Train-Loss Memory, Aitken Meetings, and Family Fallout Monday

April 27, 2020

I closed the day with Aitken and Dialog pressure, low-battery frustration, family strain, cake jokes, old-video laughter, and the feeling that work, memory, and self-control were all still hanging together by improvisation.

Mon 27 Apr

3:15 p.m.

I had a few meetings from morning. I missed breakfast and lunch. I need to go get lunch. I have an important meeting at 4 p.m. with Aitken Spence. I need to finish my email to Ron.

7:15 p.m.

My team's Imtiyaz Gaffoor and Sanjeeva Fernando and also Ron took part in the scheduled meeting with Sineth Withanage and Aitken Spence CIO Mihiran Fonseka. Mihiran Fonseka didn't show up. It's unclear why. He didn't cancel or pick up the phone..

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The Mitsubishi Montero was a relatively big, powerful vehicle. The cheap, small bamboo barrier that Premadasa had kept there, could've easily been broken and Sharma uncle could've easily driven forward. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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7:30 p.m.

Whatever. As far as I know, nothing really went know. You can't absolutely know when you weren't there to see something happen. I think Thilanga uncle's gone to see that accident situation. So, he probably could tell. Who knows? I think if somebody had enough time to respond, they could've easily driven past a cheap bamboo barrier.

Even if it was a full railway gantry made out of metal, a Mitsubishi Montero could've easily crashed through it starting from 0 km. That's so easy. If my dad tries jumping to the back, that takes a full 4 seconds to react.

Next steps are my team is anyway talking to so many people at Aitken Spence. We'll figure out what went wrong. Then, we'll use Thilanga uncle to talk to Harry Jayawardena. It's better to go down that road. No point talking to a CIO. Always better to talk to and do a deal with the boss, chairman and owner.

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I want Thilanga uncle calling up Harry Jayawardena. In a third world country like Sri Lanka -- that's the only way to do business that works.

The next thing that's gonna be said to Mihiran Fonseka, no matter what, is Thilanga uncle wants to talk to Harry Jayawardena. That's probably the only thing. That's the only thing that should be said.

7:45 p.m.

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8:00 p.m.

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I must tell Thilanga uncle that if Sharma uncle had 3 seconds to say, "are you safe" that and my dad had 3 seconds to jump in the backseat. Then that must mean that Sharma uncle had 5 seconds to step on the accelerator too.

8:15 p.m.

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With all of that in his mind, Thilanga uncle should talk to Harry Jayawardena with the most polite, sweet and happy voice like he's talking to his best friend ever. That's how you talk to people. That's how I always talk to people.

Even when Thilanga uncle's talking to Harry, he should say something like, "oh I heard that Gota/Mahinda have asked you to paste a sticker on the bottles, can we talk about this, can we meet up?"

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Mon 27 Apr

9:15 p.m.

I'm so tired now. I had a long day. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Sriyani's husband Buwaneka died in the passenger seat when my dad was driving and a motorcyclist crashed killing her husband. That was an accident. You can't hear a motorcyclist coming. Sriyani hated and blamed my dad. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Also, it's just so weird that Chandrika's cousin's husband was driving after all the bad things that have happened with Chandrika and Thilanga uncle.

9:30 p.m.

I was thinking maybe we should be friendly with the Dharmadasa family. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

I don't know. Maybe, I'll cause people to get in to too much trouble. I shouldn't do all of this. Plus, I'm sure we can do some kind of deal with Harry Jayawardena for Aitken Spence with Thilanga uncle doing the deal making -- after all that's happened and just how close we are after all. We're such good friends!

10:15 p.m.

I don't know. I think maybe that Sharma uncle made a mistake, panicked and it was bad luck. It's tough to judge people so harshly. I have to show compassion always. Plus, I'll be happier by doing the right thing in constructing friendship. I can only monitor and speculate.

In the end, I'm happy with the progress. I don't want to judge someone as guilty when for all I know he's innocent. A lot of evidence is situational and circumstantial and even motive is there, but it's tough. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

10:45 p.m.

One of the worst things is to accuse and then find an innocent person of wrong doing without knowing for sure. I shouldn't do it. This was probably nothing. I'm sure if they had been hateful then they would've acted badly (or worse) towards us. I've gotta be cool..

These people are innocent. When he drove in, he probably froze in fright and was paralyzed. Maybe it got hit instantly or something. A lot of people are incriminated wrongly. That's the worst thing that can happen. If I say some dude murdered someone and destroy their life and they were innocent, that's disgusting and unfair.

I'll be okay. Things will work out. I'll protect these people and move forward as the correct thing to do. This guy Mihiran Fonseka probably has a valid excuse or reason. Even if my dad died, they probably made a genuine mistake. Or at least I hope they did.

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