Home made Pocky!

As a non Japanese or non Asian person being crazy about East Asian culture and living in Eastern Europe I have quite a lot of difficulties trying Asian dishes or buying Asian stuff (especially when I don't use online shopping stuff). But I'm really happy that Japanese food is getting more popular in my country so I can eat sushi whenever I want. ^-^

But sadly there aren't many opportunities to get food made not in restaurants but just sold in shops. So one day I tried searching something that I can make myself at home! I'm not really into cooking so I though this will be kind of a challenge to me. :D So I accidentally stumbled into this Lithuanian website. Believe it or not but I tried making Pockies and they went out quite good!! I can't really say if it is a lot different from real Pockies since I only ate them once and I know that there are a lot of different tastes. Buuuut here's a photo of my Pockies! ^^

I also had recipe in my previous blog on WordPress BUT...then I realised that it isn't worth it because I had more and more troubles trying to make it. Dough was really sticky, almost half of it has been thrown away... :/

Anyways, enjoy another photo of my cuties and bye bye to my current pocky recipe. XD 

Actually I have found another recipe for pockies but I'll stay silent for now since I'll have to try them first. I'll inform you as soon as I have cooked something new! ^-^

Have you tried baking pockies or any other Asian goodie? Let me know in the comments, put a link to your creation photo or blog post!~ (^-~)/

Rinatsu~

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Passion time!~

I guess almost everyone have their own passions or I should say crazy things. Like: collecting stuff!!~ It's really fun to do. And I guess everyone have something that they like to collect.

For example. Lots of girls are crazy about collecting shoes. Lots of peaceful and calm people are really interested in collecting post stamps... Hmm. ;D Also lots of people who travel abroad like to collect money from foreign countries.

It's actually one of my passions too. But ONE thing that separates me from other collectors: I have NEVER been abroad... But still... ;D

But now I noticed one thing. I'm totally crazy about all Japanese stuff. One of them - hashi, a.k.a. chopsticks!!! One interesting thing, that I didn't even know how to hold them and the first time I took them, I actually took them correctly! And also I didn't even know how to use them but it was like natural to me. O_O 

Anyways, a few weeks ago I bought more chopsticks! Yes, more. ;D So now I have 6 pairs. And a few more taken from Asian restaurants. (Sounds so wrong. XDD But they aren't nice and they are for one time and disposable so it's ok. It's just to remember that I were there... ;DD)

You ask what I do with them? I can say that...nothing! But actually no, I use them for my hairstyles!~ ^o^ They look so pretty in my hair!! You should try that also! Of course I could use them to eat but my family isn't really into Asian stuff so no one besides me knows how to use them so it's ok. I know other ways of usage. ;PP

What I really am proud of is original Japanese hashi. Really nice ones. With cute little white bunny and a golden moon. ^^ I bought that in a Japanese shop that was the only one in a city but I almost cried when I went there again and saw that it was closed forever... I wanted to buy more stuff!!! TT_TT (The piano pic is from my 365 photos project. It's hard to see the bunny, I guess it isn't even visible, sorry but i don't have other photo of it at the moment. ^^')

Anyways, what is YOUR passion? What stuff do YOU collect? Would be really nice to know. ;P

Oh, by the way, here you can see the close up of the chopsticks I bought. ;P They are really nice!!!~ ^o^ I can't resist NOT to wear them. ;DDD

Chopsticks maniac ~Rinatsu~
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Kaoru and Shou wallpapers up!~

Ok, so this is the first time me doing some wallpapers.

Because I am still infected with Photoshop mania, I decided to do something useful. ;D

Everything I've done is layering, blending, smudging and stuff... Playing with colours and shadows, adding right things in the right place.

I don't like all those wallpapers for one person but with sooo many photos of him from different photoshooting or concerts and sooo many text on it. I like more minimalistic ones. ^^

So this is my work that I've done. It was rather fast but fun to do!

Kaoru. Guitarist from Dir en Grey.

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Shou. Vocalist from alice nine.

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I'm really tired after this week. And today I also had some stuff to do. Even though I was just walking, taking photos and having a bit fun, I still feel really tired after yesterday... My legs really hurt. T_T

Anyways, I'm thinking about doing some entry about the best make up guru in the world, Michelle Phan's, make up videos!! I want to show you some of my work and experiments based on her amazing tutorials. ^^ Make up is a huge art. ;]

Visit Michelle Phan's channel on youtube HERE.

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BY THE WAY!!! I got my camera back on Wednesday. I am sooo happy that I was taking photos of almost everything all these two days. XD Finally I can do my project (365 photos) and I'm hoping I won't be lazy to do that. You can visit my project called '365 photos'. If you got some photography project too, send me a link! I would like to see that.

Always passionate about art ~Rinatsu~
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Resolve - Japanese fonts for Google Chrome and more!

(Note for those who understand Japanese:  Sorry if this is some kind of perverted text or something that is extremely stupid. XDD I don't understand so much yet. Gomenasai. *bows* It was just to give more nicely look.)

Ok guys, I got some great news for you who have Google Chrome and have some problems with Japanese kanji and stuff. Most of newer computers with newer operational systems alouds to easily download foreign languages on your computer to use and be able to read their different characters but having old computer with old operational system gives a lot of troubles and you can't always just download it that easily.

I saw that lots of people are asking question what should they do, 'cause instead of Japanese there are just squares. I had the same problem. I don't have my operational system CD, I can't download full Japanese language pack. So accidentally I found resolve for this problem. Long ago I was downloading Japanese - Lithuanian dictionary and there were Japanese fonts added.

They work really good!! Try to download them and add to your Fonts folder. Should be in your main softwares' disc like mine: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts Here you should find all of your fonts. ;] And if it doesn't work... Then you'll have to bother yourself and every time you turn on your computer and want to surf into Japanese websites, you'll have to open & exit, open & exit these both font files. But it's worth it, right? ;]]

[+ DOWNLOAD Japanese Language Fonts +]

Oh, and if it worked, don't forget to say: THANK YOU!!! ;PP

Also, if you are having some problems visit the very first page this blog post appeared and read comments to find the answer or write your question under this post!

Problems settler ;DD ~Rinatsu~
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