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Nishi is a 26 year old Indian American who graduated
law school, passed the New York State Bar Exam and practiced
as an attorney in Manhattan. She is a singer/songwriter
and wishes to onder day work for human rights and peace policy.
Nishi is an avid Japanese
anime and manga fan
& is a web designer too.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
01:07 p.m.
Happy New Year's Eve everybody. I'm still sick. 6th day and counting. Sheesh. I was scared i was losing my voice last night. Giving myself a lot of voice rest today. Coughing now with still stuffy nose.
I wanna go get the 'DaVinci' code. It's one of the most informative and amazing books - one thing I found fascinating about it from Ricky who's reading it now is how the early Catholic Church made everything that was 'pagan' out to be evil. For example the elderly people who lived in towns wore long pointed hats to signify their age and wisdom - when the catholic church came to crusade (read kill and convert) everyone, they spread lies about the people in pointed hats - they became known as the witches and wizards (gnomes etc) - devil worshippers. Another thing - the pentagram - which the Church and Hollywood has associated with devil worship for years - is a lie - the pentagram was actually just a symbol of womanhood - something very peaceful, unity-meaning and beautiful. It's astonishing the crimes religion can commit in its own name - I'm proud to be a Christian BUT am so NOT proud of the Catholic Church's early horrible, bloody history. Religion should never be the cause or reason for bloodshed......
I don't think I'll go with my sisters to Connecticut for New Year's. I don't see how I can enjoy myself with them if I'm sick....although how will I enjoy myself if I'm here at home with the folks.....agh.....i'll see.....
Anywayz, HAPPY NEW YEAR'S FOLKS.
- Nishi
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
01:22 a.m.
I didn't wind up going to bed - after talking to Ricky I stayed up reading about Aragorn and Arwen's life in the Lord of the Ring Appendixes and what I learned deepened my love for their love. I won't spoil anyone here but definitely making a shrine for them - I found transcripts of the appendixes so I'll be posting them up. So freaking beautiful their love story....my only wish is that even in and after death they be united and their love live on.
Whenever I watch really moving movies like this - it stays on my mind for hours and days after.....I was just thinking now how short life is.....how we all live for that those bright, shining moments when we are so happy....for those moments when it feels that we've been blessed and that nothing sad or horrible can come within reach of us. And yet life isn't like that....life mixes both the beautiful and the ugly....the hope and the tragedy.....thinking of my grandfather (my mom's dad) who died this fall - how he had lived a life of both good and bad things, blessings and misfortune and then had the saddest misfortune to die suffering from oral cancer (from smoking and tobacco chewing) and it just struck me how ugly it is that life - so beautiful, so precious and love so rare - how all of it is taken away and gone in an instant....a life lived full of laughter, love, good-will...still ends in death...still ends with that sad loss.....death doesn't make sense...it's stupid...why were people born to die? We were botn to live....to LIVE....we shouldn't die....and if the lesson is life is a precious gift, so rare a thing in this vast universe and that it is not granted to us ever again then why do we spend our days, our precious days of our lives, hurting ourselves, each other, living in ways and manners that do no honour to the gift of life given to us.
I don't know about you all - my friends, family and strangers I don't know who read this - but for myself, I know that with this life I want to live to see the beauty and joy of everything possible for me to see....I want to meet many people, I want to see many countries - there are so many beautiful things in this world I've never seen, don't even know of...I want to learn so much more before my own days are through.....I want to live to have my own children...to teach them, to help them learn....I want to live to sing my songs...to share my heart's songs of pain and love with others who could be helped and healed by them, I want to share some of my life helping others to be happier...to live better lives of their own so they too can enjoy the beauty and wonders of life and this world we live in.....
Death is one of the worst things in life - another being the hatred and cruelty of our fellow mankind....when you think of the preciousness of life...it makes you that much sadder when you read about atrocities committed against men and women all over the world....in Arundhati's book 'War Talk' I read about how Roy rec'd a call from a friend in Gujurat (a state in India) and this friend was crying because an angry mob had assaulted her muslim friend (a female) and ripped open her stomach and put burning rags inside it. Only after she died did someone put the writing 'OM' on her forehead. It was a religious-hatred violent act.....so evil....so cruel.....what the f--k? She grew up like any one of us....with parents, friends, she was also a smiling little girl with pig tails....and yet fellow mankind, filled with cruelty and hatred killed her.....life is so precious, so beautiful....why death? why hatred? why such evil?
I'm gonna stop now cause I'm actually crying. I'm waaaay too sensitive for my own good ;) See what watching a movie like Return of the King does to me? ;) Hope I didn't depress ya'll too much...but it's important to think of these things....
- Nishi
Monday, December 29, 2003
11:26 p.m.
I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGSSSSSS! I love Aragorn and Legolas even more :D hehehehe I'm so in love with the Aragorn and Arwen love story - I'm going to actually read the huge long books for the "APPENDIXES" which I heard detail many things not in the actual story such as how Aragorn and Arwen met, their life after marriage, how Aragorn was actually raised by elves. I think I'll make a small Arwen and Aragorn fan-site and add it to the probably million that already exist ;) At the end of the movie I saw the dress Arwen wears that's exactly the same dress of the ARWEN doll I bought from Barbie Collectibles - Aragorn's matching King costume doll was perfect too.
The movie was freakin long and after it, we went to Cosi's which is this lil eatery/cafe place. Sisters and I ordered stuff to eat - the best being this spinach and artichoke dip thing with bread and their SMORES which they offer on this huge platter and you make it yourself with a small fire they light for you! It's very cool and very, very sweet - even for me who lives for sweet ;) (thought I did anyway)
Didn't get home till after 8:30 and we all hung out now playing cards and painting nails. Looks like we're gonna be playing drinking games come New Year's Eve - oh lordy - Nith's taught us a new drinking game guaranteed to make one drunk - ughhhhhhhh actually not looking forward to that - I like to drink and all but never to get drunk - it just seems stupid and unnecessary - the yucky feeling in ur stomach and the dizziness in ur head - I enjoy the buzz I get from 1 or 2 drinks but anything more is just messing with ur body and too much of an unnecessary. You should drink to enjoy, not drink to get drunk - in my opinion anyway.
Time for beddy bye. Night.
- Nishi
Monday, December 29, 2003
12:25 p.m.
Day #4 of the COLD FROM HELL. Now I'm developing a cough and my head no longer has pressure from the stuffed nose but nose is still stuffed. Sore throat pretty much gone. GOD I don't want a cough....it's gonna ravage my voice....I had the worst night of sleep last night even though I went to bed at 11:30....didn't sleep till 12:30am and then woke up at 2am, 3am, 4am and god knows when else a.m. and I was so restless and having disturbing dreams and feeling like I couldn't breathe - stupid nose.....ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It's the freakin cold from hell.
Anywayz, I promised Mekha no matter how I feel we'll all go see LORD OF THE RINGS (finally) today - we're catching the 3:20 showing. Gotta shower and pray I don't start a hacking cough in the movie theater ;)
ciao folks
- Nishi
Sunday, December 28, 2003
07:01 p.m.
sstttttiiiiillllllll SSSSSSIIIIIIICCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK! *ugh* my nose is so stuffed I could hardly sleep last night. At least I only complain in my journal - don't complain to anyone else. :) Anywayz, I'm excited about these Kodomo no Omocha / Kodocha cels I bought! One of them is for sale - the minimum asking price is $65 + shipping. You can see the Kodocha cels I have at Nishi's Cel Gallery at Rubberslug.
Max Lovely . com is now linked off of Anipike.com! YAAAAY! Can't wait till I can upload all my updated stuff and work on UsagiandMamoru.com and MiakaandTamahome.com
I'm reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and it's really a good book. Tells the history of the U.S. from the eyes of the rest of the world - a non-american point of view. Highly recommended reading. Read that after reading Arundhati Roy's 'Power Politics' of course ;)
Anywayz, nose so stuffed - I've read all my Cosmo, Allure, Jane and Astronomy magazines. AGHHHHHHHHHH stupid cold....c'mon it's the 3rd day - my colds are usually gone by the 3rd day.
Mek, Mil and Nith are watching Bad Boys II in my room and I'm tapping the keys too loud according to one of the curlyhaired trio. I'm gonna go blow my nose and sneeze some more. Ciao.
- Nishi
Saturday, December 27, 2003
10:25 p.m.
THIS COLD IS LIVING HELL! I *thought* I was getting better but now my throat hurts again, feels like a lump, breathing is a pain in the neck cause my nose is so stuffed and my parents are blaming me for getting sick 'she went hiking in the woods wearing that fleece and no scarf or gloves or hat' - #1 it was like 50 degrees, #2 I was already sneezing that morning #3 just cause I went hiking (and I sweat a lot doing that) wearing a freaking super-warm fleece but no gloves and hat or scarf does not mean that's how I get a cold - you get a cold from germs! I tell them that and they yell at me that I think I know everything and never listen to them. YEE GADSSSSSSSSSSS. I'm going nuts here. They've always believed that going out in the cold gets u sick. ARGHHHHHHH. I've known since AP BIOLOGY in 11th grade that's not true. I tried to sleep as everyone was gone to that show but I couldn't fall asleep one bit - this is the worst cold I've had since this summer when I got some kind of stomach thing. So tired...so sleepy....and I'm becoming one of those people who complains when they're sick - somebody shrink themselves and go inside my body and fight whatever's making me sick like in that movie (I forget the name) - I'll give you my sailor moon cels worth a fortune :D.
- Nishi
Saturday, December 27, 2003
04:35 p.m.
i'm feeling a lil better today. The horrible sore throat is 80% gone although something's still there that irritates and I gotta swallow and I have a stuffed up nose the size of kentucky but that's it. I slept a lot and drank a lot of water. I stayed up till 4am and read Arundhati Roy's 'Power Politics' - it will probably be the book I identify when they ask 'name a book that changed ur life' - Because of her book I'm going to make human righta in India a main focus of my own human rights work one day. I'm almost done with her 2nd book 'War Talk' (32 pages to go). I read a ton of news articles last night - it is AMAZING how unknowledgable the American people are - so many, from watching the news (like Fox News) think that Iraq is connected to Al Qaida and that they found weapons of mass destruction or that Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden were connected when NONE of that is true at all! Hussein and Bin Laden hated each other (the latter wanted/tried to lead jihad against Hussein I think), the whole "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" is the biggest lie of the whole century to come out of the United States and Iraq is actually only NOW a more terrorist nation than it ever possibly was before - it was just a poor country suffering under sanctions before with a tyrannical leader who dared to stand up to the U.S. (invading Kuwait and thereby distrupting delicate balance of middle east) and that's why he was taken out. I'll write more on this later.
Anywayz, I just woke up from a long nap and gonna eat. My sisters went to this christmas show and I stayed home since I'm not well. See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Friday, December 26, 2003
05:52 p.m.
I'm sick. This sucks. I have the worst sore throat ever. I knew I was coming down with something yesterday morning when I was sneezing but ugh, a sore throat? They're the worst! Now I have this hard thing in my throat that I constantly swallow because of.....my face and neck feel all hot although mummy says now I don't have any fever. This sucks. I slept most of the day. I had great dreams. This throat is killin me! I already drank the last of the OJ, ate a lemon concotion mummy made, and had 2 cups of green tea AND endured her lectures about how I don't take care of myself and have a weak immune system and that's why I get sick and that inevitably leads to the argument that it's because I jog/exercise so much that I get sick - I jog every other day for usually a total of 4/5 days a week for total of an hour. That's not excessive and I rarely get sick - when I do though - watch out cause it's a doozy. UGHHHHH - face is so hottttttttt - go AWAYYYYYYY stupid sore throat go AWAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Tabitha how's Mat? What'd you guys do? How was that dinner thing you told me about the other week and when should we try to get together? IM me when you get a chance. Reena thank you! *HUGGGGGGGG* How was ur christmas? I hope you got everything you wanted! Crystal hahahah kid at heart too huh? ;) I think everyone should take time out once in a while to just act like a kid again - everyone would be just a little bit more happier then - at least for that short while :)
GO AWAY STUPID SORE THROAT. *in agony* I can't stand this. I hate being sick.
- Nishi
Thursday, December 25, 2003
09:24 p.m.
Christmas was so much fun! Got up early before all my sisters and made french toast and aside from some bickering with papa about the whole 'get married in 2005' spiel and 'when is ricky asking me already' and all that jazz, we opened presents!!! I got the shirts and sweaters I wanted from my sisters and Nithi surprised me with a $25 gift certificate to my faborite nail place for a manicure/pedicure and Mekha got me the most GORGEOUS fluffy (angora-like) gloves, scarf and hat ever! I made out good with loot this year :D Papa like the Palm Pilot PDA but he decided it's not really for him so I'm gonna return it. He also asked Nithi to return this awesome back massager thing she got - he can put that in the car to work or on any chair but he said it didn't help hsi real problem shoulder area so not worth it. So tomorrow I think we'll be returning stuff at the stores. And hopefully seeing Lord of the Rings finally! :)
After breakfast and presents and stuff, we all went hiking in the woods. We hiked all around the huge lake and walked on the bridges and stuff and had so much fun! Took us 2 hours to just do half-way around but the stuff we saw! I FOUND MY DREAM HOUSE! It's like a piece right out of Thomas Kinkade's artworks (he's one of my favorite artists) - we're gonna go back to take pictures of the waterfall-like stuff and the many lakes and ponds and stuff we came across.
Mummy made a ton of food: roast chicken, veggies, a special parmigian-like fish but with no cheese, I made my chocolate pudding pie, and we had rice and so much food whew! Afterwards, my sisters and I played cards (A$$hole, PIG etc) and then after all that fun went upstairs where we played hide-n-go-seek - yes us 20+ year olds acted like we were 8 again and ran around the house making papa yell and say 'if you break anything you'll hear it from me' - Mekha hid under the blanket on the sofa - REALLY good hiding spot except papa and mummy kept talking to her even though it was obvious she was hiding - they were like 'why is that book there? can u hear me??' and mekha's like SHHHHH I'm HIDING! LOL!
We then played this word game where we write down a whole bunch of words on papers and fold them up and make teams of two and time each team for a minute where 1 partner describes the word and the other partner has to guess what the word is. It's HYSTERICAL when we play. We moved on from that to Charades to Win, Lose or Draw and finally whew we had enough. My sisters are addicted to my Calvin & Hobbes books now - "a really good investment" is what Mili told me.
I think I'm coming down with a sore throat. Gosh I hope not. Time for some OJ even though I ate like a wolf today....lord I need to jog like a 100 miles now.
Hope your christmases were as merry! Can't wait for NEW YEAR'S!!!!!!!!! TABZZZZZ! Tabitha??? *HUG* I'm so glad u dropped by! *HUG* MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
- Nishi
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
11:16 p.m.
Merry Christmas eve everybody! Sailor Callie *HUGS* Merry Christmas sweetie! Miyu-chan *huggles you* I hope all your christmas wishes and new year's dreams come true!
Slept in till 11am today, had pancakes and played on the computer and papa made cake with dates ;) And we all got ready for christmas eve service at our church and although it was longggggggggggg as heck it was great seeing so many old church friends I haven't seen in ages. Caught up with a lot of people and it was nice.
When we got back home I had to run to guard the christmas tree cause Nithi and Mekha were mutinous - we had decided this year to open the christmas presents on christmas day instead of right after church on christmas eve as we had in the past cause we used to get back so late at night none of us wanted to wait. But sweet Nithi was all c'mon let's open it nowwwwww pleaseeeeee - she tried to get papa on her side and any inch he gave she took it as victory but finally everybody decided to wait till morning (cept Nith and Mekha who was cowering up on the stairs cause she didn't wanna get in the battle zone - it was me, mil, mummy and sort-of papa vs. Nith. She's so sweet - it's cause she wants to make everyone happy - she wanted us to open the presents she got us. It kinda sucks saying no to sweetness like that but it's for the best. I didn't let anyone near the tree - me and my trusty Victoria's Secret catalogue holed up on the couch and made sure of it. Speaking of which the new catalogue has pjyamas for only $12.99!! (And they're gorgeous too!) And I take back what I said about having to always return VC stuff I order - I got the fleece pull over and this gorgeous robe as part of xmas presents and they are MINE, MINE, MINE - no returning!
Anywayz, gotta be up early - wanna wake up 7am to make everybody eggs, toast and pancakes so that we can eat after we open the presents at 8am :) MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU GUYS!!!!!!
Whew! we went christmas shopping for 5 hours yesterday at the White Plains Galleria! It was a mad house but so much fun! I found bargains galore! Mekha and Mili and Nithi got me my christmas presents - I got pretty stuff from them from Forever21 and Bang Bang and Wet Seal - I bought my sisters' balance presents and everybody's happy. LOVE those stores at the mall - it just needs an ARDEN B. and a Charlotte Russe and it'd be one amazing mall. Saw Bibi and Bennett there and Jillian and Sindhu too - so funny running into these friends at the mall cause it's so unexpected.
Went grocery shopping and I bought Pillsbury cinnabuns to make and got all the recipe ingredients for the Dark Chocolate Pudding Pie I'm making for Christmas dessert :) hehehe gonna be fun cookin! Our christmas tree has so many presents now...i love it :) It's fun when everybody's home - whole house feels alive - we're making homemade fudge now so gonna help. See ya guys later!!!! And Memory Merry Christmas! I'll see you when you get back! *BIG HUGSSSSS*
- Nishi
Sunday, December 21, 2003
11:49 p.m.
today was a nice day :) went to chinese school and had fun and afterwards Chelsea, Luis, Kevin and I went for lunch at the Singapore Cafe - had yummy "curry mee" with an ice lychee colored pink (SOOO delicious). Loved the food there and their service was fabulous. Met Bonnie for the first time since she was visiting from Florida but didn't get to hang out. Maybe next time. After lunch, I booked it and caught the train back up to get ready for my church's christmas show. Each year they always put on a sweet show mixed with songs and dances and just funny niceties :) This year was great as usual. No, I didn't sing - I hadn't been able to rehearse the christmas song I wrote although I let Mili (one of my sisters) listen to it and she loved it. Maybe next year.
I hit 5.7mph on the treadmill yesterday! Ran for a total for almost an hour - can't believe how I used to hate to jog - now it's the only thing that keeps me in shape and healthy. Trying to condition my body so it's strong enough to run 6.0mph continuously for 20 minutes.
If nothing changes, I think I'm going to Nithi's in Connecticut for New Year's. Gonna have a quiet-sort of New Year's celebration at her place. But if anything changes I've gotten 6 invites to New Year's parties in the city but it won't be the same if my sisters and Ricky are all not there - that'll suck.
Still planning this Christmas dinner party on Tuesday night. It's practically Monday and nothing's set! I gotta book the restaurant I want or a 2nd choice by tomorrow afternoon. I wonder if I should instruct everybody to purchase a 'secret santa' gift ($1-$10 value - nothing fancy but just for fun)....hmm.....maybe i should postphone this thing AFTER christmas? ;)
So tired. Gonna grab some munchies and go to sleep. Night everyone. *HUGS*
- Nishi
Saturday, December 20, 2003
07:21 p.m.
Crystal and Andante *HUGS* thanks you guys! yeah I'm very excited :) I'll keep ya posted on what happens.
I picked up my sisters this morning and after we came home and ate and hung out we went out to shop - I picked up a new palm pilot for papa and got 3 dvds of movies Nithi loves as christmas presents for them. Then M&M and I went and got manicures - I got a nail design done where the lady painted my nails read and then drew cool designs on my nails with white polish and grey glitter. It's sooooo freakin pretty. I LOVE NAIL ART! I'm gonna take Nith and Mummy on Monday so they can get all dolled up for the holidays too :)
here's a cool link my friend Ailinon sent me: http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonviewer/ - it calculates what phase the moon was when you were born. I was born under a full moon. I think that's very cool as I love full moons and am always most at peace when I stare up at one.
Wrappin presents now and settling in for the night. See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Friday, December 19, 2003
11:04 p.m.
Should I sing something for my church's christmas show sunday? I wrote a christmas song yesterday - it's a combination of my original lyrics mixed with the chorus from 'Oh Holy Night' - I let a friend from church listen to the song last night and she really liked it but I have my doubts. You guys have no idea how badly I sang in church the last time I performed at a christmas show. It was like right out of a sitcom - I got this really sweet introduction and then proceeded to fumble through the lines I'd thought I'd memorized enough and did such an awful job. I look back on it as a growing, character-building experience. But to sing again at church usually means malayalam and I suck at it. I'd rather sing my own music but then I have doubts about sharing that at church too. Ugh. I probably won't unless I'm really comfy.
Anywayz, while helping mum grocery shop I ran into an old church friend named Betsy and I found out she lives right down the road from us! She goes to RPI and is such a sweetheart! I'm gonna invite her to come out with us (if she's allowed to).
I pick up 2 of my sisters tomorrow and Nithi's comin home tomorrow 2. I'm gonna see if we can all go see LORD OF THE RINGS 3.
- Nishi
Thursday, December 18, 2003
10:57 p.m.
yaaaaaaaay the servers are back and working! YAHOOOOOO I can see my sites again!! :D
Michael is one of the partners of the music production company that I'll be working with I think by the end of the month. He phoned me this morning and I talked to him again tonight asking him a lot of questions I had - he's really great and I'm so excited! He told me the cd could be out and ready as early as MARCH! I'm making a tape of some of the songs so they can get an idea now.....we're gonna meet up next friday so I can meet the other partner and see how our vibe is and if we all mesh and if so we can go fwd. I can't believe this is going to finally happen!! :)
- Nishi
Thursday, December 18, 2003
01:33 a.m.
I think i might be working with an independent label by the end of this month or start of January. My friend Nitz's friend Michael who I met while in law school - he and I talked tonight about the record company he's a partner in now and they already have an amazing act that's the foundation of the company called Liha - they sound great! And the company is like a family he told me - if good things happen for one artist, they all go for the ride - meaning if Liha takes off, I get to be part of their tour and things. :) How cool is that?
I talked to my friend Neil who I'd been working with for a while now about this new opportunity to sign on with their record label and Neil told me that it hurt him to say it but he wouldn't be able to guarantee me the time I needed but he will help me with anything if I need it. I was really sad about him not being able to but I felt better knowing he'd be there for me :) I'm recording a tape now for this company so they can get an idea of the songs and so the other partner can even start putting together a lil music to see how it sounds with the song! The best thing about what I heard is how I'm the artist and the music is all mine - like i have 100% input and it'll be exactly what I want it to be. And they're realllly great musicians. I really can't believe this opportunity showed up just when I was feeling so down about life in general :) Thank you God :) hehehe :) At least now I'll have a very high quality cd out by mid-to-late spring and they'll be producing the whole album. Their band Liha was even mentioned on Hot 97 (97.1) in NY as part of a shout out. That's really cool :) My only fear is what if they don't have the capacity of distribution or the funds to really promote an artist like with videos? I guess all of that will work out. My friend Suneet told me tonight it's important to have a clear termination/separation clause and I keep as much of the intellectual property of my music - I knew this stuff from being an attorney but still helps to be advised and reminded. He told me if I have a lot of success and a major label wants to sign me - I have to do what's best for my music and choose the label that will give me the best opportunities. I think this independent label is amazing and I really like how they're so supportive with so much *real* enthusiasm.
I'm excited!!! I hope I work with them! I'm scared and nervous too....I've read countless music industry books and learned so much but it's not enough...I still feel like a small child entering a world that could really damage me because I'm not familiar with it. I guess I gotta rely on my knowledge and skills - I didn't become an attorney for nothing - I gotta keep being smart about what I do and go in with eyes open.
Needless to say I didn't finish the research on the human rights article or finish looking through all those sites. Tomorrow, tomorrow - after I help mum cook and after I've cleaned the house.....
TO DO:
(1) pick 3-4 (or more?) songs to record for the tape to send them
(2) keep working on my other songs and lyrics that need to be perfected
(3) keep rehearsing and getting the songs to be sung perfectly
(4) go through the websites and apply to the human rights-related positions
(5) finish HR research for 2 articles to submit to 2 magazines to have as publications
(6) Re-read my Complete Music Industry Book
I'm starting to feel sore from tonight's workout - I not only did my incline workout for 45 minutes, I jogged at 5.5mph for 15 minutes and then did a ton of ab workouts for everything from upper abs to lower abs to onliques and I can feel it now when I laugh. ;)
I'm gonna go pray now...I feel like I need God's guidance.....funny how I go to Him crying when nothing's happening and go to Him scared and seeking guidance when things DO start to happen. But always He's there for me.
- Nishi
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
02:20 p.m.
so I called my friend Nitz last night after I saw her msg here for me on this blog and she had some cool news for me - her friend recently got into the entertainment business and partnered up with this guy who has awesome hip hop connections - this guy went on tour with Wu Tang (kung fu fighting song guy) and he heard from Nitz how I was interested in getting into a recording studio with a friend and recording a full album and demo tape. He wants me to call him and consider their studio as another option. They're very quick and have a cd coming out this month or next month. I want to work with people who are gifted musicians and my friend Neil is definitely that but he's also very busy - and these guys sound like they're amazingly talented and well-connected. I'll talk to Nitz's friend and then talk to Neil and see.....
We ordered chicken biryiani (or however the heck u spell it) and yummmmmmm i'm hungry. Must finish getting all my auction stuff together to mail out tomorrow and friday. So much to do....I still have those 41 human rights job sites to go through and apply for positions through them. See ya guys later.
Oh and yes the servers will all still be down so none of the sites will be working till God knows whennnnnn.
- Nishi
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
12:59 a.m.
well so much for relaxing tonight - I got some excellent info from a friend on human rights jobs and I've poured through 12 website's job vacancies so far and still 41 more sites to go. But my eyes are hurting after 2 hours straight of this so am off to bed and gonna try calling my friend Nitz who just left me a nice msg on my comment box *HUGS* I wound up beginning a new song tonight called 'Back When'. Crystal thank you! I know right? :) *HUGS*
- Nishi
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
08:30 p.m.
I *love* Arden B.!!!!!! It's clothes are crazy expensive so I'm gonna get my dad to pay for this coat I want for christmas :) heeh heeh heeh :D My mom bought me a purse from my favorite purse maker: GUESS. I gotta wrap it up in a box and am not allowed to wear it till christmas. I wanted to surprise my sisters this christmas with broadway show tickets to see WICKED! It's the witches' side of the story from the Wizard of Oz and I've heard nonstop good things about it. But it's impossible to get any shows for 4 people together before New Years. And this winter break my sisters are staying at Hofstra after New Year's to work on campus. Sucks that we only see them for barely 2 weeks. So I guess it's back to getting them gift cards to their fave store Forever21 (love that store too). In addition to shopping at the mall, my mom and I went and ran errands upstate today - was so good to see her almost back to normal! Simple Life's almost on - so much watch and Victoria Secret's fashion show is on tonight too - gonna relax tonight. Stayed up until 3am last night working on this human rights research on the International Criminal Court and America's Human Rights record both domestically and internationally and it's a huge project. I'm doing it to submit as a publishable article (2 articles) to this magazine (probably 2 magazines in the end). Almost felt like I was back in school there ;) It feels good though - I love academia and learning.
- Nishi
Monday, December 15, 2003
10:50 p.m.
well i was right - I feel fantastic today :) I jogged 4 miles, swept and mopped the whole house, and applied to 3 new positions tonight. My mom is doing fantastic too! She even drove to the grocery store and shopped herself this evening - and 1 month ago she didn't have the energy for something like that. THANK GOD she's back to normal!
If I had my wish I'd be working at something to do with international law or human rights or some NGO or non-profit org that catered to my writing skills. And while I work at that, keep singing and writing and one day have the best of both worlds - be a successful musician and earn my masters in international affairs from columbia (dream school but heck any good school will be ok) and work at the UN or an international human rights organization. Something to that effect. I can only dream for now.
Tomorrow will be a hectic day - mum's going to an allergist/specialist and then we're going to our old home town for errands up there at the DMV and to the mall for christmas shopping and who knows what else she has in mind. I'm gonna spend tonight writing an article on some human rights to submit to this magazine I found. It'll be good for my resume to have some publications in a true human rights magazine.
Miyu-chan I emailed the SSDG my addy! *HUGS* Night guys!
I'm feeling a jumble of things.....i know it's all hormonal - always happens each month from gosh darn woman's things - been upset past couple nights about life and now am feeling much better cause the woman's thing is over but still....i'm in the last throws of it and feeling all the usual confused and down feelings u get......questions about where you're going in life....what you're doing...feeling unsettled.....so much to do and don't know where to start....so many doubts, fears.......so much self-scrutiny and self-analysis.....*sigh* I'm wondering when I'll find that job that makes me happy, wondering when my dreams of music career will come true, wondering if God is ever gonna answer my tear-filled prayers, wondering why the hell life is like this and why I can't seem to control anything and make things happen the way I want. So damn frustrating and I just wanna curse.
Agh I know I'll be all sunshine and peaches tomorrow or Tuesday. The good thing about woman's things I once saw on this channel 13 or channel 3 special was that each month women get to analyze where they are and where they're going and improve on it so that when the next cycle comes you can be making progress and not go through it again. Agh.
I'm gonna go brood or something.
- Nishi
Sunday, December 14, 2003
03:26 p.m.
so sadaam's been captured. woo hoo. Iraq is free. Now let's give the people of Iraq a secure, working government and a financially stable economy and a secure & safe environment to raise their children. Sadly, I don't see Sadaam's capture as anything to cheer about - it's great this guy doesn't rule anymore but Iraq is ironically more worse off in terms of stability and safety now then when he was its tyrant.
Bush...I like Bush as a person - he's a sweetheart but as a president I hated his pre-emptive strike policy and hate his foreign policy....support his stance on the contracts for Iraq though....I supported France's stance on the Iraq war being unjust but I don't support its claim that it should have equal bidding on contracts in Iraq - its people didn't fight or die in Iraq.
My dad just asked me with a big smile: "wanna help me shovel the snow on this front porch and walkway here" I returned him this dead stare and he just kept smiling 'c'mon' he said ear to ear - so whoopee here I go.
- Nishi <-- who's in a very weird, bitter mood today
Saturday, December 13, 2003
08:26 p.m.
Pete, Rebecca and Zoe all sent me the sweetest christmas cards! And now caroline took my address to send me one. I'm so bad about these things - i've never sent christmas cards. Zoe's was actually a picture of her and her hubby! I can't believe she's married!!!!!!!!! So cute. I wanna have a christmas party. I reaaalllly wanna get everybody together somewhere - restaurant? house? and just hang out and eat and have fun. Wish I could throw the party but I live in Westchester county and everyone lives all over the place.
Anywayz, i got my dad's Palm Pilot Vx PDA right? I have no clue how to use it. I figured out it needed to be charged so will wait till tonight to charge it on my dad's comp downstairs. Hope it works!
Got a headache and need to rest. Have a good night guys. Thank yous to Caro-chan, Adrianne *big hugs* :) Memory amen to that! :) Lemme know if u see the Gap commercial :)
- Nishi
Friday, December 12, 2003
04:24 p.m.
we were in the emegency room again last night. Mummy took this medicine her doctor prescribed to counteract the itchiness she was feeling from her thryoid medicine - up till she took this anti-itch drug she was doing sooooo much better! Still not 100% but she was getting much much better and was thinking she could go back to work by or around New Year's. Now this stupid medicine completely gave her a setback and triggered whatever thyroid thing she just got under control. She wound up feeling terrible and scared that if she stayed home she might end up calling emergency at night cause she felt all the symptoms she had from day one, so we took her to the ER and I spent the night there with her. Was so awful - the hospital we went to is actually one she works at (she works at a division of it) and it's the WORST ER! They kept mummy waiting from 4:30 till 8:40 when she finally went to the receptionist and said she's an employee she's been waiting 4 hours and she wouldn't come to the ER unless she was really sick and needed to be seen by a doctor and taken care of. Finally at that they let her in and it wasn't until midnight that she was admitted to the hospital itself and they're so overcrowded she spent the night in the ER hallway with some weirdos - I slept next to her on a chair before they moved her out at 5am to another hallway - a HALLWAY mind you - never a room. Most crappy hospital. SO mad! Some of the nurses and doctors were very nice and good but the overall facilities and manners and treatment - C average. They're stil there. I came back home at 10:30ish and managed to sleep a couple hours. Waiting for their call to go pick them up now.
My mom's doing much better now - the effects of that terrible anti-itching drug wore off and the IV fluids flushed it out of her system. She's still weak she said but hopefully she'll be back to as normal as possible soon. One good thing came out of the night - as I stayed awake till 5am, I worked on this song called 'ENTWINED' that I began and kept working on a while ago. It's really pretty :) Too many of my songs are about the break up and pain of it all...well, can't help it - you write what you feel. Who knew I could finish writing a song I really love in an emergency room ;)
Anywayz, I should never order everyday clothes from Victoria's Secret's catalogue geez - nothing ever fits right and I always wind up returning everything I ordered - it'd be fine if I was like 5ft 6 with one of those elongated waists and stuff ;) But I'm short and not a 36D ;) I really wish they would open a dang clothing store so I could try on their clothes before ordering them.
I got my dad a palm pilot for christmas. It arrived today :) Gonna wrap it and put it under the christmas tree as the 1st present! hee heee :D won't he be surprised!
Must get ready and eat something. See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
10:24 p.m.
oh my goodness! did you guys see that new GAP commercial with those amazingly gorgeous guys? It's a winter commercial with just men....they're....woah...goodness goodness goodness - I have to sit and watch this channel now and hope I see it again ;)
I saw the Billboard awards tonight - that guy with the stuffed dog had really bad jokes and he sucked. The jokes about Britney and other artists were just NOT funny and just plain tasteless. Ugh.
Anywayz, on the subject of gorgeous men again (love you Ricky :)) I have the teeniest, tiniest crush on Keanu Reeves. He's so adorable and such a fabulous actor. I wanna see that new movie "Something's Got to Give" just for him (and cause it's funny).
Crystal good for you! *HUGS* How big a family do you have to shop for? I'm 1 of 6 total so I think that's a lot to shop for ;) Miyu-chan don't ya know it! I love Christmas but it's always frustrating when you don't know what to get the people you love - I was gonna get Ricky "Girls Gone Wild" and try and win the "coolest gf ever" title but I, thankfully, told him that's what I was gonna get and he said "naahhhh" so now I'm back to square one. Maybe "Wild Animals"? LOL! Ya know I read in Jane Magazine how they had a party and put the Wild Animals show in the background and it made for a great party the way animals..um..get wild in mating....ANYWAYZZZZZZZZZ Memory ya think so? I dunno, I wasn't too intrigued by Last Samurai at all.....I wanna see KILL BILL, and THE MISSING :)
- Nishi
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
02:03 p.m.
my sister Mili's so funny - she's flipping out about getting an interview with KPMG. She's totally nervous and it's so cute! I'll see her on Thursday when I go visit - hope she does great! I worked today on "I Saw You" and a new song I've titled "Guardian Angel" - very happy with it :) Thursday I gotta find presents for Nith, Mil and Mek and Ricky. Ricky's so hard to shop for....I have no idea what to get him this Christmas......Caroline *HUGS* thanks babe :) *HUG* *HUG* *HUG* :)
I will not hide my face, my dignity and humanity
I will not debase myself or disappoint myself
I will not do that which is against my values
I will not be ashamed of who I am, what I do, who I wish to be
I will be honest and true to myself
mantra for life.
- Nishi
Sunday, December 7, 2003
09:51 p.m.
Sailor Callie happy birthday sweetie!
I saw Ancient Egyptians tonight - first hour of it anyway - I'm facinated by ancient civilizations. I used to read (and still read) so much about ancient civilizations and archaelogy growing up and loved the Incas and Maya ever since I was 8 years old and saw Mysterious Cities of Gold on Nickelodeon. My book collection here at home has waaaaayyy too many books about ancient egypt, the celts, ancient china and greece to name a few! Ever since I went to college and law school though I've kept up very sparingly with all of that and the only chances I get are when specials come on tv, or if I go to a museum with Ricky or catch the latest National Geographic. I really want to start re-learning. Yeah I'm such a nerd, I know ;)
I'm watching Celebrities 101 oops on E! It's funny but ewww I just saw Julia Robert's hairy armpits from the premiere of Notting Hill in the U.S. UGHHHHHH E! shouldn't have aired that! Have some respect for the lady! YUCK! They did up close and personal EWW EWW EWWWWWWW
Applied to 3 new jobs tonight that looked nice but still eyeing that global policy department position though.
See ya guys later *HUGS*
- Nishi
Saturday, December 6, 2003
05:52 p.m.
Guess what!!!! You guys remember how I told u about my friend Ami who won Miss India and went to Miss World? The pageant was held today (yesterday actually) in China and although she didn't win, she placed in the top 5!!!!!! I'm so freakin happy for her!!!!!!! GO AMI! The girl from Ireland won (she's freakin beautiful) and 2nd place and 3rd went to Canada and China respectively. I'm so proud of Ami! She went so far!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!
It's still snowing here - it's so gorgeous! Spent the day reading, putting up new pictures of my posters for the auctions since the old ones sucked and helping mum with fish curry. Am gonna workout now. Haven't worked out since Tuesday (bad bad bad) but I'm going to stick to it now. See ya guys later :)
I love it! It's SNOWING! It started here late this morning and I walked out around 12:30 and it was falling all softly and pretty. SOOOOOOO gorgeous :) As I put up auctions, I watched my neighbor's son (probably 15-22yrs?) playing with their dog - so cute. I wish I had a dog that I could take out and play in the snow with. I have 3 sisters but they're not home - dangit - I need an imaginary tiger best friend like Calvin & Hobbes ;) I know I am reading WAAAAAY too much of those comics but I have like 12 of the collections and it cracks me up - can't stop reading 'em.
RMN maybe you're right - maybe it is potential employers checking me out online - I yahoo'ed and googled myself and I found lots of stuff but nothing bad. It's all related to my web sites and work online I did. There's ONE link to my journal though and if potential employers read that to evaluate somebody - there's just something not kosher about that. ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO GOOGLE PEOPLE ONLINE - what's wrong with you? Nosy busybody weirdos - stay out of people's journals for whom you have no good intentions for - I guess human beings are voyueristic and love to find out dirt about each other - doesn't say much for us as a race now does it? ;)
WOW I am selling SO MANY of my posters - I finished putting up 69 items - even parting with a rare Full Moon wo Sagashite Japan Poster - hope I priced it well....I remember paying a fortune for it but can't remember how much Yen exactly - I hate selling my expensive stuff cheap - people on ebay always want bargains - I think I'm the only nut who goes "OH MY GOD THAT IS SO RARE I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE POSSIBLE FOR IT" ;) LOL - I truly have a problem ;)
I better go down and hang out with the parental units before they come into my room and see the mess I made of it...and start yelling.....agh.
- Nishi
Thursday, December 4, 2003
07:34 p.m.
I think someone's looking for me......I check the tracker for my sites every day and through the tracker for this journal I saw someone's been searching in search engines for me by my full name....WHAT DO YOU WANT? Dammit - stop freakin me out by searching for me on the net - drop me an email - has to be somebody I know who'd search for me by my full name - they prolly just want to read this journal and not tell me they are reading it. Stop being a weirdo! Just tell me! There's something wrong with people who search for people they know online and yet never contact them or tell them anything........
*shiver* ANYWAYZ - I put up a BUNCH of auctions and will be putting up a LOT more - everything from sailor moon and other manga posters to a ton of Ribon Full Moon wo Sagashite furoku and zen-in stuff. So check out my auctions at: SelenitynoMegami's Auctions!
I went christmas tree shopping today :) After I took mum for some blood something or other we hit Linen-n-Things (my fave place after the mall to shop) and I bought her throw pillows for the family room as part of my christmas present to her and she bought a CHRISTMAS TREE! It's 7.5 feet tall and GORGEOUS. It comes pre-lit and it took an hour or so to set up and unravel all the branches and make it look good. But mum cheered when the lights came on :) Papa loved it too! Can't wait for my sisters to see it - we've been wanting a new tree for ages and this thing is just perfect. After shopping mummy took me for lunch at a local diner and we ate yummy soup and entrees of chicken stroganoff and hungarian stuffed cabbage (which has ground beef inside with onions - mmmmmmm).
ANYWAYZ.....I saw the 2nd episode of the Paris Hilton and Nicole show The Simple Life and OH MY GOD are those girls spoiled!!!!!!! But in a cute and funny way but still if I had daughters like that or had to work with people like that I'd go ballistic on them! I cannot BELIEVE they got into a hot tub and slept on a couch in someone's HOUSE when they were hired to WORK AT THAT PLACE'S DAIRY FARM! They even mixed water with the milk in the milk bottles when they spilled too much of the milk - saying something about "well they'll be drinkin less fat!" LOL! I can't believe em! Hope they definitely grow more mature from this. I still think they're adorable and they can't help how they behave - that's the only way they know to be but still......lorddddddd......seeing stuff like that there's no way in HECK MY parents can ever say stuff about me and my sisters now ;) LOL!
Dana ya know how much I wish that? Still lookin fwd to the snow this weekend even if it's -20 ;)
Anywayz, gotta work on the auctions tonight. See ya laters :)
arghhhhhhhh AMANDA-CHANNNNNNN why is the server and everything still downnnnnnn this is the longest any of my sites have been down.......
ok so bed ruffles - these damn things are so hard to put on unless you have 2 people to lift the heavy mattress. I didn't wanna bother mummy though so I struggled with this thing a good 20 minutes - even holding the dang mattress up with my head while I tried to get the bed ruffle to stay on the bed. If it could talk - it woulda prolly been laughing like some annoying kid when you're not doing things right. I gave up and threw things around and finally made the bed. Then I gave the bed ruffle one last try and tugged that thing under the bed and pulled and pulled - thankful I cut my nails short to regrow em - and VOILA - presto chango finally I had it on. NEVER AGAIN. When I become rich I'll have maids do this.
Speaking of rich, did you guys see THE SIMPLE LIFE with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie? IT WAS HYSTERICAL! I haven't laughed so hard in ages! It's on again tonight at 8:30 on FOX so watch! The way those 2 couldn't get how the rest of America did things - cooking, shopping ("can't we just have it?" Paris says when they only have $50 to shop for groceries and the cashier says their total came to $65 - he's like "no you can't have it, this isn't a soup kitchen" and they're left wondering "what did he mean? What's a soup kitchen?") LOL I was in stitches! And then at the end when they're like they should give a threesome to the oldest boy who lives in the house - dyingggggg laughing! They're too funny and cute.
I found my dream job! It's a Global Policy Position - one problem: its phones aren't working - neither fax or anything. I am going to overnight my resume and cover letter to them. I REALLLLLLLLLLLLY want this position.
I read this old article in the Times about that gay marriage law passing in Massachusetts (sp???) and I totally support it. Those people who say marriage should only be between man and woman - what's wrong with them??? Are they such homophobic prejudiced people that they can't accept that sometimes men love men and women love women? So homophic and prejudiced that they want to deny homosexuals the equal protections and benefits married couples receive in the U.S.? Under the constitution every man and woman is equal and all deserve equal rights in EVERY area INCLUDING marriage whether that marriage be between men, women, or men AND women. PERIOD. UGH! I can't stand people who discriminate against homosexuals. They're just pushing their OWN values and belief systems upon everyone else and that's just NOT allowed in the U.S. EQUALITY and FREEDOM to be who you are and to practice what you believe - governed equally by the laws of the U.S. That's the whole point!
Anywayz, I'll get off my political soap box now lest some conservative extremists go nuts on me.
I got my Arwen and Aragorn doll set from Barbie Collectibles today - the Arwen doll is 10x more beautiful in person than inb picture - she has wonderful details and her gown is gorgeous! The Aragorn one is equally beautiful but I don't want to keep him - anyone want him for $37.50?
I did SHAPE Magazine's workout yesterday on the treadmill, after waring up for 5 minutes of walking I set the incline to the highest it could go and alternated walking on that high incline 5 minutes with walking on straight-treadmill 5 minutes for a total of 50 minutes. MY THIGHS, BUTT AND CALVED REALLLLLLLLLY felt it! They're semi-sore today. It's a good feeling. Think I'll do this work out 2-3 times a week so body doesn't get complacent with my jogging routine.
Caroline I know right? I find it hard to believe to - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury was a fictional book that told a story about gold-colored people living on Mars. It's too incredible that this psychic would see gold-colored people living on some distant planet....ANNA awww don't worry! *HUGS* When you get to it ;) Memory what class was that? Pretty cool class! :) Miyu-chan we're destined for more snow this weekend - lots of it! WHOOPEEEEE :) I like snow falling :) RMN I agree with a lot of what you say but I take fairy tales with a grain of salt and focus more on the child-like innocense and sweetness of it - I love Alladin, Little Mermaid, Lion King I and II, Cinderella II and so many more. They're just fun but ur right - look deeper and you'll see a lot of themes you wouldn't normally agree with :)
Brr it's cold in here - gosh I hate the cold. Gonna go warm up with cocoa and see what else mummy needs help with today. I spent the entire morning and early afternoon cleaning all 3 bathrooms spic and span spotless and sweeping the upstairs. Mummy made delicious appam and chicken curry - sooo good :) See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
01:31 p.m.
wai! it snowed! it snowed! well like a dusting really but it was SOOOOOOO pretty to see it falling! It's freakin cold out! I heard people in Florida were complaining about 70-degree weather and dressed in longsleeves and jackets - 70? THAT's WARM! I'd give almost anything to live in 70 degree weather all the time.
Just finished cutting 3 pounds of pork. Whew. Took me an hour - so much dang fat. I can cut pork and beef fine - but can't cut chicken - that stuff is so hard. MMMMMMM feels so good to be home today.....I saw cartoons on Nickelodeon, am looking at jobs at http://www.foreignservicecareers.gov and other sites and munching on "tea rusk" with peanutbutter - tea rusk is this type of toast bread (only 15 calories) that papa buys from the Indian store Soorya in Yonkers. It's yummy!
I've been working out steadily - jogging every night although I got my new issue of SHAPE yesterday and read that I'll never lose weight effectively if I stick to the same routine and will wind up plateauing - so am gonna start doing some of their challenging treadmill exercises - inclines and jogs at intense speeds etc etc. Let's see if I can't blast the thanksgiving pounds off ;)
Something interesting: mummy watched AsiaNet all the time here and watches the malayalam news - she saw this report about this guy (around 40) who's gifted with the ability to see things in the future. He correctly predicted that something flying out in space (asteroid?) would collide with/come down to earth and scientists later confirmed this. He wrote to Pres. Bush about his latest vision - he says in the year 2058 golden colored people - 1/2 human 1/2 gods would come from another planet to Earth - hje saw them and their planet - they're technologically advanced (of course) and besides being gold-skinned, they drink water cupping their hands and eat of the foods (fruit and leaves) around them - they don't cook - they're very peaceful - have no strife, no war nothing like that. I don't really believe it but it's cool to wonder.
Must get going on the day.
- Nishi
Monday, December 1, 2003
12:25 a.m.
Reena *HUG* no it hasn't snowed yet. We've been having a very mild fall here with temps in the 60s (sometimes 70s) and now in the 50s. It's only this week getting into the 40's but then shoots back up to 57 on friday ;) I'm happy - can't stand the cold one bit.
Dropped my sisters back to school today and picked up "Sex and the City - the Complete 4th Season" at Blockbuster! Can't wait to watch! I finally saw Sleeping Beauty on the Disney Channel tonight (never saw the movie in my life and it was cute but howcome that Prince and Princess barely ever talk?? For most of the movie they're always silent. And for a Disney movie - killing the wicked evil whatever she was sorceress with a sword through her was awfully violent - esp for a kids' movie......Disney's come a long way since.
Gotta go to bed - driving mummy to a 9:30 doctor's appt. Have a good night guys.
- Nishi
Saturday, November 29, 2003
04:01 p.m.
Edited close to midnight BELOW
my sisters and I went Christmas shopping yesterday :) They bought me sweaters and shirts I picked out as my christmas presents :D hehehe - got gorgeous stuff from stores like CHARADE, BANG BANG and FOREVER21 from the White Plains Mall - The Galleria. Was fun :) I love Christmas the most and I just wish I had had more time to shop all the stores at that mall! So many stores....too little time.
Server's still down....ugh. I gave my sisters a mask facial and now we're getting ready to go grocery shopping and to probably go see a movie. Hope you guys are having a great weekend!
Edited close to midnight BELOW
I'm so sad.....MAX LOVELY is ending in Ribon with the January 2004 issue :( Just when the manga summaries for MaxLovely.com were being finished and I was catching up to the series it ends...phooey.....there's still so much furoku and collectible goods I want from the series.
Things I want!
Max Lovely Postcards
Max Lovely Ribon Trading cards #s 30, 51, 68, 74 and the new one from the Jan 2004 issue 198
Random Walk ZEN-IN / ZEN IN bag / bookbag
Random Walk Ribon 2002 Diary
Random Walk Ribon 21 Century Anniversary Clearfile / Clear File - I think from the Ribon Fair or Ribon Festival from either 2000 or 2001
- Nishi
Thursday, November 27, 2003
10:56 p.m.
I hope you all had a great thanksgiving! :) I slept in late and watched the parade on tv - wishing I coulda been there live with Ricky but oh well! Went down and helped the family cook, went and picked up apple pie and more butter and stuff from the store and we had a very yummy dinner - turkey, stuffing, veggies, mashed potatoes with gravy - the works mmmmm :) So full I seriously don't need to eat till tomorrow night!
We're going Christmas shopping tomorrow and need to find a Christmas tree and buy a bunch of new decorations. I love a really beautiful christmas tree but nice ornaments are so expensive!
My poor rickers is busy working a 20 hour shift now the Universal Studios Hollywood as a consultant for Accenture. UGH! Cannot believe he had to do this.
I finished a song last night that I woudn up titling "Unravelled" that I'm REALLLLLLY happy with :) I began it about 2 years ago and left it just sitting in my song book and last night picked it up and the words just came! Very happy with it.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! :)
- Nishi
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
08:18 p.m.
i went and got 2 of my sisters today from their college and when we got back, Nith was home as well as Papa with a new Benz to add to our collection - I swear papa buys and sells benzes like cattle or somethin. It's the only car he'll drive. We own 3 but he always winds up selling 1 and buying a new one. The newest 3rd addition is a 2003 E420 - he didn't want the C240 which *I* loved - he likes bigger cards. Anywayz, so we all get home and after eating, we drank cocoa and played cards and had our usual joking, teasing, crazy insanity time :) was fun :)
I think I'm gonna watch the rest of Ultra Maniac eps 16-26. OH ALSO - whenever my sites finally get UP - something's wrong with my friend Amanda's servers who's hosting me - read Max Lovely Manga Summaries! - I edited them and the story is SO nice! I want to go and scan in the pages so people can see them too!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING IN ADVANCE EVERYONE!
- Nishi
Monday, November 24, 2003
11:57 a.m.
hey guys :) sorry about the previous posts (deleted them) - had gotten into an argument with ricky and stuff and I was just mad and needed to vent. All's good now :) He called me on Saturday morning with "I forgot to give u something last night (over the phone)" and he gave me a kiss :) hehehe :) Anywayz, Sunday I went to chinese class and afterwards some friends from the class and I went for dim sum - I'd always always wondered what dim sum was and so when we got to a place to eat and were waiting on line I asked one of the guys, Alex, and I was like "Ok this is gonna be a really stupid question (seeing as how I was all 'yes let's get dim sum') but what IS dim sum?" He explained that they bring you a bunch of food to ur table and that's dim sum. I'm thining it's still some kind of food. When we all sat down and they started bringing food to us that's when I understood them BRINGING the food to us - the bringing is the style of, I guess, eating that is called dim sum - kinda like a buffet but they bring the food to you and mark it on a paper what they brought - small to medium dishes are $2/$2.50. Ate until I was stuffed. MMMM good :)
The guys from chinese class are funny and cool. They're so diverse and smart. I showed one of the guys, Kevin, where to get fansubs of anime in chinatown and helped him get Fushigi Yuugi! He's gonna be an addict now ;) Next time for class I'm bringing a deck of playing cards and my chess board game - turns out they like chess and cards so it'd be a fun way to spend down time in class or after ;) LOL! Forget chinese ya know - we just wanna play games ;)
KINOKUNIYA IS AWESOME. It finally had manga Barnes and Nobles didn't! I got BASARA #3, KARE KANO #6 and MAX LOVELY #4 but they didn't have KODOCHA #10 and neither did B&N. *sigh* And here I thought B&N was doing better than Kino's in having brand new manga right away.
I got BRITNEY'S NEW CD! And was kinda disappointed. I only liked the songs "Breathe on Me", "Toxic", "Everytime" and the 2 versions of "Me Against the Music" - the 2nd version being a re-mix with hindi music. It was done well - liked it a lot - some songs out there have crappy hindi music added to it and Britney's was done well. I know I'll definitely have remixes with indian flavor - I'm indian after all! All the other songs on her cd though just didn't impress me and they didn't sound fresh, new or original. They sounded like stuff that's already out there on the market. But those 3 songs made up for it - when she sings "Everytime" I well up with tears! :) GREAT JOB BRITNEY! Do even better on ur 4th album!!!!! She's growing even now and she'll be really amazing one day. I want to see more of her original songs.
rmn I'm fine now *HUG* but thank u so much for caring *big hugs*! Lady *HUGS* right back :) it was a better tomorrow :) thanks :) bee umm.....for a teenager u freak me out. Serenity K-la hey sweetie! of course I remember you! :) *HUGS* Eddy ur the best! *HUG* thanks for ur comment on bee too ;) LOL! :) Let's talk on IM soon ok? I added u to friendster by the way. Adrianne thank you *HUGGGG* :) I miss chatting with u! Miyu-chan thank you :) all u have to do is hug and I feel better :) LOL! memory thank you :) *HUGGGG* ur always there with a kind word!
I have to run to the post office and do a bunch of errands today and prolly mop too. Busy day ahead. See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Thursday, November 20, 2003
11:24 p.m.
ricky can't come for thanksgiving now :( his company asked everyone working on the project at universal studios hollywood if they could do overtime over thanksgiving weekend and he and everyone on the project said ok. He wants to get a good review so he can eventually leave (he hates the company) so it sucks.
I'm almost done copyrighting all my songs. Hopefully I can get to the post office by Saturday and mail everythig out - poor Danielle! She's been waiting for my Full Moon cards for like 3 weeks I think! *HUG*
I updated Max Lovely .com with the newest acts from Ribon! The manga summaries for Max Lovely now are almost all up to date and only missing the Feb 2003 - May 2003 acts which I hope to get this Sunday - c'mon Kinokuniya!! Hope they have the new Kodocha and Kare Kano too!!!
It's been a long day - night folks. Miyu-chan I'll check out Russel Watson too :) *HUGS*
- Nishi
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
10:00 p.m.
Alex never heard of Josh Groban but I'll try his cd on ur recommendation :) Here's one u should listen to too: TRAVIS :) they've got some nice songs!
The song I started 5 days ago is coming along really well. I still need to write 2 or 3 stanzas more. It's called "Magic" and is a love song of sorts. It's frustrating though cause I sing it at 3 different pitches/tones (whatever) and can't determine which one I like best. Agh.
Did you guys see the Britney Spears In the Zone special last night? I LOVEEEEEEE her new song "BREATHE ON ME" - I haven't heard a good female-voiced song like that in AGES and watching her sing "EVERYTIME" actually made me cry!!! I'm proud that she wrote that herself! She performs SO well - I'm in awe - and the best thing about it - she's living the dream and she's happy and she's only 22? I hope she continues to have this much success and her people have done an amazing job for her "come back" after the year absence.
Caro-chan *HUG* thank you!! Wish I could be as tall as YOU though :) Miyu-chan HAHAHAHAH u always crack me up *big hugs* here's to hoping right? ;)
See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Monday, November 17, 2003
12:56 p.m.
I grew! I actually grew! I'm 4ft 9! I've been 4ft 8 1/2 for who knows HOW long and when I took my mom to the doctor's today he measured my height too and wheeeeee I actually grew! Somehow I actually grew in the past year! I'd been praying to God a lot before to make me taller - maybe He actually answered? LOL! THANK YOU IF YOU DID! I think I'll start asking to be taller again - who knows - maybe I'll be 5ft 6 one day ;) hahahah yeah right - worth a shot though! :D
Anywayz, saw the AMAs last night - was sooo good - was thoroughly impressed by BRITNEY, PINK and OUTKAST. PINK belting out her song beautifully to guitar accompaniment was classic! I think a LOT of songs should be sung that way to showcase the beauty of the songs and the talented voice of the artist and she did it beautifully! That Kimmel guy was actually like "It's always a pleasant surprise when someone can actually sing" which was a pretty good compliment to Pink.
I'm watching Britney Spears' In The Zone tonight (ABC 8pm EST) - I'm gonna buy her cd when I hit the city next Sunday.
There's this song/poem I wrote for one of my sites way back in 1999 - I've been working on it the past 4 days and it's so hard - I wrote 2 different versions and still working on them to figure out which sounds best and will get across what it is I'm trying to say when I was inspired by the music and the words I wrote those 4 years ago. I typed out both lyrics though and am mailing them out tomorrow to be copyrighted. They both use the same tune but the lyrics to the 1st one sound too folksy and TOO DEEP - way too poetic and I dunno if people will GET it....maybe it'll just be best to keep it as a poetic song just for my ears only...but the 2nd lyrics are definitely pop and romantic and it's a love song.
Great just great! I talked to my ex (the 1st love u guys have readabout before) and he told me that my height was 4 ft 9 only because doctor measures me early in the morning - it was almost NOON actually - and he says it's a fact that bones contract during the day. NO NO NO I told him! I'm 4f 9! Don't burst my bubble! But he said it's true so tonight I'm gonna measure myself! I BETTER STILL BE 4ft 9!!!!!!!!!! He found this site that says "You shrink one half an inch during the day due to compression of the spinal column." NO NO NO NO NO I'm 4ft 9! I'm finally 4ft 9!!!! I BETTER BE 4ft 9 tonight! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm gonna go drink some milk.
- Nishi
Saturday, November 15, 2003
05:32 p.m.
Never underestimate the power of mallu (short for malayalee) aunties! That's what I told my friend Eddy in an IM a lil while ago. 2 aunties from church who are old family friends visited mummy this afternoon cause everybody knows she's not well (still) and so after talking with her they wanted to help. No matter how much we told them no no no we're fine they wouldn't take no for an answer and wound up cutting and cleaning fish for us. I couldn't believe it! How sweet and nice are they? Gracey and Eliamma (Aleyama?) Aunties - sooo nice. It's a nice thing that we're here in this neighborhood with church and family friends so near by.
Papa had said it was ok a couple days ago for Ricky to come for thanksgiving so YAAAAAAY that means we're gonna see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade for the first time! I'm gonna drag my sisters with me! We can cook after we get home. I love the holidays - can't wait for turkey day!
I started reading LUCKY Magazine today and can't believe I ever lived without it. AMAZING stuff in there that I can't wait to buy!!!!! :D Once I have more money that is. ;)
mmmm can smell the fish curry cooking - can't wait to eat. See ya guys later.
- Nishi
Friday, November 14, 2003
09:54 p.m.
I'm officially a Britney Spears fan. I watched her interview with Diane Sawyer last night and saw her burst into tears and finally saw her as a real person - a real human being just like u and me and she won me over! My heart went out to her and now I support her as an artist. I'd always liked her songs but hadn't felt drawn to her enough to call myself a fan and now, definitely. I'm buying IN THE ZONE soon as it's out. I hope she and Justin get back together one day.
Today was one crazy day. I had cramps from u know what and drove my mom to another doctor's appointment and when we got back the fish guy game and we bought 2 huge boxes of fish that papa, mummy and I spent the whole afternoon cutting up and boxing and putting away in the freezer. My hands were so frozen from being out in the cold and bagging the gross fish that when I finally tried to warm them in lukewarm water they HURTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. I HATE HATE HATE the cold! Helped cut pork and ate yummy sushi (california rolls) for dinner.
Rebecca ur welcome! *HUG* I hope you watch LOTR sometime soon! GOOD LUCK this weekend at Japan EXPO!!!!
You guys know how my friend Ami won one of the Miss India titles in India last year? She won 2nd place and goes on to represent India in the Miss World pageant. Well she'll be in the Miss World pageant Dec. 6th from China and the Miss World website is conducting a vote thing. PLEASE VOTE FOR HER!!!
I really, really hope she wins something! It's weird how you meet people, everyday normal people and they go on to surprise you and do amazing things. I'm amazed at her and hope that one day I might have as much success as she was blessed with - and worked hard for!
It's one of those cold nights here in NY where u just wanna curl up in bed and watch tv and read magazines and drink hot cocoa. That's what I'm gonna do :) Have a nice night people *HUGS*
- Nishi
Thursday, November 13, 2003
06:02 p.m.
I ordered my Arwen and Aragorn Dolls from BARBIE - have you? Grab em now before they get sold out like the extremely rare Arthur and Guinevere dolls.
*WARNING BEFORE YOU READ ANY FURTHER* LOTS OF POLITICAL VIEWS BELOW THAT MAY OFFEND PEOPLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT DISAGREE AND GET OFFENDED - DON'T READ - I WARNED YOU - AND IF YOU READ AND GET ANGRY AND DECIDE TO COMMENT OR EMAIL - I'LL DELETE, DELETE, DELETE :D
I caught up on my NY Times reading this afternoon and soooo much interesting stuff! I'm going to browse through a copy of Stanley Greene's Open Wound: Chechnya 1994 to 2003 a book that shows his photographs of the horrible things people went through in that ravaged country. Here's an excerpt from something he said in the NYTIMES articles linked.
"The Russians have hated the Chechens for 300 years," Mr. Greene said. "As someone said, they want Chechnya without Chechens. The problem is that the West has never come down on Russia for its treatment of the Chechens, so the Russians can get away with murder. In 1999 when Putin was prime minister, he fired two guided missiles into the central market of Grozny. And the world said nothing, nothing, and they killed a lot of people." - Stanley Green - Open Wound Chechnya 1994 - 2003
Other interesting stuff Iran Leader says U.N. Report REMOVES Suspicions of Weapons - I honestly wish people would stop hounding Iran. It may be Islamic, it may even not like the U.S. very much and it may very well have the knowledge and capabilities of making nuclear weapons but that does not mean it's some crazy country out to make nuclear weapons and use them so stop treating them like they're one! Our Man in Havana an excellent article about why economic sanctions are terrible and don't work and hurt people and have NOT been effective in the majority of states it was used against, continues to be ineffective against these same states and it's been like this for over 20 years. Attacks in Saudi Arabia aimed to Rattle the Dynasty - I have a lot of new respect for the Saudi Dynasty after reading a very in depth and LONG article in the National Geographic in October. I had never known before that how advanced the government and society was or how it ran and how the Kings met with their people - big and small to hear all complaints and requests and handled them - from things as little as problems with animals, land to acquiring buildings and overseas mergers etc. HOWEVER I have no respect for the Saudi men who majority are just lazy bums who don't work at ALL - they import in laborers and people to hold positions from menial jobs to high paying technology jobs. Saudi men in general all have degrees in theology and no skills and won't do work that's beneath them - THAT i have NO respect for! The country could improve a LOT in that respect. WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION rules that the U.S.'s tarrif against steel is illegal and BOY DO I AGREE. Well ok maybe not illegal but not right. In retaliation, Europe and other countries are doing a $2million (or is it billion?) sanction on various U.S. imports! The Steel Tarrif is NOT necessary and it hurting people more than helping. And I think sanctions or reverse tarrifs on US imports would FARRRRR outweigh any steel tarrif benefits so c'mon BUSH ADMINISTRATION - fix things and abide by the WTO - it would show some solidarity and would show that the US doesn't put itself above the international community's decisions. People in the Bush Admin are already advising Bush to ignore the WTO. Sure sure, ignore em G.W. but then when you and our country feels some other country is being unfair to US let's see how well that country abides by the WTO's decision because it has the past example of the big, mighty US ignoring the WTO.
*WARNING* POLITICAL OPINION BELOW ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE IN ALABAMA - DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE OFFENDED AND THEN YOU CAN BLAME UR DUMB SELF FOR READING WHEN I WARNED YOU NOT TO :D REMEMBER, I'LL DELETE :D
So I hear about this Roy Moore guy who was Chief Justice in Alabama and thinks he's above the law and would't remove the Ten Commandments. Hey buddy! It's unconstitutional to endorse any kind of religion in our country which supports ALL religions not just Christianity and I'm speaking as a Christian here. We gotta stop forcing our religion and views on others cause we don't endear anyone to us that way. Jesus didn't go around crusading people - he taught the right things by word and example and people went to him naturally. If Christians would behave like Jesus did and lead by example instead of acting like EVERYTHING in our whole Christian doctrines and dogma is the word of God itself and 100% right then maybe we'd get somewhere.
As for the U.S. itself - as a Christian who's gone through law school and studied the constitution and past law cases on religion and the constutition - our constitution allows us to publically practice our belief in religion - so I can go and put the 10 Commandments on MY Front Door BUT putting them on the Court's or any State Government's doors is wrong as it mixes church and government and there HAS to be a separation of church and state in order to be a fair decisionary body on all religions - leaving the 10 Commandments there was an indirect endorsement of the Christian religion and a Courthouse of the United States representing many religions should not have one religion's commandments there and none other's.
I'm GLAD Moore was removed - he can put the granite commandments on his door but not at the courthouse and he, as a Judge, should've know that - u think leaving the 10 Commandments on your courthouse wall will do any good other than to divide a nation in to the Christians vs. Non-Christians? If you put the 10 Commandments there, you gotta put Buddha, Allah, Greek Gods and I dunno Cher and Sonny too cause I hear people worship them - meaning ALL religions get respected and shown equal treatment whether u believe in them or not. The government can't show any kind of bias or favoring of one religion over the other or it cannot be independent as the Constitution needs it to be when ruling on cases especially involving every religion in our country. You may love God and believe in Him as I do but when you're representing the United States and ruling on the law - God doesn't come into the letter of law in legal U.S. - He doesn't come into the courtroom - He is a separate entity that has to stay separate in order to rule based SOLELY on the law.
That's the way it's supposed to be according to Judge's opinions and case law - God and state have to be separate is what they say and I agree although the
Christian part of me wishes there was a way to allow God to be a part of things but it can't be - not in this nation of such diversity and still honour what the constitution means in this day and age to our melting pot. Do I wish we lived in a country that was 100% Godly and was God's nation of Christians and where everything was done to God's very own law? YOU BET! I'd love to be in God's land but the U.S., unfortunately, is the people of the United States' land - people of many nationalities and many, many, many religions.
It's because Christianity is the dominant religion (despite the many
sects) that it's gotten away with a lot in our history and in the Courts - why it's become so institutionalized - but
with all the immigrants and rise of so many religions and respect for all religions in the past 200 years, Christianity can't get away with such
predominance anymore and I think Christians as a whole are upset about that and take it personally as one only can when they believe so strongly in their faith -
inside I'm kind of upset too but that takes a backseat to the fact that I don't want the
non-Christians to be alienated by Christian views and
Christian-backed/favorable/biased laws. I don't want what this country stands
for - equality and fair justice to be interpreted as Christians make some hindu
child endure the pledge of allegiance with allegiances to a Christian God or to
have some Hindu man going to court face Christian doctrines in a courtroom
where he's maybe fighting for the right to display his religious beliefs in a
way that's contrary to Christianity for example. For examples like that and
many many more which I suck at giving is why I argue against church and state
having any connection.
My whole argument is as a Judge for a Court System - you're bound to separate church and state and leave out religious beliefs in the Court Room. Religion blinds one when dealing with cases and the letter of the law. I read once how Islamic scripture had law that states that if a man sinned with his hand that the law said that hand should be cut off. If we lived in an Islam-dominated country we'd certainly want separation of religion and state to enforce the country's laws separate from the religion's laws. AND THAT is the whole point here in this argument that I've winded every which where and back. Thank you veddy veddy much.
END OF POLITICAL OPINION
This has been a very, very long entry. I had a lot on my mind. I wonder how many people are gonna get offended and storm my poor, little comment box with their views and arguments. If you guys are that angry you shouldn't read a person's posts on their diaries about their political views! THINK if you KNOW ur gonna disagree with them and get all mad and offended! We're all entitled to our opinions and one's online journals is not the place to have a heated debate about the wrier's opinions.
it's been so cloudy and dismal past couple days although the light rain falling is so pretty :) I've been working on my songs this morning - this one song I had written initially on the day I found out my grandfather died I had thought I'd write it about death but as I worked on it today it developed into a song about lovers who are separated (either by distance or death) and the one who is singing is waiting for the other and singing about it. As I was writing it I was thinking about the wives of soldiers in Iraq waiting for their husbands to come back and be ok. I dunno if I'll title the song Nightingale's Song or Days Go By....still need to finish it.....
I can't tell you guys how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Gilmore Girls. Thank GOD there is still one show on that is so much fun to watch each week. I never got into Smallville - preferring the Lois and Clark series instead. Lois and Clark is one of the best shows ever! :) I'm a sucker for shows like that and Moonlighting, 3's Company, The Nanny and Fresh Prince of Bel Air - stuff like that really doesn't exist anymore. None of the ABC shows really appeal to me and shows on the WB still have yet to grow on me other than Gilmore Girls which I love to death! :)
If my dad is ok with it (I hope so!) Ricky might be coming to spend thanksgiving with us :) YAAAYY! In which case I'm gonna take him to the city for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade :) Think I'll take him to Columbus Circle early so we can see the best parts. Then we'll go buy the apple pie and come home and help with the cooking and have a yummy thanksgiving :D What to do for the rest of the weekend though? I wanna take him to the Cloisters at the Metroplitcan Museum and to Greenwich Village for dinner....and maybe go catch some live music somewhere....probably go see a show too.....he's had such an AWFUL past 5 weeks working and I wanna make thanksgiving weekend really good for him :)
I got a subscription for ASTRONOMY magazine yesterday and started reading up on how to buy the best binoculars and telescope although I won't be buying that just yet. I want a multi-purpose telescope one day in my mansion's garden ;) LOL! I designed my future manson using Thomas Kinkade's artwork as a basis. I'll post it when I'm finished :) It's just for fun but it'll probably develop to how I build my dream house.
Gonna spend today reading and writing and helping mummy cook. Memory twilight colors sound beautiful :) I'd love a room colored like that! *HUGS*
the get together tonight was a lot of fun! I saw people I hadn't seen since Binghamton (where I went to college)!! We went to Paladar's which is off of Houston on Ludlow - ordered yummy food - the best being the dessert - a delicious banana thing covered in brown sugar and rum with whip cream! :) We gotta do more stuff like this. I laughed SO HARD tonight! I finally got to meet a lot of Neil's friends and Sashi was there too and got to meet some of her hysterical friends who went to college in Louisiana. They had me crackin up ALL NIGHT. Neil had a happy birthday and I'm glad :) We went to Punch & Judy's or something like that on Clinton St. afterwards and it's this really cool restaurant/bar - it serves wines and beers! I had something called a Riesling - a light sweet white wine which was nice :) Wines still don't really appeal to me though. 2 old friends from Bingo and I then caught a cab back to Grand Central at 1am and I just got in now. I saw the most gorgeous site around the moon just now - there's a HUGE ROUND white circle about the equivalent of 15 to 20 feet from the moon around it. Breathtaking. Dunno why any of that happens. I just had a fun night in the city like I haven't had for over a year since I graduated law school! :) I'm sleepy - see you guys in the morning.
Updated at 12noon
So you guys know how I've always loved the sun, moon and stars? So last night when I saw that gorgeous large circle / ring around the moon I had to look it up.
That's what I saw except it was PURE WHITE RING and PURE WHITE MOON. It was....like.....how can there be anything ugly or wrong with the world when you look up at the sky and see something as amazing as that? There is so much freaking beauty in the world that we've never seen. I felt so lucky to be coming home at 2am and seeing that.
I found out that the "cross" effect around the moon you see or those weird beams or pillars of light you see and this halo / ring are caused by crystal cloud particles in the cirrus clouds part of the atmosphere. It happens with the sun too! And with the moon, it's an indication that rain is on the way - the significance of these crystal cloud particles which reflect or refract the moonlight signify high altitude, thin cirrus clouds that normally precede a warm front by one or two days. Typically, a warm front will be associated with a low pressure system which is commonly referred to as a storm.
Cool huh? :)
If you're interested like I am about the sky, moon, earth etc etc bookmark this site which is a WEALTH of resource: Earth and Sky.org - I found a LOT of people saw the halo or white ring around the moon last night on the message board at EarthandSky.org called The Observer's Notebook - click on the Observer's Notebook link at that link here to get the most recent stuff. You can listen to the Earth and Sky shows on WSIA-FM (88.9) - search their radio station guide to find a place near you.
Lastly, here's a comic I found interesting:
funny huh? :)
- Nishi
Monday, November 10, 2003
05:12 p.m. EST
my parents can be so cool it surprises me :) They were ok about me going to my friend's bday party tonight - papa was concerned of course but they're ok with me going :) YAAAY :D Neil told me if I get him a present he'll throw me out of there. Well nothing I could do anyway - with both folks out of the house today I couldn't use the car. I'll get him a card or maybe stop by a Barnes and Noble and see if they have a Faith Hill calendar since he loves her so much. Hahahahah :)
I applied to 5 new positions and then realized after sending either 3 or 4 coverletters that I misspelled rhetoric and wrote it rhetotic in the cover letter. Great. Just great.
Tomorrow I call up where I interviewed and find out if I get a call back or got anything. I guess if the price is right I'll accept or give it a week to consider in case any of these human rights-focused positions ignore the "rhetotic" spelling and call me! ;)
Memory parents surprise us at how cool they can be huh? It's true what they say about not underestimating ur parents and just being honest and asking them things and working on it. :)
Now what the heck should I wear to this party tonight? I found out the restaurant is latin american - YUMMYYYY! Getting hungry just thinking about it hahaha :) It's freezing outside so no dress - slacks and a warm sweater or shirt and my long grey coat and leather gloves it is.
See ya guys whenever I get back or tomorrow.
- Nishi
Sunday, November 9, 2003
05:38 p.m.
*looks at comment box* lord almighty! Perused this is what I said and I don't know HOW it could offend you. "I like natural gently sweeping arcs and not that weird diagonal thing a lot of the chinese-beautician salons I've been to do." The truth is they were 100% chinese - all the ones I went to. They spoke chinese and I even practiced my chinese with them and held personal convos with them. All who did my nails and eyebrows were chinese and my comment was only meant about my own experiences with the chinese beauticians I went to always doing a diagonal shape on my eyebrows. Andante understood what I meant. I'm sorry if I offended you but I would NEVER generalize or say anything negative about any culture, esp chinese which i LOVE cause I'm just not that kind of person. Heck I study chinese every sunday in chinatown and live for chinese food and 4 of my closest friends in the world are chinese and they agree with me on this stuff! I said what I said because it's true! ALMOST every chinese beautician I went to I'm not happy with - they either butchered my hair, scraped my nails, only 5 out of like 50 ever did the best job on my nail's cuticles and they no longer work at the places, shaped the nails all crooked or just plain left all sorts of stuff around the nails that shouldn't have been and dangit, arch my eyebrows in such a way that I am now actually growing them out to get back the nice graceful arch I want. I repeat what I said "I like natural gently sweeping arcs and not that weird diagonal thing a lot of the chinese-beautician salons I've been to do." It's a fact a lot - maybe not all - but a lot (which is what I said in the quotes) do that arch thing and they were all 100% chinese. Not a vietnamese or malaysian or japanese among them.
Any people who have had bad experiences with indians who like threaded their eyebrows off or I dunno bindhied their forehead to pieces feel free to leave a message and I won't get offended - I had some horrible indian people give me a facial once and they scraped my nose so bad it was burning for weeks - dammit I didn't even have anything THERE. Oh and before I get remarks on that - I'M INDIAN!
Beauticians ugh. I'm stickin to europeans.
So anyway Andante *HUG* thanks for comin to bat for me :) LOL! You're cool. How've u been? William uh no thanks bub.
The moon outside is YELLOW! It's gorgeous! Look! Look! Look! So I went to chinese class today and after class, my friend Chelsea took me to a place by the Chinatown Park on Mulberry street where we had the YUMMIEST fried dumplings - only $1 for 5 and I was stuffed! :D DELICIOUS!!!!!! After that we said bye and I headed to Barnes and Nobles where I picked up the BRAND NEW CERES #5, ALICE 19th #1, and WILD ACT #3. I can't believe Alice 19th was out - I was lucky to get it - it was the last copy they had. I went to Kinokuniya afterwards but as usual, they never have new manga when it comes out and still don't have Max Lovely #4.
I went to Central Park after that, talked on the phone with Mekha (one of my 3 sisters and she's the one who's a twin) and read WILD ACT on a bench by one of the ponds in Central Park. It was so CROWDED on 5th Avenue and Central Park today. After half an hour when my fingers couldn't turn pages anymore cause they froze, I left and saw a street fair going on 5th - bought hot apple cider and a yummy SMORE'S covered apple on a stick. MMMMMM :D I just got home a little while ago and I wanna take a nice hot shower, have some dinner, and curl up and read my new manga. Ceres made me freakin CRY on the train - it's so sad sometimes. I LOVE TOOYA AND AYAAAAAAAAA. I can't wait to update TooyaandAya.com
My friend Neil just told me that he's having a small party or something of the sort in the city tomorrow night for his birthday (which is actually on Tuesday). Now I gotta hunt for something really good to give him and can't think of anything. He says he doesn't want anything but c'mon! I can't show up empty handed to one of my oldest friend's bday shindigs. Anyone ever heard of Paladar? That's where it's being held and I never heard of it. Agh - hope my parents will be ok with it - well this is where I break them in. "Papa, mummy, I'm going out to my friend's birthday party - it's at 9pm I won't be back till late." Then I get ready for the "Why that late?? You know we go to sleep then! You shouldn't make plans that late." Then I come back with "Remember when I said ok I'll continue to live at home with you guys but u have to understand that there will be nights I go out for parties really late and don't come back till late." My dad had been not too happy to agree with that and said "We'll see,..I duno about that" and I'd said "No seeing. That's what you have to accept. If I was living alone I'd always be out late. It won't be different just cause I live at home and am viewed as a 16 yr old instead of a 26 yr old." Dammm....I really SHOULD have moved out to an expensive apt I couldn't afford huh? Well can't wait for the sparring. Fill u guys in on it tomorrow.
Are you guys keeping an eye on the moon tonight? From 6pm (right now) to 10:30pm u can see the full lunar eclipse and it will be red or coppery at about 8:06 EST. I've got the blinds open in my room and am staring out at the gorgeous moon as I write.
So I spent the morning washing dishes and sweeping and mopping all thwe downstairs floors (tiles and wood) and the upstairs stairs - took 2 hours or so *whew* and after a late lunch, relaxed the rest of the afternoon curled up on my bed, drinking hot cocoa and reading my magazines - finished the October issues of Vogue and JANE and am now working on all my November issues. I just got Cosmo's Dec issue and it has Christina Applegate on the cover (I adore her on Friends).
Everytime I go to the Estee Lauder make up counter at ANY mall they NEVER have copper foundation. So now as I was researching make-up for Indian women I learned that PRESCRIPTIVES has 150 shades and will custom make foundation and make up for you! You pay an expensive price but for the perfect look - hey it's worth it then buying stuff in stores that u throw out cause it doesn't work right with you.
I found an article online on handbag.com which tells you how to get your best eyebrow shape. Some of the best tips I read were:
The inside edge of your eyebrow should align with the inner corner of your eye.
The easiest way to find how long the tail of your eyebrow should be is to imagine the under-eye line continued to where it would meet with the eyebrow.
The arch of your eyebrow should follow the curve of your upper eyeline.
It's SOOO hard to find make up that works for my skin - I think I'll go to Prescriptive next time. Everytime I go to a salon to get my eyebrow done it always comes out a lil different then when I went in. There's this one woman in Carmel/Brewster who I thin I may actually DRIVE the 45 minutes distance who has ALWAYS done an amazing job with my eyebrows. I have this weird arch some salon gave me and I hate it. I like natural gently sweeping arcs and not that weird diagonal thing a lot of the chinese-beautician salons I've been to do.
So reading Jane - which ALWAYS cracks me up, some fun stuff in the October issue: a British woman's tongue stud was hit by lightning during a storm. The charge left her with blisters all over her mouth and she couldn't speak for 3 days. Next, eavesdroppers, funny stuff overheard example 1: "Conservative-looking guy talking on his cell phone: 'At least I'm not the one who dated a mime.' - the eavesdropped started laughing and the guy turned around and glared at him/her :D More fun eavesdropped stuff at: http://www.murphguide.com/overheard.htm
I'm gonna spend the rest of this Saturday night watching the eclipse, giving myself an eye mask, reading and eating yummy chappati and sambar :) MMMMMMM I love Saturdays.
- Nishi
Friday, November 7, 2003
03:47 p.m.
a friend just reminded me about the Lunar Eclipse tomorrow night. Make sure you guys look for it. At about 8:06 EST for 25 minutes there will be an eclipse of the moon which will turn the moon red! See http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2003Nov09T.gif for where you are on the map and when you can view the eclipse.
I've had this weird stuffy nose that's lasted for at least 3 weeks - maybe even a month - I thought it might be allergies although I've never had an allergy in my life - allergic maybe to the new linen-n-things rugs I bought a couple weeks ago? But even when Ileave the room or the house for a long period of time my nose remains slightly stuffy. I think it might be sinusitis which is curable with antibiotics. UGH I hope it's not allergies. I'll need to go see a doctor soon.
Watching the autumn here is so beautiful. The lake outside my window reflects the orange, red and yellow colors of the leaves on the trees surround it. I wanna go hiking in the woods tomorrow. I'm still reading Calvin & Hobbes :) I LOVE that comic strip (also Luann, Cathy, Garfield, The Far Side, Curtis to name a few) the author of the Calivn & Hobbes strip is hysterical and always raises great points in his strips. Stuff like "we spend our lives going to school, going to college, maybe grad school and then work until we die. What about time to play and explore?" Is work and school IT to life? Are we just like machines who are programmed from childhood to go to school, grow up and get a job and yes, work till we retire when we're 65 at which age we're so old and health has dropped so much we can't enjoy the world 1/2 as much as we could when we were 25!? The time to enjoy and live life to the fullest is NOW. That's why they say its so important to make the best of ur life now - don't stay tied to unhappy jobs, make your own happiness cause now is ALL you've got.
Ricky just told me on IM that Ami flew to China today for the Miss World pageant. It airs Dec. 6. I'm so excited and nervous for her. I have to get in touch with our friend Ab to find out how I can email or get in touch with her to wish her luck. I dunno if she'll win or not but I hope she's gets *something*! I can't wait till she comes back and I can hear all the backstage stories and all the dirt on the other contestants! LOL! hahaha :) I hope she wins or gets something at least. Make sure you guys root her on! She's representing India!!
I gotta go help the folks. See ya later :)
- Nishi
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
11:48 p.m.
Tomorrow's Nov. 6 - which means I have exactly 3 months before my birthday - 3 months to finish losing these last pounds, to fine tune my voice, my songs, my LIFE. Every birthday the past few years has been like this to me...it's a time to assess my life. Am I doing what I want to be doing, have I made of my life everything I ever dreamed and wished and if not, am I doing what needs to be done to get there? I want to turn 27 three months from now knowing I've accomplished a lot. That I'm not the same old Nishi. That I'm stronger, smarter, wiser, a better person all around - that I've made advances on my dreams....
We had appachen's (grandfather's) 40th day remembrance celebration today. Achen (priest) came as did some of mummy's family and some of our dear family friends. Papa ordered WAAAAY too much food but at least he included "neeappam" which is this delciious dark burgundy sweet in the shape of..like...a pattycake is all I can think of. It's YUMMY :) I was hoping my cousins would've come - heck ANY kids but they didn't so I was pretty bored and stayed in my room reading my new Calvin & Hobbes book I got at Barnes and Noble. Calvin & Hobbes crack me up :)
I applied to some "writer" positions at magazines and journals and trade publications last night. I had a weird crisis last night after applying thinking maybe I didn't need to become a professional singer/recording artist - maybe I'd be just as happy writing full-time and I was like oh my GOD is this really the way I think? And then today WHEW sanity came back. I definitely want to BOTH sing and write ALWAYS. I realized that writing as a career would still be unsatisfactory for a good while until I somehow built such a reputation that I could write what I wished to - mainly my own political and international affairs pieces for causes that interest ME. As just a 1st year attorney with no real journal/magazine publications to my credit, I'd just be stuck writing for a long time for whatever my senior editors wanted or whatever the people who hired me wanted me to write. I'd have to have enough financial stability and enough of a repuation before a magazine/employer would let me pursue my own writings and publish my analysis on world affairs in their publications. And I thought, if I ONLY pursued writing full-time what about my songs? What about those moments when I'm washing the dishes and I break out into song and so badly wish I could share these songs with other people? If I could make it as a singer/recording artist and STILL have worked on political/international affairs pieces as a freelancer, then some publication might one day hire me based on my marketability and let me write about the causes and human rights abuses I so very much want to expose and make people aware of. It'd be so amazing LOL I could fundraise for charities by singing and at the same time write pieces that would educate people about things going on around the world.
No, I realized....music and writing are both a dual part of me....I can't do one alone and leave the other out....they're both the best things about me....in my songs and in my writings, everything comes out. All of me. No...I HAVE to make my songs heard....I HAVE to get out there....my songs, my voice will be the beginning through which I can help make a difference...
I gotta work on a "legal" letter for papa - he always asks for legal letters which is basically when I write something with all my writing skills since Papa being a 1st generation Indian can't express himself as well as someone who grew up here could. His vision of legal letter is me throwing in such language and stuff that sounds so intelligent and scary that anyone who's wronging him in his real estate business will sit up and immediately correct his actions. Instead, I wind up just writing a good letter that gets across the problem and the actions that will be sought if the said person doesn't comply. Thus, papa has his "legal" letter he wanted ;)
Suni I kept trying to make an Aishwarya layout but couldn't do anything I really liked - I wound up making a wallpaper instead :D saylor of love Hi! I hope you realize your dreams too! Good luck and nice meeting u :) Caro-chan *HUG* I love you :)
Night guys!
- Nishi
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
07:12 p.m.
The interviews went fine :) I wasn't really drawn to any of them - they're all litigation heavy and demanding and the hours suck. I don't know how any of them pay so that will be a factor. They all give 4 weeks vacation though which is cool. I don't know - none of them were really for me but then again, a job is a job right? Just a means to an end....Miyu-chan I don't wanna end up like that....don't wanna be unhappy with what I do for 10 hours of the day......I hope I find something I really like soon.
Well I have something that cheers me up. I won this beautiful Serenity and Endymion cel from the R MOVIE :) Cost a fortune but it's so rare and so gorgeous it's worth it :)
Gonna add it to my cel gallery. After the interviews I headed to Barnes & Noble and picked up BASARA vol. 2 and more gorgeous art by Thomas Kinkade - his calendar and a hard cover diary cause my hard cover journals are almost finished. It's such a cold rainy day - after yesterday's gorgeous 76 degrees it sucks to be back to cold. Spent all evening helping my mom cook - whew am tired!
Plante yup I am :) nice to meetcha :) Steph thank you :) *HUG* Memory I did add you :) I love friendster too :) *HUGS* Definitely check SOUTH out :) Morbid Angel thanks! I love Emeraude - but I think I may change this layout to one of Aishwarya Rai (she was Miss World once and is now a great Hindi Film Actress. Leanna *HUG* I haven't talked to u in ages! Thank you so very much :) I'm lucky to have people like you who believe in me and support me. *big hugs* :)
I'm off to watch some tv, read a music industry book and maybe watch a little anime :D I have my ULTRA MANIAC vcds still to watch. See ya guys later.
- Nishi
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Name: Nishi
Age: 26
Where: New York
Faith: Christian
Sign: Aquarius
AIM: SelenityHime
ICQ: 21380169
Email: be83398@yahoo.com
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My Websites A Dream I Dream
My personal page with pictures of me and everything I love!
TooyaandAya.com
Devoted to Touya/Tooya and Aya of Ayashi no Ceres!
UsagiandMamoru.com My favorite and best couple ever! Sailor Moon's Usagi and Mamoru (Serena and Darien)
MiakaandTamahome.com My tribute to Fushigi Yuugi's main couple who always have my heart, Miaka and Tamahome!
Max Lovely.com
A site all about the Ribon Manga series MAX LOVELY - has images, summaries and more!
Nishi Selenity's Treasures
My collection anime and manga collectibles and merchandise - dolls, posters, everything!
Favorite Actresses
Nicole Kidman
Demi Moore
Gwyneth Paltrow
Reese Witherspoon
Kate Hudson
Julia Roberts
Magazines etc I read:
Vogue
Cosmopolitan
Jane
Shape
Fitness
Allure
US Weekly
The Economist
Discover
National Geographic
Time
New York Times
Commondreams.org
Things I Support
Favorite Manga and Anime most everything in Ribon and Nakayoshi!
Ayashi no Ceres/Ceres Celestial Legend
Basara
Delicious! (Yui Ayumi)
Fruits Basket
Fushigi Yuugi
Gals / Super Gals!
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
Kare Kano
Kodomo no Omocha
Magic Knights Rayearth
Maria (Naoko Takeuchi)
Marmalade Boy
Max Lovely
Mint No Bokura
Miracle Girls
Random Walk
SailorMoon
Saint Tail / St. Tail
Tokyo Mew Mew
Vampire Game
Wild Act
MY WISH LIST
If anyone's thinking of getting me a gift for my birthday or christmas or whenever ;)
Saint Tail Plush Keychain of St. Tail
Kodocha TokyoPop translated english manga vol 10
Kare Kano TokyoPop Translated Manga vol 6 and on!
Ceres Celestial Legend 5+
Vampire Game Vol 4+
Basara Vol 3+
Wild Act Vol 3+
Nakayoshi / Nakayosi manga issues:
December 1987 and January 1998
December 1989 - May 1990
Ribon Manga issues
November 1998 - August 1999
My Adoptees
Shown are adoptees from Sailor Moon, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Star Wars Attack of the Clones, Lord of the Rings, and Emeraude from Magic Knights Rayearth, X-Files, the child-like empress from the Neverending Story, St. Tail!, The Labyrinth, Satine from Moulin Rouge, and HARRY POTTER!
My Desktops
Words I live by:
Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God - never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And the man who kneels to God can stand up to anything. -Louis H. Evans
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
"All human wisdom is contained in these two words: wait and hope." - The Count of Monte Cristo
"The winds of God are always blowing but it is up to you to set the sails." - UNKNOWN
"The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. [Which means:] To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy
