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Dasun Ginige (born 1 March 1991) is a talented Sri Lankan footballer, social event organiser and creative arts performer, who is an active member within the Sinhalese community in Sydney, Australia. He is known to be a loud and boisterous hurricane, loved and admired by his family and friends. However, he has yet to shed his current moniker of “Baby Dasi”, something that his family and friends are awaiting with eager anticipation, in the optimistic expectation that he might be slowly growing up.

Early Days
Born to Tamara and Athula Ginige in Sydney, Australia, Dasun was a chubby, rotund child, who liked rolling down hills and sitting on swings. He was a perpetual nuisance to his older brother Nuwan Ginige, and cousin Ruvini Fernando.

Nevertheless he was thought to be lovely and adorable, no doubt on account his chubby little cheeks. While he also displayed the occasional violent tendencies, usually involving hammers, his childhood was generally peaceful.

Pre-school and Infants
Dasun never developed a habit for looking directly at a camera, preferring instead to look away while photos were being taken. Nevertheless, a number of apparently cute photos were taken of him, highlighting his rotund chubbiness.

Early High School
During the early days of his high school career, Dasun attended Carlingford High School, where he excelled in most of his class subjects. He did not tell his mother that he got into numerous fights until after he had moved to a selective school (see Late High School).

Late High School
In Year 10, Dasun moved to Baulkham Hills High School, a selective school in Baulkham Hills. After a period of readjustment, where he did not become involved in any fights that he told his mother about, he become a popular and well-liked member of the school community, representing the school in multiple regional sporting events. He was also an active participate in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, going to New Zealand as part of his Gold [citation required] award.

Dasun left Baulkham Hills High School with a pretty good UAI result, allowing him to study commerce at the University of Sydney.

Duke of Edinburgh
Dasun was an active participant in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme upon his move to Baulkham Hills High School, where he was involved in a number of activities through this scheme. The culmination of his involvement was a trip to New Zealand, where he spent approximately two weeks prior to the commencement of Year 12 helping to restore some of the natural beauty to the country.

Soccer
Dasun has devoted his life to soccer, both the playing as well as watching of soccer. Commonly known as football throughout the world, but as soccer in Australia, Dasun has an irrational devotion to the Liverpool Football Club (LFC), based in England, a country he has yet to visit. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this passionate love of LFC stemmed from choosing this club when playing a soccer game on the computer. He now plans his social and sleeping activities around the playing schedule of Liverpool, and takes great delight in the misfortune of one of their greatest rivals, Manchester United.

Dasun has also played soccer at club and school levels since his early childhood, and continues to play a variant every weekend. He constantly is playing either outdoor or indoor soccer on the weekends, resulting in his girlfriend having to plan around his weekend movements.

Touch Football
Dasun also played touch football while in high school, and was a member of the school team that progressed deep into state-wides schools knockout tournaments. An unverified rumour also indicates that he may have played one of either rugby league or rugby union while at school, much to his mother’s disapproval.

Electronic Organ
Dasun played the Electronic Organ, specifically the Yamaha Electone for a number of years, from early childhood. He completed his Grade 8 AMEB exams in Electronic Organ, and was recently contemplating preparation for his AMusA diploma. Dasun has performed at numerous concerts and festivals, traditionally favouring movie and popular themes.

Sinhala School Concerts
Like many Sinhalese youth in Sydney, Dasun was sent to one of the many Sinhalese language schools in Sydney, in order to foster a deeper appreciation and understanding of the Sinhalese culture and language. It is during this period that he performed in a number of school concerts, notably while brushing his teeth on stage to nursery rhymes, an activity he performs today, with the additional embellishment of an admiring glance at his biceps (known as “guns” in the common vernacular).

Traditional Dancing
Dasun is a rare male traditional dancer, and as such was usually the sole male performer in amongst a gaggle of female dancers. During a period from 2005-2007, he was a star performer for a traditional Sinhalese dance group, performing at various stage concerts as well as the Sydney Buddhist temple in Schofields. He has since been unable to continue this pursuit, due to other commitments and demands on his time.

Tharuna Youth Group
Dasun’s major social contributions have come via his involvement in the Tharuna Youth Group, which was founded in 2002. He has been an active participant in the group’s activities since 2003, performing in its inaugural stage performance, before becoming involved in its breakthrough performance, a Steve Irwin mockumentary at Bak Maha Rangana, in 2004. Since then, he has become increasingly more involved and active in this group, eventually becoming its president from 2009-2011. He is currently still actively involved in this group, acting as the Social committee representative on the current executive committee. His continuing contributions towards the group has helped to sustain its successes over the first decade of the group’s existence, and help breed a new group of leaders within the Sinhalese community.

During this time, Dasun has performed extensively as part of the group's stage performances, dancing and acting in various roles throughout his time in the group.

Contemporary Dasi
Contemporary Dasi is now defined a slightly metrosexual, fashion- and image-conscious human being, with an obsession with BMWs. He is a frequent visitor to the local Fitness First gymnasium, where he continues to work on his guns. Despite this qualities, he is well-liked by his friends, from high school, university and TYG. As mentioned above, he is highly active in the TYG community, where he is well-respected by his peers as well as his elders.

He currently works for the BT Financial Group [citation needed], and is regularly promoted through its ranks. He has recently started a new management role, and is by far the youngest within his management peers. That he has shown such qualities and abilities at such a young age is a credit to his capabilities and achievements to date, and a future indicator of successes waiting to be realised.

Family
Dasi is one the babies of the family, which is somewhat amusing given that he has recently turned 21 years old. Given that he is the youngest out of the group of eight, he usually gets away with a lot of things that he really shouldn't. Friends have attempted to convince his family that he is actually organised, responsible and motivated, however his family are yet to see any evidence of this. This of course is a slight exaggeration; the more commonly held opinion is that he holds all of these desirable characteristics, yet chooses not to exercise them in the presence of family.

Nevertheless, Dasi is extremely fond of his family, as they are of him. He is a very generous and caring person, and makes then very proud (when they are not muttering under their breath about Baby Dasi).