Mon 9 Mar
2:15 p.m.
I'm still in my bed. █████████████████████████████████████████████████ I'm completely drowsy. I feel almost paralyzed. I can't drive at all because of how drowsy I am. I didn't have any breakfast or lunch.
I think I'll get moving soon. ███████████████████, conducted an interview over the phone and then I took a body wash. I hope there's a laundered pair of boxers. I'll slowly get on with my day. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I feel really dizzy. My whole body's aching. ██████████████████ Why couldn't I have been born in a developed country like the US? It's so sad. I'll try to fix this place. I'll get moving soon. I need to call these account managers and see what's up. I'll just get some revenues and hire better account managers..
The people over here aren't properly educated. You need to constantly follow up with them. It's ridiculous. These employees can't think for themselves. Even the smallest thing, you have to give instructions. It's annoying.
3:45 p.m.
███████████████████ Even if I don't like it, it helps me to cope with the stress. I don't know. Tomorrow, I'll call someone at NDB, an AVP of IT. I'll pursue NDB Bank. I need to call the account managers and see what's going on.
4:15 p.m.
█████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I feel stressed. I think I just need to talk to the account managers.
5:00 p.m.
I'm really sleepy today. I'll read Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss and then I don't know, I'll call my account managers. Delegation helps me cope with stress. I just have to patiently follow up and everything.
I was just thinking it would be impossible to imagine a hellish world where Sri Lanka was number 1. It's just unbearable. A country with zero integrity being number one would be unbearably unacceptable.
Obviously, with a country like Singapore, where there's a 1. Rule of law, 2. No. 1 Ease of Doing Business rating, 3. Pro MNCs/FDI stance, 4. International Benchmarking and 5. Survival Mentality., it's plausible, believable and something everyone wants. That's why Singapore is No. 1 and Sri Lanka's a third world country.
5:15 p.m.
Let's see what we're doing:
(1) Sanjeeva ████████ is handling People's Bank (he knows the CIO), BOC, Cargills Bank and NTB (he knows CDO).
(2) Kasuni ██████████████████ is handling Commercial Bank (knows chairman) and Sampath Bank (knows the DGM IT Pasan Manukith).
(3) Shathaka ██████████ is handling SLT (knows the CIO).
(4) Cyril ██████ is handling Seylan Bank (knows the CIO).
(5) Saranga ██████ is handling NDB (works there) and Central Bank (knows people there).
(6) Chinthaka ████████████ is handling DFCC, PABC, Union Bank, RDB and NSB.
(7) I'm handling HNB (they said to call in end April).
5:30 p.m.
My laptop is anyway being repaired at Softlogic's Dell Computer Repair Centre. So, I can't really go to do a presentation with the customers. I'm sort of stalling and only scheduling meetings.
6:00 p.m.
I'm really sleepy today. I'm really tired. I'll practise and rehearse my ritual lines for my 3rd degree Freemason meeting next Thursday. I want to get my words and actions correct. I love Freemasonry. I'll practise at 6:30 p.m.
6:15 p.m.
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. I'm just so tired. I'll need $180,000 bucks to buy the asset also. Hmm.. I need to close deals. I'll try buy some time by claiming it should sell for $500,000 or $1mn or something.
7:00 p.m.
I was practising my 3rd Degree Freemason ritual acts and lines. I think I've mostly got it by now. I think I can advance pretty quickly. There's just a few people in Duke of Connaught Lodge No. 2940 and I've got my friend Right Worshipful Brother District Grand Master, the boss of bosses in Sri Lanka Freemasonry, Ferhad Jamshed Nilgiriya to personally mentor me directly.
8:30 p.m.
I think I've got too much empathy or something. I feel so hurt by all these problems in Sri Lanka.
9:30 p.m.
I had a little dinner. ██████████████████████████ I'll go to sleep. I'm very disappointed by what's going on in Sri Lanka. The situation in the country's dire. People are rejecting a rule of law, rejecting better ease of doing business ratings, rejecting MNCs/FDI or even technology, rejecting benchmarking and rejecting a survival mentality.
9:45 p.m.
I think I should be okay. I'm waiting to get this deal with Dialog Axiata PLC done. █████████████████████████████ It's so hard to even get important business done in Sri Lanka. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I can't believe I'm like literally the only one who gets it. I'm the only one who gets it in Sri Lanka. Nobody else sees that we can't survive without a rule of law. I can't believe it. At least Gota listened to me. He told them at the law society of Sri Lanka. That's something.
10:00 p.m.
I think I'm in a Queen phase or Farrokh Bulsara phase. I remember I was in a Bowie phase, which went away. This probably won't last forever as well. I'll find something else. But I love Freddie Mercury. There will never be another Freddie Mercury.
11:00 p.m.
I'm going to sleep soon. I'm patient. Good things will come, good things take time.
