Ron Went Quiet and the SIERRA Wait Started Feeling Personal

February 8, 2020 Lehan Edirisinghe

Ron’s silence and the waiting around SIERRA got under my skin, and the day became a mix of virus anxiety, comfort food, family worry, and the private fear that business delay was turning personal.

Wishing Alex a Happy Birthday

Alex █████ Happy birthday!!

Personal Struggles and Pursuing a Liquor Business

Sat 8 Feb

11:45 a.m.

Ron is away on vacation and didn't respond to my WhatsApp message which he saw re: SIERRA. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. I emailed Ron, and got his out of office email, he must be busy on vacation.

█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████I need to get proper help. I'm going to watch The Apprentice. I should be okay. I need to get some food.

12:00 p.m.

I saw Milan had ordered some food.████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

12:15 p.m.

I think I'll just win.

1:15 p.m.

Srinath ████████████ is supporting Dialog Axiata PLC project. Ron from SIERRA advised on availability. I'll try on Monday to reschedule on Thursday for Sampath Bank PLC.

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3:00 p.m.

The Grandmaster for Sri Lanka, Right Worshipful Brother Ferhad Jamshed Nilgiriya will go to Duke of Connaught Lodge meeting with me, in March, when and where I'll be balloted -- hopefully not blackballed. Ron replied, I'll try set up a meeting on Wednesday. I have terrible imagination, I assume the worst.

I stopped watching The Apprentice as there's a technical problem, my TV went mute. I'm just going to rest.█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ In Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Thompson regrets helping The Commodore ████ Gillian Darmody.

4:30 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

My lip is aching. I have a boil or something because of the heat. I'm always in my boxers. It's boiling hot. I'm going to get some food soon. I can call McDonald's. But maybe later.████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

5:30 p.m.

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Romesh isn't a Freemason peculiarly, although he's a Knight of Malta. After blue lodge/ master mason, you get to be a mark mason and I think royal arch, and then, claiming to be Catholic, or even Jewish in the case of Sammy Davis Jr., you get to join Knights Templar or Knights of Malta, and various side orders, I think even Cross of St John or whatever.

I want to join because I believe that there's a spiritual war between Jesus/ G-d and Satan. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

8:15 p.m.

Jorge is sending samples of GOLF-PAPA-WHISKEY to me: 6 bottles. I need a liquor import permit. Or I need to get somebody to cooperate with me.

I'll say something like Thilanga uncle doesn't want to directly do or and so, we need to work with one of 20 alcohol importers. He's friends with Harry Jayawardena, we might be able to work with DCSL.

It's a great business. I always wanted to sell booze. I was going to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare with Sajantha, split screen online. He's got the latest one. He's gone to spend the evening with Delitha. So, we can do something on Sunday.

I'll ask Thilanga uncle if we can do something. I'm sure, as Thilanga uncle's trusted by Mahinda Rajapaksa, he can issue a liquor import permit to me as finance minister for tourism development.

11:00 p.m.

I shared 17 books on Zoroastrianism with my friend Right Worshipful Brother District Grand Master Ferhad Jamshed Nilgiriya, who is Parsi just like Sohli Captain, on WhatsApp. He's got to be pleased and impressed with me. I'm going to drink some chocolate milk and go to sleep.

I caught a greedy mosquito who drank too much blood from me, got fat and couldn't fly. I saw another fellow too. They're dangerous. I worry more about them than █████ coronavirus.

Warning Against Fear of Chinese People in Sri Lanka

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Supporting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa

We're behind you President Gotabaya Rajapaksa!

Returning an iPhone and Preferring a Samsung

I remember buying an iPhone, it was a terrible toy, so, I returned it the next day and bought a Samsung S8+. I've been very happy to have done so. I feel utmost sympathy for any fool who is fooled into buying that terrible toy: the iPhone.

Calling Added Sugar Culinary Cheating

I like this. But I think it's like blasphemy to add sugar when cooking. I noticed that Chinese always add sugar -- supposedly to counter balance salt, it's unethical and just cheating. Even when making suckling pig or roast goose, they lather sugar water. In the US, with BBQ, when smoking, you don't add sugar, but it still gets sweet because of the Maillard reaction. This seems a lot more skillful as it's natural sweetness, than to cheat with adding sugar.