"The picture was of baby Gasman, with his telltale cowlick, being held by a women who looked kind of tired and washed out. The camera was focused on a wooden table, then a slip of paper lying on the table. It was a check. The name it was made out to was obliterated. The check was from Itex, for $10,000. His mother had sold him for $10,000 to the whitecoats at the school."(pg 147-148)
Reading the other books Max keeps finding pictures of themselves when they were younger. Where does she keep finding these pictures but not fang and herself. In the first book when they went to the institute, they found files on the flocks. Iggy tried to find his mom from the address but Ari was there. When she found more pictures in this book she must have kept the files with her maybe? Gasman must been happy to see his baby picture with his mom but she was under stress. When I read about the check for $10,000 I was surprised that Gazzy's mother sold him to the scientist at the school. That is messed up selling your own child to people you do not even know. But for $10,000 is a lot and she was stressed out so she probably had to take the offer and take a break from working. This makes me think if the flocks parents also had this kind of offer to them because they figured out that their parents gave them up to the whitecoats. If that happened to me I probably wound not take that offer and keep my child.
"Thanks, Max," Ari said when he was within earshot."You won't regret this, I promise. I'm going to keep you safe." (pg 162)
Before Ari thank Max. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a leading trap for the flocks.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Judo Tournament
I had my judo tournament on April 18. The tournament was taken place at Alameda High School in the new gym. This was my first judo tournament I have been to and I could of went to the earlier tournaments but I did not want to. Instead I waited near the end of the school year for my judo tournament and we were required to go to at least one tournament. Usually I am nervous on my martial arts tournament. On my other Vietnamese tournament I got owned from sparing and this one I try to stay com and confident.
A few days before on a Friday after school both classes helped set up the tournament for Sunday and we got community service for. It became really tiring became we had to bring judo mats from the dojo to the table area where the back entrance to kofemen was. Each mat was probably about 15 pounds. In the dojo we took some of the mats out and it was so dusty underneath the mats. I had a lot of dust attracted to me while I was loading the truck. This process took about two hours including 5th and 6th period to transport the mats to the new gym. It took awhile to unload the mats off the truck. Then we set up the gym with four running mats while took awhile. After we were setting up the new gym the worse part was bringing out the 4 wheel dollys and back to the dojo. It took four people to bring out the 600 pound dolly out the door and down the stairs to the dojo.
The day of the tournament came. We had to come early at 7:30am to help. We paid for our entry and weight-in. Some people helped label the medals saying "PROF. JAY ALOHA INVITATIONAL JUDO TOURNAMENT". Our matches was going to take awhile and the tournament starts at 10:30am. We had to help the judges keep track of scores and pooling which is pairing up people in the same weight division in groups of 5. The beginning of the tournament was the little kids, teens, and the black belt division. I helped keep score for a few hours and chill with my sister.
Finally our tournament started to come at around 1pm. I waited with my friend Amir and we found out we were in the same pool. Which means i get to go against my friend. We were lucky to be in a pool with four people because it is faster and a better chance of wining a medal. I went against everyone in my pool and my first match was against Amir. I tried my best and stay com. The match started and I waited for him to grab me and as soon as he grabbed me I went for a throw but he tried to counter me. he almost got me and i fell on my butt but it didn't count. The opponet has to get the play on their back to win. The reff stopped us and start back in the middle. I grabbed him and tried to do a left sided throw to get him off guard but I did half of it and still got him on the ground. As he was on the ground I tried to choke him but the reff stopped us again. The third time I tried my throw again and I got him on his back and I won. My second match was against a yellow belt that i just found out after our match. I lost fast to this guy because he had more experience than me. So I did the first move with a foward throw but he countered me. My third match was really quick and it took about 10 seconds to win this one. I was against a talls person and before my matches I was examing his moves when he went up. I notice his legs were weak and off balance most of the time. When I went against this guy I tested out a small sweep and I got him off balance already so I went for a back sweep and got him down. I won 2/3 matches and got 2nd place. When the tournament ended we repeat what we did on Friday but backwards taking the mats back to the dojo.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
The book I am read Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson. Max had escape from the Itex from the scientist who are trying yo kill her. In the beginning they went to see a sports game and later on they are being noticed by the humans and they saw them in the newspaper. So they had to get out of the place befor the erasers try to get them.
"Football game", said Fang. What? Iggy asked, his face brightening. "Football game tonight, Texas Stadium". Fang snapped the laptop shut and stood. "I think we should go".(pg20)
When I read to this part of the book I was thinking what if they get caught when the erasers sees them on TV? Max thought he was nuts because they need to get out of site of people especial at a foot ball game. It would be a night mare if they went down there surrounded by thousands of people and cameras. It would be risky to go down there but they went anyways. The stadium was an open sky and it was the Cowboys vs the Chicago Bears. As I was reading I thought they were going to watch the game at the top of the stadium to be safe. Later on They were sitting with other people and some people started to notice they were those bird kids. They spotted erasers coming towards them and they had to get out.
It wasn't as through they had saved my life or anything Ella and Dr. Martinez. It was worse: They had shown me what a life could be like in Normal Land. It haunted me ever since I'd left them.(pg68)
I was a bit surprised when Max and Fang arrived back to Ella's house because in the first book she had to leave her for Angel. She didn't want to return and now she came back again along with Fang. It would been a good idea to return because Max showed Dr. Martinez her wounded arm and scan an x-ray and found a chip in her arm. Dr. Martinez found a way to take it out with out damaging her nerves.
"Football game", said Fang. What? Iggy asked, his face brightening. "Football game tonight, Texas Stadium". Fang snapped the laptop shut and stood. "I think we should go".(pg20)
When I read to this part of the book I was thinking what if they get caught when the erasers sees them on TV? Max thought he was nuts because they need to get out of site of people especial at a foot ball game. It would be a night mare if they went down there surrounded by thousands of people and cameras. It would be risky to go down there but they went anyways. The stadium was an open sky and it was the Cowboys vs the Chicago Bears. As I was reading I thought they were going to watch the game at the top of the stadium to be safe. Later on They were sitting with other people and some people started to notice they were those bird kids. They spotted erasers coming towards them and they had to get out.
It wasn't as through they had saved my life or anything Ella and Dr. Martinez. It was worse: They had shown me what a life could be like in Normal Land. It haunted me ever since I'd left them.(pg68)
I was a bit surprised when Max and Fang arrived back to Ella's house because in the first book she had to leave her for Angel. She didn't want to return and now she came back again along with Fang. It would been a good idea to return because Max showed Dr. Martinez her wounded arm and scan an x-ray and found a chip in her arm. Dr. Martinez found a way to take it out with out damaging her nerves.
Birthday Party at D&B
On Wednesday May 5th was my birthday and also cinco de mayo. What happened on my birthday I planed to go to Dave and Busters to celebrate with my family and friends. Who were Adam, Nathan, Keelan, Micheal, and John. We left after school to Dave and Busters at San Jose in Great Mall. When we got there we entered Dave and Busters. They had a eat and play combo game deal for $15.99 along with a 10 dollar game card. Most of use were hungry yet so we went to the mall to waste some time.
We went in the mall and my mom bought something then my sister wanted to buy something. We walked in a full circle back to Dave and Busters until we were hungry. As we were browsing threw the mall a couple of girls came by who were about 12 or 13 years old. Five minutes later we saw them again and they said hi and some of us said hi back. We were about half way to Dave And Busters and they started to follow us. They would walk ahead of us and wait until we got there. We went back into Dave and Busters which became our safe area from those girls.
we went to go eat first and also receive our 10 dollar game card. Our waiter named Derick told our orders and I got the double cheese burger which was delicious. John yelled out thank you Derick using his name. I started saying that also, then John said thanks Derick your the best. I started laughing. Derick was a cool guy. When Derick gave us our order my friends and I said thank you Derick. As we were eating there was a special birthday announcement on our left. I was like were is my birthday song as they announced it. About ten minutes later on our right side there was another birthday announcement happening again. We were done eating *cough except for Adam* and I had to go to the restroom. I didn't know where it was so Adam came along with me. After we came back the whole table was smiling and I know something was going on. As I sat down I see Derick holding a big cup of ice cream. I started to notice it would probably be mine and Derick came up to me and gave me my ice cream. He announced another birthday and sang a song. I wanted to take a picture with Derick for fun and as he came by my sister said if we could get a picture. He started to laugh and whispered " This is fucking weird man". As we left to play games Adam left a message saying Hey Derick, if you are reading this what the fuck, from those guys.
We went back out to the walk way to see if Derick would see our little message but another person was cleaning up the table. We went to go play in the arcade room with our game card. There was a virtual jump rope game and as it went in a circle it went faster but I was ne away from the jack pot of 300 tickets. I went to go play some shooting games with my sister. We went to go find the others and Adam and Keelan were addicted to this one game where you insert a coin and make other coins fall for tickets. My sister Nathan and I went to go back to the jump rope and I got addicted to that for a few games. Nathan was playing deal or no deal which he sucked at guessing and he end up with 12 and 4 tickets. I tried it and did good on the couple of picking out the case buy at the end I got 12 tickets. We went to play a few games of Need for Speed. We were about to go so all of us headed to the prize room. We had fun and went home.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Monthly Review
5. Find out about the author. How did they end up writing this particular book? Is the author's true life reflected in the book in any way(s)?
8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.
9. Describe your favorite part in the book?
In this novel Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever by James Patterson is about six mutant kids who tries to find out about their parents better at Washington DC. As they headed to Washington DC they get attack by new versions of erasers and one of the member of the flocks get attacked by Ari who is Jeb's only son. FBI agents come to the hospital to question them and one of the agents wants them to stay at her house to make sure they are safe. They are sent to school and they escape far away from the erasers. Max and the flocks are headed to Florida to the Itex to destroy their cooperation.
James Patterson is the bestselling author of his writing career and the Time magazine feature called him, "The Man Who Can't Miss." He also wrote about thriller, nonfiction, and romance novels. In the North America by itself he had sold over 16 million books. A few years ago, James Patterson sold more books than all of the other authors and the books that he sold all together was about 170 million copies in worldwide. With all that copies being sold, he must be wealthy. He is the very first author to receive the number 1 brand new titles simultaneously on The New York Times on books for adults and children. James Patterson is the number 1 best selling authors in the New York Times and holds the Guinness World Record for selling 46 most Hardcover Fiction titles. As a writer he did not have any reflection on his true life for this book.
The character who interested me in the second series of Maximum Ride is Agent Anne. She intelligent and nice. She works with the F.B.I. What seems suspicious about this character is that she kinda came out of nowhere. In the part when Fang had to go to the hospital because of Ari. Three F.B.I. agents appeared to the hospital to question the flocks. They all had to lie about their names and they were related. Max told them they were adopted and their parents are missionaries. The agents bring them to a private room to question them one on one. Agent Anne questions Max and held up a picture of Jeb. Max felt the betrayal from the picture of him. She showed a picture of an eraser and asked her if she ever saw one. Max pretends that she has not seen one in her life and describing how ugly it is. And how did she get those pictures of them. As Fang recovers from his injuries, Anne makes a nice offer to the flocks if they want to stay at her house. Since they had nowhere to go they took her offer. Anne would have to take care of six children and letting them stay in her barn house. Anne does a lot of work to take care of them and they can eat more than an average person can eat. Anne has to cook a lot of food or spend a lot of money on them. Anne takes good care of them and Max feels like Anne is her mom. Later she thinks she can trust Anne because she works for the FBI and can not be an eraser. Max tells her some information like at least that the flocks can fly. They were mutants with 98% human and 2% birds. She tells her that their parents are not missionaries. Later on Anne wants them to go to school. Some teachers were erasers and they bust out off school and try to tracked down the flocks. They head over to Anne's house to get supplies and it turns out that Anne is working with Jeb. I find that disappointing that Anne betrayed the flocks like that and I thought Anne was out to help them.
My favorite part in the book was when the flocks were being ambushed with lots of action. I was surprised how the enemy characters changed from the first series in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. In the setting as Max and her flocks are headed to Washington D.C. and they took a break from flying. As they continued their journey walking, Max randomly does a 360 she sees a dark cloud coming towards them. The flocks thought a storm is coming, erasers in a chopper, or birds. As it came closer it turns out they were erasers with wings! Also their leader of the erasers, Ari, he came back from the living dead. It could probably be Jeb and the other scientists who helped brought Ari backed to life along with the erasers being mobile in air. The scientists made the DNA transfer quickly to the erasers to make them fly. When the erasers were about to attack, Max ordered the flocks to split up in positions to get ready to fight. Max was feeling the adrenaline then she launched her foot at the biggest eraser to his chest. It was a bit weird when Fang clapped his hands against an eraser's ear making him scream and made him lose control in the air. Max and her flocks were kicking butt and the erasers just kept coming after them. Ari came lunging at Fang and manage to slice his jacket. The erasers started to retreat and it was Ari against the flocks. The flocks regrouped and Ari seemed a bit happy to see them again because he wants to keep beating them up. Ari left with his gang saying " We'll be back!" As they left the flocks waited a moment to see if there was going to be another attack but it was clear. Max notice Fang's critical hit from Ari. Max needed to get an ambulance quick and she had to risk choosing Fang's life or avoid strangers. If she did that, then Fang would die.
8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.
9. Describe your favorite part in the book?
In this novel Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever by James Patterson is about six mutant kids who tries to find out about their parents better at Washington DC. As they headed to Washington DC they get attack by new versions of erasers and one of the member of the flocks get attacked by Ari who is Jeb's only son. FBI agents come to the hospital to question them and one of the agents wants them to stay at her house to make sure they are safe. They are sent to school and they escape far away from the erasers. Max and the flocks are headed to Florida to the Itex to destroy their cooperation.
James Patterson is the bestselling author of his writing career and the Time magazine feature called him, "The Man Who Can't Miss." He also wrote about thriller, nonfiction, and romance novels. In the North America by itself he had sold over 16 million books. A few years ago, James Patterson sold more books than all of the other authors and the books that he sold all together was about 170 million copies in worldwide. With all that copies being sold, he must be wealthy. He is the very first author to receive the number 1 brand new titles simultaneously on The New York Times on books for adults and children. James Patterson is the number 1 best selling authors in the New York Times and holds the Guinness World Record for selling 46 most Hardcover Fiction titles. As a writer he did not have any reflection on his true life for this book.
The character who interested me in the second series of Maximum Ride is Agent Anne. She intelligent and nice. She works with the F.B.I. What seems suspicious about this character is that she kinda came out of nowhere. In the part when Fang had to go to the hospital because of Ari. Three F.B.I. agents appeared to the hospital to question the flocks. They all had to lie about their names and they were related. Max told them they were adopted and their parents are missionaries. The agents bring them to a private room to question them one on one. Agent Anne questions Max and held up a picture of Jeb. Max felt the betrayal from the picture of him. She showed a picture of an eraser and asked her if she ever saw one. Max pretends that she has not seen one in her life and describing how ugly it is. And how did she get those pictures of them. As Fang recovers from his injuries, Anne makes a nice offer to the flocks if they want to stay at her house. Since they had nowhere to go they took her offer. Anne would have to take care of six children and letting them stay in her barn house. Anne does a lot of work to take care of them and they can eat more than an average person can eat. Anne has to cook a lot of food or spend a lot of money on them. Anne takes good care of them and Max feels like Anne is her mom. Later she thinks she can trust Anne because she works for the FBI and can not be an eraser. Max tells her some information like at least that the flocks can fly. They were mutants with 98% human and 2% birds. She tells her that their parents are not missionaries. Later on Anne wants them to go to school. Some teachers were erasers and they bust out off school and try to tracked down the flocks. They head over to Anne's house to get supplies and it turns out that Anne is working with Jeb. I find that disappointing that Anne betrayed the flocks like that and I thought Anne was out to help them.
My favorite part in the book was when the flocks were being ambushed with lots of action. I was surprised how the enemy characters changed from the first series in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. In the setting as Max and her flocks are headed to Washington D.C. and they took a break from flying. As they continued their journey walking, Max randomly does a 360 she sees a dark cloud coming towards them. The flocks thought a storm is coming, erasers in a chopper, or birds. As it came closer it turns out they were erasers with wings! Also their leader of the erasers, Ari, he came back from the living dead. It could probably be Jeb and the other scientists who helped brought Ari backed to life along with the erasers being mobile in air. The scientists made the DNA transfer quickly to the erasers to make them fly. When the erasers were about to attack, Max ordered the flocks to split up in positions to get ready to fight. Max was feeling the adrenaline then she launched her foot at the biggest eraser to his chest. It was a bit weird when Fang clapped his hands against an eraser's ear making him scream and made him lose control in the air. Max and her flocks were kicking butt and the erasers just kept coming after them. Ari came lunging at Fang and manage to slice his jacket. The erasers started to retreat and it was Ari against the flocks. The flocks regrouped and Ari seemed a bit happy to see them again because he wants to keep beating them up. Ari left with his gang saying " We'll be back!" As they left the flocks waited a moment to see if there was going to be another attack but it was clear. Max notice Fang's critical hit from Ari. Max needed to get an ambulance quick and she had to risk choosing Fang's life or avoid strangers. If she did that, then Fang would die.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Maximum Ride # 3
At the school, the flocks had an assembly but they were not there. They started to wonder around the school but the principle caught them. The principle started to turn into a eraser so the flocks split up to lose the eraser. As they met up again they took off in the air away from the school. They needed to head over to Anne's house to get some supplies. Max already hid some back up supplies a few days ago. Angel wanted to go back to Anne's house which is not a good idea but Total was there. Angel found Total in the yard and she flew to get him. When she got him the flocks sees a car pull up in the drive way. It was Jeb, Ari, Anne, and the other teachers. They were all working together after the flocks.
They flew away towards the beach after a second battle between Fang and Ari. Ari is the only child that Jeb seems to care for and Ari wants to be with max. Max is twice his age.When the flock are on the run again and always being located by the Erasers which is possibly a via chip implanted into Max. They try to find the corporation who planted the chip in Max Located in Florida called Itex that Angel recalls the scientists discussing when she was captured by them. Max is captured by their eraser and a Max-clone is left in her place. She is held captive at Itex as a subjected to an isolation tank. The flocks which they don't know that Max is Max is lead by the Max-clone into Itex. They try to discover what they can about the flocks parentage and Max's Voice's telling her to save the world but they lead into a trap where all the members of the flock are to be terminated. Max breaks out of the isolation tank, reuniting with the flock and continues life on the run towards an unknown journey ahead them.
They flew away towards the beach after a second battle between Fang and Ari. Ari is the only child that Jeb seems to care for and Ari wants to be with max. Max is twice his age.When the flock are on the run again and always being located by the Erasers which is possibly a via chip implanted into Max. They try to find the corporation who planted the chip in Max Located in Florida called Itex that Angel recalls the scientists discussing when she was captured by them. Max is captured by their eraser and a Max-clone is left in her place. She is held captive at Itex as a subjected to an isolation tank. The flocks which they don't know that Max is Max is lead by the Max-clone into Itex. They try to discover what they can about the flocks parentage and Max's Voice's telling her to save the world but they lead into a trap where all the members of the flock are to be terminated. Max breaks out of the isolation tank, reuniting with the flock and continues life on the run towards an unknown journey ahead them.
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