Pop Art Toaster

We got a house warming gift from my cousin Shirley and her husband Lewis a couple weeks ago. Its a really cute toaster that you can imprint various images onto the toast using these stencil plates. You can check out the detail here.

Since December, we haven't had a weekend where we can just sit home and enjoy our house. We always have plans, Christmas party, birthday party etc.... I am hoping we will get a chance to stay home and do nothing in Feburary. Speaking of sit and do nothing, Brian and I are going on vacation in March and May, the sit and do nothing kind woohooo.. We will be going with another couple (our MJ buddies) in March to an All Inclusive, so hopefully we can find a cheap deal when it gets closer to. Brian and I will be going with my family to... "ta daaaaaa.... ANOTHER CRUISE" I am honestly a little cruised out lol.. but my mom really wants to go try and I guess food would be better on the cruise. Maybe this time, I can conquer the flow rider and not get owned by the wave =) *wishful thinking*

On another note, chinese new year is coming up FAST!! I am going to dread this season forever lol... MAN.. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY KIDS!!!! We need to get some of those new year treats for the house.

failed...

I just realized that i completely forgot to blog for the last month =P

December was crazy with lots of friends and family gathering, Brian and I hosted 4 parties at our place over the holidays =P I think I am really looking forward to have some relaxing weekends. I want to sit at home and play SIMS 3 lol.. I also have to work on my honeymoon photos I am trying to post them up ( a lot of ppl have been asking to see them) Next will be putting together a book for our wedding day photos and our honeymoon!! we have to get our photographer to edit the ones we like!!

Brian and I went to visit our cousin and her baby yesterday. OMG.. they grew so fast!!! she looks so much like her mommy lol

Brian and I have also started to do more exercise, instead of joining a gym since both of us are really not into gym workout, we are trying to do more sports! we have badminton on thursday and I am trying to go swim every other tuesday or every tuesday =) see how that works out!!

christmas that came early

Having your birthday in December is like having a Christmas month instead of christmas day because you can get presents from any day of the month!. Yesterday was a sepecial day =) First our long awaited sofa had finally arrived!! woohoo.. we no longer had to sit on the floor or the dining chairs while watching tv. Since yoshi is really into leather goods, I tested him by putting him on the sofa.. he didn't really enjoy it and left whew.. my biggest fear was that I will come home to a chewed up sofa!!!

Yesterday after dinner, I used my kitchenaid mixer for the first time!! its my bday and christmas gift from my sister!! woohoooo! I baked banana muffin and shortbread!! i thikn the shortbread is too crunchy this time.. maybe i over baked it =P

At 10:30 at night Brian came home with my early beday gift!!! GUESS WHAT! I GOT A MACBOOK WOOHOOOO...! Thanks baby... now i need to get some software for it and more importantly learn how to use it lol!!!

o.... and HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATSY!!!!

o x'mas tree.. o x'mas tree......

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE END OF ME!!!

Thanks Patsy!!

一本- IPPAI Fusion Japanese Cuisine

一本 - ippai Fusion Japanese Cuisine
8865 Woodbine Ave. Unit D5
Markham, Ontario L3R 5G1
(905) 470-1688

My family, Brian and I attended the grand opening of my cousin's new Japanese restaurant last night. There were lots of people that attended and flower baskets were all over the store. After the cocktail event, we had dinner there. I only took a couple pictures cuz after the first few dishes, we were too busy stuffing food in our mouth that we totally forgot about the photos!
Prices are very reasonable, it came out to be around $100 for six people and we had A LOT of food!. Here's what we ordered:

Spinach Ramen in Milk Broth topped with Japanese Style Pork Slices
Regular Ramen in Butter & Miso Broth topped with Pork Cutlet
We really enjoyed the ramen here, the milk broth really stood out although it was a bit on the heavy side.. The ramen were made in house, they also have a squid ink one that I really wanted to try but they didn't have any yesterday.

Hot Stone Pot with chicken with ginger sauce
I think this was our favourite dish. Taste was excellent!! The ginger taste was not as strong as I expected but its perfect for my preference =)

Red, Yellow & Green roll --> I forgot the name of this dish
I have had this dish before in their previous restaurant. Our family really liked this dish because it is their speciality and we couldn't find it anywhere else. Our favourate was the yellow rolls. its a fried fish maki topped with mango slices drizzled with a mango sauce & mayo concoction. Very light yet flavorful.

other food that we ordered include dynamite roll, seven angels sushi, shrimp tempura and a chicken pancake. All in all they were excellent, althought the shrimp tempura was a little to the salty side. I would definitely recommend this to any friends who wanted decent quality Japanese food at a fair price.

new theme....

suddenly felt like changing up the blog.. I was contemplating using a photoblog theme but then I don't think I will have the dedication to upload one each day unless I can upload from mobile.. too bad my acct doesn't support it booo...

i should really change it for a more winter theme... =P Sorry Brian I know this is not a very "gender neutral theme" but hey.. at least its not pink ;)