The Lost Diary of Rizal
by Scy Sze
She is no one special.
He is destined to be great.
They are bounded by love,
Played by time,
And fated to separate...
But will they walk their fate?
Valentina had always hated her name, likewise, her sentiment for...
I flipped to the next page only to be disappointed. I found it blank. I could've sworn it had something written on it before. I remembered scanning each page and it was half filled with his writing. What had happened to the rest? Was it written in invisible ink? I shone the pages on my lamp and tried to see if there's any secret to it. None appeared. I flipped each page but found nothing written. I shook the diary carefully, and something fell. It is an old piece of paper, delicately folded and was blotted with ink. My heart palpitated as I opened it. I felt this had the answer to the mystery. I squinted at the blotted handwritten words in the sunlight that is streaming from my window.
What is required to pass through time
Nay all is necessary to completely walk through, a permutation of the three is enough... Conversely, we have never established and attempted the undertaking...
I continued reading the entire thing and by the end, my eyes must have almost fallen out of its sockets. This is it! This is how to travel through time. I checked his last entry. It is dated on September 14. I checked his entry about our first meeting. That's odd.We didn't meet at February 10 in my time, but February 13. I feel that these dates mean something. I switched on my computer. Time to do some research on the fourth rule of time traveling, if only there are more clues.... I may able to go to back. Just you wait Rizal. I will come back and – and what?
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I had spent the entire week doing research on time traveling. There are a lot of articles bombarding the internet, but none of them mentions anything about Chinese dates. I have matched the medium and portal with them. Almost all time traveling theories have something like that. If only it's as easy as riding a novelty sports car like in the movie Back to the Future. But I patiently worked on my own, and it had paid quite well. For the first time in my life, I am beginning to feel proud of my Chinese blood and the education that my parents had forced me to learn. I would have to thank them for it. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to read a Chinese calendar. I had taken trips to my grandfather, who is a pure Chinese man, who follows the calendar's dates, like celebrating everyone in our family's Chinese birthdays instead of the normal one. I made notes on what I found out. Just to summarize my own theory and understanding of the fourth rule, and I have based it on extensive, and when I say extensive, I hardly eat and on the run to museums, libraries and into the internet world 24/7, I have come to the conclusion that the fourth rule requires specific dates on the Chinese calendar. I still haven't really made a concrete idea on how this is achieved, but I have found a pattern.
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The date that we met is actually based on the Chinese calendar. It falls on the same day, but in a different year. And what more, there is a pattern in the years, 13-23, and cycles 76-78. I do not know how to clearly explain this, but let me pull up an article.
