Nikhil Kini's Blog

June 4th, 2006 - Today my grandmother's sister, her husband and son came to visit us. They are visting Los Angeles right now. They live in Denver Colorado. They came home around 1 in the afternoon and we sat and chatted for a while. After that we had a nice Konkan (read fish...) lunch. My grandmother had made "Bangda Phanna Upkari" and "Pomfret Ghashi" for the main course along with some other typical Konkani fare.  They brought me a gift too.  Its a nice cute outfit which includes a onesie, trousers and a shirt. I will put a picture of the outfit once its washed. Can't look forward to wearing it.

Ever since I was born, my house has been full of guests and I have family still visiting. I really like it when people come home to visit (I get all the attention, and I love it)  

June 3rd 2006 - India, is the great land from where my parents are and they took me to Little India which is in the city of Artesia. Artesia is about 30 minutes away from where we live. I went to Artesia with my parents and my grandparents. We first went to 99 Ranch Market  , an Asian Grocery store, to buy some fish and vegetables. My grandma's sister and her husband are coming over for lunch and we wanted to make some nice Indian "Bandgda Phaana Upkari".

Ranch 99 is a probably a great store to buy fish as they have a lot of fish from Asia. My mother bought some mackerel and pomfret. We also bought some vegetables here. All in all, my mother was very happy with all the stuff we got here. 

After shopping, we crossed the street and went over to the India Restaurant. It was a really hot day and the temperature was close to 95 degrees and walking outside was not very pleasurable.  We had a simple buffet at the restaurant and then headed back home. I did not spend much time at the Indian stores in this visit. Next time around, I will visit all the other shops.

June 2nd, 2006 -  The winner in the 2006 Bee was 13-year-old Kerry Close from New Jersey, winning with the word, Ursprache.  She is the first girl to win the competition since 1999. This has been a contest thats been domindated by Indian Americans and there were four in the final thirteen, which is still a great achievement.  The profiles of the the Indian Americans is below

• Nidharshan Subra Anandasivam
• Michael Christie
• Rajiv Tarigopula
• Kavya Shivashankar

1st June 2006 - June is finally here and summer has started in full swing in LA. It as pretty gray in May, but its bright and sunny in June. My dad decided to work from home today and I was very happy to see him around all day. For most of the day, I played in the living room. In the evening, we went to Costco which is a warehouse near our home. Its such a huge store and all I could do was stare. As you can see behind me, some nice variety of cheese. We did some shopping and then my mom drove us all back home. 

Right now, we are watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee. For the past so many years, Indian Americans have dominated this event and they look strong this year too. I will post the results tomorrow.