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Sonya in Pizza – Photoshop experimentation
I am learning Photshop – and I used Pizza Text Action to create my name baked as Pizza; complete with spices, texture, sauce, crust!!!!!
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Excellent Mt. Baldy Sledding – Part II
We went to Mt. Baldy last week and it was fun, but it was way too cold. This weekend, another little friend of ours wanted to go, so we decided to try it again!
The weather was warm and it hasn’t snowed in a week or two, so we weren’t sure if there will actually be snow enough to sled or not; but thankfully, Mt. Baldy is not that too far from us.
So we started out at about 1.00 pm and got there at about 2.00; we didn’t see any snow till we were almost at the Mt. Baldy town. The place was busy but not very crowded.
Our plan was to park at the Mt. Baldy ski lift, but the snow was a little farther from there and we had a lot of things to carry, so we decided to drive back to the town to get parking pass also called adventure pass. There were at lest 4 or 5 parking police people so don’t take a chance of not getting a parking pass. My dad says that we will just buy a couple of those passes and carry with us in the car.
We got out of the car; it was kind of windy and we had several sleds with us and for a moment it seemed that the wind will convert the sled in to a parasail – ok, just kidding. I held on to it pretty tight.
The snow was … ice; it was a bit hard; which is not too bad for sledding. I grabbed the one sled that has brakes for myself and here you can see me going up the hill.
Me and my friend D. getting ready to slide down:
Navigating around:
What a perfect snowball:
My friends A. and D.; this was A’s first snow and he was a trooper and he had a great time. We were trying to make a snowman for him.
And after a cold day out – you need some hot chocolate:
Cheers!
Read More2008 Sonyaworld : Year in Review
January:
Went to the Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena; played with Pokemon cards to learn the strategy.
Here is a picture of me and my Twinn doll; we are dressed alike too.
February:
Pokemon Pre-release party in Santa Barbara; went to saraswati pooja (goddess of knowledge).
Visited Getty museum:
March:
Celebrated holi festival (the festival of color).
April:
Played way too much of Pokemon Cards.
May:
Went to Northern California and passed through Gilroy, the world capital of… garlic! Planted some herbs along with roses – they never got anywhere.
June:
Went to several theme parks, learned to play poker, played with some lego stuff, including lego star wars.
July:
My birthday month; went to Las Vegas to celebrate my birthday. Had a great dinner at the Paris restaurant and just had a tons of fun in Vegas. Got a lots of gifts. Read a lot too – finished a couple of Harry Potter books.
Stood in line for IPhone 3G; downloaded a lots of apps and played a lots of games.
August:
Started taking classes at Comedy club. Took some of my friends there.
Went to raging waters park and that was absolutely great.
September: Went camping at Point Magoo
Here I am, flying a kite.
Back to school and then to India. Just spent a couple of weeks at the class and then went to India.
October:
Most of October was in India – traveled a lot; went to Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Gujarat and had a blast.
Started playing with Bakugan!
November:
Dressed up as an Idea girl for Halloween; attended comedy classes.
Put on some glasses and mimicked Sarah Palin – I am a maverick and you betcha..
December:
Participated in Invention convention and got a second prize. Did Spelling bee and got to the next level.
Started a game night at home – Thursdays we all play cards and lately we have been playing teen patti (an Indian version of Poker).
Started to learn to touch-type and got my own set up for a computer with 2GB of memory; I am going to start making my own video games!
All and all, an excellent year!
Happy new year everybody!
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Smiling sky over Los Angeles
I have been watching the moon, Venus and Jupiter, so bright and clear in the sky.
If you look at it closely, it makes a happy face.
But this picture is even more beautiful. Click on it to see it in full glory. You can see downtown Los Angeles, Santa Monica, ships in the ocean! And then in the sky you see the bright Venus and slightly less bright Jupiter.
Here is a good smile picture
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Decorating the Christmas Tree
Had a very hectic thanksgiving weekend; had several parties and loads of fun. And one of the things that we did was to put up our charismas tree.
I have an ornament from each my Christmas celebrations. Some ornaments that I made in different grades, and some that we put together to remind ourselves of all the fun things that I did that year.
For year 2008, my ornament has the Pokemon theme. It has a pin that I won by attending the Statewide Pokemon championship.
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I like Gmail theme Ninja the best!
Gmail now has a new feature called Themes. I like the Ninja one the best (partly shown above). You get there by getting on “settings” and then you click “themes”. There should be a list of possible themes.
I have the Ninja! Hi… Yaaa… There are some other ones; including Summer ocean, cherry blossom, shiny and Marina and tons more!
Summer ocean is a beach like theme, cherry blossom is mellow colored theme, shiny is a mirrored theme and marina is an ocean colors of blue without the pictograms.
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