What my family and I do

Not all Fijians calibrate x-mas but they do take advantage of the holiday season it self. My family and I get together on many holiday occasions to not take part in the theme or culture of the holiday, but just to hangout and do our thing. During x mas time we do give presents and a few of us set up a tree.one thing is for sure, we all will see each other. We all cook something and meet at my older uncles house or meet at the store my parents own to spend a couple hours together. Im sure this x mas we will get together and celebrate x mas in our style and fun.

Good & Bad

One of the most enjoyable jobs I had was my first job. I was a Fine dining Waiter at a Senior independent care home called Peninsula Regent. I worked the floor as a waiter or bus boy, but mostly in the back as a runner (person to carries the big entrée trays out.) What made this job enjoyable was the residents and the teen employees. It was fun to work with someone young. Even though i was one of the youngest there at the time, i still got along with everyone. The residents are all sweet, one of the biggest reasons for me to go back everyday was for them. In my three years at the regent, I gained alot of skills like patience. One of the big ones I’ve learned is to stay away from drama. With teens one of the biggest things that go everywhere with them is drama. I also gained great soft speaking skills and short conversation holders. somethings that I learned is that some times it can be a competition and a race for power. Not on the floor but in management spots. One job I really don’t like doing is working at my parents store. We own a small international grocery business in San Mateo. We also supply meat and frozen products. The worst thing about it is that at the end of the night I have to clean the bandsaw that my dad uses to cut meat for the customers. The machine starts to smell and it takes forever to clean. Even though I didn’t like cleaning the machine, I gained great customer service skills and worked on strong speaking. All these skills will help me in my future because it all deals with interactions. We will be speaking alot and meeting new people everyday, its good to gain any skill any where.

Movement

Movement-What’s happening right now. Almost every where you go there is a talk or protest about movement. Diego Rivera caught a great connection of this in his Frozen Assets Mural. Relating the mural to what is happening right now with the Occupy Movement. The mural shows how from way back then till now in 2011 the “99%” are still struggling to have it a little easier. The murals middle section shows a large group of people sleeping and being watched by a body guard. That part reminds me of the protest in front of the federal reverse bank. There are about 30+ protesters in the front camping and a couple guards standing, watching, Trying to keep order. During the depression (when the mural was made) the top city part of the mural still shows growth with the construction, and large buildings. The Last section shows a volt and a women inside checking what her wealth is. Middle part shows the poor sleeping in a shelter. Right now in 2011 there is a war going on, “We can fund a war but cant feed the poor”-Unknown. Part of the Occupy Movement is how the Government doesn’t support the middle class. People are losing there homes and unemployment rites are increasing. We are in a war and we aren’t even thinking what our country is going towards. The two of them compare well, its like Rivera captured both events in one thing.

War Dance

It is true that we all get inspired; it’s something that happens to us sooner or later. I didn’t find something that inspired me to the fullest till I turned 16 years old. On the islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, New Zealand we all do something we call the Warrior War Dance. Many call it the Haka, but each culture has its own name and style of execution of it. Warriors back in the days used to do it before a war or cry for help, now it is used mostly in the beginning of any rugby match against the opponent you are about to face. The Haka is done in a group and the point of it is to remind the warrior the reason he is fighting and to pump them up to preform there best. I knew the Fijians do a Cibi (our form of the Haka) but I never truly heard about the New Zealand one to it. The Mouri are the ones that came up with this idea, and the New Zealand rugby team is well known for their Haka. I saw it on TV ones and it got me so pumped up that I went online searching about it. I learned the meaning and why they do it. I am fascinated by my island background and the Haka is a part of every islander. What got to me about the New Zealand war dance was there style, they slapped, threatened, punched and everything. It seem so great and empowering that I did it before every football game. The Haka has been around for generations now, and it will live on as longs as the tribal culture lives. I have seen boys young and old men do it when the time comes for it to done. Here in California there is a large island community, all the islanders I have met have done the Haka or know about it and that makes me proud because even those not even born on the islands still know there roots.

Pre-Write

We all came to be in this community by random, or other’s say by faith. Most people did not know each other because we came from different high school’s and area’s. Peninsula High School is a continuation  high school where students with low credits come to make up there lost credits which they missed in there home high school.

-Carlos’s mom having cancer.
-The struggle to graduate (Nick, Abel, Rashaad, Juan, Carlos.)
-Starting with 100 credits and meeting 220.
-Graduation day and threes days before.
-Going back to Pen.
-Speaking from the other side
-Alumni

Plus and delta about Nidhinesh Singh

  Plus: Willingness to try, Helpful to others, always there. Focused for a some time, Making eye contact, Great listener, Becoming more Tech Savvy. Not earning to many infractions, trying to stay on top of everything.

Delta: Speaking Out loud in front of a audiences, Getting up in the morning, Strong handshake, need to loosen it a little. Staying fully focused and not let other noise take my attention away, Making use of class time, Asking all my questions in class to get a better understanding of what needs to be done, Time management, Get more sleep.

Personally i would like to make all my deltas and turn them into pluses by the end of Module 2. Getting a better understanding of grammar and proof reading is one of the things i would like to improve in my BC class. For Tech my goal is to stay on top of all the homework and make sure that i turn is what is need and show my 100% on the assignment

Plus and delta about Nidhinesh Singh

My Neighborhood

Being raised in Texas from the age of six till 15 changed my thinking and look on things.  San Antonio Texas is majority Hispanic, White, and African American. Being the only Pacific     Islander in the neighborhood i was look at a little different from the others because most of the people there haven't heard of the Fiji Islands, and Fijians. My neighborhood didn’t effect me personally as to who i am now but it showed me many different life styles and view of different things. Being Raised in a school where you are the only Islander makes you do things and act in ways to fit in different. I had a passion for golf which i went on doing but also it was a common thing in our school for a guy to play football, so i joined that sport as well. Texas in known for its football players and when i told people i will join the team they would say “ oh you are to weak”. Comments like that made me try harder and become a first string starter player for my school. The people around me changed me alot, but my neighborhood showed me that being the only minority in a group of majorities isn't always a bad thing. Texas is known for people being rude and raciest but what people don’t know is that is not true. They showed that i didn’t have to try so hard to fit in to a group. San Antonio showed me that i can be who i am wherever i am. Friendly, helpful, caring, and tough when i need to be are the qualities i brought from Texas to California. My parents managed a hotel in Texas so we stayed in a attached home there. I gained my costumer relations skills there and also my talent to communicate. I didn’t have much neighbors because everyone came for a day or two, but i gained all that i need because of the people i met and friends i made. I am who i am because of what i wanted to be and from what i took in as something that would help me be a better man when i become older.

"We Want You" and only you.

Most companies That deal with credit do it mostly to make money. Targeting low income family’s and areas where poverty is at its highest theses companies make money and spread the opportunity divide. Other then benefiting the people they are pretty much working there way around with things like fine print and scams.

companies are very Rigorous Anyone can walk in, get approved with a loan or a new car and walk out not knowing what the next couple of months will bring. Major companies don’t care much about there so called “customers” i would rather call them “bait” because its what they use to make money. I think its the government that is responsible for not really going into detail about theses companies and showing them for the Alfa-male is. 

Large corporations work there way around the law like posting things where the people cant see, and state that they have there rules posted on site. I think before a person goes to get a loan or do anything that deals with money they should really look into the company they are going towards and  what the companies rules and polices are. Being careful what what you are about to get into is the best thing anyone can do. Like blind shopping, people walk in and sign away there life without reading or thinking about the outcomes in the near future. Loan companies and places that offer credit and loans should post in many place all the details, there is still something called being fair to the world around you..

Me, Myself, & I

First of all i would like to let you know on a little detail about me. My real name is Nidhinesh Singh,but i go by Nick Singh. I honestly don’t know how i ended up with the nick name Nick but i did and it has been with me scenes i was six years old. My passion is photography, Tech, games, sport, and everything a normal eighteen year old would enjoy. I was born in the Island of Fiji and come from a strong background of the Hindu culture. Being born in Fiji, education isn't as “well ” as the education system in America so we decided to move to the states when i was six years old. We moved to Texas where i studied all the way till middle school then moved to California and finished my High school career. While in high school i decided i wanted to major in business but got the chance to do something more towards my hobby of technology joining a program called Year Up. Year Up is offering me the chance to input my business interest with my technology interest together in one. I enjoy what i do and don’t regret anything i have already done, enjoying life and making something out of myself is what i strive for. Only to let myself move forward.

Whats Next in The 2011 Rugby Rise

The 2011 Rugby World Cup is one of the biggest events in the other parts of the world. Rugby is not so popular in the USA but even though The USA team is there to play a full game and not to come back broken. The 2011 World cup was the biggest sporting event held on the host country of New Zealand. Organizers expected at least 95,000 international viewers to show up to the event not forgetting the All Blacks Fan’s already in New Zealand.  New Zealand went with a venue plan to have 13 venues for the World Cup; Having 13 was there way of increasing capacity for the event, Having 12 stadiums 20,000 to 60,000 people. On start of the event Maori cultural was shown all over. Player’s took the field with Tonga Vs. New Zealand All Blacks as the opening match. New Zealand having the win over Tonga 41-10. This brought a lot of talk about how New Zealand might do in the World Cup being the host and all. But if you follow then you might know that they aren’t an easy team to bring down.

The games went on with France beating japan 47-21, Aussie Winning over Italy 32-6 and Fiji destroying Namibia 49-25. As the matches go on the teams fit in more with the massive crowd and the proud cheering, they become harder to beat. Fiji lost against South Africa 49-3 which brought me down a little because I cheer for Fiji, but no rugby fan will lose hope in there team.  Overall New Zealand has been a great host for the game and the games itself are really exciting to. But the pressures on, who knows what might happen.

 Information gathered by personal knowledge and the help of Wikipedia

True High School

Peninsula high school is the high school you go to when you are low on credits. I was a hundred and twenty credits short as a senior. It’s not a normal high school by look; students call it a jail cell because it is so closed down. The food was hard and almost like plastic, no school sports teams or school spirit. Just a place you would go to be in class and go home. That was my thinking before going there. Some facts like the food and no sports and spirit is true but I honestly think that my senior is my real high school experience. The teachers had so much to do but they still cared and were there for you, everyone was friendly and a group like a family. Even without the teams and great school lunches we made the best of what we had. I had the greatest help and that help from all my peers and teachers helped me walk the stage and become a graduate on time as class of 2011.

Strongest Influence

The strongest influence on any young person would differ from what he was taught, to what he wants to present himself as. Going home to his family a young adult would not speak like he would to his classmates; Wording and speech will change to more respectful style. When the young adult is in front of his classmates he might present himself more relaxed letting some words or terms slip out without a worry. Put in a situation like an interview, the form we speak in will change to a more formal and polite style. Going back to our peers, some young adults would change their speech to something different to fit in with a group or attract a classmate he or she has feelings for. I believe that the influence to how we speak comes from the environment we were raised in and the way we were talked to. Raised more freely we might speak openly and not well fitted for the environment, but raised more on the side of lock down and proper speech, we might adjust to the environment put in front of us. I on the other hand try to keep my speech normal and fitted for any event or environment. Sometimes I do happen to slip and say something I shouldn't but I always try my best to keep a look out and listen to what I say before I say it. We might not have control in the beginning but we surely can work to make it proper at times needed.