Was watching this YouTube video on watches…

There was an American billionaire who gave most of his earnings to charity, secretly, and wore a $20 Casio every day of his life. He was the one who inspired Bill Gates, etc. to wear Casios. Francis wore a Casio as Pope. The reason given, was they were just interested in knowing the time as affordably, reliably as possible. Personally, I prefer the idea of an heirloom watch. Something that has some value besides function. Tho I’ll never be able to afford nor deserve one. 

Thus I wear a general model Casio as well, a 10 year battery digital 1440H. 100m WR. Circa $40. It was necessary tho, to replace its bulky resin strap with something sleeker, $15. I wear this watch most all the time, square, interesting, and classic. It just keeps time.

I would like one day, tho to own a Kinetic perpetual calendar of some sort.

Arip jab at psych clinic went well. Am resting at home. Westerners going berserk in the mindspaces. Not sure what they want. Liew witches attacked the clinic staff. Everyone is worried about the plan the British concocted over us, to try and cage LiLian. It was bound to fail, this soft approach while torturing the good people who know her.

Shortly will begin writing chp10 of SDU. Got it mostly figured out. Should wrap up Friday, not to rush it. I will then have 2 weeks to edit and export using MS Office tools I rented for a month. Not sure where to put the novel for free download, or if I want to get an ISBN for it. But it will definitely feature in my marketing efforts for iS, mss2, etc. I may even sell it printed at cost price on Shopee.

Will start writing around 2-3pm.

1pm+ and I am being assaulted by the corrupted Liew witchy ball of hatred. There may be no time to write until evening. Will spend time browsing watches. 

Advice for new writers...

By request, there is a need to teach new writers something more than draft polishing, POV, arcs etc. There are 3 very important things every good book or story has,

1. Drive / force
2. Purpose / transformativity
3. A cover to live up to

Every story has a certain momentum. The momentum of a tale causes the structure of it to alter and you will use certain words, metaphors, twists in a different way. Realize that it is the momentum which guides the writing, not the other way around.

 

Most stories these days have no purpose other than to entertain. You may or may not want to change the reader by the end of a tale but changing them a little bit has been proven to boost your visibility as an author.

 

The last one is not a joke. Many writers look at book covers and dream of their own book being published with the same stunning artwork. Always strive to live up to your dreams. What are we without a dream in our hearts?

 

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I was looking at some stats and a lot of / most books only sell a few hundred copies in the decades they're available for purchase. Knowing this, I strove to write my books so that nobody would want to put them down / DNF. I'm not a genius weaver or imaginateur, but I wrote deep whenever I could, and above all, I wrote commercial / pulp. I'm not proud of my mercenary style but I do love people reading my works.

 

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By request, I was asked to tell my reasons and motivation behind 'iS', my novella, also my first 'real' published book. I actually wanted to expound a theory of mine called 'inexact Science' -wherein technology and psychology or philosophy are entwined. I wanted to clash east against west and see what emerged (in my book). I wanted to talk about the powers over us that dictate our life choices. And as I went along, the novella began to develop a life of its own -becoming a little bit classic / cult which I guess was from all the love I rolled into it.

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I bought Ivy’s ‘In Safe Hands’ which is a good read in my opinion, so far. I would have liked to know more about Gen, looks-wise, even as early as chapter one, as she is the narrator.

Also ate Mr Beast Feastables which taste pretty good.

Am 100 words into part 3/4 of chp 9/10. I was urged to rush the novel so the evil witches might copy it, but can barely make the daily word quota. Monday, will begin chapter 10 which will take 4 days to complete. Almost 10pm. Will write more at 11pm. Finish by 4am.

 

Past midnight and not much written. The bare bones of an outline have to be fleshed out after the story deviated a little, the necessary battle scene wrapping up quicker than expected and the miracles also having to be brought forward a sub-chapter. This could be a tough write but I will do the usual 1.2k words and edit it in the morning during the Brazil game. Liew witches giving out pains. 2+ hours till kickoff with Switzerland. Take a break, I guess.

 

Worked out earlier and brushed. Had supper of ramen noodles and garlic dip. 

 

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Almost 5am. Was up after 2 hours sleep to catch the morning matches. We are trying something different to control the Liew witchy scourge.

Most mindspace denizens have abandoned the Liew 6 who are attacking using kids and babies primed by loyalists, corrupt in the heart. Will help persuade them to stop in a bit.

Must write much today, try to finish chp9 by midnight. There will be long monologues. Secret desires and motivations alluded / revealed, then a celebration / analysis, culminating in a vision from God.

There is much telepathy in the air right now and I can’t pull the plot together well, following the plan. Maybe after lunch. I will need to write 2k words in 12 hours. There will be a double wedding of the innocents, during which many evil grouses are ironed out, followed by a metal band concert. Derek and the others like Lotus and her kid are tempted to start the war again for keeps but are chastised by Gabriel who brings a message from God.

 

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Am almost finished writing chp9 this Monday evening. Need to work out before dinner and get more rest. Liew witches are fuming over where my novel is going. Not sure what they're doing with it. Some say it ties them up from doing wrong to western kids but they are mostly still doing the same wrong things while enjoying trampling my work. Meanwhile desperate Christians are stabbing at me as the 'wrong guy' they are to follow but everyone is getting hurt anyway.

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To help my friends sell more books, I will spend some time writing about targeted marketing. Most marketing plans are mercenary and irritating. To sell anything, you need a draw, and also a taste test. The best draw is the ‘superlative’ or ‘amazing’. The best test taste is the ‘promise of money back (free stuff)’. To begin both properly, always give out the draw and taste test separately and see where it converges. The final part, is that when you identify your demographic audience, always give them plenty of merch options. Merch options are like glue that bridges draw and taste test so they will keep buying and enjoying.

Merch strategy involves 2 things as well. Never give away merch that is obvious. Make people associate a simple aesthetic concept with your design / story. Secondly, never give away merch that is cheap. Make people buy higher priced, valuable merch that makes them think. So say your merch is a T-shirt with your book cover. That’s okay but not optimal. A tee with a half-formed image and a tagline would be better. A tee that flatters and wicks with a one-liner printed in gold and a small logo would be best.

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Finally, after 6 days, chp9 is finished. Will take some thinking to do well for chp10 -the big wrap-up. Planning something special for the final chapter. What, is still unclear. Can’t believe it will take me circa 3 1/2 months to finish this book. 4 months, including editing its 44k words. I took 7-8 lazy months to finish and polish my 20k word novella, iS. Can rest for an hour before psych clinic. Will jot down some notes for tonight’s writing session.

1. There has to be satisfactory resolution to every character’s arcs. 
2. There must be some central religious theme
3. There should be commentary and a summary of the book by the narrator whose identity is revealed as Pete’s ex wife

I will be reverting to a more normal 1.2k words a day after the last marathon write late last night to this morning.

Fixed a monitor arm for Dad's Mac Mini...

We were at DigiMall yesterday afternoon. Dad couldn't decide which monitor arm to buy so I chose one for him, 99RM or circa $25. It was a Chinese brand and well-made (labelled NB). Sturdy with a gas lift you can adjust with a hex screw (wrench and other tools were included).

Needless to say, he is happy. 

Myself, have switched around my displays. I have the TV showing Windows 11 and the NEC second-hand, showing the terminal off my ThinkPad (also second hand / used). I set it so the NEC is above my laptop screen so a flick of the mouse accesses either top or bottom display.

I use the Win 11 PC to write my stories and the Ubuntu ThinkPad to code. I will be renting MS Word for a month till I finish SDU. Writing chp 9-10 should take a week or two, then to polish up. Also the new computer chair Dad bought me is quite comfy permanently set in recline mode, otherwise it presses on the groin.

Mom was skeptical of the monitor arm but soon accepted it. Was surprised that some displays can't be mounted while others have the right screw holes built in. Good idea to check before buying.

Am sleepless at 5am, having just taken my meds. Should turn in by 6am.

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Working on chp9 of SDU today. It will be an action-packed chapter. War grips the world. Made a slow start having slept at 6am last night. Feeling okay. Brushed, got cleaned. Should head out in the evening to deposit cash in my debit account.

So I bought Office 365 for 30 days for 44RM++. It's 7pm and I have to write half of chp9 tonight. An absolute must do. We are healing the Liew family of witches to what end I'm not certain. Maybe it will be good.

Chp9 will take a while, maybe 4 days to finish. A quarter will be done by tonight, 1.2k words. Already done 300 and it's closing in on midnight. Staying up to catch the opening game of the World Cup. Ordered Mr Beast Feastables to see if they're really that special. May do a review.

Managed to get my Windows 11 display set up well. No more stretchy effect and the text looks good. I'm not sure how I did it. Maybe it was the Intel display settings beta I downloaded. Then I used Aspect > Zoom2 via the TV remote and it worked a charm. 3 hours till the WC opener.

I'm over halfway thru tonight's writing quota. Almost 1am. We think the Liews' genius west-hating henchman Allen may have died of a heart attack. There is a lot of subterfuge in mindspace. Balancing the nerve suppression with saving souls and protecting the innocent. Hopefully to do the right things to end this conflict painlessly as possible.

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Mid afternoon. Managed to get cleaned well. There is a musty odor in my room. Don't much feel like writing SDU but will have to make a start after dinner. The air conditioning is on eco mode, as well as quiet mode. Compressor noise is minimal and hopefully energy savings maxed as I run it 20 hours a day on average.

Kids from America taking revenge on Chinese / Asians. Nice gift after we axed the Liew command. They will be sorry later, so we told them. Important not to start another war. 

10pm and I have another 1k words to write leading up to 3am’s match. Will take my meds around 3:30am, workout at midnight. I was thinking that today’s writing should delve into the politics of survival. Maybe an honestly long monologue between Daphne and Praetor will take up 500 words. Then, the rest would be Kyoko’s part, as she gathers support to dethrone FEED leading up to confrontation between her and Pete. Finally, an intervention by Gabriel finishes off the chapter.

Witches assaulted our get together…

There are normally 5 ways that witches enter a group of people. In this case, we have American Christians who have incubated the witches, pushing them onto our family and friends. This means there is no right or wrong solution, nor any complete solution. Think about it.

But there are still 5 methods and they can be managed,

1. If there is anyone interested in another person, for any reason or at any level of interest, no matter just curious, or role model, jealous, wannabes etc. then you shall put up a signal of surrender, just the horn blowing the retreat with white flag
2. If there is anyone complaining about anything or anyone, you must try to complain less, and shall put up the sign of arms on hips
3. If there is anyone saying, please, please, or help me, you are to ignore them at all cost, and just put up the sign of arms crossed or an X-shape

4. If there is someone saying look at me, see what I can do, you are to put up the sign of indecency. This is difficult because of kids and babies. Just the hanging bra or lampar will do
5. If there is any conflict, whatever convoluted, just put up the sign of the snake on the cross.

Today my new wallet arrives...

The above is how I look nowadays. Ever since the UFO files were declassified (jk). You may notice I have the alien eye (ha-ha), and a strange contraption on my ears -they're the FiiO EH11 earphones which are very good after EQ which you can choose from the FiiO app, uploaded by audiophiles and hardcore listeners.

Today will be packed. I have a mini story to write, code to debug, and am doing a book promotion on X. Hope to receive my new 3-zipper wallet soon. More later... 

I found a home for my board-game, SeTT here: https://ckyap.itch.io/sett

Be sure to download it to your Android phone and give it a spin for FREE. Spread the word and make me famous (less so rich). 

There is actually something behind my choosing today to release my game app. And I do hope my ex-GF and I can reunite with some security from my income. Jesus thinks it will be okay but we’re both 50 years old and I wonder if we’ll actually have much fun. Still, it’s not good to be alone, an island.

Finally, I have the ‘fat’ wallet. On the left is my old attempt at getting one, It must’ve met with God’s disapproval, but in Christ, we usually get a second chance (YMMV).

On this day, ABY 9d talks about repairing or reinforcing the family home. On this day, I submitted my game for download. On this day, I got the prosperous wallet. On this day, Jesus promised that I will get a windfall of a sort, be it money, accolades, I don’t know.

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My art tools and supplies are my most precious possessions. Circa 250RM. Altho I am tempted to buy more stuff I enjoy, these humbler tools of my trade are enough to make me happy. Think I left out my FC improvised lead sharpener.

I wrote elsewhere that tho I may inherit +50kRM from grandpa’s estate. I have nothing more to buy or spend otherwise.

Sometimes I write guitar songs on my old Yamaha c40 fitted with dAddario folk nylons. Never complained about the sound which is articulate and deep. Meanwhile an old Linux laptop does all I need, records my music, monitored thru cheap but good FiiO EH11 earphones.

Writing my stories is of course, free. I use textmaker24free to edit and generate standards compliant docx. Once you ply a trade, nothing frivolous matters much. Don’t feel like trading in my iPad either.

It came to me that I should spend 10% on the folks. Maybe I will get them some Apple gear.

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More coding this afternoon. Need to finish net4spice by early this month (June). Not sure where I'll post it. Maybe just on my Google Drive.

There was told several truths about me, sending the westerners who accuse me reeling and their Liew torturers trying to patch their sinking ship. Kids and babies were told not to butt into our sensitive and unintentional can of worms or others' as well.

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Am going walking tomorrow morning. May buy something for Dad. Must remember to bring extra money. This morning, he gave me his new computer chair. It's good for working harder at my coding but not for lounging in -mattress is more comfortable.

Rumors abound that I might not be alive come August. Fixed a few people's heads who overreacted. We all have to go sometime. Worked out. Can do 20 plank-ups now (are they called that?) and the cross situps no longer hurt. I am getting fitter. Lost 1kg as well.

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Woke up too late to head out. May do so later, after chores and getting cleaned. I've lost a further few hundred grams over the past two days.

Put my Q&Q moonphase on bracelet. Looks very 'standard'.

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About an hour till we get going. Will be wearing my Oakleys. Hopefully the stomach holds until evening.

Met my cousin, haven’t seen him in years, circa 7 years. He’s doing well. Liew witches tried to climb in via our weak spots. Places the Lord didn’t bless. We exchanged contacts. Aunt gave me 300RM. I now have quite a bit to spend. Not sure on what.

I’m thinking of leaving the socials and blogosphere…

Again, I find journaling and sharing with my readers out there, thanks for your support, to be increasingly, something more obsessive than constructive. Something like binge watching X or YouTube shorts. I have to stop those as well. And I will be pursuing other things, music, art, programming. See how far I go. 

 

Nobody seems to want to give me a break. At least, since I suffered that 2007 stroke and was crashed on in 2010 by the managers of the telepathy crisis. An episode in my life is over.

And I was thinking, perhaps my bow sight should have weights on 2 parallel tracks. 2 weights might do to produce a curved response. Simplified the design. It will be an oval or parabolic piece of rotating card, with 1 or 2 flat weights and a pin stuck off center. That should produce a curve.

This will be my last post for some time, maybe till mid / end June.

 

So the sight will look like this: two pieces of card slotted together into an X, and wedged into the mount hex clamp. As the bow angle is raised, the pin on the end of the X needs to drop. A plastic leaf spring decompresses from oblong to circular, affording this. Tuning is achieved by adding weight to the top of the leaf spring.

 

Was thinking of firing from a height as well. There might be a mechanism built in to deliver a curve that is less steep. Perhaps as the weight on the leaf spring slips forward against it.

 

Wow, my last post until the miracles start to occur. Stay safe, and take care, everyone.

I was wondering about many things…

And I thought of leaving home to start a new life somewhere. Maybe I should bring along my guitar as it does help express my creative emotional needs. It’s nice to write songs once in a while. I think that today, I will try playing my Piano chords on the fretboard, working from there around the 5 patterns I found in Raymond Teoh’s guide. Yes I own his book and it is useful if not the best guide -if you are serious about learning.

And I thought of taking long walks again. Tomorrow, to head out wandering. There has been no reply from the publisher I sent my MS to. No movement on shipping my puffy wallet. No urge to code n4s or resume writing SDU, no motivation to build my bow sight. Perhaps I will model it tonight and have it 3D printed.

The design was simplified further. I am able to build it tonight from materials at home tho not calibrate it just yet. It will be made from stiff card and bits of wire. It will come with a friction disc and extra heavier counterweight so it’s less susceptible to wind and vibrations. 

I think the more the tail bends bodywards, the higher the lift action. To get a lift curve, the tail has to go straight down with several weights at different points along the vertical. These weights are just wire wrapped with card. Seems each weight is similar and must be vertically adjustable, calibration is done that way.

Read my article on understanding Physics on Medium: https://medium.com/@chnkngyp/time-and-space-824789292c5c -it’s quite good, receiving 10 claps so far.

Good news, my new wallet will ship tomorrow. Should receive it by 1st June ahead of the family get together.

Circa 1:30am. Just took my meds, worked out and showered. Brush by 2am. Somehow, I lost about a kilogram over the past week and a half. Had been eating less and exercising more. I lifted myself off the floor 18 times clean and did 20 cross sit-ups, no strain. Should think I’m growing stronger but not too much so I don’t fit my clothes. Just to stay healthy as possible.

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Didn’t do much last night. Was attacked up till before bed. Seems the Liew scourge has moved elsewhere for now, together with the westerners and the people pressed in to make a more interesting party. My life is rather dull and I know I was just used, polluted, and spat out.