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Museum Visit to LACMA

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

One of the days on the long weekend, we drove up to Los Angeles to visit the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) – the largest art museum on the West coast. First stop was Border Grill for lunch.  Annika tried something new and had some corn tamales and actually liked them.  We went there [...]

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Annika’s Got Talent

Posted in Entertainment, tagged on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Annika and her friends performed at the school talent show to the Single Ladies. Here they are hamming it up.

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Halloween Fun

Posted in Entertainment, Events, tagged , on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The kids dressed up at school for Halloween before going out for the night. They have gone from being princesses, angels and cartoon characters to ghoulish vampires, ghosts and devils! Here is Annika with her friends. The best part was the haunted house in Serrano. Here they are counting and sorting their loot at the [...]

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Disneyland Birthday

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last weekend, we took advantage of the Disneyland birthday offer and went back to Disneyland.  Here is a rare picture of Vikram and Annika in true harmony!  This is why they call it the happiest place on earth.   Here is Nikhil, Vikram and Anjali on the Matterhorn ride.

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Birthday Boys

Posted in Entertainment, Kids, tagged , , , on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We took the boys to Laser Quest in Fullerton for their birthday party.  Here are some pictures from the afternoon. Each got to invite four friends.  They had home made cake and In-N-Out for lunch. Anjali also took them to Disneyland’s California Adventure which was offering a “free” day on your birthday promotion deal.  

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Universal Last Day

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Before our Universal Studios passes expired, I took the kids for one last day to visit the park. Here are the boys being arrested by the local cop.  Annika enjoyed her moment in the sun. The new Simpsons ride got a thumbs down from the kids – too short for the long wait.   Instead, [...]

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Halloween Party

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , on November 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

We had a Halloween block party at our house yesterday. All of the kids dressed up as did many of the parents. Here is Annika as Princess Rosalina from Super Mario Brothers Galaxy.  Don’t ask why she picked that, but she was very specific about what she wanted to be this year!  Anjali sticthed her [...]

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Happy Diwali

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We had a Diwali get together with Arun, Jo and their girls this week along with all of the requisite fireworks. It got quite smoky and loud with the firecrackers, smoke bomb and whistling fireworks.

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Disneyland Fun

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We went to Disneyland on Saturday.  We got there when the park opened and literally walked onto most of the rides.  We completed all the major roller coasters by lunch time (Space Mountain, Matterhorn, Indiana Jones, Thunder Mountain. In the afternoon, we went to California Adventure.  This was our first time there.  The rides were [...]

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Dell Died, Reborn as an Apple

Posted in Commentary, Entertainment, tagged , , , on September 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Our 5 year old Dell computer died last week and took along all of the pictures on my hard drive.  I am planning on sending it in to a data recovery service that will charge $600 to try to see if they can recover any of the pictures. Anyway, after being upset with Dell, I [...]

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80′s Techno Pop with Yaz and the Furs

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , , , , on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On Thursday night, Anjali and I went to a concert at the Pacific Amphitheater. The opening band was the Psychedelic Furs. I remember listening to this group back in the early 80′s. Their claim top fame was “Pretty in Pink” which they saved until the very end. A couple of other songs they played that [...]

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Fireworks on the Fourth

Posted in Entertainment, Friends, tagged , , on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For the 4th of July festivities, we went to Tustin High School. In order to get parking and field level seating, we got there around 6:30.  We had Subway sandwiches for dinner along with crackers, hummus and white peach sangria.  Thanks to Bobby Flay for the sangria recipe! About an hour before the fireworks started, [...]

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All Star Girls

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week Annika and her friends performed in the school talent show. Here they are after getting their makeup and costumes done. Here’s their performance. It is a song by Smash Mouth called All Star. And here are the glamour girls after their fine performance.

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Wine Party with the Real Housewives from Orange County

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , , on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Terry and Kriss came down from Seattle this weekend and hosted a fun evening at the Wine Cellar in Irvine. It is actually a wine storage building that we used for our private party. The Bordeaux was flowing from about 5pm until closing. Following are a couple of pictures from the evening. Here are the [...]

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Bollywood Dance Contest

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , , , on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world, producing the most films with the largest audiences. It makes up to 800 films a year – twice as many as Hollywood and about 14 million Indian people go to the cinema each day! Last Saturday night, we went to see Ayushee perform at the Bollywood [...]

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Globetrotters

Posted in Boy Scouts, Entertainment, tagged , , on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend, we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters at the Honda Center in Anaheim with our cub scout den. Anjali and I had seen them 16(?) years ago in Long Beach and they were up to the same old antics – water in the stands, confetti, and playing with the kids and the fans. [...]

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LA Natural History Museum

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , , on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, Anjali took the kids to the Natural History Museum on their day off. Here are some pictures from the trip. Here is Vikram at the rock exhibit learning about one of the excavation machines. Here they are with their friends Ryan and Brandon. Here are Nikhil, Annika and Brandon in front of the [...]

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Who Cares About the Super Bowl?

Posted in Entertainment, tagged , , , on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We are in the small minority of American families that did not watch the Super Bowl. Instead, we decided to spend the day up in LA. We started off at the Griddle Cafe in Hollywood – this was rated a top 10 breakfast restaurant by City Guide and City Search and we can see why. [...]

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Universal Studios

Posted in Entertainment, tagged on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Anjali and the kids went to Universal Studios this week with Sushi and Nancy and their kids. Here is the whole gang.

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Sony 52XBR4 Update

Posted in Commentary, Entertainment, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I thought I’d provide an update on our Sony 52 XBR4 TV after having it now for a couple of months. First, on the CNBC ticker problem I mentioned: I believe this to be a problem with CNBC and not the TV. Last week, DirecTV added CNBC-HD to their lineup and the ticker now scrolls [...]

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