One More Saturday To Go...

Just one more Saturday to go before our weekly UNO sessions are over. I actually dread the last day... I'm really really loving those kiddies.



Boy, how many secrets do we now know about Kyla, Bianca, and Justin...


But hey! The last Saturday of UNO signals the start of the championships... and the Big Event! Yippeeeeeeeee!!!

Thanks for the pics, Joa! :)

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After last Saturday's little origami session (bother bother!), I spent Sunday afternoon with my sister, making even more hand puppets! I've finished Ginny, planning to re-create Harry, thinking of how to make Gred and Forge... and thinking Star Wars... Princess Leia in Episode IV... Hrmmmmm...

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I've only just discovered JK Rowling's Official Website courtesy of the witches and wizards of Hogwarts Philippines who have been exerting Constant Internet Vigilance about anything HP. Visiting the site regularly just might pay off for us fans, because as the author says: "Regular visitors to this site will find information about what’s in book six if they can work out where to look. Patience is the key." Hrmmmm....

JKR's site is really cool, and quite useful for those who have read and reread the books a million times, and are itching to find more Potter material to ponder on. I highly recommend visiting the "Other Stuff" and reading about the scenes she cut from the books. Really really cool. :)

Ms. Rowling is thankfully hard at work writing Book Six. "Book six is well underway, hooray, though I am still at the stage where I have a large and complicated chart propped on the desk in front of me to remind me what happens where, how, to whom and which bits of crucial information need to be slipped into which innocent-looking chapters."

I learned quite a lot about the books from reading the stuff on the site. But it did shock me to learn that Ginny Weasley's full name is Ginevra Molly Weasley (I think she should've been just "Ginny", Ginevra sounds so much like... you guessed it, that local brand of gin. I guess it's fitting her friends call her "Gin". Wahaha.). I was glad to discover though, that Fred and George were born on April Fools'. That sure puts things in perspective. LOL.

However, it is Nearly Headless Nick's "song" which has got me ROTFL.

It was a mistake any wizard could make
Who was tired and caught on the hop
One piffling error, and then, to my terror,
I found myself facing the chop.
Alas for the eve when I met Lady Grieve
A-strolling the park in the dusk!
She was of the belief I could straighten her teeth
Next moment she'd sprouted a tusk.
I cried through the night that I'd soon put her right
But the process of justice was lax;
They'd brought out the block, though they'd mislaid the rock
Where they usually sharpened the axe.
Next morning at dawn, with a face most forlorn,
The priest said to try not to cry,
"You can come just like that, no, you won't need a hat,"
And I knew that my end must be nigh.
The man in the mask who would have the sad task
Of cleaving my head from my neck,
Said "Nick, if you please, will you get to your knees,"
And I turned to a gibbering wreck.
"This may sting a bit" said the cack-handed twit
As he swung the axe up in the air,
But oh the blunt blade! No difference it made,
My head was still definitely there.
The axeman he hacked and he whacked and he thwacked,
"Won't be too long", he assured me,
But quick it was not, and the bone-headed clot
Took forty-five goes 'til he floored me.
And so I was dead, but my faithful old head
It never saw fit to desert me,
It still lingers on, that's the end of my song,
And now, please applaud, or you'll hurt me.

Awwwww.... Poor Nick....

.:chronicled by senator skywalker at 5:41:00 PM:.
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