Alive: May 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Toast rack
Stack bread at Met.
I started following museums on Twitter. Wonder why I didnt start earlier.
This reminds me of Bike stands and a place where the racks form the back of a cycle. Giant toast rack for the giant rabbit statues around.

Top 5 apps for authors
The word for that resembles a human face - pareidolia

Rats in charge

Have you seen the movie Rush Hour? Imagine the setting in Chinatown with two brothers, Fred and Ishbu - rats. Unlike the kid in the movie,its the adult who is MIA and the kids have a mystery to solve. The way Fred lists the clues known to him reminds me of questions from an entrance exam for MBA program where you have to think fast. A frenzy begins. Their journey leads them to the famous Loch Ness and further. They meet a secret clan of badgers. Whenever you enter a foreign territory you have to prove yourself. In ‘Koi and the Kola nuts’ Koi has to prove his mettle to a new tribe by solving three problems but these siblings have five tasks to solve before they can be ordained into the clan.

The integrity of the rat story in the human world is maintained very well without human interference in the story. The chapter breaks are comfortably spaced for children with each not running more than 3 pages. There is never a dull moment in the story.

I havent read the first book in the series but that didn’t see to matter in going on a worldwide tour with the pals with tails.

With a homemade library paste, we rolled the edge of pennants onta thread for Independence and Republic day celebrtions in India.
Bruxed
Bilge water
Fire dogs
There should be a class called Explorers.
Why animal stories?
This afternoon I saw a cartoon on qubo about a cow couple, their horns jutting out of their hats, corn with the husk as a collar, Lucy the cat with unnatural eyes. The above story of rats could have been written with people.

This book lists Loch Ness as one of the places that cab change your child's life.

This cover is hard to picture with a book in hand.

stages of life in garden

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

idli, a white steamed UFO
A puzzle with tiny balls like that in Ball in a maze (we played the one where the balls had to be manoeuvred) puzzle to forms stars in the flag
Perplexus, a 3D version.

heard of this from a kid who likes books on snakes, sports. He is reading harry Potter too. Dragon one is his favourite so far.

Time Turner. She had done a nice sketch of a pony. I pointed to her kids T-shirt with Dr.Hooves on it.

Primary education

Mpuke

Lance of Kanana

The primary education talked of a truck farm in 1920 referring to industrial scale. But now a real Truck farm. over the weekend, I saw a hotdog metal box on wheels being driven on freeway as a tag along. At Hawaii festival they had chickens in rotisserie in what looked like the back of a low truck.