Kobe's Death Hit at Noon and Changed Everything I Posted After

January 28, 2020

Kobe’s death cut the day in half for me, and everything after that moved through grief, shock, posting, and the attempt to process a loss that felt suddenly personal.

11:15 AM

I'm a Freemason, and I would be honoured to be██████████████████████████████████████████████

11:15 AM (b)

Tue 28 Jan

11:15 a.m.

I had Mango Tree cheese naan, paneer tikka masala and butter chicken for breakfast. Honestly, I don't like it, I don't like Indian food. But like with all things, I like it every once in a while. Strangely, the Mango Tree food is too spicy for me and my nose is running.

I had a call with Tony██████████████████████████, who applied for our Consultant job. He doesn't know anything about IT security. I don't think he can work for us. He's 59 years old, I didn't get along well him, so, I'll anyway play G-d and *█████████████████████████ with the left hand like HW Bush 41* him.

I'm watching Howard Schultz's Masterclass on Business Leadership which I █████████████████. It's interesting. I love Starbucks, but in my entire 3 year stint in university, I only went there 2 times or something.

In Singapore, I went to Starbucks twice a month to see Valerie Chai who taught me business. I love Valerie, she is a G-d to me. She got my C grades up to As and Bs, I love her. I also went to Muthu's Curry every month or so for Indian food. I guess, I like Indian food -- somewhat!

11:30 a.m.

I need to go visit Dialog Axiata PLC at Akbar Brothers building at about 3 p.m. to speak with Chandima. I need to shave my beard. Then I need to visit Thilanga uncle first. I got a WhatsApp message from Sharon at processed meat project FOXTROT Singapore. It's going according to plan.

I need to write an email to GOLF-PAPA-WHISKEY partner in Portugal. I should include our company profile. It's looking good. I'll pick up not 6, but 8 samples from Customs. I'm looking forward to it. It's our alcohol project. I'm happy to try work with Mahesh Jayaweera, 50-something, GM Great Western Colombo Ltd.

11:45 a.m.

I think that the alcohol business will take like Rs 300mn, but will earn about Rs 40mn profit out of Rs 250mn revenue. This is just 10% of the market. With 100% growth, we earn Rs 400mn out of Rs 3bn revenue. I'll call this project GOLF-PAPA-WHISKEY.

I'm working on SIERRA and BRAVO-CHARLIE today with Dialog Axiata PLC. I instructed Indrajith Jayaratne to work on HOTEL-OSCAR at his management meeting with Chadu at Sumathi Group. I want to create and control the monopoly here in Sri Lanka.

I can buy a liquor import/ manufacturing permit for Rs 95mn, which is up for negotiation, from a Tamil businessman in Jaffna. But I'll try to use Thilanga uncle to get a liquor import permit from PM Mahinda Rajapaksa for free as Ministry of Finance issues these. It's hard to get.

6:30 p.m.

I just got back from a good meeting with Dialog Axiata PLC. I love Haribo Goldbären that my cousin Delitha Dharmadasa has brought from Germany. When people buy me gifts, or flatter me, the third world thug in me comes out, and I just think *wow, he's a really good, sweet person.* Damn, these taste good.

Dialog promised to do my scoping questionnaire.█████████████████████████████████They need to bring in their IT team because we're trying to protect their IT apps and mobile apps too. Not just their telco assets. I'm happy with the SIERRA and BRAVO-CHARLIE project. I'll report to Ron sooner or later.

6:45 p.m.

I'm definitely going to try use Sumathi Information Technologies and Indrajith Jayaratne to handle SLT. It's a nightmare █████████████████████████████████████████████. They don't know what we're doing.███████████████████ We need SIT to slowly work with these people. ████████████████████████

7:30 p.m.

I'm watching this boring Chris Voss Art of Negotiation Masterclass. It's okayish. I'm learning things from him. But ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Oh look "incentivization" isn't a real word apparently. I dunno. Motivation. Motivation is key.

8:15 p.m.

I was thinking about the war in Sri Lanka████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Hidden

11:15 AM (c)

Tue 28 Jan

11:15 a.m.

Exhibit 5. Job Applicants

I reject 90%. Out of the remaining 10%, I think I'm a B, and I hire As, Bs and Cs. Of the 1% survivors, I still fire people who don't share our vision, values or to a lesser extent, those cannot perform.

2:00 PM

Dhara Wijayatilake looks happy! Congratulations!

4:15 PM

I saw a nice art paintings book you can buy as a nice coffee table book at the National Museum of Singapore

4:30 PM

Wow. This work ought to be placed in airports to make them look better. These sculptures are really well made. :)

6:15 PM

I learned today that the creator of the Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, said very interestingly that the cause of Zombies is "space spores". I was left thinking this was indeed an ingenious and rather plausible, well thought out explanation.

I think that we need to be very vary of biological materials and the risk posed from outer sp██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, they may be able to survive space travel by way of contaminating a space use vehicular system or space based object such as a meteorite, and upon entering Earth successfully, they should be able to spread with rampancy.

What if it wasn't an asteroid or meteorite that killed the dinosaurs? What if it was an alien disease instead? What if it wasn't a volcano eruption -- but radiation or something else, instead?

I was surprised, and then quickly not surprised when I heard Bill Gates explain that new disease is something that can kill a lot of people quickly. Microsoft and Bungie released Halo, which discusses The Flood, a space spore like sentient, intelligent alien life form that parasites and spreads like a virus; I can't tell the difference between a fungus or virus or bacteria, they're all micro organisms, right?

In my country, Sri Lanka, there is widespread panic and concern over ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

This makes sense.

I hope things improve. We live in very sad, perilous times. Nothing is certain anymore. I hope we learn from these experiences and try to avoid and respond to a full blown zombie apocalypse.

I know it sounds strange, or from a Hollywood movie, or comic book adaptation, but I think the military needs to be ready for such a Day Z incident.████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

I dunno, I remembered the Robert Kirkman origin story for zombies being space spores, and I realised, he had a point. What are we going to do if that did happen? 😬

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2020/01/24/the-walking-dead-creator-reveals-the-origin-of-the-zombie-apocalypse/

6:30 PM

I want to wear a surgical mask because it's cool and not to diminish the woes of the afflicted, but it's the latest fashion trend! :D

7:45 PM

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12:30 AM

Wed 29 Jan

12:30 a.m.

I'm sad Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash. It's terrible news. I'm hurt about it. He was a legend and will always stay alive as a legend. He wasn't just good at basketball, he was a very cool person and I'm so hurt.

I always remember the shock and pain of losing my dad.████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

7:00 a.m.

I struggled to sleep. I woke up thirsty. I'll drink some water and go back to sleep.████████████████████████I'm under stress.

11:00 a.m.

I'm going to get ready to go to Pinky Akki and Amila Aiya's wedding's alms giving at Gangaramaya temple. I'm having last night's leftover McDonald's McSpicy burger with a slice of cheese and extra mayonnaise. I'm feeling really sad and hurt by Kobe's death because I was a life long Lakers fan. I played in the Lakers at Otters mini basketball club.

It's just that it's such ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

3:15 p.m.

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I just got back from Gangaramaya Temple. My grandpa built the giant thorana or stone monument with Buddhist designs at the front of the temple. I also want to do cool things like that. I can bronze it out to add to it. I have plans for Buddhism. My FOXTROT meat processing plan is in motion. GOLF-PAPA-WHISKEY project is going ahead.

I'll need support with GOLF-PAPA-WHISKEY project which I'll seek from Thilanga uncle. We're going to try earn Rs 2bn or 3bn or something revenue on that. But we need to start small. I'll write an email to facilitate SIERRA and BRAVO-CHARLIE. I'm waiting to hear from Indrajith Jayaratne when we're supposed to meet up.

I designated Sharon to handle FOXTROT, I also think Martinn Teng uncle can assist. I designated Mahesh Jayaweera to handle GOLF-PAPA-WHISKEY project as our new Chief Alcohol Officer at Cyberspace Command.

4:15 p.m.

I was thinking, even though I was sad my dad died tragically, I was lucky I escaped death, ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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5:00 p.m.

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5:30 p.m.

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9:45 p.m.

10:45 p.m.

11:00 p.m.

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11:15 p.m.

11:30 p.m.

████████Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody is perfect. At least I understood I made a mistake and corrected things. I'm only human. I'm going to sleep without dinner because they have kept food in the fridge. I'll get breakfast. I had a big breakfast and lunch at Gangaramaya temple. I'll eat some cheese or something. I can eat all the lychee with ice cream.

I love this song: