I have been a derp >.>;

Hello internet addicts!

Since my last post, I have been pretty busy with family and stuff. Our house guests left to go back to their home, and we had to get things back in order. One thing that happened while the guests were over was that my dad and I both got addicted to this Chinese snack that we used to eat when I was vewy little. I stopped having it because it didn't stick to our "as little processed food as possible" diet. But now that we're addicted...there is a pack here and there throughout the house. What are these snacks? Want Want Rice Crackers. Not just any one. The "Snow" ones. Omg...they are so delicious...Here's a picture :3

Since we are both addicted, we bought the "family pack". These things are amazingly good. 

I normally like eating them right out of the packet. I don't like dirtying my hands >_>;
P.S. sorry for the blurry/low quality photo. I started eating the cracker before I was fast enough to grab my camera, so I made do with my phone...

On to another reason why I was too "busy" to make blog posts about anything. (mostly, I have just been lazy and boring, but it's also due to the fact that I had nothing too interesting to write about) My parents found a good vacation deal to go on a tour of Asia. So naturally, they told me to go (I say naturally only because my dad isn't well enough to go travelling. Else he would've left me and my brother home alone for two months...) So for the past little while I have been planning this vacation with my Bff(s) and it's going to happen! I will officially be going on the first FAR away vacation UNsupervised. Be proud of me and scared for me. XD While I was planning, my boyfriend brought over his large suit case for me. He also thought it would be a good idea to see if I would fit in it........I ended up making this short video for giggles. (I seriously laughed for a long time before, and after filming this) I hope you laugh/giggle as much as I did :3

Now onto a food discovery! We all know the health benefits of Kimchi, and if you don't, please google it! I cannot spend a whole blog post talking about the benefits of it (cuz I rather not copy and past wiki). We also know how delicious roast beef is (for those of you who can't have beef, I'm sorry. Perhaps you could try with chicken? C:) So the discovery is putting the two together, in a tortilla and rolling it up like a burrito/fajita. It tastes amazing for lunch! Another discovery was spreading some peanut butter onto a slice of tortilla, then some nutella on top of it, and spreading banana slices in the middle then rolling it up. That is a beautiful and quick breakfast idea (not super healthy, but it'll do ^-^). Here are pictures I remembered to take of them:

Not the prettiest of pictures, but it sure was delicious! I feel that it could use some lettuce/green onion too. 

This was delicious! I served it with a side of golden delicious apple. You can't really see the peanut butter here, but I assure you it is resting comfortably under the nutella. 

Let me know if you plan on trying these two creations out! (If you have instagram and would like to show me, please feel free to tag me @rikateddy )

Other than that, I have nothing more to update! When I DO leave for my vacation, and if you DO want to keep updated, try to subscribe to my YouTube page. I will be trying to upload vlogs to that. And if I don't end up uploading while I'm there, (highly likely that I wont end up having good wifi i most places) then please please please be patient with me. I WILL be gone for about a month, and will be returning on the evening of Lunar New Year. So I really will not be updating right away (and I will have to edit the vlogs...soooo...yah).

Okie dokie, I wont waste any more of your time.

Until next time~
-Chrissymon

Halloween and My Birthday :3

Hello my humans of the interwebs!

Prepare yourself for a long post! :3 (Consider this a warning)

So this Halloween (Thursday, October 31), I invited some buddies over to just hang out. I didn't want to hand out candy anymore...because many high school kids don't even dress up and it irks me. Back in my day, we had to make an effort to get candy! One time, this house made me sing/dance/tell a joke to get candy, I was already in a costume too! (I was like...14? Don't judge! I'm Asian. I look young enough to pull off 18 even now so yeah ^-^;;) Soo...my iPhone broke halfway through the evening. That meant that all my photos and information was gone. I went to get the phone fixed the very next day, and I have recovered my precious data!!! (you have no idea how ecstatic I am about having my phone back) Here it is! :3

Our delicious snackies and drinks :3

Decided to party like adults for a day.
We are all of legal drinking age around the world and drank responsibly.  (I promise)

Chocolate covered almonds, popcorn, Reese minis, dark chocolate M&Ms, Tostitos and Terra chips. Delicious!

I was dressed as little miss Beetlejuice. ;) I'm little miss Beetlejuice and not lady Beetlejuice cuz I didn't have time to go grab a wig and all that makeup business...yeah I had a bad day and I was lazy. 

Sourpuss and perrier cocktail (we added fruit juice in it later on too!)
Got these cute martini glasses from my mom. 

We partied like nerds we played Puerto Rico (blurry picture...perhaps I had one too many drinks?)

Apparently I did drink too much...cuz I knocked over the M&Ms and almost ate a colonist (the brown dot that isn't an M&M) while I was trying to tidy up my board. Aaaand the picture is blurry again! sigh.... 

Also on the very next day (Friday, November 1), Lucas' best friend brought us to Nando's after we went to the phone repair shop. Now, for some of you, this might not be something amazing, but I've never been. The boys were just raving on, and on about the ice cream dessert, and I just couldn't wait to try it. This is what happened:

We were order number 2! I don't know why, but this pepper thing was really interesting at the time...

I had the Peri-Peri chicken (1/4 chicken) and fries (I wanted vegetables, but I guess the lady didn't hear me)
It was pretty delicious! I'm glad I went with Medium spiciness because it was just right. :)
In case you were wondering, the boys got either Hot or Extra-Hot (deadly X_X)

The infamous ice cream! It is soooo cold, but so delicious! I highly recommend this!

There is mango ice cream on the inside, vanilla on the outside, then it is rolled in a layer of fine coconut flakes. (It looks like an egg!)  It is then topped off with a generous drizzle of chocolate sauce. Mmmmmm.....
I normally dislike the taste of coconut, but this beauty is delicious.

Saturday! I made a little hangout plan with my bffs of all time (the ones in the tea picture I posted last time ;3). We just decided to grab brunch at my favourite brunch place everrrr (Cora's) and then we just hung out and watched movies (I earned myself a movie migraine from this...=_= but it was worth it!). Giggled and gossiped like girls (not really......>.>;;;) Then for dinner, we just made some gourmet looking instant noodles ;) Here's what this eventful day looked like:

I started off my day with some Peppermint Mocha from Starbucks! (My order is generally really fussy...heh...)
I was really sad to see that the fall drinks were gone. Cuz apparently...fall ends after Halloween =( I really wanted PSL

I ordered the Theo Skillet at Cora's. Doesn't it look delicious? (I managed to grab a picture after 3 bites of food)
A baked skillet of a bunch of veggies and potato with cheese.
Topped with an egg cooked to your liking (I like over easy), served with a side of fruit. 

I also got a delicious Strawberry banana smoothie!
It comes with a slice of fruit! (It was garnished with a slice of pineapple, but I gave that to one of my friends to eat...) 

Aside from their food tasting great, I love that Cora's presentation for their food is exceptional. Look at that beauty!
I love that the food always looks exactly like the photo taken for the menu. <3

One of my bffs went to visit Seattle, and I asked her to bring me something from the original Starbucks. My wish was granted! I am so happy! (If you want, you can find her blog here, http://jygsawpuzzle.blogspot.ca/  She posts awesome stuff on her adventures around the world (kinda but not really). She takes really good pictures ;3)

She bought some more mugs for her apartment, and we used those to drink water and stuff today.

This is our gourmet instant noodle dinner. Doesn't it just look amazing?
We have dip and veggies in the center in case we got the munchies in the middle or after dinner. :3

It's gourmet because we put a lobster tail there (I took reactin before eating ;3), a poached egg, kale, spinach, garnished with some red pepper and sesame seeds. *drools*

Finally, we have reached Sunday, the day of my birthday. Yes, I was born on November 3. Growing up, nothing exciting ever happened on my birthday, and it always made me a little sad. But now that I'm older, I really don't care too much anymore. As long as I had good company and a nice birthday cake, I'm all good.

I started my morning with a surprise visit from my little brother (whose room is down the hall). He wished me happy birthday and ordered me around his room to give me my birthday present. This meant a lot to me, since it reminded me of the good old days when we would just fool around and bother each other. Then we went for some dim sum with my family and Lucas and his dad. If you are Chinese, or know other Chinese people, you will know that you can never get between them and their dim sum. So needless to say, I didn't get time to take pictures before the food was devoured or being devoured. I'm sorry.

The real celebration was with the dinner. My loving daddy cooked the whole meal for me (step mum made the veggies) Now, I just realized as I am typing this sentence that I did not take pictures of my birthday dinner. I feel really bad right now...I'm really really sorry! I was really just happy to spend this time with my family and I honestly forgot to take pictures. I can only explain what I had:
          - Steamed Chicken
          - Steamed Pork Ribs
          - Mustard leaves (boiled)
          - Boiled baby Bok Choy
          - Wok fried Cabbage in coconut oil
          - Mapo Tofu
          - All served with a healthy serving of steamed rice
What I CAN show you is my birthday cake (Strawberry Custard Cake), and my lovely baby orchid plant that my parents bought me. A few months ago, I might have mentioned that I wanted one. They surprised me with it by remembering, and it is really beautiful.

Strawberry Custard Cake (bought from Longos)
It is decorated with glazed strawberries and marbled chocolates. The edge is covered in toasted sliced almonds.
The little thing with my name on it was a block of pure sugar. Yummy, but deadly.

Baby Orchid plant! It may not look small in this angle, but I assure you the pot is the size of my iPhone. Or smaller!

This was a very busy few days for me, and it was very enjoyable. I warned you at the beginning that this would be a long post. I'm grateful that you have made it this far! You have my thanks and respect c: (Also, if you wish you comment, say..."chinchillas are cool" in your comment to show me you have a greater attention span than a goldfish...and me...combined. >_>;)

I didn't show my "birthday treasures" because I don't believe in flaunting the materials you have/get (other than the super awesome plant that I really thought was cute and just had to show the world!). In my opinion, my birthday is a day to celebrate that I am alive for another year. I am thankful that I have been allowed to walk this Earth and meet the people that I have met, and had the chance to know and love. So I thank you all for reading my blog post(s), and I hope you will follow me on my journey of recording events of my life so I don't forget them later on.

Much love, good luck, and I wish you all happiness

-Chrissymon

What I have been up to.......nothing much.

Hello wonderful humans!
I know, I know. It's been a while. Honestly, my life hasn't been too interesting since the last post, and I didn't really do anything special. Before I go onto the wonderful awesome-ness of Halloween, I shall do a quick recap of the semi-interesting/new things that happened. (Mostly just food ;3)

Outfit of a day (went to help my dad work)
Crop top: Garage
Tank top: Forever 21
Jeans: American Eagle
Belt: Forever 21
Boots: Payless Shoes

Healthy snack to accompany a not-so-healthy lunch. (Instant noodles =3)

Finally pulled my carrots out from the ground. They're so weird =_= But they taste so pure =3

Traditional homemade BeiJing wraps. They are sooooo good ^-^

This is what one of my wraps looked like before I wrapped it. 

This is a steamed bun. Also homemade! Doesn't it look beautiful, sitting in its little bed of chilli oil? 

This is how the steamed buns looked like before we steam them. 

This is how they look like still in the steamer (so pretty)

This is how they look like after we take them out and prepare to eat them ALL!!! 

Stay tuned for a very exciting update about Halloween and my birthday! Coming soon! ;)

-Chrissymon