Hari's Quest #3

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Today I went to school. I had a science test. I aimed to finish my homework very fast. That I achieved with much procrastination. (I know, I'll get millions of comments focusing on the procrastinating.) I started my rough draft of my Fractured Fairy Tale. Look for the final draft later on this month.

Quest objective of this post: finish my rough draft.

Hint-the fairy tale involves Ariel the mermaid, Rudolph the reindeer, the 7 dwarves, and the LG Dare.

Mouse in my House

There used to be a baby mouse hiding under the stove in our house. We caught it in a glue trap and released it in Deep Run Park. It found a hole and jammed itself down it and vanished.


Were you expecting anything else?

The Mysterious Sighting of the Wind Spirit

One day my mom and I were going out. When we stopped at the signal, a bunch of leaves flew up in a tornado formation and danced across the road. A car came speeding in the opposite direction towards the dancing leaves. But at the last second the leaves spun out of the way and the car flew straight through the space where they had been.

All this seems too coincidental to me by far. What if it really IS a wind spirit?

Cooooooool.............

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.

Hari and Mitz- Comic 8

Hari: Ok, Mitz, let's go to the Montebello.

Mitz: Ok, ok ,ok, ok, I'll catch a shark!!!

Hari: No, Mitz, you'll catch a trout.

Mitz: No, no, no, no, no, I'll catch a shark.
At the Montebello....

Mitz: I gottun! I gottun! Yahyahayahayahyahyah! BANNNNGGG!

Hari: You caught a shark! I DON'T BELIEVE IT, YOU CAUGHT A SHARK!

Mitz: Yaaaagghhggghhhaaaagh!!

Hari: Hang on, Mitz, I'll save you! AAAAGGHH!



Hours later, the Montebello is empty.

Hari's Quest- 2

Today I went for my swimming lessons. We played a "version" of water polo, which meant getting the ball. The dumbo Daniel kept shoving me out of the way until he pushed me underwater, which made me mad. Then I clawed him in the face, splashed him, and shoved him out of the way and got the ball.


Then (bum bum bum) I readied the infantry and set off with flags with words on them and mottos and things like that. On the way, a huge white paper creature with intensely complicated equations and the word "Kumon" on it came running towards us. It said, "Gagaargh! Do your Kumon, kids!" We all attacked it and tore at it, yelling, "No! Never! We shall never give in to this plague, paper! Paper can't hurt us!" Then we tore the mutant Kumon packet to shreds and continued.


After we killed 923154376245279345 Kumon Kreatures (TM) we abandoned the journey and all went home.

Hari's Quest- 1

I woke up at 6:00 today. I flipped Murari over (his watch was being crushed under his terrible weight- 59 pounds.) and looked at his watch. Then I ran to the forbidden MasterBedroom and woke up Dad. After an hour of getting ready, we went fishing in Deep Run. For two hours I stood there, and finally I gave up and abandoned my rod on the bank. Then I watched Murari struggle to catch minnows until I picked my rod up again. Then my bobber just vanished and I reeled frantically for a VERY long time (three minutes) until I finally brought the ferocious 15-inch catfish to land, where it wrapped itself up in line and lay there, immobilized. All this with bread!

Ratatouille Movie Review

The Ratatouille movie was awesome! It was so great my mom suggested getting it on DVD too! (That's only the second movie that's managed to hook her. The first one was Night at the Museum.) Everything else, no matter how good it is, is "OK" to her. Open Season, Jungle Book 2, and Shrek The Third were all called OK. Ratatouille is about a rat named Remy. Remy hates the "trash" that his clan eats- unlike any other rat, he wants fancy food. The first hilarious thing that happens in the movie is that Remy finds a mushroom. Then he goes to get his brother Emile, whom he finds has a very exotic cheese chunk with him. Then Remy pretty much goes nuts. He squeezes a drop from some sweetgrass onto the mushroom. Then he and Emile climb to the roof and Remy starts to roast the mushroom on a lightning rod. But then a bolt of lightning comes flying down and hits them both. You should have seen them lying on the ground all puffed up and their fur burnt. Remy tastes the mushroom- He tries to find a flavor to describe it- Emile says, "Lightningy?" Remy: Yeah! It's lightningy!

tiger shark

The tiger shark tossed his snout from side to side, trying to pick up traces of blood. He snapped up a salmon and some mackerel, but he was still hungry. Suddenly, a strong scent of blood came to his nostrils. He zoned in on the smell. An octopus flailed its tentacles as four cod swam around it, occasionally darting in and biting a tentacle. Clouds of thick black ink billowed out at the cod and they flipped right over themselves. A pair of toothy jaws suddenly appeared from the inky blackness, snapping up two of the three cod and tearing a fifteen-pound chunk from the octopus's head.

My Favorite Place is Deep Run Park

My favorite place is Deep Run Park. I like it because it is quiet and peaceful, and it has lots of animals. I've seen squirrels, mallard ducks, Canadian geese, red-winged blackbirds, a great blue heron, a cottontail rabbit, and toadlets. I have heard the loud call of the bullfrog, but I have never seen one. In the middle of summer vacation, I went fishing with my dad, brother, and friends, when I saw these animals. I saw an Alaskan husky that had been on a dog show on TV.

The mornings were a nice time to be out there, and fish. So far, I have caught four types of fish. The different types were sunfish, bass, catfish, and crappie. My smallest was a sunfish, about four inches long. The largest one was a catfish that was fifteen inches long. My biggest bass was eleven and a half inches long. Catfish were the most difficult to catch because even the small ones put up strong fights when you hooked them and reeled them in. The best thing that happened to me was that there was a Cub Scout fishing tournament and I won first place for catching the most fish and the biggest fish. I gained all my experience by starting out fishing at Deep Run Park.

Mammals

Mammals are warm-blooded. But the platypus and the echidna lay eggs. People are mammals too. Mammals started out as rat and mouselike small animals in the dinosaur ages. When the age of the reptiles ended, the mammals and birds took over. Tropical forests appeared, and also big plains, where indricotheres, creatures that could tower over elephants and giraffes, lived. There was Hyaenodon, a doglike predator the size of a large rhino, and bear-dogs, little doglike animals the size of housecats. Then after that, in South America, grassy plains appeared, bringing agile antelope that could go thirty meters in several seconds. But there were also huge ground sloths, and armadillos with spiked clubs at the end of their tails. One couldn't forget Smilodon, the sabertoothed cat, or Phorusrhacos, flightless birds who preyed on hippidiforms, small skittish horses. When that ended, our ancestors appeared, apelike animals that could walk upright.

Ocean Mammals
In the beginning of mammals, there were ten-foot crocodile-like animals that swam by undulating their bodies up and down, and had fur. These were the predecessors of whales. There were two types of whales. Dorudon, a sixteen-foot whale, and Basilosaurus, a much larger whale. Modern ocean mammals include dolphins, sea otters,seals,sea lions, and whales. Above all, mammals are a large and diverse group.

The Chronicles of the AquaSquad

The loach was swimming through the anacharis forest. Sparky the catfish was eating particles of algae disk. The loach ate a piece of tropical flake lodged in the gravel. Then he swam to Cherry City, home of the cherry barbs. At Cherry City, red lights with black stripes shone everywhere. Suddenly, all the lights turned green! A green swordtail swam into the middle of the city. He said, "I am the all-conquering Sabertail, ruler of the aquarium! You low-ranking scum will serve me!" Suddenly a group of enormous shadows blocked out the light, replacing it with silver light instead. An enormous tinfoil barb body slammed "Sabertail" and sent him flying into Sparky, who chomped off part of Sabertail's tail and ate it. Then he clamped his jaws down on the swordtail's body, chewed, then flung him into an entire Armada of minnows! Sabertail fled, flanked by chomping minnows.

Then they celebrated. First they turned all the lights back to red and black. And then they had feasts with tropical flake cakes topped with goldfish pellets and algae disks, much to the relief of Sparky.

Chipmunk video

Video of chipmunk burying seeds.