Sonya World

The new set has the much awaited Empoleon card.

Not sure if I like this graphic as much as the Lefeon or Phione pokemon

Dual Splash attack looks interesting; it does 30 damage to two of the opponent’s pokemon.

I think the holo of this card would be cool. The problem is that the Cresselia Lv x holo card is VERy expensive - $30-$50 per card!

I lost a tooth other day; I put it under my pillow and in the morning I found a 50 cent coin. I didn’t know that there was a 50 cents coin! Any way, to buy one Cresselia Lv. X card, I will have to lose 60 teeth - I don’t even have that many teeth to lose anymore!

Spring break is here and it’s almost finished! :-(

A couple of days ago, my mom and dad took me and a couple of my friends to the Getty Museum.

It was a really fun visit; we saw some really really old manuscripts - from 1470’s; we saw some really really old statue of Venus and even older crown with gold leaves.

Playing on a Getty sculpture

Getty is such a great place to visit; wonderful museum, nice garden, and absolutely breathtaking views.

Other things that I did over the spring break - watched Nancy Drew movie, played Nancy Drew game on my DS, played Hanah Montana game on the Will with my friend and did Star academic testing for Texas 4th grade ( I am in third grade but Texas 3rd grade was a little too simple). And fun spring break was had by all!

There is an author Garrison Keillor, who talks about a fictional town called Lake Wobegon. And in Lake Wobegon, he says, “all the men are good looking, all the women are strong and all the children are above average”.

I was above average in the lake Wobegonean way. I went to play the Regional Pokemon Tournament in Pasadena last week. Regional tournaments are held between the state tournament and the national tournament; so all the champions from the state show up there. The one that I went to was in Pasadena and had the champions from southern California, Nevada and Arizona.

I went there with my wailord and Mismagius deck; the deck I affectionately called Raging Tsunami. It is a very nice deck; I practiced with it for a week or two and I was able to defeat or hold off the most powerful deck in the Pokemon - GG deck, which includes gardevoir and Gallade. Lots of my cards were shiny holo and I also had 4 DRE cards, which are very expensive.

I won’t go into the strategy of choosing these cards, except to say that Wailord is a good defensive pokemon and Mismagius is a good offensive one, so it was balanced.

Here I am shuffling the cards - see how fast I am shuffling, you can’t even see the cards.

Here I am playing with James, the state’s best player in the junior division.

Of course, I lost the game with him; he had a Pokemon card Absol, which kept disrupting my strategy.

Here I am with the prize that I got for winning the sixth game of the tournament.

That’s my friend Kai next to me. And yes, I did get that hat at the tournament.

So my standing at the game was 3-3 (won three games, lost three games), but overall, out of 43 kids, I was 21st - that’s above average, or in top 50% - ok, just a tad above average - not bad at the regional level.

My dad took me there and we had a lot of fun!

This was a pretty simple and fun mystery! I finished it in just a few hours.

The only thing that took me a bit to figure out was how to diffuse the bombs. I got the first three but 4th and 5th bombs seemed trickey.

What I did was to focus on one of the points, it is labeled B, and try to press the B button exactly at the time when the spark comes to the point labeled B. You can also try pressing other buttons and catch the sparks at the same time but I found it easier to just do the B button. I bet you could do it for X or any other button.

Keep doing it and watch your timing; try to neutralize the spark, and soon you will see the spark-meter the top left corner start going down.

Keep up your pace and you can bring the spark meter down to zero.

So nothing new, no special tricks or cheats, just a timing issue.

Good luck.

I have seen a couple of pokemon from Majestic Dawn set and the art work is really nice. This one is so cute!

This is Lefeaon - Hi Lefeaon! Lets play together!

Pokemon swimming away.

This is Phione from the Majestic Dawn set.

Looks like a little doll just came to life to play with us! It weighs only 6.8 lbs, that’s is just like a new born baby.