
09 August 2011
Back to School... Meh.

10 July 2011
Super Parking Lot
17 January 2011
Just Desert
So, I was cleaning my room one day, and I found a discovery. A book of my own stories, written when I was in 4th and 5th grade! The book was titled 'Mysterious Writing Book' due to the strange disappearance of the creator of the pictures in the book. Nobody knew who he was or where he went. The person who had received these pictures published them and allowed people to try to come up with stories to these pictures. My class got to write stories for these pictures. Although mine are not that great, they are funnyish. Yes, I know the picture shows a person in the kitchen, but the title is "Just Desert", not "Just Dessert". I hope you enjoy the story!
13 June 2010
Strange Dream
Last night, I had one of the strangest dreams that I have ever had. In my dream, I was in my house with my dad, a lady, a fat, bald man, and a man with a mustache. We were all sitting down, but suddenly we all stood up and went to look out the window. Outside, there stood a giant man with a gas mask and a bright blue suit. This man was at least a hundred feet tall. I went outside and looked at the man closer. After looking at him, I tripped and tried running back inside. The giant then turned towards my house, and I knew he was going to destroy the house, so I ran into our pantry, where I found the fat, bald man eating some food. I told him that we could live in the pantry with food forever, but he said that we couldn't because then we would have to be vegans. I then ran out of the pantry, and told all the other people to get inside the pantry because the giant was ripping apart our house, but as they ran, the giant grabbed my dad and ate him. After the woman and the man with the mustache were inside, I went inside and closed the door behind me to find that the pantry had turned into a multi-story warehouse. The giant started to break into the warehouse-pantry. I was sincerely frightened, so the four remaining people, including me, ran and hi
(The Pictures are completely random)
18 May 2010
A Poem Written

Last week, we read a poem in English Class that personified eggs. We then were given the assignment to personify some non-human or inanimate object and give this object thoughts and feelings. I got a 20/20 on this assignment. Enjoy!
The Life of A Pillow
Like an appliance, the pillow sits,
Waiting to be used,
But like a servant, the pillow hopes
It will not be abused.
On the bed, the pillow lies,
Dreading the nights to come,
For that is when the master comes,
Who thinks the pillow’s dumb.
When down the man lies on the pillow,
The servant gets to work,
Holding the master’s head up high,
Massaging the aches that lurk.
Like an oxen at the plow,
The pillow’s work is hard,
Keeping up a head so large,
Which smells of stale lard,
But when the rooster crows again,
It is a joyful bell,
For the head will rise again,
And the pillow, again, is well.
15 May 2010
East Coast - Day 11, 12, & 13
This part of my travel journal is about our last actual sight-seeing day and our two days on our way home.
Tues. June 6, 2006; 9:45pm (East Coast Time) -
We went to the Crayola factory in Easton today. We made clay figures. My mom made a snake, my dad made an Octopus, Miriam made a yo-yo, and Shannon made two flowers and a plumb which she mixed up and made a ball out of it. I made a lasso, a flat crab, and a snail. Miriam got to stuffed crayons today. [I left a lot out of the whole day. The day was actually very interesting. We saw a model of a canal and we saw how canals worked. I also saw the world's longest blue crayon. I also had my first true understanding of stop-motion animation here. If you want to see some work that came out of this understanding, go to my YouTube channel {www.youtube.com/rabkdoomfish}.]
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; 2:30pm (East Coast Time) -
We are waiting f
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; Time Unknown -
I do not know what time it is. I am on the airplane. I met a man with no legs named George. I got a whole can of ginger ale!
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; Time Unknown -
I saw St. Louis! [Please remember that I was 10 at the time and that my comments might be a little like a ten year-old's comments. We saw St. Louis from the sky. The pilot pointed it out to us.]
Thursday, June 8, 2006; 9:15am (West Coast Time) -
We are back home in El Dorado Hills. It feels so good that we are back home.
11 May 2010
East Coast - Days 9 & 10
Sunday, June 4, 2006; 9:16pm (East Coast Time) -
04 May 2010
East Coast - Day 7 & 8
We went to the Barnes Foundation in Merino today. The most interesting picture I saw was of a lady who looked like a chicken and had some food that looked like a fried chicken leg and two chicken nuggets [When you are 10, you describe something as you see it]. There was also a picture that looked as if it was drawn by a kid. We went to the Merion Botanical Gardens and skipped rocks. On the train ride back, two people got into a fight. I heard some words I didn't want to hear.
Saturday, June 3, 2006; 10:34pm (East Coast Time)
We went to Valley Forge today. It was raining a lot. We ate on the grass next to a parking lot. I will destroy the environment by introducing a foreign species, the apple tree [I left my apple seeds on the
02 May 2010
East Coast - Day 3 & 4
On Monday, May 29, 2006, I was probably supposed to journal, but I didn't, so there is no entry for that day. In brief, we went to the Delaware River and Princeton University that day. That is a very short description, but it works.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006; 3:06pm (East Coast Time)
We had to leave the East Coast Lewis's. We are in Philadelphia now. We went to Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell center, the Independence Visitor Center, the Constitution Center, and the U.S. Mint. We also went to Reading Terminal Market where we
10 April 2010
The Hog, the Frog, the Dog, the Bog, Zog, and the Squirrel!
To go for a jog.
Saw the squirrel,
09 April 2010
The Perfect Teacher

A good teacher must be interesting. Some teachers can be funny to be interesting, but if you’re not, don’t try (It’s not something you can learn). You can also make your subject interesting. Some teachers may say, “How do you make Math or Language Arts interesting?” If you are one of these teachers, try making fun study strategies you can do in class, such as Trivia or Jeopardy. If that’s not your style, you can assign cool projects like making 3-D geometric shapes for math and making a scene from a book in a shoebox. Teachers can also assign kids to read books that are at their reading level, but also books that they will enjoy. This type of work is probably going to make kids more relaxed, instead of making them tense and thinking, “Oh no! Ten hours of slave labor from the textbook!” (This is not a personal comment.) When the kids are less tense, the classroom atmosphere will be less tense, which makes it a better working environment.
A good teacher also helps students who are falling behind in class. A teacher could think, “We will get through the book. We won’t slow down, stop, or review, and I don’t care if my students get Fs.” (This is not a personal comment) A good teacher doesn’t think this; they would help kids and slow down for them. If a teacher does this, the students she helps will respect her, and actually, this is what a teacher should do, because these student’s grades on the Star Test will reflect on how well the teacher taught them. The kids in class will be happier because they know that if the don’t understand something, the teacher will help them keep up with the rest of the students.
12 March 2010
Using Words Weirdly
11 March 2010
The Different Types of Friction
Rabk’s Depressingly Strange Day
The End
16 February 2010
The Author on Vacation

15 February 2010
A President's Day Story
There was once a land known as Gindoris. At one time, Gindoris was a great Empire, ruled by an Emperor, but the differences between many of the people were too great, and the country split into 27 individual city-states. The people within these city states couldn't decide on names, so they name each other after letters in the alphabet. The A-tribe was the most populated city-state, and the Z-tribe was the least populated city-state. The A1 city-state was the only one not named after just a letter. For some reason, the other tribes gave it this name for its people's love of raising cows. The tribes were separated for so long, that all the good things that the Empire had given to the people had disappeared. A radical group of scholars wanted to reunite the tribes so that they might regain the greatness that the Empire had, but because none of the tribes could agree on who would lead them, the scholars proposed the creation of a democracy, run by presidents. All the tribes saw this as fair, so the democracy was begun, with a great president at their head. The president restored the greatness of the tribes and everybody was happy with him. Although the first few presidents were good, the presidents started becoming corrupt, and only candidates from the old A-tribe were getting elected. These A-tribe presidents would always give A_Tribe the best of everything. The other tribes became jealous and war broke out. Eventually, the A-Tribe was kicked out of the democracy, and everybody was happy and the democracy lived on forever. The A-tribe became a small, weak country known as Alabarkit, and the A1-tribe was renamed to the A-tribe. And everybody (except the A-tribe) lived happily ever after.
12 February 2010
A Story I Just Wrote
There was a time when four whales roamed the oceans. Disliked by all the other whales, these whales roamed alone by themselves. One day, they reached the coast of an island. On the coast, they found an otter. The otter had never seen any whales before, so he came close to the whales to get a better look. The whales had no idea what the otter was, so they grabbed it and made a small cage to put it in. When they did this, the otter started crying. The whales asked the otter why he was crying, and the otter replied that he missed his home, so the whales set him free and let him go back to land to go home. The whales started to think. If the otter was so desperate to get home, then he must miss it a lot. The whales had been kicked out of there home, but they didn't miss it at all. The four whales wondered why they didn't miss their home, but the otter did. Then the smartest whale of the four (who wasn't very smart at all) had an idea. The only difference between the homes of the otter and the whales was that one was on land and the other was in the ocean, so the whales concluded that homes on land are much better than homes in the ocean. At once, the whales hopped out of the ocean and made their own home on land, and soon, they had many friends. All their friends were humans who all were wearing flowery shirts and almost all of them had a small, flashing electronic object which they pointed at the whales. With all these friends, the whales decided that they needed hobbies, like their friends. One of their friends was a fisherman, so the whales decided to take up fishing. They would jump in the water, grab random fish, build the fish tanks, and bring the fish back on land. Soon, the whales had the largest aquarium owned by marine mammals. Unfortunately, when the whales went fishing one day, they hopped into the water and went into a school of sardines. The sardines got sucked into the whales' blow holes, and all the whales drown.
THE STOPPING POINT
31 January 2010
Poem, C Momentous
This is the story of Bob the turtle
Who escaped from his tank
And ran off and played the Kazoo
He ran off playing his kazoo
And met a snake named George
George was thin and George was blue
And knew a turtle named Fred
Fred was Red. Fred was Slow
Fred knew how to play Bassoon
George knew how to play a large Trombone
So away they went playing kazoo, bassoon, and a large trombone
On their way, George saw frogs
He ran off to fry them, and cook them, and eat them
So Fred and Bob went on their way playing kazoo and bassoon
Then Fred saw Crickets, jumping with glee
He ran off to catch them and smash them and eat them all up
So Bob went on with his Kazoo, playing it as he went
Then Bob discovered he was alone
So he moped, and he groped, and he cried for so long
Then a beetle heard him and cried right along
Then they cried and they cried ‘til they got back
To Bob’s comfy tank which was such a rack
Then Bob’s owners found him and clapped with much joy
Singing “Bob has come back with a beetle bug boy!”
07 January 2010
The Story of a Sister

When I wrote my older sister's story, I tried to make fun of things that she liked, disliked, and wanted to do later in life. I kknew that this might make her mad, so I added some touches that were both funny and nice comments. I think she liked the story, but would like to revise the story so that I get tied to the cactus forever.
The Story of a Sister
The Story of a Family- Part 3
There was once a girl. This girl had a weird younger brother, a younger sister, a computer programmer as a father, and a mother with a Ph.D. in Horticulture. When this girl was 16, she wanted to learn how to drive, so she took all the tests she needed to take, but always procrastinated in learning how to drive, so throughout her life, she could only use public transportation. When she was 18, she decided to become a cook, so she went to work at a fast food restaurant. After 5 years of working there, she wanted to walk to Nebraska. She did. Unfortunately, her finches started to miss her, so they flew from California to Nebraska. When the girl saw them, she thought that they were trying to attack her, so she started to run away from them. They chased her all the way to Boston. When they got to Boston, the finches caught her and flew her over the Atlantic. When they got to the other side of the Atlantic, they got so tired that they dropped the girl and fell into the ocean themselves. The girl landed on a yacht infested with suicide bombers. The girl then grabbed a sledgehammer and hit all the bombers of the edge of the ship with it. Then a rat in a toy plane landed on the boat. The rat ran below deck and a mm long spider climbed out of it. When the girl saw the spider, she started running in circles and screaming. Then the girl’s younger sister came up from below deck and started laughing at the sister she had. After three hours of laughing, the younger sister jumped overboard. Two hours after the younger sister left, an anvil fell on the spider and the sister stopped screaming and running in circles. The girl drove the boat to Australia, where she crashed on the beach. The girl searched the boat for supplies, but only found 50 sticks of dynamite, so she blew a hole through the Earth and came out in Greenland. She then found the remains of a blown-up plane and put it back together with 3 bottles of super glue. She hopped into it and tried to fly back to her home in California, but crashed in the middle of the Mojave Desert. She found her weird brother there next to a cactus and a jeep. The girl quickly tied him to the cactus and drove off in the car (This was her first time driving.). When she got to her home, she found her mother with two potatoes and a microscope. Apparently, her mother had discovered a way to keep potatoes from going bad. They decided to have a party, so the girl went down to the store, where she found her dad, but he no idea who she was, so when she got close, he ran off. She didn’t try to follow him. Instead, she just walked off and met one of her high school friends. He had become the leadership teacher at their old high school. He proposed to her, but when he did, she slapped him and walked off. She then found a playground with a swing set and swung on the swing for the rest of her life, and she was content.
Other parts of The Story of a Family will be posted later on.
Story Written in November, 2009
06 January 2010
The Story of a Father
There was once a man who married a woman with a Ph.D. in horticulture. They had 3 children, two daughters and one weird son. After he had his kids, he spent all his time making a travel itinerary program. After years of working on it, he finally finished, but when he tried testing it out, the program glitched and blew up every plane on the face of the planet. He spent two years in prison for this crime. While in prison, he wrote Pride and Prejudice 2. When he got out of prison, he went and took a toy airplane and his youngest daughter’s rat and let the rat fly away in the plane. He then disowned the family duck and sent it off to the Philippines. He then decided to take a vacation from life with his weird son, so they went to Belize. They had a great time, but when they were catching a train back home, the man forgot his son. When he was home, the man read the news to find that his eldest daughter had blown a hole through the Earth, so he left his house and bought his wife two potatoes and a microscope. His wife immediately started doing tests on the potatoes. The man soon got bored with his wife doing tests, so he went for a walk. After wandering for a while, he found his younger daughter and she sucked out all of his memories and programming knowledge. She then ran off. He wandered some more, bewildered, until he got to the grocery store, where he met his eldest daughter, but he didn’t remember her, so he ran off. Afraid that she would follow him, the man ran all the way to Alaska. In Alaska, he found a small village where he settled down in and started a new life as a fisherman. After a couple of years, his son found him in the village. No longer weird, the son talked to his father, reminding his father about his whole life and on what he had missed while in Alaska. Then the son brought him back to their old home, where the man’s wife came out to greet him. The man remembered everything upon seeing his wife and the two of them lived to a nice old age and loved each other always.
The other parts of The Story of A Family will be shown later on.
This story written in September 2009.