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E-mail Blog Entry 8/14/09

The co. left yesterday. Only one of us kids could accompany them to the airport, and my brother went while I had Ding over between noon and about 4:30.   I also rented Metroid Prime 3: Corruption yesterday, and it's a pretty good game. I really like Metroid, for those who don't know.   Anyway, Ding's coming over again today at noon. That's about ten minutes, so I'll send this now.  

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Set Review: 8994 Baranus V7

Presentation For casual consumers, this could be the difference between buying a set and choosing another. This section scrutinizes the container and instruction manual you see before anything else.     Covering over 200 square inches of space with its front, the Baranus V7’s was the largest Bionicle box on the shelf at my local Target (Thornatus and Skopio being unavailable at the time). If the box’s size doesn’t grab your attention, then its excellent box art will. Sahmad rides, weapons at

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E-mail Blog Entry 8/11/09

Ugh. Pahrak-Kal is proving to be an incredible pain to take pictures of. I'm trying to increase the quality of my photography, which for me involves creating a plain white background instead of going through the pains of editing one in. Pahrak-Kal's size is making this very difficult; if I try to shoot it from an angle other than head-on, I get a nice shot of it against my kitchen cabinets instead of the white sheet I set up.   Anyway, my goal for today is to get pictures of Pahrak-Kal and star

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E-mail Blog Entry 8/9/09

Not much has happened since my last entry. The co. will be leaving on the twelfth of August, five days from now. I am spending today (Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday), as well as Wednesday, the day before they leave.   In other news, I've finished Pahrak-Kal. At least, that's what I thought until I brought him over to my dad's house today to take pictures with my dad's camera (which is much, much better than the one at my mom's house), when I realized how much of him could be improved. I'm beginni

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E-mail Blog Entry 8/5/09

So, I'm home from E.P.C.O.T. Actually, I got home around 6 p.m. My dad and the co. were mostly uninterested in what I consider to be a great park. Alas.   Actually, this blog entry started an e-mail to remind myself to call Ding about a contact he has that fixes gaming consoles - the eject button on our Wii is broken. I'm not checking it tonight so that I can see it tomorrow and remember to call.   Sending...

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E-mail Blog Entry 8/5/09

Hurrah! It's my day to go to Disney! My dad should be picking me up...well, now - for E.P.C.O.T. E.P.C.O.T. is an acronym for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow and houses the worlds largest geosphere. If you want more information, Google/Bing/Yahoo!/whatever search engine you use it.   My dad's still not here.   ...   Nope.   ...still not here.   Okay, he's still not here. I'm just going to wrap up this entry and send it. Until next time.

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Carakki

E-mail Blog Entry 8/3/09

Ugh. I really, really don't like television. It's great, occasionally, but I don't know how people plant themselves in front of their plasma TV and just stay there until the cows come home. It burns to even watch people do that. Mostly, I'm thinking of the co. and their ability to spend inordinate amounts of time watching television. My dad has two large televisions: One in his bedroom, and the other in his living room. That means that no matter where in the house I go (the apartment only has th

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E-mail Blog Entry 8/1/09

Ah, the first day of August! For myself and most in my area, August heralds the return to school, set this year on August 25. That means I only have 24 days and the rest of today to finish all of my summer reading assignments. I have assignments from two classes: English II Honors and AP World History. For English, I must read A Lesson Before Dying, which I finished earlier today and really don't like very much. After reading the book, I am to take notes and answer questions about the book on 5x

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/31/09

This is the first time I've made a second entry in the same day while using the e-mail blogging system, but I thought that this merited another entry. I just got back to my mom's house and Pahrak-Kal. I just tried transforming him for the first time, and the results were...mixed. On one hand, he transforms! Woo. The first time he has transformed as a cohesive piece. On the other hand, he needs some serious improvements. The three major improvements that need to be made to the transforming proces

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/31/09

Time for another blog update. Yesterday, my grandmother picked me up to look at her computer, which wasn't connecting to the internet. After my brother and I couldn't find anything wrong with it, my grandmother took us to Lucky Buffet, an excellent local Chinese buffet. After a quick stop by a thrift shop, which yielded only a book for my brother, we were dropped off at the University of Tampa, where I was to find information concerning campus tours and explore the campus in an effort to discove

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/29/09

This morning I woke up at ten after seven and went to the bathroom. On the way to the bathroom, I looked in my mom's room.   She was still in there.   My mom is supposed to leave at seven in the morning for a workshop at eight.   Following my waking her up was a short fiasco involving my mom getting ready at top speed and making several phone calls - one to my uncle, from whom she learned that I would not be able to attend the psychology class with him, and the other to my grandmother to conf

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/28/09

So much for 'until tomorrow.' Here's the update:   Sunday (July 26) was mostly uneventful. On Monday (July 27), my mom and dad traded cars so that everyone (me, my dad, my siblings, and the co.) could go to Busch Gardens, a local theme park with roller coasters and animals. Teusday (July 28) contained several events. First, I built a prototype body for Pahrak Kal, which was torn down shortly thereafter because it didn't allow for the unique requirements of the arm. Then, later in the day, we fo

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/25/09

Wow. I've missed a few days. I'll sum it up:   Thursday (July 23): On Thursday, I made an amazing discovery: My county has a public transportation system. It's brand-new. I don't know about anyone reading this, but this is the first effective public transportation in my area, and it's pretty cool. For the small price of a 20-minute walk and $1.75, I can get to the mall, the movie theater and anywhere nearby.I may be able to eliminate the 20-minute walk, but it would mean paying another $1.75 be

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/22/09

Right. Remember that Gelu review I posted this morning? I came on the BZPower this afternoon and found the official Gelu review waiting on the front page.   So, today I went with my relatives to M.O.S.I. We had fun. That's pretty much all for today. Later we're playing tennis (me, my mom, and my siblings).

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Set Review: 8988 Gelu

Presentation For casual consumers, this could be the difference between buying a set and choosing another. This section scrutinizes the container and instruction manual you see before anything else.   Note: Product was opened before being reviewed.   In shape, the Glatorian Legends' canisters are almost identical to the winter Glatorian's, the exception being the lid, which is shaped to suggest an arena (older fans may notice its similarity to the Visorak canister lids). Gelu looks down imp

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E-mail Blog Entry 7/21/09

Realizing that BZP could be offline for a great deal of time, I have decided to begin blogging by sending myself e-mails containing blog entries. These e-mails, once BZPower is back online, will be posted on my blog as entries.   And my, did I pick an excellent time to begin blogging this way. First you must know that my father is originally from India, but has extended family all over the world, including (but not limited to) London, Dubai, and America. Well, yesterday at approximately five o'

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My Mom's Phone Has An Attitude

You probably already know that my mom has the T-Mobile G1. The G1 possesses a voice dialing feature - you can speak a contact's name into the phone's microphone and it will call the contact. I decided to use it the other day to call my friend Ding [an alias chosen by my friend for security purposes]. So I activated the voice dialing feature and said to the phone, "Call Ding Chavez."   Nothing happened.   Thinking it just hadn't registered my words, I repeated myself: "Call Ding Chavez." Again,

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I Made A Banner

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The Movie...

...could have been better, but it also could have been worse. It seemed to focus a bit overmuch on inter-character romantic relationships, but I suppose they needed something to fill the movie with. The fact is, this movie was basically just a transition between years five and seven - between Harry fighting Voldemort indirectly and him really becoming a serious player in the war.   That's my take on it, anyway.

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Harry Potter And The Half - Blood Prince

I'm seeing it today.   In addition, I never mentioned this week's $20 contest. The prize goes to the person that can make the most accurate, detailed map of the island (Anna Maria Island, the beach we're at) without the use of anything but paper, pen/pencil, and our own five senses. And possibly a bike.

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Carakki

Finished...

...building the Jabberwock. I may add some minor bells and whistles after hearing commentary from my family, but it's basically done. Pictures after I return from the beach house; for some reason, nobody brought a good camera.

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Kiina

I'm sitting in a Wal-Mart McDonald's with an unopened Kiina set.   She won't be unbuilt for long.

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