The Dangerous Book for Boys 1& 2 by Gonn Iggulden, one of the best books i ever read. This is basically a guide book about things to know aimed at boys "from eight to eighty." It has around eighty topics, telling you how to build a treehouse, tell direction with a watch and even growing your own crystals and. It also teaches us many famous quotes, stories, battles, and phrases that "every boy should know." As it is published in UK, most of the history described in the story is about the Kings and queens, and wars over there. Some people have criticized it for encouraging its young readers to injure themselves, like doing dangerous stunts, although there is a liability warning below the copyright information, but many have praised it for helping to counter the "PlayStation Culture", the kids that stay at home all day playing video games instead of going out.

This is a guide book and there are no characters in it. This are both author’s debut book series. Both books are written fabulously, all parts are great except for the history part, I guess that world history would be better than just England’s history about kings and queens

Have you seen cars like the one above, that looks horrible even after they have been modified to look nicer? well i suppose that everyone has different view points but they are normally called Ricers to those who dont like them.

Ricer are a type of car, tipically Asian, that has been made to look fast rather than go fast. They would have body kits, big fat exhaust, a spoiler and have an exotic colour. No real modifications have been done on the engine. The only performance mod that is done would be lightening the car, like changing the seats for racing carbon fibre ones, adding a safety harness and an fire extinguisher. The people who own this cars are probably bragging about how fast their car are and how loud they are, but the truth is that it would probably be as good as a car that has no modifications on it. Although it lightened us by removing heavy seats, the added mass of the modifications would make it remain at the same weight. So this sums up what is a racer

Today i have two books to recomend, Spud and Around The World In 80 Days.

In the book, it describes the journal of a boy(John Milton, nicked named 'Spud') living in a private school in South Africa during the 1990s. In school, he met friends and create a gang called the crazy 8, which is the most notorious gang around in their private school. Spud in general dislikes his life, due to the major embarrassment he gets from having slightly deranged parents and a senile grandmother. He is very pessimistic about many aspects of his life, he has a low self-esteem when confronting personal matters, such as his shaky relationship with his girlfriend, Mermaid. Sparerib(his teacher) watches him with much concern and offers him much support. Being surrounded by madness often makes him question his own sanity. Spud aspires to be an actor in the future and has taken part in two major school plays, as well as a humiliating house play. He is certainly popular with girls (as he is the object of affection of several girls, which he considers to be quite odd, as he is not very big or strong. Got into the school through a scholarship. Best known in the school for his lead part in Oliver!. In school he meets a guy named Henry "Gecko" Barker. He is often sick but he is John's smart best friend. He is often sick or injured and sent to the sanitorium. He is described as a thin and extremely pale boy (Spud once described his state as "there have to be healthier looking corpses"). He dies near the end of the first book of malaria, which had a great impact on John. Before his death, he requested for John to sing at his funeral, which he did. He also picked up rugby and cricket as his CCAs. At the end of the year, he goes home and waits to see if he will get another years's scholarship. The book has a sequel and prequel, namely Spud- The madness continues and Spud- Learning to fly. i have yet to read both books.

In Around the world in 80 days, the story starts out in London, where a gentlemen names Phileas Foggs, a member of a Reform club, bets that he could travel around the world in 80 days. Members of the reform club placed a $20000 bet on him and later that evening, together with his new servant Passepartout, embarked on the journey. Their first stop would be to Suez. Recently there was a bank robbery and the robber was described to look like Mr. Fogg, so London police dispatched a detective, Mr Fix to follow Mr. Fogg. Mr. Fix tried many times to catch Mr. Fogg like telling the English ambassador but to no avail as he had no arrest warrant. In India, Mr. Fogg saw a ceremony of sacrificing a lady and decided to save her. They went on to hatch a plan, Passepartout would act as if he was re birthed from the dead and scare the priests. Then they would run away from the Priest with the lady. As India was under British control, Mr Fix ordered Policemen to stop them, find the priest and bring them to a court. There, Mr. Foggs was accused with kidnapping and Passepartout was accused of not respecting Indian religion. Mr Foggs offered bail and paid $2000 pounds in total. Mr Fix was dumbfounded.

At the end of the story, Mr Foggs has given up all hope as he thought he was late for a day. Then the Indian lady, who was greatly grateful, proposed to Mr. Foggs and he agreed, calling Passepartout to find a priest to arrange the marrage. Then Passepartout ran back and said that it was impossible as the next day was Sunday and today was Saturday, the day he was suppose to arrive in London! He hailed a cab and offered $100 if the driver reached the reform club in time. After running over 2 dogs and scrapping 5 carriages, he reached on time and got his $20000 pound wager!

As i read this story, my heart was pumping with excitement and i managed to finish this book within 3 days. This is one of the most engaging book i have ever read.

My favourite character would be Passepartout as he is a very energetic character. He made a series of mistakes on the journey around the world. But at last he proves himself very useful by saving the Indian lady and protecting his master, and at last notifying his master that the bet is still on.

Jules verne is a very good writer, the story he writes are very exciting and he gets to the point very quickly, unlike many longwinded books. Most of his books are about adventure and I think that all his adventure books are great

My favourite character would definitely be Spud(John) as when he entered his schools, he was very weak and scared, afraid of many things. He then learns to stand up for himself and become a real men. He makes a lot of helpful friends such as the seniors and the teachers, which help him through the hectic and crazy first year.

John van de Ruit is an amazing author, he can write the book in extreme detail. They way he writes is extremely humourous and I cannot stop myself from smiling when I read the book. The things in the book are like those we do now, practical jokes and all that kind of stuff. At the end it really touches your heart and you would just feel like reading more. Then author left the end to your imagination but eventually he wrote the second book.

Since it is the holidays, i embarked myself on a project, to make cars look nicer... i used photoshop to achieve some of the cars that i remodeled. This one is a VW santana that is sold in China. at first i thought that it was boxy and took high off the ground, so i changed the roof to a convertible one and lowered the car. this is a photo of it.

some basic information about the santana:

The Santana (B2) has been built by the Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive joint venture since 1985.

Initially launched with a 1.6 litre petrol engine, it was updated with a 1.8 litre petrol in 1987. Both these were equipped with a 4-speed manual, in 1989 the Santana wagon was launched on the market.

The Santana has had a number of updated features added since the original 1985 model. Some updated features the Santana has been include with are Bosch electronic fuel injection system, a 5-speed manual, a third brake light, improved back seats, hydraulic clutch, MP3 and CD compatible radios, ABS brakes with electronic brake distribution.