New discovery…..

Today we went into Melbourne and discovered that ther is a new comic book that just open up.

All Stars Comic Books

This is a very cute comic book store, it’s not very big but they did only open in Feb this year. They have wall to wall of comic books and started to bring in vintage toys collectors and comic books to sell and buy.

Since the lunch in Feb, All Stars have had great reviews:

TolToys

Bart Kowalski

Beat

They are located on level 1, 410 Lonsdale street, melbourne.

The interesting thing about this store that on the outside it looks like apartments, but when you go in and go up to level 1 it’s there.

Once you got your comic books, go across the road for a pizza and beer at Niagra Bar, or as one of our friends calls it Viagra Bar. (Good Pizza and Good Price!)

Laft Hander day!

On August 13th, tho it is friday the 13th, was also International Left Hander’s day!

Here are some facts about left handers:

1. Left Hander’s Day was started in August 13 1976 by Left handers International.

2. About 7 percent of the population is left handed.

3. Lefties are also called “southpaws”.

4. In twins, there is a high tendency for one to be left-handed.

5. 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed.

6. 4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed.

7. Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers.

8. George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama are all left handed. Ronald Regan was left handed too.

9. Pablo Picasso, Isaac Newton, Leonardo Di Vinci, and Michelangelo were also left handed.

10. Right handed people tend to use the left side of their brains more. Left handed people tend to use the rights.

11. Left handers tend to adjust quickly to seeing underwater.

12. Right handers tend to chew food on the right side, left handers tend to chew on the left side.

13. Albert Einstein was left handed.

14. Left handed people who have higher I.Q.s tend to have an I.Q. of over 140.

15. In some cultures it is impolite to touch your food with your left hand (because they wipe their asses with it).

thanks to Geekologie for the facts, click here to see them.

And want to learn more about left handers you can read my blog on ‘A Left Hander History of the World’

Book Review: A Left Handed History Of The World.

I am a left hander, proud of it!

And have found it hard growing up being Left Handed, I was always seemed to be an odd ball child, and saw the world differently.

I found this book, last Christmas in Canberra, and thought I should get it. I open my eyes to the world of left handers.

This shows how the world changed with a little help from left handers. It was interesting to read about how lot of the left handers are very slimar to each other.

The book has a list on each person in the book;

Intuitive: is basically thinking out the box. Not thinking in straight line, and thinking more about thier situation.

Empathetic: left handers listen, and pull themselves in other people shoes.

Visual-Spatial Ability: left handed people can use both right and left side of the brain, and have execellent problem-sloving skills

Lateral Thinking: left handers see both sides of the story and weight it up. they look at the good and bad side of things and then decide which way to go.

Hot-Tempered: alot of left hander DO have a temper, it is mostly becuase others don’t see things their way, or thing aren’t going their way. they can be childish tempers to yelling and screaming! (I have seen it in myself at times too!)

Solitary: alot of left handers like to be left alone with thier thoughts and ideas while thier work. some left handers so find it difficult to soical with other people.

Iconclastic: left hander like doing things thier own way.

Self-Taught: alot of left handers are slow learners, and most of them in the book failed school, but they either re-teach themself or they teach themselves in thier own time, they become experts in their chosen field.

Experimental: left handers like the ‘what if…?’ approch. Most dont like following the rules and rather jump in and do it instead of reading the rules.

Fantasist: very creative people, and create their own world’s!

This book was a great read, and made me realize that I am not the only left hander in the world, and I am not the only strange child growing up, and my ideas and creative-ness can change the world one day! World Domination here I come!

Book Review: The Naked Jape!

As you can see, I got a book for my birthday. This book is called ‘The Naked Jape‘ and it is by Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves. My friend Marylou got it for me, becuase she just found out that I am a big Jimmy Carr fan. Yes, I do love him, and have being practising my afternoon tea elegannces, so one day I’ll will have afternoon tea with him! ( it’s on my things to do before I die list!)

We both thought it was book mostly full of jokes to tell your friends, but as I read though the book, it was more than that.
I have always been a fan of stand up comedy and wish that I could do it, but something about performing infront of a people kinda scares me, but in front of a camera I can handle that. This book was more than just jokes, It explain about how jokes work, what made us laugh, when is the best time to tell jokes, and famous comdians who did comedy for the shot value. I really got into the book and leant more about stand up comdey than I ever thought i would by just watching it.

My favorite moments in the book, was the chapter about kids jokes. I remember as a kid I use to like making other kids laugh at times, and reading this chapter brought back some child hood jokes we use to tell each other. But the chapter was more than kids joke, explain why kids love to tell joke and love to hear jokes, it also explain why kids LOVE dirty jokes, and why they repeat them to each other and to the next generation of kids.
Another favorite moment of the book is some of the religulous jokes. This chapter is not about Christan picking on the Jews, it’s more they are picking on themselves, the Jews telling jokes about themselves and Christians telling jokes about themselves. Some of the jokes in this chapter were really funny.
And the last thing about this book, is the jokes never stopped, on each page on the bottom there was a joke. It would of be either a famous joke that everyone has heard and still get a good giggle out of it, or it would be a joke made by a famous comedian, which also got a good giggle out of it.

If you ever think of becoming a comedian, stand up or/and actor, I highly recommend this book to read first before making a decision on becoming a comedian. There is even a chapter about the hard work that does go into comedy, and how every comedian recommends you not to do it unless you want to put in the hard work for it.

NOW, go out and get the book!

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Child Hood Books

Justin and I went to see ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ the other day.
My knowlege of the book, it was about a kid name Max who imagine a place where he could be wild as much as he can. The book doesn’t have much dialoge but it shows lots of interesting pictures and monsters. As I went to movie to see this, I was hoping to see this movie in a kids eyes and wanting to see lots of wild things to happen. I guess its very hard to streach out an 10 page book into an hour and half movie.

There was alot of wild things happen in this movie, but there was also loads of hidden messages in the film, like how to play nice, how things you say and do can hurt people, and soooo on. It look more like serious theatre sports and make it up as we go along in puppet suits kinda movie. Jim Henson would made apeeling to the kids. It wasn’t to the story at all, the monster and costumes were. But in the secnes I wouldnt mind seeing it again, this time bring the tissues, there were alot of sad moments in the movie, and few moments you have to explain to your kids (when they made Max king, watch out there a bit in there which not really for kids eyes, oh and there is a secne where two of the monsters make out!)

After watching, Justin and I started talking about our favorite child hood books we love to read as a kid.

One book, I still have around the house I my most rememberable book, The Beast in the Bathtub. I still love this story.

Its about a boy who doesn’t like baths beacuse there is a beast in the tub. His mother tells him to take a bath, and find out the beast that lives there, is a friendly guy. They get up to some mischif and start getting read for bed. The boy and the beast become best friends and beast now lives under his bed.
I guess that’s why I was never afraid of monsters under my bed, and explain why I love the movie Monster Inc so much.

Justin pick his favorite book from when he was a kid: Mr Archimedes’ Bath

I remember reading this as a kid but I cant remember what happen.
Here is a reviewer said about it:
His bath always overflowed and he was tired of cleaning up the mess so he made an effort to find out why.

He put a little bit of water in as he always did, but this time he measured the depth of it. Again the water rose when they all got in and not one of them took responsibility for it.

When they all got our, Mr Archimedes, measured the water again and was puzzled by the fact that the water level had in fact gone down.

So he ordered the kangaroo to stay out but the water still rose. This went on until he ordered each one of the animals to take it in turns to stay out but each time the same thing happened.

When he went in the bath himself the water rose but when he got out and measured the depth it had stayed the same. So excited by this he jumped in and out to make the water go up and down…………..
“EUREKA, I’ve found it …………….WE make the water go up. There are just too many of us in the bath, that’s all!” shouted Mr Archimedes.

So in other words this is an education book, without the kid realizing it is. Thats right, get into science now while they are still young!

Our conversation keep going on other child hood book I remember, the next one I remember my cousin having this book and my uncle reading it to us each night to bed as kids, The Little Mouse, The Big Ripe Strawberry, and Hungry Bear.

This one is about a little mouse to grows their own strawberry, but the big hunrgy bear wants to eat it. The mouse tries everything to keep it away from the hungry bear and ends up eating it them self. I thought this book was great, becuase the story was read, is was like to you are telling the mouse what to do with the strawberry. The kids would loves this one.
Trying to explain this story to Justin kept making him hungry.

There was also another one that keep coming up in our conversations, was the Grug series.

As a kid I thought Grug was way cooler than Mr Men ( when I was a kid there was only Mr Men no Little Misses)
He is base on the Yowie, or like Big Foot and he life in the bushes ( as in tree bushes, not the other kind!)

The last book or series of books I love is the Dr Suess books:

I was 21 when I was told that am dyslexic. I hate to know that, but explains why all my teacher were telling me I was slow. I decided to over come this and re teach myself how to read again. Its not easy, but I got there in the end, and I read all the time, I have heaps of books now. I use Dr Suess books to re teach myself to read, it look less daggier on the train reading Dr Seuss than reading Spot. And fell I love with the nonsence stories that came out of the books. Even tho they were in ryhme, but they also flow together and couldn’t wait to turn the next page to find what going to happen next. Then after reading Dr Suess I turn to comic books, to learn more adult words and style of writing too. I think I have over come my Dyslexia, but not sure…. now and then I miss spelling mistakes or gramma mistakes but I am still learning.

If anyone has favorite child hood they want to share tell me…….

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!

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