My 83 year old aunt (only blood family I have) just called and told me she finished church and went to Galle Face now, to the protest.
Pacemaker. Needs a cane to walk.
Eighty fucking three.
Made me so proud right now.
🖤🇱🇰✊🏽
🧵 Seasonal Gratitude (Pls Read)
I have lived alone most of my life. Having lost both parents at different stages. I was homeless by the time I was 20.
My 20s were a blur of parties, narcotics, booze, bad company while straddling the band, a profession & a personal life.
Ladies and Gents of 🐥.
Thought I'll finally drop some astronomical tidings with you guys - that I've been meaning to share for a few weeks now.
Yours truly is going to be a Dad 😊.
Jess is going to be a Mom 😊.
Parents, we are going to be 🔥.
Blessed and Bloody Thrilled.
🧵 I would like to share a true story with you guys. Please bear with me as this is a tad lengthy.
I don't always feel the need to have to justify or explain myself, but there seems to be some misunderstanding with regards to my 'affluence' & supposed financial station.
Phatso passed away a short while ago.
He was unwell today and I looked for vehicles everywhere to take him to the vets. The only ones with fuel refused to take a dog.
I couldn't even be with him when he passed, was looking for tukses on the road.
🥺😭💔
Shattered.
🧵 An IT related Suicide
1. Just got wind that a tech company considered a 'great place to work' had a young employee take his life due to work stress, being overworked, and having HR reject his constant appeals of wanting to resign.
Old Boy passed away this morning.
I was with him, cradling him on my lap on the floor until the struggle ceased and the light went out of his eyes.
I kept telling him he's an old warrior who'll head straight to Cat Valhalla 🥺💔
Buried him.
Bad scene.
No lavish celebrations or splurging of funds for customs.
Smartly investing those funds for our soon 2 be daughter, 2 live in comfort & not spend the formative years together settling debts. Sinatra did it his way. The Jess & I did it our way. Thanks for all your wishes guys 🖤
🧵 The Jess of Staves
The Jess is the strongest, bravest, and most resilient soul I know.
Unlike me, she doesn't post stuff much on her socials, prefering to keep every triumph, hurdle & life event mostly close to her heart & away from public perusal.
Just saw a former Mrs.Sri Lanka chastise and reprimand the old cleaning gent at the gym for vacuuming too close to her, cackling: 'Aw Mi Gawd. Owuka methanin geniyanawww. Mata work out karanna baha!'
Wait for it.
She was on a treadmill 🤣
Whilst I was grabbing a Heineken little while ago, fella comes and says 'Uncle you have a maara patta voice ah. Didn't know anyone here in 🇱🇰 had that kind of range! You should really start a band.'
😆
Me: 'I shall do that. Thank you so much.'
🤷🏽♂️
🧵 PICKME THREAT 😡 (1/4)
Jess, Calli & I are house hunting this morning. We booked a car. The driver couldn't find the location. When he got there Jess asked him to give us a few minutes as we need to close up & bring a 4 month old down. He kept calling over & over impatiently.
Chatted with a gen z last night, he said: 'I don't get how anyone could enjoy Tʜᴇ Gᴏᴅꜰᴀᴛʜᴇʀ.Tried watching it & fell asleep. Just old men dressed funny, talking non-stop. No superpowers or action. They can't ACT even."
🤦🏽♂️
Good thing I am a law-abiding citizen or...
Trust should be built.
Respect should be earned.
Life should be lived.
Humility should be taught.
Patience should be sought.
Knowledge should be shared.
Experience should be treasured.
Pain should be felt.
Integrity should be measured.
Talent should be nurtured.
Acquired my 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 Degree specializing in 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴!
❤️🔥🔥🤘🏻
I now have a Double Masters, CIM and a BBA.
Skipped graduation in Malaysia, deciding instead to utilise that money to fund my Doctorate 😊
Life isn't fair. Never was. Never will be.
Fate is cruel. And all we can do is learn from our journey & etch our own arcs with passion & purpose.
Stop basking in misery. The 🌎 doesn't owe you shit.
Be the architect of your own goals. Be the engineer of your own choices 🤘🏻
The Commercial Bank digital banking app has to be the most non-user friendly, befuddling customer experience around. Not sure if their objective is to dissuade customers from utilising online banking facilities or if they are merely testing every patron's virtue of patience.
I have a lot to be thankful for.
And this Christmas, I not only got to spend it with my band, a few friends, Jess & her sister.
But Jess has become my home & filled the fractures of all that I ever lost.
She & our daughter to be is my sanctuary, therapy, sanity & salvation.
Then you have village idiots like this.
Buggers took 10-15 min of their own bittersweet time while people queued up and were waiting for them to conclude their little 'ATM Langa Sangamaya' 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🙄
Only in 🇱🇰 I tell you.
🧵 Over 23 years ago... 2 boys from S.Thomas' College Mount Lavinia had an 💡 to form a band that would play heavy, hard-hitting original music, with provocative lyrics & an unforgettable live show.
Why? It sounded like fun. No one else did it. And it was the music we loved.
Attended the midnight premier screening of
#TheBatmanMovie
at Scope.
It is a darker, grittier, mysterious Frank Miller inspired detective tale.
Spot on acting. Apocalyptic tone.
Enjoyed it.
Many layers. Must watch it again.
#nospoilers
Got my MBA transcript today, finally.
0.7 short of a First Honours.
But, this is life no?
😔
Still pretty OK for a dude that decided to pursue he's higher ed in his mid 30s.
How pray can one get any work done after a chaotically busy morning when you have this Godsend just watching you and making the cutest sounds like a lullaby version collab between Cradle of Filth and Pinkfong? 🥹
A guy just called & asked if I would do his MBA dissertation & case studies for him if he pays me handsomely.
I declined.
Sure, I could use the 💸
Having principles matter more.
If you can't clock in the time & effort to value & do your own studies - then DON'T study ffs.
The iraj of charismatic Christian charlatans.
With a brand new album:
"False Profit" feat the smash singles 'Mo Money Mo Spirit', 'I Touch Gently, You Fall Hard', 'Gullible 2 Infallible', 'Red is ma Colour Bitchez' and 'Get Rich or Die Praying!'
Perhaps the 1st time there's been a correlation between The Meteorology Department and Capital Markets.
Daily Mirror you guys are smoking up some top notch stuff at work, no?
😂🤣😂🤣
Okay, so this is the ONLY problem with the Big Match.
I called my wife and told her I want another child with her that I love her.
I was told I called someone else.
Jess is laughing at me now. Because it's someone she also knows.
That person has gone for an exorcism now.
See you guys at GGG.
Let's rebuild, fortify & leave a monument that changed the course of history. That criminals, thugs, crooked law enforcement either destroyed or assisted in its destruction rekindling a 🔥 for it to be rebuilt into a greater ecosystem than what it was b4!
Ladies and Gents, as of today, I have now officially completed my Top-Up Bachelor's Degree (despite having a Double Masters and CIM - but this is due to not having a First 😮💨) nailing the last module!
I am hopefully going 2 be eligible to finally attend to my PhD now 🤌🏽🔥
1 year ago I sank to one knee and proposed to The Jess of Staves!
Exactly a year later, we have a beautiful daughter & and settled in to our new (and final) home.
I have lived life on the opposite bank of the stream & often wondered about the emotive effusion with regards to kids.
I've always been close to dogs & cats. And of course, I know 'love' as very complex textures of varying affection with reckless abandon.
But this...
❤️🔥
We found her! We found her! We found her!
Thank you so much to everyone who shared the post, and helped look for her 😪
The humanity & support many showed is truly heartwarming.
She was under a neighbour's car, petrified, starving & shaking.
She is safe & back home ❤️🔥
🧵 Murder of a Great Man
Our sentiments and prayers with The Shafters.
Our powers bust so much funds on our so-called defence budget. Yet when something like this happens to one such as Dinesh Shafter, what chance of security and safety do us average citizens have?
🧵 (1/5)
Today, after my morn workout + chores, I was at a Keells & saw this fellow outside. He was a mess, could barely walk, was being chased by patrons & staff alike.
💔 I tried to feed it & saw he was lifeless, also people had thrown water at it to chase him away.
🧵 The Jess Day
I don't deserve you. Yet you are everything that's good about me.
You've blessed our family with a beautiful daughter. You've been my anchor and sails, my sun and rain, the waves and flames to keep me grounded, happy & sane.
Good morrow, folks.
Here's some tidings I'd like to share with you guys.
Yours truly has been officially added to the Sri Lankan lecturer panel for CIM.
I am truly blessed to have some inspirational, amazing, beautiful, caring, and brilliant people in my life who make me a better human being.
Thank you guys for your friendship on 🐥, and for your wishes.
Big 40
This was created and shared on social media by my Bandmates 😭
I had the most uncanny but rather pleasant surprise at a Keells little while ago.
A new lady at the counter was beaming away, the shade of beetroot.
I asked her if she's okay.
She giggles: 'First time a famous person has come to my counter.'
This elicited some stares.
😋
It truly is overwhelming seeing Calli smile like this after nearly a week of fever, a runny nose, coughing & sleepless nights.
She's not fully recovered, but she's getting there.
Once again my friends, 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗬𝗼𝘂 from Jess, Calli & me for your prayers & healing vibezez.
Please do not think this is brandishing food or affluence.
This is a symbol of something much larger than me or any narrative delusions of grandeur.
It's never too late. You are never too old.
Change does not come to those who wait. Change comes 2 those who work towards it.
It is a fact universally acknowledged, that any human being in possession of functioning taste buds will not deny that the best mutton rolls on earth are still made at Nippon!
(4/4) He proceeded to threaten us, asking what Jess & I would like to be done to us & in what way?
He concluded, saying he is from Mount Lavinia & that he will pay us a visit during the course of the day & show us what he can do to the 3 of us.
@PickMeLK
disparaging stuff.
Three beautiful Lankan ladies had visited the spa. Requested three 90 minute full body signature massages and when about to be ushered inside, had asked how long the 'Happy Ending' is.
Our dear manager had told them this isn't one of those spas and had sent them on their way.
Before we look at social, political & economic reforms 🇱🇰 needs 2 focus on educational reforms.
Stop clergy/monastics from adjudicating what should be taught in schools.
Teach sex ed, relationships, consent, birth control, contraception etc., 2 stop cultivating sexual deviants.
Nothing wrong with an 81 year old keeping in shape and looking after himself. He is setting a far better example than the anabolic gym bros.
Those who ought to be banned from gyms are the ones taking public videos, shit posting & shaming others like cumsplat Jr., here.
When I look at this 🎄 breakfast spread made by Jess, it brings tears to my eyes because this is what I have not had since I was a kid.
The true fellowship of sitting together as a family. The sense of love & gratitude for all our hard work in building something out of nothing.
I just received tidings that I have officially passed and have completed my EMSc in Digital Marketing. That's a Double Masters I've acquired now with CIM. Grateful to everyone who supported & encouraged.
Not done yet 🙏🏼.
Long way yet to go in terms of my academic pursuits.