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Learning to play poker

The summer has started! Yesterday was the last day of the school!

One of the things we had talked about learning this summer was “how to play poker”. I have a lots of dominos from the domino derby games, so we used them to play. Three of us, my mom, my dad and me!

I thought it would be hard, but it wasn’t. I had to look up the chart to find out which combination is better than the other, but the game was pretty easy.

In a short time, we were playing variations of the game; like the lowest one wins; the month of your birth is a joker, to same cards are joker; and it was a lot of fun.

At one point, my mom and I got in to an intense game! I bet a lot of my dominos but I lost! My mom had better cards.

My dad told me about the the dogs playing poker paintings. Apparently there are 16 of them. Very funny.

I wonder if my dogs in my Nintendo DS can play poker?

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One Wall Handball Explained:

I made this video inside of an antique filled living room – and NO DAMAGE! Nothing broke, nothing was knocked over!

That’s because I am pretty good at the Handball game. I can control the ball pretty well.

One Wall Handball Basics:

* The outdoor handball game is often played against a single wall, and is called one-wall handball.

* A point is scored when the ball hits the ground twice before an opponent can return it to the back wall. If the player returns the ball, but it hits the back wall before hitting the ground, it is also a point.

* Games are usually played to 21 points.

* It is always good to wear -gloves and eye protectors because a ball can travel very fast.

* When a handball player makes a shot that rebounds so low that his or her opponent has no chance of returning it, it’s called a kill shot or dead ball.

* “Rainbow” which a person could run underneath the ball without getting hit.

* We also have something called “buttercup” but it was the same as rainbow but except your hand goes under instead.

All the rules can be found here.

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Dusknoir LV.X Pokemon – Raichu level X Pokemon – Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky

Love this Dusknoir Level X (LV X) that will come out soon!

These pokemon cards are from Pokemon -Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky – of course, when it comes to US, the name will be changed.

Level Up and HP 140.

Poke-Power: Ectoplasm
This Power can be used once, when this Pokemon is your Active Pokemon and its HP is reduced to 0 by an opponent’s attack. Although this Pokemon is Knocked Out, this 1 card is not discarded, but is put into play as a Stadium card (any other Stadium in play is discarded).

If this card is in play as a Stadium card, it has the following effect: “In between turns place 1 damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokemon,” and when it would be discarded this pokemon card is returned to your hand instead.

 

Raichu LV.X – Lightning – HP110
Level Up

Poke-Body: Chain Lightning
On the turn that this Pokemon Levels Up, if it uses Voltage Shoot, afterwards it can attack 1 additional time (and only once). This Poke-Body stops working if this Pokemon is affected by a Special Condition.

I also heard that there is going to be new move in Pokemon card game. For trainer cards, you could always use two of the same kind and in the same turn and the effect would be double. But in some of the newer cards, if you use one trainer card there is some specific effect, but if you use two of the same kind, the effect could be 8 times as much!

There is a Pokemon card called PokeHealer; if you have one of them, it removes one damage counter, but if you have two copies of the same card, it will remove 8 damage counters.

Here is the Pokehealer Pokemon trainer card.

I am playing a lot of Pokemon DS and Wii game, so I don’t get a chance to play the card games but it is an interesting game and I want to keep track of the rules and enjoy the artwork.

Thank you Pokebeach for card scans.

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Nancy Drew : The deadly secret of Olde world park – how to diffuse bombs

This was a pretty simple and fun mystery! I finished it in just a few hours.

The only thing that took me a bit to figure out was how to diffuse the bombs. I got the first three but 4th and 5th bombs seemed trickey.

What I did was to focus on one of the points, it is labeled B, and try to press the B button exactly at the time when the spark comes to the point labeled B. You can also try pressing other buttons and catch the sparks at the same time but I found it easier to just do the B button. I bet you could do it for X or any other button.

Keep doing it and watch your timing; try to neutralize the spark, and soon you will see the spark-meter the top left corner start going down.

Keep up your pace and you can bring the spark meter down to zero.

So nothing new, no special tricks or cheats, just a timing issue.

Good luck.

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Playing Holi in Los Angeles

Yesterday was Holi, a very colorful festival celebrating spring and I was there, all ready, and I had an absolute blast.

Basically it is a day when you get to play with colors and throw colored powder or colored water on each other.

Here are a few of my pictures.

Getting ready:

All loaded up with an evil look:

Waiting for the prey:

Got her:

Hand to hand combat:

Getting my dad:

A blast was had by all!

There is an interesting story about the significance of Holi and how the festival got its name. I have heard that story may be about 1000 times. Apparently, when I was little, my dad would tell me this story every day. Here is a synopsis of the story. There was a demon named Hirnakashyap and he prayed to God Brahma and Brahma offered him one wish. Hirnakashyap said he wanted to “live for ever”. Brahma replied that he can’t grant him that wish, but Hirnakashyap can choose the way he wanted to die. So Hirnakashayp came up with a brilliant idea. He wished:

I don’t want to die by a man or an animal
I don’t want to die by a fish or a fowl
I don’t want to die by a weapon or a poison
I don’t want to die inside or outside
I don’t want to die in the sky or on the ground

He figured he had everything covered.

[Of course, when my dad told me this story, we would add a new thing everyday; like
I don't want to die wearing shoes and I don't want to die bare-feet]

With this promise from Brahma, Hirnakashyap became very powerful.

Thanks to my cousin Devina for getting me the super soaker.

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Football player with dainty bindi

OK, when was the last time you saw a football player with a bindi on?

If I was a real football player, guess what position would I play in? Fore head! -Got it?

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