Hello everyone ~

Did everyone had a great weekend? ^___^ I hope so! becauseeee I could say the same! hehehe... --but.. not the fact that I felt sick majority of the time. :( I made it, somehow, the best of it by being with the person I love. ❤ ❤ ❤ Quoc Thanh Phan or I guess, you guys could pronounce it 'Wok Tawn Fan' if you are not familiar of the name.. LOL... Asian names, I know.


The reason why I felt so sick is because a couple years back I experienced my first stomach virus. It was HELL!!!! I never vomit or anything since what?--- 1997?! -____- So, I was REALLLLY messed up because of that stomach virus. I was sick for almost a month.. 3 weeks to be exact.. That was NOT a good year at all.. lol So anyways, to the point.. my mind is now mentally screwed up because of that virus.. I've been more paranoid and mentally weak than ever.. I can't be carefree like I was before.. =/ So example on how I felt.. It's those feelings where you are out of your 'comfort zone" like, mine is home.. but since my boyfriend lives about.. a couple hours away from me.. it's out of that zone. Yes, I am comfortable being with him and at his home but if we were to go outside of his home, I am anxious, paranoid, and asking my self.. "Uh oh?~ what if?!". My mind starts to take over and get me sick! :( Makes me stomach hurt ... or makes me light headed, my eye lids get very heavy... or my throat feels empty and I want to just throw up.. -____- I'm sure some of you have felt this at some point? But I feel like this ALL the time when I am out of my comfort zone. ;( It ruins a lot for me when I'm out on trips or just trying to enjoy my day. ;/ I hope I can get help or something.. It's been wayyy~ too long now that I've been thinking this way. :( You stupid stomach virus!!!!!!!! :| But meow~! =^_____^= Let's start by thinking positive! >.< I'm home now! Sooo stop worrying, Tina! Hehehhe... I'll share some photos with you that happened today!! and today is actually a special day for me and Thanh! It's our one year! Yeah, I know~ I feel like I'm in high school or something but HEY! at least it's not counting down EVERY MONTH! lol!!! You know what I mean! Hahaha... xD but yes.. one year! It feels like I've been with Thanh forever now though! Hehehe! We are still at it strongly~ and ever so loving. I love this guy more than anything!!! My parents even accepts him! :D and they have never accepted anyone before. :X They are quite traditional, my parents are..... My boyfriend decided to take me to a very fine dining lunch for our year! O: It was real nice! The place was called "August" down in New Orleans! ....so picture time!!!!!

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--- Waiting on our 2:OO reservation @ August! ^-^


--- Finally got seated and here's their trifold menu! :)


--- They gave us some nice sour dough bread and this egg custard!! O: It was so yum!


--- Thanh's dish : A good little portion of prime rib!


--- ❤ ❤ ❤


--- Hehe! My honey was satisfied with August! (even though I did had my on and off sickly mental break down :X)



--- My Mr. Handsome. Love him~~ :p



Well guys, I hope you enjoyed my little post here... or yea.. LOL but remember guys~ stay healthy! exercise, stay positive! .. be less stress! >___< Gahhh~ Need to take my own advice which I DO try! D: Stupid brain.. lol. -_____- Goodnight everyone!!

Good afternoon everyone, or morning if you're in some 14+ hour country.. lol it's like 1:44 PM here, where the sun is up! and my neighbors are b-tching and screaming!! Not pleasant, eh? ;x hehehe~ Anyways.. my poor boyfriend is sick and he's about almost 3 hours away from me. :( but he gave me news that he is feeling a bit better .. that's good! ^__^ (feel 1OO% better, honey~ I ❤ you~~)

Anyways, on to the post topic! I want to share with you about this app if you (mainly gals I am catering too hehehe or hey~ no discrimination here; GUYS TOO! if you're into cute things) are into these type of things! I'm all about cute things and what not. ;D Sooo if you happen to tweet a lot on twitter!! and enjoy saying 'awwwwhhhh!!!!' and 'omgggg so cutes!!!!' this is the app for you!! (:




There are other kinds of San-x characters and Sanrio characters on your App Store! I'm pretty sure they have it for the Android fans too~ but anyways, the image of the icon/App I posted above is FREE!!! and still cute! ^____^ The other ones are up for sale~ I'm happy with Sentimental Circus characters!!! :) Let's go to an 'Open House' on this app, kay~? >___^


--- Once you open the app! :3

Soo... after you log on and everything (very, very, very, easy to do...just follow instructions and read) .. you will be logged in! which looks like this!








--- the Loading screen.. super cute =) it's like a .gif type~


--- what the posts looks like.. ^__^ cute, huh~? :D
You could also change the "skin" of the whole entire layout~ if you click on 'Skin' (of course~)


--- :D See the skins?! Those are a free set, btw~ ... Other ones, you would have to pay for! O:


--- Here's one (:



--- Here's how to engage a tweeting post! :D (note: pink keyboard on iphone is a jailbroken phone where i edited to where it can be like that O: it is not included with the app~)



--- Click on the purple down arrow hat to drop the keyboard down~ for some more options! ^___^


There you have it~ So what do you guys think?! Very cute hmmm?~! I hope you guys have fun tweeting in such a cuter way!! :D For all the bedazzled phones out there, decora~ and even for the guys that's a huge fan of cute things. Sooooo yay!!!! to cute Twippa!!!! OH!!! and another thing about Twippa! is that if you search for it under the Apps, make sure its 'twippa' not 'twippa FB' (yes! twippa has Facebook stuff too! so check it out if you use Facebook!) Thanks for reading, guys!! (: Bye byeeee~~~ ❤ ❤ ❤

So today! My boyfriend, Thanh ('Tawn' is how you would prounounce it. lol xD), and I went to do a little food shopping in the morning.. to make what~? ---- Suuuuuuuuushi! ! Hehehehe... one of my FAVORITE rolls is the spicy salmon/tuna roll ~ ! ! ! We went to our local seafood place to get some fish but unfortunately, they didn't have fresh sushi graded tuna for us... ;___; but it was okay~ they had salmon nonetheless.. so we picked a huge chunk of that and went on to the Asian market for the nori sheets, Wal-Mart for rice, rice vinegar, sesame seed oil, and other things!!

The key thing about making sushi is creativity! There is endless possibilities when making all sorts of sushi! ^___^ So make sure you got that, which I'm sure you do ~ xD Anyways, what I brought for you guys today is a few simple ingredients on to making spicy salmon rolls! Let's roll out, and get started shall we?! xP Damn puns! lol~! I will break it out in 2 sections for you with the ingredients! :) One for SUSHI RICE, and one for SPICY MAYO! ^__^

Ingredients for Sushi Rice!

1.) 3 cup of Japanese rice!
2.) 3/4 of water!
3.) 1/2 cup of rice vinegar!
4.) 1/4 of sugar!
5.) 1/2 of sesame seed oil!

Ingredients for Spicy Mayo!

1.) 1/2 cup of Mayonnaise
2.) 1/3 cup of Siracha sauce (really depends how spicy you want it! ^^ I like it real spicy! hehe)
3.) Wasabi! >:D (optional!)
4.) Masago! (fish roe) :3 (optional)

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---- The ESSENTIAL ingredients! :) Japanese rice, sesame seed oil, rice vinegar, nori sheets, salmon. (other ingredients are optional and depends on your creativity! :D)

1.) Let's get the rice cookin' first! Because that takes about 15 minutes to be ready! If you have a rice cooker! --- Awesome! If not, don't fret! You can use a pot and stove~ but first! We have to rinse out the rice, so rinse the rice in water until the water is clear ! Pour out the water and thats when you want to go ahead and measure out 3/4 cup of water in there~ (if you have more rice, add more water~ ^^ ya know the drill~)


--- After the clean rinse, go ahead put the rice & water in the rice cooker pot and in there it goes! If you don't have a rice cooker~ just use a simple pot and turn on the stove~ and cover the pot and then til the rice soaks up all the water. =) Same concept as the rice cooker pretty much! but it's pretty much manual~ when you use pot & stove method!


2.) Next stop~ fileting your fish! If it's not alreadyyyyy~ xD .. Well-- mine wasn't! lol Wash it gently a bit to get all the 'scaleys' out... so on to fileting!! Whoooooooosh~


---- Be careful now~ and I pretty much used a filet knife to just easily slide right under the skin and just... sliddddd straight through it! If you are not comfortable with the fileting~ ask someone to help you that is more confident! Don't want to risk hurting yourself! >.< ! ---- ^___^ Make sure to get it reallllll nice and goood~


---- Toss that bad boy in the soil can! xD In you go!!! You scaley-ness! hehehe~


3.) Alright! After you are done cleaning up the fishy, we want to cut it! You want to cut it in a slanted way! Unfortunately, Thanh didn't take some quick snapshots on how to do it because he was too busy watching TV! -o- ! but its pretty simple! Cut them in diagonal slices if that makes more sense to you! ^____^ or actually, let your creativity kick in! :D but make them thin cause you'll have to roll it with all sorts of stuff later on!

4.) Okay, after all that cutting.. it's time to make that spicy mayo! Bust out all your ingredients for it! I went ahead and took a spoon and scooped up a wad of mayo! and same goes for the siracha sauce ('rooster' chili sauce found in local Asian markets or EVEN WAL-MART!), a bit of wasabi, and masago in there!! BAM!! and mix it well!!! :D

5.) Go ahead and mix the salmon in the spicy mayo you just witch-crafted up! and saran wrap it and in the fridge!;D

6.) If the rice isn't done yet~ take a quick break! Use the potty! Get some water or something!!! We're almost done.... sorta.. LOL xD Ok ok ok, we're almost done! :) but during this time, while the rice is finishing up cooking! Use your creativity and think what you want to add in your roll.. but in this case, I'm showing you how to make a spicy salmon roll so ~ I will be using very thin slices of cucumber, thin slices of avocado, and masago (fish roe) to my roll.


---- Sliced up cucumbers, avocado, and masago ready up!



----- Rice is done! Mix your ingredients in there! :) With the rice vinegar, sesame seed oil, and a pinch of sugar~

7.) Mix your rice up with the ingredients! I use my hands ;D I put a bit of sesame seed oil on my hands so it wont stick too drastically on me! ... After that is done....... IT IS TIMEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

---- NORI SHEET! CHECK!


---- Get a big hunk of rice and spread thinly throughout the sheet~ I leave the other side of the sheet a bit empty so it won't end up looking too thick and having waaaay too much rice~ I scrape a few pieces on there though so it can stick!

---- Added spicy salmon concoction! xD

---- The greens. :P (cucumber and avocado)

---- Masago. Affirmative.

---- Tightly rolling the roll.. ^__^ and be sure its secured~ if your nori starts to crack.. don't worry.. just get a few drops of sesame seed oil and smear on the parts where its cracking~


---- Be sure to get a sharp knife~ sushi knife would be good.... LOL of course~ @-@ and be sure to cut it FAST.. do not slowly cut it cause that will allow it to drag and can tear the nori and everything~ ;3 Once again, BE CAREFUL~

---- ^___^ Sushi placement... my boyfriend did... Not bad... lol

TA - DA!

Now you have it! Spicy salmon roll~ Took me approximately an hour for EVERYTHING in the making of this such roll! Thank you so much for the time to read this and I HOPE this had helped you in some way! ^____^ Could always leave a comment or email if there is any questions of the curiosity! ;D Hehehe~ It was NOMMY(yummmmmmy~) btw~ ;D

OH!! And don't forget to make a sauce of your choice! I preferred the wasabi paste mixed with Kikkomon soy sauce! ^___^ Was delish~

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---- Me & Thanh

To end today's post... meet the 'chefs'... lol ;D Thanh and I! Heheheh have a wonderful evening everyone.. or should I say night.. it's like 1O:O1 PM. O__O LOL~ Thank goodness I have work at 3PM! ;D Well until next time~ Sayooooonaraaa~ ^___^

Okay... First of all......

I'm quite new to this, but hey, I'm getting to it! I don't know who will even stumble upon this blog of mines.. but I will promise you it will have tons of nifty things on here! :) Full with reviews of everything to EVERYTHINGGG you can think of.. cause I'm awesome like that.. I could look back and read all my old posts and laugh my butt off at it. ;D Hehhehehe! So I guess that's it for now!!!!!!!!!! :D