I Don't Want Safety. I Want Control.

Monday, January 11th, 2021

I was unsure whether to write because I was scared some people would end up getting hurt.

But then I realised, it does not matter because this is only my private opinion. I have the freedom to share my personal opinions on any matter or anyone.

I think that a lot of things I write, they are true, and that is good.

Tuesday, January 12th, 2021

1:45 p.m.

"Health"

I took 60 mg of Mirtazapine last night. I ran out of medicine. I feel okay. A little bit drowsy. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

"Being Number One"

I hate it in Sri Lanka because the quality of care and standards are incredibly low. The bigger danger is that people in Sri Lanka are self defeatist and have no interest in improving.

For instance, Thushara Jayatunga, who is a perfectly good man, who is responsible for Sampath Bank's IT security, he said something that broke my heart.

I told him that I want Sampath Bank to be a tier 1 bank. He laughed, then said that that would take a long time.

He put it across that this was not possible. Or at least, it would take a long, long time. Almost everyone in Sri Lanka, they are like Thushara.

The people here are not looking to be number one as soon as possible and are not actively trying to achieve this. This is what I do not like.

I heard a long time ago, Harry Jayawardena was trying to buy up HNB, COMBANK, DFCC and NTB to try and consolidate. This is a push to T1.

I do not remember the name, but senior elite bankers, the ones running DBS (Development Bank of Singapore), the CEO I think, I heard he moved to a bigger bank as this was advantageous.

LKY wrote that banker believed in consolidation as it helps them to benefit. I do not know much about it, I heard and understood the pros and cons, I guess, keeping it as it is, is a good idea, it helps to keep operating strategies efficient.

"Praying for the Wicked Enemy"

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2:00 p.m.

"Maggi Flavour Preferences"

I do not like the Maggi Daiya Chilli Chicken noodles. It stinks. It tastes horrible. However, the Maggi Daiya Chilli is the best. I contacted Nestle to make a product safety enquiry, they did not follow up, which is just terrible.

"Home Ground Advantage"

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"Public Perception"

I am thinking of Thilanga uncle. There has to be more I can do in terms of improving the global perception of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and especially my uncle Thilanga Sumathipala. He is not perfect. But he is my uncle and I will protect him.

His enemies have ruined his reputation. He has a bad public perception. However, this plays to my advantage. If Gota was not a tough guy, he would not be President. In the same way, Thilanga uncle is valued as a maverick.

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2:15 p.m.

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2:30 p.m.

And, that, is precisely why, I must make sure my fellow Sri Lankans are properly educated and safe. I owe it to our Sinhalese people to sacrifice my Ego. If I do not do it, who will do it?

Bhante Saranapala is a good monk. He is uncle Channa Palansuriya's friend, the previous Sampath Bank chairman. However, Bhante has a purpose in this life, he can only do so much. █████████████████████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████████████████

6:15 p.m.

"Denzil's Phone Call"

I got a call from Denzil, as he is nearby Punchi Borella, he wanted to see me. I told him to wait until we make a move with Thilanga uncle as he or our team do not need to do anything.

I told him about a possibility for a data centre being set up in SL, VP regional manager potentials for SE Asia and planning Jonathan's trip to SL for August. I need some help planning and choreographing as I am a perfectionist.

"Chess and Freemasonry Parallels"

I played a few games of chess. I am improving. In Freemasonry, I believe we can link it with chess. You have black and white squares. I think there are book moves, then there is a strategy.

There are traps and gambits you can learn, which might not be found in Freemasonry. There is a lot of rote memorisation of the book moves in chess, and similarly, the ritual words and actions, in Freemasonry, a lot of parallels, a lot of inference, they are both notably hear, see and be silent types.

You also have ranks, files and symbols and hidden meanings and pieces -- you also understand there are rules, there is a purpose and a moral lesson and drama in every game.

It is always the same, no matter where, the same number of pieces, same rules, but it is always a unique drama every time. I dunno, maybe there is no connection, I just remembered two of the things I love so dearly.

"Sushi"

I am doing okay. I think my mum got sushi. I better get it before it spoils. I love sushi. It is one of my favourite foods. I used to eat it all the time in Singapore as there was a sushi restaurant nearby Clementi where I lived nearby Holland Village for 2 years.

6:30 p.m.

"Security Risks"

I found a problem on FB. I was quite sure I blocked Fatema Hassanally and also Sal something, but after unblocking them, it appears they were still friends on FB. ███████████████████████████████

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I think for this Kandy Esala Perahera, if Jonathan is my guest, I will beef up security, make sure they understand President or some VIP will show up too, then we will deploy the bomb sniffing K9 units, we will keep them nearby for good measure.

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6:45 p.m.

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7:00 p.m.

I wonder if my mum got the Mirtazapine. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I do not trust them. I trust brother Sohli Captain at Keells. Dunno about Cargills anymore.

Haha even I hate shaving, it is a really difficult chore --

Can't wait 😊

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

12:30 a.m.

"Funeral Planning"

I was thinking, I do not want to see anyone dead. Any death is tragic.

I mean, if you think about it, that guy, Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's Lasantha, he wrote that even Osama bin Laden had good in him, before giving into his passions of extremism.

I was moved.

I guess, with that perspective, even the worst people, Adolf Hitler, it was probably preventable. All of the 6m, 1m kids, they never had to die, if that was prevented.

If only...

If only, the right conditions were maintained, if only he was taught the right things, if only..

I am not always agreeable with brother Stephen LaBrooy, he and I disagree a lot. Steve hates the US for instance. He shared this book, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (2000) by William Blum.

It contained a long list of mistakes perpetrated by the US.

I was shocked, a lot of it was not true, but some of it was insightful, it helped me understand, enlighten me.

Osama also loved that book.

See, those guys, they all believed, they all believed they were "doing the right thing", they all believed, "they were just doing their part"...

2:30 a.m.

"Stressful Times"

I am under tremendous stress.

I feel writing things out, it helps me.

A lot of things could have been prevented, with the benefit of hindsight, or knowing how past mistakes or decisions resulted in the events that followed.

The whole LTTE thing was easily preventable. It was a stupid fight. I love Tamils. They are my friends and teammates, Eva and Jude are our CIO and CTO.

My dad had many Tamils in Edna.

All evil is preventable.

If G-d did not tell Lucifer to bow down before us, there would be no Satan, G-d did all of that, which, if you believe He is all-knowing, all-powerful, it means, there is no devil, there is only G-d, there is purgatory and we return to Him.

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3:00 a.m.

"Thinking Thrice"

I deleted some things I wrote.

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4:00 a.m.

"Rossyln"

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I saw they were able to successfully issue The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA of 1998 takedowns.

They put in DNA watermarks unique to each subscriber, and then when video is pirated, they know who is to blame.

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Certain methodologies used to minimize DDOS attack vectors or attacks, such as checking the web browser of the user, doing a robot detect audit by requesting selection of images,

IP address checking, using syndication, traffic analysis, disallowing multiple downloads or as with library genesis or Lib Gen dot rs (Russian server) or their many mirrors by restricting maximum permitted simultaneous downloads to 3 per IP address or session,

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I saw that Google shared DMCA takedown request data. It was held on some service, I cannot remember now. They later hid the non compliant websites. Further driving traffic to btdig dot com or more popular The Pirate Bay.

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11:00 a.m.

I edited prior comments. I think Ray and Thomas can make good friends for me. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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11:15 a.m.

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I will just concede that I resigned or delegated that duty to other people and/or it is not within the scope of the current management team.

This is what Jit Warnakulasuriya might say although he is owner and Chairman and hidden MD or Co CEO when politely declining a proposal from a complex, high stakes relationship person.

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11:30 a.m.

I wonder what Jit Warnakulasuriya is doing with Huawei. I hear stories. He is friends with Sandalal Edirisinghe. Sandalal showed me Martinn's house in Singapore, a less expensive neighbourhood in East side I think.

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