diho˜‍
fid÷re;u u. fkdyer.;a u;l
kï fkdoka k d ys ß jefgk yuq ú ïo
tla l rka f ka ˜‍
ls i s o d fkd,;a ðú;fha
wñ, mdvuhs Tn ug.....................
-Wmq , s f,da p kd-

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Answer for the quiz in
the January issue: 31

Congratulation Janith Randima for becoming

the lucky winner of the December quiz!!!
The lucky winner for the January quiz
will be selected at the Monthly General
Meeting of the Leo Club of University of
Moratuwa for the month of March.
Solve the question and be the lucky winner to receive a 2000/=
worth gift voucher from Sarasavi Book shop!
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell

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of the clock at the north end of the Palace
of Westminster in London and is usually
extended to refer to both the clock and
the clock tower. The tower was constructed
between 1843 and 1858 as the clock tower
of the Palace of Westminster. The palace
is now better known as the Houses of
Parliament.
There is another clock tower in the middle of a town. Every time when
hour hand and minute hand overlapped it alarms that it is overlapped.
As an example when its 12 o’clock it alarms as both hands are on
number 12. If it is so, how many alarms can be heard within a 24
hours’ time period by a man who sits near the clock tower.

Introducing the official Quizzy Pop online

portal with easy access.
Go to www.quizzypop.uomleos.org and
submit your answer online before the end
of March.

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Burn Less - Save More
“The earth, water and the air are not a gift to us from our parents,
but a loan from our children. Hence we need to make energy
conservation a habit.”

Conservation of Electrical
energy can help to lessen
pollution and reduce the
greenhouse gas emissions.
At home, simple actions
such as turning off lights
and unplugging computers
or turning off televisions
can help us reduce our consumption and thereby conserve energy.
The energy survey, “Burn Less–Save More” is organized by the UoM
Leos together with Leo club of Central College, Piliyandala and Leo
club of Presbyterian College, Dehiwala, with the intention of having a
comprehensive analysis on energy usage of Colombo-South
householders from 18th of February to 17th of April 2018. The initial
stage of the project was successfully held on 18th of February. We
hope that the project is a way forward to the energy conservation,
which is an essential need of today.

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Ares Championship
The “Ares championship” was held on 24th of February at Camila
School Maththegoda from 9.30 am to 6.00 pm with the participation
of many Leos from various clubs in the district. It was a tournament
comprised of four games namely, carom, chess, checkers and 304
which was initiated by Leo Club of Polgasowita and jointly organized
with Leo Club of Panadura Alubomulla, Leo Club of Mathugama, Leo
Club of Mattegoda and Leo Club of University of Moratuwa in order
to enhance the fraternity among Leos of multiple and a day to witness
competitiveness and happiness.
Leo Malinda Wijayadoru and Leo Mahesh Chathuranga from Leo club
of Piliyandala won the carom tournament while Leo Hasitha Jayanath
Pathirana from Leo club of University of Moratuwa won the chess
tournament which was held in parallel to carom sessions. At the end of
the event winners were awarded with certificates and trophies to mark
their exceptional talents. A very warm thank should be given to Multiple
District President of Leo Multiple District 306, Leo Lion Pramod
Wimalathunga and our dearest District President of District 306A2,
Leo Lion Kalindu Dissanayake for being at the tournament making it
colorful.

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Golden Netz
‘Golden Netz’ is the Indoor Cricket
Tournament which was organized for
Leos of Leo Multiple district 306 for
the third time in Sri Lankan Leo history.
It was proudly organized by Leo Club
of University of Moratuwa - The Most
Outstanding University Leo Club in Sri
Lanka in Leoistic year 2016/2017 together
with other twelve most active Leo Clubs
in Sri Lanka, representing all six Leo
districts.
This time the tournament was held on 4th of February 2018, the day which
Sri Lankan’s celebrated the 70th year of independence at X-Sport Arena,
Mattakkuliya. Opening ceremony of golden Netz 2018 took place with the
participation of Leo multiple district secretary of Leo multiple district 306
Sri Lanka, Leo Kesari Senevirathna and Past District President Lion Tuan
Roshan Latiff.
The tournament ran out throughout the day including ten team matches and
grand finale. The final match was in between team represented Leo Club of
University of Moratuwa and Leo club of Sri Lanka Technological Campus.
After having a competitive finale the trophy was won by the Leo club of
Sri Lanka Technological campus. The wining team was awarded with the
winner’s trophy and ten thousand rupees cash price, while team Leo Club of
University of Moratuwa received runners-up award. Here by we would like
to thank Leo Kesari Senevirathna, Lion Tuan Roshan Latiff and all other
participants who got together with us to make it a success.

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World Water Day - March 22nd, 2018
Year’s theme - Nature for Water
This year’s theme – Nature for Water – explores how we can use nature
to overcome the water challenges of the 21st century.
Environmental damage, together with climate change, is driving the water-
related crises we see around the world. Floods, drought and water pollution
are all made worse by human activities like degraded vegetation, soil,
rivers and lakes.
Nature-based solutions have the potential to solve many of our water
challenges. Together while thinking about the nature, the solutions must
be found to water crisis. We need to do so much more with ‘green’
infrastructure and harmonize it with ‘grey’ infrastructure wherever
possible. Planting new forests, reconnecting rivers to floodplains, and
restoring wetlands will rebalance the water cycle and improve human
health and livelihoods.
The step we take today will help for the survivals in the future. Do not
waste a precious drop of water. Gold is rear, so they are priced higher,
once water becomes gold the paying price will be a life.

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LEO YOUTH CAMP
Leo youth camp is an event
organized every year for
the Leos to have a different
experience. This year it was
held on 16th to 18th of February
2018 at National Youth corps
NAULA. Leos of Leo club
of University of Moratuwa
actively took part in this event.
At the closing ceremony of the camp Leo Kasun Ramanayaka, the
vice president of UoM Leo club was awarded as the best actor of the
camp for his performance of three days, and Leo Praminda Vindika,
one of the well-known Leos of UoM Leo club was awarded as the best
singer of the camp and Leo Dilan Nuwan who was a fresher to Leoism
was awarded as the most enthusiastic camper.
This youth camp became an amazing experience for all Leos including
more than fifty new Leos who participated. For sure they may have
grabbed many delightful memories for their lives. We would like to
offer our heartiest gratitude to Leo Kalindu Dissanayake, Leo Desha
Thalduwage and team for organizing such a tremendous event.

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Let’s learn from failures
(Leo Supimi Piyumika)
“The quickest road to success is to possess an attitude toward failure
of ‘no fear.”

Learning from failures is one of the best learning methods that we used
to learn new things since our childhood. The day that we were born as
infants, we didn’t know anything about the world. We learnt to walk
and communicate with others by making mistakes since we didn’t have
any fear of making mistakes. When we become more and more matured
in our life, we fear about failures and not trying out new things. It is
the hugest barrier toward anyone’s success. Failure has two different
meanings.
FEAR – Forget Everything and Run
FEAR – Face Everything and Raise
Actually a failure is a good opportunity to realize our strengths,
weaknesses and give courage to get succeeded in the tasks. On the
other hand, Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from
failure, loyalty, and persistence. Therefore Success and Failure are not
two different paths, failure is a steppingstone in the path of success. The
great president, Abraham Lincoln lost eight times at the election and
failed twice in his business. But he never gave up his dream to be the
president in USA. Therefore we should first change our attitude towards
the failures and try out again and again in different ways. Because failure
is better than not trying anything.

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Editors Note
UoM Leos can be simply introduced as a bunch
of youngsters excited to explore the depth of
Leoism while shaping their personality with
the experiences on leadership as well as on
humanity. As a club, we are growing up day by
day, in each step we keep forward, grabbing the
experiences that build our personality, together
with the help and guidance of so many giant
Leo Shanika Priyadarshani
pillars that show us the way to success. It is a (Editor)
great pleasure to have a chance to address this
audience, through the UoM Leos official newsletter, “It’s Us”.
If we have a quick glance on the recent past, as a club, we were lucky enough
to mark our presence through many remarkable projects like “Burn Less Save
More”, “DaVinci”, “Leo Youth Camp” and “Ares Championship”, within the
past month of February. This is the best opportunity to convey our gratitude
to each and every one who were there with us and gave their ultimate support
to make our every move a success.
In the moment of summarizing another successful month in the Leostic
year 2017-2018, we would be extremely pleased to hear any comments or
suggestions from you, on what we have done so far. They will be a huge
support to us, to plan ahead and continue the imperial legend of eminence.

Leo Chamindi Leo Supimi Leo Shirmila Leo Narmada Leo Anushka Leo Jayanga
(Chief Editor) (Editor) (Editor) (Editor) (Editor) (Editor)
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