Beyond 6th Grade

2011-03-05T09:07:00.000+07:00

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2011-02-13T11:13:00.002+07:00

“I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want— a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery.” - Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan (Ryer'-dan), an author of more than ten number one bestsellers and a father of two, the creator of Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus and the Kane Chronicles. But neither Ms. Ziegler nor all those other elementary teachers imagined Ricky Riordan the straight B student for writing would become this famous.

Before Mr. Riordan became a full-time writer, he taught in New Braunfels, Texas. But his life changed when his son Haley wanted to hear a bedtime story about Greek Mythology, Rick Riordan started telling about a kid named Percy Jackson and how he retrieved the lightning bolt for Zeus and slowly the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series was born. With the support of his children, he finished the series of Percy Jackson. This series is not just about mythology and history, his daily life influenced this Greek story as well, for example the idea of Camp Half-Blood came from the days of Rick being a music director in a camp called Camp Casper in high school. And the reason that almost all Demigods have ADHD and dyslexia is that his son Haley has it and he wants to make all those kids with handicaps feel special.

After his success with the Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan started another two series, The Kane Chronicles and the Heroes of Olympus, which started coming out in the late 2010. Like their predecessor, all of the two series are based on ancient mythology. Hero of Olympus is a story after Percy Jackson saved Mt. Olympus, where there is an addition of Roman Gods, "The big battle in The Last Olympian was in August and The Lost Hero happens in October. So only 2 or 3 months have gone by. I did that on purpose, because I wanted the characters from the Percy Jackson series to be involved and I didn’t want the readers to be wondering what’s going on with them. It was my way of letting them revisit that world in a fresh twist, but also to catch up with Percy and Annabeth and the rest of the gang from the first series..." Rick Riordan said on an interview with Wired. On the UK website for the Kane Chronicles Rick Riordan quoted “When I was a classroom teacher, no unit of study was more popular with my students than Ancient Egypt. Pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs, ancient curses and buried secrets - there is so much magic to discover. And if you thought the Greek gods were crazy, wait until you meet the gods of Egypt.”

Rick Riordan didn't just write the three series surrounding the idea of Gods, he also wrote adult books. Big Red Tequila, The Widow's Two-Step, The Last King of Texas, and many more. He also contributed in a series called The 39 Clues, but he only wrote the first book, The Maze of Bones, starting off the ten book series telling how Amy and Dan Cahill went on a great adventure around the world finding clues that leads to the great secret of the Cahill family; Rick Riordan will be also be writing the eleventh book of the ten + one book series of 39 clues called Vespers Rising.

As Rick Riordan write more and more books, mythology or not. Every single fan will support him. Although Rick Riordan is spending most of his time writing children's books, he might go back to writing adults books. "Right now the children’s books are keeping me very busy, but who knows? I may go back to the adult books at some point." Rick said on one of his interview online. Like what Riordan said. Like what Rick Riordan said, who knows, maybe someday he will stop writing children’s books and go back to the world of adult books.

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Happy Late Chinese New Year

2011-02-06T12:43:00.000+07:00

Revisiting Books

2011-02-06T12:23:00.000+07:00

After a series of failure at finding good books, I decided to reread books i have already read, for example: the cherub series, the lost hero and the percy jackson series. Although i will spend a lot of time reading these books, im still open for good book recommendations pleas write it down at the comments place thanx! :)

Chinese New Year History...

2011-01-30T10:28:00.001+07:00

Like all ancient countries, mythology plays a big part in the enjoying of it.
Long long time ago in China, there was a monster called Nian(年 - Year). Every year, the monster comes to the village and destroy it,by eating people, breaking buildings. One year when Nian saw a kid in a red shirt, and got scared away. Slowly the villagers found out that Nian is scared of red and big noise so ever since that year people started to wear red and use firecrackers every year.

New Book Recommendation!

2011-01-14T16:27:00.000+07:00

E-Log, How Tos...

2011-01-14T16:06:00.001+07:00

1. Go the your blog's dashboard
2. Click on the button with a picture of a mail next to your blog title:

3. Something will pop up that will look like this:

4. Type in your "secret word" and this will be the address you are going to send from you E-mail to post blogs.

5. After you press save the mail button will turn orange:

6. Have fun posting!!!

E-Blog

2011-01-08T13:29:00.000+07:00

Hi, this is the first time i tried to use the E-mail Posting to Blogger. it's actually very cool that you can do this, so if you can't access blogger from another place, you can send email to blogger and post it(i think) :)

A Place I Wanna Be

2010-12-29T19:16:00.000+07:00

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2036729,00.html
This is a link directing you to a place not everyone will have a chance to go...

Ambigrams

2010-12-28T13:25:00.000+07:00

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After I finished reading the three books written by Dan Brown, I searched up Ambigrams and found a site that makes your own, and here is some I made :)

A ambigram is a symbol or a word that reads the same normally and if you flip it upside down. Its really really cool and here is the site: Ambigrams

First you press Create New Ambigrams on the top right of the screen then type in what you want, if you dont want to buy this word, then use Print Screen or if you are a Win7, Vista user use the cutting tool thing with the scissors and a red circle.

Dan Brown

2010-12-22T17:54:00.003+07:00

I want to introduce an author that you might know, the author of "The Da Vinci Code", "The Lost Symbol' and "Angles and Demons" apart of a trilogy telling adventures of Robert Langdon. This trilogy is about symbols and culture. The good thing is this three book is not heavily connected so the reader can read the three books in any random order and it will still make sense. I personally only read 1 of the books: "Angles and Demons" and I just began reading "The Da Vinci Code" but all the 2 books start of with a killing and clues on the body or around the body, then Robert goes on this crazy treasure hunt to find the killer and sometimes save a whole lot of people. For example, the symbol showed down this post is shown in Angles and Demons, it says Illuminati, similar to Illuminate (vocab word!). It is a symbol that is the same read from right side up or the wrong side up. In the book there is also the word of the four elements earth, air, fire and water, which is all shown down at the bottom of the post. There was one more symbol in that book, the Illuminati Diamond, containing all then four elements, also read the same both up or down.

Stuck @ Home

2010-12-21T15:20:00.000+07:00

The break started, but I had to be stuck in my house reading, even though I got to go out and do stuff, I still feel bored 'cause everyone went out of the country. On Thursday I will finally get a chance to invite friends over. I also just got a new phone, yeah! I feel really really happy and some what sad at the same time, weird.

VPA Performance

2010-12-14T15:05:00.000+07:00

Just finished the first VPA concert, very very tired :(. FUN!

VPA Concert on Tuesday!

2010-12-12T18:51:00.000+07:00

on Tuesday there will be 2 performance in the FAT (hahaha). One for the student body at 1:10. The performance for the parents and others are at 6:00 pm. The orders are Strings, Band, Movement, Art, Drama & Choir. Enjoy :)

New Book Recommendation

2010-12-08T16:57:00.002+07:00

Check out the new book I wrote about in the book recommendation page :)

Hi Guys!

2010-12-08T16:52:00.000+07:00

Sorry I haven't been post for a looong time! I was busy with all those last second tests and reaching the due date for sooooo many projects (Funny how I still got time to check out facebook and twitter :P). I have another science test tomorrow, everyone who took it already said it's super hard! But after all this tests comes the Christmas break and Chinese New Year.

16th Asian Game Open Today!!!

2010-11-12T19:00:00.001+07:00

Mascots Of The Game

New Page - 10 Minute Writes

2010-11-09T14:43:00.002+07:00

i'm so sorry if you saw this post empty, there is something wrong with posting that sometimes after a long time of writing and post- nothing. Well anyways, this new tab is where i'll do my hw for english, thanks to the wonderful miss Beltink(i think thats how to spell her name). In the tabs there will be some random stuff, some stories and some opinions.

New Page!

2010-11-07T13:34:00.000+07:00

Hi everyone, I just made a new page called book recommendations, containing all the good books i read.

How to See the Stats of Your Blog?

2010-10-23T09:33:00.000+07:00

Step 1. Press Stats on the bar on top of your page

When you click on Stats you get this page with a graph, this is the overview of how many people read your blog


On top for the posts shows how many people read on of your specific post, Traffic Source shows how they got on to your site, Audience shows where is your reader from

There you have it, how i got all those info about my reader!

The End of the Holiday...

2010-10-23T09:22:00.000+07:00

I can't believe its Saturday already, it felt like madness was just yesterday and monday is just 2 days away! Why is the days going so fast! WHY!!!!

Veiwers Across The World!

2010-10-22T09:29:00.000+07:00

i cant believe it, i actually got people from USA, Egypt, Australia, Japan and more reading my blog! I felt stupid that i just found out now but its so cool!

An New Way To Blog

2010-10-22T08:36:00.002+07:00

Picture uploaded using the good old internet

Hey guys, recently i had been playing with my computer and i discovered another way to blog on blogger! For me right now is using a gadget from the Windows Vista Side Bar called Blogger Buddy, the bad thing is you cant get a image on from your computer, only from the internet.

Secrets to the cover of Mockingjay

2010-10-19T18:15:00.000+07:00

Im not sure if this is true but you can see the the first to books - The Hunger Games and Catching Fire's cove is a bird in a circle as in being forced and trapped. But in the Mockingjay cover the bird flies and the circle around it breaks, as in a rebellion or being free.

Review

2010-10-19T10:22:00.000+07:00

It has been a long time since i read my own posts, then i realized how many posts i got - 123 posts (not counting this one)!!! I remembered the first day of blogger, the not knowing what to do, and messing everything up days. And now with all this posts, i truly believe that i became a blogger(get it, Blogger as in the blog name and also a person blogging?).