.: Greetings, fellow Gerbils! :.

Greetings, fellow gerbils!
Hey there, it's Gerry here! As you may have gathered, I am a gerbil and this is a blog about my life on this planet. I appear to humans through a machine called the GerbilMaestro, which is an exact copy of my master. I control this machine and most of the time pretend to be my master in front of other humans.
I hope you enjoy reading my blog. Thanks a gerbillion!

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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Pancake Day!

I hope everyone's having a good Pancake Day!
Comment below your favourite pancake topping ;p

Sunday, 10 February 2013

Weekly News Round-Up #18: 03/02/2013

Well, hello again! Not a lot has gone on this week, but here goes...

Monday morning was pretty intense as ANT and Master kicked off the week with some intense college applying. You have no idea how difficult it was for them to just press the 'send application' button, so they eventually did a little 3-2-1 countdown and pressed the button at the same time. Gosh, it was pretty nerve-wracking!

Later on at lunchtime, ArwaChihuahua managed to spot an ANT look-a-like. Even though she was taller and had a different hair colour, all of us, apart from ANT, agreed that there was a certain resemblance there. Meanwhile, ANT got rather annoyed at this, especially when they decided to go over and talk to 'Ginger ANT' as they like to call her ;p

Another discovery that ANT made that lunchtime was that her yogurt drink tasted like liquid 'Love Hearts' (y'know, those sweets?) How delightful :)

On Tuesday, Wicks, ANT and Master talked a little about games and some of the glitches. During the conversation, Nintendogs was mentioned, to which ANT complained how when you go on walks you always try to go for the presents, but half of the time it turns out to be someone criticising your dog. It was also brought up that you can never win in the obedience competition. Master found it strange that the dogs always seemed to be eating the side of the bowl instead of the stuff inside it. Other glitches in games that were brought up were such as in Sims when they try to walk but there's an obstacle in the way, so they end up walking but still stay on the same spot. Other times, for example on FIFA, the player's body happens to be in the ground but the feet are on top of the ground, so it just ends up looking peculiar.

In their weekly PE lesson, they had the principal observing. It was truly surprising to ANT and Master that when the principal went over to talk to their group, the one to answer was the guy who wrote 'sehr quick' in his German assessment (you remember him?) He turned out to be a seemingly confident speaker.

Later on in the lesson, they were in the fitness suite. There was one incident where ANT was on the rowing machine and decided to let the chain pull her back (as if she were Spiderman), however it didn't end all too well as the seat got stuck at the end and she had to pull it out. Afterwards, ANT looked around, hoping that no one saw her, but there's always one person who saw it all happen and in this case it was Master. Lol ;p

A rather large discussion topic this week has been the argument about whether you'd choose a wand over a gun to protect yourself. Many argued that they would need a lot of training in order to use a wand effectively, however it could potentially be a much more useful weapon than a gun. The group was pretty torn between both options, whilst ANT decided to play devil's advocate.

This week we have seen the return of the Assembly Music Act Record! We're all very excited that it is back and cannot wait to see if the previous record can be beaten.

History lessons this week have been filled with more discussions about the similarities between Harry Potter and Jesus. However the main topic has been the Book Club, which was set up on Friday. They did a lot of planning, so I think it's safe to say that there will be a lot going on in the coming weeks! Exciting :)

On Friday, ShoeLobber, ANT and Master did a German presentation on their supposed holiday together to the Amazonian rainforests on Llama with David Attenborough, Blitzen the Reindeer, Tarzan and Pocahontas. (No, this didn't really happen, but could you imagine if it did...it would be awesome!)

Until next week, have a good one :)

Happy Year of the Snake!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :)

Monday, 4 February 2013

MouseMouseMonday #22: Films 2013 - Part 2

So here we have part 2! Let's get stuck into it :)

Going from where we left off, we have 'Ender's Game'
Currently not a lot has been given away, but I hear that the book is rather good, so whilst I wait, I shall read :)
'Ender's Game' is set to land in cinemas on 25th October.

Next...another Marvel movie...'Thor 2: The Dark World'!
Another film that Wicks and Master are both looking forward to, however there's not a lot to show for this film as of yet. More waiting...
'Thor 2: The Dark World' will be released on 8th November.
Why not check out the IMDb page?

Not long after the release of Thor, we have the second Hunger Games installment...'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'
It has been reported that they have just wrapped up shooting, but they've also released the official film poster, take a look:
Catching-Fire-Teaser-Poster
Image from http://mockingjay.net/2013/01/14/lionsgate-releases-catching-fire-teaser-poster/
'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' will be released 22nd November.

And last but not least, we have 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'!
Firstly, whatta novel! This is simply a must-see for all Ringers, especially after the first one.
'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' is set for release on 13th December.

Well, that all seems like a long way away, but I'm pretty sure time will fly by.
Until next time, have a good week ;)

Sunday, 3 February 2013

First review ever on the Book Club!

Hey guys!

Head over now to the Book Club to check out the first ever review by ConscienceSarah on the book, 'Touch Not the Cat'!
Here's the link: http://weirdandwonderfulbookclub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/review-consciencesarah-on-touch-not-cat.html

Weekly News Round-Up #17: 27/01/2013

Well, this week has indeed been a good ol' mix of snow, Avengers and humour.

Monday was a rather interesting day. We had a lot of snow over the weekend and everyone was anticipating a snow day, however that didn't happen. We were one of the only schools open on that day, with a total attendence of 27%. Yeah, it's a bit low.
However, the snow had quite an effect on everyone. Somehow, it enhanced our personalities, for example, Wadz was super hyper whilst ANT was 10 times more blunt than usual (yeah, it's possible). On top of that, everyone hated everyone else. What a lovely day.

But Monday wasn't all hate, I was informed of one of the best inventions ever, the Messy Mat. ANT told me how her grandad used to (and still does, to this day) put a mat under her chair when she was eating so if she dropped something it would be easier to clean. Now that is just brilliant :)

Tuesday saw the disappearance of ANT and Wicks and Master having a good ol' chat about villains and other stuff.
In PE, Wicks and Master were in the fitness suite, so they had plenty of time to go through a range of topics, such as Marvel's Avengers, who their favourite Avenger is (check out the poll), How It Should Have Ended, Divergent, The Mortal Instruments and shoddy villains.
After much discussion, they came to the conclusion that many villains are actually not very good at being villains. Wicks was particularly critical about Voldemort, who she stated was a 'borderline poor' villain because he clearly doesn't think through his plans very well, however excells in the field of minnion manipulation.
They came to the conclusion that there should be some sort of villain school, where villains are trained in the art of being evil because, to be fair, shoddy villains do let down a good story. On this topic, they imagined what it would be like to hold a parent's evening, but instead have the villains' respective heroes with them. Along with heroes' evening, they thought about villains school reports. They would perhaps be assessed on the following skills: power, cunning, evil scheming, minnion manipulation and public speaking. Sounds like fun, eh?

On Tuesday lunchtime, Wicks stated a hypothesis: who you see as a hero depends on who you are. Discuss.

Onto other matters, we had a little discussion about Autocorrect and text talk. We talked about how Autocorrect sometimes saves the wrong spelling of a word and then corrects the correct spelling. Or other times when you manage to spell a word so wrong it's as if the phone's saying to you, 'Even I don't have any suggestions, you idiot.'

The main song of the week that Ruby and Wicks have been obssessed with is the Olympic Mascot Song. I must say, it has to be the happiest song I've ever heard :)

Thursday was Wicks' birthday! It was simple, but I'm pretty sure everyone had a pretty awesome time. However, only 1 out of the 4 baloons that ArwaChihuahua gave Wicks survived the day ;p

If anyone's wondering about ANT, no, she was ill for most of the week. But I think she's now better, yay!

On Saturday, Wicks had her birthday gathering, which ANT, ArwaChihuahua, Wadz, the Beckster and Master gladly attended. They had a wonderful time watching The Avengers and The Raven, with Wadz remarking at every scene, and eating a very meaty pizza.
At the beginning, they had a rather lengthy debate on which pizza to order, as they just couldn't decide which pizza was more meaty.
Then they watched The Avengers, where ANT was confused for a good portion of it, they discussed who the best Avenger is and Wadz couldn't get over the fact that, in the movie, they only had 3 members of the NYPD out on the scene, later joined by 2 firemen (sorry for ruining it for anyone who hasn't seen it). Also, ANT marvelled (you like the reference?) at the fact that the Hulk understood the word 'smash'.
Later, they watched The Raven. Now, it has to be said that that film has the word 'grisly' written all over it (literally and metaphorically). [If you haven't seen this film and don't want me to ruin it for you, skip to the next word highlighted in bold to avoid potential spoliers.] Even though it is meant to be a thriller, no one could take it seriously because of the stuff Wadz was saying. It turned out that everyone heard the word 'Baltimore' as 'Voldemort', and they just called all the characters, apart from Poe, Emily and the guy with vampire teeth, Griswald.

Well, that was one hell of a week, right? Can't wait till the next one!

Until next week, have a good one :)

Friday, 1 February 2013

2 words. Truly incredible.

I dunno if you guys have seen this, but this guy's skills are truly remarkable. Kelvin Okafor's drawings are so life-like that they have been mistaken for photographs a lot of the time. Don't believe me? Watch this:


Isn't that crazy?! Check out some of his other drawings on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kokaforart/
Or take a look at his blog: http://kelvinokaforart.blogspot.co.uk/

Brand new...!

Hey guys!

I am so excited to announce that I have just set up a new Book Club in the form of a blog! The idea for this new blog came from ConscienceSarah and all this week we have been planning for this. It will include reviews and discussions on our recent reads and I can't wait for us to get it off the ground! I shall alert you when the first review comes out as it should be some time next week, but for now you can check out the layout and the introductory post here: http://weirdandwonderfulbookclub.blogspot.co.uk/

Monday, 28 January 2013

MouseMouseMonday #21: Films 2013 - Part 1

Hello!

So, I've got 8 highy-anticipated movies to talk about, but it'll be difficult to fit them all in one post. We'll look at 4 today and then have the other 4 next Monday! How does that sound? Let's get started :)

First up, 'The Host'!
Based on Stephenie Meyer's best-seller, this adaptation looks pretty promising. Take a look at the trailer:
'The Host' is set to be released in cinemas on 29th March.
Website: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/thehost_movie.html

Secondly...'Iron Man 3'
After two incredibly successful 'Iron Man' films, hopefully they're onto another winner. Here's the trailer:
All rather exciting, eh? 'Iron Man 3' will be released on 26th April.
Website: http://marvel.com/ironman3

Next, we have 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters'
Well, that's a rather long title, but still, after the first movie, I can't wait to see this one. So far not a lot has been given away as it's still quite a way from being released, so we've just gotta be patient...
'Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters' will be released on 16th August (gosh, that sounds like a long time).

And finally for today, 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'!
So, Wicks just lent me the book, and I must say it is pretty good so far. I know many are eagerly awaiting this movie (especially Wicks), so whilst we wait, let's roll the trailer:
'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' is set to be released on 23rd August (a week after Percy Jackson!)
Website: http://www.themortalinstrumentsmovie.com/

Well, that's it for today, but tune in next week for part 2, featuring Ender's Game, Thor, The Hunger Games and The Hobbit! See you then :)

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Weekly News Round-Up #16: 20/01/2013

So, what's been going on this week, I hear you ask...

Now before we start, I thought I'd mention that I have been making very good use of the Blog Book (y'know, the one that Wicks got me for Xmas. It's like a log book, but for the blog). I must admit that it is most handy ;p

Well, this week we have had quite a bit of snow, starting from Monday, it had a bit of a rest during the middle of the week but then it started snowing again on Friday. In fact, it is snowing as I write this :) But still, we have not had a snow day yet. However, that doesn't mean it stopped people from getting up to various antics. The other morning before school, Master stopped KrazyK (ANT's bro) and his gang throwing snowballs at the side of the school building. Why, I hear you ask, I have not the foggiest of ideas (not the best weather reference, but hey).

On Tuesday, Wicks, ArwaChihuahua and Master discussed what Wicks would like for her birthday. They came to the conclusion that anything from a patisserie would be fine.

Also, Wicks decided to share with us ArwaChihuahua's personal statement (it happened that they were writing eachother's statements). It must be said that it was most revelatory as it portrayed ArwaChihuahua as secretive on most topics apart from her sexuality.

After PE on that day, ANT accompanied Master to her locker. It chanced on that day that someone had put chewing gum on Master's lock. Naturally, Master was disgusted at the fact that someone had done this, which resulted in her having to wipe it off with a tissue. Meanwhile, ANT found this incident most amusing, stating that it had officially "made her life" (Of course, along with the whole 'yacht' thing).

Wednesday saw the principal giving a very important assembly on a most serious topic: fire. I think it holds a message for all of us that although fire can be a provider of warmth and light, it can also be extremely dangerous.

Onto lighter subjects, ANT and Wadz had a little verbal battle at lunchtime, where ANT asked Wadz if she had read this blog recently. This lead to a full-on argument, which brought up ANT's little 'Evanescence' incident (Instead of saying it as you would normally, ANT pronounced it as [e-va-seen]).

On Thursday, we talked a bit about exam questions. Sometimes they just seem so ridiculous, other times they try to be multi-cutural when naming their characters.

The best thing that happened all week was when we had an hour-long assembly led by this awesome guy who was teaching us how to revise. Always remember, have a revision buddy and learn things in 3's or 5's.

Until next week, have a good one :)