0 Japanese Food!

Japanese food is healthy and delicious. It is very popular around the world. One of the most famous Japanese food is sushi! Sushis are amazingly delicious and healthy.

Many people would think of raw fish when they hear sushi. Yes, there are raw fish and other raw stuffs, but it also have deliciously cooked eels. "Ew eels!" WTF?! Eels are delicious. Eel, cucumber is one of my favorite rolls of sushi.

Also eel with rice is another heavenly food. Sorry for the crappy photos. I took it with my ipod touch. It's half eaten before it occurred to me to take a picture lol

Another famous Japanese food is the ramen. Ramens are noodle. Ramen is Naruto's favorite food. He would eat many bowls every time. Don't ask me how I know that... -.-
If I ever have the chance to go to Japan, my first ever Japanese restaurant to visit would be a ramen one. I want to try out the different flavors they have.
They do have many ramen shops here in NYC but I'm pretty sure there are many more awesome flavors in Japan. With the Japan feel and all that.

I should definitely create a NYC food junkies club! lol I love to eat.

0 Don't Let Anyone Tell You Who You Are!

Be who you want to be. Ask yourself what YOU want and not what other people want of you. This is your life, you are the main character in your own story. You write your own story in this life.


Forget about the others. Take a moment and think about only yourself. If you were alone in this world, nobody left but you, what would you want to be? A model, a singer, a doctor? Or maybe just a simple girl. Don't complicate stuffs. Others don't go through what you will be going through so eff them. They have no right to tell you who you are.

You want to be beautiful, be beautiful. Think you are beautiful. Nobody knows you better than YOU! Don't let others tell you you are not beautiful. Don't let those ugly things get to you. You are beautiful and you are YOU!

0 Nude Nail Polish!

I'm really into the nude color nail polish lately. Neutral colors are my favorites for nails. Pastel colors are awesome too, but I like it more for the spring time. Today I painted my nails with Sephora by O.P.I.
I actually know the name of the color because it's a mini polish. I threw away the box that came with it and the bottle doesn't have the name of it.

Yeah, I'm no pro at painting my nails. I love the color though. I got the box of mini Sephora polish last year for Christmas. It came with more than 10 mini polishes. I like it a lot. You can try out new colors and not have to buy the whole size bottle till you know you like it. 

The tiny polishes last very long. I don't paint my nails often, but I do like to add a few coats to make the polish last and bring out more the color. I haven't emptied any of the polishes yet and I think some that I use more often are still a little above half way.

Here's a picture of the mini polish that I used. Cute!

TIP: one way to make nail polish dry faster is to deep your nails into a bowl of cold water for a minute or two. Don't wipe afterwards. Gently shake off the water.

0 Chinese Congee!

I grew up eating Chinese congee. Is a must-know recipe for chinese people. It is rice porridge. It can be eaten anytime. Awesome for sick days. It's like chicken soup in the states.

It is mostly eaten in the morning as breakfast to give your digestive system a good start of the day. It is like a rice broth so it's easy to digest. That's why many chinese grandmothers would give child congee when they are starting to eat solids.

You can add anything to it. Eggs, meat, scallions, ginger,etc...

You can even eat it plain without anything, not even salt. I've eaten more congee than any other things in my life. This morning my mom added some duck eggs and meat to the congee.

It was amazing!

I like to add some fresh scallion because it adds that extra flavor to it. Maybe I added a little bit too much. You pour the hot congee over the scallions and mix it. Some people add it on top of the congee but I like it when the hot congee covers it bringing out more of scallion's flavor.

For people who are not used to it, might look kinda weird, but trust me, it taste way better tan it looks. I don't think it looks bad anyway. Have a great day everybody and I hope you're craving some congee right now... haha

0 Sour Rocks!

Sour dried plums is my favorite childhood snack. Nothing beats it. I've been eating it since little and still like them very much. Now not as much as before though, but no other sour things can replace it.

They look like rocks and feels like a rock. Some brand has a tint of sweetness in them and some makes them extra salty which enhance the sourness of it. Right now they are making it less sour and not as good as before. Nothing beats the old days' snacks. Now they have too many brands and flavors. They add weird flavors to everything.

I say that I don't like it as much as before because the taste and feel is not the same. Nothing is the same as before. I tried to accept the new tastes, but it's just not as good. Some are too dry to even taste anything. *sigh* If I had a time machine, I would use it to go back to time and grab all the old school snacks that there is in China.

0 It's Okay Once In a While!

I looooove coffee. I'm not an addict but I love coffee lol. I only drink once in a while because I don't want to "need coffee" for my daily life. I don't even know of it wakes me up or not. Sometimes I feel like it works, but sometimes I feel like it does nothing at all.

The Starbucks near my house is always packed. I also don't want to spend too much money on a cup of coffee, even though their coffee really is amazing.

My 7-Eleven is right next to the subway station. It is very convenient since I take the subway to almost everywhere I go. I remember this one time when I was in a hurry and wanted a coffee real bad. I went inside 7-Eleven, pour my coffee, I usually just add milk, but i wanted cream this time, I grab what I thought was cream, add it to the coffee, and went to pay for it. I got to the station right when the train was about to leave.

I sat down with my cup of coffee really pissed. I got a drink and spit it out! More like shoot out. The coffee was sour! Ew!! I thought that their coffee went bad or something. That day was a really bad day for me.

I found out the next day that what I grabbed thinking that it was cream, it was actually some sort of fruit stuffs. But hey! You learn from your mistakes lol I never made that same mistake again! haha

0 Material Things Do Make Me Happy!

Little things in life can affect how you feel. They can make you feel happy, loved, and even relaxing.
When something you own are insignificant for some, it can mean a lot to you. I own a lot of stuffs, too many to be exact. lol

When people say that you can't buy happiness, I disagree. I'm not ashamed to say that material things do make me happy. They are not only objects, they contains memories in them.

Even without any awesome memories in them, I feel happy when I see certain things I own. You make your own happiness. You decide what makes you happy. Don't let anyone tell you what to love or what to hate.

So what if you own too many stuffs. Even if that object gave to temporally happiness, you were happy and not sad for that moment. It's not a waste of money even if that thing made you felt happy for even a minute. A minute of happiness if better than a minute of nothing.

Spending money you earned and spending money you don't own is another story. You buys this thing that makes you very happy, but later on you don't have the money to pay your bills. That's the kind of money you should not spend. It's okay to feel happy like I said, but not okay if you will feel stressed out and hopeless afterwards. It's okay for happiness to fade away, but not okay if it will bring sadness later on.

One last thing, say NO to credit cards. Credit cards are money you don't own. If you have the money, get a debit card. And if you don't have the money, don't buy. Debts bring sadness in life and money well spend are money that makes you feel happy.