Thursday, February 21, 2002
11:52 p.m.
Wow! I've been watching the Olympic Figure Skating and saw Sarah Hughes skate a gorgeous routine! WOW! She definitely earned that gold medal! :) Sarah Beth why do you hate the Olympics? The opening ceremonies are so gorgeous and the many events are so exciting! :) Anywayz, it's Lisa's BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! I made her a b-day page which she'll see tomorrow and all it needs are Sarah beth's and Lydia's pages! I also finished 8 cover letters :) yaaay :) Wonder when Kinokuniya will get the next Ribon! I'm anxious to see the next chapter of Max Lovely! which is SUCH a lovely drawn manga! :) Wish I could get ahold of the Dec. 2001 Ribon which had the 1st chapter of it. Anywayz - almost time to go to sleep. *HUGS* to all and good night :)

- Nishi

Thursday, February 21, 2002
03:36 p.m.
WAI WAI - I WANNA WORK FOR THE FBI!!!!!!

That's right - I really wanna work as a lawyer for the FBI! I left Estate Tax class early cause I didn't feel good and went to Rite-Aid to buy Day-Quil but they were out so I got Halls Throat Drops (they taste awful) and on my way back to the dorms, at the front desk of my hall was one of the cool guards who was nice to Rick and me - his name is Jose Colon (accent on the last "o") and he's SO COOL! He used to be in the FBI and was one of the ppl part of the whole Elian Gonzalez thing (the lil cuban boy) and he told me how easy it was for me to go from law school straight to FBI - all I needed was my JD and I could be working in FBI making $50K-$60K with all govt benefits and insurance! He's gonna look into the information I need to apply and I'll visit him again on Sunday or Monday :) I'm so excited! Working at the FBI is SOOOOOOOO much better than slaving away at some law firm and billing hours from morn till night.

It's 3:30 now and I'm getting settled in to apply to law firms - making cover letters and things - yippee ;) while excited about ideas of the FBI, who knows if they'd hire me and who knows if I could stay working in New York City or in the Tri-State area....plus I need to be making at least 50K in order to afford an apartment and pay back my loans and everything. Write more later :)

- Nishi

Thursday, February 21, 2002
01:26 a.m.
:( I'm sick and have a sore throat :( rick told me I was catching a cold...and now here it is - if I tell my mom - she'll tell me "i told you so" too but it's 10 times worse with her - she'll go into how I don't dress warm enough, don't eat enough, and spend too much time going around and catching colds blah blah blah! (weird mom logic, ya know?)

So I'm up late at 1am drinking hot cocoa and talking to some IM buddies :) I put up an auction - a gorgeous Sailor Moon manga poster! Go check out: UsagiandMamoru.com Sales and Auctions for the poster! I also got back about 5 or 6 replies about the UM.com convention I wanna hold in 2003! This is exciting - to finally hold a huge convention would be AWESOME.

I'm waiting for rick to call back so I can get settled in and sleep. I love sleeping...and dreaming...nothing like letting your head relax into your pillow and feel your body sink lightly into the bed.....I love eating too! :) And while I'm on this subject - anyone out there love the feeling you get when you work out and feel your heart pumping and your whole body working right? It's amazing to see how powerful your body is, how strong and capable it is. Okie...time for lights out...hurry up and callllllll rickkkkkkkk. :) Love you :) hehehe :) Night everyone!

- Nishi

Tuesday, February 19, 2002
12:15 a.m.
Yep it's after midnight and I'm up late studying Trademarks/Copyright Law and Legal Medicine - whoopee! :) I LOVE THESE QUIZES!! Surprise - I'm buffy and Marcia ;) and the Greek Goddesses thing is cool - I'm 3 of them ;) And I like that I'm a water spirit but the last 3 choices of music are ALL ones I like and I become a fire or wind spirit if I switch my music tastes (so I guess it's a combo of all 3?) agh - it's just FUN :)

Tuesday, February 19, 2002
10:40 p.m.
err...ok...not feelin so good about how happy my mom is about my boyfriend....I'm glad that both my mom and dad are happy with him but WOAH - my mom's TOO HAPPY and they are rushing it WAY TOO FAST - they're making it too serious and I'm definitely not ready for seriousness like that. We don't know if we want to be married to each other for the rest of our lives - esp not after 9 months! My mom said something about my dad having dreams and I said well those may not happen. I told her I don't know what the future holds....I was with S. for 4.5 years and he was perfect for me and look what happened - we broke up. Now here's my current love and he's not perfect for me but I still love him the same too. I don't plan things in life anymore. God knows what'll happen tomorrow. Right now - he and I are in each other's lives and love each other a lot and that will remain whether we stay together or not. I don't want my parents pressuring me or rushing my relationship with him. Whatever my parents duties or dreams are, this is my life and, especially my *love life* - I wanna just leave it to my own decisions and to what God decides is best for me.

- Nishi

Tuesday, February 19, 2002
08:04 p.m.
Guess what???? :) I finally picked a winner for the UM.com V-Day Give-Away!!! The winner is this girl named April Flores who goes to Binghamton U!!! I went to Bingo for college!!!!!! She's even a literature/rhetoric major like I was and she wants to do journalism too! How cool is that? :) In all I got 20 entries, so I have a LOT of stickers to buy!

Sarah Beth's present for my birthday arrived today - she totally surprised me and got me the brand new Marmalade Boy translated manga comic!! Books 1 and 2 and I'm so excited! I lov3e you Sawah!!!!!! *HUGGGGGGGG* Now all I need are the Kodocha ones! :) Also in the mail, I got the beautiful, stunning Sailor Moon CD Promo poster - it is breathtaking and in nearly perfect condition! It was worth the full $61! :) Pictures below :)

Tuesday, February 19, 2002
07:21 p.m.
So it turns out - since my mom met my sweetheart yesterday - that I now have my mom and dad's approval of him!!!!! hahaha how cool is that huh? :) I'm glad my parents support my relationship :) we love each other a lot and time and God will tell how things turn out :)
- Nishi

Monday, February 18, 2002
11:48 p.m.
well....i talked to S. about the pictures he sent back...as I knew, he didn't mean harm by it...he actually thought it was ok...but what I think he didn't understand is that those pics were taken *for* him so to have them back just reminds me of when I took them, how happy I was, and actually reminds me of how he used to say "i want more piccsssss" - I don't think he knew how hurt I'd be. I put them away in this bag I keep some of the things I treasured from him and after crying some more, am feeling better. Got my books open - some new hindi songs playing and soda! My Ricky will be back in L.A. in 10-15 minutes so YAAAY I'll get to talk to him....he always makes me feel better after stuff like this.....if you're reading this rickers *MWAH* I love you and thank you so much for being the best boyfriend to me.

The UM.com Valentine's Day give-away has thus-far generated 5 postcards - but that's only as of last Thursday - I still didn't get Friday's or Saturday's mail cause campus mail closed for the undergrad's spring break - SHEESH - so I have to get all the mail tomorrow which means everyone who was late - gets lucky whose postcards I all get tomorrow. After tomorrow - I won't accept anymore. Some of them were SO creative - one girl actually DREW me a sailormoon postcard - it was gorgeous! If I find a scanner, I'll scan it in and add it to the fan art section. She was really talented! :)

I'm already planning UM.com's 5th Anniversary celebration for 2003! I'm gonna hold a convention! I want it to have costumes and vendors and anime showings and lotsa fun stuff. This is gonna take a crazy amount of work but I think it can be done :) I really should do something for MiakaandTamahome.com too but it doesn't seem so fan-driven!

Night Sawah and Lydz and Lisi and everyone else. *HUGS*

- Nishi

Everything that happened from Wed 2/13 to today Mon 2/18
Monday, February 18, 2002
09:12 p.m.
Everything that happened from Wed 2/13 to today Mon 2/18
Ok I got a lot to write. So let's break this down :)

Wednesday, Feb. 13th
Day started out fine until I got a package in the mail from him....it was something fine and expected but INSIDE it was something I did NOT expect - every single picture I had ever taken for him - even ones he LOVED - even the very first ones - all with such precious memories and where I had smiled JUST for him - he sent them ALL BACK. He said it was to provide some closure and so I could see how much I'd grown. What it did, in actuality, was break my heart for the 5th time. I sobbed and cried my heart out - not believing that all these pictures - ones he'd had for years and loved - he sent them all back. I took those pics FOR HIM - not for anyone else - what am I gonna do with them now? You don't send back pictures of the girl you loved and who loved you for 4.5 years! I remained upset the entire afternoon and evening which led to what happens next.

I then went restaurant shopping to find a place for Ricky and me to eat at on Valentine's night. With the package and the pictures on my mind - still making me upset - I walked and subway-hopped for 3 hours and found the perfect TIBET restaurant which served AMAZING food called Llasa over on 96 Second Avenue. Along the way - somewhere on the East Side....I saw the window of a palm reader. In that horrible, emotional state I was in...I did the unthinkable - I went in and paid $5 and had my palm read. Yeah. ME! It looked so safe and inviting - it was a small-home-like place with the family and kids in the next room (a living room) - the woman told me such crazy things. She told me Sunil was my soulmate and that he was unhappy in the relationship he was in now and that his girl would prove unfaithful (YEAH RIGHT!) and that with Ricky - we'd love each other but things would be hard (DUH!) cause I'd always compare the two (*roll eyes*). She said I'd have 2 kids and live to 87/88 and all this other crazy stuff. She told me stupid things that weren't true. It's obvious to me now that she was playing on my vulnerabilities but the BIGGEST TIP OFF that she MIGHT JUST BE A CON was that she told me the reason why S--- and I broke up was cause I had this AURA (details of which I won't go into) but that for $90 she could get rid of it. OH PLEASE! Needless to say at the time she said all this stuff - I was hit hard but when I thought back - I realized I'd helped give her a lot of the information she needed and she JUMPED on the info and seemed to fabricate a lot of stuff. I don't believe a word of the things she said and I AM SO SORRY I went to her. She messed up my head for the next 2 days. No wonder God and the Bible says not to go to those people.

My friends all reassured me and told me stories of other palm readers who also put the "aura" thing on their visitors and stated a sum that could get rid of it. They tell you things you want to hear and then tell you something crazy that will upset you and get u to come back to them and give you more money.

Thursday, Feb. 14th - VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
I picked Rick up from JFK at 6am!!! He arrived carrying 1/2 a dozen GORGEOUS ROSES - that he had ordered 1 week ago to be ready for pick up before his flight - so that they'd last all thru the flight and reach me. I went to class and then came back and Rick had arranged a wonderful surprise. He had mailed me things from RED ENVELOPE - a wonderful site that sells gorgeous things. He sent me on a treasure hunt through my suite finding little scrolls with hints to where the next present and scroll would be! I found cards and DELICIOUS CHOCOLATES and then the BIG surprise came later that night - but I'll get to that.

Rick's V-day treasure hunt was so romantic and FUN and sweet :) The chocolates are cherry/rum and WOW are they good. After that - we got ready and I changed into this little black dress I had bought on Monday night with Pete and Nitz. Rick loved it :) Betsy took pictures of us and we headed out! It was SUCH a cold night but we had a lot of fun. Once we found Llasa restaurant it was AMAZING - the food was DELICIOUS - I ordered THAK SHAK which is this huge soup of chicken and pasta and spinach and cottage cheese on top of the spinach - the description does no justice to HOW SPECTACULAR this is - soup is all I can call it - but it was MUCH MUCH more. We had a wonderful dinner. Afterwards, we headed back to our room where we exchanged gifts - I had bought him a sweater, the electronic battleship game, and some other things :) He loved the sweater and the game :) We played it a lot over the weekend :) He got me beautiful cards ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDD HE GOT ME THIS STUNNING SILVER CHAIN LOCKET FROM RED ENVELOPE!!!!!!!!!!!! The locket had my initial "N" on it and it opens up so a picture of him and me can go inside :):):):) I LOVED IT SO MUCH :) We had a very nice V-day :)

Friday, Feb. 15th, 2002
Agh - nothing worth mentioning here. Boring day - I spent it organizing a get together for sat night with my friends. called up Winie and Eun and a bunch of others I hadn't talked to in AGES! Was SOOOOO nice :)

Saturday, Feb 16th, 2002 Hyder is really cool :) He's the friend upstairs here at law school who helps out with signing Ricky in to stay over. On Sat night, Rick and I met up with Hyder and 2 of my old friends from college, Winie and Brian to go to CORNER'S BILLARD on 4th Avenue! It's this cool POOL HALL with tons of pool tables! We had so much fun and I LOVE POOL! Afterwards, we headed back to NYU MEDICAL where brian is a med student and we played more pool for free there and also played ping pong and foozball. Afterwards, Rick, Hyder and I went and saw COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. What a GOOD movie - it totally re-wrote the book and did a great job in the process - giving it a happy ending - it was a good movie - but for some odd reason - I didn't fall passionately in love with it even though it worked out perfectly. Something was missing. We didn't get home until I think 4am.

Sunday, Feb. 17th, 2002
Slept in late and went to the dollar store to buy things. Rick and I ate fast PAKISTANI food ;) We tried to get together with my little twin sisters but it was IMPOSSIBLE. They're too scared to take the bus and it was a hassle for us to go on Rick's last night here with me and we had a lot of work to do. Rick had a midterm coming on Tuesday. So that didn't work out. So rick and I just stayed home and studied.

Monday, Feb 18th, 2002
I miss my ricky so much now :( We had such a nice morning together and then mummy called to say hi to Rick before he left and then i called her back and told her to come down and visit me with food. I was SO HAPPY SHE CAME! Mummy and Ricky got to finally meet and it was nice :) She gave us a ride to the bus stop where we'd catch a bus to JFK to take rick back. Rick thought my mom was easy to talk to - comfortable and when I talked to mummy tonight - she liked him too but thinks he needs to eat more and put some more meat on him. HAHAHA

At the airport, Rick and I ate at TGIFridays (we were hungry again even though mummy had given us food in my room). A waiter took a picture of us together and Rick wrote something sweet in the journal he had sent me (that came with the sunflowers he sent me for my birthday). Reading it made me cry. :( I love him and miss him so much now. He and I disagree and fight a lot - and sometimes, it's REALLY bad....but thru it all - our love remains. I don't know if Rick and I will last or if we'll be together forever, but we have each other now and love each other and that's all that matters for now.

Riding back on the bus I missed him terribly. Coming home, mummy called and I got annoyed with her cause she was all worried about me being on the bus (sheesh) or being out late at night and told me about things she heard on news about crazy things happening in Manhatten. I know she just wants me to be safe and be careful but in wanting that - she wants me to stay home and NOT go out and live my life the way I want to. So i got very annoyed. I called her back and apologized for getting mad and told her how happy I had been to have her come down and meet ricky. So we made up and all's good :)

NOW...I'm eating some left over pakistani food and settling in to read and study and keep and eye on Rick's flight. He's on American Airlines....yeah...enough said. I've been writing from 9:12 and it's 9:42 now. *HUGS* to all. Must get going.

- Nishi

Tuesday, February 12, 2002
09:39 p.m.
I feel much better now :) Nitz and I went after class and got a manicure and pedicure - I got a special spa-predicure and the guy did a massage and all this cool foot reflexology stuff. He was able to tell all the stress I was under and even how often I went to the bathroom - talking about colons and large intestine stuff *yikes* :) And then we went and picked up some stuff from Genovese and also went and picked up food from this great italian place. Came home and called my parents who were giving me somewhat of a 3rd degree for not having called home since my birthday - I swear I forgot - I meant to call sunday and I fell asleep or got busy! I felt so awful :( but it's ok now :) I'm eating away happily and I just wish my room was clean again so I could curl up with a book and go to sleep - I need a full night's rest. Rick comes in 2 days - yaaaaaay :) It'll be good to see him - can't believe how much I've missed him.

- Nishi

Tuesday, February 12, 2002
01:48 a.m.
Ahhh I had a long Monday.....went shopping with Pete and Nitz at 5:30 :) bought a little black dress to wear on Valentine's day and also bought the game BATTLESHIP at Toys R Us and guess what else I found there? Sailor Moon's Moon Rod for only $5!!! I was so excited! Pete made a lot of fun of me for it though ;) My feet hurt like heck! And still no shoes to go with that beautiful new black dress - got it from Rampage - one of my fave stores in the mall.

REMINDER: must buy valentine's day cards and chocolates and candies!

I'm up now at 1:30am waiting for my clothes to be finished in the dryer downstairs - at least all the machines are free! I'm so behind in work it's stupid - what happened to all my birthday and new year resolutions - geez. I put up the new Valentine's Day layout for usagiandmamoru.com and put up a give-away as well! Let's see how many people actually mail in postcards! (Hope I'm not swimming in them @.@!!!) I promised everyone who sent in a postcard free stickers - I'll be buying out china town in the coming weekends it looks like.

I'm excited about V-day! Rick'll be here and we're going to the village for dinner. It'll be the first year that the one I care about is actually HERE - with me in person - I used to be just happy that I HAD a valentine in my Sunil - we used to send such beautiful, fun packages for each other - it was romantic and loving. I guess I'm blessed in that, no matter how things turned out, I've still been given love. Rick and I will make this V-day beautiful and I can't wait.

Ok time to collect laundry and finally go to sleep. Night folks! sleep tight and hope you're getting more work done than I am!

- Nishi

Saturday, February 9, 2002
04:27 p.m.
Happy Saturday everyone! Are you guys getting ZERO work done like me? I swear this is the 4th weekend since school started that I've not done ANY work! Somebody knock some sense into me!!!!! I spent the afternoon updating my photo gallery - check it out: Nishi's A Dream I Dream Photo Gallery. And look what my friend Sarah Beth did! She and I are old friends and a few of our other old friends are on a special, private group on yahoogroups and she made up a quiz for all of us! I took it and of course, got myself ;) and I switched answers and got Mac and Susan! Still working on Lydia, Lisa, and Sawah though ;)

Which YadaYadaYada Member are you?
You are NISHI!
You are the sweetest of your friends, and the queen! Your friends know when you are hurt it takes a long time to heal and will try to protect you, because they love you. No one can stay mad at you, and lucky is your romantic partner.

Happy Birthday to me :)
Wednesday, February 6, 2002
11:23 p.m.
Yes today was my birthday :) and it was really very nice :)

It started out last night with me going to bed at 6pm (feb 5th) so that I could wake up a couple hours before midnight to get my room and life and everything in order to start my 25th birthday off right! I cleaned out my desks, my room, organized everything! :) Around midnight, Ricky called me and ya know what he did? He sang happy birthday to me TWICE - maybe thrice - I can't remember exactly - he was SO sweet! He kept me waiting on the phone and wouldn't let me view this card he had sent me online cause he was hoping it would post on this "romantic dedications" website, but it hadn't so he let me finally see the card and it was SOOOO sweet! He told me how I was the most beautiful thing in his life and that I was a beautiful person in mind, body, and spirit and that he knew I would be everything I wanted to be. I love him so much for believing in me like this and for loving me as greatly and as passionately as he has.

After spending a lil while with him, I buckled down and worked on schoolwork until 7am! YES! 7am! I finally went to bed then and woke up to calls from my sisters and my mom wishing me happy b-day :) Ricky had told me to check the mail today so I left my last class of the day an hour early at 4 and went to the mail room where I found a package of flowers waiting. Betsy (my suitemate) and I opened it up when I got back to my room and it was this HUGE bouquet of SUNFLOWERS! GORGEOUS, HUGE STEMS! I can't believe rick sent those! :) And he also got me a journal and a scented candle along with it! What a perfect package! :)

I found wonderful emails from Lisa, Lydia and Sarah Beth and Laurelchan and Sashi and many from people I knew on my Usagi and Mamoru Mailing List and I was SOOOO touched! Extremely touched that Laurelchan and Sashi and Lisa and Sarah Beth and Lydia all remembered and cared enough :) Anywayz :) Someone else who remembered was S----....I didn't think he would even IM me....but am really touched that he did - even after all that has happened and how much he has hurt me and let me down....he is still someone I will always care a lot about and who'll always hold a special place in my heart. Sheba also called me quick late tonight :) she's so sweet :)

Anyway - after I had gotten home from school, papa and mummy picked me up and we went to my little twins sisters' dorms and from their went to Bennegan's restaurant and ate SO MUCH food - we came out of there with guts the size of nantucket! ;) Afterwards we went back to my sisters' dorms and cut the cake there and then I came back home and it was past 9pm :) Saw my suitemates Nitz and Betsy and caught up with them, shared the cake and Campus Ministry had put balloons and a card on my door - it all looked SO pretty :):)

It's now 12:28am February 7th and my birthday is officially OVER - so NOW starts the first day of the rest of my life. Wow....I just got off the phone with Rick :) he's such a funny nut - gotta love him :) I'm off to either do some Jewish Law reading or to sleep. Good night everyone :)

- Nishi - born Feb 6, 1977 - 25 years old! WOO HOO :)

Tuesday, February 5, 2002
10:35 a.m.
Didn't go to bed late till 3am or so and woke up around 8:30, emailed ricky and I'm off to start my day. Tomorrow's my birthday! I turn 25! Time to think if I've become everything I always wanted to be by 25? Pretty much - some areas still need to be improved but I have the rest of the year to obtain it! :)

I took the care bear quiz - thanks Lydia :) It's fun - take it too :)

See what Care Bear you are.

Sunday, February 3, 2002
2:30 p.m.
I'm so excited! I won 3 very beautiful posters and a super rare Usagi Pajama (Pyjama) plush (picturs below). Of the 2 green Sailor Moon posters - 1 I had already owned and is LARGE - 29" x 21" and the other is smaller and cropped at 16.5" x 23" (same size as the wedding senshi poster) all are paper - except the Miaka and Tamahome one I think :) (CLICK THUMBNAILS) - The Miaka and Tamahome one was pretty expensive but worth it! :)

Saturday, February 2, 2002
05:53 p.m.
Too much happened last night....all I gotta say is love is a freaking rollercoaster and you never know when the hell the ride might end. Things went from happy to the other end of the extreme - to the breaking point and then you get so tired and drained u just fall asleep and then u wake up next morning - and things have gone back to normal. God things are so crazy...but as long as things are fine right now, that's all that matters.

Anyway - woke up around one-ish and spent the whole afternoon with my Ribon goodies and online trying to find out about past Ribon Zen-In offers - especially this Random Walk Zen-In "French Ryuuku" blue bag - backpack? School bag? I wish I could find that! I looked through Max Lovely in Ribon and it looks really cute - the main star is so pretty and I like the art - wish I could find summaries or translations of it!

- Nishi

Friday, February 1, 2002
11:30 p.m.
I went to the city today with Lydia and we had so much fun! We went to this chinese food place called "Noodle Shop" on 45th street? or was it 44th? I forget - and I picked up my February Ribon subscription from Kinokuniya! It has SUCHHHHHH cute furoku items - like Max Lovely recipe book and an awesome FLOWER LETTER SET which had stationary inside :) Also went to Asahiya and got Seishun Shiteru KAI!!! YAAAAAAAY - I FINALLY own it! I can add it to my collection page and delete it from my wish list :)

Lydia and I walked for hours! I got to meet her boyfriend Sho - he's such a sweetie to her - all lovey dovey :) I took them back to my suite at school and showed Lydia my collection of anime stuff including my Luna P Ball :) hahaha it was fun :)

After they left, I was on the phone with Rick for a while :) was nice :) Betsy just came home and she helped me put together the Ribon furoku put-together Momoko Happy Valentine's Day box :) I love Ribon!!! :)

- Nishi

Thursday, January 31, 2002
07:30p.m.
WOW! I am SOOOOO fired up!

David Kaczynski was an amazing speaker! (the brother of the UNIBOMBER - Ted Kaczynski) I was already against the death penalty but now I have MANY more reasons to be against it. Mr. Kaczynski went into how close he had been to his brother (who was mentally disturbed) and how hard it had been to know he was the one who turned his brother into the authorities. He went on to give examples of how the Death Penalty executed SO MANY innocent people and how unfair it was - executing people who didn't have adequate legal representation and whose lawyers didn't care one way or the other - it was just another case to them to get rid of to move onto the others in the pile - it didn't matter if the guy could really be innocent. SO MANY cases have been overturned with new evidence showing people on death row were innocent via DNA or something.

I'm signing up for this "moratorium" thing that Mr. Kaczynski mentioned at tonight's presentation - it's for people who either (a) want an end to the death penalty or (b) have it stayed until it can be a better system with more accuracy in justice than it has been. I'm also signing up for this 9-11 LEGAL ASSISTANCE that my professor in Legal Medicine mentioned - we get to actually help victims of the 9-11 tragedy! How cool is that? :)

7:30 and it's almost time for Friends - I'm hungry - should I really eat something after having a brownie and 2 cookies AND soda? I'm ruining my whole healthy-diet. Sheesh. :)

- Nishi

Thursday, January 31, 2002
04:54 p.m.
Ya know how you get crackers with soup? Well today, during our 10 minute break in Jewish Law, I went and got soup and grabbed "Premium Saltine" crackers - I've got a new favorite cracker :) they're YUMMY! (big girl word - I know ;) )

I'm headed to a special speaker presentation at the law school - DAVID KACZYNSKI - he was the guy who, in 1996, alerted the FBI that his brother, Theodore, might be the "UNIBOMBER." He's going to speak to us about "Death Penalty in NY" :) should be interesting. Gonna meet Betsy and others there and soon as Nitz is ready I'm going.

On other matters - Asahiya got my order of Seishin Shiteru Kai! ENJOY YOUR YOUTH MANGA!!!!!!! It's the excellent series by Azuki Ryou that ran in Ribon Manga Magazine. I'm gonna go either on Friday or Saturday and pick it up.

Jewish Law was awesome today - got into such a great intellectual debate and discussion over application of legal system of jewish law in US law. Ok boring to you, I know but it was stimulating in class. I'm off - will write again later :)

- Nishi

Tuesday, January 29, 2002
09:00 p.m.
UGH! What is going on with Buffy? Spike and Buffy are just having mindless alley sex! and on Angel - he's falling for Cordelia? What in the world??? Every single show seems to be going SCREWY - what is this world coming to?

- Nishi

I'm in heaven! :)
Thursday, January 24, 2002
01:22 a.m.
Ok not really in heaven but ecstatic!

I finally won that Sailor Moon CD promotional poster but for $51 and with cost of shipping and the bidpay fee, it will come to $61! Below are the pics of all the items I won recently in the past 2 weeks. They're on my collections page and you can click the thumbnails to see the larger pics. These are the pencil boards and the coin purse and the poster I was talking about.



I'm in so much debt it's crazy.

- Nishi

Back from LA!
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
12:32 a.m.
I had a beautiful time in LA :)

I love California! Gorgeous weather - it was so sunny and warm - I hated coming back to NY! I was scheduled to leave back on Monday but when Rick and I got to the airport, at the last minute I changed my mind and decided I'd re-book and go back Tuesday instead :) It cost me a lot of money but the day was worth it! Ricky took me to an awesome anime store and I bought some goodies and then took me to a Japanese restaraunt and I LOVE Japanese fooooood :) I had this seafood curry thing and this fried squid appetizer with this black sauce (not soy sauce) poured on top and it was delicious! I love miso soup too :)

I'm staying up now to do work! I got my bar application today in the mail - to think I'll graduate from law school and actually take the bar exam in July - lord how life is changing. As for the things below...my heart still aches for the lost love...and for how sad it is that things and people can change but what can I do? Ricky's in my life and he loves me more than anything and I don't think I could move on from things as well as I have if it weren't for him. He and I had a beautiful long weekend together :)

I won this gorgeous Neo-Queen Selenity Coin Purse on ebay AND won two very beautiful pencil boards / shitajiki which had Usagi and Mamoru in Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion etc forms :) I'll be adding them to my collections page soon :)

- Nishi

Tuesday, January 15, 2002
10:22 p.m.
Somebody tell me: "what's the point in loving and giving of yourself if in the end, it all comes to nothing?" That's all I'm gonna say and it has nothing to do with Ricky.

I'll be going to see Ricky on Thursday in LA...long 12 hour flight...he says he'll make me feel better....I truly hope so...I've been so upset....feel just like last year....but maybe being with Rick will take my mind off it and help close the wound for good.

On a brighter note, Ruby told me that Asahiya (corner of 45th St. and Vanderbuilt Ave) is selling back issues of manga magazines!!! I'm going early tomorrow!

I'm gonna be up late doing work for my 2 classes tomorrow - one prof actually wants us to read a TON of cases online. Yeesh.

- Nishi

Happy Saturday!
Saturday, January 12, 2002
02:20 p.m.
Thank God the miserableness of last night is over! *sigh*

Ricky won't be able to come visit me on my birthday afterall, but I got him a flight for Valentine's day thru the 18th so yaay :) I'm still sad that we can't get what we originally intended cause he's involved in a case competition of which presentations take place ON my birthday. :(

Anyway...I'm still a lil down from last night but feeling better :) Slept till 12noon and it's sunny and gorgeous out! I'm gonna clean up this mess I call my room, cause I was too lazy to do it last night, and then get down to serious studying! :)

OH! I joined the Ribon ML, the Nakayoshi ML, and the Random Walk and Yui Ayumi Mailing Lists :) I'm so happy cause now I can ask and find answers to all my questions about stories like Gals! and Delicious! and Random Walk :) I also started making the commemorative anniversary page for UsagiandMamoru.com for its 3 Year Anniversary - now I'm thinking about how to celebrate its 4th and 5th years! Sheesh! The contest I held for the 3 Year anniversary had in all only 14 winners and only 4 get prizes - I have posters and stickers and things but need more things to form the prizes - I gave away so much as ebay gifts to people who won auctions from me. I gotta start my Saturday now - see you all later :)

- Nishi

Saturday, January 12, 2002
01:05 a.m.
Ya know how I was so happy below? Well you also know how they say when you're most happiest, something will always happen to take that happiness away? IT'S TRUE. I don't wanna talk about it here but had a miserable, horrible night. It's back to "normal" now and better again but *sigh* I have a headache now and eyes hurt from crying. So when you're feeling most happiest - temper it somehow - grieve over the homeless - something - anything.

- Nishi

I love Ribon!!!
Friday, January 11, 2002
05:28 p.m.
So I went to Konokuniya in NYC and got the January 2002 issue of Ribon and I am so happy I did - the furoku inside includes a 2003 calendar and features Max Lovely on the cover! YAAAAAAYYYYY! Now if ONLY I could find translations or summaries for Max Lovely! *SOB*

I'm so tired and hungry but my room is a mess and I need to clean! Guess what Ricky sent me?? He calls me this morning to remind me to go check the mail room - I arrive and there's a package from 1-800-Flowers for me!!! I opened it up with him on the phone when I got back and it's a BEAUTIFUL rose plant - yellow roses!!!!!!!!! No wonder when he gave me hints he said it was permanent! :) YAAAY! I love it and I love him :)

I got a package from Laurelchan today too - really surprised me cause we haven't talked in almost 6 months :( She sent me my Christmas Usagi plush anf the Nakayoshi phonebook carrying Delicious! She sent me a pretty King Endymion keychain too :) I really hope we can stay in touch.

Speaking of Delicious! I ordered Yui Ayumi's Delicious! and Azuki Ryou's Seishun Shiteru Kai (Enjoy Your Youth) manga from "ASAHIYA" cause neither Kinokuniya nor Book-Off had them. They said it'd arrive in a month :) I'm happy. I just checked my grades and I passed!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOO I"M GONNA GRADUATE LAW SCHOOL! The class I was terrified of failing - that I walked out of and came home to Ricky and burst into tears in front of him - I got a C+ :):):):):) YAAAAAAY! I've never been so happy about a C+ before! :)

ok - off to clean and have dinner :) ciao!

- Nishi

Friday, January 11, 2002
10:11 a.m.
What are they doing to FRIENDS???? They're messing with Joey and Rachel! YUCK! NO NO NO NO!!! How can they make Joey have feelings for Rachel? Is this what the writers have to do to get ratings? This show was supposed to be about Friends, not every Friend in the group sleeping with each other and falling in love and becoming lovers. And this whole Joey and Rachel thing is PERVERSE after years of Ross and Rachel. So far only JOey feels things and this could be because he's never "dated" someone he was close to and got along with so well - he never had all the nice things that come with dates - open communication and intelligence! So of course Joey's smitten - Rachel's an amazing gal but to fall for his friend???? UGH!!!!!! They're MESSING with the characters! MESSING!!!!!!!

Anywayz, yesterday was my first day of my last semester of law school! WOO HOO :) Classes were boring as HELL. And Kinokuniya bookstore called me to say that the January '02 Ribon I backordered was in and to come pick it up. But now it's Friday and it's RAINING here....do I really wanna go to the city in the rain? Do I really want this new Ribon magazine manga? YES YES YES! Ok I'm going! :) hahaha

ON site news - I added up new posters I won from Sailor Moon - I paid such a fortune for them but they're worth it! A few are rare manga and rare Movic posters. See: Nishi's A Dream I Dream: Selenity's Treasure Sailor Moon Poster Collection. I wish I had all those beautiful Fushigi Yuugi posters I ordered from Paul Lee but he took my $40 and mailed it out and it arrived here broken into and all the posters missing and he never refunded me and told me flat out that he refused to refund me because he had mailed it out. Unfortunately, this wasn't an ebay transaction so I couldn't report him but anyone out there reading this - do NOT order from Paullee1 on ebay - any seller who fails to refund money for goods that never reached the buyer is just robbing you of your money. The seller is always the one who should take the loss - not the buyer, unless the buyer paid for full value to insure the item and can claim on the insurance to get back her money - in this case, HE insured it for $20 but I haven't even seen THAT, so I lost my $40 and didn't even get back $20.

Ok enough ranting about jerky sellers, some GREAT ones are Koge-pan and mau-e! They always have excellent items and are reliable, kind, friendly, and when this whole mess with the Fushigi Yuugi posters happened, Koge-Pan reduced the price of the Talking Super Sailor Moon doll I won to make my life easier cause I was short on funds. She's wonderful!

wow this was a long entry :) It's 10:11 now and I'm headed off - enjoy the weekend everybody!

- Nishi

Monday, January 7, 2002
11:33 p.m.
Guess what? My dad turned 50 yesterday and my mom will turn 50 in a few weeks too! So for his birthday, my mom wanted to throw him a suprise party and BOY was it a surprise! Even though after church we got all the food and all this stuff, my dad didn't think we were having a party! But the biggest surprise was who the guests were and he was SO HAPPY - beyond joyous - when he saw that 2 of his oldest friends (mummy's too) from New Jersey came! This couple (husb and wife) knew my parents back in New Delhi before and after they got married and are very close friends with my folks. It was SOOOOOOOOO nice to see him so happy :)

Well cleaning up FOR the party, helping during the party, and the REAL pain in the butt - cleaning up AFTER the party - was hectic and furious. WHEW - glad it's over. I wound up sleeping till 1pm today and just spent a lazy day doing nothing cause IT SNOWED!!!! Maybe about 6-8 inches - who knows and I woke up to see the world looking beautiful!

Instead of studying for my MPRE exam though ;) heheh - I'm reading manga and looking up translations for manga I like. There's just something SO NICE about relaxing with a good shoujo manga and getting lost in it - like Kodomo no Omocha or Random Walk or Mint Na Bokura or Delicious! *sigh* :) I should really be preparing and working hard though - I need to send out at least 100 resumes/cover letters to employers and I NEED to pass my MPRE and register for the bar exam - AY YI YIIII - am I sounding like a broken record yet?

--Nishi

Thursday, January 3, 2002
10:03 p.m.
Happy New Year everyone! :)

I cleaned out the old archives of material and am starting over. Well my New Year's wish came true but it's a secret and only 1 person knows *hint: Ricky* :) He and I are doing great and are so in love. We celebrated 7 months this December!

I go back to law school January 9th and this time I am determined to stick to a schedule and get all my studying and outlining done in advance AND exercise 5 days a week! I've got 10-15 pounds to go and I'm not giving up - I weight between 102 and 105 pounds righ now and my goal is to get to 95 or 90 - yeah I know you're thinking "is she crazy?" but I'm 4ft 8 and 1/2 inches (I don't LOOK that short though) so weighting b/t 90-95 is normal for my height.

Anywayz, Christmas and New Year's were nice - quiet, but nice :) Christmas Eve my family and I came back from Church and as usual, everyone opened up the presents so that Christmas Day didn't hold that excitement and anticipation. Anywayz, we spent Christmas Day cooking and in the evening, we played Carrams (Papa's fave game) and Nithi brought out "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" board game and it was so much fun!!

New Year's was SOOOOOOOOO quiet - my parents went to bed on NY's EVE at 10pm! I stayed up to watch the ball drop. Rick called me after midnight and it was really sweet :D Next day, we again spent the whole day cooking and in the evening, it was totally family time and Mummy and Papa told us about how they "fell in love" and the story of their families. It was beautiful, touching, and HYSTERICAL ;) Not to mention that it contained a lot of treachery and ill-will! I was so inspired by everything in my heritage from them, I started writing a story/novel which will focus on my parents and my family's experiences from India to America.

I'm so anxious to buy the Dancing Sailor Moon doll! It costs $100 though and I'd have to charge it in order to pay through bidpay but it's worth ittttttttttttttt - I just wanna earn enough to be able to pay down the charge once I make it - it's one of the most beautiful dolls! It would be right up there next to my 2 prize Neo Queen Serenity dolls! :)

Anyone know how to order Ribon manga? There's a new story called "Max Lovely" I want to own because the art is gorgeous and I can't wait till someone puts out translations for it! If anyone knows how I can get the past December 2001 and current January 2002 issues, please email me! webmaster@usagiandmamoru.com

-- Nishi