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Rapsa!

My dau makes her own crema de fruta using Brazil's Biscoito Champanhe for her birthday...! With fresh strawberries on top.

All wrapped in thought...again

After rereading A Knight in Shining Armour, I am now starting another Jude Deveraux hit, The Summerhouse. A story about 3 women friends, rather bestfriends, sharing the same birthdate...about to turn forty, celebrating this turning point at a summerhouse in Maine.

Good old song that brings back memories...

Indulging...

Just like Ida, I love eating taho and I love Yakult too. When I was in the Philippines, I used to buy packs of my favorite Yakult. And I wonder why it comes in a very small unattractive packaging. Always so bitin. I could drink 6 small bottles in one sitting. Now here in Japan I do indulge, with their bigger bottles of Yakult. I make sure to grab a pack of Yakult everytime we go to Maxvalu, my favorite grocery store. And also their taho here is very yum yum with a little brown sugary syrup. It's really a great treat for me here.

I like this...

REFLECTION, by C. Aguilera

Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

I am now
In a world where I
Have to hide my heart
And what I believe in
But somehow
I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection
Someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

There's a heart that must be
Free to fly
That burns with a need to know
The reason why

Why must we all conceal
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

One of the Sexiest Man Alive!

Whoah!!! Mr. Stench is here!!!

One of my favorite actors, a very versatile one, with a highly defined cheekbones...frequently playing outcasts in flamboyant appearance and mannerisms...and usually misunderstood by society is right here in Japan now. His film includes Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995), Dead Man (1995), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Before Night Falls (2000), Pirates and Sweet Todd among others...

Sweet tooth...

Indulge!!!
Chocolatey fruits are really yum yum!!!

Am now looking for a mini chocolate fondue that I can use at home during parties or celebrations...kids will surely enjoy it much as oldies will do also. :D

Ice cream in wintertime...

I'm done cooking chicken and pork adobo...the problem was...soy sauce here's very pale compared sa Pinas na pag sinabing toyo, it's darker than fish sauce. I only used their (white) soy sauce...kaya parang 'di siya adobo. Buti na lang I've brought adobo mix. It's amoy adobo na talaga, minus the dark toyo. I'm craving for Pinoy food...pero pag nasa harap ko na I started losing my appetite na...wonder why.
When I was at Gifu...na super excited sa snow, Masanori gave a box. Inside the small box was 10 small ice cream covered with mochi (glutinous rice)in different flavors. There was green tea, strawberry, vanilla and many more. I liked it, dahil kakaiba kaya I make sure na meron kami lagi sa refrigerator. Parang ice cream at palitaw na pinaghalo. Also churos...and they come bigger here...nasa 12 inches yata. Naku napakahirap magdiet dito. I cannot afford to have some more excess baggage.

Yummy!!!