Screeching Falcon

Elder Scrolls V Skyrim

2011-11-29T14:45:00.003+02:00

In Skyrim you start by travelling on a wagon because you were captured by the Imperial Legion. On the wagon with you is Ulfric Stormcloak (the leader of the rebellion against the Imperials), a horse thief who was caught in the crossfire when the stormcloaks were captured (you were also caught in the crossfire, apparently), and also on the wagon is a stormcloak soldier named Ralof. The wagon you are on with these three other men is heading toward a village called Helgen.

When you arrive in Helgen you are immediately taken off the wagon and have to wait in a queue while an Imperial soldier calls out a list of names (containing the names of the three men who were on the wagon with you). When he is done calling out their names he asks who you are, this is the point when character customization comes into play. After that you move over to where the executioner is waiting for you and your now two buddies because the horse thief tried to run away and got hit with an arrow.

A man from another wagon steps up to the block to go first and then the executioner does his job. Then it is your turn, you lie down, look up at the executioner almost saying please don’t do it, then a dragon lands on the tower behind him which obviously knocks him down.

The stormcloak soldier helps you to your feet and tells you to follow him, you should do as he says or you are going to die my friend. You follow him up the stairs of a tower that he led you into, just at that moment the dragon smashes its head through the wall. You stop and wait for the dragon to go away, and then the stormcloaks soldier tells you to jump through the hole and onto a balcony further down. He tells you he is going to jump too and then doesn’t and takes some other way down. You keep going until you find an Imperial soldier; you follow him for a while until you run into your stormcloak friend again. Then you are free to choose who you want to go with (the Imperial soldier or the stormcloak soldier). I like to go with the Imperial soldier first but it is entirely up to you who you want to go with.

Once you have chosen who to go with you go through a series of tunnels until you pop out the other side near the town of Riverwood. If you chose to go with the Imperial he will tell you to go to his uncle who lives in Riverwood. If you chose to go with the stormcloak he would tell you to go to his aunt in Riverwod.

After speaking to either of the soilders family members you are free to do anything you want in the game. You may even join the stormcloak or Imperial army by going to the cities of Windhelm or Solitude. In various cities there are guilds and collages, I’ll name a few:
• The thieves guild in Riften
• The companions in Whiterun which are a fighters guild
• The collage of mages in Winterhold
• The bards collage in Solitude

So guys good luck if you get this game and I guarantee you will have fun with it, and remember I only have told you about the beginning.

Copyright Zooty 2011

How to set up your rod and catch a fish

2011-10-04T12:00:00.001+02:00

First you need to set up your rod if you have not done this yet.

• You must flip the piece of wire on the reel to the other side and take the end of the line through the “eyes” on the rod all the way to the end then flip the wire back.
• You must then put a sinker on the line.
• Take from your fishing kit what is called a swivel, it looks like a metal bead beaded onto a wire with loops at the end, tie the end of your line with a sinker on it to one side of your swivel.
• Now take another piece of line and tie it to the other side of the swivel, this line should be about 90cm long.
• Get a hook from your fishing kit and tie the end of the line to the loop at the end of your hook.

Now you must get bait or a lure.

Bait for river: sand prawns, mud prawns or water prawns
Lures: lures are made from plastic, rubber or metal. They are usually brightly coloured or are shiny.
• To put bait on your hook pierce the needle through it and tie cotton around.
• To put a rubber lure on your hook just stick it through.
• To put a plastic lure on there are usually places to tie the line on and the lure already has hooks on.

How to cast

To cast you must:
• Flip the wire on the reel over while at the same time hold the line right in front of the reel with your other hand.
• Hold the rod pointing the opposite direction you want to cast. (you should still be holding the line)
• Pull the rod over your head and when it reaches a 45 degree angle let go of the line. This should fling the line out into the river/ocean.

To catch the fish

When you feel a tug on the line wait for one second then lift the rod to an 80 degree angle. Then bring the rod back to a 45 degree angle and reel your fish in!

Copyright Isaiah Schultz 2011

Border Stock Cars in East London

2010-12-20T10:52:00.004+02:00

We arrived at the East London stock car racing track. We could hear the engines booming while we walked up the stairs. When the track was in site three or four stock cars zoomed past ( it was the V8s ). They are really fast.

The East London stock car track is an oval one in which cars go around in usually under twenty seconds.

Out of all the cars there, the one I think looked the best was a dark blue Ford Escort. Even though it lost every time I still think it looked the best.

Here is a photo of it:

What I want to be after school

2010-07-13T23:30:00.000+02:00

I would and might choose from a lot of things:

An inventor

I would invent the world’s greatest things. And even the whole universe will use it through my telepathic form of teleportation, or I would fly there in my huge space drone filled with cheese for the journey.

An air mechanic

I could build or fix anything that can fly and invent new better versions of them and they would have bigger fuel tanks so they could fly for longer.

A car builder

I would invent a whole new race of cars. Better, faster, stronger and look better - these are just a few things my race of cars will have.

A movie maker

I would invent a cool new way of watching movies that would be better than 3D.

A gadget maker

I would invent awesome new gadgets that do the same things, but better. I would even make gadgets that do new things.

Even though these all fall under invent, who knows what I will be.

© copyright Zooty 2010

The Assassin

2010-07-13T23:15:00.004+02:00

Once in a distant time there was an assassin who was hired to kill lots of different people for money, which he used for new weapons, food, and the things he needed to stay alive.

He was walking in the marketplace when he heard someone call his name; he went around a corner and found the man who had called. The man gave him a piece of paper containing a name, someone he had to kill.

This is what the paper said:

I need you to take out a man called Abdul Coren.
He will be very well guarded so take your time planning the attack.
You will find him in the city of Cradd.
Be swift my friend.

He then rushed to Cradd on his horse, arriving in 20 minutes.

When he got there he gained information from listening to people speak and then he set off towards his target. He got there very fast and walked up behind the man and silently stabbed him in the back. Nobody even noticed until the man fell over, but by then the assassin had left, running on the rooftops, and then out the city. Not even the guards had seen him because he had planned his attack so well.

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(fiction - no real names of real people or real places used; based on imagination; any similarities between names in the story and real names is purely coincidental) - a bit of help from Mom with that disclaimer!

© copyright Zooty 2010

Recorder

2010-07-13T23:09:00.001+02:00

My brother and I both have descant recorders that were made in Indonesia.

Sometimes recorder playing can be fun, boring, irritating or even ignoring.

On my recorder there are nine holes, eight on the front and one on the back.

When you play the recorder you have to blow and say “tu” for high notes and “du” for low notes.

I know a lot of notes and here are some of them:

B
B flat
A
D
C
C sharp
G
F
F sharp
E

We have recorder lessons at our school and we have to practice at home. We play recorder to a crowd at Eisteddfod, school band days, for Mom, and in school assembly.

Sometimes I like recorder and sometimes I absolutely hate it. At the moment I am kind of in the middle.

I have a lot of songs to play here are some of them:

Goddesses
American Patrol
The Saints
Zulu Lullaby
Carmela
RondoMonkey’s dance

© copyright Zooty 2010

My Brother - poem

2010-07-13T23:05:00.001+02:00

My brother is not an ordinary brother
He is taller than any other
He has light blond hair
And he could have a bear
But he has a lion in him
Ready to pounce within

He used to walk on his toes
And he has freckles all over his nose
He has blue eyes
But he does not like ties
He likes green and blue
And enjoys sour roo

© copyright Zooty 2010

If I won a million rand

2010-07-13T22:58:00.002+02:00

If I won a million rand I would buy a lot of things:

A lot of cheese
A bunch of sweets
An awesome car
A small bit of something here and there

I would give whatever was left over to charity.

I would eat some of the cheese each day like a savage cheese monster.
I would keep the bunch of sweets for when I need a treat.
I would use the awesomely fast car to get where I need to go.

The cheese would be the best in the world from Italy.
The sweets would be my obvious favourites.
The car would be from the best manufacturing car company in the world.
The small bit of something would be used for joy in life.
The money for charity will go to the charity that needs it.

When I am a millionaire I will rule the land of my house and be brought whatever I want whenever I want.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Being 11 does not mean...

2010-07-13T22:27:00.002+02:00

Being 11 does not mean you can’t eat cheese, go to other countries or even have a blog, because I do two thirds of this stuff. The one I don’t do is go to other countries. I live in the awesomely cool country of South Africa.

I wish I could go to Italy to eat their famous cheese, or Australia to see the kangaroos or even Egypt to see giant pyramids.

I would also like to go to a huge stadium and watch people on motorbikes doing freestyle.

I would like to go all over the world seeing things and eating cheese. That would be kind of cool.

I would like to go and see all the famous cars like:
Ferrari
Lamborghini
Lotus
All the cool Nissans
Of course the Audi R8

Now wouldn’t you want to go all over the world, eat cheese, see awesome things and enjoy how awesome it would be?

© copyright Zooty 2010

My brother

2010-07-03T22:04:00.001+02:00

My brother is always wanting to play on the computer.

My brother usually plays:
Pure
The Godfather
The lord of the rings battle for middle earth 2
Need for speed prostreet
Transformers revenge of the fallen
Prince of Persia two thrones
H.A.W.X
Call of Jaurez bound in blood

I like the same games as my brother so I play the same ones as him.

My brother can sometimes be irritating when he does not want to do anything

My brother is way taller than me but we used to be nearly the same size.

I like the same sweets as him like:
Sour roo
Wine gums
Jelly babies

I like the same cooldrink as him too:
Fanta orange
Fanta grape
Fanta pineapple
Sprite
Coke

My brother’s hair is lighter than mine, his skin is lighter than mine, his body is taller then mine too.

My brother likes a lot of things that are different to the things that I like.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Karate

2010-07-03T21:59:00.001+02:00

Karate

I have been going to karate lessons for quite a while now and I am already brown belt.

Here is the belt order including stripes:

White
Pre – yellow 1
Pre – yellow 2
Yellow 1
Yellow 2
Orange 1
Orange 2
Green 1
Green 2
Blue 1
Blue 2
Purple 1
Purple 2
Brown 1
Brown 2
Brown 3
Black

Karate lessons are sometimes fun and sometimes tiring. We do warm ups first, then we start doing the proper moves and katas.

I missed a lot of karate lessons because I was sick for a long time.

I like karate because if someone tries to attack me I will be able to defend myself without getting hurt.

We do karate for 1 hour from 6 pm to 7 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week.
My favourite thing about karate is the kicks. I like them because they are stronger and can reach further than the punches.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Need for Speed Underground 2

2010-07-03T21:52:00.001+02:00

I lately started playing Need for speed underground 2 on the computer and I liked it very much.

I liked it because you have to find the shops and unlock so many different parts.

If you start playing this game, the Nissan 240SX would be a good car to start with.
The 240SX is very fast and when you upgrade it, it can look so cool.

Later on in the game I got a Mazda MX5 then an Audi TT, I kept the Audi TT for a long time because it is a really good car.

I bought a Nissan 350z but eventually decided that I did not want it.

My Audi TT goes really fast and looks awesome - if you want a good car get the Audi TT!

It would be a good idea to paint it pearlescent green, get the scorpion vinyl, and paint the wheels purple/blue. It will look cool if you choose the right colours.

© copyright Zooty 2010

The movie Toy Story 3

2010-07-03T21:44:00.002+02:00

My brother and I got picked up by my aunty and cousins, then we were off to the movies to see Toy Story 3.

When we got there we had to rush to get there in time and we fortunately did.
We got our popcorn and coke and rushed through the door and looked around to find a seat.

The toys wanted to get played with but Andy did not want to play with them.

Andy was going to college in a few days and had to sort out his room.

He had boxes and packets for the attic and more packets for the garbage. Andy also had a box that would go with him to college.

Something happens and off to Sunnyside the toys go. When they are there they meet everybody and think it is a nice place but later they realize that it is not so nice after all.

Watch the movie to find out more about Toy Story 3.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Freelance

2010-07-03T21:38:00.004+02:00

I drew this drawing quite a while ago and I can’t really remember drawing it because I have drawn so many after I drew it.

I drew this drawing from the book Freelance. It is a very good book and I enjoyed it very much.

I like drawing faces and for this drawing I liked drawing the hair.

Sometimes the hair of a drawing can be complicated because of the different strands going in different directions.

His hair on his face looks very threatening and he looks like he is going to chop your head off with a sword, but that’s just my opinion.

Killers

2010-06-29T12:35:00.002+02:00

I saw a movie lately called Killers, and it was not that bad.

It was about a super spy who is awesome at his job and ends up quitting.
He gets married and three years later he has a price on his head of twenty million.
All his friends are out to get him and the twenty million. He has people at his workplace
after him, from his birthday party, and next door.

His wife receives a huge handgun from him and she keeps it in a small schoolbag.
Can you imagine walking down the street after watching this movie you see someone carrying a small schoolbag and looks at you, and stares. I would turn and run.

Right near the end of the movie it shows his son sleeping in his room and the wife’s parents are there to baby sit because the main characters of the movie (the spy and his wife) are going somewhere and as the husband, spy, leaves his son’s room he turns the laser lights on to keep out anyone who tries to enter.

© copyright Zooty 2010

One of my many anime drawings

2010-06-29T12:28:00.003+02:00

I drew this drawing quite a while ago and now my mom has it stuck on her wall in her office where all my drawings are kept.

This drawing is one of my mom’s favourites because of the hair.
My mom likes my drawings when I:
Draw the hair nice
Draw dark eyes
When I draw girls (which I hardly ever do)

I draw a lot of drawings and I don’t always draw anime, I also draw birds, cars, trees and normal people. I like drawing anime the best of all.

I will draw a lot more drawings and write more blog posts about them soon!

Beach trip to Igoda

2010-06-24T20:36:00.006+02:00

These are two photos I took when we were just leaving Igoda beach.

We took a sand board and tried to go down the dunes there and it did not work. Here are pictures of me falling off the sand board.
We walked all over the beach, up the sand dunes, across the desert of sand and then back again.

We had our dog Gilly with us who was having so much fun and running everywhere.
Gilly is a jack russell who runs anywhere and everywhere.

Late afternoon at Igoda

Over the rocks at Igoda beach

© copyright Zooty 2010

Marmaduke

2010-06-24T12:16:00.001+02:00

Marmaduke is a big teenaged great dane who at first lives in a small house that does not look so nice and does not suit him. He also can’t fit through the dog door.

Marmaduke starts his adventure when he and his family (owners) move to a new house. This house is awesome.

He meets new friends and enemies when he goes to the dog park. Did I mention that his last best friend was a Mexican cat! He found three new friends and three new enemies.

Description of Marmaduke:

Oversized ears
Long legs
Brown fur
Lots of slobber
Sometimes wears sunglasses
Is a great dane

Description of my favourite dog in the movie, Chupadogra:

Huge
Is a boxer
Looks hardcore
Every dog is scared of him

My favourite part in the Marmaduke movie is right at the end when all the dogs are dancing and one little dog comes over the hill and says “Eh, it’s what I like about you”. Then Chupadogra comes over the hill and says the same and of course all the dogs are scared at first then he says the rest and they feel fine.

© copyright Zooty 2010

The Blowing Curtain

2010-06-21T18:45:00.001+02:00

Back in the 1400’s there was a competition where people were in a huge stadium and could be seen by millions of people. They had to fight dragons!

It was my turn because a big one crushed the last person.

I ran around the corner, feeling well, only to come rushing back with a busted rib!
All I had was a sword and a knife - for taking on a dragon! While I was hiding I was thinking up a plan, and then suddenly I thought that this battle was going to be epic!

I ran around the corner dodging fire, and ducking under claws being swung at me, then I reached it.

I jumped onto the dragon’s leg then stabbed it with my sword.

I climbed up its arm and onto its back running for its eyes. I reached them and stabbed them both.

Then a huge claw came at me! Ducking, I rolled forward and stabbed upward hitting it right on the palm.

Then I slid down its back, while cutting, which obviously killed it. After all, I was the best dragon slayer!

My prize was a curtain that kept blowing forever. Anytime I needed anything, I just needed to reach behind the curtain and it would magically be there. If the curtain stopped blowing, it would not work anymore.

© copyright Zooty 2010

My dog Swift

2010-06-18T18:51:00.002+02:00

My dog Swift is a large dog that sleeps under the couch!

I love my dog Swift because she can do a lot of things:
Stand on her back legs
Shake hands with you (hand with paw)
Roll on to her back and wait for you to rub her stomach
Listen to you when you say “up” or “down”.

I will describe her for you:
She has a weird bottom jaw that sticks out too far forward
She has completely round eyes
Her tongue is blue and pink
Her ears are floppy
She has black fur
Her tail is very bushy

Although she looks really weird, I like Swift.

© copyright Zooty 2010

My Section 8 Drawing

2010-06-17T18:29:00.002+02:00

My drawing took me more than half an hour but I did not care.

I love drawing and this is one of my good drawings. I like this drawing because it features two things that I like: drawing and computer games.

I like drawing because it gives me some quiet time away from my brother.

Where I did the cross-hatching is where I did not know where to put anything so I just put that there. I think it would be awesome, like cheese, to have a suit like one of the ones on Section 8.

image and text © copyright Zooty 2010

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

2010-06-17T13:30:00.000+02:00

Me, my brother and my dad all went to watch the Prince of Persia Sands of Time movie and that movie was awesome!

The movie starts out when the prince was a little boy with all the skill of escaping soldiers you could imagine. The king is watching the orphan boy and adopts him into the royal family.

A couple of years later the prince invades a city and his skills of combat have only improved. He has all the skills from the Prince of Persia computer game: running along walls, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and all the acrobatic moves too.

He finds a dagger that can make its bearer go back in time without anyone knowing (except the bearer of the dagger.) His uncle wants this dagger to go back in time and not save his brother, who is the king, so then the uncle would become king. Of course, if that happened, the prince would not be adopted into the royal family.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Chocolate Kid

2010-06-13T16:33:00.002+02:00

I, Zooty, am Chocolate Kid. I have that name because I love chocolate!

Chocolate is awesome, so is cheese, because it has so many different types.
Aero mint: my favourite because the bubbles are tasty!
Bar one: this is very nice, I feel sorry for you if you have not had it.
Tempo: nice to have every once in a while.
Cheese: not chocolate but is still nice!

For a slab of chocolate I would either go for Mint Magic or Top Deck.

I like chocolate because it also calms me down, mainly my stomach, but then the fun part begins. I get so hyped up that I could:

Swim around in circles, in the dirt!

Run around a block of cheese 100 times before getting tired!

Want to play on the computer all night, but of course mom won’t let me!

Do all of the above things!!

Chocolate!!!!!!!! and cheese is nice too! Oh and did I mention: Chocolate!!!!!!!!

© copyright Zooty

South Africa vs Mexico

2010-06-13T11:41:00.001+02:00

Feeling bored, I turn on the TV in my room to find that a soccer match is on which is the first match of the World Cup (Friday 11 June 2010).

In the first half of the match nobody scores a goal but Mexico is right there by our goal posts throughout the whole 45 min.

In the second half South Africa scores the first goal putting them in the lead. Feeling happy that we are winning, I tell my mom and go to my gran’s room to tell them but they were also watching.

Mexico scores a few minutes later making it a tie. So far I thought that this would not be the final score because they usually do penalty shootouts at the end of a match if the score is the same.

At the end of the match I was hoping to see South Africa’s player, Tshabalala, score another goal in the penalty shootouts. I found out a few minutes later that there was no penalty shootout and the match was a draw.

© copyright Zooty

Need for Speed ProStreet

2010-06-11T12:11:00.002+02:00

In Need for Speed ProStreet you have to race on road legal racing unlike most of the other Need for Speeds.

In ProStreet Need for Speed there are loads of cool cars that you can upgrade to the max. I have got a red/black Chevrolet Cobalt SS. I have pushed the pedal down far enough and reached 166 mph.

In ProStreet there are a few kings for different kinds of races but Ryo is the best and the fastest. To take him down you have to get far in the game and have a really good car.

I have a few other cars for other types of races, here they are: I have another Cobalt SS for drag racing but I am getting a new drag racing car soon, I have a GTO for all my drifting and that car can drift with power! I have a Nissan Silvia for all my speed challenge racing, and I have two Backup cars which are a 350z and BMW, and both work like a charm.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Stranded 2

2010-06-10T12:38:00.003+02:00

Stranded 2 is a pretty old computer game with not much graphics but is still a very fun game.

In the Stranded 2 computer game you can either do the campaign or do a random island. In the campaign it goes according to the story and you will eventually get rescued.

I like random island because you do not start feeling sea sick. You have to build a shelter or a tent so you can sleep somewhere without being bitten by anything on the ground. You need to make a hammer before you can build anything.

You need to keep eating and drinking from time to time or you will eventually start dying. You can take a piece of bark and start using it to dig in the dirt to find slime or insect parts. Eventually you could make a shovel and start digging for earthworms.

You could even go to the map editor to make your own map and whatever you want wherever you want.

© copyright Zooty 2010

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen

2010-06-10T12:26:00.003+02:00

I like the Transformers computer game because it has my favourite Autobot: Breakaway, and my favourite Decapticon: Sideways.

You start off in the training grounds if you are being autobots or decepticons.
Then after that you can either take the course again or move on to the next mission.

On the different missions you will notice little blue circles if you are autobots and little red ones if you are decepticons.

Each transformer has a different special ability. Once you transform you can still shoot at enemies and as you transform, do a melee attack.

You have two weapons: your primary weapon and your secondary weapon. Each one is usually a different type of weapon to the other. When you are flying or driving you can use boost. While you are driving, when you boost, you can let go of the transform button but still hold down the spacebar which causes you to jump further than usual.

While you are flying you can transform and hover which can give you an arial view over your enemies.

© copyright Zooty 2010

My favourite computer games

2010-06-08T15:44:00.002+02:00

Pure

Superman seatgrab, scorpion fender kiss, tweak air, flinstone, skyscraper.
These are just a few of the tricks you can pull off in Pure.

Pure is a computer game where you can race ATVs (all terrain vehicle).

You can practice racing in a single event, or you can have the track to yourself in trial mode. Once you have practiced enough, you can take it to the big leagues in world tour.

Need for speed carbon

You start of in a race to get to the bottom of a mountain against a racer named Cross.

Later in the game you can buy new cars. If you are trying to make your car look better, there are a few ways to do it: after market, autosculpt, visuals. You can also boost your speed or handling by using performance. Once you have a good car and won enough races you can face one of the area bosses. The area bosses are: Kenji, Angie and Wolf.

Once you have all these people’s territories, you can start racing in Darias’ turf.
Then you take him and you’ve won the game.

© copyright Zooty 2010

My first post

2010-06-06T15:25:00.002+02:00

Hi, I am Zooty, the one who likes cheese, (yum).

I enjoy:

Computer games
Sweets
Chips
Coke
Drawing
Anime
Art

I do not enjoy:

Exams
Learning

I hope you enjoy my blog and leave lots of comments!