Eser Fixed the Machine, but the Real Repair Was My Standards

April 12, 2021 Lehan Edirisinghe

The elliptical gets fixed quickly and for free, which sharpens the day's larger conflict: some people still prove useful, but most relationships fail to clear the bar, so the payoff is another hard round of pruning.

Taking the Elliptical Machine to Eser Marketing

2:15 p.m.

I will try to go to fix my elliptical machine soon.

I am worried if we can fit it inside the Nissan X Trail--

after disassembling it.

We have to go to Mirihana to show it to those rude people at Eser Marketing who refused to show up.

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Eser Marketing Fixing the Elliptical for Free

4:00 p.m.

These two friendly professionals at Eser Marketing quickly fixed my machine

People here are generally friendlier than the Indians

They saw that it was not assembled properly and fixed it well.

They did not charge me any money.

They gave me preferential treatment as my uncle Thilanga is known to them..

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A Sinhala New Year Visitor and Feeling Culturally Rejected

This guy came to our house for Sinhala New Year celebrations

I noticed he looked at me with contempt, these cultural differences are vast--

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As far as they see, they value nothing I have to offer, not even my life

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Expecting Religious and Cultural Conflict With a US CEO

This █████ guy, he probably has archaic religious beliefs, they will not click with me, they will never accept a US CEO--

They are desperate to keep US leaders, US tech companies, people like me out

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Keeping Pradeep de Almeida at a Distance

This Pradeep de Almeida, I can try to be cool with, but from a distance

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Taylor Swift

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Calling Someone Very Cool

Very cool

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A Group of Tech Gods

All tech gods

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Removing Family Friends From Facebook With a Polite Message

4:45 p.m.

(c)

Next to go, is these Coyle people, I will just say:

"Hello, I am restricting my FB to immediate contacts in touch with me, I will be removing most of my friends.

As you are my mum's friends, please feel free to reach me at any time if you need my help."

Then I can keep them at a distance, they are not exactly people who received my standard of education--

They do not respect or value anything I have to offer--

In this life, I must know I can trust my friends and partners with my life--

And i just cannot trust these guys, Saroj Perera, they took Lal's side--

These people in the Coyle, it is good to keep them in a controlled distance, they are not the US tech giant calibre and they will never click with me

These guys Shanka Marasinghe, Probodhinie aunty, Tanuja Seneviratne, the daughter Nadishma, these guys like Chamari Jayaratne, the son Hasanga, Wasantha De Silva, they are better suited as friends to my mum--

Lalith and Indira Kahatapitiya, they are all okay, but to me, friendship is a completely different, precious thing, they just do not seem to be enough

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Removing Someone From the Team Over Differences

7:45 p.m.

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Must remove her from team too

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Not a good fit, no space or room for differences

A Fictional Warning About the Price of Betrayal

8:15 p.m.

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Fictional:

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That kind of betrayal comes at a price:

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Widows Comforting Their Children and Liking WandaVision

8:30 p.m.

This is probably how a lot of widow's comforted their kids, like my mum or Sheryl Sandberg

I like Wandavision

Spotting Someone Who Looks Like Alison Hendrix

10:30 p.m.

This girl, looks just like Alison Hendrix

Introducing Hassan Sawaf as an AI Friend of MBS

10:30 p.m.

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Hi Alison, my name is Hassan Sawaf, I am best buddies with MBS, I do artificial intelligence

Rihanna, Ellen and a Long Music Video Watch History

11:00 p.m.

I was listening to Rihanna's Stay and Take a Bow and Unfaithful and Neyo's So Sick, and I was thinking:

This Rihanna reminds me of Deshani Dharmadasa. I have to intro Sandhya Aunty to Ellen --

Sandhya aunty really likes Ellen a LOT

and really loves me too

( but I dunno Ellen, though, maybe I might )

I like Ellen in Girls Like You by Maroon 5

I like Sarah Silverman more

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