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Yum.. new products taste great! Also, birthday blues. | March 18, 2010

I finally remembered to blog! Yay!

Lately I have been living the life of a hikikomori – refusing to leave my apartment and spending the day doing dorky things like watching marathons of tv series (Heroes, Sex and the City etc) and anime, and reading a ton of manga and fanfiction.

I’ve been experimenting with cooking too. I made Bread and Butter Pudding, without an oven and Marmite Shrimp Pilaf. And pancakes without milk..
I’ve just been shopping though to stock up on essentials, and found a load of the frozen stuff I avoided because it said it needs to be cooked in a microwave. So I though, “Screw that!” and bought them anyway. For 100yen each they are cheap enough for me to experiment with. I figure forzen pizza might cook well under the grill… and I can probably steam cook the gyoza and takoyaki. I will not let my lack of an oven or microwave mean I cannot have nice frozen meals! I got some cool recipies online for baking cakes without an oven. Going to give that a go

Having just been shopping, I came back with some stuff I maybe should not have bothered with, but because they are new products I bought them anyway.  First new thing I bought was a lovely juice drink – “Sakuranbo & Raichi” which in English is cherry and lychee. It is soo nice ~ I’d imagine it is healthier than drinking cola, but that said drinking pee is healthier than drinking cola (ewww!)

I also bought a KitKat bar (one that looks like a smaller, thinner KitKat Chunky but costs twice as much.) It is white chocolate covered and banana flavoured. I don’t even like the taste of banana much yet I still got it. Because it is new… it was nice. Not as good as the plain KitKat Chunkys from the UK, but it made me feel better.

Having been shopping I feel I have eaten so much in the past hour since returning, than I have all week. Due to dislike of cooking and washing up I have been avoiding meals – having 2 a day usually, occasionally 3 if I get up before midday, but none very big and no snacking between meals. So to get in and have a massive selection of food means my eyes were bigger than my belly. But I resisted and just made a meal out of a bit of pizza bread I bought from 7-11, along with a cheese bun, the aforementioned KitKat Banana Bar, and my lovely Cherry-Lychee drink. And I struggled to finish that for some reason. I guess my stomach has shrunk. So no more food for me til tomorrow.

Though I may have a nice mug of Horlicks tonight, since my grandparents kindly sent me a load along with my birthday present, Easter chocolate and birthday card.

Oh yes! It is my birthday at the end of the month. I have no plans though since most of my friends are busy/don’t really like me/ are on holiday. Also, I have no idea how to organise anything over here. I don’t know good restaurants for going out for a meal, I am not confident enough in Japanese to go book a table, and also I do very much doubt anyone would want to come along anyway. I’ve not exactly been Miss Popular since I got here and any friends I make I seem to alienate with my constant homesick whining.

So perhaps a normal day of watching anime/reading manga etc is on the cards.

Pretty sucky way to spend your 21st birthday though, right?

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