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Ouroboros Tattoo wasn't too hard to find. It was nested between a mom & pop version of Hot Topic and a store that sold random garbage under the name of 'antiques' as well as an impressive collection of replica swords.
Although it was getting late, the place was still open. The front window was frosted with the logo of the place written on it: It was the name with the O of Ouroboros replaced by a snake eating it's own tail. I pushed the door open and was immediately assaulted by the smell of incense. The place didn't have the image that I thought of when I thought of a tattoo shop, the decor was of asian influence, with a large stone Budai (that was the fat guy people thought of as buddha) overlooking the entrance, potted bamboo plants rang along the wall, with pictures of individual pieces plastering the available space. The whole place had a zen vibe to it, right down to the mystical music that came softly out of the speakers.
"Good evening. What can I do for you?" I turned around to see the man behind the counter, a tall handsome and visibly tattooed punk guy with an impressive mohawk of spiky white hair. he rivaled Kaleb in terms of piercing. And just like Kaleb, he wasn't human...
"Hi, I'm here to see Kaleb." I declared, feeling sheepish under his piercing stare.
"He's in the back. I'll get him."
The guy left, going to the back, I presumed and a moment later, Kaleb came. "Can I help--" He began speaking before his eyes set on me. "Oh hey. Didn't think I'd see you again." He then added, caressing his neck with his right hand. "Did you decide you wanted a piercing?"
Kaleb was dressed simply; just a dark button up shirt with a few talismans hanging from his neck underneath along with dark jeans.
"I guess. To be entirely honestly, I was kind of more hoping for a friend…" I admitted, feeling embarrassed and clamping up.
"The two are no exclusive, why don't you come with me in the back?" He said.
I followed him, passing behind the counter and going to a room, he opened the door and the change in decor was very startling. Where the front of the place looked like a buddhist temple crossed with a reception desk, the room was far more like a hospital room.
"This is the piercing room." He explained.
"Pretty nifty."
"It's important to keep clean when piercing skin. All our equipment is sterilized between clients."
"So… you do tattoos and piercings?"
"Actually just piercings for clients, I only tattoo pork skins until I get better at it. Tom's been teaching me for months. Although a good deal of my job is cleaning, Tom doesn't use disposable equipment and it's the apprentice's job to take care of it. Anyway, What do you want? Ears, nose, lips, tongue, eyebrow, navel, nipple genitals, I've done everything." He said, getting a pair of medical gloves.
"Just the ears? Start small, I guess…"
"Good thing you came here and not a mall. Their gun should be illegal, you can't sanitize them correctly and jamming a blunt stud into an ear is an awful and painful method to pierce." He explained. As he did, he grabbed a hypodermic needle and I shivered a little. "You won't feel a thing, instead of tearing the skin, the needle will just push it aside. First you'll just need to choose a stud. They're either surgical steel or nickel-free gold, so you can't get an allergic reaction from them." I settled on the first one, just a simple steel ball. He opened drawer "Sit down please. Just breathe slowly, hold for five second, then exhale." It wasn't different from the breathing techniques I'd sometimes used to calm down when my nature came to the surface.
I did and he took a stool, bringing it closer to me. He gently manipulated my head into the right angle. "Hold still." I did. I felt a finger gently hold my lobe and then he let go. "Turn around." The same operation was repeated.
"Congratulation, you're pierced." He declared.
I was? I felt a small warmth in my ears but not anything that could be described as pain.
"You'll have to keep them for a few weeks, six preferably, then you can change them. Avoid twisting or playing with them to let the ear heal. Keep them on at all time or the hole will shrink. And for the next three weeks, I wouldn't go swimming, chlorine or water-borne bacteria can cause an infection." He opened another drawer and took out a small bag. "It's non-iodized salt, mix it with water and you can clean your ears. Lollipop?"
The last question made me glare at him.
"More for me then." He said, sticking a red one in his mouth. "Was that all or do you still want to hang out?"
"Hanging out sounds very… Nice…" I said completely flustered.
"Alright, I can take off early." He said, putting everything back in it's place, throwing away the needle and gloves. He left me for a second to tell the other guy, Tom he was leaving, and then he came back with a windbreaker.
"You have anything in mind, Lauren?" He asked. I was surprised he remembered my name.
Kaleb was weird, so cheerful and nice. My guts kept telling me he wasn't human but I didn't know what he was. The only thing I knew is that he wasn't a vampire.
"Not a clue… To be honest you're the closest thing I have to a friend for the past three years. I'm very rusty on the whole hanging out thing."
"Well, first things first, I'm starving. What about you?"
"Food sounds great." I said.
"I know a nice place, if you like Donburi that is."
"Japanese food is good." I answered.
It wasn't too far, the place had a name I couldn't pronounce or read as it was in Japanese, it was so small one would easily miss it, maybe five yards wide. The inside was nothing but an open plan kitchen with a long counter lined up with stools that went all the way back.
"It's a bit of a one-dish wonder." Kaleb explained. "Tom's the one who introduced me to it. They only do Donburi but there's a choice of a dozen or so topping."
Donburi weren't so much a dish as an oversized rice bowl with meat, vegetable and other toppings in a sweet soy sauce thrown over it. We sat down and ordered quickly as the chef started his work.
"So… Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure." He said, pouring tea for the both of us that he'd ordered. "What about?"
"Well, last time you told me how you left home but what's your story with Tom and the Tattoo shop?"
He shrugged. "Not much of a story, I guess, after I left home I just couch surfed for a while, going to illegal parties and the like and I sort of met him, I like how he was, the tattoos and piercings and stuff, I mean it looked kind of really -- Eh, nice." As he spoke he got a little flustered. This was a guy with a crush if I ever saw one. "Eventually I learned he'd opened a shop and started hanging there. He just sort of started bossing me around, getting to help clean since I wouldn't go away and it just sort of went from there until I started working there for real. Do you have something new on your side?" He then asked.
"Yeah…" I muttered. Taking a sip of way-too hot tea to get a moment to think. "I sort of made a dumb mistake and might have gotten in trouble with the authorities, now I'm sort of stuck doing community work." I said, halfway lying.
"That sucks."
"Yeah… It was that or risk a trial. Still I managed to get off tonight, and I kind of needed someone to talk to that wasn't my mom."
"Well, you came to the right person." He said, raising his cup.
Soon enough, our orders came and we started stuffing our faces, him with the traditional Eel-bowl while I'd gone with the more popular beef bowl. It might have been an obscure joint, but it was excellent. Most of the people who came in or out were Asian, with the occasional white person. I had a feeling the place catered more to the Asian workers than the tourists, which was nice, Tourists were often loud and obnoxious.
Kaleb and I chatted as we ate, about nothing very important; my love for the stranglers' Gospel according to the Men in Black (Best. Album. Ever!) and arguing which Sisters of Mercy album was the best. It was nice to talk to someone with similar interests, so many people thought goth was a fashion statement invented by teens of this generation and not a music subculture from the 70's...
"If you're still free, I have an idea." Kaleb said, putting his empty bowl down.
"Yeah?" I said, still behind on eating.
"There's a bonfire at Land's end. Want to go?"
"That sounds nice." I said with a timid smile.


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Part 5 - dis-appointing expectations
Yes, I do know and no one can make it only about fighting. I read someone on a forum recently say that anyone who is interested in Chinese martial arts for reasons other than self defence is not really a relevant person. Well, Chinese martial arts is more than just fighting most of us sense that. No one can say what it just is. Its too profound for that. On the other hand, just because its about more than fighting doesnt mean that its not about fighting! It is, obviously.
One might say But master Wang says fighting is the lowest expression of skill.
Well, yes, but he didnt mean dont fight or dont do serious fight training.
Sometimes, misled as we often are by the idiot filter i.e. general ignorance, the wisest of ideas pass right over our heads, despite being very simple. In fact, speaking from my own experience, I often missed wise ideas because they seemed too simple. Id been groomed to expect far more complex answers for most questions, so I ignored simple truths.
One of the most useful tools of conceptual mapping I was ever given was dis-appointing my expectations. The world of Chinese martial arts, for example, is full of what I call theatre that is, the titles, the uniforms, the arcane theory, the fancy interpretations and indeed, ironically, the theatrical verisimilitude of the compliant demonstration and also, walk on cameos by the if I was fighting a boxer Id use beng quan and I went to Taiwan, got hit lightly by master and was ill for two weeks but it wasnt food poisoning in a foreign country is was obviously an internal force strike fantasy prediction support acts all there to dress up fairly simple ideas, or to obscure them, or to hide the fact they are not understood, or simply to lie. In that type of production, the truth is a minor actor, especially when compared to the grandeur of the set. Im reminded, in negative, reverse terms, of Winston Churchills quote to the effect that in times of war, truth is so precious it must at all times be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Well, in the current run of the current Chinese martial arts shows, truth is indeed body guarded by lies although, bullied would be a better word.
Often, the original ideas of any philosophy become up-staged by the ever-growing theatre that gets set up around them by an ever growing, ever willing army of actors and stage hands, unbendingly intent on making truth as occult and obscured as humanly possible. In fact, those stage hands usually seem to have no idea what the truth is. They are igonrances little helpers.
Gee what a thing to say! Someone wrote to me recently and accused me of asserting myself to be a great master. And then amusingly demanded that I prove that to them. As if, they lie, then I must prove their lie, and if I dont, then somehow Im shown to be afraid, or lying or some such. Man, they really must think theyre arguing with an amateur. Id rather just point out the lies. Because, actually, this kind of thing I am writing about is the knowledge of the gutter. All of us in the gutter who are honest, know this. We know that most of the stuff people talk about in Chinese martial arts cant be used by most of the people who talk about it, and we dont know it because were great masters ourselves we just know it because we look at them and see that they cant do what they say they can do, or that it simply doesnt make any sense. Just as wed know they couldnt play a cello, just by listening to them play.
Anyway, as more and more stage hands come along, get taken in by, and add to, the theatre, the harder it becomes to see the simplicity of the original play.
We appoint expectations and then expect them to be fulfilled. The mother, looking for a karate class, has the expectation that her child will get coloured belts. In Chinese martial arts, as we get more and more interested in the subject, we are presented with a range of ideas which, I believe, are mostly very simple, yet, we are tricked for a time in to appointing the most extraordinary expectations for. Something like mojin, or hunyuan li, or fa li, sounds incredible when you read about it, but is far more mundane when you experience it.
The exploits and knowledge of past or senior practitioners of Quan take on a kung fu movie magnitude. People argue about levels, and the astounding abilities of past masters. But what theyre doing isnt helping us at all. What theyre doing is feeding and inflating our expectations to such a distorted degree that achieving the real skills of Quan becomes permanently beyond our reach. We will always fail. It reminds me of D.H. Lawrences assertion that Jesus was deliberately presented as a perfect man whose example we should follow, with the Churchs full knowledge that no one could ever live up to that expectation, and so must, inevitably, fail. If you are expecting to launch people ten metres with your fa li, why would you ever bother with the mundane practise and mundane results of short movement skills?
In the same way, over blown expectations in Chinese martial arts inevitably lead to failure. No one can achieve fantasy level skills. No one. So dis-appointing expectations a completely mental, sports psychology technique - can be far more important in achieving high level than attempting to live up to over blown expectations simply by making high level much lower than we thought it was. Many of the astoundingly complex, mystical skills weve expected from wushu are actually far simpler ideas and techniques talked in to seeming so much more than what they really are. Many times, once our expectations are dis appointed, its a matter of oh that? I already know/can do that! I expected it to mean something much more complex!
A lot of the tools of intuitive training, I believe, are mental are in the realm of sports psychology rather than physical training. Dis-appointing expectations is one of the foundation skills. When you do that, high level drops down a great deal. It leaves the realm of wire-work film kung fu, immortal masters it even drops down lower than light touch dim mak/fa li even lower than qi powered internal force/inner explosion fist strikes In fact, it drops right down to perfectly achievable good, solid skill, well within the grasp of any serious student with a good aptitude and good training ethic.
Drifting back to Wangs quote
The Italian economist Gramsci once wrote that Common sense is the practical ideology of the ruling class. Like Wangs quote, it loses something not only in interpretation, but also in translation. In the West we see common sense as the obvious, everyday interaction with reality, such as dont lick razors.
In most ways conventional wisdom would be a better translation but again, that would lose something; namely that sense of conventional wisdom seeming to be obviously, self-evidently true. You dont just believe it; you see its truth reflected all around you.
What Gramsci meant, of course, is that those people who make up the top-tier, the ruling class (in his Marxist world view) inevitably make sure that the ideas which keep them there, which legitimise their position, become perceived by the lower echelons as self evident truths. Such as slave owners thinking it self evident that slaves are racially inferior. Or taiji teachers making people believe that hard physical training isnt important because they can just qi-death you. Its something similar to Orwells 1984, where language itself is being ruthlessly reduced, to thereby reduce the capacity of people to work out how they are controlled and manipulated, or how to do anything about it.
Fact is, many people are drawn to becoming martial arts teachers because they have personal issues, such as low self esteem. There is a reason why people set themselves up in what are effectively cults with followers, tiers, dogmas, etc. and thats it: personality issues. They are the ruling class, and they will lie to ensure that conventional wisdom is structured so as to support their position. And because they are exactly the opposite of the people who really should be considered at the top, so, equally, Im afraid much of their wisdom is in fact the opposite of what is really true. And I am afraid of this because the tactics they use are only a symptom of the wider problem of lack of reason, circular logic, and down right lie via propaganda that every so often engulfs a society. Such as now, in our time.
Wangs quote is a very useful little nugget of insight, and because its based on a true principle, it naturally at first seems to contradict conventional wisdom, and yet, when you consider it further you realise its both a very simple idea, and also one that inevitably unfolds in to deeper and deeper territory of insight a sure sign of a genuinely true principle.
Those who have never heard of Wang might assume naturally that he must be one of those so called internal martial arts so called practitioners who cling to the idea that fighting is vulgar much in the same way that a poor man clings to the idea that his pretty wife really does need to work three hours a night overtime with her wealthy boss.
Actually Wang was a hooligan in his love of fighting but not in his intellect or character. He clearly loved to fight, and fought countless people, winning and losing.
But just because someone fights, that doesnt mean that they have any skill or insight. Thats it. Simple. Just because someone goes out every Saturday night and has a fight in the street, that doesnt mean they have any deeply trained skill or unfolded knowledge on the subject.
But that simple idea frees us from an enormous amount of hokum. See, a person looking for truth is beset on all sides by steaming mountains of lie. Every liar, every untruth, every misguidance, is like an enemy to be avoided. So how do we safely, and economically, map our way through such vile territory?
Well, you cant try everything for twenty years to see if it really works. Many people will say if you want to know if it works, come and try it but that should be a warning sign to you because any proof should be demonstrable to people who arent in the group otherwise, what kind of proof is it? If Im a beginner, how can I know if it works, even if it works on me, or even if I can make it work on other members of the group? Actually, in research on cults, this is a well known principle of information manipulation called proof by recruitment. Any group that seeks to recruit you as its primary means of proving what it says is clearly incapable of proving it to anyone who hasnt already been groomed (step by step as you will be) to believe it. Incestuous proof is meaningless.
There isnt time to believe every idea to see if it works, or to train in every system to see if its effective. And fact is, we can be made to think or experience that an idea, religion or method really does work just by virtue of the way Gramscis Law works that we can be groomed in to seeing any ideology as self evident truth. In simpler terms, who doesnt think that their teacher/system is great? And who doesnt say if you dont think hes great you should come down and bla bla bla ?
If he really was great, hed be great from external perspectives too; greatness may have to be seen to be believed, but it shouldnt have to be believed to be seen.
Wangs quote is based on a very useful tool of mapping. In mathematics there is a technique called number counting which allows vast amounts of data to be counted in very simple ways, thus saving mathematicians hours of time. For example, the simple principle that any whole number ending in a zero is divisible by 2 allows predictions to be made for a literally infinite amount of numbers.
In the same way, by working out a few simple insights in to the way people lie, are groomed, issue and spin personal mythologies, are brainwashed, spin information, deal with criticism etc., you can immediately recognize, dismiss, negate and cast aside huge swathes of specific lie-types, whether the appear in the past, present or future.
Thats a true principle, because it keeps on giving it unfolds yet further, in to deeper, wider implication. See, I cant tell you what the true Quan is. No one can. Quan is an expression of true principles, so by its very native nature it has no fixed point, only deeper or shallower expression, depending on the insight and skill of the person searching for its heart.
What we can do is strip away and negate falsehood ever more effectively. What I can do is offer some tools that help to do that. This is the good twin of defining oneself by what one isnt. Negating what is wrong is easy, once you have the basic tools and that eliminates 90% of the so called data out there by revealing it to be false. (As Shamelesss Frank Gallagher says, theres a difference between data and information.)
Mapping via negation is a core principle expressed in the Tao Te Ching as: In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. Recognize whats wrong once, and youll recognize it always. And as the same lies and techniques of soul-less de-education are used by every liar in the field, just seeing one lie shows up a million others. Just think how much data that lets you process just recognising one lie type, such as proof by recruitment, navigates you safely through a million similar lies. Wow.
Wangs admonition that fighting is the lowest expression of skill frees us from the pit-fall of appointing too much credence to the opinions of a number of people we really shouldnt have, such as, those who bumbled their way in terror through a few tournament rounds, and later on used that as a qualification to lecture others on real fighting; or those who claim to fight bare knuckle, full contact six times a week; or those who say Ive had plenty of real fights I know my stuff works!
Not that those experiences, if true, have no relevance. But Machiavelli wrote that we should know a prince by his advisors. In the same way, we should know the validity of claims by considering the circumstances, such as level of the opponents, skill expressed in the fight, etc. Just the fact that someone fights, even regularly, doesnt mean that they have any unusual skill or insight.
If, for example, you were to make a list of all the worlds best soccer players, they need to play, of course, so you can see their skill in action, under pressure, but on the list of criteria for judging them, plays every Sunday afternoon would be very low on the list. It would be a given that they play or played regularly, anyway. That box would be ticked on pretty much all the players sheets. Its the other boxes that matter the ones that we tick off for skill and quality.
When people make claims of I fight, well, as the rappers Disposable heroes of Hyphoprisy say: Dont just read the lips, be more sublime than this put everything in context.
The football player plays, but is he a fat, low skilled player on a pub team, or a Premiership footballer worth a hundred million pounds? If a pub player lectures you that such and such a football strategy is worthless/great, how much credence is his opinion given due to the fact that he pants his way through a pub football match every week? Not to say that his opinion is wrong if its true, its true. What this is about is how people sometimes back up wrong ideas with non-sequitur qualifications.
There are skill-less hooligans who fight every week, and there are professional fighters whove never had a street fight, and only fight full on, for real, every few months, in their professional, paid bouts. Which is the most skilful?
There are people who bumbled their way through tournaments, and there are people whove never entered tournaments, but fight more realistically every Saturday night on their sparring class.
Fighting, or practical combat training of some kind, is essential in martial arts, as Wang also pointed out, in the same sentence, as it happens. But just fighting doesnt mean anything without context.
A twig on the same branch are those famous and successful instructors who have dubious tournament wins in their background. Wangs insight also frees us from them because it allows us to consider whether those tournament wins were all that they were cracked up to be. I know of a few but one particular instructor whose students make quite a song and dance over a famous tournament win that he had, long time ago, long way away Ive see the video and it shows a fairly hapless fighter, swinging his arms wildly, and planting a lucky shot by accident on his hapless opponent. From that, a hero was born. Imagine the version of that fight that will appear in the Hong Kong movie version of his life!
We can take a more critical eye also on those who worked on doors how much does it count for, you and your mates tossing out drunks? Or those who worked in the prison service how much does it count for, you and your mates using pin-down on a sixteen year old youth? Again not to say that it counts for nothing, only that we should consider carefully exactly what it does count for. Just as an interesting Youtube video points out that Special Forces dont do a great deal of hand to hand fighting they are awesome warriors, but they mainly use guns and bombs. When you actually see special forces doing hand to hand combat training, it rarely looks as good as professional MMA level combat training, because they have only a limited amount of time to train in that one small aspect of their arsenal. Not to say that some arent unarmed combat experts some obviously are.
Just because people have been in altercations, or a certain profession, well, dont just read their lips - be more sublime than this. Put EVERYTHING in context. Were not trying to do anyone down, just to assess information honestly and openly and of course, if were wrong, re-assess it.
Then take your critical eye to co-operative demonstrations. How often are we expected to say someone is really great just because they provide a co-operative demonstration against a compliant opponent? Anything can be made to look good and effective when used against a co-operative or low skilled opponent. But how many times has someone tried to sell you that a compliant demo is evidence of real usefulness?
And if you want, you can even start exploring the difference between fighting in competition and fighting for self defence, or military or police purposes, recognising cross-over skills but also fundamental differences. So often we argue about the wrong issues, failing to approach the subject for what we can learn thats new, as opposed to what we want to state simply because we belong to a particular group. To me, one of the first steps to free thinking is to stop belonging. To belong is really to be the property of a specific group/ideology. I believe, from my experience, you get more value out of ideas and methods when you come at them from an individual, critical and free thinking perspective. Then you dont have to swallow or spout the party line only look honestly for true and useful ideas, whilst recognising/rejecting things that dont ring true.
Now, theres a dichotomy in all that, I know. On the one hand, it says that anyone can have an opinion you dont have to be great. On the other, that we should be wary of opinions given by people who dont have much right to express them. Doesnt it?
Well, no. Look, if something is true, its true, and it doesnt matter who says it. Theres a certain lie-type that goes along the lines of how dare you criticise my teacher! Prove that you can do better! Well, we dont need to. The truth or otherwise of an idea is intrinsic. An eighty year old woman can see that a fight is faked just as easily as a UFC champion. It isnt fake for one, and not for the other, just because one can fight to prove their point and the other cant. In fact, in those circumstances, people dont fight or arent invited to fight to prove a point; its simply a tactic of intimidation, making people feel that if they want to express their opinion, they need to be aware that violent consequences may ensue. My response now is always Why? Cant you provide an honest demo by yourself?
Once you start dis-appointing expectations, most of the truth seems to fall in to place anyway. Map via negation drop what is useless. Listen to opinions, but dont dismiss or accept them based on anything but their intrinsic truth. Well, as far as you can I cant say whether certain ideas of physics are brilliant or gobbledygook but I recognise where someone is over all lying to me, even in physics simply by the methods they use to prove their theories. If someone called me a coward for not believing theyd achieved cold fusion, and demanded that I prove I CAN do cold fusion before I comment, Id know, pretty much, that they were lying. And its exactly the same for martial arts.
As for, what is Quan as I say, I can not say. Dis-appoint the expectation that the method of finding out is simply learning techniques that others claim work. By far the most useful initial tool of understanding it is to first of all start recognizing and dismissing the dis-information currently being peddled as perceived wisdom. Dont simply accept ideas work out immediately what is wrong with them, rather than swallowing them whole. Like mining for gold, wash away the dirt.
FQ, this is very true.
Every person who wants to 'do martial arts' should do themselves a favour and read your series articles.
Hello bro,
I was reading your manifesto. It seems there is alot going on inside the noodle that just has to get out. I hope all of it is out because I have been in that state and sometimes find myself there only to realize I'm trying to prove a point... only to myself. After that realization I find myself wondering if anyone else got the point. Responses usually answer the question or lack there of.
I am glad there are places like this so that I can barf ideas out to clear my head. Then after the all clear sign start another idea on paper after the idea passes the "who cares" test.
As for the quality of content in this article I really think you may have a more cultivated expression of what a "dis-appointing expectation" is besides people building reputations on pretension, deceit and hubris. I think there may be a positive "how to" guide somewhere in your head.
I would really like to read that if you get the chance to put it to paper. Thanks for the time you spent sharing your thinking with me.... It is appreciated and I hope we get to talk.... G
Hello Fire-quan The was amazing to read. And much to intense to make one overall reply. In my mind to try to answer your first question.In the first sentence. I think what was meant is that the arts are for everyone.Not just a warrior. All types of people. And a expectation of ones self should be for ones self .Not for the ego or self glory. A private matter, this might sound funny but a private matter to one own self. Meaning if you feel ill and all around you the world still goes on. You try your best to still be happy.Even seeing your best days may be gone. And your illness is making you miserable.The master you spoke of i think in my opinion out staged the grand stage of life and tried to say that being yourself is more important.Than what you may you be able to do for others. He still wanted to help and knew how to help. But maybe he really felt bad that he was not able to be a lion but wanted so bad to still help and teach others.And in his statement he wanted to say this but as you know we are human. Maybe he hoped and prayed that people would understand. Thank you sir for your wonderfull post. I just hope i can understand or learn to understand more.
I read your article.... and yeah.... um... I don't think anyone's ever going to be able to fly or anything. But you know... there are masters out there who can do some really amazing things by harnessing their minds... just keep working at it! Art imitates life, you know?
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A POLICE manhunt came to an end yesterday with the arrest of a murder suspect, who had eluded law enforcers for two days.
In a statement, the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) said the Indian national, who was wanted for the murder of a foreign national and causing grievous harm to another foreigner, was discovered in a forested area of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) campus where he was believed to have been hiding since the incident took place on Saturday.
The 45-year-old man, who is believed to be of unsound mind, could face charges under the Penal Code for culpable homicide and causing grievous hurt. The victims are said to be his colleagues.
The police caught the suspect at 9.23am yesterday with the help of the Gurkha Reserve Unit and sniffer dogs, the Royal Brunei Air Force, which used aerial surveillance, and campus security officials.
The 100-strong team concentrated their search on the areas surrounding the UBD Chancellor Hall.
The suspect did not resist arrest when the personnel approached his hideout following a two-day search in sporadic downpour, especially in the evenings.
A post-mortem showed that one of the victims died of cranial cerebral injuries caused by a blunt object. The other victim is still in a critical condition.


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How to configure all routers so that the branch office can use the Ho internet Leased line link for browsing. The Broadband connectivity at both places is to be used only as a backup.
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I can help you with this. Based on what I've read of your configs, I have a few config changes I'd recommend. Also, I'd highly recommend having a firewall on your network. I'll post my recommendations in a little bit.
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Roasted Vegetables on Couscous
Vegetarian Recipe
Along with Roasted Vegetables on Couscous serve a salad of Arugula and endive, ripped into small pieces, with a tablespoon of low-fat blue cheese dressing.
1-1/4 cups couscous
16 ounces firm tofu, cut in 1 inch cubes
1/2 cup chopped basil, divided
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, divided
1 green bell pepper, cut in 1 inch strips
1 red bell pepper, cut in 1 inch strips
1-1/4 pounds eggplant, cut in 1/4 inch slices
1 pound zucchini, cut in 1/4 inch slices
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 teaspoon salt, divided
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Recipe Directions
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with foil, coat with cooking spray.
Bring 1-1/2 cups lightly salted water to boil, add the couscous, cover the pan and remove it from the heat, let stand, covered, while you prepare the vegetables.
Toss the tofu cubes with 1/4 cup of the basil and 1 tablespoon of the balsamic vinegar and set aside.
In a single layer, lay the peppers, eggplant, zucchini and tofu on the baking sheets. Brush the eggplant and zucchini with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, and sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of the salt over all vegetables. Roast for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the vegetables are fork tender and golden.
Meanwhile, whisk together the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil, 2 tablespoons of the balsamic vinegar, 1/4 cup basil, 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper. Using a fork, toss the couscous with the vinaigrette.
Divide the couscous among 4 plates and arrange the vegetables on top of each serving.
Nutrition Information
Makes 4 servings
554 calories, 28 g. protein, 62 g. carbohydrates, 11 g. fiber, 24 g. fat (3 g. saturated fat) 0 mg. cholesterol, 613 mg. sodium


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This poem, is simply about death, and valuing what you have, and those memories that make you smile. Poppy is my families old dog who died a while ago, and this is kinda just me remembering her I guess.
If I die
bury me beneath the porch
so I can remain
where the memories are fresh
and the kisses still feel warm
A bitter goodbye
Illuminated by the green wax candle
and kept moving
by the old rocking chair
that creeks ever so slightly
when forced before the wind
The dog still sits at my feet some mornings
even after the passing
her breath still smelling of raw meat
and remaining as unpleasant as it were
when she were alive
I miss things
i've been dead for less time than I were alive
and now all i want is to breathe like i used to
feel the blissful warmth of a shower
and the pleasures of so called sin
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Man jumps to death after Police respond to pot complaint
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Want Gladius re-release or follow up on PS4[ Edited ]
Seriousy, we'd pay for the old PS2 gladius game right now if we could play it on our PS4. Sadly we can't. I wish Sony would come with a follow-up or at least re-release the game because it's the only one of its kind.
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This wouldn't be up to SONY as it isn't a 1st party title. I suppose if it got enormous fan support they might e swayed to say something to whoever has the copyright for that game, but don't get your hopes up. I had never even heard of that game until this post because I had to look it up.
Re: Want Gladius re-release or follow up on PS4[ Edited ]
Lucas Arts isn't a thing anymore as far as I know, though I'd dig a sequel or something as well. I'd prefer a Shadow of Rome sequel or remaster though. Wasn't a rpg type, but the non-"stealth" gameplay was Capcom at it's finest.
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