Rainy Fort Worth, JFK, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams

மார்ச் 10, 2023

A JFK and LBJ photo in rainy Fort Worth set a reflective tone late at night. Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” played to match it

Story

Churchgoing, Easter Sunday Fears and Secular Humanism

11:45 a.m.

I did go to Christian church with Martinn and his friend Charles back then, "Herbalife" friends, and everyone in Singapore..

I may have met these people, though, I only go to church for my spiritual reasons, not to really do business, get a place in Sri Lanka Cricket or to network or do any kind of marketing or politics...

I would frequently go to church before Easter Sunday Terror Attacks 2019.

But after these, I stopped, because I have zero confidence in Sri Lanka Police to deter these attacks.

I would actually go down the road to All Saint's Church. Asita Amarasinghe and his mom were very kind. I met my house servants there. Although, I actually treat everyone the same. Unless you're a criminal.

I would go to church every week in the UK.

I've never been to a Buddhist temple in Singapore or the UK, except once in Manchester or Birmingham with Jagath uncle...

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I don't identify as a Christian or a Buddhist, I only accept the denomination of "secular humanist" although, I am aligned with presbyterian, evangelical zionist, episcopalian and anglican or church of England traditions and even my own interpretation of Mahayana and Theravada, and I'm only asking to be supreme governor of Buddhism now.

: )

Story

Comparing Dilmah With Lipton and Warning About Taxes

5:30 p.m. (b)

Oh my mistake, Dilmah makes $58m, almost $60m; not $40m, although, I wouldn't be surprised if they're losing money given the economic fallout.

Big deal

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Lipton, PG Tips, whatever.

We'll see. Sure, we can help you set up tea estates or farms, and factories.

Yeah sure, a charter works.

We have our own SL Tea Company, you can partner that.

Story

Planning to Replace Axiata With an SLT Monopoly

5:30 p.m. (d)

█████████████████████████████████████████████████████ And yeah, we can give you some 15,000 jobs, with that $531m. How much is it? We'll give you 30,000 jobs at $17,700 per year. To help develop Sri Lanka instead. We charge 20% off that by the way and 10% goes to SWF.

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That $602m will go to making sure SLT is competitive. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████ But we'll do it properly. Axiata has put in $1.5b in investment, for some fiber lines. I'm sure they've recovered that investment by now already.

We can anyway use that money to develop Sri Lanka. There's so many areas for us to invest in, and also, for our people, to use this money for themselves.

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Wanting to Leave Sri Lanka, Earn Money and Find Security

2:15 a.m.

I think best to also just move to Seattle, which is a great place. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████████████ The general atmosphere is so distraught, helpless and hopeless. ████████████████████████████████ Day in and night out.

And anyway :

When we do sell copies, there's official, demand. So, we can see, that people do support me and want change. For real. And it's not like I'm greedy or need a lot of cash. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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That's all

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Hehehe

It's crazy.

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Coen brothers' wife, Joel's (or otherwise Ethan's) wife

Joel's wife Frances McDormand in that stupid movie, I gave a 3/10 for:

Or a 0/10 for:

Nomadland

She's got some personal belongings, it's all she has. ███████████████████████████████████ She doesn't show her despair, she holds it together, but shows her anger, that her prized possessions, some plates, were destroyed or shattered, she just tries her best to stay cool.

Great acting by the way.

It did grow on me. I hated the constant cinematography cutting shots, every 2-3 seconds, a new shot, a new camera angle. Got me nauseated.

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It's very sad.

I'm keen on moving forward.

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