Makeup Tutorials

My darling loves to browse youtube and he found interesting makeup tutorials! Michelle Phan, she is amazing! I love the way she shows her cosmetics. I tried out the Double Lines after seeing this video, and it really made my eyes look bigger and cool :D I want to try out her other techniques when I have some time!!!

Double Lines


Barbie Transformation Tutorial


Avatar Inspired Look


Enjoy yor makeup :D

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FOCATO Toscana IGT 2005

Yesterday, I bought a great wine at a supermarket! It was sold at $12. My budget was under $10 but I'm glad I changed my mind! The wine was mellow and tasty. It was easy to drink! I'm not well versed in wine, but I know what I want, you know ;)

This weekend was busy again. I went to try on wedding dresses again... There are so many beautiful dresses that I now can't make a decision! Hmm... The image on the right is another $20 bucks dress that I bought at 109 the other day :D

I can't believe it is already March!!!
Busy Monday + fore-end X(

I gotta go now! See ya!

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The Day We Met

I met my darling in NY on 6/7/2003.

Last night, my darling worked late into the night, so I was looking at pictures that we took on the day we met. Don't you think it's amazing that we took a photo together on that day?! We met at a party, so that's why! I will post it really small with kitty since it is embarrassing. Ha-ha :P

Time flies. I don't want to accept reality, but we are changing...
Hope we stay the same forever!!!

BTW, did you see Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Figure Skating?
Kim Yu-Na is beautiful! I think she has an attractive aura :D

Rainy but spring has come in Tokyo :) The high today is 18C (64F)!
Have a good weekend!!!

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My Accomplishments

My expectations are always disappointed... For successive days, I received frustrating results... I think I should better expect nothing, or should lightly enter the competitions X(

Anyway, I will list my accomplishments in January before I forget.

On 1/6, 10th person has photo reported my Shimeji and Minced Meat Omelette. This is my mom's idea :D It goes great with white rice. Yummy!







On 1/15, my Colorful Healthy Dried Tofu Minced Meat Rice Bowl won the gold award at mannanhikari recipe contest again!!! Mannnanhikari is a rice shaped konjac food. By cooking the rice with mannanhikari, you can save calories (up to 30%)! I made minced meat using koyadofu (dried tofu) which also saves calories, too!


On 1/18, my Balsamic Tomato Ramen won 広東賞 (Canton award) at the contest using 中華三昧 (famous Chinese instant noodles in Japan). Balsamic vinegar nicely matches the flavor of soy sauce based soup!





On 1/20, my Sausage and Asparagus Stamppot Croquette won the grand prize at Dutch food contest. Stamppot is a typical traditional Dutch dinner (mashed potato mixed with other mashed vegetables). My darling loves croquette, so I arranged it! The tasting party was held in December in Hirado. I didn't attend the event, but it is nice to see people sampling my food. The prize was a hotel voucher of 国際観光ホテル旗松亭 in Hirado. I booked the hotel and plane tickets already, so my darling and I are going to travel there on 4/3 for my darling's birthday on 4/4!

On 1/21, 10th person has photo reported my Creamy Christmas Tree Salad.









On 1/22, I won the outstanding performance award at my special recipe contest. I entered my Colorful Minced Meat Simmered Potatoes. I used leftover vegetables to cook the dish colorful :D






On 1/24, my Pound Cake Sandwich was posted at cookpad's contest page. It was introduced as a sample Valentine's recipe using Philadelphia cream cheese.







On 1/26, I received the prize for participation at the rice contest in Hokkaido. Unfortunately, I couldn't go there and cook. Also, on 1/13, I got through the screening for the home cooking recipe contest using ingredients of Kyushu, but I wasn't able to participate since the place was too far from Tokyo. Don't ask me why I applied... sometimes I don't expect anything. Opposite from the former! Ha-ha!!!

See you again!

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Wheeled Carry On Luggage

When I make a short trip, I always carry too much luggage with me... so I am thinking of getting a wheeled carry on luggage! My darling says it's a waste of money, but I'm sure I can free my both hands! I'm torn between the hard and soft one. Maybe the hard one is better because it won't get dirty on a rainy day.

Anyway, I am now busy choosing my wedding dresses. I am thinking of changing into a colored dress during the wedding reception, so I need to select two! Too many things to think! But my friend told me nothing is better than our smiles! That is true!!!

Last night, I was really tired and went to bed early without doing anything!!!

Not that important, but I hope I can list my accomplishments someday soon, too...

Bye for now!

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My Sister's Cafe

This weekend my darling and I went to my youngest sister's workplace. She waits at a cafe in the community center. I never wrote about my sisters but I have 2 younger sisters: 2 years and 10 years younger. The youngest sister is actually mentally-retarded. After she finished high school, she started to work at many different places to become socially independent. It was very nice to see her working hard :D The cake set menu was sold at a low price (450yen/$4.50) but was really huge and delicious!!! Their coffee was really good, too!

Anyway, I am extremely busy since I need to think about my wedding stuff in addition to my cooking stuff :( My darling always says take it easy, but how can I?!?! I can't compromise anything... you know...

Two images at the bottom are taken at the different places. The red dress is the dress I bought at $10 the other day :D My darling is reading a wedding news on the paper! Good boy!!!

I gotta stop now! Bye for now :)

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Barbie

I loved to play Barbie when I was small. What my sis and I had were Jenny dolls. We wanted Licca, but somehow all dolls were Jenny because our Santa (my dad) couldn't tell the difference between two... Ha-ha. A big difference between them is the height. Licca is smaller than Jenny. Why can't he get Licca!!!!!!! Anyway, now Jenny is discontinued, so I'm glad that we played with her!

Once in a while, I played with Barbie dolls at my friend's house. My friend was German, so her doll was a real Barbie! Don't you think Japanese Barbie dolls (Jenny and Licca) have Japanese face!?

On Saturday, my darling and I went to a different salon to try on wedding dresses again! Don't laugh! Just for fun, I tried on a Barbie dress :D BTW, here we found really nice dress and tuxedo for New York photo wedding at a great rental value! We made a snap decision! Also, all dresses were my taste, so I enjoyed playing dress-up! Amazingly, the lady who assisted my fitting used to live in Harrison (New York), where I used to live!!! What a small world!!!

Busy Monday! Talk to you later!!!

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Robert Mondavi

Robert Mondavi is an American wine. My dad bought it when he went on a business trip. Remember it or not, I posted the image on my Year-End Eatings post without any comment on this ;P It was very smooth and easy to drink!

Robert Mondavi Winery is one of the most respected in the world, and Mondavi is the man who is most responsible for the worldwide recognition of American wine making, as well as changing America's palate for fine wine and fine food.

How do you enjoy your wine?

I'm not good at wine, so I always check the recommendation and select wine which suit my food. In this way, it is twice as enjoyable!!! I drink wine with any kind of food, such as sushi :)

Tomorrow, I am going to play wedding dress-up again :D

No snow left today. It is going to get warm from next week!
Have a good weekend!

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Unwasted Tubed Products

How far do you use tubed products?! Me?! I use them like this... I cut the top of the tube and use the snack bag clip to close up! You put in your finger to use. If you can't reach the content, you cut the tube again! What do you think?!

It's snowing today. I took a picture on the way to the station. Can you see the snow on the trees?! My darling looks happy :D Anyway, it will stop snowing this afternoon.

I have so many things to do, but if I'm too busy, I suddenly get overwhelmed and do nothing... Last night, I didn't go to the GYM since I had a list of things to do, but I watched TV (vancouver olympic figure skating, Evan Frank Lysacek was amazingly cool!) and went to bed... Hope I finish everything today...

Bye for now!

P.S.
I added the search box to my blog. Hope it helps :D

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Preserved Flower Arrangement from Miho

On Valentine's day, my high school friend Miho sent me a beautiful handmade preserved flower arrangement as a wedding present (I received it yesterday since I couldn't make time to receive it from the deliverer). She said she chose these colors for me :D What a perfect choice!!! I really like this fuchsia pink color, you know!

Preserved flower is made of real flower. It is fresh and soft like a real flower, and lasts for about 3 years, depending on the condition.

Thanks a lot for this surprise!
It made my day super happy ;)

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INVICTUS

INVICTUS means "unconquered" in Latin.

My darling and I watched the movie on Saturday. It's a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie is based on an actual story of Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa in 1995). His one strong hope for Springboks (a rugby team) changed the world for real!

I didn't know the rules of rugby, but the game was really cool ;)

Did you watch it already?!

BTW, I added a new label called "Movies" to my blog! It is linked to the side bar as well!

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Valentine's Day 2010

Yesterday was a busy Valentine's day. I had to cook recipes for deadlines... In addition to handmade chocolates, I gave my darling budonoki's famous char-grilled chocolates. Each piece costs 300yen (3 bucks), so I haven't tasted them. The round one is rose champagne, and the heart one is sweet-sour strawberry. I hope he liked them ;D I wore the clothes I bought at 109 the other day!

Last night, we've been to Koumibou again to eat Chinese food since my dad came back from China during the CNY holidays :D OMG, how expensive the food is... this tiny sharks' fin (right bottom image) was $30 per dish... stir fried yellow chive (right top image) was $18 per dish. Of course we ordered only one each and shared. Anyway, we enjoyed more than 10 different kinds of Chinese foods! Sorry, I forgot to take pictures of all...

Anyway, as you are aware, I deleted my wedding dress images... My darling said it is a surprise :P BTW, my parents and sisters loved the pink one, if you remember!

Busy Monday. I changed my company PC to Windows 7, so I need to set up all programs and files X( I'm still trying to get used to the new OS... shadow and animation functions are kind of annoying...

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Wedding Dresses #1

Yesterday I tried on wedding dresses and colored dresses for the first time in my life!!!

White dresses were not as white & glittering as I thought. But they fitted very well and looked really good in pictures! Amazing!!!

I enjoyed wearing colored ones more than the white ones ;) They were really heavy but gorgeous indeed! But the pricing for the rental was insanely expensive!!! Hmm...

Instead of renting 2 dresses (changing into a colorful dress during the wedding reception), maybe I can design my own wedding dress using the budget.

Anyway, I am thinking of trying on as many wedding dresses as I can until April (the deadline to decide my dresses). That's why I titled this post "#1". He-he! Thanks to my darling. He took all these pictures.

Will see...

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口水鶏@KICHIRI

Last night, my darling and I went to eat dinner at an izakaya restaurant called KICHIRI. On the menu, we found a strange food called "よだれ鶏" which means "mouth water chicken"... (the left top image) I first couldn't believe the naming and laughed with my darling, but now by searching the Net, I found it actually was a traditional Chinese food called "口水鶏"!!!

BTW, yesterday was a busy day! I really wanted to shop at Shibuya 109 since I haven't been there for 3 months, so I went there to find new clothes before the wedding dress fitting. Luckily many of the winter clothes were sold at 1,000yen (10 bucks) or 70% off , so I spent only 15,000yen ($150) to get 10 items :D What a great deal!!!

Okay, I gotta go now!

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