The paper was for a prayer meeting this weekend at a small church called St Trinquan’s near my apartment. Apparently it is open to people of all religions, all castes and races and creeds. And it was free to attend. After the meeting there would be free lunch. (There were no menu details.)

As each day goes by, Diary, I am convinced that I need to think about spirituality and religion again. I don’t think it is a coincidence that my stomach noise and the man with the prayer meeting poster both happened on the same day.

I am definitely going this weekend.

I feel like a religious commando. Like a Black Christian Cat.

Praise the lord.

11.45 p.m.

Finished a detailed overview of Mohanlal’s life. Sent it to Dominic including clips of famous scenes (fight, romance, dialogue).

26 March 2007

5.45 p.m.

PROJECT MOHANLAL IS ALL SYSTEMS GO DIARY!!!

To be honest, right now I am both excited and tremendously nervous. Excited because this is a great opportunity to prove myself in Dufresne. There are still some people here who question my promotion to associate. Especially Boris. Unless I do something spectacular, I have a feeling he is going to give me a terrible Mentor Rating for this year.

(Also Boris is very very jealous. Apparently they are going to replace his page in the HR section on the Dufresne website with a profile of the Robin-ator. But you can’t hold a grudge against a person for excellence no? When I see Boris sometimes I begin to understand why the US bombed the Vietnamese and had to use people like Rambo.)

But I am also nervous. What if it goes wrong? What if I am unable to make Tom see our point of view? Lives are at stake here.

And it all boils down to me.

Dominic quietly took me to the underground car park in the afternoon and told me that a meeting has been planned with Tom. The exact date is yet to be finalized. But it should be in the next couple of days. He told me not to email or text him anything about this anymore. He also told me to make sure I had the entire meeting planned out in my head.

Actually I had not thought about this at all Diary. I really need to do some scenario building before I go head to head with Tom. Anything could happen in that room. So far I was under the impression that I would be able to dynamically adapt to the situation at hand though a combination of spontaneous problem-solving and on-feet-thinking.

But Dominic has a point. This is not some client presentation you can go for without any planning or presentation. This is much more serious than that. If something goes wrong, people could lose jobs, reputations could be destroyed, careers could be lost and my pound salary could be finished.

In any case I have started to mentally, physically and spiritually prepare for the challenge.