Alexander 6, V10.

A week that starts off with lecturing and explaining to some highschool students, is not what I call a happy start of the week. Anyway, it went peacefully this time, despite SOME embarassing questions that I could hardly evade. This always makes me think seriously of doing some extra studies in this field just to avoid such questions, but this is something I greatly hate now.
With the lack of objects I've been snapping my face. My mood is screwed up even more to know that my sensor needs cleaning again (which means 5 days with no camera if not more! OMG!).
Anyway, I've noticed a mistake in the post of March 4th, in which I didn't include the verse of that day, so I fixed that now. Lot of verses confuse me greatly.

 

Now it is the time to think of other stuff to do with my camera...

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217. Alexander asked the men to walk behind him
218. one hundred or more they were
219. they walked behind him with fear
220. they did not know what Alexander will do
221. after walking for some distance he stopped
222. and before the volcano he stood firmly
223. then with a roar that left the hearts hollow
224. he shouted the name of Kadmún
225. he asked him to get out if he is a god
226. then something reddish appeared from top
227. and walked down the slope down to Earth
228. and with a hideous smile he said
229. "Alexander, what a long time my dear!"
230. thoughts of the hero stopped
231. and he kept looking strangely to that thing
232. and then he thought what is the meaning of all that
233. then Alexander broke the silence and said,
234. "what does your words mean O devil?"
235. then the red thing with hideous smile said,
236. "you did not change a lot since you were a child,
237. always brave and just, just like your father,
238. and just when I thought I got rid of the two,
239. the son is here in front of me...
240. probably to get revenge for his dead father!"

Fatal Error...

After a shaky weekend I start this week with a day that started with some trials for accidents. I'm waiting for next Thursday with great hope, because it is an off-day. Last week I was able to translate only one verse of Alexander's story, and today I felt - a bit - the urge to translate 3 verses to compensate for my usual rate of 2 verses a day.

I discovered another killing mistake with the numbering system for the lines. The numbers jumped 6 lines ahead, from 1383 to 1389 just like that, which made that specific verse shorter! I don't know what kind of "twist" shall I use as an excuse for this yet, but I'm intending to keep the numbers as they are. Any change or shift or corrections to the order of numbers, shall twist the whole thing for me specially when it comes to the order of words used and lines.

The numb state is still hovering around with me being not able to write anything. Nothing at all. All what I'm concerned about is photography for the time being and waiting for my salary now to clear some debts on my credit card. After that I'm going to order some new photography books. November had almost gone now without me being able to visit Miskan island on the north of Failaka island, because of working conditions here. I need just one "man" to help me out with my plans on this. In the mean time, I shall work on more photo processing, and playing more games that are waiting on the queue!

I spent some time this morning also to submit some of the images that I've uploaded to Fotolia and Canstockphoto websites, and of course the reply of Fotolia was amazingly fast with rejection as usual. Anyway, nothing to be surprised for. I've been uploading these images for some time during the weekend mainly, but not in mood to write down the keywords and the titles for them, thus the perfect time for such activities is, the work time in the office where I am awake and doing nothing!

In the mean time as well, I do think of some plans to visit some of the old deserted (haunted maybe aswell) houses and take pictures of them, in "special" times... yes... special. Yet, I don't know any of such houses near by or so, so I have to ask around and maybe as my brother for some help. Thank you, not going to do it alone!

Belleza Bendita

Today was a day that ran like a train in my life. Beginning with the early morning in the office changing samples and running devices, and then I spent a plenty of time working with photoshop over a photo of one cute girl (no names to be mentioned) that I called, Belleza Bendita. I made a mistake though in the design as I typed "bendito" instead of "bendita." She is a girl from somewhere with latin and italian roots, so imagine the shape! :)
Belleza Bendita means "Blessed Beauty." This is just what I see in her, and the most fascinating thing, in the whole thing, is the hazel eyes.

Later this morning, I had a call again from the Irish embassy asking me to fax some papers. They called me back on Wednesday asking me to do the visa online (which is something I checked for but I didn't find any information in their site confirming that)... however, I had to run here and there and back home to get the papers and sign them then send them by fax from a photocopy shop.

Got lot to do with photos these days, from people and from my own camera. The photo above is a minimized version of the panoramic view that I composed on the seashore Thursday's morning. The play of colors is, of course, made up... don'tell me you didn't figure this out! The actual size is around 3 meters by 1 meter (WxH). I think that would be somewhere around 9ft by 3ft. I wonder why don't they use the metric!!! It's easier!

Beside fixing photos and doing designs with photos, there is a queue of games that is waiting, and that makes me be idle for sure from completing my story. Games have their own priorities! :)

The yield for today is 2 pages of translation. Also, I discovered a new type of mistakes this time! A reptitive number sequences! YUK!
The repetitive sequence of numbers means that the verse is already more than 24 lines somehow, so if we assumed the total number of lines (after the previous mistakes were found) is 2997, I guess the number now would be 2999... well, closer to 3000, the supposed original number! But still, more mistakes to be found I guess...

As I was trying to type something for my story I figured out that the time doesn't help now, so I went on typing this entry instead... hoping that I might be able to do something at home with my story.
I had some thought of living some tiny adventure by trying to go to one of the islands, namely Miskan, where an old lighthouse built by the british still survives there, beside the new one as I read once. I don't know how much does it take to reach that place, but I heard that I can rent one of the boats lying around in some marinas. I need to re-think about it... specially with such a hot weather now.

It's just amazing, that feeling when you make someone smile... and from one second of dispair, you do make them fly... I think being a single man until this moment of my life, is paying back in a form of virtues... despite the devil that lives within me from time to time... Alas! Life, and so shall it go...

Yikes!

Another discovery of missing numbers! This time 4 lines are missing between 374 and 378. The story is not missing but only the numbering is messed around. Under the light of the new event here then the total lines of the story is 2993.

Today, I translated only one verse (which was started yesterday but completed today) as I was sick of the place here. I had to do adminstrative job and translate 3 pages typed by my colleague before his travelling to his vacation. The contents were highly scientific in terms, and sometimes I had to leave them as they are, untouched, leaving the document look half Arabic and half English. I had also to drive to some computer stores to buy a converter piece (USB to 9-pin) with the money I had from the adminstrative office (purchase department here) as we need for some laptop connectivity. I barely had time to translate my own project with Alexander's story. In fact I had no mood at all. I was planning as well to write some words into my diary which I brought with me today, as I had some thoughts and wanted to pin them down on paper, but I guess this won't be for now since most of the ideas are vaporized by now. I'm trying now to write down something for my story as I didn't write down a thing yesterday and was trying to think of some way to fabricate the events.

I googled some sites for tips on writing a mystery and some views contradicted somehow, so I guess every author has his or her own unique way of thinking and approach. One of the authors in his tips actually suggested the same thing I did in the beginning, which is a random start and the story would go by itself as you go writing, but with an exception that the end must be well established and outlined already for the rest of the show.

Starting as well now to play "Still Life 2." A thrilling game I've been waiting for. It's about some serial killer that practices his rituals in US. The story is a continuation for the first part, thus it is better to play that one first and then the second. It is a detective game with some vulgar language (so check out your age rank) and some unpleasant views and violence... but hey, I'm not intending to apply these in real life... or ... ?

An Awful Discovery...

I just discovered that I made a big mistake in the numbering in my writing for the 6th part of Alexander's story. One of the verses, #15, has missing 3 missing lines in between 353-356. The story goes well, in fact the lines are not missing but I should say the numbering is a mess. In that sense, the whole story is shorter than 3000 lines, and more like 2997 lines! I kept the numbers as they are so as not to lose the track of the story when I translate.

Monday, as always, my very bad-lucky day. I had to be interrupted several times and couldn't complete one simple conversation on MSN. While a gentleman got into my office seeking some job like if I was a manager and he had hard time understanding that I'm not responsible for any jobs but he has to check the main adminstrative office. Then, tata! Just after he left, my connection is down and never up again til this very moment of writing this. I love this day, NOT.

I went for my appointment today in the early morning as well and boy how I loved the clinic, I was number 1 then I discovered I'm 2, then discovered I have to register a number so I got number 4. Then on the queue, they had to let in number 5 before me. Don't you love living in this country? Amazing. The doctor checked my ear and said that I have fungi in it. She cleaned some but said that I must use some ear drops for ten days! Boy, wasn't that ugly when she cleaned my ear and stuff showed off, and then she used the sucking vacuum and took off a chunk of what was inside. I got 2 medicines now, one as anti-mycotic (for fungi in my right ear) and another drop to be used 5 days before my appointment in my left ear to soften the wax I believe. Life is hard just by living in it, isn't it?

Man, I can't wait til the night of this day pass over... I hate Mondays...