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Comparing last weekend and this weekend
Last weekend actually started on Friday, since we got the day off as a replacement for Labour Day falling on Saturday. A couple of noteworthy events from that day, including, catching a movie at the Premiere Class at GSC Signature Gardens for the first time. Interesting layout; very well-suited to those...
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8th May 2010 9:43pm
Cough medicine
Item: Cough linctus, 100mlBrand: Himalaya (Diakof)Price: MYR 13.90Date of Purchase/Survey: 21/04/2010Place of Sale: MidValley Megamall (Watsons)I really like Himalaya products. All herbal, all natural.
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21st April 2010 10:31pm
“Oh, we’re not friends with him any more”
I’m really curious how that conversation would go. It’s a hypothetical conversation of course. At least, as far as I’m concerned.I once was married and now am not. I am also a few friends short.Let’s start with two sets of friends, one mine (M), one hers (H). Then we’ll intersect them (M-I-H)...
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20th April 2010 5:25pm
This is why I don’t play sports
My mind, eternally youthful, seems to believe my body is 16 years old. My body, being at least twice that age, refuses to play along. My mind, able to imagine fantastical feats of physical prowess, is convinced what it can imagine, my body can achieve. My body, woefully untested in actual physical...
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10th April 2010 3:43pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 5
Commander Gargalash turned at the sound of his name. Rendoo, the mage, was holding open the entrance flap of the command tent. The mage stepped aside as Gargalash approached, ushering the commander inside. The old man looked weary, no doubt having spent all of last night and the majority of this morning...
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12th October 2009 7:50pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 4
Yarga was just reaching for the door when it opened, from the outside. It was the young page from earlier. Feraz, if the Minister remembered correctly. He was the ward of one of the Duchess’ servants. The Duchess preferred to hold court further West, ‘away from the barbarians’, as she put it. If...
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9th October 2009 9:25pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 3
“What do you mean they march towards LiYarfah?” Lord Tomaz Cilarfa, Duke of BurJuandar, was more surprised than angry. The news had initially shocked him into sitting down, but a second later he pushed himself away from the table and marched to the mural on the west wall, stopping right in front of...
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30th September 2009 10:22pm
The Lost Emperor, Chapter 2
The door creaked open and a ray of light stabbed into the room. The shadow preceded the page, who squeezed past the barely open doorway and made his way to the Ministers clustered around the only table in the room. Such was the discipline required of all servants in the Duke’s household that even in...
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29th September 2009 9:54pm
NaNoWriMo 2007 – The Lost Emperor
In October 2007, when someone introduced me to NaNoWriMo, I thought it was a cool idea. I also thought it might provide me the impetus to keep at a writing project. That’s why I signed up after a few days thought.The story I started writing was one that had been bouncing around in my head for some time...
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24th September 2009 9:18pm
Mission: Evacuation, Episode 1
Three minutes after coming through the gate and I was under attack. Not much of an attack, but an attack nonetheless. Three AK's and two Storms don't give me any concern (I barely noticed them), but now the Core was alerted to my position. They knew an Arm Commander was on the scene. After a few seconds...
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8th September 2009 10:21pm
About A Beginning in Sight
After a short break from Utopia, I recreated an account. I don’t recall the exact timeline, but I wrote another story around that time and dated it in Age 15 (Q1 2002). I didn’t share the story with my Kingdom-mates for some reason or another, although I did post it to my GeoCities page.It’s not a...
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3rd September 2009 6:48pm
About Homeward Bound
My second Utopia-based fiction was written as an introduction piece to a new Kingdom. It was Age 11 (Q1 2001, soon after I left Canada) and I had actually done the unthinkable. I had traded into an existing Kingdom, taking over someone else’s province. This is expressly forbidden by the rules of the...
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2nd September 2009 10:10pm
About The Dawn of Sylvan Hold
I started playing Utopia in the Second Age, early 1999. The Third Age, however, was my first full Age playing the game. In my first experience with Utopia I had selected dwarf for race, and named my province Mithrils Hold (no punctuation, since Utopia doesn’t allow for punctuation in names). By the...
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1st September 2009 6:13pm
About Utopia stories
Utopia is one of the oldest browser-based multiplayer games, coming online in January 1999. In its heyday it could claim to be “massively” multiplayer, drawing over 100,000 players (more or less, depending on who you ask). It won the Webby Gaming Site of the Year Award twice, in 2002 and 2003. Being...
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31st August 2009 9:00pm
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
I just finished reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold last Friday. The weekend earlier my sis had recommended it to me, after telling me about the upcoming film adaptation. The movie is directed by Peter Jackson, and is due out at the end of the year. I’ll admit that the association of an A-list...
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25th August 2009 6:19pm
About “The Keys”
“The Keys” is a much more autobiographical story compared to “A Crazy World”. The protagonist and I share many similarities, both in personality and circumstance. For example, both of us are sentimental people. That’s about all that I will confirm publicly though.There is a link between “The...
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24th August 2009 6:54pm
About “A Crazy World”
I wrote this story in late 2001, after a long hiatus from writing of any kind. Not just creative writing, but any sort of writing. Of course, there was a catalyst that pushed me to write again. I was going through an emotional crisis due to changes in my personal situation. I sought some sort of...
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21st August 2009 11:21pm
A Crazy World
I don't see them. I've been waiting here at least half an hour. Been preparing at least two hours.Maybe I'm just not good at this. Haven't really had too much practice. Father was a boozer; used to hit Mom. He finally left; she couldn't take care of us. Got put into foster care. Foster parents were...
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20th August 2009 9:52pm
Time to start sharing the first stories
Over a decade ago, I joined in the masses in creating a personal webpage at GeoCities, a free webhosting site that had just popped up on the scene of the still-new World Wide Web. I didn’t know why I did it, except that it was a popular thing to do. In those early days, GeoCities was organized into...
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19th August 2009 10:31pm
An Introduction to Self-RW
If you want to write, you must read. And that’s not just an axiom of life, referring to basic reading and writing skills. Anyone who aspires to be a writer, must first be a reader. Now, I wouldn’t call myself a “writer” (I hardly put enough effort into it), but I do enjoy writing. More...
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17th August 2009 10:51pm