| I was wondering if anyone has ever bought bento supplies from this website. If so, how long did it take you to receive your items? I'm asking because I bought bento supplies from then on the 8th, and they still have not shipped my package out, and I've already been charged for it. Thanks. Delete my post if this is not allowed >_<.
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| | Subject: | Testing my new bento stuff | | Time: | 07:15 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) ecstatic |
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| Hi everyone!
As I've written before I had ordered some real bento stuff on ebay 2 weeks ago... and TODAY the stuff came! so here is my first bento in a real bento box and all (It's for tomorrow) =D I was SO excited when I made it xD haha... My boyfriend labled me as insane when I was running around in the appartment with my hands up in the air giggling ^_^;; teheh... (I've posted before what I've ordered, so wont do that again ^__^)
Top tier:
Rice with furikake, Cucumber in flower shapes, Cheese and meat on "a bed" of crackers (JANNE = my name, written in meat), two small pieces of beef grilled with paprika, curry, salt and pepper.
Bottom tier:
Heart shaped chocolate sandwiches and chocolate pieces with nuts on the side.
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| | Anybody here ever tried out any of those cheap 6 or 8 inch (supposedly) parabolic mirrors that are perpetually on eBay? Experiences? | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | japan, manga | | Current Music: | Stark Effect- Slave It | | Subject: | ;_; Why must all my Japanese celebrity power couplings be so short lived? | | Time: | 01:04 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankhappy.gif) amused |
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| Damn.
If Naoko and Yoshihiro get divorced, the world of manga as we know it will be over. NO, SERIOUSLY.
(For those of you who only just found out that the creator of Sailor Moon is married to the creator of Yu Yu Hakusho...SURPRISE!) :-D
(I KNOW, WHAT? NO SHIT, REALLY? YEAH. IT'S TOTALLY TRUE.) | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | So there may be someone in there as awful as I am. | | Time: | 10:31 am |
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| Me: I'm never going to have money, you realize.
Him: That's okay. I'll just go sleep with a rich old gay guy to support us.
...I'm not sure why I find this amazing BUT I TOTALLY DO. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Dixie Chicks - Lullaby | | Time: | 10:43 am |
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| ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) oritsu_luv unintentionally recommended (read: mentioned in her journal) this nifty site called LibraryThing. It works like an online card catalog of books that you've read, owned, or are interested in. Even cooler, it has this neat function that allows you to look for events at local bookstores, like author readings and signings. You can also use it like a social networking tool. I don't currently have friending enabled, but if other people are using LibraryThing I'd be willing to change that. Who knows? It might be cool to do sort of an online book club and all read the same book each month, followed by discussion (there is a Talk tool on LibraryThing but I'd be fine with AIM or something else too). | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | mod post | | Subject: | MOD POST: LAYOUT CHANGE | | Time: | 01:44 pm | | Current Mood: | cheerful |
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| Hi everyone!
We have a new personalized layout! I have been working on it for the last couple of hours, lol... I'm so bad with codes and such stuff :)
I really hope you all will like it, I thought we really deserved a layout that was just "our own" and not some custom LJ one!
I am also taking a chance to remind you all that the purpose of this community is mainly sharing recipes and tutorials that would help you improve your bento-making skills.
Posting questions, pictures and whatever else is totally fine, of course, as long as they are bento related, but as you know there are other bento communities here on LJ and finding the same pictures cross-posted in all of them kind of defeats the purpose they were created for.
So, let's try to stay in topic as much as possible and make the community identity stronger!
Have a fabulous weekend, everyone!
G.
EDIT: I totally forgot to mention this, sorry!
I want to create a link list here on the homepage, so anyone who would like to have their bento related website listed here, please leave a comment to this post with a link and the website name, thanks!
I won't add online stores, those will still be listed in the "recommended stores" section. Thanks!
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| I checked the question tag and this doesn't seem to have been asked in the past 150 or so entries.
How do you stop things like sliced apples, bananas, cucumbers etc. from drying out or going brown between packing it and lunchtime? Is the preservation method different for each type of fruit/veg or is there one universal method that works for everything?
Thanks! | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | politics | | Subject: | Political Soapbox FOR THE WIN. | | Time: | 11:45 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anksleepy.gif) sleepy |
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| So, I really, really, really, REALLY hate to be the kind of liberal who doesn't say anything coherent about our President's awfulness other than how unintelligent he obviously is.
But this.
Guys, your merchandise is missing a comma. Oh, and Chairman Mao called; he wants his self-righteous undeserved pretentiousness back. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| A Lunch in a Box round-up of bento shopping inventory around the SF Bay Area:
- Kawaii Corner: Selection of cute kids’ character boxes, plus an online store with international shipping (SF Richmond Dist.)
- Kamei: Tiger thermal bento kits and Asvel bento boxes (SF Richmond Dist.)
- Ichiban Kan: New branch of Japanese-style discount store to open March 2009 in Tanforan Mall (San Bruno)
- Kukje: Tiger thermal bento kits, Asvel bento boxes, and Lock & Lock boxes (Daly City)
- Katachi: Touristy sword & knife store in Japantown with Hakoya boxes (SF Japantown)
- Nijiya: Some men’s Asvel boxes in stock (SF Japantown)
- Sanko: Depleted bento stock, more due in December (SF Japantown)
- Target: 5-packs of silicone baking cups for US$1 (U.S. nationwide)
Click for the full details about each store's bento inventory.
(Alert: Due to ongoing issues with my hosting provider, I’m going to be changing web hosts for Lunch in a Box over the next few days to reduce site downtime and speed up loading time. The transition *should* be seamless to readers, but some of the latest reader comments might appear to go temporarily missing in the transition. I’ll do my best to move any stray comments to the new server — rest assured that they’re important to me, and haven’t disappeared into the ether! -- Biggie)
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| | Tags: | japan | | Current Music: | Pixies- All over the world | | Subject: | WHY CAN'T I LEARN TO SPEAK JAPANESE | | Time: | 08:59 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/ankangry.gif) aggravated |
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| A list of possible reasons.
1. When I try to translate manga I get distracted by all the pretty pictures.
2. When I speak to actual Japanese people I get nervous and tongue-tied and I can't accurately convey to them that yes, I really, swear to god, do understand you, I just can't manage to reply coherently because I'm so NERVOUS THAT I WILL FUCK UP.
3. My Kanji is for shit. Seriously. My brain is a kanji siv. I have to write them thousands upon thousands of times to remember them.
4. My Keigo is so bad that I want to die. No, seriously. No, I don't. But sometimes. Merg.
5. I ONLY remember conjugations for words that I have actually heard in memorable conversations. For example: I remember the te form (command form) of nomimasu (to drink) because one of my classmates once ordered her boyfriend to finish her soda, "Nonde!" and then insisted to me that she was a stereotypical Seme and that her boyfriend was as Uke as they came. WOULDN'T YOU REMEMBER?
6. Hikaru no Go is waaaaay more interesting than my homework.
7. So is Zettai. Especially since I just got around to drawing Ari's first appearance this weekend. Yes, really!
8. Did I mention Zettai? And pretty?
9. School is a half hour away and I hate it because by the time I walk home I'm tired and sweaty and I don't want to do work.
10. I suck, generally speaking.
Encouragement appreciated but not necessary.
I need to do better. I will. I will. I swear I will. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | life | | Current Music: | Annie Lennox- Stand By Me | | Subject: | Mexican Standoff. | | Time: | 08:49 pm | | Current Mood: | aggravated |
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| Being the person who says what's on the minds of everyone else is hard, and sometimes the individual in that position needs to be elected by the masses in order to speak for everyone.
There was no opportunity for an official election in this case. It was geographic luck of the draw.
The Offending Instant Messenger Incident referred to below occurred approximately 38 minutes before the time of this posting, at a time when nobody in their right mind who lives on Eastern Standard Time is actually awake or looking at their computer screen. But fear not, Madame Social Justice: I am running on Japan time, and thus totally awake right now, and I've got your back.
*clears throat*
Hey.
You there.
YES, YOU.
She. Broke up. With you. Over a year ago.
I understand that you still have issues with what happened, and I think that's totally reasonable and fair. Without getting into what those issues are or the validity of your claims that they are All Her Fault (this is neither the time nor place) I just wanted to state for the record that the fact that you have issues is totally okay. I still have stuff to think about and reprocess from my previous (ancient history) relationships. We all have to revisit those things periodically. It's good to reflect on what happened between us and our exes in times gone by, and to learn from those experiences. Doing that helps make us into better people.
But why, why, WHY, are you still under the delusion that it's okay to leave cryptic away messages with her name in them for the world to see. OVER. A. YEAR. LATER!?
I know that sometimes not being able to see the person you broke up with face to face sucks, and this leads to the desire to send a little indirect hostility their way via the internet. But you know what a MATURE person does about it, at the stage of "Over a Year Later"? They bitch about it with their friends, they have a night of wild abandon playing Guitar Hero, and then they get the motherfucking crap over it enough to keep the rest of their hurt on the inside where nobody else has to deal with it because it's useless, old news.
Do you think you're alone in this situation? That the brand of pain you're indulging in is exclusive to you? Look around you at the people who care about you. Every one of them has got scars they carry, and shit that's unfinished, and things they would really, really like to say someday before they die, to someone in particular. EVERYONE. Get over it. Stop making everything, including the checking of our buddylists, revolve around YOU and YOUR PAIN.
Dude, your closest, nearest, dearest friends have done EVERYTHING short of tattooing you in your sleep to tell you that the way you handle this shit in public is not okay. They love you enough to put up with you when you're being a total jerk (to somebody that they care about, no less.) We all need that sometimes. You ought to be deeply moved by their loyalty. Show these people who love you some respect. Stop putting them through the awkward process of having to deal with you when you're being an inappropriate asshole. They may never leave your side for the shit that you do, but that doesn't make the shit that you do okay.
Look. Go to therapy. Please. Talk to somebody whose job it is to help you deal with all of this, someone who is qualified to help you. Get over her. Get over the breakup. Get over yourself. Meet somebody new. Fall in love with someone new. Get married. Have a happy life with nine children and a dog and a picket fence.
Just PLEASE stop making me deal with your petty internet bullshit throwing because I'm too nice to defriend you on Facebook, block you on AIM, and ban you from texting my phone. OKAY?
There's no need for you to reply to this post. Absolutely none. You don't have to mention it to me in public or in private, or show it to all of our friends (though I'm not ashamed of anything I've said, and you can do totally go ahead and do those things if you want to.) Please just take my advice. And be glad I didn't find it necessary or appropriate to say these things to you out loud in a room full of our friends when I could have six or so months ago. Trust me when I say you'd have liked that a whole lot less.
(All comments on this post are screened and therefore only visible to me. Knock yourselves out.) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm going to Minneapolis, Minnesota in a few weeks to visit MCAD, and I'm hoping to find some stuff for bentos there, especially bento boxes. I only have one. :( We'll be around the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and we'll probably be hitting up Mall of America, too thouuugh I probably won't get to St. Paul.
I also live very close to Philly (hopefully in, soon) and am there all the time, so any suggestions there? I found these stores in the tags:
Asian Supermarket
400 Spring Garden St
Philadelphia, PA 19123
(215) 928-1288
Assi International Plaza
1216 Welsh Road
Lansdale PA 19046
H mart
7320 Old York Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027
215-782-1801
Any others I should know of?
Thanks! | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | youtube | | Current Music: | Nane Katase- FANTASY | | Subject: | YouTube has such a funny sense of humor. | | Time: | 05:47 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anksad.gif) sick |
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| I got a comment on my Youtube channel from an 80 year old man who posts videos of himself reviewing various books and movies.
What was the comment, you ask?
One word, all lowercase:
"loser"
The universe has such a funny sense of humor. :)
In other news, feeling slightly less sick, thanks to a four hour nap. <3 | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | sushi | | Subject: | First Bento Attempt~*~ | | Time: | 08:11 pm |
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| The small hamburger looking patties are pan-fried tsukune (ground chicken spiced with fresh ginger and soy sauce). I also made cucumber rolls added baby tomatoes and sliced green pepper. Yummm...
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| Missing my first class of the semester today. Baaaad stomachache. :(
Meanwhile, this is pretty fucking hot:
(For those of you who aren't aware, all of the people in that clip are women pretending to be men. In Takarazuka, women play every role, including the sexy male roles!!! :D)
Gotta love Takarazuka. <3 They were amazing last week! :D | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
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