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Name: Grace
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 6/28/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: 1) Fantasizing about my life in 18th century England. By the way the picture above is Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. It took me 3 hours to find a picture small enough to put up there! So Enjoy! I LOVE COLIN FIRTH......Sorry...
2) EUROPE! One time I announced to the class that I wished I owned Europe...I still wish I did.
3) Cheering people up and making sure that everyone I encounter feels better afterwards
Expertise: Avoiding work at Columbia!, Jane Austen, Victorian Novels, Colin Firth, Getting away with skipping, doing English homework in History, giving advice and listening to people when they are down, monopolizing churchill clubs, EM Forster, Oxford, British Accent, shopping (I'm not sure it's a good thing), Scotland, oh yeah and geography (Savett: What's the capital of Denmark? Me: Ummm.... California? ), pretending to be in the bathroom while in reality practicing annoying french presentations
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  NaijunGrace
Member Since:
5/22/2003
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| So I am finally back from Europe!! Yeah...I went to Europe for Spring break! Ten days in Paris, Venice, Florence, Pisa and Rome. So pretty much Paris and major sights in Italy! It was exhausting! This definitely was not one of those sit at the beach do nothing spring breaks. This was constant walking/travelling/trains/subways/moving. We woke up really early and went to sleep really early too! lol!! It was a lot of fun, and we saw tons of stuff. Some highlights:
1) Climbing up Notre Dame Tower - I felt bad for Quasimodo, because the stairs were long, winding, and extremely narrow. I can just imagine the poor guy living up there, and having to climb up the stairs all the time...with a hunched back too!!
2) Going up to the Pisa tower - It's leaning!! Enough said!
3) Louvre - The Mona Lisa
4) Versailles Palace - One of the nicest place a king could live!! However, I can see why the peasant beheaded the king...I mean he was building this humongous palace while the people were starving. Bad move! But nice place!
5) Gelato - and lots of it!! But...Kiwi flavored gelato was DISGUSTING!
6) Salame - I used to never have it because I remembered having it once and hating it....apparently my memory was wrong...
7) Fountains - I saw so many that I have forgotten the names...but they were really nice
8) Leather shopping- I thought I wasn't going to get anything...well I was wrong. I got myself a handbag from the same people who makes Bottega bags...but because it doesn't have the big bottega label...it is 1/5 of the price!! And I got my mom something too!!
9) The Pantheon - It is the duomo of all duomo!! In other words, it inspired the works of Michaelangelo and others.
10) David - Michaelangelo's David to be exact. He was soo big and had perhaps the nicest legs EVER!
11) Venice - A city on water...how romantic!
12) Eurostar- really nice trains. And the worst was probably the trenitalia...
And that's about it... there are most likely more...but I can't recall right now!
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| Oh my I just saw an episode of the Millionaire Matchmaker!! It's a really good show! So pretty much, it is about these millionaires who are trying to find their true love by going to this matchmaking agency for millionaires only! Most of the time, it is simply amusing to watch the awkwardness, and the bizarreness that unfolds on these dates. However, on today's episode this dark, tall, and handsome Las Vegas real estate contructor guy goes on a date with a girl named Cydni. And oh my it is the most perfect match ever!! They went to dinner, went around Las Vegas, had a helicopter ride, and saw his apartment. She got really scared on the helicopter ride and he held her hand and kept on talking to her to make her feel more at ease. It was just the cutest, sweetest and most aww moment ever! I knew at the moment they were going to get married. They were just the perfect couple!! He was so relaxed, chill, down to earth, sincere, and kind. She was also very down to earth and not snobby at all, which I really liked about her.
So he actually did something he admitted was "out of character"...but I guess that's what happens when you find true love...he asked her to marry her!! On the first date too, but he also talked to her mother and grandmother, arranged to have shabbat dinner with them the next day. So yeah he was extremely genuine. I would say yes, in most circumstances, I would be thinking "freak!". But here it was just perfect, because of his sincerity. She didn't say exactly yes. She said "I would seriously consider, and I think we should get to know each other more too". And then they smiled and joked about him not having a ring yet. So he took the ring he was wearing on his finger which apparently was a family ring and put it on her hand. It was very very touching and sweet.
In the end, it was in their words, not a fairytale but the beginning of a fairytale. I used to think that love like this was a lot of crap. However, this time I am convinced. It was not creepy, weird or extremely awkward. It was just lovely, and sooo sweet. My goal right now is to find some tall, dark handsome man in Italy for Stacey!! And he shall propose to her at the end of our trip!! So excited!! lol!!
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| It has always been my mother's dream for me to work in the White House. She is not thinking big here, I could be the janitor sweeping the floor, but as long as I get to actually see the president, she would be so happy and probably brag to all her friends. So for the past four years of my life, my mother has been trying to persuade me to do a White House internship. For her this internship might as well have made me the President himself.
So the other day, a Chinese newspaper was doing some advertisement for this internship, and today my mother called me after reading about it. Realize that I have had many conversations with her explaining my major, my career interests, the fact that I already have a job already and etc, and how none of this relates to this internship. Nonetheless, today she insisted on me attempting to get this internship. She also informed me of the fact that the deadline already passed, but she was sure we could figure some way to get me in. Then she read off a list of qualifications she deems to be essential in order to be an attractive candidate. Interest in politics...x. Leadership skills...check. Still in school check. Academic achievement...not so much. Sense of civic duty...check. In the end, she asked me what I had planned in the coming months. I couldn't quite make her understand I can not just quit school to do this internship, and maybe me graduating from college is perhaps a bit more important than this. So yeah that was conversation with my mother. We have quite a few like this. For example, she also likes to watch detective dramas from China. Most of them are about crime in Hong Kong, and of course she takes them as reality, and calls me after every episode to warn me about people in Hong Kong. I find this all so funny. Oh parents...aren't they so endearing!
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| Fortune Cookies
I love Fortune Cookies. They are definitely the most exciting part of my Chinese meals. Let's just say I am probably too skeptical for a fortune teller, and I just can't believe some body can take a look at my palm/face/whatever and tell me my future. Pshhh...those stuff are for the delusional and suckers out there! But I have to say I am just perfect for a fortune cookie.
I always imagined some guy working at the fortune cookie factory, and his entire job is to type profound, witty, insightful phrases, or at least try to type any of these things. I always imagined that he will type it onto a small piece of paper and then stick into the fortune cookie. I suppose this is not really realistic considering how many guys they would need to tediously produce each fortune cookie, but somehow the image has stayed in my mind. Well the other day I got the following in my fortune cookie "Do you believe? Endurance and persistence will be rewarded." Immediately, I conjured up an image of some religious guy perhaps ready to preach the Lord's way to all fortune cookie eaters. I really don't know where this is going...but I guess I wanted to say...Jehovah's witness at a fortune cookie factory near you!
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| I feel a lot better now. It's going to be a new day and a new page.
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