Writing the Case Against Sri Lanka's Slow, Unserious Culture

ஜனவரி 14, 2021

The page starts with sleeplessness and Facebook edit limits, then widens into a long complaint that Sri Lanka rewards unserious people, buries good plans, hides deals, and refuses to move with the speed, competence, and aggression needed for real progress.

12:15 PM

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

There is a limit to how many times I can edit comments. This restricts my ability to write away unlimited. I cannot write anything else as it is an operational hardship, until maybe perhaps next week or wk 3.

2:45 PM

I fondly remember Podi Hamaduru, in his last sermons, he came to grandma's funeral service, and proudly said, "our family built this city -- on Buddha's teachings!"

https://youtu.be/K1b8AhIsSYQ?list=RD8w96oQtfc-w

7:30 PM

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

3:00 p.m.

"Dream"

I had a dream last night. I woke up and slept again. I faintly remembered the first dream. I saw Ranil Wickramasinghe. He was helping me with something. He is a good guy, he helped me startup my cyber business by giving me a chance.

"Equality"

I think when we see Sheryl, we can complain that there is a restriction on how much I can write. I will tell her, not all FB users or people are "equal", case in point, you are a billionaire, you are an author, you are in tech, important, bla bla bla

It makes no sense that I am only allowed to write edits of up to a 1,000 times, the same as every other 2 bn FB users, it should be I have unlimited edits

I would unfriend all of my current friends, except Jonathan and Jacques, if I could be buddies with the top people. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Whereas friends like Jacques are serious people. They are tough, they want results. ██████████████████████████████████████████████ I have deleted a lot more friends than I have added.

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How annoying is that?

That's the most important reason why SL is not performing optimally, it is only a competition to get the job, to get hired, to get a degree certificate, to win a seat in parliament, to be a lawyer by passing the bar, to be a doctor by finishing medical school, to get a dog as a pet, that is all, to buy a book to read it cover to cover only:

NOT to get a job to perform, to get hired to get results, to go to uni to learn or research innovation, to win a MP seat to lead this country, to be a lawyer to protect justice, to be a judge to establish a rule of law, to be a doctor to improve quality of life, to get a dog to keep happy, to read a book to understand and improve.

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It is like all those people who choose to read fiction over MBA reading list books.

3:45 p.m.

I wonder what happened to Dhammika Perera. He was a clever guy. Me and my deputy chairman Denzil were looking at Dhammika's plan. I am shocked it was not taken seriously. He is a billionaire. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ It is pitiful.

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That was a brilliant plan Denzil showed me. I was impressed. I shared similar ideas, but in some areas, I learned from him. I do not understand how that plan is not being deployed as a blueprint for SL 2.0. It is quite sad. I can understand if people do not give a Sinhalese a chance or pull one by the leg, but this man has already succeeded.

4:00 p.m.

"Hide Anything"

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These compainers, they all wished to be anonymous. It is so sad. They sort of fear punishment. Vast majority of kids in SL are punished badly, so they unconsciously (subconscious, learned self-sabotage) seek punishment. There is a vast cultural rift between the developed world and SL. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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I noticed, the ease of doing business index for SL is like 90 or 100 or 112, I cannot recall. I saw the cyber security index according to UK research firm is 90 or something. This is terrible posture. It is easier to manage a small country like SL. I do not know if Gota is doing all he can. I will be pushing more aggressive policies to him, I need rapid progress.

Basil and Namal are friendly with Denzil. It is too slow progress for me. I am not happy. It is terrible. These people are so inefficient. I hate it. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I demanded they start Ford's standard work ops management, including standard time to calculate and plan ops.

6:15 p.m.

I just had a shower. I was thinking, if it is all sort of my taxpayer money, then, it is a waste to run the jails. It is a waste of money to put people in jail for opium. I think we should have a Opium Company of Sri Lanka PLC, and then, earn tax revenues. Or Drug Company of SL PLC, then, sell marijuana, we can earn money.

It is a waste of taxpayer money. I dunno, maybe it will be a PR disaster. All these people will complain. Maybe it is not a good idea. I will do it later. I am only 27, I will be 35 one day and maybe big boss afterwards. I dunno. I think that is a lot better than jailing addicts and hanging dealers. It is a waste to police those drugs.

I was also thinking in the shower that these guys, in the courts, they make me sick with how slow they are. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████ █████████████████████ impeach her!

I am looking at PR work for our uncle, family business and this whole country with our CA contacts. It is not easy, but it is worth it. It is a good investment. I am disappointed by some things, but can still improve. I am annoyed, I cannot edit too much. I wonder what is going on with the courts in SL, I wonder if this Ali Sabry has produced a plan.

7:00 p.m.

*sigh* it looks like I am pretty upset. It is just because I do not like it when a court system is clogged up and cases are not processed in a timely manner.

I do not like it when people lose their stuff and are ruined because there is no justice.

I just do not like it.

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8:00 PM

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

7:30 p.m.

"Wrath"

I do not really hate anyone. I will try to be nice to people. But this is just by controlling a small circle of trust.

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It looks like there will always be an opposition and support for any thing you do. There exists a yin and yang duopoly on virtues, a balance. It is hard to say, this is right, that is wrong, as it depends on the situation.

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I was wrong to even imagine I could help them patch things up.

In the end, there is no happy ending.

It is hard to say this, it is not true.

This is cause, if it was true, she would not have taught me stuff, she would not have given me food and this guy Udesh would not have spent so much time playing video games, socialising and doing anything for me.

I found out, some people have said something about me, Udesh told them he did not believe them when we were very young. He made sure to tell me. That's why I know. It was sadly in vain though, I did do some bad thing..

I guess, I have never changed!

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These people are good guys -- sort of.

I guess, at one birthday, a friend called Shahan whose mum sold an aluminium company to Dhammika Perera for a billion rupees or something, he kept a small toy that makes fart noises behind me, and then, suddenly, at Udesh's place, I was at his birthday party, he pressed a button and it made fart noises.

It sounded like my stomach was grumbling or something. Of course, I knew it was not me, so I thought it was my bad stomach.

I was shocked.

*I am laughing while typing this, this is funny* and I saw Upali uncle was laughing, I looked around, it was that ██████████████████████████████

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Haha but it was just a joke.

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It was funny.

Everyone laughed at me.

I am laughing myself.

They do not really have any contempt for me.

I guess, I like to laugh at myself as well.

I do not take myself so seriously.

Udesh was one of the first friends I made.

He came to my first birthday party, and he gave me a big present, I asked him, "what's in it?"

He replied, "two Gameboys".

He lied, it was something else, it was something useful that his mum Sandya picked out for me.

I have his birthday card.

Udesh taught me how to draw trees. Just two lines curved vertical for a tree trunk, and a 3 shape for the leaves.

His mum taught me how to write properly, and my handwriting improved.

I am really picky on writing styles and fonts. I use Lora on our website and for business communications because it looks better than Times New Roman.

Google made Lora.

It is crazy, I spend hours formatting to make it look good.

Sandhya aunty and Udesh write with big letters using Uniball Gel Pens. It is a very unique way of writing. I also copied that.

I was going to sports betting shop habitual punter Abeywardena's English Language class near Battaramulla.

He showed me a girl called Shennelle Siriwardena's handwriting. It was impressive. It was like that scene in American Psycho, where they all show off their business cards and Patrick Bateman loses his s*** because the other guy has a better business card.

And, I was just outwardly pretending to be a good human being, which I always do, but I was pretty jealous.

Really nice handwriting, but I could not copy it.

It is good flow hand writing.

I think Thilanga uncle knows her and Minnelle's parents. ████████████████████████████

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A lot of friends back then, all of them sunshine friends, I do not know what a sunset friend is, those can be my mason friends like Jacques who is 75 and will be 76 soon, and is so old, but Udesh and these guys were like our thunderstorm and cyclone friends.

8:15 PM

Edit, Unibal Signo* Gel Pens

3:00 AM

Friday, January 15th, 2021

1:30 a.m.

"Picky"

I am most saddened that I cannot find dark blue as a background colour. I was forced to use green. Green is NOT a creative colour. I wanted it to be blue. But I guess, I can try to find nice colours to use to switch it up.

I just made a big mistake.

I was making tea. It was the last Dilmah tea bag in the 100x box. I was going to put in sugar, it was all clumped up.

So, I shook it.

A lot of it fell out.

My mum will be angry tomorrow to see the place crawling with ants.

I think the housekeeper Manjula is out for holidays, to celebrate Thai Pongal. I cleaned up as much as I can. Manju is like a family member. I taught how to do mirroring and soon I will teach her labelling in negotiating. She makes better Harishchandra coffee than me.

I do not believe in myself.

I like to make sure.

So, I like it when she verifies I cleaned properly.

I did not see our groundskeeper Velu who is also Tamil. I do not know. I went out for a walk, but I did not see anyone.

I will check again.

I was sad Lucy, our Dachshund dog had died, because I just threw away some excess food. I was the last to eat. It was mostly just steamed rice. The less valuable food. I ate all the hot butter cuttlefish from Great Wall restaurant.

I told my mum I like Great Wall restaurant who do Chinese food. I do not like Allstar that do western and stuff. I do not like Sri Lankan food. It is too spicy for me. I do not tear up. However, my tongue burns and my nose snots up -- which is disgusting.

I cannot eat spicy foods. They are terrible. I only like Chilli Crab. It is delicious. I like some spicy foods, but generally, I try to avoid it. I do not like it.

I am getting sleepy. Denzil Perera messaged me to update the team section of our website, which I did in 10 minutes. I put all our team mates in their own individual boxes. I love to be number one.

I think that, I would always be America if I were a country because their international country dialing code is +1. I think I would really go and invade a country over that, and not for oil. I am very, very- *I have run out of adjectives, I would say, "particular"*

Thilanga uncle got +███████████ and Dr Hans gifted me my dad's number for my birthday tribute. I love Dr Hansa. He is a big guy. I love the guy. I will "strictly protect". // cable

Wix is a great service. I know their people, but not the top people, yet. We just use our website to display information. We do not run web application services. We can accept payments and it is useful for coordinating purposes, but that is it. As the prices are high, we opt for more secure payment methods. It is just a display website.

Later onwards, we will add a complex web application service, so it can perform certain cyber security services for anyone. We can do cool things like scan the visitor, plant cookies and basically info gathering, port scanning and recon stages, other tricks, etc.

1:45 a.m.

I actually, do not know. I think we get reports, I barely look at it because I do not care. I get a lot of interesting data, analytics and insights. Geographic locations. What age the visitor is. What they do on the website. How long they look.

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2:00 a.m.

*sigh*

I was watching Garry Kasparov teaching a MasterClass in chess. I learned things like geometry, shouldering in the end game, skewers, double attacks, discovered checks, etc.

Very interesting, but my chess elo is around 700 or 800. There are 1,200 elo and 2,500 elo players. This is a Chess Grand Master. I feel lucky. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

2:15 a.m.

They are the real ████-ia!

I was thinking, I am going to bloody force everyone in SL to join the army. I want conscription. I sort of need it. People here are not disciplined at all.

2:45 a.m.

I am getting more and more sleepy. I am going to take 45 mg of Mirtazapine and call it a night. I am learning a lot. I was thinking, we need to really reform SL. I have a lot of plans. We need better everything. I want conscription, these people are not disciplined at all. They are lazy. There is no survival mentality. I cannot stand it.

*yawn*

The guys in Israel, they had to survive. These people in SG, they had to survive. Our people in SL make me sick. They do not worry about anything cause of Buddhism. Dhammika, Dilith, they want to be "happy".

I guess, it is good. But I have the competition in me. I want to survive. I dunno why people here are not realising they are poor and like beggars. They are not driven to survive. I cannot stand wastes.

3:00 a.m.

I. will. get. No. 1:

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4:30 a.m.

I am getting very sleepy. I tried clearing up the sugar spill in the dark, a few ants got on me. Vishnu and Shiva wanted to punish me for Thai Pongal. However, I did not get bit by the red ants.

I am waiting to watch a MasterClass on writing. I will soon. I love my life. I have every reason to be happy. I am beloved. I have such beautiful friends who love me so much. I love them back.

1:45 p.m.

"The Wake"

I got up. But I am so exhausted, I just continued to rest.

The Mr Cool guys, Tamils, they visited to fix my air conditioning unit. I doubt they have poisoned any components with ricin or arsenic or something hahaha.

Selva is a good guy. He has honoured his 1 year warranty and provided a new one. I wished him Ka-leng Vannakam, which means Good Morning and I also said Happy Thai Pongal. I did not realise it is the afternoon.

I am terrible with learning new languages. I speak a bit of Chinese. A bit of French. I know basic stuff and bad words in many.

It is important to help people and be kind. I do not think we should bully Muslims. Even if the Covid-19 casualties need to be buried, we can bury in a special cemetery. There is a responsibility to help people.

2:00 p.m.

I dunno. There is only circumstantial, presumptuous evidence on ███████.

I had a cup of Harishchandra coffee. I had it without sugar like non diabetic Jacques Huyghebaert. It was not terrible, but as with dark versus milk chocolate, I prefer sweeter beverages.