Having trouble starting TSFC…

Thinking of using the dry, hot mosquito weather spell as a starting point for my book. Maybe it will also be a central plot element. That the lost diamonds caused, while blessing the underwater world of the lake. Having a central element is good for writing a story, IMHO. Not just a concept but something physical that the characters can experience thru.

Will try to do 10k words today (a third of the book). That might take circa 10 hours. Must start by 4pm.

Did only 1k words of TSFC instead of 10k. The feel of the story is right. And I can’t wait to unveil the secrets towards the end of the book.

Impossible room cleaning day...

Me and Dad cleaned my old room, back at the big house, which had been a sty for the past year since we moved to the shoebox. The desk is finally clear and so is the bed, but the floor is still scattered with boxes of semi-useful things that I don't want to throw away just yet. May take another morning to clear those.

Brought over my KORG palm synthesizer, my ZST chi-fi phones, my M-Audio Keystation Mini, and a book on Tai-Chi. These are some of the last things I will be saving before the rest go into storage.

I am also being pushed to do more writing. 2 days ago, I submitted a query to Penguin.SG (SEA) about my collection of short stories. I hope they request the manuscript but it may be EOY before that. And I don't know what else to write. May do some editing of the compilation and see if anything bigger comes to mind.

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Have started a children's (YA) novel called "Three Stories for Children" (how imaginative). The three stories are entwined as three related, twisted plots and I think kids will enjoy it a lot. It combines elements from 3 short stories I wrote last year: Swan Song, The Raspberry Revolution, and Eyes of the Stars. I hope to finish the draft by the weekend. YA novels aren't that long.

Liew forces struck again, beating up middle America. We retaliated with water cycling, a nasty annoyance that fixes easily with some knowledge of the body. But to get it every day is bad for the body. We are holding out an olive branch, even as they try to grow our collarbones.

Feel like staying up and doing some writing if peace holds.

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Need to re-write the opening to TSFC. My church is in disarray for some reason, perhaps facing the persecution or fearing it, they have come to roost on me. I suppose I have to teach them as over the years, the doctrines have gotten twisted.

Giving the plot away...

I need some inspiration for the game plot for "Thaw"

• A man is awoken from cryo sleep not knowing who he used to be and why he was awoken.
• Someone maybe the authorities are on his tail and he retreats into the underworld where he assumes it is safer.
• He befriends a group of people operating above the law / below their radar.
• With their help, he pieces together his purpose and identity. All is not what it seems.

There are 6 events / quests that are turning points in the story accompanied by 12 illustrations which give clues to what to do next. The illustrations are revealed one at a time and some are lies / half-truths.

Spoiler ahead...

Thaw -he takes that name, was once a brilliant mathematician who with a bunch of physicists, increased the density of the earth's atmosphere, preventing a barrage of asteroids from destroying the planet.

He doesn't remember who he is but storms have been raging all over the world for the past 40 years and he still has his keen mathematician mind.

He tries to contact Daphne -his lover and fellow scientist who agreed to the atmospheric changes. But she has long died. So have Bob and Boris, their team.

One thing the climate change caused was the burgeoning underground trade in illegal cybernetics, drugs, and prostitution, while drones and police patrolled the 'archologies' above ground which contained, ark-like, animals and beautiful, successful people and their families.

Thaw is caught between the high life, and his friends in the underworld who helped him escape the police and he finds out that there are plans for an uprising -to overthrow the governing authorities and reverse the terraforming of the atmosphere which is stiffling.

But being his pet idea, Thaw is reluctant and tries to contrive another solution only to find himself out of favor with many. This leads to why he was thawed -to be a symbol of the authority or a leader of the underworld. He has to decide.

Yea, something like that.

The days are like molasses…

 

The above photo is what my archery micro quiver is supposed to look like. For some reason, the clips are not very magnetic so I will be affixing them on. Need to find a way of stretching them open before that.

Have just half an hour to rest before weekly mopping duty.

Meanwhile I've been coding / game designing to pass the time being impinged upon. Dad had a nap and has sprung to activity again. Mom dusted the rooms and played some piano. Not sure what's for dinner. Yea, time is passing like molasses. More later...

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Sunday of chores is over and is closing in on midnight. Don't know if there's time to do a little coding or outlining for the game plot. Don't feel sleepy yet. I have 100RM to spend over the next 10 days.

Tale of 2 watches and 2 websites…

It’s past midnight and I’ve just worked out and am ready for bed. But here is a true story that happened to me as I walked, or in my walk with God. And thru mental illness.

I once had a job at an ice cream parlor and had saved enough for a watch. I wanted a G-Shock. My very first one and it was for sale at 270RM. Albeit it was a dull green with hard to read negative LCD display.

Me and the squat biggish MudMan, we had a couple of adventures but when it came time to start Prayer Star, my first evangelizing website, I sold my favorite watch to fund the hosting and domain.

PS was eventually swamped maybe DOSSed even and I lost the domain, all my info, and the site was discontinued.

After a stint in rehab, I tried again with my current site FreeLunch.my and this time, it was not flooded but was probably blocked as Fudd. Strangely, on my wrist is a MudMan, an upgraded model with solar charging. Display also negative.

I don’t know if the story metaphors well into knowing there is a God. But synchronicity, even coming with mental illness do enter like this, thru coincidences.

When I started PS, there was little mindspace opposition, but with FL, I get attacked by the hour day in day out, plus my MudMan Solar fails to please and placate me unlike the 9000 series I once owned.

My analysis is that the truth I expose / share online is somehow unpopular and so am I, as a person, being persecuted for my indiscretions. More and more vehemently no matter how much I polish my delivery.

And it leads me to the collective unconscious of Jung. Watch-website-unpopular x2, given mental illness x2. If it were that there were no God, why watch-website? Why watch-unpopular-mental illness? What fixation can our collective minds have on a double coincidence-motivation? God, obviously!

There is a God, as there is a consistent pattern of action-hidden reaction, circumstance-dis-emotion. More later…

You may have heard of string theory, everything physics is 'relative', on the nano level, every law of Science breaks down. Stephen Hawking (rest his soul) proposed a 'Grand Theory of Everything' but sadly died before it was found.

All this can be reconciled if you understand that creation or the universe is in constant folding about itself. If you believe in the Big Bang, then you should know that there was an unfolding 1x1x1 which is equal to 1. There is no way to go from 0x0x0 to 1. Or else hang the Arab mathematician who thought of algebra! But if you can imagine there was '1' folded a finite number of times over itself, then we have ignition. The reason for finite folding is that if we had infinite folds, there would be zero in 3 dimensions. 3D zero cannot exist, just as a Mobius loop cannot. Nor can 1D become 2D become 3D. 1D does not exist except as a concept. 2D cannot be multiplied except with pen on paper.

Since the primordial unfolding, the universe has been reeling from its effects. Folding is like the Spirit of God imprinted into every ounce of matter, every particle of light, every flash of our sentient minds.

Furthermore, a folded object cannot exist in or pre-exist a void. It cannot spontaneously be. It is more mathematical to say 1x1x1 = 1 existed pre-folding after which it expanded beyond '1' just like a spring / explosion.

In that way, we explain ourselves as well as our environment and our God who folded the universe ever so many times according to His Word. More later...

Doodling with inks…

 

Some male and female face studies I did with dip pen / stylograph. There’s a lot to refine but yea, I can sketch quite okay. Writing this post past midnight. Am feeling a bit sleepy from my half dose of Rivotril.

Plan to sketch more over the days and weeks ahead. Still haven’t made the quiver or adventure game. Am fixated on a linear leaf spring for my budget watch design. Still uncertain how to regulate it.

Had a midnight supper of a slice of bread cheese and conserve, and a coconut bun. Washed it down with some coffee Sis bought in Nam. Looks like I will sleep at 1-2am.

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Am coding again. Witches don’t want me using TBD in my game engine so I will construct some other story to play thru. Maybe a simple one for kids. Will just use Python3. Thinking…

Perhaps it will be called ‘Thaw’ and be about a man who is awoken from cryogenic sleep into a world he has to navigate to get his life back and to complete his mission (that he was thawed for).

My new favorite pen…

Isomars Technoart. A rOtring-like drawing pen, made in India. Just 37RM at Popular. I got this to replace my transparent Pilot Kakuno fountain pen that I gave my niece.

On first test, the inkflow was poor but subsequent writing tests prove that it is just as competent as the big-name brands out there. In fact, it glides over the paper without needing pressure. Which is lighter still than a f.p. I also like the refillable reservoir instead of the Kakuno's cartridge system. 

  

I did gift my niece a pack of 6 cartridges, tho. Somehow she likes the f.p. a lot.

The Isomars is roughly half price of the Isograph and features the same screw down cap and barrel altho the cap's pocket clip which is removable has no foolproof fix-down unlike the rOtring's cap. And while the cap is aesthetically stubby enough, I can't help hankering after the barrel ones on the original rOtrings. I noticed that the plastic of the Isomars is also inferior and shows some chipping.

Not having any Isomars ink, I used Herlitz drawing ink which works well (so far). Instructions for the Isomars are to run the pen a little every so often so it doesn't gum up inside. There are also pretty 'scary' instructions on how to clean the nib assembly -using a bowl of water and Isomars cleaning fluid. Sure hope I won't have to do that.

Yes, it's wonderful to have a stylograph again for a nice price.

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Other news, the British are going ballistic with their telepathy, having engineered quite a few losses among my people (Asians) since we counted this morning. Not sure what they're up to or why they need everyone to kowtow to their king and to bear and die from their loads of guilt, behind our backs. Logically, we reduced their powers substantially while less moral Asians took the opportunity to permanently damage the UK's mind structure. War is like that. We play what we have and hope to survive. Thx brothers, may we all make it, fighting for one another.

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The quiver I’m designing uses some magnets and steel bits as seen above. It also uses 3M sticky pads so it’ll be more secure. The metal clips will attach to the bar magnet (left) which will attach to the disc in the center, being stuck onto the bow sight mounting. The 4 coin magnets will be used for attachment to clothing or belt etc.