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10 years back, there were one period of time, I used to buy my clothes and accessories from MOMOE, a fashion brand more likely for teenager girls  


I think mainly because of their style which is more to Japan’s fashion influence (street style) and the price was pretty cheap


Even their slogan is in Japanese, “あなたらしさ”, which means like “be yourself”  I’ve never been visiting this shop for years and now that I’ve upgraded my status to be a mom, at this age, and I can’t believe that I walked into this shop again  and actually shopped 

They were actually not bad at all! I mean not like for the young and only young as I remembered 



Their bags are cute


Some posing with Little-big-boss 

The blue Thai-ish top with flowery mini pants-skirt 


The blue border top 


Little-big-boss posing like an adult..


The off-shoulder sweet top with yellow polka-dot in red skirt 


The off-shoulder sweet top with yellow polka-dot in red skirt 


The end.

As usual, I had a very simple Happy Valentine’s day this year at home with my lovely loved ones 

Had a simple homemade dinner, which I just had all the ingredients wrapped and baked in the oven for 40 mins 
Tied it with a ribbon in the end and tadah~ 
Simple yet gorgeous 



This year, we had our little-big-boss joining in our little happy valentine’s day  for the very first time 
He had his baby menu of course 






Later at night while little-big-boss left for his sweet dreams,
Yappi and I had a little Valentine’s sweet treat, homemade fondant chocola

Glad that these chocolas came out perfect 
In Japan, Happy Valentine’s day is all about “chocolate” haha

Restaurant City, the Facebook game has closed down since 29 June 2012

I think I’ve started playing this game since 2009..

Back then, I was totally obsessed in this game so much that it took almost all my time trying to get the best out of this game  though I kinda lost the passion to it since last year I guess.. but still I continued to access everyday just because Restaurant City is cute  Their items are cute, their characters are cute, yes the design! and they got cuter over the past years. I kept accessing just because I wanted to see their progress and feeling heavy to abandon a game once I was so passionate in  

The changes of my restaurant since 2009..

Started with very less money, not much to do with the interior.  
We researched for the best functionality to earn fast by the arrangement of the tables/stoves. It was fun and you can actually see the result 

It was a bit hard for the old time Restaurant City where it was not as flexible as to compare to the new-era of Restaurant City. That was why people came out with lots of hidden tips back then, for example, [stacking the items], [putting the door not against the wall], etc  

Yappi and I wasted loads of time experimenting too..  yes, he was the truly extreme RC addict I was just normal~ haha

This is the new era of Restaurant City 

More flexible in designing your restaurant and there are always a theme in every updates.

I did Alice theme,  the Christmas theme (mine was actually more to the Gingerbread theme), and an Italian-style theme 

Oh, and I did a Halloween-themed interior once too  before the new era 

What I did was nothing compared to these people below

They were the winners for Restaurant City Design Contest in 2011, and their design are just amazing~

BEST ADVENTUROUS RESTAURANT – Shadowland by Knalltute

BEST REALISTIC RESTAURANT – The Pepper Mill by Pyrographer

BEST ROMANTIC RESTAURANT – Breeze Hotel by Scouse Thumper

BEST MESSAGE IN A RESTAURANT – Seashore Castle by Vcshox

Pics source

Too creative, too awesome 

I wanted to make something like that but was too reluctant to start..like my passion has died off to actually put much time on it..

And now I couldn’t make it back..

For Restaurant City is closing..

They had goodbye party on their last month..

And they are officially closed on 29 June 2012..

This is Maggie, the main character of Restaurant City..
We love her coz she was cute  We’ll miss you too..

Visit the official blog 

I’ll miss those days where I’d always use my restaurant to be one of our virtual dating spot..

I had Yappi and me myself as one of the staff and would always make us work together nearby 

We’ll miss you Restaurant City for making a place for us to have fun once  

Spring is not just sakuras in Japan~! 

Other than a pink spring, I had a yellow spring this year too  

A yellow spring at Mother Farm (マザー牧場) in Chiba 
The official website in Japanese / English. (Japanese one has more contents)

Mother Farm is actually a sight-seeing made farm for visitors located at the top of a mountain. This place has a very charm view, very breezy, very cute farm animals, very nice 

The tickets  
Don’t know how many types do they have, but we’ve got a sheep tic and an alpaca tic~ 
Yes, they have ALPACAs in the farm  Alpaca has been very popular  in Japan these days

Pic source: http://www.motherfarm.co.jp/news/alpacameet.html
See how cute alpaca is 

This is the view from inside the farm~  Up at the mountain  

Spot the yellow part! That is the yellow spring we are gonna visit 

Before that, lunch first  
Time still at around 10:30am but we din’t wanna get stuck with the crowd at lunch time. Eat earlier avoid the traffic 

A very oily lunch, but the fried thing quite yummy with broccolini flowers 

There’s a BBQ service house there too for lunch! Big space, nice view great fun for a BBQ party if come in group 

Looking like this  not lunch time yet, so still no one around. Order food ingredients at the shop and BBQ~ easy  
kinda miss Hokkaido ..BBQ-ing so often the whole summer in the great nature  

 
 Checking the map for our yellow spring 

 The nearest spot was just down the stairs near the lunch station.

And here!  
The name of this yellow bush is Broccolini flowers (菜の花, na no hana). It’s actually a type of vegetable similar to broccoli. Tasted quite nice in the fried thing I had for lunch    

Yappi acting cool~           

Siu-siu (笑笑) two-shot time  hoho

Yappi looks like a little boy here 

First time self-taking photos’ background looking so magnificent

Walking down and up a little..

and there’s a little space with a table and bench to rest 

But somehow, while we were resting and taking some photos..
 we were also kept asking by other people to take photos for them..  busy yappi 

Totally a different view from the opposite side 
Trees still in the state of preparing to turn green 

Baby momiji (maple leaves) started to grow  so cute 

This place supposedly a farm with a lot of farm animals for people to enjoy and learning about them.. but we were here more for the flowers, trees and the tranquil~

I like farm, but prefer to visit a real farm  some place like Hokkaido  wahaha

The cow  near the entrance..

and the sheep  
to prove that we were really here at the Mother Farm 

What the farm actually looks like with all the farm animals → Click 

My new renovated blog, hoho  thanks to Yappi~ we did it together but he did all the programming stuffs~

But by importing this blog, all my previous “Facebook Likes” gone~~
Anyway, thanks everyone who LIKES before 

Because of this renovating, which I couldn’t blog for a period of time, I know I am way too late talking about the sakura season..but still, sakura was amazing.
Always just too pretty to believe that this magical moment last only for about a week 

Though I didn’t go anywhere special for a Hanami (sakura viewing, a Japanese culture) this year, everywhere was just full of sakuras blossoming 

This was taken from the hospital carpark I went   Sooooo pretty~

And this was taken at night in Shibuya, one of the most busiest city in Tokyo  Yes, sakura is as charming as ever even at night coz of it’s bright whitish pinkish petals! 

Siu-Siu (笑笑) two-shot time   
Can’t leave without some memories of us being here before, anywhere we go 

Taken somewhere by the road near a park (Mitsuike Park) that we planned to go but couldn’t find any parking.. so we ended up viewing sakuras by the road instead.. 

Love the background full of SAKURAs~ 

Sometimes feeling awkward to post all these 自慢な (self-proud?) kinda photos up.. just wanna keep as  our own  record of memories 

Click to enlarge 

Larger view of the sakuras by the roadside~  not bad eh? 

Went for a date to Mitsuike Park (三ツ池公園) in Kanagawa, a very nice big park nearby, erm..around 15~20 minutes from home

Sakura trees behind before the blossoms the beginning of April

Can see pinkish blossom buds on the trees~ which means sakura is on it’s way

Great weather on that day temperature getting warmer, not so colorful yet with flowers but everything seems to get lively though still a lil’ bit cold when the wind blows..

Lots of black? ducks on the lake

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And they’re actually looking quite handsome on a closer look

Planned to bring some bento lunch for a picnic at the park..
But didn’t bother at last which we ended up eating yakisoba (instant noodles) from a shop there

Whenever we went for a date, we usually snap lots of two-shot photos on our own making funny faces and so.. we call this “Siu-Siu” (笑笑) which means, smile-smile in Cantonese
At first, “Siu-Siu” was just a phrase like saying “Say Chesse” just for us to get ready before the click. From then on, we started referring “Siu-Siu” as our two-shot where ever we go

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Tee hee

I was trying to get a lovely kiss shot, and he kept making faces..

Happy New Year 2012

Been a lil’ bit busy with house moving from Hokkaido back to Tokyo.. actually it’s Kanagawa and always, I’ve been regretting for not updating this blog..

Though it is already the year of 2012, I still have a lot of past year stories to post even from now on  will speed up..

First for a very simple story but a very sweet moment for me on the 29th November 2011, a day before my birthday 

I’ve got a bouquet of flowers

And I’ve got a birthday strawberry cake  
 

He sang me the birthday song adorably

I made a wish

and blew the candles..

“Thank you LGC (hubby), it’s just cute“

As being a new generation people, we camwhored a lot after that.. in order to put in facebook/blog 

It was simple and classic, but definitely the sweetest birthday I always had .
.ehem* should say it was my birthday’s eve  I think this was my first time having my birthday’s eve celebrated  

I have a new~~~~~ PET 

Not a cat , not a dog . 

Not a hamster , not a rabbit .

Not anything in an aquarium , not anything fluffy either .

And so,

Meeeeeeeet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Sutsuuni  

He’s a stag beetle~  
Species: Lucanus maculifemoratus, Miyama Kuwagata in Japanese (ミヤマクワガタ)
Miyama species is said that, they do not hibernate in winter but are able to go through one winter if conditions met. 

I searched on the internet and I think Miyama is the coolest species of stag beetles
Miyama Kuwagata images  
          

Though is he not as much valued compare to species Dorcus hopei binodulosus, Oo Kuwagata in Japanese (オオクワガタ) which could live for 10 years or so if lucky..
Oo Kuwagata images 

My colleague found this one in the wood and brought him back 

He is consider big and good-looking  but a lil’ bit clumsy and thinking of running away..

I’m gonna keeeeeeeep you~ 

Let me outta here 
A net is too not secure to keep Sutsuuni.. 

He just kept cutting the net trying to runaway..
At first, I never thought I’d be serious in keeping Sutsuuni, I mean as a real pet..
I gave him a chunk of radish with honey on top as his food 
Then only I know, beetles do not eat radish but only cucumber or watemelon..
But at least he eats honey! 

Looking at him trying so hard to run away everyday, I decided to give him a nicer and warmer home..

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This home is not expensive at all  around 1000yen including his honey food 

Ready to move to new home~ 

New home~ 

And Mami’s happy for him too  Mami kinda love him and having fun looking at him everyday 

Not anymore..
He left us..

Sutsunii Rest.In.Peace 
buried under our newly planted morning glory 
 

I’m not too happy lately. 

But whenever I’m not happy, in order to feel better, I used to think that our existence is just as tiny as ‘nothing’ compared to our endless infinity and so spectacular universe. 
When you think there are more serious stuffs happening around the world, there are more other stuff to care of, to take concern of, things like me being unhappy now is just ‘nothing’, not worth at all.

And then, I started to think also that life is short. Being unhappy is not much but a huge waste of time. If being happy is why we are here in this world, why waste all the time being unhappy?

I feel better for a moment after that, but I don’t really feel all recovered.

Maybe after all, unhappiness is still one of human’s feeling..
Can’t really resist..
If it’s easy to rid of, nobody will shed tears, nobody will have heartache, nobody will ever commit suicide..

It’s hard..

But still, everything in this world is a beauty, a miracle 

Using a different way to feel things we have, happiness is just everywhere.

I realized,

if there is one unhappiness,

we could replace this one unhappiness with other one happiness~  

For example,

When I see there are so much beauties in this world like this, I feel happy 

When I’m in touch with the beauty of nature, I feel happy 

It’s true, everything can be forgiven, every unhappiness can be forgettable 

I just got a new registered email 
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♥♥♥♥♥ @facebook.com
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Very excited coz it was from Facebook  

Anyone got it yet?  (my username)

I’m not sure but every time when Facebook has an update, not everyone will get the update all at one time. Some lucky one will get it first~

I don’t know whether I am consider the faster one, but I guess if none of my friend was posting or tweeting that they have a new email of @facebook.com, then I’m pretty sure I might be the first few among my friends on my list..    

I searched on the net about this new function and found out that this function was actually started since last year November 2010 and before this, it was not open to public.

In case if anyone would like to get a @facebook.com, you have to “request an invitation” from Facebook.

Try the following steps

 Login to your Facebook account.
 Go to this link → http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/
 You’ll come to this page 
 Click “Request an Invitation”
 You’re DONE 

Okay, I don’t know what Facebook is thinking obviously.. since this function is open for public now, anyone will get this update anytime without doing anything. Just the matter of sooner or later.

Thought if you complete the above steps, you might get it faster.. or maybe not..

@facebook.com email address will match your Facebook ID usernameThat’s cool

Facebook URL address: www.facebook.com/ ♥♥♥♥♥
Facebook email address: ♥♥♥♥♥@facebook.com

Go get one if you haven’t got a username here. 

Anyway, Webmail and Facebook-mail is still a different thing.

Facebook-mail can be an easy going emailing-tool for friends and so, an access that is related to Facebook where in these days, not many or probably no-one using the internet has no Facebook.

So excited for having a @facebook.com, but for an official email, Gmail is the best! 

I love GMAIL 
no email host better than gmail~ 

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