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Give me an opportunity and I’ll do my best. That is my promise. I always do, unless peope screw me along the way. But, I always deliver. Two published books, a lot of articles, and even more machinery for my dad to sell and keep the money. The point is this, give me an opportunity and I’ll do my best. For that is me. That is Fable Fox.
PS – The site need more work, I know. But this is a very good start 
Fable “I give 1000%” Fox
Last night I watched CSI on NTV7. The story is about an assasin who got killed by the hirer. The reason? He hike the price two fold after getting the job done. He might still live if he mentioned the exact price right from the start.
Boy. Life is interesting. After a lot’s of blood, sweat and tears on getting a novel done – I get to face the same thing. My publisher want me to increase the novel number of pages into two fold, from 200 to 400. That isn’t a problem. The problem is that the same publisher want to make sure the writer didn’t write most of the things that get into novels – words that visualize.
You know, words. Words that visualize. That’s why we read novels in the first place. To visualize. If you never go to the desert, you want to read a novel that let’s you visualize how the desert look like. Even in fiction or fantasy, you want to imagine things. And that what the novel are for, to enrich your imagination. When you read Frank Herbert ‘Dune’. You can feel like you lived there. No wonder people are saying that Dune is sci-fi equivalent of ‘The Lord of The Ring’. I love novels that contain a lot of visualization, so I can imagine things. I never went onto an aircraft carrier, but novels allow me to. I never been to Vietnam, but novels allow me to. I never went to the united state, but the novels allow me to. What is the point to write novel that contain 80% dialogs and no visualization. So that we can have it translated to english, and yet the americans won’t even know how a songket looked like? A kebaya looked like? Why Kelantanee wear kain pelikat, and how kain pelikat looked like?
I actually slept at 5.30 in the morning finalizing the novel – which I have been working on for a long time.
First of all, I’m soo sorry. I grow up on english novels. Normal novels. Enid Blyton. Stephen King. J.K. Rowling (I didn’t buy it though, it was my niece’s). In a matter of fact, even when I was a small child, I read serious horror books. One that I can remember is ‘As Evil Does’. The other is a book which cover contains a half-sunken head in earth, and a house with shining pane. A hand came out of earth. For those who remember the title, please tell me. I would like to read it again. If I’m correct, it about a plant that eat people after being exposed to blood. Maybe this is the book that started the movie ‘Little House of Horror’.
One of my favourite movie when I was a kid is ‘Stand By Me’. It was based on Stephen Kings ‘Body’. I also seriously enjoy ‘The Stand’. I totally like ‘It’. Maybe because it starring Annete O Toole (Martha Kent of SmallVille fame). And of course, the monster looked just like a clown
I don’t limit myself to anything when it came to novels. I read everything that I can get my hand on (that’s why most of the novels are not mine). Novels on ninjas. Soldiers. I even read the true story novel about the creation of dog fighting school ‘Top Gun’. Okay, that is mine. I love aviation and military.
The point is, I read novels. I grow up on novels. I know what a novels look like. What this publisher is trying to do is like asking me to build a house using cards, and it has to withstand earthquakes and gale winds. And after I managed to get it done, no, they want a bungalow now…
Forget about novels. I have a life. I got plans. Okay, so I don’t have a life. That’s what I’m trying hard right now. Escape fate and finally have some life (and some love too). Anyway, why don’t they mentioned this earlier on? An e-mail mentioning that they has increase the page count from 200 to 400 is enough. So I can plan things out.
Now everything is a wreck. At times I was thinking to just give the manuscript to other publishing house and get it done and over with – for a lump sum payment. What I need right now is a new PC with good 3D accelerator, not some publisher that keeps increasing the page count, and at the same time limit what you can write into it. 80% dialogs? Dude, we’re writing novels. Not drama for radio. No words for visualazation ??? We are writing novels! Not drama for radio.
Again, I’m sorry. Usually I’m a teeth gritter. You know, the guy who always grit his teeth, even when pain is eating his heart and soul. Heck, I’ve been gritting my teeth for almost 30 years. But there are time I just got to let it go. I guess this is one of those days.
I love to write. But only when I’m writing things that I love. The way I love it.
PSÂ – for those that may concern – I can’t write ’surah yusuf’ style and keep it at 400 pages. I’m not God.
PPS – Maybe I shoud emulate Stephen King and J.K Rowling. Both of them are human and both of them are rich. Period.
Fable “I’m mere human” Fox
Sorry for lack of updates. I have finished 95 pages of movie script by the way. There are a lot of ideas right now so I just write it all down.
Thanks for coming
Fable “I’m a scriptwriter now!” Fox
I haven’t been programming for some time, so I decided to write a simple application that shows the power of compounding in investment.
Download it here compound.zip
It’s FREE, but if you like it please donate (Even just USD 2.00) to my PayPal account fablefox at fablefox dot com. Thanks.
- Now it only print two digit after ‘.’, but but number are NOT rounded.
How do I get my name – Fable Fox?
Now this is a very interesting blog post. There is a lot reason on why I come to this name, and at times, as I do more research later,
I have a lot of stories to tell. Most of them teaches a lesson or two. This is why I love game programming and 3d animations – I want to use them as a vehicle to tell stories. In my early days, I was a loner. This is because when I was a kid (and even now) my parent doesn’t allow me to have friends. So I created the name ‘Maniac Wolf’. Maniac stand for ‘Master of animation and coding’.
In 2002, lack of money caused me to lose the maniacwolf.com domain name to someone who love to park expired domain. Oh well. Then the unability to register the word ‘Maniac’ as a business name force me to think a new name.
In those day, I’m a great fan of the hacking group called ‘Phrozen Crew’. Suddenly, I kind of like the word ‘Frozen’, as it means cooler than cool, heh..heh.. I look for an animal name that start with the letter ‘F’, and realize that fox, which not much different than a wolf, is a cool animal name. I’m also a fan of Fox Moulder from the mini-series X-Files.
And so I create the name ‘Frozen Fox’. I checked the domain name frozenfox.com and still available. I’m a happy man.
Months and after months I toil day and night to purchase the domain name. When I finally have the means to do so, I was shocked. Someone purchased the domain name. When I checked the WhoIs, the person just bought it three days earlier.
So now I must create a brand new name. I love the word ‘Fox’ so I flipped the dictionary, and jot down any good word starting with ‘F’. In the end, the word ‘Fable’ won. I logged on to the internet, registered the domain fablefox.com.
Officially, my handle is Fable Fox.
As years pass by, I do more research on my very own name – and found out something quite interesting that I didn’t think of when I first create the name.
More on ‘Fable‘
I took this from Wikipedia.org on Fable
“A fable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a “moral”), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.”
“Whether a fable is handed down from generation to generation as oral literature or constructed by a literary tale-teller, its purpose is to teach a lesson or value, or to give sage advice. Fables also provide opportunities to laugh at human folly.”
More on ‘Fox‘
I took this from Wikipedia.org on Foxes in Fiction
Cultural Connotations
“In many cultures, the fox is a familiar animal of folklore, a symbol of cunning and trickery.”
“In Japanese folklore, the fox-like kitsune is a powerful animal spirit (Yokai) known for its highly mischievous and cunning nature.”
Literature
“Some well-known stories involving foxes can be found in Aesop’s fables and the medieval story of Reynard.”
“In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, a fox indicates the true value of things like friendship.”
As my research went deep, I found a shocking fact – as if I was fated to use the name ‘Fable Fox’.
The Fox and The Grape
I took this from Wikipedia.org on The Fox and The Grape
The Fox and the Grapes is a fable attributed to Aesop. The protagonist, a fox, upon failing to find a way to reach grapes hanging high up on a vine, retreated and said: “The grapes are sour anyway!”. The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
The English idiom “sour grapes” – derived from this fable – refers to the denial of one’s desire for something that one fails to acquire or to the person who holds such denial. Similar expressions exist in other languages. In psychology, this behavior is known as rationalization. It may also be called reduction of cognitive dissonance.
There I was, looking at my monitor screen, with tears in my heart. I used to want a lot of things when I was a kid. Couldn’t have much. When I was a teenager, I needed less thing, couldn’t get any. When I’m an adult ,I just want the basic thing, and yet I was deprived of everything.
Maybe, I was the fox from the fable.
Yes, Fable Fox, me. 
I want to destroy my burnout mood so I wrote a poem to start writing again.
A Poem For My Mother
I have a poem for my mother,
She wouldn’t listen, so why bother,
So let just write it here in the blog,
About a son being treated like a dog,
I worked so hard, and my bones are frail,
Still everybody hates me, as if I have fail,
I have done everything, doing my best,
And yet everybody looked at me in a jest,
There is empty space in my heart,
Which I would fill before I depart,
No one here, I am alone,
There’s no happiness in my zone,
My whole life are filled with grieve,
The time has come, I must leave,
There is a woman that I currently eye,
She has the shoulder that I needed to cry,
My life has options, which I must pick,
Choosing the correct one might do the trick,
If she can take me as her adopted son,
Yes sir – that day I would finally won!
Annete O’Toole – Martha Kent of Smallville fame.
Idiot Autistic Savant
(Now Autistic Savant. This article appeared in Hugi 23)
Written by Azhar bin Mat Zin a.k.a Maniac Wolf
“You’re an idiot!”
How often do people say things of this kind to you? Unless you’re one of the gifted, it could be enough to annoy you. What if you’re on the opposite side to the gifted? Born without the ability to show off super cool things?
Did you ever see a person saying things such as “You suck because you can’t run!” to a person on a wheelchair. Or.. “You don’t know the color of this thing? What a moron!” to someone blind.
But of course, you have surely often heard the words stupid, idiot, moron, lamer applied on normal people. But, are these people truly normal? Or do you consider them normal because you see and accept them as normal?
OK. Some articles about cool demoscene people start by telling about themselves. Let me do the same.
My name is Azhar bin Mat Zin, a.k.a Maniac Wolf. My website is at http://www.maniacwolf.com.
My first game machine was a NES. Go figure.
I can’t remember the year, but my first PC had a monochrome display with 2 disk drives and no hard disk. Still, I enjoyed writing GWBasic programs.
My second PC had a CGA display, a mouse and two disk drives but still no hard disk. I started using Pascal. This is also the time I played the game ‘Mean Street’. It was shocking to hear a human voice come out of a PC speaker, yes, a PC speaker, without a sound card. Some time later I found out about a program called ‘Monologue’. It allows text-to-speech conversion, even on a PC without a sound card.
My third PC was a 486, 100 MHz with a sound blaster and SVGA monitor. This was the first time I watched Future Crew’s Panic, Second Reality and Unreal. This was when I purchased books such as ‘Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus’ and some others. This is also the time I learned C/C++. There’s also something interesting thing happened. I watched and played Mega Race. This was the first 3d animation I ever watched. Both the 3d animation and game graphics looked good. I wanted to do both game & demo programming and 3d animation!
Well, dude, where are your releases? I’m sure a lot of years have passed! Uh, urm, there’s aren’t any. What!? You’re such a …… You may go ahead and say it (but don’t go too far by flaming me in my In Box!). I heard it much too many times already.
I guess the history given above, although true, can’t describe me enough. How about this…. I’m a university dropout! But that’s not everything. When I was 21 years old, I managed to get lost at Petronas Science Discovery Center. I can’t remember my friend’s full name. Although I can ride the bike, I can’t go everywhere because it’s hard for me to remember the road. For these places, I just take a bus.
Now I’m 22. A lot of years have passed and I’ve heard enough of all those @#$%^ words. Still, I want to be just like anybody else. So I grabbed myself a copy of ‘The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Improving Your Memory’. After all, the book was made for idiots, it might fit me very well.
It fit me well, indeed. To me the book is just like a scientific journal written in simple words. It contains a lot of important things. Some of them is…. (This is not the exact wording as I don’t want to waste time searching the pages, but it has the same meaning.) “We don’t know how the brain really work. But no matter if it work like a computer or any other thing, damages done to the brain do affect memory, and personality among other things.” But of all words, the most that important is…
Idiot Savant
Idiot means stupid. Savant means learned person. So, what is an idiot savant?
“Savant (sometimes idiot savant): A mentally defective person with a highly developed special talent, as an ability to play music, to solve complex mathematical problems at great speed, etc.” From The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Improving Your Memory.
One good (and true) example from the book is about a woman called YX (the real name is kept secret by the book to protect her true identity). When she was a girl, she enjoyed music and singing. However, she was a very limited learner. Now that’s she an adult, she still has to be assisted when dressing and undressing and to be taken to and from appointments.
Despite all these things, she is a brilliant musician. She’s a member of a municipal band in her home city, and she leads a Dixieland group. She is also a first-chair trumpet is a classical orchestra. YX is capable of playing Haydn’s trumpet concerto brilliantly.
The question asked by the book is….
Is YX deficient? Or gifted? Or both?
I don’t know the answer. But at least I do know how to dress and undress myself. But the important thing is, I DO KNOW that it hurts when someone calls you stupid, idiot, lamer. That’s why I don’t call others using such words.
I lack the ability to memorize. This has cost me a great price as in my country, most tests are based on memorizing the answer (without necessarily having to understand them completely). Education means good job. Good job means good money.
However, although I doesn’t have to memorize certain things, I’m capable of understanding things. I do understand game programming and 3d animation. I’m going to do my best in this thing. This is because most of the information came to me at the press of F1. Not many things that I had to remember.
What with the demo scene? Well, I do wish to participate, but still not cut out to be a member. I guess being a true demoscene fan is OK enough. Especially if I watch .the .product 20 repetitive times after I downloaded it. I still watch Second Reality and Unreal.
The reason why I’m writing this acticle is to help all those newbie. So, let me ask that ‘elite’… “Are you clever?” If you asnwered ‘Yes’. Then let me ask you this… “Do you know calling other people lamers hurts their feelings?” If you answered ‘No’, then I think the answer to the first question is not valid. To me, you’re not ‘clever’ enough. If you answered ‘Yes’. Then that’s mean you’re bad. I hate, hate, hate bad people. Let just say I have my experiences and reasons.
Then let’s come to my first topic. How do you know a normal person is normal? Well, it’s hard. You can’t see what’s wrong to their brains. But as long as they’re good people, give them a chance, don’t call them things.
The more important question is, how do you know a person logged on the net is a normal person? If you can’t even guess the sex from the handle, then don’t assume this either.
So give them chance. Not just in demoscene, but also in everyday life. Please.
If you send people away just because they’re idiots without giving them a chance, you’re missing to see the savant part. Don’t look at what deficits they have, look at what they excel in.
And to all savants all around the world….
“Just do what you can do best!”