Janry’s books, toys, and assorted items of F-U-N, fun.

Hong-Kong is like 14 hours on the plane from the airport in London.

It’s hot, I remember that. And it’s tiny - that’s what my Dad told me. I remember I had a lollipop, and I remember that... because lollipops are tasty.

I know one thing I remember, I remember there was a little playground very close to my Maa Maa (Grandma) and Je Je (Granddad)’s house. It had monkey bars with a ladder up, and a slide, and a round slide, and a tunnel. It was fun and I went trick or treating from there with my Dad.

Seeing family members is fun.

It is f-u-n.

F-U-N.

It is ‘you can smile, fun’.

Marker pen on paper, plus chaos, by Janry Chan. 2025.

I’m going to draw a scribble because I don’t know what to do. Sometimes I feel sad when I don’t know what to do. So I’m just going to draw a scribble.

There. That’s my brain. I have meetings at 2.30pm on Tuesdays at school. I don’t know how to say this, but to talk about my feelings and stuff. I’ve done this exercise before so I already know my answers...

I am:

1. Fun

2. Kind

3. Helpful

And 4. A poo poo head.

Janry’s backpack - Pikachu - overflowing with things he has to do

I'm smarter than ever.

But I’m kind of using 1% of my brain.

It’s a myth that people only use 10% of their brain. That’s not true. I’m using 1%. I was using 100% but now I’m using 1%. Because I am too tired.

I talk about my feelings and stuff in my meetings at 2.30pm on Tuesdays at school - and now I have meetings about my Museum. We cycled in here today, and now... now,

I have to sell tickets to my Museum too.

I am sleepy!!!!

Note: we never asked Janry to sell tickets to his museum… it is a free to attend kinda thing.

Solihull’s new zoo, designed by Janry Chan

I went to the pantomime at The Core Library twice with Dad at Christmas.

They said in the pantomime Aladdin, at the Core Library - it said, “Solihull’s going to have a zoo”. And it said a really big zoo.

This is the reason why they said it:

[chuckles]

“...because they’re going to put a really big fence around Birmingham!!!”

[hysterical laughs]

Objects that bring Janry closer to his friends

Making friends is easy, you just go up to someone and say “Do you want to be my friend?” and they either say “yes” or they say “no”. Usually they say “yes”.

In my old school I was bullied and so I moved school after the first year. When I started there I came in pretty shy and I didn’t have any friends. But, after a short while others in my class came up to me in the playground and said “Do you want to be our friend?”.

It got a lot less lonely after that. I like having a big class at school because it means more opportunity for making friends. I’ve lost friends and it feels embarrassing because I don’t like it.

Do you want to be my friend?

Tacos, helicopters, fun

Roblox. It’s fun. There’s a game called helicopter testing and there’s lots of silly helicopters. There’s even a reindeer one and a parachute one and even a taco one.

What you have to do in Roblox... I don’t know. There’s lots of games you can choose to play from. There’s some driving games, some train games, some playing games and some boat games. I’ve got two Roblox friends at the moment to be honest. I usually play Roblox with Sophie and I think I’m inviting her to my birthday party on a canal boat in April. It has to happen on a Sunday but my birthday is actually a Monday.

I can’t really speak to Sophie anymore on the online chat because you now need to be ‘an age’ to use it. Makes sense because you don’t want to talk to strangers.

Sophie’s not a stranger.

Janry’s crabbing kit with all the essentials

I don’t watch TV but I watch YouTube - YouTube channels about fishing.

They catch cool fish and once this morning I watched YouTube and the fisherman caught their fish they always wanted to caught in their lives. I also watched a video tha said poo was a solid, wee was a liquid, and fart was a gas.

I don’t know why I got interested in watching fishing.

Crabbing!!! Yeah, Dad and I went crabbing in Cornwall but didn’t catch anything, so I decided to watch fishing to see what might work. Because they might eat the same thing.

I don’t think I’d want to be a YouTube celebrity, I just want to have fun on my own.

But I’m a celebrity now that I have a museum in Touchwood.

How Janry remembers his family

Families live with you. Family means happiness - happiness and love.

Grandma and Grandad don’t live with me, or near me, they are 14 hours away from

London. But they are still family and they are getting older. I can’t go to visit them anymore.

My Grandma is a nice person because she loves me. She used to work very hard, making boxes - that's what my Dad said.

My Grandad has sharp hair and he looks like a kind old man. He is friendly.

Sometimes I miss my Dad when I’m at school. I don’t know why, I just do.

Because I’m away from him, and I miss him because I’m away from him.

Janry and his dad’s home cooking and baking supplies

I love McDonalds... but Daddy doesn’t, he prefers Burger King.

Daddy’s cooking is tasty. He makes cakes and does a lot of Cantonese or Chinese food at home. He is my friend and he lives with me.

I made friends with someone at school the other day. He came up and gave me a hug because he could see I was sad. I was upset because I was missing my Dad.

I don’t know why.

I just was missing my Dad.

A shrine to Sam

He’s called Sam, because he has a name-tag, saying ‘Sam’ - he was named by his creator. Mum won him from the lucky draw.

I’ve had Sam since I was one years old. So I’ve had him for six years because I’m seven years. I didn’t have him from nought.

He makes me comfortable... and comfy. He’s a little white. We might need to wash him. He has a blue heart and blue trousers.

Sam is not smart, and he is always sleeping.

He’s my teddy.