Winter X Games Aspen '12 Has Come to an End

Sadly the Winter X Games 2012 has come to an end.

Many firsts and exciting things happened this year:

• 1st Front Flip by Heath Frisby in Snowmobile Best Trick
• First perfect score of 100 by Shaun White in Snowboard SuperPipe
• Shaun White five-peats in SuperPipe

Live Fruitfully & Do the Jamba Samba Jam!

Today was my first event as a Jamba Juice Ambassador of WOW.  I got to be part of the festivities to kick off Jamba Juice's "Fruitful Living" campaign, which encourages all to "embracing each day, each moment and each opportunity to be healthy, active and fun."

The day started at 8:30 AM, where I met Crystal from Good Neighbor and bunch of other Jamba Juice execs/employees, who flew all the way from California. We really lucked out with great weather in the 50s today.

The festivities began with a Brazilian style parade with 74 Bananamen, thats right 74 of them, as we marched through midtown. We started at Bryant Park and continued to march around, making stops and performing the new Jamba Samba Jam outside the NYPL, Rockefeller Center, the NASDAQ (where CEO James White rang the opening bell), and Jamba Juice on 7th Ave in Times Square where the parade concluded.

CEO James White was opening the NASDAQ as part of NASDAQ's Fit Week, so that was also a big thing for them. They even had (who I heard) the President of the NASDAQ in a banana suit! 

At the store, Jamba Juice rolled out an an orange carpet and had Bananaman interviewing people about what they are doing to be more healthy in the new year. To kick off the event, we were gave out 500 gift cards (which was what I was assigned to do), scarves and bracelets and had Bananaman and Strawberry Girl there for pictures.  In addition to that Chairman, CEO & President James White and Senior VP & CMO Susan Shields were also there! 

James White did not know that me and the other ambassadors were ambassadors, and actually went out of his way to meet and thank each of us individually! He was soo nice (even when he didn't know who we were)! 

I tried the new "Fit n' Fruitful" smoothie (try saying that 10 times fast), which tasted pretty awesome! I also had the opportunity to get to know the other ambassadors better! 

Can I just say that everyone was soo nice and soo great! 

Thanks for a fun and fruitful day everyone! 

On the orange carpet

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY 2012!!!

Wishing all of you a happy and healthy new year - may 2012 bring you even more joy, happiness and success than last year!

End of 2011

2011 has been great - I had ton of great times and made lots of new friends and memories to carry me into the new year! Its been a great way to end the year catching up with new & old friends (from elementary school, JHS, HS college and grad school)!

This year I:

• Graduated and received my MBA
• Got my first job
• Interned at the United Nations
• Met and interviewed famous politicians, athletes and celebrities

Thanks for making 2011 so amazing, I can't wait to see what 2012 has to bring!

You Got Me!

 

Today I was supposed to meet up with Ganesh for lunch today.  We had decided to go to Ruby Tuesday for lunch.  So I went upstairs to meet him and to my surprise YI was there!!!

I was definitely not expecting to see him at all!  It was a great surprise!  I had never been surprised like that before!

Bravo boys, Bravo!

Birthday Festivities

Last night a few friends and I went out and celebrated my birthday.

I started off the night at Avra, a cute Greek restaurant in the city.  Of course I was late for my own party.  I had a great turn out of people from all different part of my lives - Marianna, Amanda, Ganesh, JM, Mike, Steve & his roomie Max.

After dinner we had some time before our 9 PM reservation at the next location, so we decided to go to Calico Jacks for some cheap drinks... where I had about oh.. 4 shots on a span of 15 minutes... (I was pretty much done drinking for the night at that point lol).

After the shots we took a cab to Brass Monkey, where we met up with everyone else.  We had two tables in our own little room like place - which was awesome!  There we met up with Massey, Paul, Vicki, Adriano, Miguel & his roomie Jason, Brian, Rocky - who I was not expecting to see, and Andrew!

  

Thanks everyone for coming out and making it a great night!

It's My Birthday!

I can't believe I'm another year older!  Where does the time go?

23 is such weird number, not only is it way past 21 - its a strange prime number...

So excited for tonight!

Here are some pictures from the celebrations at home!

 I got an snowman ice cream cake - my favorite! :)

Smarterer

I just got on Smarterer, it's pretty cool.  It tells you how knowlegable you are on a topic.  However I do think it has a mountain effect in that you start out with a low score, reach a peak then jsut go down...

Catching up with the girls

Last night the girls and I, minus Cathy went out for dinner at Press 195.

The food there was soo good!

I had an amazing drink - Raspberry Vodka with fresh strawberry lemonade.

I got the best hot press sandwich - inside it had mozzarella, tomatoes and the best maple pesto! :)

And it got even better for dessert

Underneath the massive amounts of whip cream was ice cream and the best part is the hot pressed banana bread with nutella, strawberries and bananas! :)

FSOT Results

I got my results from the FSOT today, sadly I did not make it to the next part of the process.  I needed a 154, but I only got a 145

Here is what the letter said:


To advance to the next step of the Foreign Service Officer selection process, the Qualifications
Evaluation Panel (QEP) review, applicants must have acheived a score of 154 or above on the
multiple-choice components of the FSOT and an essay score of at least 6 on a 12-point scale. Essays
were scored for those candidates who received at least a 154 or above on the multiple-choice section.

There were three parts to the multiple-choice section. You scored as follows:

Job Knowledge: 41.34
Biographic Information: 52.06
English Expression: 52.30
Multiple-Choice Total: 145.70

So close yet so far...

I guess I'll have to wait til next year to take it again...

Yale IV 2011

Just got back from a fun weekend at the Yale IV!  It was a good weekend - Silly Yale Tab Staff had me chairing all my panels... LOL.  I saw some good rounds and some not so good rounds.  Good times!

My favorite round has to be - This house believes politicians should be allowed to become lobbyists and vice versa.

The first half was terrible, but the 2nd half - two Vermont teams were really good.  The Government Member had me shedding a tear and his speech really made me love America! :)

The party was at a frat house - very Rutgers-esque and similar to any RU party, was broken up by the cops lol.

Unfortunately, the team was being lame and left early... along with the key to get back onto campus...  So... me being me and slightly out of it, attempted to climb the very large gate to get into Old Campus.  However Paul and Gabe did not think I could do it and flipped out before I could make up and over..

And of course some of my fav people who I had not seen in a while came/did not expect to see were at the IV, including Ellie, JJ, Michael and Andrew!

All in all - great weekend!

Big Bronx Complete!!!

IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Housing went pretty well for the most part, people knew what they had to do, who to pick up, etc.  There was a small mishap, but it was easily solved with a girl on standby.  Thank goodness she stayed!

FSOT

Today I took the FSOT, it was ok... There were a bunch of tricky questions - So while I didn't study as much as I would've liked... the ones I was confused about were things I would not have known or studied anyways.

For instance, something to the effect of "What African tribes caused the Rwanda genocide?"  The answer was Hutu and Tutsis.

Then there were questions like "what is babelfish used for?" and "what the iron curtain symbolize?"

And a bunch of random things like that.

The essay question was basically to what extent can we enfringe on privacy rights for national security.

The test was so fast, I was in and out in just 3 hours.

Just got a call from Susan from the Jamba Juice Local Ambassador program - so excited for the program!!!

2 days til the FSOT

Today I had my in-person interview with SWIFT with the Global Head of Partner Management.  I was also supposed to meet with the head of HR, but he didn't make it to the meeting...  And he was the one we were planning around... it looks like we will do a phone follow up interview.

I think the interview went well though... and if I get the position, I could possibly be going to Brussels!!!

After the interview, I met up with Adge and got a white hot chocolate cupcake from CRUMBS!!! :)