I Heard Magic City Echoes, Fed Food Obsessions, and Felt Deal Pressure

ஜனவரி 15, 2020

I spent the day caught between deal pressure, food fixation, nightlife echoes, and the feeling that every passing thought was being folded back into strategy.

7:00 AM

Well written. I just want to touch on that 2. The House of Saud only keeps the religious Wahabi around to stay in power. It's how their ecosystem works. Nevertheless, they're friendly with America, and as such, their interests align more closely with Singapore's interests than Iran who constantly threaten action against the United States and Israel.

7:15 AM

I gotta see this. My family love Mercedes Benz -- I think our family bought at least 20 cars altogether

7:15 AM (b)

This is amazing

7:15 AM (c)

I don't think they could stop a US Tomahawk cruise missile -- it would've been too fast and likely undetectable, given how they mistook a passenger aircraft for a ICBM.

7:30 AM

You need to see Brain Dead, the TV series about US politics. The aliens love cherry blossoms. 😬‼️

7:30 AM (b)

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9:30 AM

I didn't know this 😲🤭

9:30 AM (b)

I'm a B average, yay‼️😬🤭👏👏🙃

9:45 AM

Mon 13 Jan

I liked Magic City. I kept thinking about Dr Hans Wijayasuriya because Jeffrey Dean Morgan who plays Ike Evans looks like him and also about Sharma uncle because of the story being about a waterfront hotel in Florida that reminded me of the Intercontinental Hotel at Galle Face. TV and story telling really is powerful.

12:15 a.m.

I have a lot of fun with what I do. It's mostly good. I'm just disturbed by all the evil in cyber security or war. I just feel sad. I worry about karma or G-d. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████I think deeply. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ If there's one thing i learn from Magic City, it's that I'm not what i do, it's just a job, it's not who i am.

12:45 a.m.

1:00 a.m.

I miss the limited edition Nacho Cheese Stuffed Tacos from Tescos. They were out of stock, I wrote an email and then Tesco sent me a few boxes of them hehehe. I love England. I miss that place. I think I was born there. But I mean, it'll always be there for me. I'm going to sleep. I'm so sleepy.

Oops. Cheese stuffed nachos.* Jesus. f***ing. Christ. That was awesome. I loved those. I gotta make em myself. I saw and was heartbroken to see Iranians respect the US and Israel flag while protesting in Iranian universities. We must take back Iran and free their great Iranian people.

I had 2 nightmares. 1 involved Dr Hans Wijayasuriya or my Dialog Axiata PLC deal and the other involved death. I slept again. I can't remember my nightmare fully. I just know I felt scared. It wasn't a nightmare, but maybe just a scary dream.

I had a 2 hour chat with Mihiran Perera. He's happy to be COO. He's recommended Chetiya Wijesinghe from South Asian Technologies as our new CEO and also Rehan Ariyaratne, the Seylan Bank CEO's son as a CMO. I told him Chetiya can be CMO and Rehan Seylan Bank account manager.

Americans got on the moon a long time ago. We're trying to get on mars. This s*** isn't difficult or rocket science. People are incentivised and motivated well. I'm doing a good job. I'll never really give anybody else the CEO job unless they have new plans.

8:45 p.m.

My mum's going to Mawanala to a Edna water board case. It's ridiculous. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ The judge shouldn't drag my mom to those. I'm going to ignore it. I'll just watch Boardwalk Empire and call it a night. Mihiran didn't want to talk when I messaged him, I'll try again tomorrow or something.

I'm going to sleep. I'm hungry. But no food available to eat right now. My throat is stuffy.

10:00 AM

Team work: Memorandum of Understanding!!

3:45 PM

I hope we can get these for Singapore and Sri Lanka

5:00 PM

Mon 13 Jan

Exhibit 1. Art: The song of the lark

5:15 PM

There's no tax on pollution, there's gotta be a tax on pollution: either curb or pay for government/ private clean up firms to undo the damage.

5:15 PM (b)

They left a souvenir

5:45 PM

😲😬🤭 this is amazing. But it's also opening a pandora's box in terms of dangerous applications and a gateway to naturalised cyber augmentation such as we see in Cyber Punk 2077.

8:30 PM

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8:45 PM

Tue 14 Jan

8:30 a.m.

I woke up. I'm hungry and sleepy. I'm going to go back to sleep.

8:45 a.m.

I remember this date cake I had from Tesco, I generously poured Tesco Finest Cornish Custard all over the pudding, I ate it at night, and i left the leftovers next to me. My room in England was pretty cold. I woke up, and being the filthy pig that I am, I ate it.

9:00 a.m.

I stole my sister Lehara's coconut water. I'm getting breakfast soon. I'm watching Boardwalk Empire--this is great TV.

1:00 p.m.

I'm really drowsy today. I had a small nap. I sent a letter to Eva, as she's leaving to Australia.

1:15 p.m.

Eva's going to bring a letter for me to sign. I asked her University of East London to verify she's been a student. I have a bad feeling about her. She made grammar, spelling mistakes and overall I got a bad feeling from her██████████████████████

1:30 p.m.

I'm watching Boardwalk Empire. I love this.

2:00 p.m.

I f***ing love Boardwalk Empire! I hate Sri Lankan food. Only Ashok Pathirage uncle's son Prashan Pathirage also has this thing where we both hate Sri Lankan food and love America and love Trump--we're special.

I first asked for potato wedges, but it wasn't available, so, I asked the maid to send the security guard out to buy some maggi or instant ramen noodles and a bottle of Coca Cola or root beer we call ginger beer.

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I think I can make root beer by myself one day. I love the taste of it. But there's just so much f***ing sugar. It's like 400 grams of sugar per 1 litre. It's really bad. At least if I brew craft beer, it won't have so much sugar. Today's question between the devil and deep blue sea is alcohol versus sugar.

2:15 p.m.

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G-d damn, I miss Dave Chappelle, he deserved the 2019 Mark Twain prize he won 6 days ago. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

3:30 p.m.

I'm watching Boardwalk Empire. I told Eva we can't give her a letter confirming she worked for us as she won't verify her university certificate. I don't think it's real because she's got poor spelling and grammar. I think she's lied.

3:45 p.m.

This Dialog project is so slow. I'm reluctant to call them up to chase down a counter signed NDA. I want to avoid antagonising, this is Sri Lanka, a ███████████ country, this is what I must expect and work based on. I tried WhatsApp calling Shathaka, Mihiran and Chinthaka--no pick up.

7:00 p.m.

I'm tired and watching Boardwalk Empire. I discovered barely visible discoloration or scarring or hyperpigmentation on my left forehead. It's barely visible. I'll show my mum when I see her. I want us to buy potatoes to make fried potato wedges for me to eat.

7:15 p.m.

I emailed Tilak Gamalath, the SLT CIO, and asked for a presentation meeting with his team and Shathaka. I'm very distracted today. I don't know what's up. I think it's too much stress. I need to do something with Sampath Bank. They're very difficult. I need to pay Rs 3,000 to register as a supplier.

I'm waiting on Mihiran ██████ to handle NDB, Union Bank, Commercial Bank and Seylan Bank. They're anyway slow. Everyone in Sri Lanka is slow. I work a lot faster. I'll need to visit Ministry of Finance soon. I can visit Ministry of Foreign Affairs too. I try calling DFCC, they're slow.

Chinthaka is doing NTB, PABC, and some other customers. I'm f***ing tired. I'm exhausted today. I think I had a shower, so, I shouldn't do my 10 minute elliptical machine run. I dunno. Maybe, I should. I should put on the air conditioning and do it. I need to wait to do BOC and NSB and RDB and People's Bank. Cargills Bank is a mess, I can ask Chinthaka to handle them.

8:45 p.m.

Mihiran said his parents advised him to leave our company haha.████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

My mum got me a duck sandwich from Cafe Kai in Hilton Colombo. I hate it. It tasted terrible.██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████I'm watching Boardwalk Empire and then sleeping.

I can eat cake my mum got me tomorrow. It's a bank holiday tomorrow. I'm feeling depressed. It's a very sad country. I wish I was in America, it just doesn't feel right for me to be here, I don't belong here, there's nothing Sri Lankan about me.

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9:30 p.m.

Dunno. ██████████████████████I'm going to sleep soon. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ But I don't really want to.

10:00 p.m.

The rose blanc cake I ate was terrible. 5 out of 10.

9:00 PM