Since it was nice outside, I took my daughter for an early evening stroll. As we strolled down the sidewalk, I couldn’t help, but noticed how empty the neighborhood was. Some houses looked like it has been abandoned with tall dead grass and dead leaves everywhere. And every other house, and i’m not exaggerating on this.. every other house either had the “For Sale” or the “For Rent” sign. Everyone picked up and left! So I wondered where’d everyone go? I know foreclosure is on the rise, but I wonder what’s behind it. Like where is everyone living now? With relatives? Leasing an apartment? Or did they just disappear?

And even the businesses like restaurants and gas stations has been boarded up and closed down. It’s like a ghost town!! I hope the economy goes back up again, because I’m beginning to worry. What an uncertained world and life we live.. Sighh

Until next time everyone.

Over the weekend, my cousin came over and made sushi. Instead of using seafood, he used spam and seaweed. And instead of dipping it into a wasabi sauce, we dipped it in hot sauce. It was delicious! The spam came from a popular snack/food that we used to always eat in Hawaii called, “spam musubi.” It is caramalized spam that has been been fried in soy sauce then stacked on seasoned rice wrapped in seaweed wrapper.

This is the original spam musubi

And these are my cousin’s spicy spam rolls

It was very satisfying and delicious. If you guys would like the recipe, let me know. Until next time.

my favorite time of day—when the land is illuminated by the setting sun. When everything changes color.

My baby girl’s first time wearing these type of slippers. It’s so cute!

like Auntie, like niece—my daughter and sister flaunting their matching slippers

She’s growing up before my eyes!!!! Oh how I love her…

Not quite done yet, but getting very close. Here are my purple walls, but first here’s a before picture.  :D

Old walls.

And Purple Walls. I love it! I told my sister that she could sing Barney Song all she wants, cause I love my walls!

A little messy, but we’ll get things in order after the painting’s done.

My home office— we’re going to paint it pastel blue alost grey.

Until next time guys. Bye!

Walmart and Publix are the nearest grocery stores that I go to. And no matter how much groceries I buy, there is this emptiness I feel. Sure, I can make chicken wings or hamburgers or fried eggs, but I want to eat something more! So today, we decided to head to the Asian Market all the way in Orlando. I meant to bring my camera, but I was so excited that I forgot to.

When we reached the store, I was like a kid in a candy store, cause the last time I went to the Asian Market was months ago. So can you imagine my excitement?? I was literally in heaven— there were all kinds of treats that I craved. These are the things I bought.

Som Moo (We ate later in the evening with hot rice)

Udon noodles!! My favorite (I can also substitute Kow Piek noodles with this)

Mi Mama — a classic; you can dress this up with just about anything.

Vermecelli noodles or Kow Poon. (I love to eat Tum Kow Poon)

We also bought cooking ingredients like oyster sauce, bamboo shoots, shrimp paste, msg, and other things. Ohh.. and my favorite vegetables, mustard gabbage. We spent over a hundred dollars at the market and when you reach a certain amount, the store would give you something free. They gave us a pound of BBQ pork, but I’m not much of a pork eater, so my fiance and daughter pretty much ate it all. By the end of the day.. I was indeed happy and fullfilled.. Now I can rest easily. lol..

Well until next time guys. Purple walls are almost done.

I see that there’s an updated version of wordpress. I don’t want to go through having to install it again through my cpanel… so has any of you upgrading your wordpress? If so, what’s the easiest way to do it?? Thanks a bunch.

By the way, my purple walls are almost done. I’ll definitely post some pictures when everything is completed. The violet is not bad at all… as a matter of fact, I love my purple walls!

UPDATE: Congrats to the new President of America—-Barack Obama. I will brace myself for the promised ”changes.”

God BLESS America!

That’s the song that keeps playing over and over in my mind; it’s Barney’s theme song.  My sister kept singing that song while she helped paint our walls over this past weekend. She sang that song to scare me and to try and make me change my mind about the color of paint. I went to Lowe’s and chosed a “wine” color or in other words a purple, almost violet. I choosed three different shades of ”wine.” It goes from dark to light. Right now we are in the process of painting the walls—–so far, there is only one coat of paint, so when we are done, I will be posting some photos of my new walls. In the meantime, I’m going to try and get this song out of my head, but it seems like everytime I turn around, I’m reminded of the song.  Here is a before picture of the walls.   

It was yellow and orange, my two hated colors. So.. purple walls here I come!!

By the way– I went to watch Saw 5 today… and ughh.. I want to contact the producers of the movie and ask them to lessen the gore and focus more on the storyline and twist. I think it would be a nice change!