Tunnel of Love

Last Friday night, we went to my MIL' s home for a visit then went for a night Cherry Blossom illumination-- There are sakura trees everywhere in Japan and in spring, people have fun, drinking, eating and usually people bring food for a picnic under sakura trees. I guess it' s in their culture on having festival during the ten days or so of the cherry blossom season. We want to enjoy the beautiful scenery there so went a day before the festival or else we' ll be expecting a crowd and more crowd. During the Cherry Blossom Festival period, the park is alive with events, entertainment and open - air stalls. We enjoyed a 2,000- meter- long tunnel of cherry blossoms that graces the area and night illuminated blossoms are simply gorgeous and truly impressive!! The park' s cherry blossom tunnel that' s beautifully illuminated in the evening is sooo romantic!!

My beloved In - Laws taking pics with Haruka at the right side ^_^

I hope I' m not too late to extend my greetings to everyone a Happy Easter and hope that you all had a happy one!! ^_^

Friday Video Goodies

This was taken at the park that the kids enjoyed so much! The park is near our place and I' m glad there' s a place to go whenever the sun is out!! ^_^

Egg And Meat Soboro Obentou

Bringing a lunch box at work is common here in Japan. Ever since I got married, I' ve been making lunch boxes for my husband and though they' re not the ' traditional japanese style lunch box ', nor a ' character lunch box ' , I see to it that it is quick, easy, and reasonable to the budget. I' m usually preparing/ cutting the ingredients being used for the next day at night for time cutting next morning. Sprinkled into rice, folding into other things like eggs, pickles and more. Sometimes I cook for large amount and freezing them for future use. Eating packed lunches can help us save money. Above all else, my other way of showing love and effort for my husband by waking up early in the morning and preparing his lunch box. ^_^
not in the photo: vegetable salad

Egg and Meat Soboro Lunch Box

Ground beef and pork - 80g
Cooking oil - 2/3 tablespoon
Onion - 1/2 pc
Ginger - 2 tablespoon, grated
Eggs - 2 pieces plus sugar and a pinch of salt ( if you want your scrambled egg sweet ) or salt and pepper
Sesame seed- 1 tablespoon
Green beans - 3 pcs ( boiled and cut into one bite sizes ) thawed, if frozen

A:

Sugar - 1 tablespoon
Sake - 2/3 tablespoon
Soy sauce - 1 tabllespoon

Direction:

1: Chop up all the vegetables as fine as you can ( if you have don' t much time in the morning, cut the ingredients the night before being used ).
2: Heat up oil in the pan. Add the vegetables and stir fry until softened.
3: Add the meat and brown well.
4:Add A and simmer until the liquid is almost gone, but the meat is still moist. Taste for seasoning ( it should be quite strongly flavored ). Set aside.
5: Make a scrambled egg --Heat up your pan ( it should have fairly high sides so don’t use a frying pan.) Pour in the egg. Hold 3 or 4 chopsticks together, and start mixing vigorously.
As the egg cooks, it will start to turn grainy. Continue mixing. Stop heat then set aside.
6. Put hot rice into lunch box then sprinkle #4 and #5 and boiled green beans on top of rice then sprinkle sesame seed. Cool down before closing and packing the lunch box.

Are you packing lunch to your loved ones?

100 Truth Tags

This tag is given by Laine, Sis Grace,Mommy Eden,Annabelle, Beng and Mommy Chris. Thank you so much!! I love responding into tags because it' s a way of getting to know each other. Thanks for being so friendly! ^_^

001. Name → Clarissa.
002. Nickname(s)→ Clang, Claire, Issa, Clariz, Rizza
003. Age→ 32 ^_^
004. Zodiac sign → Scorpio.
005. Male or female → Female.
006. Elementary → SPCD.
008. High School → NOHS.
009. College School → COCS.
010. Hair color → Black.
011. Long or short → Long.
012. Loud or Quiet → On what for instance?^_^
013. Jumpers or Jeans → Jeans.
014. Phone or Camera → Camera.
015. Health freak → Don' t care much on health.
016. Drink or Smoke? → Stopped smoking already but I cannot stop drinking alcohol.
017. Do you have a crush on someone? → Yap. To Kimura Takuya and Jenson Button.
018. Eat or Drink → Both.
019. Piercings → Ears.
020. Tattoos → None.

FIRSTS:

023. First piercing → Can' t remember when.
024. First best friend → Liezel.
025. First award → Triple Award given by Ate Rose.
026. First crush → I guess his name is Jason Vasquez.
027. First pet → A Dog.
028. First big vacation → 2005 Vacation in the Philippines.
030. First big birthday → My 23rd Birthday Party in Japan.

CURRENTLY:

049. Eating → Junks
050. Drinking → Coffee
052. I'm about to → Make my coffee after visiting my friends sites.
053. Listening to → J- Pop
054. Plans for today → Do grocery shopping.
055. Waiting for → My next allowance!\(^0^)/

YOUR FUTURE:

058. Want kids? → Yes, 2 more.
059. Want to get married? → Yes, again to my Husband--Japanese style
060. Careers in mind → Patiserrie.

WHICH IS BETTER IN THE BOY/GIRL YOU LIKE?

068. Lips or eyes → Eyes

070. Shorter or taller - Taller.
072. Romantic or spontaneous → Romantic and spontaneous.
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Neither. I don' t care bout the appearance.
074. Sensitive or loud→ Neutral.
075. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship.
076. Trouble maker or hesitant → Neither.

HAVE YOU EVER:

080. Lost glasses/contacts → Cracked up my Husbands eye glasses.^_^
081. Ran away from home → Yap.
082. Held a gun/knife for self defense → Nope.
083. Killed somebody → No.
084. Broke someone' s heart → I guess I did.
085. Been arrested → Yes, at school booth during college days.
087. Cried when someone died → Yes, my heart is not made of stone.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

089. Yourself → Yes.
090. Miracles → Yes.
091. Love at first sight → Yes.
092. Heaven → Yes.
093. Santa Claus → Still.
094. Tooth Fairy → No.
095. Kiss on the first date → Yes ^_^

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → Yes, my daughter in the Philippines.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → 85%.
099. Do you believe in God → Yes, definitely .
100. Post as 100 truths and tag 10 people→

Now I am tagging:
Payatot ,Ate Rose, Meryl , Sue, Beng, Niko, Dee, She, Bambie, Ate Kim, Ate Weng and to YOU! Happy Blogging!!^_^

When The Sun Is Out....

Hello guys!! How are you?? I hope that all is well with you!! ^_^ It' s been a busy week for me ( again! ) and I hope you' ll forgive me for not visiting you guys to your respective sites and would like to thank you for dropping by and leaving your comments and messages to my message box. Thank you, thank you very much!!\(^0^)/Now, I' m back and I will be visiting you guys, too!!
I have been very busy these days coz it' s spring now and it' s been very nice out most especially that the sun is clear and Wakaba' s vacation at school is over and we wanted to spend much time on the kids before the school opening. My Sister-In-Law and her kids visited us last Saturday and gave us a colorful spoon and fork set as a present! Wakaba and Haruka played with their cousin and some of their friends near the apartment as well then dine out in the evening. Then the next day we went to the park near our place then going to the baseball batting center ( amusement park ) where me and my husband haven' t done for so long--we' ve been doing that since we got married but when we had our children we don't have much time to do them anymore.We did a 13 games and I only had 6 hits and now I had a light body sores all over! My sore muscles reminds me again how important exercise is---Oh dearie, when will I learn? I' m saying the same line again! Lol!! Here are some of the photos taken at the park that we enjoyed! ^_^

Daddy and Haruka at the swing



three of us at the slide

Wakaba and Haruka enjoying!

playing with them is my joy!

Daddy at the tunnel


I' m glad that the sun is out!! We' ve been spending more time enjoying the beautiful weather and soon we will also be enjoying the Sakura ( Cherry Blossom ) here!!! \(^0^)/

Have a nice day to everybody!!^_^

Super Followers Awards & Handwriting Tag

Given by Sue, a very witty girl of Good Girl Bad Blog the day I followed her blog. Another new found friend!! \(^0^)/Thank you so much!! I' m enjoying the award!! \(^0^)/


and

My Cluttered Handwriting Tag given by Laine, Ate Cecile, Grace, Kalyo Galera
Thanks for the thoughts of giving me this kind of tag and sorry for posting them late ( again! )

Here are the rules of the game:
1. Write down who tagged you in white paper and your answers in numbers 2 and 3 Take a photo of it and upload the photo in your blog to show us how your handwriting looks like.
2. Answer these:-your name / username / pseudo-right-handed or left-handed?-your favorite letters to write?-your least favorite letters to write?- Write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
3. Tag five persons

Errr.... I forgot to write down my name and pseudo.. My mistake..Sorry.. It' s Clarissa and a right handed and also forgive me for not obeying the rules-- I guess many of my friends has done this tag already! Happy Blogging!! ^_^

Friday Video Goodies

This was taken during the fun at ASIMO' s live show at Twin Ring, Motegi. Watch ASIMO dance!!










Wakaba and Haruka doing a race at Kid' s Drive!! Soo much funnn!!!