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Tuesday, 01 December 2009

  • Page 63-After So Long....

    I haven't visited my page at all for days for NaNoWriMo and final exams. Now I'm back. I won NaNoWriMo and my novel can be read here. If you want to read an edited version along with the extra endings, feel free to message me and I'll send it to you.

    Now I have to be more focused on my current works. But then, thinking about the next semester just tires me out. I don't know if I can maintain daily updates for Chaos Fighters-Route of Earth. In fact, once I reached senior year I will take a hiatus (except that I'll still joining NaNoWriMo) for a year and three months because I need to write mt thesis, which is very time consuming. But I promise, once I come back, the secret route will be the next one.

    As a side note, I don't did as good as expected for the final exam, but hopefully I can get good results. And, I have a camp by 16-17 December, which means I have to go back to university on 15 December. At least I can have free time during 18&19 in hostel instead of my house. Hopefully I have a update before I go for the camp.

    P/S: I recently hooked up with visual novels. Perhaps I feel too lonely that I want to feel romance.

Saturday, 10 October 2009

  • Page 62-NaNoWriMo Plans

    I've just recently signed up as this year's NaNoWriMo official participants. But the bad news (not really bad, actually) is that the novel I'm going to write is Chaos Fighters II-Cyberion Strike. It is set 100 years after the Chaos Fighters timeline, which means totally new characters. It's about an officer from Earth having a three day vacation at planet Lefrad was forced to start his duty sooner as he was suddenly teleported to planet Ketruin. An officer teleported him as replacement as the actual officer was stranded when the teleportation went wrong. Their tasks is to eliminate a cyber crime group which focuses on cracking data by having a group distract the computer users while a group of guardians extract the data. He was transformed into a guardian using the cyberion shift spell and he ends up more magical than his usual self. The mission may be small, but it will change their lives, forever.

    Now, I'm drafting the posts for Chaos Fighters-Route of Earth and Chaos Fighters: Cyber Assault-The Secret Programs so that I can focus totally on the novel and exams as well. Wish me luck then!

Friday, 02 October 2009

  • Page 61-The Sloppy Days

    Things are slowing down for now, despite I'm trying to see if I can complete all drafts for Chaos Fighters-Route of Earth (scheduled for daily updates starting 18th October 2009) and Chaos Fighters: Cyber Assault-The Secret Programs up until December on this month because I feel a strong urge to join NaNoWriMo (except the fact that it bumps up with my final exam papers and I need to see what my mentor thinks about this). If I'm ever joining, the story will not be posted up, if I'm writing Chaos Fighters-Route of Heaven. But I might post it on a special (Xanga, Wordpress and Blogger, but I might considering LiveJournal and other blogging sites) sites named murazrai_for_NaNoWriMo if I'm writing other story arcs. Those sites will only showcase my NaNoWriMo entries and

    Next week, however is a big test to me. I have to do a presentation on a topic which I merely skim through and get ready for pop quizzes. In fact, the signs of sophomore syndrome is getting stronger. I could barely remember contents of some lectures while forgetting some others, especially Physical Chemistry II, Polymer Chemistry I and History and Philosophy of Science. I guess this means no arcades (or video games totally) until the end of the semester.

    Thinking about it, I recently ended up playing a lot of video games, even I do study slight more than in the past. I guess video game addiction starts to kills my mind, I must say. I must prevent this from happening in a more severe way.

    As for Chaos Fighters: Cyber Assault-The Secret Programs, I changed the plan again. Syrfan will keep beside Kenny, but Fie will be "given" to Pheryl in Folder 5. Two new characters will still be there, though. In folder 4, Hagro will face his own dilemma (I'm not spoiling the plot too much) as his love interest is secretly joined the Black Raider gang. This is my final change, so sorry for a lot of fuss on this.

    With five story arcs to be done, total up to 27 novels (11 in the first and 4 very long ones in the second, the others are kept secret for now, but if I'm successful in my writings, I will write more)to be written, maybe I will be forced to give up writing, but if possible I don't want that. Writing enhances my English and brings me to the online friends whom I don't want to give up. After writing for almost one year I feel the strength to keep it up. I don't want to get down with that, despite it is very likely to happen during senior year.

    From now on, it's a rush for the last 6 weeks in my life. I can't waste any time anymore.

Thursday, 01 October 2009

  • Page 60-Scholarships Are Bliss After All

    This year is a hard year for most countries because those baseless capitalist economics done by the rich countries make another slump. My country announced numerous strategies to save its own state, as well as other countries, but none of them are directly related to the citizens, which is quite disappointing. At least the scholarship money was not cut at all.

    But then, to prevent my parents from scolding me, I have to save money so that I have some money left in my bank account. Some of these tricks may have legal risks, but I suggest you do it as a last resort (Actually, I'm not doing all of them, but for the sake of everyone, I list them all):
    -Scan (not photostat) books from your friends. There are free tools of scanning to make the pages in .pdf format. If you are lazy, search for pdf books in the net through file sharing website or 1 click hosting websites (like Megaupload/Rapidshare/Mediafire/etc.).
    -Don't buy drinks, fill it using free water dispenser (or those water machines which give you 1 liter for 10 cents if you want healthier choice).
    -Don't snack or eat supper. If you insist, stock biscuits. You can get a big pack at a cheaper price than buying lots of small packages.
    -Wash you clothes with your bare hands.
    -If you crave for video games, get freeware or play flash games and you'll support the independent games industry while saving your pocket money without infringe any copyrights. But I tend to get them through 1 click hosting websites sometimes as the game developers can't afford to get a hosting. Sometimes, Vector (a japanese website) is a good source to get free doujin (Japanese counterpart of independent) games.
    -Take care of your health. Healthcare now is expensive nowadays.
    -If you are merely scribbling, scribble at the cover or inside cover (and back ones as well) of your test pads or notebooks. That will make you utilize more of your paper resource. I know some may object this, but those spaces are not prepared for you for making it blank.
    -Get yourself a bisphenol-A free polycarbonate bottle and use it to fill your water. It is safe and can be used for weeks, if not months or years.
    -Walk/get public transport whenever possible. I'm the type who willing to have 20 minute walks.
    -Use public Wifi/cable whenever possible.
    I guess this is it. Any thoughts? Don't forget to go to the Featured_Grownups and get more tips on this!

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

  • Page 59-Holidays

    I'll have a Hari Raya Aidilfitri (called Eid ul-Fitr in other countries) holiday (as mid semester break, even now is week 10 of 14 weeks) this Saturday. The feeling of coming back home is quite good, despite I hate to admit that I'm become very lazy in my house. I'll try to bring my own laptop after the holiday so that I can install all my favorite games in it.

    As for the second story arc, I changed my plans. Syrfan and Fie will have new observers around folder 5-7 till the end of program one, making the core characters for the whole novel 10 rather than 8. This is a good thing, though because that will expand the novel a lot. My ultimate goal is to have the novel with lengths at least 2.1M words, the longest Latin script novel in the world.

    I'll start drafting the third novel once I finished with the side story, hopefully by next week. The deep undergrounds will be the focus this time and it will take a view at the forbidden love between demons and saints. I'll try to bring out new weapons, new skills and definitely, new places (this happens in a new continent).

    Come to think about it, my birthday is two days from now, but I don't want to celebrate it at all, because I just want to let the day pass as usual. But with those colleagues, I doubt that will happen. The "piece of peace" (for some people that is definitely a reference for an anime) that I searched for years...perhaps I should forget that for now. For that reason, I will not make a birthday post. I want to be in my own peace on that day. But maybe I'll do a Xanga birthday post.

    This is it for now. Have a nice day!

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