Sick Sick Sick + BIRTHDAYYY

Lately I've been SUPPPER busy with school, and this is also why I havent been updating my blog as much  im not just lazy. 

This is my first time in 3 years that I've been a full time student with different classes. I am taking

-Mass Media and Society

-Biological Oceanography

-Music Appreciation

-French

And, the past couple weeks i had projects and tests in ALL of them.

Midterm in Mass Media + Final Project Proposal

Bio. Ocean was a 12 minute presentation on shark migration

A quiz in Music

A french dialogue that i wasnt allowed to make a script for

AND

I applied to a study abroad program.. Waiting to hear back is torture xD

 I was living on 3 shots of espresso a day and 4-6 hours of sleep. NO ONE LIKES A SLEEP DEPRIVED, CAFFEINATED, STRESSED STUDENT. I am definitely NOT used to dealing with this much school. 

Anyways there is a dorm that is used by most students at my school, and everyone got sick there. Because of my weakened immune system i caught the cold too :( 

It feels like half my school is sick right now...

I haven't really had the mental capacity to update lately with everything going on

But I do have some stuff (food post) to share :) i just need to get around to uploading the photos. 

ALSO! ON NOVEMBER 5TH IM TURNING 19 

I know that it will be a week of celebration, mostly because of celebrating with different parts of the family. Maybe I'll even do a birthday giveaway... ;)

November Popteen Scans though, are going up either tonight or tomorrow!

Love

-Bunny

Saturday Busy!

So Saturday I was SO busy running around! Why? Well, my baby cousin graduating, hair cut, and then meeting up with friends visiting from Norway.

So it was my baby cousins graduation

She does Hula and she was kind of "inducted into the family." It was a very cute and hour long ceremony. Not bad at ALL!

BUT I HAD TO WAKE UP AT 6:45 IN THE MORNING. owch!! An hour for makeup (vaiiiinnnnnn) And then an hour and a half drive to Los Angeles Area. And I've been so busy busting my ass to make grades my sleeping schedule is ALL out off. So i got 3 hours of sleep that night.

I slept the whole car drive haha and then the ceremony was really hot. They had a potluck after and the food might have been good when it was set up but it had been out for an hour and so it was.. just.. sad. But the fruit was good so that's what i did!

Jello From the potluck

We had about 2 hours to kill before the hair appointment so my parents indulged me and took me to Little Tokyo so i could buy my false lashes...

AND I FOUND SO MUCH MORE :D

I peeped my head inside of the store MAKE ASOBI. They have a lot of really cool cosmetics and skin care from Japan, such as the Cure Aqua Peeling Gel!... AND OH MY GOD!!!

THEY HAD ALL OF CANDY DOLL!!!!! I went crazy... *prepare for reviews in the future* I've never seen candy doll sold in the United States in store! They had all of Tsubasa's Lipglosses, Blushes, Highlighters, Powders, Foundation, Base, and I'm fairly certain they had concealer too.

And the shop workers were SO friendly <3

And then i went to Maneko Neko (next to Sanrio) has Tsubasa's Eyebrow stuff and new lashes. FOR CHEAP MAN! Dolly wink Lashes were 15 Dollars. SO NICE!!!

Then we went to Demitasse, a lovely little coffee shop.

THEY PUT SO MUCH EFFORT INTO EACH CUP! PRESENTATION IS AWESOME. And all the guys working there are SUPER stylish and friendly and it was just awesome. AMAZING coffee and beautiful experience.

OFF TO HAIR CUT!

I've decided to grow my hair out again... TO DYE PASTEL PURPLE/LILAC LATER! ;D

And then we went to Katsuya in Santa Monica. I have no pictures because the lighting was dim and....

I was surrounded by 3 Norwegian bombshells. They were so polite and sharing their food and like oh im so full!... WHILE I WAS SHOVING DOWN FOOD. They shared a banana crepe.. WHILE I ATE A CHOCOLATE CAKE BY MYSELF. LMAO;;; I EVEN SHARED!

And super fit, dainty features, super friendly, tinkering laughs, clear voices... I felt so barbaric and fat compared to them lmao...

It was an awesome day though :) and they invited me out to see them this summer when I'm in Norway!... SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT SUPER FRIENDLY? HOW THE FUCK DO THEY DO IT?

Love

- A STILL SOBBING ON THE INSIDE BUNNY.

Day 2 in Palo Alto

For Day One: [x]

So the second day I had the day pretty much all to myself....

To be honest I laid in bed and read. For like 8 hours. At one point i did go out to meet up with my parents for lunch/coffee. If anyone is wondering I am half Japanese and Half Norwegian. I got this awesome picture of my Daddy's eye at the coffee shop

I wish i had gotten his blue eyes. Mainly because it'd be such a unique combination. 1 in 4 chance?

And then I went exploring a little. I had been planning at lounging at the pool most the time but it wasnt quite right.... I think because there had been a rain and thunder storm the night before?

Regardless I took photos because it was such a photogenic place.

Seems straight out of an ad or something right?

Well then we went to a Japanese restaurant. We were dining with my cousins and their father. To be fair they arent my first cousin - they are cousins from my Islander Japanese side. Everyone is cousin.

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Prepare yourself for food porn

Not quite sure what this was.. a blend of stuff- it was offered to us and the in the cup was bonito drink thing. not my deal but tasty enough.

 SASHIMIIIIII! oh my god. MELT IN YOUR MOUTH. After there was this mushroom rice but photo was blurry.

 Pallet cleanser! It was REALLY good. Finely grated ice with yuzu. YUM

 This was the main dish. I'll admit it wasnt my favorite. Good but not like OH MY GOD. The met was actually really thin and rolled up and i just didnt get it.

Dessert! This was Sakura Mochi with sweet Bean paste and Matcha/green tea. so The mochi was actually savory and you eat it with the bean paste. it was surprisingly good and the mochi was handmade that day so super gooey and perfect. the tea was ridiculously strong. it turned my mouth temporarily green actually!

This looks like regular chocolate right? ACTUALLY! its Tofu chocolate! sounds gross in my opinion but it was RIDICULOUSLY creamy and very full flavor but not like like too rich. PERFECT way to end the meal.

OHHHH MY GOD. I want to live there. It was SO GOOD. like.... this was AUTHENTIC Japanese food.

So i have no more photos to share, but ill briefly describe what i did on the third and fourth day. On the third day my cousin and his wife invited to drive me into San Fransisco for the day.

There was the cherry blossom festival and it was so cool. Afterwords they let me go to Baby the Stars Shine Bright. My eyes were ALLLL sparkly hahaha We then went to the mall thing? I bought some cute stuffed animals.

*iphone pic*

and then we went to Yank Sin. Okay, if any of you go to the Bay area. go there. It has amazing service and dim sum. I wasnt even hungry but I ATE yo.

Then we went for a walk to digest and go back home. Then i kind of had a melt down not gonna lie. I got really stubborn and tired and cried and it was just hideous. kind of embarrassed of that. on the fourth day we just went home

To be honest it was the PERFECT trip to just unwind and take a break before school started again. My only regret: NOT ENOUGH CAKE.

Love

-Nikki

Day One in Palo Alto

So like...  3 weeks ago I went up to Palo Alto/Silicon Valley/San Fransisco for the weekend! and because I'm a lazy blogger/school I'm only getting around to blogging about it now. Actually when I found out about my acceptance into the Japan Program was my first evening there!

I was good about pictures for the first two days and then I stopped. I didn't want my experience to be hindered by living behind the lens! I also felt bad about imposing on my family by taking like a million and a half photos though the insisted they didn't mind....The hotel We stayed at was the 4 Seasons. It was beauitful.. though just off the freeway.

 

The first night we ate at this AMAZING Vietnamese restaurant- Tamarine. 

OH MY GOD! RIDICULOUS.

The  flavors were SO clear and unique but at the same time they blended beautifully. It was truly a food experience.

The only unfortunate part were these two men sitting next to us. They were business men who had too much to drink and trying to one up each other. All the while not talking with each other but to each other. how they were flirting with the hot intern at work though they were married. Let me tell you, those girls werent flirting they were trying to tell them bugger off creep...

At one point it almost got to much and i wanted to walk over and tell them to act like self respecting adult men, stop drinking, go home and love their wives and daughters because quite honestly they will be the best thing to ever happen to those fucker. They will never surpass the amount of glory they had in High school and should stop acting like horny idiots and behave like Men. Angry...

The highlight of the meal was definitely the chocolate lava cake. like. OH MY GOD.

I definitely went home and just CRASHED after this full meal. 

On to Day Two...

Love

-Nikki

A day in LA

Last weekend my family decided its time to get a hair cut. All 4 of us. At the same time... Well, we have a family friend who is an AMAZING hair stylist, known to us as Uncle Phil, and lives in LA so off we went! The appointment was at 3:15 so we had time before that for lunch..

I don't think I've really brought up how much my family/me LOVES food.  So, we drove a little extra, and went to Arcadia to get dumplings! 

The restaurant we went to is called Din Tai Fung, and they specialize in Xiaolongbao or, juicy pork dumplings. They originated in Taiwan and expanded to Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the United States - in Arcadia, and Seattle, and Thailand and have won awards for their food, and in Hong Kong they have won 1 Michelin star at two different locations.  

We actually ended up having to wait about 45 minutes for a table. They were SUPER busy- Saturday lunch hour traffic so when we finally got seated we were all ravenous.

 This is the place setting. Super simple and clean. We had ordered so much that we ended up eating in about 3 different rotations of servings. 

 First Set: Spicy Wanton, Cucumber appetizer, Baby Bok Choy, Xiaolongbao, and Milk Tea! I kind of had to force myself to take this picture instead of just eating. My daddy who normally says dumplings don't do a whole lot for him, no big deal- really like these and say they are very flavorful.

Second Set: Bok Choy, Shanghai Rice Cake, Green Beans (my favorite), Cucumbers and milk tea. If you're wondering why so many greens, my dad was diagnosed with genetic arterial plaque so we have to keep a low fat low sugar diet which leaves just a lot of veggies and lean meats. 

So, I dont have pictures of the third set because we were running late to our appointment and it didnt seem in good taste to do such. Plus the table was getting kind of messy and so.... yeah. Anways, we also got dessert- taro dumplings and black sesame. SO GOOD! I love taro dumplings. Most the time they have them in a bao/bun but they were all out today. so sad. If you have a Din Tai Fung in your area go eat, and have no regrets.

We then drove back to Uncle Phils house. Yes, his house. He has a hair cutting area in his house but also works at a salon. We prefer to go to his house because its a lot more intimate and that way we can bring him food. He works so hard!! I only got a hair cut because it was getting long so no pictures of that either, but my sister bleached so lots of pictures! 

The walls look very bright but in reality they are extremely tasteful! So here is Uncle Phil and his lovely assistant (we decided id be her younger sister) and Mie. Her hair had grown so long plus she has very wavy hair so they both had to work on her at the same time.

My mama having her highlights set.

Her hair right after they washed out the bleach it looks so cool, reverse ombre! Shes so pale im so jealous! She draws a lot and is in costume design, with so many projects she rarely has time to go out, but her pale doesnt look unhealthy at all.

First time seeing it She was a bit unsure of the undertone but she really likes it now, all positive feedback from people who've seen it.

Up close shot!

After all this we went to my aunts house for dinner, no pictures because everyone was tired and there wasnt anything really interesting going on. But i did get to play a lot with my cousin. We went to fairy school together! 

Sorry for not updating in a while, lots going on at school- research paper and math tests. Hopefully I'll be able to have some pretty cool stuff coming up, reviews and obsessions, and a nice little vacation? 

Love 

-Nikki

Cupcakes, Butterflies, and Shameless Pictures

A few weeks ago I went with my mama to Santa Barbara, we had to run some errands.

As we were walking by a store we noticed a ceiling fixture...

SO PRETTY RIGHT? They were a bunch of plastic cut out butterflies!

I would LOVE to have one, but the fixture I wanted was 100$ USD.. So, instead I took pictures of it. Good thing I brought my camera with me!

We also had to pick up cupcakes for my cousins bridal party. She and I were in charge of picking the cupcakes!We bought these from CrushCakes. If you watch the Food Network, they competed in the show Cupcake Wars. They came in second place on the redemption episode.

Top Left to Right: Chocolate Bliss, Peanut Butter Cup, Buttermilk Crumb
Bottom Left To Right: Cookies 'n Cream, Coconut, Chocolate Chocolate

Top Left To right:"CrushCake" red velvet, Vanilla, Peace Cake 
Bottom Left to Right: Lemon Drop, Black and White, Srawberry Blush

Pretty, but so dull! okay, I am definitely judgmental when it comes to sweets,  but the flavor was just okay, exception was the vanilla bean frosting and the cocoa, not particularly moist, and too much super sweet frosting..

I feel like I can make better from like a Pillsbury box of cake mix.. But on the upside I loved the presentation.

And lastly... The look of the day. When I came home i was super excited about my makeup, so I made a cappuccino and took pictures of myself... and my elephant.

If youre wondering those are dolly wink lashes, number 2 Sweet Girly
 
I love cappuccinos

 The elephant is so cute, it has a bell inside of it so when you cuddle it, it jingles.

Dolly wink Lashes Number 2 Sweet Girly, and Lower Lash 6 Baby Cute, Dolly Wink, Country Retro Eyeshadow.

okay, one silly one.. sorry;;;

Its spring break right now for my school so hopefully I will update more. 

Love,

-Nikki