22 May 2026
May 22, 2026 Lehan Edirisinghe
The Sworn Translation Problem
I needed a sworn English translation of my Sri Lankan NIC.
The translator was Dilshi Dedunu Wickramasinghe. The office given to me for collection was Sarath Walgamage Law Chambers.
I am not saying Sarath Walgamage personally handled the work. I am saying that this was the office name given to me.
The job was simple: one NIC translation, one seal, one signature, Rs. 900.
But the process became unclear.
Dilshi first asked for photos of the NIC. I sent them. Then she pointed out that one handwritten number was unclear. That was fair. It mattered.
But later, a final document was sent anyway, even though the unclear number still looked broken.
Because this is a sworn English translation, I wanted to show the original NIC before collection. I did not want an official signed document based only on a bad image.
I also wanted to pay cash at the office because my phone was broken and I could not complete OTP payment.
The issue was not the Rs. 900.
The issue was simple: when someone signs a sworn document, the details must be checked properly.
Small numbers matter.
Official documents matter.
And unclear paperwork creates real problems when people are trying to build something serious.
I dunno, maybe they don't look at it in person, who knows? We are also waiting on a new passport to send Apple
The passport thing is being processed slowly, I think it'll take a few days
I think regarding the Sworn Translation, they are Sri Lankan, the standards are South Asia, and India/Pakistan grade, which is "normal" here.
They probably don't care if they don't see it, because they can use a photo from a camera as evidence enough.
We're anyway leaving SL soon, so it's not a big deal.
I'm likely to see Mr Walgamage; who can do the honors, I guess
It's useful, to meet, because we were praying for a lawyer who can do the Sinhalese translation of our terms.
As well.
So this might be good luck.
He expects us as 7pm.
I sent the driver to collect my mom at the hospital, as sister is having a medical scare, and is somewhere nearby.
I think I generally feel uncomfortable with online payments, as SL is a low trust society, and we have low confidence in online payments. I think we could struggle in SL, with just Stripe, or Paypal, who might come here soon.
I took Dave Goldberg's motto of going global to heart, but I wanna be cautious how we scale and do it in a safe way, not terminal velocity.
I hope the drivers show up soon. I'm waiting on him. I was the catsitter for some time. The cat nanny.
It doesn't matter if they think that 8/11 or 8/1 is fine. It's just $5 bucks.
We want some clever lawyer to interpret, or translate our terms, which we actually depend on for how we serve users.
I did a clever job, with how I put it in our first article, that we interpret it under the Angry Spirit, as we wish, like Norway's constitution, to avoid the pound of flesh problem, and then we also went full comprehensive like Singapore's constitution.
Just for AngryPages terms of service.
The best person is perhaps that lady, Alison Hendrix, or some FB or Meta Policy Director, who can do the platform policy engineering we seek.
I hope Walgamage won't charge like $100,000 to do it!
We're glad to supply Law Dept: SL Govt's database; but fear they'll buy Indian / Pakistan tech over our California tech!
I saw Jacques' kid Michael was doing db stuff for the bank someplace.
I think Jacques advised a mobile telecom provider someplace too.
I can't remember. I haven't seen him in a while.
I made the book, "AngryPages: The Magic Book Everyone Can See" for children, although we're a 13+ or 16+ platform.
And I made it rhyme. I put visuals in, somewhat inspired by The Little Prince, which is a favorite amongst the French speaking world.
I put in lots of fun pictures.
Jacques likes it, cause he speaks french. He went to like Antwerp Uni, in Belgium or something as well, so he likes it.
God damn, my M1 Air battery is crazy good. I use my laptop all day every day, and the battery never seems to die on me.
I wonder how we can win a contract with SL gov't, I don't think we have a 10-15% chance, so it's best to give up.
It's likely they'll award those under narrow political drama cases. Not worth it.
Walgamage might not know how either, but he lives nearby.
I might list our book on Amazon, for fun.
I was shocked we'd gotten 2 applicants on LinkedIn, without even promoting it, out of 15 who saw the COO job, and in a very short time also.
We want someone lucky in California to end up the new Sandberg, because I'm big for women's rights and stuff.
I researched this poor girl Dilshi, who also, is into that stuff.
I'm a feminist, despite being a guy. A very manly man guy. Hehehhe
I wonder how many books we can sell.
It's 6:45pm, I wonder where this f***ing driver's gone?
Aww, Google's so sweet; they say Mr. Sarath Walgamage is a well regarded legal veteran with deep knowledge
I miss my wartime consigliere Gamini Marapana at Barnes Place. His son's okay, he's actually my uncle Thilanga's age.
But Navin's not a murderous killer like me.
Giggle, chuckle, very sincere seeming laugh.
A killer like Kai Trump, as Trump would describe her.
Not thugs and killers as Bush described Saddam.
My mom's here. I'm going to go out.
I met Mr. Sarath Walgamage, who lives 5 minutes away -- good guy who scanned my NIC a few times to redo by Monday
It was my r***rded mistake, I hadn't sent a good, proper photo of my NIC. Poor thing, has made a bad statement unfortunately.
We'll go collect it by Monday.
No rush.
I was ashamed to find, my LinkedIn settings, and Blocked, and a friend, whom I thought had blocked me
I think it's a reality check on how
I dunno so much
It's sad
I'd blocked like 50 people on LinkedIn with no real reason
Here comes the big boss; let's get it on!
From a feint into a slip
So cool, I wonder if Gere did it
I told Hemasiri I called up that Pretty Woman's producer
Arnon Milchan, but really I spoke to his secretary
Who reports to his son Yariv
I somehow thought he had made Exodus
Because I wanted to show off those Paul Newman photos
For the Sylvia Kristels in our AngryPages audience
Easy Rider
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ffIJ7ZO4U
"Goodnight, now it's time to go home" Then he makes it fast with one more thing "We're hatin' it! We are AngryPages!"
And I would go there for my big sis
Although, to be frank
I'm more of a Delta Force kind of person unlike her
And stuff
But cause I'm so skinny and stuff
And can't do that 5 mile run carrying too much
I think I can carry like 10kg
I can just go get another one of those Trump letters
Where next time
He signs off as Donald
And then baddabing
BADABANG
Lehan's kicking down Soleimani's cave door!
Boots on the ground, and on the motherfucker's throat
Spreading freedom 'n democracy!
Right throughout the land!
Especially for those terrorist whackjobs
Who are defaming poor Trump with their
Calumnies and lies
Free Palestine: LIES!!!!
This is so cool. Yeah, even I am wondering how a r***rd like me programmed AngryPages to do all of this
The f***ed up part is it actually f***ing works!
This is so cool, like, the Trump letter, and various things, they match up, and then, they end up with context.
Which is why I get pissed off, when some users, can evade detection, and put weird stuff in, when AI doesn't detect or catch it
I dunno it slips past
We're all frightened as platform operators because of 4chan CSAM stuff
4chan or actually Tumblr!
Tumblr*
They f***ed up
We're a publisher, so we are not as badly exposed, but we do work hard to detect weird stuff on our images and text
I gave Karen, a whole card in our protect list, as... And also, Elisabeth. When I tuck Jared elsewhere, Ivanka next.
https://angrypages.com/pages/protect/
She is a very inspirational figure to me
I think those people like Jonathan, are big on other people
And Gina Smith is big on Woz
I just think Keren's a real inspirational figure to me
This was heart wrenching; as I really liked the guy, and felt hurt to see
I think, I got a bit down in the UK, on Father's day, because I tried to control bio processes and did go off the rails...
I think I tried some antidepressant called Sertraline, and that was a daytime, normal antidepressant
But I took it at night like I do my mirtazapine, and then, it sort of kept me awake
I was lucky, I had Claire Heggs or Alex Marsh and University of Leicester's Student Support services
Whom I was lucky I kept around, they helped out
I then, got on Mirtazapine again
But it's kinda frightening how those small mistakes, can go south
I was lucky Alex Marsh, was around, who I found by chance, he stopped what he was doing and helped me
I think I had a pretty extremely horrifying tale of child abuse with that CCTV camera
But I was glad I got help in 2015 or Year 1 end of UK uni
I was in uni for 3 years, so 2016, and 2017 I graduated
I finished Singapore from 2012 to 2013 or something
When I got back, in 2017, I lived under the CCTV in my room, and I got depressed on Jan 17, in 2025 when I caught onto it finally
I got help after Jan 22, when Jacques arrived to remove it on 25th
A lot of very awful repressed trauma memories
What's scary is I never really suffered flashbacks after it was removed...
It's a shocker.
I got help from NHS or 111 a lot back in uni.
Really it was my good luck cat Ghost in the end.
I got really lucky.
Koshi 'n Sandesh didn't want to take down the creepy old CCTV:
Jacques did it, ol' Gandalf took out Eye of Sauron.
I also couldn't believe that pedophile camera was staring at me for so long..
I choose to bravely share my story because I don't want depressed, honest and good people to die by suicide
AngryPages is a powerful, powerful book.
It has the power to save lives.
I have read a lot, and besides Howard Stern or Comedy Central roasts, I don't find anything quite as honest as my own diary.
This is the work of a survivor, who Elisabeth Hasselbeck would approve of.
Even if my story is a little bit abnormally scary, it's still a great story, for young people.
I got help, I spoke to the Sumithrayo, whom I'm believing are far more useful, helpful and honest, than the local support services or Samaritans.
I strongly warn against getting "help" from Sri Lankan trained doctors, because they're not properly trained, lest you suffer a fate like Ryan Nethicumara or the others who sadly got very bad care from locals. I feel sorry for Gamini/Natasha. Sean Samarasinghe talked to me about it, and explained Durdens' pov. I know that Ajith Tudawe guy, part of COYLE, but I doubt Raki and their family.
I found the lack of integrity, by locals, when I examined cases of suicides, to be sour, disgusting and cheap like how Nawaloka fried some girl alive in a MRI machine (if my memory serves me correctly), they cheap out on the standards very badly.
5 year old girl: Buddhini Kaushalya Ratnayake's parents believe there was an explosion at the MRI, although the doctors or owner will claim otherwise.
I am not sure, maybe she died for other reasons, too, it's hard to say. It's possible the parents were lying or making claims to get more money as compensation from Jayantha Dharmadasa or something.
Asiri is ok, but local doctors suck.
I suggest getting help from Singapore or UK or American doctors. I found Friedman was a really clever expert, whereas others were far below him.
Or even by reading AngryPages which is far greater than anything else, any of the rubbish you find in SL.
Everyone in SL uses FB, or YouTube, they don't really regard PickMe as highly as Uber and -- the standards, the values and way you do stuff matters.
You should use AngryPages, not garbage, if you want to succeed.
On AngryPages Protect Page, we swear allegiance to the USA
And in our company, we actually swear by the old oath of allegiance, from Washington days because I'm a freemason
We swear to kill anyone the President of the US orders us to
But only if I agree with it!
I mean, if it's Trump, yes
But if it's some ugly monkey, f*** no.
We swear to carry out any instructions given to us by the President of the United States
Whom I am hoping, is either going to be Vance next, or even Gavin Newsom
As long as he won't be a f***ing Gavin Nuisance on my ass with those $800 Franchise Tax Board demands on my little old lemonade stand
I'm just a humble, simpleton, selling lemonade like a girl scout
And that wicked man, Gavin is trying to tax us to death
And I was on the phone with others, who I won't name, but they were saying, "Lehan, we need to leave California.. they're trying to tax us unfairly and too much"
I told them, "Gavin's not like that. Gavin's not a nuisance or a Newscum or a Newscam with those taxes and stuff... "
I gotta get one of those Jefferson Constitutions, to swear our officers when we hire them for the important jobs
Basically anyone reporting directly to me at AngryPages Inc
Jefferson BibLE*
Wow, this is beautiful, I also like the way the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ended in the end
I am not hot for Robert Redford, but that Paul Newman looked good
Especially on Exodus
This dude, Hemasiri, has great taste
We need to meet the daughters digitally to approve the pictures we make for his book which we're willing to bet AngryPages on
Or at least on his story
I think we bet AngryPages on AngryPages™ the story I wrote
An Officer, A Gentleman, A Doorway
An Officer and a Gentleman works because it is not just romance.
It is dignity, escape, discipline, pain, and finally, tenderness.
That final image — carrying someone out of a hard place and into the light — feels almost mythic. Not because life is simple, but because sometimes one beautiful gesture says everything.
Some films age because of style.
This one survives because of feeling.
Arnon and Yariv Milchan's secretary burst my bubble: We didn't make Exodus!
Last time I bothered Jeff, was when I needed help from Matt Garman at AWS
He must be in SeattLE or something with Mikey
They gave us SES and cool AWS tech
Which, for a little Batman like me, means a batmobile or sonarvision or something
We're big on technology because it is what it is to me: cool.
I hope I meet David Ellison or something; we can make a Top Gun Maverick off Hemasiri
I am happy most about how AngryPages is American.
That's like what I love most about it.
I'm waiting on Monday, to get this uhh NIC in English
And then, we'll likely get the passport too on Monday to send Apple Inc
Apple, probably doesn't know anything about me
But one of their people, Jonathan Hirshon, who did the PR for Steve, and Woz, with Guy, and Boich, the guy was the one who gave me confidence kind of like how the drill sergeant does what he does
Yeah, even I didn't like the weird, nasty joke laughing at Charlie Kirk getting shot, I didn't laugh about it
I dunno Pete Davidson, but the guy's got an iconic face for Joker
And he did okayish
It's baffling how all of those violent figures, were Democrats
Or liberals
As prejudiced as I am, more than I'd care to concede, I'd have expected a right-wing nutjob who happens to be a Republican doing that
But from what I am seeing, and what I remember Jonathan pointing out, it's some of the Democrats who surprise us with violence
Such as that TM Crooks
I like what Vance said, we can all disagree, without having to shoot each other or get violent to solve problems
There's a fair way to do it
It's 11:45 pm and I'm going to sleep
I'm looking for a person, as COO, to really take over as CEO; and I got hurt, remembering the depression stuff
I was making succession planning stuff.
I think I have my childhood best-friend Mikey de Alwis, even if he wouldn't consider me his bestfriend or whatever to own AngryPages
But Alex is perhaps a good bet too
I want Mikey, because he can make the most of it
He's sort of, not really, "big enough" and the business can help him...
I got a lot of good LinkedIn applicants, which stunned me
Because of how impressive they are
I'm studying our plans, our strategy, and looking carefully, at who the right person is, but I'm not Trump, or something...
We will pick someone, who can run AngryPages
I thought Venura could do it, but he's kind of not showing up or straight with us
These new candidates could easily exceed us
One of them, looks like a real f***ing killer
I remember, Friedman, telling to me buy Melanie Fennell's book: which Sam found in my emails..
I might not be a fanook... but I like Melanie's work..
Trevor Friedman, was a
I was very lucky
He might
I dunno
He was pissed off, when I kept thanking the guy
Judith Wragg, his secretary, also was kind of
I dunno
They helped me a lot
I have a bias, in favor of Jews and Christians
Which affects how I hire people
I am also atheist, or not religious
But I am a Judeo Christian
One of them, John, looks like a real killer, for COO
I dunno, I'd have picked Sandberg tbh
But that's like, "unfair"
I really like Sheryl Sandberg
Whom I replaced my real mom with secretly...
And I guess, if Eric Schmidt, can't net nanny me like he did Larry Page or Sergey who I only ever read up about and found out were alive cause they did an interview with the only magazine I ever read or subscribed to...
I have to find someone else.
Looks like John is the frontrunner, whom we might pick.
But I want a real coldblooded killer, who can run a McDonald's start to end op, and a Lockheed start to end op, as... "as I understand it".
I want a Ronald McDonald, with a real red apron..
We're shortlisting: John, Devi, and Heather: But I like John, we'll give the best deal we can, to make the most of it
I was wondering, what type of reward sharing makes the most sense.
And as I want a long term owner, partner, I was being generous.
As it's one of those things.
Excited.
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