Pinoy Style Birthday Party

My kids friend, Mirai chan celebrated her 7th birthday last week and everybody, most especially the kids in the neighbourhood had a good time. The birthday girl's mother is a pinay friend of mine and helped her in the kitchen of preparing foodies to serve. It was such a long time for me to prepare pinoy foodies ( although I only prepared the chicken macaroni salad and helped wrapping the lumpia) coz my Wakaba and Haruka is picky when it comes to Philippine foods that is why I also brought my homemade inari zushi ( which I forgot to take a picture lol ) to the party. Preparing foodies at Mirai chan's birthday party reminds me to cook and serve Philippine foods more often at home, too ^_^

Well anyway, here's the foods that we prepared during the party ~ yep, the pinoy style and I loovet!!! \(^0^)/

Pork and Chicken Skewers

Boiled Shrimps

Kain tayo, masarap yan! ^_^

The Birthday Cake

Just having fun! ^_^

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Because I Miss Our Community In Namie

I will be reposting the post I've written on the year 2009~ I am praying that the day will come that we will see each other again. ( wondering why? please read my Fukushima posts) Same happy faces...living on the same old town....

Reading my blog during the past years, I have been blogging all about our life in Namie ~ the so-called Our bukid of tralala....a big part of our lives is missing..

Sports Festival Part 2- Community Bonding

This was taken last year of October, and I don’t want to receive a call from my in-laws during that month coz there’s always a sportfest at my husband’s hometown and we’re forced to participate for the so-called “ community bonding ” wherein the community residents gather and do some sports act. Of course we don’t have a choice but to participate coz their blocks team don’t have any other younger members(?) and I guess I don’t have much more alibis to make–last year was I have my monthly period and the other year was ….unnnmmmn!! I forgot!!! and the other year was….. lol
Well,here are some of our sports act we did —the highlights includes stretching (LOL),tama ire games ( shooting small balls to the basket),tug of war, giant geta race ( wearing giant japanese wooden slipper with a member of six, kind of hard ), relay –for the aged about 16-20’s a 200 meter race, aged 30’s, 40’s and 50’s a 100 meter race and more. Would you believe that I ( on my 30’s ) did ( forcedly ) a 200 meter relay coz there’s no one participating on aged 20’s on our team?!!huhuhuu!!! My sore muscles reminds me how important excercise is!! So, here it is……I enjoyed it very much!!!!!!! Except for the relay (T_T)

Giant Geta Slipper Race

Team work!

Hubby and I,waiting for our turn..
Shoot that ball!!

The Button Relay

Our team placed 3rd—BANSAI!!! \(^0^)/

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Monitoring

~ before ~

A lot of parents at school were worried about radiation, the soil that was exposed to radiation leaks at the playground of the school was removed ( please read my post about it here ) My daughter's kindergarten and in gradeschool is doing it's own monitoring here in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture and constantly getting the results that there are no problems. Before, kids at school are allowed to play outdoor for only 30 minutes but now the topsoil were removed, kids are now back playing outdoors ( but still time is limited but longer).

~ after ~

*** There were some 'wakaii mama san tachi ' ( young mothers) often says that they don't want to eat something that comes from our Fukushima Prefecture and that they're frightened of being exposed to radiation but are SMOKERS~ don't they know that they are directly exposed to radioactivity in cigarette smoke? Or is it just me being affected when somebody says something bad about Fukushima on TV? ***

Updates

I would like to share some updates and some good ( and the not-so-good ) news of my PIL's situation and for some of those who haven't known yet, they were forced to evacuate their home because of the high radiation levels that could harm their health. Their home is inside the 20 km government-mandated evacuation zone and the residents are now gone at their hometown leaving their homes, livelihoods and pets.

My PIL received 5 items of electric appliances from the Japanese Red Cross Society ( I would like to thank friends who funded for the Kizuna Love Fund , the received money was donated to JRCS ) and some relief goods from the government. They have returned to their home in Namie last month for two hours only wearing a white full-body protective suit to pick up some important belongings. They also looked for their pet Shiro but he's nowhere to be found.

It seems that we woudn't be returning to our home in Namie anytime soon and that makes us more depressed. It is said that it'll take 35-40 years to be able to come back and they are worried about how they will recover. Although their home wasn't hit by the tsunami but it feels like just the same. Home is gone! They still have a home but yet cannot live at their own house and make a living. Memories are precious to peoples live's and I feel sad too because Namie is my kids birthplace and although it doesn't show to their faces, deep inside they're hurting to be away with their home, friends and relatives . I can feel their sufferings, silently...

Moritto Balloon Art Show In Fukushima

Wakaba and Haruka enjoyed Moritto Balloon Art Show held at Ito Yokado during the summer and luckily it was the same day of Aya Ikeda's Mini-Concert in Fukushima. So while waiting for the concert, they had fun interacting and making request to the artist ( Moritto ) for some balloon art. Moritto's Balloon Art Show is very entertaining and unique and most of her creations are her original designs. She made anime balloon arts ( Anpanman, Vikingman, Pretty Cure, etc) and speaking about summer, she also made a mikoshi that is used during matsuri ( summer festival ). She's very entertaining to watch and the kids adores her for answering any requests of balloon art to make.

Hubby gets a Chihuahua art balloon
Haruka gets an Anko ( goosefish) balloon art

Kids poses at the balloon art that was made and was given away by lucky participants after the show
Moritto and her creation, mikoshi ^_^

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Happy Fun Rides At Mobi Park

What I love during our short stay at Twin Ring Motegi is that they have fun, friendly rides for kids and for the whole family to enjoy. Wakaba and Haruka had fun racing with each other and they looked like a real racers for a day lol! I was pleasantly surprised when I tried the Acro-X together with my kids and since I didn't know how to drive a vehicle, I can't figure out of how to drive smoothly without crashing the sides and the kids were laughing their hearts out because of that lol! They said that I can't be a driver( LOL) but it is nice to be able to ride together^_^

The kids rides are terrific and the kids enjoyed being able to go on rides by themselves and had fun riding it!
Haruka, racer for a day!
Wakaba tried her speed at Quick Racer

Acro-X Fun ride with Daddy
The machine looks like so heavy because of their Dad lol!
With Kochira Kun, Twin Ring Motegi's mascot

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ASIMO Goods

We stayed at Hotel Twin Ring during our fun day together with my In-laws and we bought some omiyage (souvenir) Our trip wouldn't be complete without Honda and ASIMO goods. Yours truly bought some Honda Racing and ASIMO postcards for trade ( and for myself to keep)(^_^)v

Wakaba chans ASIMO stamp set(￣∀￣)

Haruka chan's fork, spoon and chopstick in a set and ASIMO mini flash light (photo not included)


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