Showing posts with label japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japanese. Show all posts

02 July 2014

June Highlights

Here goes another monthly chapter of my life. This is the third month in this series and to be honest I was kinda slacking in the picture taking department this month. I took more pictures of food which means I failed to take more pics of my friends and actual surroundings haha. I hope to improve upon that next month. Also, since a lot of days were very chill I just didn't think it was necessary to report on it. 
Anyhooo, let's get started!
**Oh, some of these may not be in exact order but for the most part starts at the beginning to the end of the month!**


  

Whatt who are these derps? Oh yes, my wonderful cousins Arielle, Aila, and Arielle's bf Ian. I was fortunate to see them multiple times this month as our schedules worked out well. The first occasion we visited them up north and just hung out for the day. We ate at PUBlic House and holy shit this place is amazingly good. On the second occasion my cousins had came down and we ate at Manna Korean BBQ then Up2You Cafe for dessert (not shown) ^_^ Look we triple dated with my sisters bf Aaron, aren't we cutee heheh

 

More cousin events? Yes please! (yes..I have many cousins) We celebrated my cousin Cathleen's birthday with 3 games of laser tag and let me tell you it was intense. I am very bad at laser tag and I kid you not..I was sore for a week after playing. It involves a lot of running and you don't even realize you're doing squats ;-; I am very out of shape ugh. There was also this punching machine in the arcade lobby and I punch a 407 how about you!?


Okay..let's be honest. Some of my days & nights are spent like this - playing video games at home.
I am currently very much into Skyrim V. My boyfriend has been playing League of Legends and Yugioh with our friends as well. ;)

 

My friends and I visited the county of oranges this month and had an epic food adventure! Not shown but we ate at Kickin Crab, 85 deg. Bakery, Snow Monster, Tastea, McDonalds......wow we are fat.
Unfortunately, all of the places we take those cool japanese photos were closed D: ehhh lame. I wanna do a Little Tokyo trip in LA soon heheheh


***Side note*** Since I am trying to not post all of the endless pictures of food that I take, I started an Instagram just for all of the place I eat and take pictures of. :)
Follow me @restauranthuntress !!




June means high school graduations!! And here we have my cousin Jesse graduating. Ahh yes I am very proud. To be honest I hate going to graduations cause they can be so boring. Actually, I got yelled at by this lady behind me cause I was causing a ruckus with my other family members hehehehe We ate at Joe's Crab Shack for dinner :)


Some days are spent like this with my best friends chilling..actually I can't remember what we did this day lmao for some reason I never take enough pictures with them :( I think we went shopping actually haha 




Some pics of me and the boyfriend on dates. We often go out especially to watch a movie!! 
This month alone we've watched:
22 Jump Street
How to Train a Dragon 2
Maleficent
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Transformers: Age of Extinction

Hm..I think thats all of it?








Oh yeah!!! How could I forget about the San Diego Fair in Del Mar?!?! I went with my sister and her bf Aaron. To be honest I'm not a huge fair fan but I have not gone in like 3 years so I said why not?! This years theme was the Beetles, how cool right?! And now I am socked up on a good supply of new stuffed animals ^_^


Damn my boyfriend and I are hawtt! Haha right after the fair we attended a birthday dinner for our friend Jennie. We ate at Bucca Di Beppo in downtown and afterwords went back to her house to chiiillll. The girls spent the rest of the evening sipping on some wine..okay a lot of wine..and oh boy I am already a light drinker and this wine got my drunk -_- I ended up throwing up before heading home how sadddd lmao



Eyy, my cousins are back again?! Yess, and this time we ate at Crab Hut and went to the beach after ^_^ The weather was perfect and the ocean water was soooo warm. Oh san diego, I love you! Funny story about this day: my sister was just laying out and s young fella come up and asks her to play volleyball heheheh we had to shoo him away though. He looked so young! Probably 16 at most! Which would make my sister a pedophile cause she's 19 despite her looks ^0^""!
Oh, we also ate ramen after the beach but I won't post the pic! If you wanna see it just go to my food instagram duhh




Okay, I know what I JUST said ^^^ up there about food pics but I didn't take any with people or places cause I forgot -_-" Well, this day I was hanging out with Margot and we ate Korean food, chilled midday, and then in the evening we spontaneiusly went to hang out with Margot's bf Brandon and their friend Wanda. Actually, I've known Wanda, Margot, and Brandon since middle school but this was my first time ever hanging out with Wanda. :) We ended up going to Extraordinary Desserts The line was fucking long and I ended up disliking my cake and spilling my matcha latte all over my lap ;-; but I still had a good time ^_^



I payed a visit to my handy-man uncle with some car troubles! He changed my spark plugs while I played with his kids. My little cousin Gavie forced me to play the Wii with him haha x) After that I went over to my aunts house cause it was also my grandpa's bday! We didn't do much, just hung out and after I went with Cathleen, Pam, and Chris to eat at Cafe Hue :)






One of the funnest things I did this month was go to Joshua Tree National Park to the Jumbo Rocks campgrounds. We went for my my boyfriends birthday yay! It was really hot out in the desert (no duh) but at night the sky was so clear you could see the milky way. *=* We spent a lot of time climbing the rocks which was fun and the views were beautiful. On our way passing through we stopped at this random dinosaur sculpture museum! I looooove dinosaurs *__* We didn't actually tour the exhibit though cause it cost money lmao



The day we got home from camping Hieu's brother wanted to take us out for his birthday too so we ate at Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ with a bunch of their friends/ co workers and had lot of fun ^_^ I was all of our first times there and the food was delicious! *drool*



Ahh one of the last things I did this month (okay actually the pics above were on July 1) but I'm including it as a representation of all the chill days hanging out with friends just spending time together, playing games and what not. :]




Thus concludes the month of June!
It's a little bittersweet :'(
Some other things to mention that happened in my life is that I got accepted into SDSU (woo!)
But I've been swamped in my free time submitting papers paying fees and all this other stressful stuff.
Tis only the beginning of my university life.
Maybe I should do a community college experience blog post eh? :)

Oh and me and Venetia and my sister Chloe were tricked into a job presentation by my cousins Jesse! I won't talk about it really..but it was an experience haha ;P

Until next time!
<3

















25 July 2013

What's In My Bento Box: Uncrustable Nutella Strawberry Banana Sandwiches

Hello! I wanted to share this lovely contraption with you all and it is an uncrustable sandwich press! Okay..I don't know what they're actually called but they are popular in Japan to make yummy sandwiches :)
I bought mine at a Marukai Living here in San Diego. It was sooo inexpensive too, about 2 bucks. It is also super cute and pink and has a heart!! ~ 
Many, like myself, are going back to school and many, like myself, are too cheap to play for expensive school food!! 

What you will need:
Nutella, bread, strawberries & bananas
Of course you can get creative! Other fillings include cream, peanut butter, jellies, or you could even make a savory sandwich with meats and/ or veggies. Yum!

1) Set up half of your sandwich and place in the center of the base (white) of the press.
Make sure you align correctly so that the crust part is hanging over the edges

2) Place other half of sandwich on top and then place the top part of the press (pink)
The pink should be aligned so it fits into the white base accordingly.

3) Press down with all your force!!!!!!!!!!!!
The pink should lock into the white part and the crusts should be cut off leaving a sealed off sandwich

The end result

You can also make triangle shaped ones:


Too cute right?!?!
I HATE bread crusts so much, I always peel them off haha
That's all for now folks~
Until next timee :)






26 April 2013

Drugstore Makeup Haul & Mitsuwa Haul!

Instead of buying new clothes this month I ended up buying makeup and other stuff. But I was really in need of new makeup because I was forcibly trying to make my dried up liner work and I was over it. (U_U")
So this is what I had picked up from Target & Walmart:

  • Cotton Balls
  • Tea Tree Oil
  • L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara (in Black & is Waterproof)
  • Maybelline Dream Matte Powder in Honey
  • E.L.F. Gel Eyeliner in Black
  • Wet n' Wild Liquid Liner in Black
  • Revlon Lipstick in Cherry Blossom
To be honest the most expensive purchase was the tea tree oil. Most of these products are new to me and I can say I really love them all and recommend/ would repurchase!



From Mitsuwa (Japanese grocery store for those who are unfamiliar)
  • Large Strawberry Hello Panda
  • Large Strawberry Pocky Pack
  • 2 Strawberry Melty Blend Boxes
  • Assorted Fruit Flavored Popsicle Pack
I actually prefer the blue cream soda popsicles they have but I was being obsessively compulsive cause I wanted all pink stuff lmao Also, all of these except the popsicles were on sale! OoooOoh yeeEeaaH baby! Haha mitsuwa has the best sales ^_^