CHEESE!!

It's what makes my brain go round
It's CHEESE!
It's the favorite food of mice&rats
It's CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!

Morning Poem

Uuuuuaaahhh

Guuuuuaaahhh

BuUuuuuuhhh

Gaaaaaauuuuuuhhh

Stop waking me up

Mooooooaaahhhhhuuuuuu

3 Musketeers Online

One of my friends moved to California over the summer. The three of us (me and two other guys) are now online! It's hilarious. We have secret conspiracy organizations and everything. Cool, huh?

The Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent

At the ending of the storm
I sprang forth
Brilliantly flashing in seven colors
I circled in the sky
I touched the earth lightly
Where I touched
Shrubs, trees, and plants
Emerged from the soil.
Several small mice crawled
Out of the glowing earth
And vanished among the tree roots.
In a burst of red light
A majestic jaguar materialized
From the lifegiving earth
I flew into the sky
And watched over my domain
Then I saw the havoc wreaked
By loggers in the rainforest
Before my eyes several small frogs
were crushed, a bear hunted
Here I departed.

India Trip 2

This trip has gotten more fun. I noticed a new strain of behavior in both Subhashinicus aunticus and Sairamacus unclecus. They like to get me a video game system every time I come to India. Last time, it was a Geepas VCR with a CD with 1000 primitive arcade games. This time, it was a PS2 with the following CDs. But she didn't even get me a memory card.

Donald Duck: Phantomias: Platyrhynchos Kineticus(It's certainly like auntie to get me such a weird game, and I know what platyrhynchos means, but I have no idea what Kineticus means.).

Madagascar: The first time I played it, I reached the Penguin Mutiny level,, which is probably half the game. Then Gramps got grumpy and wanted to watch cricket matches on TV. So we lost all that stuff. Gramps always sleeps when the TV isn't on. Then when we turn the PlayStation on, he snaps at us to put on the cricket match on.

Gran Turismo 4: This is the best game we have. It's a racing game.

INDIA TRIP 1

August 9th, 2008

Writing from Rohan and Dinesh's house.
Lots of birds- crows, ravens, mynas, parrots, broadthroated sparrow, hummingbirds, sunbirds, 3 or 4 unidentified.

A hummingbird perched on uncle's motorbike and attacked its reflection in the mirror.

I was mobbed by Asian tiger mosquitoes in the garden. Must be an old bottle or something full of water.

Dangers
1. GBAs or DS running out of charge
2. Rohan's friends breaking stuff(most likely)
3. Mosquitoes

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time - A Review

The book I am reading is called Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, by Lisa Yee. It is about a boy named Stanford Wong who has made the A-Team at his middle school. At the same time, he has flunked his English class by getting an F on his final book report. His dad, who is academically obsessed, tells him he'll have to trade his basketball summer camp-manned by Alan Scott, one of the best basketball players in the world- for summer school. He invents an alter ego for himself while at summer school: SSSSpy(Super Stealth Stanford Spy). He nicknames his English teacher Teacher Torturer. His real name is Mr. Glick. He frantically comes up with a hilarious plan to keep his friends from finding out about summer school and the F.


Meanwhile, his grandmother, Yin-Yin, is growing a bit senile. She does crazy things like taking walks and forgetting where she lives. His parents are arguing whether or not they should send her to a home for old people called Vacation Village. Stanford overhears and thinks that they have to wait for someone to die so that there is an opening.


More problems appear. His enemy, geek genius Millicent Min, (12-year old girl in high school) has been hired to tutor him. Over the phone, she tells him the following: "Listen, Stan-turd, this is not my idea of an ideal summer. In fact, it is worse than getting gout, failing the GRE, and being passed over for graduate school during a meteor shower without a telescope."


He meets a girl named Emily Ebers. He thinks that she is pretty. Well, it just happens that Emily is a friend of Millicent. More complications! He and Millicent devise a plan to keep Emily from knowing about Stanford and English class, and Millicent and high school. Instead, one of Stanford's friends, named Digger, somehow finds out that Stanford is going to summer school. He blackmails Stanford into letting him beat him on the basketball court. Then they all go to the fair. It turns out that Digger betted the Roadrunners (Stanford's basketball team) ten bucks to see if he could dance with Millicent. He couldn't, so he made fun of Millicent. Stanford stands up for her and chases Digger off. Then they all make it up to each other. After that, Stanford gets a C+ on his final exam and passes.


I liked this book because there was lots of action and humor in it. My rating for this book out of 5 would have been a 5. I hope you read this book and enjoy it as much as I did! There are two other books in this series: Millicent Min: Girl Genius, and So Totally Emily Ebers.

Why I like summer

I like summer because I achieve a lot during this particular season. I also think that summer is one of my favorite seasons because it is one of the best times to fish. Fishing is my favorite hobby. I can also get some new videogames. I also don’t have to be quiet because Schae always shushes me up. I don’t have to worry about being squished under a load of homework on day 2 because there is no day 2.

I also get to eat out and go places more because there will be no school the next day. The day after my 11th birthday, we went to a little pond out in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was full of jumping trout and nothing else. I caught one after a long time. It was 13 inches long. We brought some friends with us. Their mom snared a crayfish with a net and it lived happily for half a year in our fish tank. It died of old age at last at the end of October 2007.

We also take a trip to India every 2 or 3 years. It is dreadfully hot there. There are 6-inch cockroaches in the toilet (which is in a very different shape) which made me refuse to go to the bathroom. But skipping that, it’s a fun place. I also like to feed the flocks of crows that fight on the power lines. After five minutes a bunch of big shaggy ravens flies down, scares the living daylight out of the crows, and takes over the food department. Then I come outside and scare the heck out of them. There seems to be a strict pecking order to the flock.

I also reached an important milestone in my aging process in India. I hit 10 years! I also caught my first catfish in the summer. It was at Deep Run Park. I got my biggest fish ever caught record there too. It was a 15-inch catfish. Another thing I did is, I went to Pearl Beach in India. It was so fun there. The sand was really thick and the waves were little and safe.

Another thing I like to do in summer is read. I read a pretty good amount of books over the summer. To most people, though, it may seem that I overdo it. I also like having my friends over. We have lots of fun when we get together. I also like swimming. I dive under the surface and lurk around like a shark or a crocodile. I enjoy swimming underwater. It’s like I’m in my own world. That is why I like summer.