Langtang Revisited!

Being at the same place after 5 years made my heart glow a lil more.

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Lankan Lore-3 :-)!

17^th May, 2016

It's the third day in Srilanka. Srilanka is all wet at this time of the year. Keeps raining all the time. Getting up and rushing for the breakfast and the training is the early chore of the day. Yeah! I miss Ankit most of the time, while am in the training. This is such a thing someone becomes a part of you like your breathe. The second day of the training today focused on Risk Analysis and then talking about M&E plans where we talked about setting the indicators. Yesterday we set up the intervention logic with the impacts, outcomes, outputs, and thereby the activities. Similarly the assumptions based on the the risk analysis was made and then jumped into the indicator section. The end of the day was made with outcome mapping where we expect/like/love to see something and thing were made as such.

Setting indicators

After the study sessions, back to the Ellen’s place (the hotel we stayed in) and then the evening stroll towards the Upali restaurant. The food in Srilanka is really good. We both like the taste.

Typical Srilankan Lunch (Spicy one :-))

Dinner (Roti-Mushroom curry and Chicken Kottu (in the right)

It was a good walk to and back. We had talks, so many talks and then sometime teased. Sometimes got annoyed. That's how life moves on J Ahh! wonderful Life. Btw I love this time. Much. Very much J!!

Somewhere in Colombo near the Lamborghini store :-)

Tomorrow we have plan for Jacuzzi J More stories on meet again. Until then stay alive J

Metta!!

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Lankan Lore-2 :-)!

16^th may,

Day 2 at Srilanka. The busy-ness has started. At 9:00 AM I have a training to attend. The training that I am participating in is "Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning (MEL)" by MDF Asia. I am a part of it from 16-19^th  May, 2016 here in Colombo.

Beginning of the day happens with the food and Srilankan food to be precise today.

Typical Srilankan Breakfast (remove the cornflakes though)

The hustle bustle for the day started and there I was at the training place. Miriam Lindwer is my trainer here. It was good to see her. I met Yaseen Ariff (of MDF) for the first time today after all those mails and skype chats previously. We had a long talk before finalising for the training here. So the session for the coming 4 days has started in here. We began the classes with the knowhow on M&E and it's history. Were good talks.The linkage to MDGs and thereby leading to SDG were also taken under care. With talks food waited at the other end. Lunch time it was J

Srilankan Lunch

Dessert (I forgot the name though)

The day ended on good learnings on Results based management approach, intervention logic and all. It was a fruitful day J

Then came the evening stroll in Colombo J

He captured Me J

We-We <3 <3

Lovely days and night J

Love
Metta!!

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Lankan Lore-1 :-)!

15^th May, 2016

15 April  2016, we got married. Today 15 May, 2016 A month of togetherness of us :-*

Love our presence <3 <3

And Boom! We are here in Srilanka J The honeymoon travels has begun with more of stories to come along in the days to come.

We started from Kathmandu at 1:30 PM yesterday (14^th May, 2016)

At Tribhuwan International Airport

with a transit at Thailand from 6:15 PM to 22:10 PM

Thailand welcomed us :-)

At Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Bangkok-Thailand

 and leaving again for Srilanka from Thailand at 22:10 .

Time to see off J

Bye-bye for some days Thailand J Off we go

and reaching to Srilanka at 12 AM. Aah! Long flight it was.

Waiting at the Immigration at Bandaranaike International Airport

 And then after all the processes at the airport we headed to Ellen's place.

The place where we stayed, Ellen's Place

After getting up in the morning we moved towards the Majestic City as we couldn’t plan to move around much because of the rain. Yeah! Srilanka looks good. It’s raining though.  News of flood have also started coming. 

Rainy Colombo, Srilanka

The hotel people strictly told us to move in a meter taxi as the people over here can 'thago' us. So there we were in Majestic city in a while riding in a meter taxi. Wooooo! I experienced the Ocean for the first time. As far as we could see, only ocean could be seen. Wowww! This is been amazing a feel.

Indian Ocean (Yayyyyy!)

Me-He and Indian Ocean :-*

We we <3 <3

We tried some Srilankan cuisines for the first time today. Kottu or Kotthu as they called were yummy. And then we also tried Hoppers. It was like pancake, but some different taste of course.

Kottu or Kotthu Roti (vegetarian)

Hoppers or Appam (Vegetarian)

It feels good to experience these things. And yeah! more stories to come J Until then!

Metta!

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