Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Finders Keeper


In this story Harry Chen is the character. He was a thief. He wasn’t a person. He was a very greedy person & selfish . At University of Singapore. He was a archeology. His job was to find old antique and put in the museum at university. One day head of department send him to find old grave on island. He could not find anything except old pot. As he was returning from that grave he knocked of the pot and broke it. When he bend down to pick up the pieces he found small thin pipe, the length of his tiny finger. He put small pipe in his pocket. When he returned professor was asking him what did you bring. He lied to him and said I don’t have anything. Professor was disappointed because Harry Chen couldn’t find anything. Actually Harry Chen lied and put that clay pipe in his pocket. He was sitting at the coffee shop and looked at the clay whistle and it was written BE STILL on it. He thought let me blow it and he blew it and everything was still. Nothing was moving. People were frozen like statues. He blew the whistle again and once the normal returned. He likes to buy from antic shop but cant buy from his salary. His favorite shop is selling expensive things. He used to hate fat tourist who buy but don’t have value or beauty. He always think that wasn’t fair. He took out the whistle and blew in that shop. He took his favorite piece from and shop and a small jade dragon. He felt existed that he had ever felt in his life. He could walk any shop and take whatever he wants. He felt like a god and powerful. He could use the whistle to get himself anything he wanted. Nobody knows his secret. Sadly, he couldn’t see future. So he cannot play horses , buy a lottery ticket and find out numbers. One day he took off from work. He kept one bag ready to put his shopping. He decided to have a coffee before starting. While he was having his coffee he was looking at fat and rich tourists who were putting more films into their cameras. Harry finished his coffee now time to whistle about to blew there was a brilliant, blinding light that shot through his eyes. He dropped the whistle in his confusion. Tourist was taking picture of his wife using the flash from his camera. But he had dropped the whistle. He looked around and felt some thing under his shoes. He looked down. The whistle lay in pieces. He felt shooting at the tourist. But his time had stopped. He felt afraid, robbed. He felt that it wasn’t fair for him. The name of the book is “The Fruitcake Special” and the title of the story is Finders Keepers characters of the name is Harry Chen.

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