Saturday, December 6, 2025
Adios friends…
Review : East Top T10-2 double sided C/G diatonic 10 holes harmonica...
I've owned 2 other harmonicas (not counting my chromatic 'Jammico' which somehow lacks soul), a Marine Band and a Bluesmaster. The MB was hard to bend and the BM was a bit thin sounding. Later, I purchased a cheap chromatic mentioned above but it didn't feel right and I seldom played it.
Last night, I got my first East Top. They are an up and coming brand in many harp players' gear bags and I thought I would see if they were any good. But I didn't want just any blues harp. I wanted something special I hadn't already owned.
Just a short preamble about reeds. The T10-2 sounds warm and sweet because of its easily de-tunable brass reeds. I wouldn't use it for overblowing as it's un-economical. I find it a responsive instrument I can play at low volumes and bend easily, without annoying my neighbors more than a performance instrument -unless I were a wealthy man.
A bit sore that these come in a cardboard flip top box lined with faux leather embossed paper. But there was a nice baby blue branded cleaning cloth and some waxy paper wrapped around the harp -it looked like someone cared albeit somewhat from the 1980s. Surely China has progressed!
Now the obvious, it bends well, being somehow very air tight and the resonance is good, as I said, those brass reeds do indeed sing. I may get down-voted but I prefer the T10-2 to the Special 20 which Dad uses (bought it for him -how many harps have I bought, omg).
Finally, what you've all been waiting for: can you peruse both sides of the harmonica in a song? What I found was, YES you can but not for all songs. I've done mid-song flips and they work fine provided you memorize those hole-to-mouth positions. One song I can think of that flips is "Put your Hand on my Shoulder" [correct me if I'm wrong].
You can also try, "He'll have to Go" which should feature a bend somewhere. All sound good on this harp. Trying to play the Phantom of the Opera is near impossible as it's in a minor key. Don't bother trying it if it breaks you, wind up feeling disappointed. All harp music is simple -that's my rule -what matters is how you apply rapid 'puhh' rhythm and that 'aww' sound, plus a few 'yooh' bends. We've all heard those stale renditions of "Red River Valley" all too many times.
Learn the way of the diatonic and you will be a happy person. Don't play Amazing Grace more than once or twice. Play Unchained Melody or Flower of Malaya, and of course Oh! Susannah. Anything that swings / rocks.
And one last thing (Hey, Steve!) don't munch cookies before your gig / practice.
Friday, December 5, 2025
Publishing my novella and coding FastCN...
I just submitted my novella for paid self-publishing on Partridge's website. I hope everything will go well. I actually paid in 2019 which was 6 years ago and just now submitted my MS.
So in the bustle of waiting for my parcel, prepping for being published, and writing on prophetic signs this coming World Cup, I forgot all about my applet, stuck on its search algorithm. There are some misconceptions in the logic which I need to think over such as two positives on one line -how do we cache that?
Worked out just before midnight and am feeling good. Tomorrow, will try to go on a long walk or a brief run. The rain earlier was really heavy. Try to lay down some more code before bed at 1am.
I was looking at the tech for folding phones and it occurred to me that we’ve always had the tech for spanning displays on Linux. 2 displays side by side would work fine provided there were a bend on each edge so that a widget say, might overlap the other display and not lose its sensitivity to touch.
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Baking bread for a living…
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
FastCN flops...
I put everything together this afternoon. Then broke to make dinner for the folks. We had curry and toast and rice with a tomato and Indian bitter gourd salad. Came back to the program and found that it was either no results at all, or too many results. There's something amiss somewhere and I think it's with the iterator function.
Can't be the matcher patterns which are done right, IMHO. A night of debugging ahead. Meanwhile, evil lurks in the back of our minds, plotting a damned if you do scheme. There may be honor among thieves but not among apostates and unbelievers like the Liew witchy 6 who downfalled thousands of control families worldwide.
Perhaps I should consider the problem and maybe find a solution instead of working all the time. It may involve securing people or giving them a weapon. So we settled on dragging them [the perps] through concrete atom by atom. Just their right hand for now.
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Seems my harmonica is not to be shipped today. Maybe tomorrow. Today is ABY 8a or "The Well" and it contains a warning for the evil Liews and a wakeup call to all who are good an in mindspace -we must defeat the witchy 6 today. I believe it is by relating the life story of LiLian. It comes in 5 parts. And it started when she went abroad with her family. Knowing her secret life experiences is key to winning over her supporters. I will try to put it together.
- She was born cursed with disfigurements and grabbed for boys and girls (some) faces to look as beautiful as possible but still had to resort to plastic surgery.
- Being ugly under the surface made her cruel and anathema to the western society she lived in and she became promiscuous, infatuated with sexuality
- She earned a bad name and was bullied, thus her family came home to Malaysia
- Trying to fit in, she picked on me as a scapegoat, having as of yet not done anything really bad. But peer pressure forced her to lash out, destroying many in the UK (where we both studied)
- The Americans tried to give her wealth and happiness as she used a genius and some dark clairvoyants to whip up a storm. And this is where we are in now.
8a - ䷯ - 48
“The Well. The town may be moved but the well
remains unchanged. The water never increases nor
decreases and those who come and go can draw from it.
If the rope is too short or the bucket broken before
reaching the water -misfortune” --Dr W K Chu
To my mother and my father: my guardian and
my hero respectively; to my friends and traveling
companions in the mind wherever you are; In honor and
later, in memory, of Li Lian.
In two days time it will be ABY 10a which is ☰ (heaven). We begin anew without the enemy, however she was defeated.
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A cool rainy morning. Sat down at once to debug. More indices trouble. Liew forces not that strong now.
We came up with a way of controlling LiLian which is by simple human reactions. Now most of their forces are out of telepathy. Rain very heavy. Getting some results from FastCN but some errors too. The code is greatly simplified and pretty fast.
Liews feeling afraid. I may have money to do something out of their prophecy if Partridge refunds my 2.4kRM. Not sure what I’d buy. Maybe start my bread baking business here at the shoebox. Found a bread maker for just 45RM and ordered it immediately. I will start baking soon and if it’s successful, will share my recipe here. I have a certificate in bread and cake making from MIB.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Jealousy and beauty...
Something came up in the daily dealings of my family -in mindspace. And I have to re-preach my old message: the buying and selling of beauty is the oldest trade that still exists today. The second oldest by a hair, is jealousy (keeping up with the Joneses etc.)
Now we need to define 'expectations' for it is the reason we interact. We also need to define 'time' for it is limited. All else will be explained as is.
The expectation of LIFE is beauty divided by time. When beauty or time is short, then the expectation is different. We should aim for an expectation which is positive (above zero).
So see, I'm ugly and ugly for the rest of my life -I am depressed, vengeful, jealous -and jealousy becomes my trade -my give and take with others.
So see, I am beautiful and for a while in my life, but a season or two, therefore I am GOOD for always. The ratio is positive.
Sure you may say, your time is short. But I say, time stands still in the hearts of friends and believers when they behold beauty, truth, law. You will be remembered by the angels and as one who led the way to God.
More later...
Liew witchy Kwan caught with his pants down for abetting 9-11. Many Americans admitted to being visited by Kwan (our names are somewhat similar - I am often called Kwang), so we tested the guy with leg blasting and he caved, tho his mouth keeps motor talking -he was in my / your / their heart when he was moved to destroy America.
Now more networks of people are coming to see Kwan, no doubt who plotted with him. How can you sleep at night, man?
Monday, December 1, 2025
Had a good sleep on one whole Rivotril...
Desperate people tried keeping me awake so I ducked out, taking more Rivotril to sleep. This morning am feeling fresh. Mom didn't sleep at all. Wonder what she was doing? Whether she protects me or pushes blame onto me? But that's okay -she's my mom and I love her. I do know that she and Sis push certain cancers onto my person -I am cancer resistant. Can't offhand remember what they were...
FastCN: ^-.
⺬ ⼎ ⼙ 「 『 』 【 〖 〗 ぃ く ㄖ
FastCN: quit
Bye, 再见
This was FastCN's output to the stroke '--', yea a simple dash. There ought to be more but that was it. Strange but at least it produced output from multiple lines in the data file. Have half an hour to go before my salt prune and water constipation remedy works its magic. It's hard to argue with others who push things they deserve, onto a relative or friend. I mean, tho they are successful, they should also be punished for their own crimes or at least don't 'ensure' it by blackening my face which is innocent.
I guess these are the birthpains and not everyone is good at handling suffering while they try to earn a living and raise their family. One of my friends' wife got disfigured quite badly -they never pushed and are fighting strong. She was the most beautiful girl in our class at high school / secondary school. Had to happen sometime -the jealousy.
FastCN: ^-.
⺬ ⼁ ⼎ ⼙ 「 『 』 【
〖 〗 ぃ き く こ し じ
ゅ ょ り る ろ ゎ ァ ェ
ォ ド ュ ョ レ ヮ ㄋ ㄖ
ㄚ
Some improvement to FastCN -I got a load of Japanese characters as well just searching for a 'dash' stroke.
Made some improvements to the stroke help printer,
FastCN: strokes
\ \- / -/ ) -) -( (,
,) < } { ' ` `- -,
- 1 1, 2 3 4 7 77
7j '7 ,7 + -t x h, j
z Z c C o L
They're all in rough order for easy learning. Brackets, tics, numbers, letters. I may simplify these base 38 strokes sometime tonight.
Used ImageMagick's montage feature so I can view many characters at once and decide which sub-strokes are the most effective for defining a char. It's a lot of work-smart and may take me an hour or more. Not sure I want to begin at 10pm. Took my meds and brushed. Will shower and change at 11pm.
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One thing I didn't quite notice about my room at the shoebox is that it's rather quiet. But there are a lot of movements thru my heart which is distracting from my work. Many plans are being hatched or planned to, even as I write this. The debate of whether we are in the iron-clay toes or the thighs of bronze is interesting. And perhaps by the end of the bronze empire, we will be of two destinies? Support Palestine or Israel.
Both prospects are dangerous, one the 7 headed beast and the other the harlot Babylon the Great. So it is my reckoning that the 'rapture' happens before this allegiance sets in.
The Pope was in Turkie and maybe now in Jerusalem(?) saying that there must be a Palestinian state. This would be in accordance with Revelations, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc. But we have to wait for the peace treaty to fully commence out of Donald's rough draft.
Drank a tall latte, hopefully to rehydrate this very dry and hot day. Passed on getting better strings for my C40 which is at the old house. My spare guitar. 50RM can be spent on other things.
Tomorrow, planning a trip to KLCC.
Feeling fresh after a good shower and am changed into comfy clothes for bed. Disinfected my mattress and piano bench which I use as a chair since the old swivel one broke. Keeps away the flies and other vermin, bacteria etc.
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I didn't head out as planned but went for an invigorating run instead, then me and Mom went to the grocer for bread and cheese. Found this app called SpaceDesk and now I have my Windows 11 machine's screen online thru my iPad --for free (non-commercial use).
Had been thinking I needed a small monitor for it. It's actually an old Celeron Acer netbook which I upgraded to 12GB RAM. This Linux machine has only 8GB but has a quad core i5.