Kushikatsu "Snack" Bowl

On Sunday, I made a funny dish for my darling. It's a rice bowl with cutlet snack! Have you ever tried this kind of cutlet snack?!


Kushikatsu (Japanese-style deep-fried kabob) is a local food in Osaka. My co-worker bought it for souvenior. Of course it is made with fake meat!

I cooked it like Katsudon: a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried pork cutlet, egg, and condiments. LOL ;P

It snowed about an inch last night, so the road was covered with slippy sherbet X( I left home early to walk slow... but damn Marunouchi line, it stopped right before my destination due to car trouble, not the snow!!!

I brought the pocket warmer (which I won the other day) with me but our office is heated well today...

How unlucky me...

Good luck!!!

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Garapon Drawing

It was a busy weekend. I worked through the night on the 29th (stayed awake 48 hours) to finish up projects due 1/31... whew X( I think I need to be more organized. I am not a last minute person, though...

Anyway, on such a busy weekend, I had one important thing to do... which was to draw lots at Ajinomingei. Since we go there very often, we had 5 tickets to play Garapon drawing...

But what is Garapon?!

Not knowing what the event is about, I had shrimp udon again. The "good luck shrimp tempura udon" was already over, so I had a regular shrimp udon. The shrimp was really small compared to the other one. Ha-ha!

We won 4 pocket warmers and 1 yogurt drink at the drawing. Yep! They are useful!

But what is Garapon?!

Now I just googled "Garapon" and knew it is a name of the drawing machine! I didn't even think it has such a funny name! It is actually a common drawing machine in Japan. You turn it around one time and a colored ball comes out from the hole. You get a prize depending on what the color of the ball is.

Is this common in your country as well?!

Okay, I think I gotta go now.

I can't believe January is already over...
Hope I won't be that busy this month X(

Bye for now :)

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Apple iPad VS Amazon Kindle

Did you see this news yesterday?! Apple has announced they will release iPad (tablet computer) in March! It is more like iPod Touch or iPhone than laptop computer (it can run all apple apps) and has an e-book reader like Amazon Kindle! It costs $830 with a function of 3G cellular and $499 without... (Image from New York Times)

My darling loves to read books on Kindle, so he was watching this news on TV with a twinkle in his eyes...

Compared to Kindle, iPad has a fragile glass screen... I'm afraid to carry it around with me. I mean... I'm afraid to hear my darling saying he wants to get one! What do you think?! It looks cool, though! Ha-ha!!!

Like I love to shop clothes and cute stuff, my darling loves to try new tools, so why don't I let him get one if he said he wants to?!

Have a good weekend :D

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