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Here we are, my 10 thousandsthts post on teamliquid. 
I feel like I've been close to 10.000 for forever so it's nice to be finally done with it haha
I don't really have anything too special planned but I recently finished a song for the glorious TL user that is FuddX, master of balloons, feel free to listen to it while
reading the rest of it. Or only listen to it, then read the rest of the blog (ya right, we both know you're way to busy and distracted for that shit)
FuddX - Master Of Balloons
https://soundcloud.com/esports420/fuddx-master-of-balloons
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Intro: Legend has foretold that our powerful wizard would come to our lands.
Ballons would mark his arrival.
He'd take all the negativity in the world
And turn it into liquid rainbow.
He'd help us find ourselves and our inner child.
Verse: When all humanity seems lost
there comes the son of a mighty viking god
he'd take a look into the souls of the bad guys
and turn them into pretty blocks of ice
When all hope seems so damn far away
He'll show you magic with his chards
when you're howling at the moon
he'll lift your spirit with balloons
Chorus: He is FuddX, Master Of Balloons
Sculptor of all ice
he will cast his spell on you
Verse: But there's no need to be afraid
his magic isn't one of hatred
no he wouldn't hurt a fly
he'll send love, sweet sweet love to us all
On that soundcloud account you'll also find a song I did for CaucasianAsian.
For both songs I was very lazy with recording and mixing (you'll probably have to turn your volume up.. ) but it was still a decent learning experience and hopefully I can take some of the knowledge I've gathered and do a good job for when I want to record and mix some more serious music.
Btw. The FuddX song was originally supposed to be funny, but then my sympathy for melancholic sounds was setting in again so it... doesn't quite fit the topic I guess haha
Who is thinking these thoughts? I am. Who am I?
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/nd1j26k.jpg)
Ramana Maharshi
So the last 4-6 weeks have been very interesting.
My life has changed very significantly.
I'm not gonna go into details (ask fusefuse for more information bwahaha) but I've been reading and experiencing topics of... well, some would call it philosophical, some may call it spiritual, some may even call it
religious (I certainly wouldn't  )
While not entirely sober I had a lot of realizations and since then I have started meditating again. Then my brother gave me a book called "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass and a lot of the things I had experienced started making sense. In the last two weeks I dealt more intensely with the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and rather than just
doing meditation two times a day I started a thing called Atma Vichara, or Self-enquiry.
You can read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-enquiry but to really simplify it:
You try not to think.
Why would you wanna think less? Sounds like something a stupid person would want.
Well, similar to conventional meditation (like Zen or Vipassana) calming your mind has the benefits if you being more calm, peaceful etc. blabla
Step by step (in my case anyways) you get better at not having such a big damn ego, being more compassionate, stop judging others, and being less reliant on the external circumstances of your life. Peace from within, rather than from things "going your way" if you will.
My perception has changed too, it seems the less busy I am chasing thoughts, the more intensely I can use my eyes to see things as they are.
And rather than worrying about past and future I am much more in the present.
(I've recently also played some games SC2 - turns out the game is much more enjoyable when I don't get so damn angry everytime I lose.)
"The Power Of Now" by Eckhard Tolle seems to be another highly popular book that talks about this - I haven't read it yet (ordered it a few days ago), but just from watching a little bit about him it seems that he is essentially saying the same things as Maharshi, just simplified for our simple rational, western minds. I think this might be a good book to start for western atheists since he doesn't use scary words like "god" or "spirit"
So yeah I'm just writing this down to share some of what I've done lately (this is only very, very superficial of course)
Feel free to just try it out.
If you for example have problems with lack of self-confidence, fear (of the future), stress, gastrological problems (diarrhea, stomach aches), anger, you might really benefit from this. (so yeah I think it could help a whole lot of people)
Now to the fun part.
Since I've talked about how my ego is way smaller now:
LET THIS BE ALL ABOUT MEEEEEEE
ASK ME (absolutely) ANYTHING:
doesn't have to have to do with this blog, or with me... just ask anything you want at all.
And if anyone wants to let off steam or something feel free to pm me too 
Example: Hi 7mk, I joined TL past 2011... who the fuck are you?
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Hong Kong9172 Posts
how did you feel when you won WCG Germany multiple times mondi
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On September 07 2014 02:25 itsjustatank wrote:
how did you feel when you won WCG Germany multiple times mondi
Ungefähr so:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/G9JzPuv.jpg)
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lol
how am I supposed to get used to seeing an ultralisk beside to your ID now??
and it's your turn to visit me now, when are you coming next?
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Germany25658 Posts
On September 07 2014 02:30 7mk wrote:Show nested quote +On September 07 2014 02:25 itsjustatank wrote:
how did you feel when you won WCG Germany multiple times mondi Ungefähr so: + Show Spoiler +
Is it ok if I warn you because you did not write in english?
Also, why are you not Mondragon? You are supposed to be Mondragon.
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Hong Kong9172 Posts
why would you warn mondi. what a terrible person.
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We (LP people) have been searching for some time now, have you any idea who the autor of this photo of yours is?
![[image loading]](http://munich-starcraft.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/5745.jpg)
We'd need it for some WCG articles!
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How was your day yesterday 7mk?
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FuDDx
United States5015 Posts
So honored and so excited about the song!! My daughter is flipping out hahaha!
Congrats on so many posts!! I have no clue how you all post so much even when I am very active..Of which I am not so much lately...Still only have a handful of posts considering how long Ive been here.
I am hoping for much more travel next year but we shall see. Germany is on the top of the list if I can swing more than planned thus far...If so will you have some beers with me ? There is a balloon convention in November next year!!
Thank you so much once more!! I really do enjoy it!!
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Happy 10K!
For Fuddx:
1. How did you get into your balloon profession? What inspired you?
2. Favorite balloon creation?
3. Biggest balloon creation?
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Estonia4644 Posts
Hi 7mk, I joined TL in 2011, hows it going
congrats on 10k posts, thats a whole fucking lot lol
also i gotta say, this URL/title was very deceptive lol
Its good to see your recent experience was so eye-opening and that youre doing a lot of introspection nowadays
everyone should do that to an extent
Since this is an AMA I should ask a question though
How long did this awesome song for/about Fudd take to make, I hear youve included a piano track to augment the usual guitar+vocal composition this time
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
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Came here expecting Fuddx AMA.
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Estonia4644 Posts
also what the fuck did i talk about in that hotel room
i dont remember much, rum was good
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On September 07 2014 03:17 KadaverBB wrote:Show nested quote +On September 07 2014 02:30 7mk wrote:On September 07 2014 02:25 itsjustatank wrote:
how did you feel when you won WCG Germany multiple times mondi Ungefähr so: + Show Spoiler + Is it ok if I warn you because you did not write in english? Also, why are you not Mondragon? You are supposed to be Mondragon.
No.
Life is an illusion
On September 07 2014 03:48 GeckoXp wrote:We (LP people) have been searching for some time now, have you any idea who the autor of this photo of yours is? We'd need it for some WCG articles!
You don't see me looking at the photographer, do you?
On September 07 2014 03:48 Master of DalK wrote:
How was your day yesterday 7mk?
Friday was quite nice!
Did some work on my doctorate on forensic psychiatry, then me and my gf had a meeting with this old korean woman.
There's a new korean shop near our place and us and the lady who runs the store got talking and we decided that we are gonna be tandem partners. (So we will teach her German and she will teach us Korean).
It's quite nice to finally have a real korean store where we can buy truely korean stuff like red bean ice cream and watermelon candy Also the korean lady is very nice, everytime we visit she gives us free food, and she offered to teach my girlfriend how to cook korean.
Then I had a singing lesson, and later in the evening I decided to surprise visit my gf with my dog.
She's working at a store and that night there was "passagenfest", basically in the central city there was a big party with all kinds of "attractions".
I decided to walk through the forest to get there and during I did a lot of Atma Vichara - it took a long time to start working but eventually as I was approaching the town center it did - and it did so really well. It felt like I was on drugs, good stuff.
Then gf doggy and me went to a cáfe to drink tea/wine and eat some crazy delicious gnocchi.
So yeah, it was a good day!
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Your gf is going to learn Korean with you too?
I'm looking for a tandem language partner for German at home here but can't seem to find one anywhere nearby 
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On September 07 2014 04:14 FuDDx wrote:
So honored and so excited about the song!! My daughter is flipping out hahaha!
Congrats on so many posts!! I have no clue how you all post so much even when I am very active..Of which I am not so much lately...Still only have a handful of posts considering how long Ive been here.
I am hoping for much more travel next year but we shall see. Germany is on the top of the list if I can swing more than planned thus far...If so will you have some beers with me ? There is a balloon convention in November next year!!
Thank you so much once more!! I really do enjoy it!!
You're welcome, it was fun to do the song and a good learning experience for me.
Thanks! You should see some of those newer posters with like 60+k posts! :D
Sure who wouldn't love to have some beers with fudd Where in germany is the convention?
On September 07 2014 06:11 fusefuse wrote:
Hi 7mk, I joined TL in 2011, hows it going
congrats on 10k posts, thats a whole fucking lot lol
also i gotta say, this URL/title was very deceptive lol
Its good to see your recent experience was so eye-opening and that youre doing a lot of introspection nowadays
everyone should do that to an extent
Since this is an AMA I should ask a question though
How long did this awesome song for/about Fudd take to make, I hear youve included a piano track to augment the usual guitar+vocal composition this time
It is going better than ever! I could have given you updates on my life but I wasn't sure if you were sick of hearing about it yet haha
I am not sure how long the song took... If I had to guess... then writing it took maybe about two hours,
recording took maybe 2 hours... and maybe mixing as well?
I wrote the song many months ago, I recorded it several weeks ago (I actually feel like I could have done a better job singing now cause I had some good sessions with my vocal teacher) and finished mixing a few days ago.
Next time I will focus on recording so long until everything is really tight rythmically.
And I will try to be much "cleaner" in my DAW (cubase), and have a more systematic approach to recording vocals.
I just hope I will eventually be somewhat decent at mixing, right now it feels more like doing random things.
But this was the first time I actually wrote some automation, so that was cool :p
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On September 07 2014 03:14 Grobyc wrote:
lol
how am I supposed to get used to seeing an ultralisk beside to your ID now??
and it's your turn to visit me now, when are you coming next?
I know, so weird seeing it there, isn't it... We'll see, maybe I'll change it into an Archon. (Zerg in BW, Protoss in SC2)
On September 07 2014 15:36 Grobyc wrote:Your gf is going to learn Korean with you too? I'm looking for a tandem language partner for German at home here but can't seem to find one anywhere nearby
Yeah we both took 2 semesters at a korean course in university. Unfortunately this course isn't continuing next semester because not enough people are (in all likeliness) gonna register for it.
We were 5 students, which is the minimum, now 2 of those are abroad.
You should try living in a country where people aren't so damn far apart as in Canada 
And uh yeah.. I don't know man, of course I would love to see Canada one day but it's not at the front of my priority list in terms of countries to visit atm.
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Hi DarkPlasmaBall
Hi poxy
On September 07 2014 06:36 Capped wrote:
Came here expecting Fuddx AMA.
Sorry :O
On September 07 2014 07:19 fusefuse wrote:
also what the fuck did i talk about in that hotel room
i dont remember much, rum was good
You know, horny estonian girls who can't get enough - only fuse can truly pleasure them.
Also I'm pretty sure the rum was awful.
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Hey 7mk
1. What's the significance of your name "7mk"?
2. Favorite video game?
3. Favorite non-video game hobby?
4. How much do you like math?
5. Ideal job/ profession?
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