Thu 6 Feb
6:30 a.m.
I had a nightmare and woke up early. I remember Bhanuka Harishchandra, from Surge Global, doesn't like me. I asked him for help on LinkedIn with marketing. He didn't like me and refused, then he blocked me. Very weird.
Hannah Pickering told me to talk to him. He's told her I screamed at him on LinkedIn messenger, which isn't true. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ These things happen. Not everyone gets along. I'll just pretend if I see him around, try act cool and move away. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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7:00 a.m. Thu
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Today, now it's 7 a.m., I can try call up NDB at around 10 a.m. to see if we can do a SIERRA project for them. I think it's a good fit. Since Ashok Pathirage uncle is deputy chairman, we may be able to do something. Without any help, it's impossible to do anything. Even when speaking to their CEO ████████████████████ and COO ████████████████████. You get the feeling they only care cause you mention Ashok uncle or Thilanga uncle's name, they don't care about cyber security.
That's the quality -- it's the way it works here, you can't reasonably expect them to do their job, or duties. Their CIO █████████████████ went to the same University of Keele as ██████, and so, they must be working together. ██████ doesn't hate me, but ██████████████████ does, and I bet as ██████████████████████ and ████████ were at Union Bank, they probably will hate me together. My best strategy is to directly deal with ██████. The second he delegates, the project is over.
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7:30 a.m.
Everything will work out okay. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████I'm happy. It's just a matter of time till I succeed. Dialog can't afford to do 10 projects with me simultaneously. It's a lot of time and resources. Plus, we're charging.
8:00 a.m. Wed
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████We're very lucky. We just need to fix the justice system and everything will work -- we'll be better than Singapore.
I actually love it in Sri Lanka. I just don't like how things can be improved so dramatically and people are so slow to do so. Gotabaya is a good leader, but he's not fixing the justice system. He doesn't see that. I will never leave Sri Lanka or escape. This will always be my native land. I'll see to it this place develops into a first world country and beats Singapore.
8:30 a.m.
I'll give NDB a call and see if we can go for a meeting appointment with COO ████████████████████. There was no pick up. He's probably not even in office. I'll just be cool. █████ is his secretary's name. They're cool. We'll try sort it out. I tend to imagine the worst. I should be cool.
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9:15 a.m.
I like things neat and tidy. I adjusted and copied my writing to make it clear. Even my signature, it's just my name Lehan Edirisinghe-- there's no flow writing, all the letters are individually written carefully. I love the clarity. I was thinking that I'm learning quite a lot.
9:30 a.m.
I'll see what Chinthaka is doing. I want to tackle all the enterprise customers. I want to try set up a meeting with NDB's COO Deepal Akuretiyagama. We're trying to do pen testing for them. I called, Fowzi told me he's really full and busy -- better to wait.
1:45 p.m.
I ate a Sri Lankan food lunch packet my mum bought. I ate most of it. It wasn't so bad. But I started tearing and snotting up my nose. It's really too spicy for me. I don't eat Singapore style Chilli crab because it's too spicy, it makes my nose run uncontrollably. I feel a bit faint.
Ravi Thalgahawatte was a bit friendly over the phone. I think it'll work out for us at NDB. I think we can do it. I'm exhausted. F***, my nose is running. I hate spicy food. I feel faintish. I hate Sri Lankan food.
2:30 p.m.
Slight risk is we may go for a request for proposal or quote tender. Then, we may get into trouble. I don't know. I've registered deals. I have the Dialog deal. I've got the Sampath Bank deal too. So, I'm controlling the market.
4:30 p.m.
I worked on registering with NDB. I think I need to pay Rs 3,000 LKR to register with Sampath Bank. But I'm meeting Pasan Manukith on Tuesday to see if we can do pen testing for him. I've got a lot of work to do. Good news is we can register without a VAT number for NDB. We don't claim VAT anyway.
I think if required, Dialog can give us a letter saying whatever, bla bla bla give these guys a VAT number as we're paying so much and want to claim 8% VAT. That can be arranged. I've spoken with Ruwan Bakmedeniya at HNB. He said he's thinking about our company's pen testing services.
4:45 p.m.
I'm going to continue watching The Apprentice soon. I'm going to listen to Killing Machine, the song by Tony Crown. I heard it in Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 5. It was amazing. Anyone knows the reason I'm so cool is because I have a cool soundtrack like Red Right Hand by Nick Cave.
Trump has the money, money, money song. I dunno. It's a tough one. They're cool songs. I love music. I also have a good deal with Wasantha Alwis who will buy anything from me only if I have 3 references. So, Dialog, Sampath Bank and NDB = Central Bank.
