“well, it’s a biscuit stick dipped in frosting”

I think the last time I had Pocky was mm….5 years ago? Anyway, I finally decided to buy a box and relive the Pocky moment. This was a special blueberry pocky. Tsubu Tsubu Blueberry. What’s tsubu tsubu? I’m going to guess frothy.

Of course it comes in a nice box with a specific way to open it. I love it when my box tells me how to open him. It leaves nothing to the imagination!

There were originally…four…packets…but uh…three of them mysteriously decided to disappear.

The plastic wrap was semi translucent with cute blueberries around it. When you open the wrapping, you can reeeeeally smell the blueberry. It was reeeeally good. They need to make pocky in huge buckets or something. Each stick is gobbled up in about .5 a second. I suppose this really teaches me to savor everything. I have a feeling I’m going to lose a lot of weight if I go to Japan.

I picked this up because it was on sale and it’s ume flavored! Plum….mmmm.

Little specs of the ume. This chip was…weird to taste. It was like…salty…sour…if it didn’t look like a chip I would think it was barf. But because it was a chip, it was acceptable? I know that sounds really weird.

I went to Kitayama lunch one day. This is what happens when you’re bored.

Ebi tails for the eyebrows.

I scooped out the pulp of the lemon and replaced it with wasabi.

Then you spread the wasabi around and peel apart the ginger so it is completely flat (no wrinkles!), and lay it around. A work of art.

Then I went to see my uncle who has had his new cat, Tigger, for about a year now. I used to live at his house while he was on vacation to take care of Tigger. I haven’t seen him in almost a year now, and he doesn’t seem to really remember me. He run up to the loft and I couldn’t find him, only to finally spot him behind the computer desk.

He used to seem more brown to me but he’s gray now. Kind of panther like!

Then I found them and it sat there for awhile. I finally found a time to use them (was in high heels walking around avidly for about 4 hours) and so I put them on.

These were camomile scented (maybe there is camomile in it too) and it was wonderful! I really felt like I was pampering myself because the sticky cloth used to secure the packet onto the soles of my feet were better quality than I imagined. They hugged my foot and it was not uncomfortable.

At first I thought that these just smelled nice and maybe was effective since herby stuff were at my feet. I didn’t know that these were those infamous Japanese toxin sucking kind. The packaging didn’t say anything about toxins (well I couldn’t read it either). So after I took them off, it was a gooey mess that I didn’t even know it was gooey before I took them off. Kind of a yucky…grayish black color. In my haste to get rid of the mess, I did not take any pictures of it.

So I told my mom about it and she was like “oooh yeah..those totally work. At first I didn’t think it worked, but the more you use them, the less black it gets!”

So I looked online and people were saying it’s fake because they put water on it and it still turned black. Or left it out in the air and it turned black (from humidity I think).

I wouldn’t say that it’s “fake” though. The blackness just means that there were contact with water, or sweat. So let’s just say the pads make your feet sweat out onto the pads, making it turn black. That’s not horribly bad too either, right? Sweat is a way to get toxins out of the system. I don’t think my feet sweat that much under normal sleeping conditions.

My verdict: The pads make your feet sweat more than usual, possibly flushing out toxins. Turning the pads black is a product of being in contact with fluids. As for the gradual decrease in blackness my mom saw, maybe with repeated use, the need to sweat them out decreases resulting in less sweat.

My impression: I felt pampered and the smelling herbs made me feel like a princess. A PRINCESS. That’s so worth the $1.69 I paid for it. Taking them off, however, made me feel like…..a really gross….person that doesn’t wash their feet.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pPqF8qHoDpE if you can’t see it

I totally forgot to do >_< whoops…

This week, I went to Mitsuwa again to eat this…and they didn’t have it anymore. Was it a limited edition? What was so special about last week? Will I never be able to experience the yummy goodness that is this bowl? /cry At least I got to eat it two times…

1/3 of the package is 6g of fat, 140mg of sodium (pretty good I think), and 2% Calcium, woohoo!

This is called Redemption. Looks kind of scary!

Haystacks. I really like this picture for some reason. I think because it looks so calm, but inspiring.

I like the colors! Looks like a lot of fun! I didn’t catch the name of this one…

This was actually a bigger picture, but I liked this one part of it.

Koi! I love they way they move their mouth.

What?

Kamiya Dojo! I think of Kenshin when I see this. My house in Sims2 look a lot like this! I’m going to build something like this if I’m ever rich.

The willow is one of my favorite trees. It’s so gloomy and elegant.

I’m sorry for the 7-8 people that were erased from this picture.

This is what it looked like before. Flipping back and forth is pretty trippy. If only it were so simple to remove people in real life…

The Chinese Garden

I saw long hallways like this one in China, but they were about 10x longer.

Sooooo pretty!

I think someone was feeding the ducks even though they weren’t supposed to…

The Atrium ceiling. I want an atrium in my house too.

No, the picture isn’t upside-down. This flower grows that way! Cuuuuute. I don’t remember the name though <: (

I like this kind of space. Large floor to ceiling windows and wood flooring.

Hello Mister Sea Cucumber! You were not very yummy. Mister Peking Duck served me better. At some big Chinese restaurant in Diamond Plaza in Rowland Heights. Found it: New Capitol Restaurant. If you spend more than $30, depending on how many people you have in your party, you get free food. We had 5 people so we got a free 2 pounds of either lobster or Swimming Water Shrimp. We got the shrimp. We actually went to this place for lunch either for their dim sum. It was really good! They had a lot of variety and not too expensive.

There are little colored transparent balls in the liquid that float around. So cute! What is it made out of? I almost want to fish them out but I don’t want to ruin their habitat! There may be a specific balance of chemicals that I don’t want to disrupt <: (.

I also got something I’ve had my eye on for awhile.

Mikan-chan. Lip cream! The label seems to say there is collagen in it “Koraagen”. oOooo. The reason why I got this is because it’s shaped in a cute little mikan! Kind of like the little Cuties clementines you see at the market, or manderin oranges. And it smells sooooooooo good. I wish I could waft some of this smell onto the internet. They have these in a bigger size for hand lotion as well.

You can smell it once you open it. MmmmM! Imagine this in your purse…eee! > <. Totally a summer must-have for me. They have a red apple one…and I’m sure I’ve seen another kind…I think it was peach. Peach!! Maybe I have to get that one too.

Mocchiri Fucchyo and Shyowa Fucchyo. Or is it Futsuchyo? I can’t tell if the tsu is silent because I have no idea what it means. <: P They are like the popular “hi-chews”, but with tiny gummies inside, and bits of fruit. The soda one has gummy and soda bits that burst in your mouth with carbonation. Very yum.

Tappuri Ichigo & Pafu. Something strawberry and puff. And then it says “chocolate” on the bottom. This is really good and as they say in Chinese…”hen shang!” very fragrant. But in Chinese, it’s a little less about the smell, but it means it’s strong in a good way. The strawberry flavor is potent to a point where it’s a little bit sour and it has crunch bits in it, as well as strawberry bits. These chocolates are individually wrapped, of course, for optimum high quality experience. <: P

Aporo, or Apollo. Howaito & Buruuberii. White & Blueberry! The milk is from Hokkaido, famous for its cows and milk. This is just like the strawberry, except different shape, and no crunch bits. The blueberry part has a coarse texture due to the blueberry bits. So yummy too. Also individually wrapped.