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.

Breadcrumbs of wealth…

I keep leaving these, hoping luck will catch up with me, even as I am kidnapped by an umm… evil witch clan. So today’s ‘work’ was actually inventing a better compound bow. You can read my article here on my Medium. 

I have yet to fully construct my .tell file for project TBD. Made a start then left it to be tortured by evil voices in the mindspaces. We helped quell most of the violence but as I and Mom prepared dinner, they struck again via western babies who were deceived. But besides that, the food was good, we had beans, prawns, broccoli and mash potatoes-cauliflower. I got accused of being hurtful to my relations who were poor and struggling to earn a living. Claims were that I should be poorer than them. Most odd. Maybe they too have a plan or two to hatch.

Fallout of being hustled by the west when they were young. Myself, I got roped into the US Pacific radar service without any conditions or ‘emotional damage’ (take a bow Stephen He). And I am still thinking just how close I came to getting 6kRM from my Singapore uncle.

My other uncle, who is rich, wears a simple quartz watch (yea it’s Swiss tho), and I was thinking I would follow his example and wear my MudMan solar -my most practical watch. Never needs a battery change and is tough yet humble. Put on a NATO, it’s also more comfortable.

As I mentioned before, these are lean times we live in. And now’s a bit late to be needing important expensive foreign things bought. So over the past week, I’ve been learning to live within scrawnier means, which means less style and more practicality. Yea, I’ve become cautious / afraid of spending money -the little I receive each month.

I also am paying full price for my LRT rides nowadays. But not going as far. I used to head out to TRX but now go only as far as Amcorp. More later…

Priced out of everything now...

Prices are only going up. The rate of shop closures is pretty high in the malls I frequent. I myself am priced out of many nice things I could once have afforded. Trying to make a living from my programming and storytelling combined to create adventure games in text mode.

Tonight am working on TBD's .tell file. I may not be able to use Dart right away so will still use Python3 while I work out the story flow and the puzzles, then code the engine in Dart which I'm being prevented from learning.

Liew forces trying to feel good once they knew there was a God who actually hated them -recruiting humble folk to declare they are sinners and debase them like Jews in the Holocaust. William knows it keeps his enemies happy but one should not be a party to such savage wolves as the Liew witchy 6. It demeans the Lord.

Wearing my low-end Casio Edifice. Was talking watches with some friends in the mindspace. How and what watches will sell in this economy, here in Malaysia. So, I put on my thinking cap.

The best watches are rectangular, and have an integrated nylon strap so it appears as a flush bangle. The price should be circa 40RM and the watches resistant to 5bar. These should be called something like 'Kapok' or 'Good Morning' and come in various colors. They should take a CR2025 battery and be analog. 

Midnight, and I haven't figured out the calendar mechanism.

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Came up with a design that involves a spiral gear suspended between 2 leaf (V-shaped) springs. A slider controls the tension in each spring, driving the spiral gear which drives the hands. As for the calendar, it is simply a printout of month / day which is manually advanced every day on a popup reminder. A very cheap and easy to maintain watch for the masses.

Dart, a new horizon…

Learning Dart seems less of a challenge than I thought. Should be able to convert my Python code easily, then make the game interface. Now running VS code on my 12gb Windows 11 Celeron rig. Lots of RAM but little power.

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A new day and new prospects. Am staring at my monitor, waiting for inspiration. Haven't eaten breakfast yet. Rain made the morning air cooler. Think I may hit the shower now. Will begin coding at 9:30am. Maybe use Copilot a bit.

Prepping to go out on a walk with Mom as the Bible study group didn't form up as expected. Not sure why. Hope it's not intrigue from antichrists. Wearing my Oakleys as they are shiny and make my face look cool.

Made some progress on the .tell file I'm making as it will contain the adventure while the .dart file contains the code to access and respond to access of the .tell file. Haven't really learnt Dart very well yet and will be doing a cut and paste job to begin with. Have an hour till I head out on my walk. Maybe delay it until 4pm when the UV index drops to moderate.

Having 12gb RAM really helps my computing flow despite my CPU being a humble 1.1gHz Celeron. A real boon for development / coding. Changed my MudMan's strap to an elastic NATO in olive drab. Looks nicer than the Bond NATO.

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I followed instructions online to turn on my Celeron netbook's turbo boost functionality. It's now averaging twice as fast as before. Really good stuff. Great for development work.

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Cooling down after my long walk, in air conditioning set to economy mode. Don't feel much like working on TBD. Maybe later in the mid afternoon. I will get the Dart code settled, then build the .tell file. Or maybe reverse that.

Tell file is being filled up with the story / adventure plot. Taking a while to decide how to implement it so it's logical and complete.

Rendering a dream watch...

 

Instead of helping with the witchcraft fight, I commanded sporadically and drew this quick and dirty render of a possible grail watch in Canvas 7. It's supposed to be a simple and cheap Miyota quartz which drives a module that is set annually via two pin buttons on the case side. Additionally, it has the moon's phase. Strangely, it lacks any branding which I forgot to add in. Say maybe "Cadaver of Geneva" or something similar.

I wonder if anyone has knowhow on how to drive an annual calendar mechanism off a quartz analog movement, and if it would be expensive? More later...

We did, however manage to lay a trap for the witches and are using a carrot to lure them, maybe a stick to whip them towards gaining the world at their feet which is what they suffer for. Nothing underhand, I think but the best will be the winner soon. May we be the best, who are faithful to the Lord.

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I finished designing the alarm mechanism for an automatic watch. It uses a roving gear which picks up studs pressed in and triggers the alarm which is in / wound by an outer gear. Thus one may set up to 12 alarms a day.

The witch attacked our church again, relentlessly picking on / destroying Pastor while feeding him lies about his sheep. They are also onto me, affecting my butt and trying to give me sores. Through it all, we must persevere in Christ.

Laying down the law...

Less Liew witchy activity after last night's tell all and scare all. The evil is still vengeful and even some Christians are pushing their fight onto other Christians still. Such are the heavy back-breaking burdens of these end times. Perhaps later we will talk about proper behavior in the face of crisis.

Have yet to start coding TBD (once a novel in the making now a game).

Some pics of my new cheap Pilot Kakuno. A design classic, like the Uni Shalaku. Very zen. Love the long, slender nib.

There is a cheaper f.p. tho, the Pelikan Twist which also looks nice but one is enough for me. Cost 37RM at Popular.

Website redesign...

Worked late into the night and more this morning to get all my written works formatted properly as PDFs to embed in an iFrame following a major site redesign. In case you're curious, it is at https://freeLunch.my -go have a look as it is very different and more efficient to browse my stories.

I am intensifying my efforts to diet and work out more seeing as how my blood test is moved up to November. Hopefully I am healthy.

Interestingly enough, proving the Bible came just before 6-6-6 (Friday June 6th). The Lord is not stingy with signs. It was a day when some tears flowed, and hearts were moved among the westerners. They must have needed it a long time and prayed for it to be revealed and this sign to save them conclusively. I'm sure all who were listening were among the saved. We cannot be lukewarm forever.

Was fiddling with my Mudman solar and discovered a way to determine the full moon. There is a look ahead moonphase in this module which is so cool. The moon will roughly be full on the 10th of June to 11th.

I made an ABY lookup for day and hour on my website. Seems to be working sanely albeit on Jerusalem time. So if you're west of Jrs, just go that many sutras backwards. In Malaysia, do a +5 instead.

Decided to make a dungeon game using TeLL as the back end. Without Matplotlib. Will try to sell this software. May take the whole month to complete and to illustrate. It will be based on TBD which will provide the world, characters, and plot. I will hand draw the scenes and the magic items. There may be circa 80 illustrations to make.

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Just did a brief half workout to stay limber. Many Liew forces in disarray and western forces are on high alert. Not sure what to do except massacre the evil witches. But that may be wrong. Earlier, we had calrose rice for dinner. Mom enjoyed the softer grains.

 

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Mobified my website. Was easy, using a JavaScript snippet I found online. Looks good on Android with the navigation stacked on top of the iFrame div. 

I may soon be published…

I am so excited to be published after so long in the wilderness of free eBooks. Not sure what’s the cost and my share of royalties. But I’m willing to take the risk if it’s not too expensive, split over 10 months. They will send me a contract to decide and will only ask for money one time. Quite sure I might bite this one.

Meanwhile, the bugs in SeTT are being ironed out at long last. No word on my game, Fragment. LiLian seems to be interfering with my ventures, supported by family.

But unknowns aside, I am happy that SeTT is far more playable now. Past midnight and am feeling a little drowsy. May turn in at 1am after more debugging.

Need to record a test case game so I can replay it to test the move passing code. Can’t believe after all this time, SeTT is ready for the bigger leagues as a teaser time waster.

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SeTT was conceived in late 2023 which makes it over 1 1/2 years from concept to online game (just a simple one like Tetris / Minesweeper / Solitaire). But I like my game a lot -I think it's better than other time wasters partly because one has to face off with another player or the AI. The AI is flat / extremely basic and maybe could use some more work.

No inspiration to write more of The Blood Dagger and no sign of the contract from my publisher yet.

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The total fees for hybrid publishing my novella are over 10kRM. Obviously I have to pass. 2k would have been better. The other publisher said my novella doesn’t fit their portfolio. Instead of giving up, I’m revamping my website to better showcase all my works.

Past 2am, finished redesigning my website. It’s a lot leaner and easy to browse. Tomorrow I need to make a sitemap for it. Feeling drowsy. Took my meds, brushed, and worked out as usual around midnight. Tried to save my family but wasn’t powerful enough.

A rainy morning…

The air is cool thru my windows, and it is almost 9am. Trying to decide when to reveal important ‘secrets’ or twists in The Blood Dagger so the novel actually reaches 40k words. Some advice from YouTube, tell more about the characters’ thoughts and feelings. Maybe I should.

Taking Mom shoe shopping later but she’s still sleeping. William is also acting up. He will be thankful we slayed the Liew witches soon IMHO.

My used 2016 i5 ThinkPad with 8gb RAM is working really smooth with Debian 12 / KDE. Even in power saving mode. Think it’s twice as fast as Windows 10. Plus the security updates will be delivered for the long term. Mainly, I needed some flexibility to work off my desk so I moved from my desktop setup. Being pressured in the mind, I need a change of posture sometimes.

 

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Mom bought her shoes but truthfully, her walking days are numbered as her right foot is becoming numb. And she's only 76. A shame. Was thinking of getting her a 300RM shoe but after her fall a few weeks back, she can't walk that enjoyably anymore.

 

Worked on TBD. Now past 3k words. And the Liew remnants are attacking thru young western children and babies again, defaming writers, perhaps because I write and am a sensitive.

First of June…

A new month dawns. Actually just past midnight where I am. Made a point to wear my MudMan solar most of the time. I have it on black Velcro which is comfortable and looks decent. I always loved the MudMan series / variants. There are a few new ones that look craggy and different, and cost a lot more too. Mine was circa 570RM from Gsupply, which was a bargain.

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Organized the chaos in the mindspaces so it’s less bad. Trouble is the witchy Liews keep raising children to prevent God’s plan. No immature minds in the mindspaces, please. Stay home and learn your way, kids and babies.

The overwhelming evil and people who failed, went mad, and lashed everywhere, surmounted our organized groups. Seems the violence will not stop. Trying to think of ways to protect the faithful but the attackers are too numerous and skilled. Perhaps something from God will happen.

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Well past midnight. Did some minor editing.The dialogue was mostly okay. There are now many subplots I can choose, the dagger’s prophecy, the coin, the moon, Imogen, or the escape, to name some. A good story writes itself.

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Liew forces backing down from harming Christians. Americans appeared to chaperone them somewhere else. I’m not sure whose side who is on. But there must be less violence in the mindspaces overall, which is my duty.