And So It Begins Again

A new semester of my studies begins again. Hopefully, that will get my brain running again, and I'll be able to give you something worth reading again. :D If you noticed, the last post was 11 days ago. This time round, it wasn't that I didn't feel like writing anything, but that I had writer's block. I couldn't find anything I could write about, and I have hit a wall writing the story, revealing to me how bad my writing actually is.

I'm hoping to churn out a number of reviews for my reviews category, which will hopefully include some new stuff I have acquired within the past year. The articles probably won't be the best things you've seen around, but I thought I should at least try to keep a once a month schedule if I can't maintain a once a week schedule.

Rest assured that when my writer's block is gone, you can expect to see a few bursts of those every day updates. :D

World of Data

I was thinking about the world. What if it were made entirely out of data? Data that beings far beyond could modify like programmers of a game? What if the world is built purely on a set of rules, and the original Earth and every other planet were merely random seeds with more data than we could even imagine? What if the entire universe configuration was generated by some advanced random number generator? One powerful enough to generate a number that we couldn't even come close to understanding? What if people among us could modify, reprogram the data as it flowed?

Maybe they wouldn't have godlike powers, but what if they could shift things like market prices, traffic light intervals and even small bits like a given clock? What is the reason for errors in a clock is that some among us can unconsciously alter, modify and influence the small workings of simple pieces of data?

What if someone had the capability to modify larger amounts of data in the world? Altering entire systems of data, bending entire simple systems out of whack? What if someone could completely alter the manner in which a lamp would turn on? What if someone could even read this data flow in advance, making them clairvoyant? What if humans could actually process and understand small portions of this data flow?

Looking Back at the Past Half Year

I have no clue what I've been doing the past half year. :D I know I studied, got marks at the finals, screwed up one paper badly but still got a H2A, learned how to play DotA (still don't see how people can play it for hours on end). I've played through several games, including Need for Speed Most Wanted, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Paper Mario: The 1000-Year Door, and so on.

I've progressed in knowledge quite a bit, although I'm not entirely sure how much or how quickly. I got bored pretty quickly, and all I can hope for is a more enjoyable semester during the next few months.

As for the blog, I've let it degenerate quite a bit after I updated the template. I just plainly have nothing to talk about. No class means nothing to rant about. I don't feel like writing out the story now, so that has also been patchy. I'm quitting Magic: the Gathering temporarily, so I'm probably not going to write any more articles from that avenue. I'm a studying student, and I have not gotten any new items to really review or take photos of. Even my Funny Stuff section has gotten abandoned because I think it's not funny, and I think plenty of you agree.

Where does that leave us? Nothing much. Is there any lesson I learned in the past half year? Not really, other than cold weather makes your bed a huge body magnet. I've barely even needed to bring out my jacket since it's not really all that cold, but that doesn't mean I'm invulnerable to cold. I just happen to go out when it's warmer, or when I don't have a chill.

I've started taking longer showers, probably a consequence of it being so comfortable in the shower. I just got my hair cut. It went from ridiculously long (by my standards, maybe that might change in the future) to ridiculously short (by my standards for my hair LOL).

That's all I have to rant about today. :P More later. (Later being possibly as late as never.)

Chapter 2 - 04: Looking Back

"I asked you to stop." The voice was Pandora's. She had somehow gotten a hold of him. Kanya suddenly blanked out for a short while.

"You're not supposed to be on this ship. Moreover, you were heading for places even most crew of the Aegis aren't supposed to go near."

Kanya was speechless.

"Don't you have any excuse for entering when you were unauthorised?"

He had no words to say. He was still in shock of being discovered.

"Your abilities are recovering far quicker than I expected. It looks like I need to bring forward the schedule a little bit. Either way, I can't have you remembering anything within this region of time."

She takes out a syringe and suddenly jabs him with it.

"You don't remember who I am to you yet. You will remember in time. Hopefully, the next time we meet, you will remember who I really am, what I am doing, for what reason I'm doing it. And for your sake, don't go using your abilities unchecked by reason. If you ran into someone other than me, chances are you would have been terminated on the spot. After all, no one on this ship knows you. Not yet at least."

She removes the syringe, and stabs him with what appears to be a needle.

"Unfortunately, I cannot have you recover too quickly. That would ruin my plan and put you in unnecessary danger. You have much to learn before I can allow you to roam freely without supervision."

She removes the needle. Not long after, Kanya falls to the ground. She takes out her PDD.

"I need a medical team at the position I'm calling from. A crew member from the MV2904 somehow wandered in and collapsed here."

"What is this person doing on the Aegis?"

"Who knows? I think he somehow got cleared through the doors. Must have been a glitch or something."

"Why would he come here?"

"Probably got lost. Just hurry up and send a team here. I have things to attend to."

Chapter 2 - 03: Return by Shuttle

Kanya had already returned to his room on the MV2904. His day of shopping was over. At 1. He didn't have the stamina to do it all day. He decided a little change would be good for him, so he went to the orbital station's cafeteria instead. He would try the food on Nakamura tomorrow. They were going to be there for a week anyway. As he was leaving the cafeteria, he saw Cassandra return from the surface. She immediately left in the opposite direction, not noticing Kanya. He followed her to another door. She cleared the security and entered. Kanya was curious. He immediately tried to follow her, but to no avail.

The door rejected his clearance. He thought he should go back. If it was something above his clearance, he probably shouldn't know. He swung his hand past the scanner for the heck of it. It suddenly cleared him. He didn't know what happened, but he continued onward. At each locked door, a mere swing of his hand at the reader was adequate for opening the doors.

An unexplainable phenomena, but Kanya believed someone was leading him to something. He had lost sight of Cassandra. He realised where he was: the Aegis. He continues walking one of the corridors. He could not explain it, but he knew where he had to go. The layout of the ship wasn't foreign to him.

A voice from behind him beckoned. "It's about time you stop." The voice was familiar. He began to run, he knew he shouldn't get caught. He sped forward as fast as he could.