Juicing

#juicinglikeaballer
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Day 1 - Hail to Kale

#feelinggood
#juicingforhealthandfitness

1 year anniversary!

1 year anniversary of working at Columbia University Medical Center!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 35 more to go until retirement hehehehhehe

:-)

strong is the new skinny

in the words of Fergie, "I be up in the gym, just working on my fitness"

wedding toning time :-)  

last months living in NYC!!!!

Almost there!!!! Spending the last 7 months of my unmarried life with one of my besties/bridesmaids in her beautiful Chelsea apartment. By the time I am married, I will have spent almost six years in the ever-so-amazing New York City. And will take my married self to the suburbs and start a new chapter there, which I am SUPER excited about as well!! I'll still be working in the city, but cheers to my last NYC apartment!!!! :-)

Happy July 4th!!!

Happy Independence Day!!!!!!!!!!

I spent the day relaxing, chillin in the sun, wearing red, white and blue, drinking some iced tea, listening to music, cooking dinner for my fiance and family, and watching fireworks over the Hudson River :-) Hope everyone had a blast too!!!!

Wedding fun

Amazing 3 days celebrating my cousin-brother's wedding :-)

We are all misfits, living in a world of fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AV8lxGjdZ0

We are all misfits, living in a world on fire

You've just gotta turn it up loud when the flames get higher
Sing it for the people like us, the people like us
People like us we've gotta stick together
Keep your head up nothing lasts forever
They can't do nothing to you, they can't do nothing to me
This is the life that we choose, this is the life that we bleed
So throw your fists in the air, come out, come out if you dare
Tonight we're gonna change forever

--Kelly Clarkson "People Like Us"

HUGE news - good day for equal rights / right to choose for all!!!!!!!!!

DOMA is dead!!!!
Prop 8 not going to the Supreme Court!!!!!!!!!
Texas Abortion Bill is dead!!!!!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/supreme-court-doma-decision_n_3454811.html
In a landmark decision for gay rights, a divided Supreme Court Wednesday struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, NBC News reported. The law has blocked the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in the states where they are legal. Same-sex marriage is legal in 12 states and Washington, D.C. The decision was 5-4, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. The court also cleared the way for same-sex marriage to resume in California in a separate decision. The court said it could not take up a challenge to California's Propostion 8, the voter-approved ban on gay marriage passed in 2008.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/California-Same-Sex-Marriage-Prop-8-Supreme-Court-211812241.html
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wednesday it will not take up a challenge to California's voter-approved Prop 8 -- a ban on same-sex marriage that landed before the Justices after years of legal battles. The ruling states the people who brought this case -- Prop 8 supporters -- had no legal standing to bring the case to the Supreme Court. The decision likely means same-sex marriage can resume in California. The Court decided Prop 8 backers lacked standing under federal law to appeal the case, effectively leaving an earlier ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional in place. The decision vacates the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling and upholds Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional. Another same-sex marriage case before the court was struck down Wednesday when the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The 5-4 landmark ruling strikes down the law, which blocks the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in the states where they are legal. The DOMA decision, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, stated: "DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/texas-abortion-bill_n_3501005.html?ref=topbar
The Texas anti-abortion bill, which threatened to close nearly all of the abortion clinics in the state and prompted an 11-hour filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), is dead, The Austin American-Statesman reported. Lawmakers had to vote on Senate Bill 5 before the special session's end at 12 a.m. local time. However, more than 400 protesters halted the proceedings 15 minutes before the roll call could be completed with what they called "a people's filibuster," The Associated Press reported. The crowd of demonstrators in the capitol cried "Shame! Shame!" when Davis' filibuster was halted by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who ruled that her discussion of mandatory ultrasound testing was off-topic. Then the protesters roared after state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte asked, "At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?” Their cries continued to echo inside the chamber -- and over a livestream watched by thousands around the world -- until after the midnight deadline passed. Although some Republican lawmakers later claimed the bill had passed in time, Democrats denied that the vote was completed before the clock ran out on the session. A time stamp showing the vote completed after midnight was the deciding factor. “This will not become law,” Sen. John Whitmire (D), told The Austin American-Statesman. In response, the crowd of protesters gathered in the capitol cheered and began singing "The Eyes Of Texas," the alma mater of the University of Texas at Austin.

more healthy lunch

Quinoa salad with mango, cucumber, so yummy (I say "keenowahh" but apparently it is "kinwa") and tomato avocado chilled soup with cilantro.

#healthylunch

healthy lunch

Carrot ginger vegan soup and spring awakening fresh pressed juice (pineapple, apple, pear, mint)

#healthylunch

best sandwich & beautiful day NYC

Okay so today I had an avocado and egg whites sandwich, with cucumbers, onion, low fat mayo. It was toasty warm. BEST SANDWICH EVER! So good. Exciting when healthy things taste good. I don't have twitter but I want to use hashtags anyways. #bestsandwichever #healthythingstasteyummy P.S. BEAUTIFUL day in NYC #IloveNYC

Beautiful in Westchester also :-) #YonkersNYMetroNorthStation    #beautifuldayinNY

The Album Leaf - The Light

Beautiful :-) So peaceful :-)

The Album Leaf - The Light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXAf7RUJdc

5 years in NYC!!!!

Today I celebrate half a decade in NYC :-) I cannot believe it has been 5 years already!

Moved here with my suitcase and duffel bag, slept on a couch (thank you Sonya!) and have come so far and accomplished so much from apartment to MBA to career :-) plus now happily engaged :-) Looking forward to settling down and spending my life here, in the suburbs of New York ;-) Dreams do come true!

2 pics from my first days in NYC

:-)

Happy Holi!!!!!!

Happy Holi to our family and friends!!!!!! :-)

For those who do not know, Holi is the Festival of Colors in India. You drench everyone in colored water and throw colored powders on each other. Colors of Joy. It is celebrated as harvest festival as well as welcome-festival for the spring season in India. It is one occasion when sprinkling colored powder ('gulal') or colored water on each other breaks all barriers of discrimination so that everyone looks the same and universal brotherhood is reaffirmed.

Happy Holi to you and yours!!!!!!!! :-)

Love and hugs,

Anisha and Mohit  

Happy St. Patrick's Day and snow day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day and snow day! :-)

Hope everyone is well!
It is not much warmer here in NYC as of yet - still snowing away!

Looking forward to a real spring!

:-)

amazing!

U.S. baby's HIV infection cured through very early treatment


http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/u-s-baby-s-hiv-infection-cured-through-very-early-treatment

my birthday :-)

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to everyone! 2012 brought me an MBA, new job, and engagement :-) I cannot imagine this year being topped, but cheers to 2013!! Wishing all the best to you and your family and friends, and enjoying every moment of it! Yay! :-)

Snow :-)

I love snowy New York winters :-)

A Change is Needed

Just heartbreaking. Such disgrace, ignorance, pain, suffering, and shattering. The worst has happened, but now hopefully it will change a nation - and the mentality of people - for the better.

Fight for change. Fight for respect. Fight fo r equality. Fight for justice. Stand up for all that you believe. I hope and wish to see an equal world, with more understanding human beings.

She fought for her life, but lost. We should fight for justice and change, in her bravery, courage, and willpower to live beyond all of this, in spirit, to invoke change in India.
And all over the world. Global awareness and change is needed.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/29/world/asia/india-rape-victim/

India braces for angry protests after gang-rape victim dies

www.cnn.com

Seasons Greetings!

To our dearest family and friends,

Seasons Greetings! Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanza! Happy Hannukah! Happy Winter Solstice!
Any anything and everything that you might celebrate, and that brings you happiness and joy :-)

For me, this has been a year like no other. I finished my MBA, got an amazing job at a dream company - which really set my career, and got engaged :-)
I can't imagine a year topping this!
I hope you had a year just as amazing as I did, and as we did, and we wish you all the best to you and your loved ones this holiday season and into the new year!!!! :-)

Best wishes & Happy New Year!!!!! :-)
Attached are some pictures of our Christmas together, plus lights and decorations around NYC, including Bryant Park, Rockafellar Center, Columbus Circle, and a snowstorm while driving on Christmas Eve :-)
Love and hugs,
Anisha & Mohit

Happy Thanksgiving!!! :-)

To our family and friends,

Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Enjoy your holiday with family, friends, football, and great food.
:-)
Be well, safe and happy!

With love, hugs and best wishes,
Anisha & Mohit

I'm engaged!!!!

I am engaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) :-) :-)

After over 4 years together, Mohit proposed, and I said yes with all my heart!!!

 

He proposed in Dobbs Ferry, New York, by the water, at night. Simple, sweet, and perfect!

Very excited to share this exciting news with everyone!!!!

 

4 more years!

New Yorkers screaming in the streets. And they have every right to celebrate - we don't have to move to another country!!!! YAY GO OBAMA! So happy I voted :-) WOOOOOO!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/after-grueling-campaign-polls-open-for-election-day-2012/2012/11/06/d1c24c98-2802-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html


Obama wins a second term as U.S. president

A sharply divided America awarded President Barack Obama a second term Tuesday, choosing him over Republican Mitt Romney to lead the repair of an economy that by far remains the country’s biggest concern, the Washington Post projects.
The president was poised to narrowly win several tight races in a handful of battleground states. It was the culmination of a staggeringly expensive, extremely close and sometimes bitter contest far removed from Obama’s 2008 message of hope and change.
Democrats also held onto their majority in the Senate, picking up two seats in early returns with the possibility of a third.
In early results, Obama won his home state of Illinois as well as Massachusetts, where Romney was governor and the place he still calls home. Maryland and the District of Columbia were put in Obama’s column as soon as polls there closed.
After more than $2 billion in campaign spending, unprecedented hours of television ads and a record number of voters who cast their ballots before Tuesday, Election Day 2012 was told in timeless tableaus of lines outside schools, volunteers waving signs and Americans emerging with “I Voted” stickers attached to their jackets.

Vote

I voted!!! GO OBAMA!!!! :-)

Presidency 2012 vote woooo!!!!!!

Elements

Amazing - Elements - fire, earth, water, air

So beautiful :-)

Elements- Dubstep Violin- Lindsey Stirling

Here we go......

Hurricane Sandy

http://news.yahoo.com/sandy-storm-surge-pose-worst-case-scenario-201317558.html

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/time-lapse-views-hurricane-sandy-space-shows-enormity-153449271.html

Time-lapse images from high above Earth show Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast, highlighting the storm's enormous size.

NASA's Earth Observatory has released time-lapse animation of the powerful hurricane from a satellite 22,300 miles above ground. The images reveal details of Sandy's motion and eye wall.

Hurricane Sandy was shown approximately 275 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and moving northeast at 14 mph during the time of the photographs. NASA notes that the structures of the clouds are highlighted by the changing angles of the sun.

The animation was created from photos taken every minute from 7:15 a.m. to 6:26 p.m. ET on Sunday. More images can be viewed at the Earth Observatory site.

The immense storm has prompted emergency evacuations, closed offices and delayed flights along the East Coast.

 

Fall in New York with decorations

Fall in New York and decorations :-)

Finally got my diploma!!

Yay! It's for real now! :-)

Anisha Bhagat, MBA

New dream job!

I wanted to share the amazingly great news that I got a new job, in my field of healthcare management - my first job as a manager - at the number one ranked medical center in the country.

I am an Administrative Manager at Columbia University Medical Center :-) It has been about three weeks now, and I continue to learn so much on a daily basis, while working hard in my department, and staying very busy :-) It has been a long road and a lot of hard work, both with my MBA, and job applications, to finally reach this stage, which is like a dream come true for me :-)

I am working with incredible people and knowledgeable staff at one of the top medical institutions in the country. A place where lives are changed on a daily basis. I am continuing my passion for health care and helping others. A position, company and opportunity that really supports and ties in with my MBA in Health Services Management, and takes my job to a new level, and career to new heights. I am thankful and humbled.

:-)

Celebrating 4 years with the love of my life :-)

:-)

No fear. New job!

Sometimes we let fear get the better of us, but if we don't take risks or chances or incredible opportunities in front of us, then how will we move forward, do amazing things, live a great life and help change the world. I received an incredible job opportunity, in line with my MBA, at one of the top medical institution's in the country. I was scared to resign at my current job, nervous at the reaction, but I did it, and I am so glad I did, because I have to move forward, take risks and embrace new opportunities. Because I want to grow in my field of health care management, help others, promote positive change, and that will contribute to my part of helping to change the world. 

MBA Graduation

I always wanted a jumping-in-the-air graduation pic! smile emoticonYAY!!! Anisha Bhagat, MBA!!! Class of 2012!! With my diploma! In my cap and gown! Yay! Jump for joy!!!!!!! wink emoticon  — in Utica, New York.

Kony 2012 - Part 2

"The better world we want is coming. It's just waiting for us to stop at nothing."
"We believe that human connection extends across the world. But starts across the street."

Kony 2012 - Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Ue6REkeTA&j=42974558&e=nishsmiley@yahoo.com&l=29804180_HTML&u=267212198&mid=10415228&jb=0

4 years in NYC!!!!

Happy NYC Anniversary to me! :-) 4 years ago, I got on a plane at night with a suitcase and duffel bag, and woke up in NYC, to follow my biggest dream and love for this city :-) I slept on a couch in a kitchen (thank you Sonya Petkova!!!!) and worked my way forward from there. :-) Here I am today, in the greatest city in the world, finishing my MBA in 4 weeks and 4 days, working in my field of healthcare and helping others every single day, happily in love with my best friend and soulmate, enjoying life, working and playing hard, with amazing friends and family, and truly living my dream! I only wish the same for everyone and their dreams! :-) They do come true <3

Season's Greetings!

~My dearest family and friends~

Happy Holidays!

Season's Greetings!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Hanukkah!

Happy Kwanza!

Happy Winter Solstice!

And anything and everything you may celebrate!!!

:-)

Lots of hugs and best wishes,

Anisha

August 12, 2011

In the past six months, I have had two days off from work (not counting weekends). One was to take an MBA summer semester final. And the other is today - a beautiful, non-rainy, wonderful, warm summer day in New York City, that I am spending out and about, with the love of my life, celebrating our 3 year anniversary together :-) Couldn't ask for a better Friday in August!

Best. Day. Ever. Happy 3 year anniversary to the love of my life - and cheers to many more to come! :-) and happy Friday to everyone else hehehehe!

new niece!

YAYYY!!! Today my cousin had a beautiful baby girl, Harper, and so Auntie Nishi (me) is an aunt again!!!! :-) So excited and happy! Yay for new life in the world <3

Happy July 4th!!!

Happy July 4th & Independence Day! I spent the day by the lake, having a Panera picnic with Mohit ♥ This is me relaxing, taking a little nap, on my red sheet ;-) I have never appreciated a day off from work, MBA and life...SOOO MUCH!!!! ♥ I hope you enjoyed as much as I did! :-)

New York = Equal Love

NYC pic

The Empire State Building lit up with rainbow colors to represent and celebrate both Gay Pride weekend in New York, and the Senate passing a same-sex / equality rights for marriage law (only by 4 votes, and that too in a Republican controlled Senate). Overwhelmingly amazing! YAH GO NEW YORK! GO EQUALITY AND LOVE AND HUMANITY! :-)

YAHH!! GO NEW YORK!!!

New York legalized same-sex marriage.

New York passes equal marriage law.

http://wvgazette.com/News/201106250022

"It's truly a historic night for love, our families, and democracy won.'' "New York became the sixth and largest state in the country to legalize gay marriage, breathing life into the national gay rights movement that had stalled over a nearly identical bill here two years ago."

http://harvardcrcl.org/2011/06/25/new-york-passes-marriage-equality/

"New York becomes the largest state to entrench marriage equality, and the legislature’s reversal may create momentum for proponents nationwide. The result will likely be attributed to shifting public opinion. A Quinnipiac poll cited by the New York Times suggested that support for gay marriage amongst New Yorkers rose from 37% to 58% in the two years separating the failed vote from the successful one."

Restoring the Light

My friend Carol, who graduated from NYU film school, is a documentary filmmaker. For the past 3 years, she has been living in China and making a film about a rural eye doctor who gives up his savings and home in order to bring transformative eye care to the remote villages of northwest China. Carol says, “As I followed the journey of his mobile clinic, I discovered incredible stories of resilience in the everyday lives of people living in this region: I met a brilliant young boy who spent everyday penned in his yard because of his blindness, yet who dreamt of becoming a truck driver to support his family; a young woman who, in spite of a debilitating bone infection, became the first in her family to attend college. Her family lived in a cave for over 60 years. She wants to become an artist.”

About the film: "Restoring the Light" is an hour-long feature documentary about a local eye doctor's quest to provide free healthcare to remote impoverished villages in northwest China. His journey reveals an intimate portrait of an unobserved Chinese farming community's resilience and hope. Carol's film, “Restoring the Light,” has an incredible trailer, more about the film, opportunities to donate, etc on her film’s website: http://www.restoringthelight.com

We are so lucky and blessed to live in a country where eye care is both accessible and affordable, especially through health/vision insurance. Since I work at the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, we see/hear/know about the miracles of eye transplants on a daily basis.
I cannot imagine all that Carol has encountered on her journey.
Thank you for reading,
Anisha

milestones!!!

Most probably my LAST SUMMER SEMESTER EVER IN GRAD SCHOOL!!!!!!
:-)

peace

amazing cover by Glee

Somewhere Only We Know
originally by Keane
cover by Glee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeaAQPIHotQ

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
Oh simple thing, where have you gone
...I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go somewhere only we know
Somewhere only we know

tv shoot!

Law and Order CI filmed outside my work today on Wall Street. I saw them shoot the same detective scene 12 times! Reminds me of my days working in film in Cali :-) And yes I did see Vincent D'Onofrio aka Detective Goren and Kathryn Erbe aka Detective Eames :-)