Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Plotting 1997, a possible novella, and joining Facebook groups…
Monday, April 29, 2024
Writing and fighting…
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Giving up on riches…
Saturday, April 27, 2024
My new workstation setup…
iPad 5 in portrait orientation on an IKEA bamboo base stand. NOS Microsoft Multimedia keyboard (100mA) with wrist rest and a Shopee ball mouse (15mA), made in Thailand. The iPad drives the peripherals through a USB camera adapter dongle, and a PS2 adapter dongle. The camera dongle is also useful for ripping vinyl records and charging simultaneously.
Why don’t I use the ThinkPad more? It’s mainly for big or difficult jobs as it is power hungry and slow to startup from dormancy. I do love this laptop which I got used at Digital Mall for $240. It also runs my classic Mac apps, and Linux, through WSL. A real workhorse with an IPS touchscreen to boot.
Sad to say goodbye to my iPad 10 which shall go to Mom, probably. My dream is to own an iPad Pro. Seems like most people are out for my meager money instead of to pay me money. I should give away my stories for free.
I previously bought Apple Pages which is where I do my writing. A simple app that’s better than Wordpad or Abiword. Not to mention Wordgrinder which is primitive. Pages can’t do everything like LibreOffice, but it’s lighter and easy to work with. It’s also nice to have a portrait, full page view, as someone who writes a lot.
Switched to a pre-owned MS mouse 2.0A as the Shopee mouse was creaky and a rolls a bit bumpy. Bloomberg warns of a US war with China over control of the South China Sea. I can’t see why China needs so much space. It may be the urgings of the antichrist. Fear of telepathy must end or this pregnant passover will be a pass-over.
Found out my keyboard was manufactured in 2002 and mouse, in 1996. Both over 20 years ago. Some things just don’t die, they get reused, like the 7 year old iPad. Also using a new technique to keep away baby armies safely. Just imagine a chill near them.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Fiction: The ePub
I had always wanted to be an author but had never succeeded at being published. One day, as I read the local daily, I stumbled upon an advertisement: Free ePub slots. Guaranteed traditional publication. Limited places available. I clipped it.
The next afternoon, at the town hall auditorium, I took a seat. There were plenty vacant. Apparently, few people wanted the job of a writer. Were all writers just desperate for easy money -converting the sweetly spoken word into dollars for page count?
She seemed to read my mind, the presenter. If you are looking for easy money, look elsewhere.
Good luck, lady, I thought. There was no way for anyone to take their eyes off what a stunning woman she was. Her hair, like honey tipped out of a jar. And her curves wrapped tight in a beewax suit.
We were all handed an ePub "assignment" card. They're random, she said into her mic. Every one is good.
Every one seemed to be, but mine. I watched the other attendees -there must have been 3 dozen author wannabes, fill out, tear off the perforated slip and hand it in.
Now its up to all of you to come up with something good, said the woman, dismissing them.
Every one smiled as they left, but me. I have something to umm... complain?
There was a flash of indignation sweep over her gorgeous looks. It seemed her facial muscles were showing, then her skull and then an all-seeing Masonic eye which stared into my soul.
I think I got a umm... if I may, miss, say this card -it's not good for any story.
How so? I could feel the static from her honey hair prickle my chest though she was an arm's length away.
I want another one.
Okay, she said to my surprise.
How many do you have left?
While you were all waiting, they were typed out based on every attendee's body language.
I thought they were random, tho?
Yes. But did you see anyone complain?
No, but the negative doesn't prove itself. I don't like my assignment I'm afraid -sorry to say.
Since you and I are left, we'll have to trade stories. Guarantees are limited -they are created this way.
I wrote my card. I wrote the best story germ I could think of and gave it to the gorgeous woman. Then she slipped me mine. We read them together and she laughed. I turned the new ePub invite card in my hands, folded it back up and stuffed it into my backpack.
That night, in my parents' flat, in my room with its wood slat shutters and whirring metal fan, I lifted the lid of my laptop. A pre-owned ThinkPad from 2015. The unfinished wood of the crude desk dug trenches into my arms. I unfurled the card. And I typed, quoting the words she wrote:
"A good story has no beginning, nor does it have an end. It always was and always will be. What the listener wants to hear are the consolatory words between -common ones, arranged oh so sweetly..."
My first read on Medium…
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The gathering storm…
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
FREE ePub eBook…
Inventing a bow sight…
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Movers arrive, and today’s watch…
Monday, April 22, 2024
Walking in Kuala Lumpur with Dad…
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Meeting the Lord (3)…
Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Meeting the Lord (2)…
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God won’t go back on his word. We are MASTERS of our lives here on Earth. Witness it says BE FRUITFUL, have children, be the dominant ones. In our next walk through the Faith, we will see God has an Enemy. This is the reason God’s promise seems false and full of loopholes that bad influences use to take advantage of a Christian but for now, put that aside.
EVERYTHING God does is for our benefit, and our redemption after we die or are resurrected. We need only remember we are cursed no longer, but are blessed. He loves us. We behave as we do, diversely, right under His gaze and He already knows WHY, even if we carelessly do not! These 2 facts are all you need to please the Savior. He made God love us again and we don’t have to follow laws of ceremonial cleanliness to be accepted. What is God’s love? See the verse above, it’s that simple.
Some people may come unto a Christian, telling her to follow them and their teaching. If it isn’t free flowing love, question them. Tell them about Genesis 1:28. If they put a price on your actions, tell them God is not a businessman but a father. If they say “all men sin”, tell them about the curse lifted by Jesus Christ in the first post. Live because you MUST.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Meeting the Lord (1)…
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Riddle in the middle -passover to pentecost…
Luk 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
Luk 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Luk 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
We know from research into Jewish customs that passover is the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt and pentecost, where firstfruits (of the field / grain) are presented to the Lord. If we are correct, the fulfillment of our suffering with Christ, carrying our cross must end this month, late. And then the dominion of the Father to be enforced in May. Just like grain, the elect / favorites who matured early, are likely to be raptured around that time.
Indeed, May 2024 in the Analects of Elder Brother Yeap is:
A reference to taking over the world -by who else? Even if this special 2024 is not the year of the Rapture, it is important to get ready, guard prophecy, and our clothes, and to stock up spiritual oil that we may be received by the Lord whose 2nd coming surely is near at hand.
How rare is this coincidence?
Note tho, that April 2052 is no longer lucky 4f-4f in the ABY, but 4d. Something somewhat less related to the Rapture.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Am writing again…
Sunday, April 14, 2024
A time of trouble such as never was seen…
In yesterday’s post, I touched on the times of trouble. This night, the Spirit moves me gently, even through aches, pains and woes, to speak again of what might be coming our way in the next few weeks or more.
There will be a revolution, not amounting to a falling away. But it will leave 2 sides at odds. Those who support God against those who hate true religion. There will be incidents and many will lose their place, be unseated or jostled. Some will die martyrs. Others, rise up as clean new leaders. Royalty will gain in power and empire(s) in some form, return to the Earth. After all these decades, telepathy will finally be recognized and regulated and all false teaching will stop. Young children will grow up well. They will say, who have true power, come, Lord Jesus and there will appear the sign of the Son of Man in the sky all over the world. The sign will be “peace”. Peace from God to mankind where once they disbelieved His true purpose. Various symbols such as cherubim will be used, and the tree of life, the crossed fingers. And men will mourn, as Jesus really was and is the messiah.
More later…
A whole day receiving irate and violent minds as LiLian and the evil witchy army roll through the Christian mindspaces. I expect it to continue for some time. Will take a break and calm everyone down. Talked about Jesus’ birth and death as half of a cycle that will end with his coming and our varying sorrow for not believing in Him. Talked about how the faint thread of faith made it through blood-mad Rome onto the silver screens of America itself, only to regress into disappointment right before the advent of the Lord. It is poetry and logic combined. What if Jesus had never died? Sin would have perpetuated and we would have satanic DNA forever. Think about it.
We were going through the multitude of religious issues with Christian brothers and sisters. There is no salvation for those who turn their backs on the Lord and the messiah, no matter how big or small the sin. There is salvation for those enthusiastic for a better life with Him. Short answer, baby. Long answer, you can commit spiritual suicide at any time and it leads to Hell. The body is full of nodes and buttons you can explore, encoding yourself into ballistic tangential sinful pleasure from which there is no return. Do not be excessive or extreme. Do not overstep your importance whether it be adultery or murder. Your heart is weighed against your actions.
But what of Jesus? He exists for the elect. Just as the Jews exist for Yahweh, and the firstfruits for the Father. Am I one of these is not a question. Do I fit, isn’t one either. Must I be, must I fit? That is the essence of gospel!
Saturday, April 13, 2024
The constant attacks…
“…As expected, Princess Kate may divulge her mystery illness. And in a matter of weeks, desecrations of Islamic holy sites may occur. Before that peaks, there should be anti government unrest all over the world. Christians can expect some degree of revenge. Not sure how bad, here in Malaysia / outside the Middle East players...”
In my February prediction, above, some things seem to have come true. This leads up to the killing of Christians in many locales and the breaking of the 6th seal of Revelations. Our Rapture. Be strong, you who have faith. Already, PAS is testing the Agong in Malaysia, blasphemous connotations made of Islam, mass shootings and stabbings, preceded by Kate’s cancer admission. Will disobedience to God peak this April or May? And why?
Will be working late tonight to redesign the cover of Mss2, back and front. Want to have it printed with a flat spine and a softer cover, maybe light brown paper. Liew witches dispensing aches to my eye and mouth. Their time is short to derail God’s takeover plan.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Return of the Mac, Swiftly…
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Getting a head…
Through the magic powers of Real VNC and tightvnc |
Monday, April 8, 2024
I’m in a loch, am I in Ireland…?
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Making rules for a game…
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Under assault…
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Rev 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth… Rev 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Lesser dreams…
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Mostly did nothing…
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
“Vampire” : a card game…
- This is a game for 4 or more people and a deck of 52 playing cards plus 2 jokers.
- Start by drawing 6 cards from the pile, downturned and shuffled
- Black cards are wards of evil
- Red cards are blood the evil wants
- Joker cards are the vampires a player may become
- A player must lay down his hand such that if any one player has a joker, that vampire will pass by
- For example: The vampire may eat the blood of a Queen if not a King so K wins over Q
- For example: The vampire is scared off by a cross or stake of 1,2,3,4 in black cards
- Maybe other combinations of red plus black are also good, need to experiment
- Once given vampire, there are 2 strategies, deny the bloodlust or hide it until you can strike
- A joker rejected makes the rounds to the weakest player
- A joker received may be used at any time to bite and turn any player who loses, into a vampire too
- If you are a vampire or a priest, the objective is the same, not to lose your hand, just that this criteria is different for each type of player.
- The reason for 2 Jokers used, is for suspense. Nobody knows if there is another vampire!
- When a vampire or priest lays down all his cards, he wins the game just like poker. But the vampire and priest have to battle while playing different combos and strategies. That is the fun.
- For example: a priest will lay cards to avoid his red being consumed and used against his black
- For example: a vampire will lay cards to avoid being staked by black cards while taking the red and winning the combo round
- This is a game of unpredictable twists and tenacious strategy. Receive the darkness or guard against it with every move, or switch when you can win.
- Each player, there can be up to 6, draws 7 cards from a down turned shuffled stack.
- The rules are something like Blackjack. A player throws out a seed, a high card hoping it cannot be ‘found’ i.e. it is missing, then the winner of the hand is the one who ‘retrieves’ the so called missing card. He plays the next missing, double or nothing.
- The stakes get higher snd higher with each player betting his combos that the missing card(s) must not be retrieved.
- Who takes the most cards in wins the round, even the game itself, one of high stakes and nerves if steel.
- X is black cards, O is red cards.
- Players try to make xoxoxo… combinations laid out in the center of the table.
- The value of each row is sum of positive X, negative O
- If negative, then the next row stars oxoxox…
- The winner of each row gets to start the next row
- He can choose the highest card from a previous row to make his play or the lowest depending on oxox or xoxo direction, or his strategy
- This game is a teamwork game for 4-6, a bit like bridge.
- Unlike bridge, players have to guess who is their true partner(s) and how long the relationship lasts
- A player must take 6 cards. He may pass (key) cards to a ‘friend’ or ‘rival’ to test him or her
- Players must not let on they are friends or rivals despite sharing cards
- They may not ask for a card or display shared cards.
- Finally, ‘war’ is declared once allegiances are formed and the players divided into 2 camps.
- The camp that wins is the quickest to finish their cards, shared or otherwise.
- This is a game for Tarot obviously called “Tell me my Future”
- It is played by 4 players
- The deck is placed face down into the Major and Minor arcana. Players take from both major and minor stacks.
- Before the game is played, players must know basic astrology to tell one another their future in brief.
- So each player compares their cards to see if the ‘future’ told by each one, and expressed by their cards is correct.
- The correct teller must carry on seeing until he fails, then he must not tell again until the next game round.
- The winner is the one who tells the most compelling future that comes true, by vote.
- The chart on astrology will be provided here soon for download, maybe tonight. The pics
- A simple map is drawn on a piece of scrap paper. It should have a hallway and various rooms that are interconnected in random ways. Players roll the dice to proceed from room to room, past door guard demons of varying strength. A whip is one step, tentacle, back one step, and the other signs allow a door to be unlocked.
- Inside each room, the game master must place a magic object / weapon which aids a simple quest -to exit the maze of hallways and rooms before the others
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
My life turnaround as an artist…
Monday, April 1, 2024
I have died…
Do not be afraid; for see —I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
The key to understanding scripture is not to interpret it, not to gloss it with our own culture, nor necessarily to understand it in the original tongue, but to listen to your heart as you read it. One of the reasons the Koran is recited in song, and so too the Sanskrit scriptures. Both are beautiful to the ear if not the heart-intellect.
We have no real need to debate “afraid” but in Greek it is roughly: mega-phobia -a huge natural reaction of rejection, a throwing up of the presence of the Almighty. Then the angel tells why he came. The same said to Mary as she was afraid and subsequently implanted with God’s seed.
But Nathanael, in praising Jesus received His assurance that Heaven itself would open before him and its angels course ceremonially over the figure of the Messiah. What could be more awesome to see?
It is hard for the low man (shepherd) to accept God. Yet it is also hard for the proud man (disciple) to accept God. That is why I cry at the image of Christ holding the stars of heaven in his authority, and were an angel to suddenly appear, I would be humble immediately. Therefore do not say what we read has no meaning -no God in it, all man-made indoctrination. Rather it is special, a conveyance from the divine within each one of us.