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What A Week

Friday, June 26, 2009 at 2:36 pm | In Life | Leave a Comment
Tags: death, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Life, Micheal Jackson died

You must have heard the news, it is everywhere and it slowed down Google last night. Micheal Jackson has died. We weren’t fans of his music because we used to live in India and we used to be so young. But than why are we writing this post? Because even living in Punjab, India at 8 or 9 years old, when we didn’t much care about what music we liked…we knew of Micheal Jackson. We knew the moonwalk. He was an icon, not just in American but all over the world.

We just feel like, it cannot go unmentioned, something this big. The death of Micheal Jackson.

But, he is not the only icon we lost this week. There’s Farrah Fawcett, who died the same day as MJ just a few hours earlier, eternally etched in our memories of that famous poster and that hair.

And Ed McMahon. Heeeeee’re Johnny would not have been the same without him.

What an impact these people have made to so many people’s lives, but in time their memories will fade. But once in a while, when listening, watching something we’ll remember them and what they left behind. I guess that’s life…and that’s death.

I love Photoshop!

Monday, June 1, 2009 at 12:57 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: Photoshop, watercolor

I just thought I’d share something that I’d done on photoshop few weeks ago. I was bored and thought why not just brush-up my photoshop skills, so this is what I did…

-Jasmine

Before

After

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*Picture courtesy – Baljinder Sahdra

Red Ma”no”go

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 6:22 pm | In Food | 1 Comment
Tags: Frozen Yogurt, Pinkberry vs. Red Mango, Valley Fair

You all know our love of Pinkberry. Before Pinkberry, we weren’t big fans of frozen yogurt, considering it tasted like ice cream…and why have the “wannabe” when you could just have the original thing!

Once we’re obsessed…well you remember cupcakes. While the last place we went to couldn’t beat Pinkberry, we thought we should give “Red Mango” a try, since we heard good things about it. We went to the one in Valley Fair after we finished prom dress shopping for Arjoo (Sona’s cousin).

Arjoo: Orignal with chocolate chips

The atmosphere at Red Mango wasn’t appealing. While they kept it very simple, like Pinkberry…it sort of reminded us of a club because the lights were dim…not something you desire when eating frozen yogurt, which is such a summery treat…think bright, sunny…Pinkberry.

Sona: Original/Pomegranate with strawberries

Now to the more important aspect, the taste. It was very close to Pinkberry, but not completely there. But, this is just us. We love the tarty-yogurt taste, but Red Mango was a little too sweet for us. It still had the tartness…so many of you out there might actually prefer “Red Mango” if you think Pinkberry is too tart. It was a lot more creamy than Pinkberry…a negative for us because it reminds us of ice-cream.

They also keep the fruit too cold. So we had to suffer through frozen strawberries and blackberries.

Jasmine: Original/Pomegranate with blackberries

A plus-side to Red Mango…you have the option of mixing two-flavors…as you can see in the pictures! Overall we would give it 3.5 out of 5.

Pizza

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 2:33 am | In Food, Fun | Leave a Comment
Tags: Fun with mom, job market, mixed veggie pizza, Pizza, spinach and mushroom

This is long overdue, but it’s been hard to post when there isn’t much going on in our lives right now…it’s horrible looking for a job in this market. These are pictures of pizza I made with my mom…it looks better than it tasted! Something happened to the crust, possibly because we left the dough too long…but needless to say it was a lot of fun!

Mixed Veggie

Spinach and Mushroom

Sona

Random, hilarious story by teenage boy

Monday, April 20, 2009 at 4:45 pm | In Humor | 2 Comments
Tags: Aiswariya Rai, Fiction, hilarious, Juhi Chawla, Non-fiction, Om Shanti Om, random, Shah Rukh Khan, story, teenage boy

Reading Arjoo’s fiction or non-fiction story, TJ (Sona’s other cousin) was inspired to write a “story” of his own. This is the e-mail we received:

“I have a fiction or non-fiction.

I was walking with my friend to his soccer practice, when suddenly, a gay guy grabbed my butt. Instantly, I punched him in the face and started beating the crap out of him.

This reaction stopped, only when I noticed, the man I was beating the crap out of was none other than Shah Rukh Khan. I helped him up and after I apologized, we danced to the song Om Shanti Om with Aishwariya Rai and Juhi Chawla.

Fiction or Non-Fiction?”

- TJ

Chips Ahoy!

Monday, April 13, 2009 at 12:20 am | In Food | 2 Comments
Tags: Carl's Jr., Chips ahoy, cookies, Diana, Food, homeless, hungry

Me and my friend Diana were hungry for lunch one day after school, so we decided to go to Carls Jr. because it’s the closest place near our school. So we went inside and I saw that they were selling cookies, I was so excited!

I love cookies so I got a cookie and then we went outside. I was going to eat my cookie…than all of the sudden some random man took my cookie. I had no idea where he came from and who he was. My friend Diana was pissed that he took my cookie because he just grabbed it out of my hand.

She started yelling at him, at what he was doing. He just walked away from us.

We realized soon after, that he was a homeless man.

As we were walking away, realizing what happened and how random it was, we looked back because we saw something falling in front of us. There were cookies! The homeless man, with a couple of his friends, were yelling “chips ahoy” as they were throwing cookies at us!

Now what do you say to that? Fiction or non-fiction?

-Arjoo*
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*The author is Sona’s cousin.