He called the villager into the office and sat him down across the largest table. On it were specimens of food items from the city; rather, from anywhere other than the village. The man was asked to look at them and give his opinion.
This left the biggest impression: 'Real fruit? You make such a big deal when your 'food' contains 'real' ingredients? Isn't food supposed to be from real things? This is just ridiculous... [[and you claim to be an advanced people]]...'
That evening, as the sun was nearly set, he stared out of his office window. Beneath him civilization lay sprawled and relatively motionless. There was the occasional semi-organic structure readjusting itself. But other than that... everything was quiet.
He exhaled against the glass and watched it fog up. With his pointer he slowly wiped away the condensation. 'After all this time, after all we have struggled, we have so little...'
The scientist was trying to explain to his colleagues how the fleet was slowly being pulled away from them. The fleet wasn't aware, or maybe just very slightly, but the pulling forces were ever present. Sometimes it seemed they would wait then reach out with long claw-like limbs and scrape the 'surface' of the fleet and try to pull it in. Why didn't the fleet realize? It was a damn FLEET. But on homebase all they could do was watch. They could not do anything, even if they wanted, because the intergalactic federation had made its case clear. No one dared step out of line. So everyday he made calculations and hoped that someday, something would happen and everything would be set right.
Until then, he had other, bigger things, to worry about. He was fighting... Dammit it was hard, the hardest thing ever, but he was fighting. It was overwhelming at times but then there were the neural inhibitors. Even then the relief they gave was followed by a dark wash. Guilt and remorse, over his apparent 'failure' and weakness. The pain would come back, in the guise of an old friend, who was digging into your back as he hugged you. Who was crushing your ribs as he whispered kind words in your ear. His sweet breath strangely intoxicating yet nauseating.
There was much to be learnt, and he feared he didn't have the time. Time. He could go on and on about it but it never made a difference to what he felt about it. He chuckled. It seems like him and resolve were non-parallel lines. For a long time they headed towards each other, then met once, for one glorified instant, before going separate ways and never meeting again.
He felt small... but that was good. That made him happy. And so he retired to his chamber. He needed sleep. There in his pyjamas and under the blanket he looked nothing like a hero. But that was what he was, he just needed to recharge to save the world again tomorrow.
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I drank a lot of milk the other day, mixed it with my cookies and cream protein powder. The whole thing tasted more of milk but there was a faint trace of something... but it didn't really taste like cookies and cream... I don't know I'm just so lost now, I never knew drinking protein could be so... challenging. I just want to be left alone.
AND I might actually be moving to
wordpress FOREVAAAAAA. I've been posting there a lot recently, and I kinda like the tone and feel of it. It was started by a, um, mature-er (?) part of me so its like nonsense free.
HMM so maybe this should be preserved for my nonsense stuff? Yeah that actually makes sense. I can't run away from the nonsense, I can't run away from myself ohmyGoddidijustsaythat.
That's the problem with overcompartmentalizing your blogability, and an over-enthusiasm in that stupid moniker 'therealshard'. Which led to some sort of paranoia that someone out there might somehow arrive at that very permutation of letters and decide to pee in its name ie. mark his territory... WITH MY NICKNAME. There's a therealshard dot and at every- okay not every, but a kinda (maybe not so much) significant number of internetz thingz. Possessive Indian Boy. Well better that Possessed Indian Boy. That'd be scary as hell. I'd shit my pants. And then the shit might take on a life of its own OOoOoOooOhhhhh.
Ok yeah I'm preserving this blog for nonsense like this. As a matter of fact I took a short break from a post-in-writing on my
wordpress. Wanted to announce the possible closure of this blog but hey look where we are now. Didn't think we'd come so far but, wow! You're a real darling.
Stay all darlingy and stuff, be happy and read my
wordpress. Useful stuff there that smart people told me that I think will be of use to you.
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Don't. Be. Distracted by the little things. They
make you feel
all TINGLY and NICE inside
but it is a hollow nice that seeks to
COMPLETE ITSELF (like a parasite) by
igniting a desire in you.
(A desire) for more of it, to know all the kinds
of niceness and oohs and aahs.
These are distractions.
These are distractions.
These are distractions.
Don't get distracted.
In (personally) less scary things (yes its scary to me. All that text was spawned of fear), I can't get Bioshock to load. Its frustrating because:
1) I wanna play Bioshock
2) I am a gamer and have yet to play a GAME.
I can't get my recordings from my phone to the com just yet (bloody WP7 and all its genius shizz...), so I can't do another mix I had worked on awhile ago. More Than Words by eXtreme (that how you spell it? Or is it just Extreme. Wtv, eXtreme looks extremely AWSM).
My goal is to have a magazine cover body. The two big factors: diet and working out.
Now this diet thing has gotten me thinking a lot, caused a lotta frustration and whatnot, and I'm not sure if I've said this before but amma say it again. This time I'll start from the, uh, start.
I was on a low GI diet for maybe a month, prior to enlisting. Almost every meal of mine was different from the rest of my family, so that caused a little problem there. Although I had to get a lot of other ingredients and stuff, I think it was a pretty good investment. Didn't cost too much, and my body responded favourably and quickly. I got considerably leaner, and then I enlisted. And then it all went away kinda. I got bigger in some ways during training, but was not as defined as while on my diet.
For over a month now I think (maybe longer. Yeah should be longer. Eh no wait. Ah forget it) I've been on M.A.N.S. Simply put, a low carb high fat high protein diet. Less than 30g carbs from Sunday to Friday 6pm, from then to Sat midnight you've got a little more slack.
This has been working well for me, but sometimes I'm a little restricted, in that I can't always get something good to eat when I need to. Cos I'm at camp. Bleagh.
SO I've given it a lotta thought, and this is my new diet summmmmmarized:
I, Muhammad Fawaz, shall continue to apply the M.A.N.S. principles in my diet, with the following additions:
If it is my rezeki to have some other food then I will willingly accept it eg. someone buys me lunch or I'm with friends and we share something.
I will try my best (judging by the situation I'm in) to avoid foods that are 'unfavourable' to my diet, however my mindset is this: no food is bad. If Allah made it halal it means it is good for you in some way or another, so who the heck are you to reject it. Whatever you eat, must be in moderation.
I will eat more vegetables. (God that must be the hardest part. Me and veggies are like... yaknow, like that. We're not always the best of friends, though we're not enemies, you know where I'm coming from?
My long term goal is to get my entire family to CHANGE. I don't see that possible because everyone is so stubborn, and when it comes to getting the groceries or whatever my advice could turn things into an argument (maybe). And I'm not sure, but if I have things my way we might end up spending more. Actually I don't think so. Yeah it won't. I guess that just means I gotta figure it all out before I take control of my family's diet.
Brilliant.
I don't see why people should be fat if they just do things right. A flat stomach is the way to go!
Sometimes I wish I had nice photos to share. But I don't. Sooooo..... I'll share more words instead. Could I have said 'instead then'? Sounds rightish but might be wrong.
OMG I JUST REALIZED people sleep at night.
Sleep.
When policeman r tired they make arrestLabels: monstrothimisticism, mystifizmschnickum, repotr, thoughts
I'm playing these games, I love them.
Spider: Mystery of Bryce Manor (part of your purchase goes to charity how AWESOME IS THAT. And not just any charity, it's Child's Play. I mean, like,
Child's Play.
Cause of Death. What can I say, I make a great detective.
High Noon. I once thought I hated the characters so I won't play the game. I still think the characters look like douchebags but I'm friggin hooked.
Osmos: this I wanna play but haven't.
Those are all on the iPoop btw.
I started on a four week workout program I saw in Men's Health, only to realize today I kinda misinterpreted a part of it.
This is week 2. I've decided, to hell with it, let's just do it my way.
Then at the end of the four weeks I'll take a break and then start on the Real thing.
I'll share the workout here sometime.
A coupla good ones I found.
I gotta spend time now thinking and doing stuff for my further education because I didn't do it when I was supposed to.
I.e. in school. I didn't kill myself to get good grades (I know I would've died).
But I sure as hell don't regret how I spent my time.
I look back at my school days and I think, geez that was a lotta fun.
I've got lotsa good memories and remember lots and LOTS of things from school.
I take it that was my time to be young and foolish and careless and make stupid mistakes.
Now that I'm semi-grown up (not really) and I've had all the schoolfun I wanted to have,
I can be serious about the things I wanna and needa do.
I wish I could post so many pictures here but its a hassle to upload 'em from my phone. I mean I gotta plug here plug there ah shit phone's right in front of me but cable's in the bag. Dayumn. Just when I thought 'Hey its quite achievable after all!' Here's stuff already in the com:

I only see one word, PEDO.

One word: moulage.
The world around me is disgusting. Not always, but noticeable enough. I read somewhere about this fella who tried to change the world then couldn't so instead tried to change his country but failed. Moved down the line to town to family before realizing, on his deathbed, that maybe if he had just changed himself first he could have changed everything else. I'm changing myself, I don't know whether to hope to see everything else change, or to say I don't see much changing around me. Something to ponder about another time. Font test next. If you play CoD you'll see the link.
I hate you.
I hate you.I hate you!
I hate you!
I hate you.
I hate you!
I hate you!
Hit Esc to Ape out.
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I'm a big boy, and big boys don't cry because big girls don't cry, and we all know boys >>> girls.
:D
Ok I'm kidding, I believe in equality. That was just a funky introduction to the first part of today's post, which might not be sucha happy read. Or something to that extent.
Well my mom had to undergo a minor operation, like go in today morning come home tomorrow morning. I don't wanna elaborate cos even though I don't have any issues with sharing so much with the world (sometimes. Haha) I feel it'd be disrespectful to my mom's privacy.
So anyway it was on Friday morning, the op, and I called home on Thursday night just to talk to my mom. I didn't know what to say or whatever, I remember asking her what time the operation was. I had asked her the Sunday night before, before I walked away from the car into the gates of CDA, but I didn't listen to her reply cos all I was doing was try to stretch the time I could spend talking to her. I didn't wanna go into camp because that'd mean I couldn't be with her till op day. Plus I had to play it cool and macho.
On Thursday when I spoke to Mak it was different, this time I listened to what she said. Like, that was the only thing of her that I could take away from the conversation, so I had to take in Everything. And I remember towards the end of the phonecall my heart was heavy as HECK (I just don't feel like saying hell, like... not nice ah hahahah), and the closer I got to it the more I thought I felt like crying. I remember a part of me screaming to tell Mak that I loved her, but another half was like wtheck that's so not-me/weird/something like that. But in the end I did, it went like this:
Bye mak
Bye sayang
(almost blurted out but tried very hard to sound steady) I love you
(pause) I love you too
Then I put down the phone and breathed, and I can't remember the next few seconds. Heavy moment.
Since I'm still thinking of the story, I wanna thank Nabhan for showing concern. I didn't realize it, but I must've sounded really different while on the phone cos he sensed it. Actually, I've got a lot of camp people to thank. They make it possible for me to be on about stuff and not dread shit and whatever. Thanks ah fellas, yall full of shit but its the good kinda shit.
SO back to topic. Laaaaater on I thought about how it'd be when I live by myself or sth. I guess I might not be homesick so much, but I'd always wanna be there for my family for anything that might be made better off if I were there. It is possible that I won't feel that way, but I'm telling myself now that I want to, so I will.
Anyway I miss going to the gym. I miss the whole feel of it, everyDAMN THINGOFGYMMING ARGHHHHHHHHH. At this rate, I'm sure I won't stop gymming till I'm officially unable to gym or sth.
Oh and I've been thinking twice about taking psychology. I originally intended on penning my thoughts, but since I'm keyboarding now I might as well get some stuff out. You could read and think about it and try to tell me only to realize that I don't wanna listen cos I'm drowning in my sorrows, slowly sinking into the shadows of my little corner of the world where nobody cares to look, where light is never cast, where thoughts never stray to. And its there that you'll see me try to disappear, held back only by the fact of your observation. It sounds depressing, but you don't see that I'm laughing and having the time of my life.
Hahahah why do I keep doing that. Why Fawaz? Okay I'll ask him later. L8r. Alligater. Allig8r. Alligaver. All I gave her. Hmm, interesting.
Sooooo, psychology. I like it, its fun. I like watching people and shit. Haha no not watching shit as in feces but like youknowyouknow ok you know. I like exploring all this mind nonsense.
Psychology is largely baseless iThink. There's nothing concrete, no formulas, no guaranteed outcome. Its hypotheses vs hypotheses, each one making up his own rules based on empirical data. But quantified observations of a nonquantifiable subject matter just don't seem real enough for me.
What's it like then? We think as hard as we can about what's in us, oh the irony, and in the end come up with what could be a working framework. Try to fit in as many people into it as possible, then come up with a list of Exceptions, and figure out how to sound more convincing that the next fella.
It could be useful, still. If the trends you observe are really that replicable or identifiable, then voila, who gives a shit if you haven't plotted a graph of it. If you can work with it then do it. What, no one can tell you what the truth is because no one actually knows, so you create one that works for you? And in this case one that could apply to the majority?
I'm stopping here, my eyes are tired and I
uAmuse m3 iLike
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K quickie quickie ttm, barely a few hours of shuteye before gym with my Shifu, Shifu Zul.
For starters, twas hella nice being with 2nd Chance I mean Family again, love you guys. Filzah I know you might deny it, but please consider the remote possibility that you might get older than me 'depending on the year'. Hahahahah. Happy birthday again.
LOLLLLLL CHEF-IQ, I'm cracking up again haahahahhahaaaahahahha.
And btw it was fairly intimidating to be in the presents of TWO cikgus ah. Hwalao eh talk about hidden stress.
Right, moving on. I'll tell you now life is fair, but its undeniable we always get a lot of shit. At my age, the most relevant form of shit is NS. While I've not masok-ed, I've heard lotsa stories. Mine spine doth tingle.
But it might be a strange thing that just awhile ago while doing the dishes, I was made privy to to a section of the Workings of Life. Yes, I was illuminated, I was given understanding of a certain mystery. Washing dirty cutlery... therapeutic, really.
Its also exciting that I now know what the
government has known for so long. For 40-ish years that is, since the implementation of NS. NS is where they give you shit.
AND WHY? You might ask.
Crudely put, they are trying to fertilize you. Not in the sexual way, not to reproduce, but in the
botanical way.
Yes, gentlemen... take a deep breath... pause now. Then read: ...we are
plants.
The government realize that! So what they do through NS, is give us a lot of shit - fertilizer! So that we may grow into healthy adult plants. Then we'll have hugeass fruits, whic- wow that just brought a crude image to mine. I'll stop here.
Today I was pissed of to the MAX again, and managed to keep my cool. No hitting, no shouting, nothing. But I was seething like shit. Then I wondered: how strange it is for me to always have so much fun when I'm out with other people, but come home to family, whom I love dearly, only to be filled with less desirable emotions.
Maybe cos I don't live with my friends hah. But whatever, I think I need that dose of pith everyday else I'll get too happy and become, araknow, likka loozer?
Looking forward to displacing heavy objects. Keep healthy everyone, because HEALTH is STEALTH. Think about it.
You know, I was sinking... maybe floats would do the trick?
Labels: mystifizmschnickum, thoughts
2 x 2 = 2 + 2
therefore
x = + = t
so
exit = etix = ethics
and
fit = fix = solution to problems
voilà
Hello high voltage
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