December 2012

I can't believe Christmas is almost next week! While I hate spending money on anything... I found out about this awesome credit card deal that will make Christmas shopping less painful.   Chase is having a promotion with its Southwest credit card so if you spend 2k in three months, 50k points are automatically credited to you! So that means either 500 in gift cards or two free round trip tickets :).  Chris and I are going to Los Angeles with our friends in July! Since our friend works for some travel company, she was able to get a discounted hotel rate!! Right now with all the people that might go, I probably have to pay 50 dollars for 4 nights :) Slickdeals indeed. 

My mom bought me this BB cream.  I love the consistency and color of it! I haven't been using it daily so I can't vouch for its whitening benefits.  

I love getting snacks from Mitsuwa.  

Here's Pazuzu trying to eat my Koala cookie.  

Lily trying to swipe it...

I didn't feed it to Pazuzu :D 

I've been looking for green tea kit kats at Mitsuwa for two years now!! Kit kats were finally in stock! 

Cute photo deco app 

deco tapes that I bought off of ebay for 6 dollars 

Back seam and mock garter stockings that I got on sale 

I got a new eyelash curler, nars blush, and blotting papers for 25 :D. I had a coupon for 15 off of 50 and used two wrapp.com gift cards that I got for free! So in total I had 25 credit off of 50! 

So on Thursday (12/13) I had my company Christmas dinner at my boss's son's restaurant. :D

We all took the ferry to get to NYC.  

Ice skating in front of his restaurant...

menu

cocktail samplers

red wine which wasn't gross 

salad 

brussel sprouts 

Porter house for two. I was going to split this with my supervisor but she ended up leaving cause she had a pretty bad migraine. I felt pretty guilty eating it haha.  

so cute!

peanut butter hot coco! I also got a cheesecake but my phone died on me before I was able to take a picture 

Chris and I ate at Soo Petite Chow after shopping for hours at the mall. I hope we spend 2k very soon! 

Turnip cakes

soup dumplings! 

chicken with garlic sauce

I got these specialty kit kats.  I couldn't find the green tea kit kat bars. :(   

I got this really cute Rilakkuma make up case a few days ago. 

Vietnam is in 3 months :)

LA is 4 months after that.  

Busy!

I've been really busy with things such as making my costume for Comic-con! I have decided to dress up because I don't want to be left out in my group of friends :P.  I'll post pics of my finished costume soon! 

Other than making my costume, tutoring, hanging out with Chris ..nothing special has been going on in my life right now.  Still on a diet to lose weight lol.  

Make up bag that my sister got me! I love Chococat! 

I got a new purse lol.  I love Marc B bags! I wanted a nice brown leather satchel purse.  

The insides! I love crazy prints inside of bags.  

My friends, Chris, and I went to the ramen fair at Mitsuwa.  They got salt and soy ramen but we got donkatsu instead lol.  Japanese ramen is way too salty for me.  

Here's my friend Cathy helping me sew my Comic-con costume :)

Seafood Galore

Monday and Tuesday was full of seafood! 

I ordered the udon monthly special tofu with shrimp tempura and vegetable pancake on the side.  My sister got the shrimp tempura udon. 

She paid for our drinks and onigiri. 

So Rutgers University has King Neptune night once a year (in the middle of September).  It's an all you can eat lobster-shrimp-crab-fish feast! It's like an Asian parent's dream come true lol. Chris's family and I ate at the new Livingston dining hall....whaaaa I'm so jealous that Rutgers is so nice now! Livingston used to be a dump when I was a student! 

Pretty fish ice sculpture

yummm I love crabs but they were a lot of work so I didn't eat any crab!

Snow crab legs are my jam! 

Smoked salmon, ahi tuna, and random rare fish. 

My first lobster of the night! 

Chris's surf and turf. 

Chris's 2nd lobster.  

Dessert! I had the chocolate chip cheesecake and some of the key lime pie.  I miss the dining hall dessert :(

We were lucky and arrived early but still had to wait for people to leave.  The lady who swiped us in told us that everyone's grazing lol!! We grazed for 3 hours! Hahha. RU did a great job setting everything up...I don't remember it being organized the last few times I went.  I never got the chance to eat snow crab legs or eat so much cocktail shrimp. It was a great night and had so much fun with Chris and his family.  

I hope I get to go again next year!

Mitsuwa Summer Festival

Not much happened last weekend. I took the summer intern to the mall and BonChon.  On Saturday, I went to Mitsuwa's summer festival with my friends and we drove down to East Brunswick to eat at Makkoli sushi buffet.for my friend's going away party.  

We ordered half spicy and half soy garlic wings.  I love KFC :)

Behind Mitsuwa. It was super crowded! I had to park at my work and walk over to Mitsuwa.  

Bought ViVi for 3 dollars! Normally the magazine is around 10?  

We decided to eat in the food court because the festival food was pricey.  

I ordered the usual monthly special.  Chicken katsu for 6.50!

Green tea latte for 3.00.  It tasted way too milky.    

My friend got squid balls. 

8 dollars each for a mask.  

I Decorated balloons filled with water.  

We bought our friend this good luck cat.  Green is for good academics since he's attending grad school in Taiwan.  

My friend picked out a pencil and a notebook for him to use LOL.  

I forgot to take pictures of the food from Makkoli but it wasn't anything special.  The selection was limited but the sushi was decent.  I just ate sushi and salmon sashimi.  After dinner, we went over my friend's house to drink beer lol.  I stole the idea off of my friend's facebook to make  beer floats...Sam Adams beer (we used hazelnut) and vanilla ice cream. It was tasty and I recommend it to any non-beer drinker! Anyway, I was nice seeing him off.  I hope he visits me on Thursday! He's a big foodie just like me :) 

Ughhh. I spent so much this weekend.  I made a note myself not to eat out for lunch or go out to eat so much.  This weekend, Chris and I plan on going hiking near my house ( cause it's free!) .  I'm crossing my fingers for good weather!