Brain Drain, Delayed Meetings, and Jonathan's Strange Monk Story

January 19, 2021

The day starts with Mr Cool, body pain, and work for James, then turns into brain drain, delayed meetings with Thilanga, and the difficulty of keeping strong people committed to a slow country, before the night swerves into a stranger, more mystical register around Jonathan and belief.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

"Mr Cool"

12:15 a.m.

I am getting sleepy. ███████████████████████████████████ Selva is sending his guys to look at my Air Conditioning unit tomorrow morning. I will also look into it. He is a good guy.

It is important to support minorities and help them to come up in SL successfully as Tamils, (even the Muslims).

12:30 a.m.

I think I will wake up at like 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. later today. I hope they do not wake me up. I dunno. Let's see.

I saw some delicious eclairs at Oshella's bakery and also on a separate store in Uber Eats. I need to get that.

I am yawning, I am getting sleepy.

It is enough for today.

I do not hate any group or people. Muslims are perfectly okay. I also do not know anything about ███████. I raised my concerns, the rest is up to G-d to determine.

I am getting so sleepy. I will salt gargle and call it a night. I am so sleepy.

I wish I had some Lindt chocolate, I want some coconut water sometime soon, I love that...

12:45 p.m.

Did not hear from Selva at Mr Cool, but the air conditioning seems to start working after some time. I woke up like 15 minutes ago.

I am listening to Toby Keith. I need to start working on stuff again. I like Toby Keith's music. I like Red, White and Blue, I Wish I Were a Cowboy and American Soldier.

I think I could vote Republican!

I saw both brothers Jonathan Hirshon and Rocky Jackson shared stuff about cowboys.

I saw some interesting masonic brothers were also cowboys:

Brothers Kit Carson, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok!

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My brother Milan is playing Red Dead Redemption 2.

I like whiskey every now and then, but it is far too strong for me. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I do not like whiskey too much.

I prefer beer because it is easier for me to drink.

I love America. I wish I was born over there. It is the greatest country in this world.

I wonder what is there for lunch... I will need to go see.

I am a bit sleepy.

I have a lot of stuff to do, I dunno which one to pick first. I guess, I will focus on this plan for James. This earns a lot of returns.

Later I will watch these MasterClass videos on advertising and sales. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

3:00 p.m.

Selva's guys looked at our air conditioner. It seems to work, but I think over time, it has become less effective or something. I dunno.

I sent Jorge an email apologising for poor market performance due to Covid-19, there is no tourism to SL, so cannot sell.

I am working on James.

3:15 p.m.

I saw Selva had called me back, he is an honest gentleman, very cool guy, the personification of Mr Cool. I thanked him and told him I can help him win some lucrative contracts.

I am proud of my dad for having Tamils in Edna at important positions during the SL war. I am proud of my firm's multiculturalism.

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I sent the following email and business letter to Jorge:

"This has been a total disaster. It is a real shitshow! I know I have not even described Covid-19 as bad as it is. It has killed 1,000s and completely shut down SL. We have had no tourists. The economy is ravaged. It is a nightmare.

I am sure you have heard horror stories where the other countries also experience drops in sales.

How do we put ourselves in a position to pick up the pieces when this is over?

Graham's is a great product. My family is still influential. Things must recover.

Let me speak with the prospect hotels/ restaurants this year 2021 when they can buy and promote port wine.

My family will assist marketing efforts when it is possible to do so.

I am sorry about all of this, I accept responsibility, I did not imagine this virus would wreck things this badly."

The purpose of this email is to communicate that we have not completely given up on this endeavour. Through no fault of our own, this is proving difficult to accomplish. It is important to keep partners updated.

The purpose of me writing this here on FB, is so, people reading can learn and incorporate this knowledge in their own dealings.

Both me and my favourite Mason PM, Churchill, loved Symington's Port!

3:30 p.m.

I have a cough. Our "baas", which I do not know how to translate to English. I think it means construction or builder or carpenter. It is a generic, umbrella term.

Jagath uncle/ mami always affectionately mocks me as a "mason baas" because I am a Freemason or mason!

When Jacques saw him, I thought Jagath uncle was Jacques' father because he had white hair then. Jacques is 75, he is so old, Jagath uncle is 55 plus.

After dying his hair, Jagath uncle looks young.

Our baas Saman is fixing the towel rack in my bathroom. I am feeling tired and weak today. A lot of stress. I was told by Selva that he has reduced his staff strength from 20 to 9 people only because of Covid-19. I hope it improves.

SL is not doing as badly as some of the other countries. Dr Uwin and his wife Hiruni are doing doctor work at the NHS. It is quite heartbreaking to know there are 95m cases and 2m people have died -- some of them painfully.

3:45 p.m.

I was watching a documentary on Adolf Hitler by Timeline -- World History Documentaries called, "How the Nazi Party Began | Germany's Fatal Attraction | Timeline".

It is truly hard for me to imagine that these wars, WW1 and WW2 happened, or such a horrific crime that befell Jacques' chosen people happened.

It is unbelievable. The unimaginable.

I cannot believe SL fought a 25 year civil war over an official language, costing 10,000s of lives.

These terrible atrocities, things like Covid-19, they serve as a reminder of how human ignorance and mortality is frail.

These things can happen.

I personally feel quite disturbed internally to accept 1m Jewish kids died. I cannot comprehend how these good people, like Jonathan Hirshon can "process" such inhumanity.

The inspiration to this Captain's Log, Anne Frank, was a teenager when sent to and killed in a Nazi death camp.

4:00 p.m.

I think the mason baas, big boss, is his royal highness, Prince Edward, the duke of Kent. Who is the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England.

As he is royal blood, or a member of the royal family, as he is a cousin of the queen, he has appointed a pro grand master to act on his behalf.

I am friendly with Sir David Wootton who is a former lord mayor of the city of London and assistant Grand Master.

I will try to lobby favourable sports betting terms on behalf of Jagath uncle or ask our friends to assist. I think Sporting Star need the broadcasting rights to televise.

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If I caught Jacob's son, Nat Rothschild in SL, I would have tried to get better prices for cables for our planned data centre in Port City, SL. I know the HR guy at his firm, Volex PLC, is from my university, I will call him.

* FYI. In the 18th century, Baron Rothschild infamously said, "the best time to buy is when there is blood in the streets". *

4:30 p.m.

I helped my mum get into a Zoom meeting which Jagath uncle's oldest daughter Puthula akki is hosting. I wish I advised cousin Puthula to do that from a laptop.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

5:30 p.m.

I have a terrible headache and body pain. I feel weak. I am half asleep. I just feel so tired.

6:00 p.m.

I am so tired today. I am watching this boring ass documentary on WW2 and WW1, which I already know all about. I will later watch Too Hot to Handle which is funny.

I have a lot of work to do. There is a scarcity of capably intelligent individuals to hire or partner in SL, a dearth of ability, so most of our important staff are imported.

6:15 p.m.

It is indeed funny.

The developed countries steal our top qualified people, which we refer to as the "brain drain".

This prevents SL from rapidly improving as we lack the capable people required to do so.

I however, steal the best people in the world lol into a 3rd world country's startup.

Quite the travesty.

Sadly, when Thilanga uncle gives us a meeting, we go there on time, he does not show up, qualified people get fed up.

I make up excuses, I justify, I protect my uncle, but they are insulted, they complain, it makes us look bad.

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It is quite tragic.

I think it is just part of the job to put up with this sort of thing. A lot of good people get frustrated, fed up, the business fails, collapses, SL never gets the chance again.

It is unacceptably unfair, it is a problem with a severe lack of leadership, which is resulting in SL disappearing.

I do not know if Gotabaya is a serious character. I do not know if he is pushing people enough. I welcome discipline, but he is not a tough guy.

He is not demanding people get results. He is not a Lee Kuan Yew despite Ali Sabry winning points with him by saying so.

Gotabaya will fire Ali Sabry 100 times over for his failure in not coming up with a plan to shore up the judiciary by now, that is the bottom line. He chooses not to.

Leadership is a sacred thing. Leadership is more sacred than all the religions in the world, it is more sacred than royalty.

It is the responsibility for everyone.

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6:45 p.m.

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There would be no "Sinhala Only" rule, and there would not have been a 25 year civil war.

7:00 p.m.

Best thing I can do for Thilanga uncle are the following:

(1) I can add to his Wikipedia that:

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This requires cooperation.

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සඟවා ඇත

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021

"No Caption"

1:45 a.m.

These captions or titles are so stressful. Terrible for my health. I can never think of a good one.

These are good times for me. I think Jonathan Hirshon may have done something when he said:

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😱😳∴😮 Those of you who have known me for many years are aware that - for whatever reason that I still can't fathom after five decades - serendipity and I are intimately acquainted in a way that defies logic and even reality.

A chance encounter or an inocuous comment usually turns into something AMAZING for me - ██████████████████████████████████ and many others can attest the truth of this firsthand.

I don't know why this is the case. I don't understand the reason I am a Nexus for these events and portents. I only know I AM.

Most Recent Example:

My Masonic Brother and a man of supreme decency Lehan Edirisinghe just invited me and Amanda Hirshon to stay with him in Sri Lanka and participate in a Buddhist VIP event next year at one of the holiest shrines of the faith.

I was trying to process his incredible generosity as I walked Fenris and decide how to respond - and then it happened.

Sitting on the grass in a bamboo grove next to my apartment...was a meditating Buddhist monk. I was literally standing there with my jaw slack as I rounded the corner.

In ten years being in this location - I've never seen him before. I waited until he opened his eyes, sat down next to him and explained how he was a sign from above.

He smiled and said he felt drawn to meditate on this spot and didn't know why. I wished him Samsara and he replied the same to me, a thousand-fold.

I asked if I could photograph him, because NOBODY would believe this happened without visual proof - it was just too much.

The Deity has given me a sign - nay, blinded me with a burning SPOTLIGHT - and my course is now pelucid and clear.

It is said that a Jew on their birthday has the power to bless the entire world - and this b***h-slap from Above has re-energized me in the darkness of my abyssal depression. I must share in my good fortune in the only way I can.

Therefore and with all gravitas: I hereby bless Lehan, his family and ALL of you - thank you from the bottom of my heart for your friendship, your support and being who you are.

I am made a better man by all of you being present in my unusual and unique life.

Thank you for that - and for listening

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and i do not want to believe in magic, I do not believe in fairies like Tinker Bell,

but I get the feeling, something has changed.

Or is it just me?

https://youtu.be/ssiU0Xg_1J8

Sigh, edit. change the caption to "Fairies"

add.

I am concerned that the Muslims, according to Mommo in the Quran are forbidden from practising sorcery or magic or witchcraft -- this presents a big problem for me, as we do not need any risks with them finding out what we are doing...

I try my best to stay safe and keep people with different understanding far away from me or my family and friends, far away from my firm and definitely off my FB

I dunno, maybe Sufism counts too. There is good magic and bad magic, even so, I feel scared that they will hurt me if they learn there are things that cannot be explained in this world going on.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jk-rowling-deathly-hallows-symbol-harry-potter-inspiration-mason-a8025626.html

Note for future self reference. There are a billion of them, ███████ is not a representative of all of them, she was not anointed, appointed or elected. The majority of them are in pain, they deserve love and supporting kindness. There are many in unbearable pain. Plus, it is wicked to hurt anyone.

7 matched names linked to the Names index.