Welcome to Janith's home page.
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| My name is Janith Ratnayaka and this is my little corner in Cyberspace. I hail from the little island formally known as Ceylon and famous for it's delicious tea and also for it Sun Drenched Beaches and Gorgeous Sunsets. The picture on the right here is one of me fallin out of the sky (having jumped out of aaeroplane flying at 2200 feet. There are more pictures of me and some of my friends in my pics page. |
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I had my primary and secondary education at St. Thomas' College, in
SriLanka, and then moved on to Royal Institute where I did my O-Levels. After this, I went
to the Stafford International School to do my A-Levels. I've managed to keep in touch with a few of my friends from my school days, but I'd like to get in touch with many more of the (So guys, you know what to do !) |
| After finishing my Secondary Education in SriLanka, I moved to the "Granite City", Aberdeen, on the East Coast of Scotland, to do a degree in Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering Department at the University of Aberdeen. That was way back in 1992, and although it seems like years ago (I guess it has been a while - 7 years !) I have many fond memories of the wonderful people I met there.
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During my final year, I spent 3 months in Maskin- och fordonskonstruktion (the Department of Machine and Vehicular Design) at Chalmers tekniska högskola (Chalmers University of Technology), in Göteborg, Sweden, writing a final year thesis on the "Effects of Product Data Management Systems on the Product development Process."
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| I graduated in July 1996 and not really knowing what I wanted to do next,
I began a PhD, looking at the Dynamics of an Oscillating water column. About nine months
of this made be realise that a PhD was not for me - not at that point in my life anyway!
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| Realising this, I started applying for jobs, and got offered a job at Rolls-Royce, as a graduate trainee. I moved down to
Glasgow in October 1997 and began my first job there. An year later, I was moved to Derby,
where I am now.
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| My job spec involves many different things, but primarily, my task is
setting up a website for Compressor Systems (the business which I work within.)
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| In the little bit of spare time that I have, I enjoy dancing. I caught
the dancing bug about January this year. It began with Salsa, and since then, there's been
no stopping me. I took up Jazz about two months ago, and I'm enjoying that very much as
well.
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| When I'm not working or dancing, the thing I like to do is travel. My last
adventure took me to the East coast of Africa, from Zimbabwe to Kenya on an old London
Double Decker Bus !!
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(Arthur the Bus)
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| My next adventure is going to be through South America. (The countries
I'd like to visit include Peru, Chile, and Argentina). This will probably happen in the
summer of 2000 or 2001. So if anyone would like to join me or tell me where else I should
go in south America, please e-mail me and let me know. Travel tips and "do's and
don'ts in South America will also be very much appreciated.
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| If you wish to contact me, you could E-mail
me. I'd love to hear from you. Any comments, about me, what I do, my web site of anything
else will be more than welcome.
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| If you so desire, you could also have a look at my CV. Any job offers which will pay me loads of money will be given
due consideration (the amount of consideration given to the offer will be in direct
proportion to the size of the pay check being offered !)
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| If you are interested in what I've been up to in the recent past, you
could check out the Ziggy Zaggy Diary
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| I hope you've enjoyed your visit to my little corner in cyber space, and I hope you do visit again soon. |
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| This page was last updated on the 2nd of July 1999. | © Janith Ratayaka 1999 |
