belated Mother's Day post

Mother's day was last Sunday, but I've been tired yet still wanted to make this post. I've never did anything really special for Mother's day and felt that I should do something fun this year. Since my mom had work during the day, my lil sis and I went to visit my grandmother (who are also mothers!) in the nursing home. She didn't know it was mother's day or had forgotten since her memory isn't as good as it was before. We talked and laughed and took some pics so that we can later give them to her and not forget us. We also test her memory and she had forgotten who I was but at least she remembered my lil sis cuz of her darker skin. But she doesn't mind us when we correct her memory, which is real blessing since other elderly get real cranky when they feel that other ppl are correcting their memory. Then we said our good byes until nxt time.

While walking back to the train station, we passed by some vendor selling flowers. They had a sign up that wrote "Roses for $9" which isn't bad for a batch of them since they can sell that at that price for just 1 rose on valentine's day. We nvr gotten flowers for my mom cuz she thinks it's a waste of money, but we know she likes flowers. We didn't get roses cuz that is something my father should be getting, so we got some other spring-like flowers. I also stopped by THE FACE SHOP cuz I wanted to see their bb cream line and tried one out on my face. I can't find the name of it online for some reason but the result wasn't that bad except my lil sis could tell my face was whitened by the diff in skin color betw my face and neck. It was a hot day, but this thing kept my face looking matte.

using bb cream & concealer from The Face Shop

Then we headed out to Union Sq b/c there was this event going on called the 32nd Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival 2011. We got their mid-way to the event so there wasn't much left regarding free goodies and foodies.

Make a Wish

 

2 koreans dressed in their traditional wardrobe.
They were so pretty.

We bought these sweet potato sweets from a stand and they were pretty good even tho there were only 3 pieces but at least we were helping out the Japanese relief fund.

fresh cooked food for you to order

Shake Salad Raman from Hakata TonTon
they add sauce to this, shake it up, and eat.

selling jewelry

cosplay girl

even tho it's just art, isn't she seductive?

 We also watched this taiko performance, which was really good. I recorded a vid of it too but too lazy to upload >.<

the taiko sensei

We bumped into our cousin who took this pic for us.

as we were making our way to chinatown, there was this fair going on right next to the festival.

i finally found my cookie monster shirt in the right blue shade at this fair!

We stayed for a lil over an hour before going to Chinatown to pick up our omma. We decided to introduce her to korean food and the only k-resto in chinatown was Jup-She. When we got to the resto, it was closed?!!! I had made sure its store hrs on the yelp site and no reviewers has said that place was closed either. But I did see a food inspector sign saying "Grade Pending", but that doesn't mean it should be closed either. So we had trek our way to k-town on 34th st and went to Seoul Garden cuz I had a good first experience there before.

So we wanted to give a good korean food experience for our mom cuz we're always raving it when we get back home from our hang-outs. But my mom didn't like any of the 5 Banchans especially the Kim-Chi lols This was already turning out to be a lost cause in me trying to broaden her taste buds beyond Chinese food. For our appetizers, we got the Haemool Pajun (Seafood and scallion pancake) and Yachae Japchae (Stir-fried mixed vegetable and vermicelli noodle in special season). Our main course was the Soon Tofu + Beef Short Rib since I love love love their smoky beef short rib the most.

5 banchans

i don't usually eat bean sprouts cuz they're bland, but Seoul Garden made them SOOOO tasty!

Left: Haemool Pajun - Seafood and scallion pancake
Right: Yachae Japchae - Stir-fried mixed vegetable and vermicelli noodle in special season

 

 

This was my first Haemool Pajun and it was sooo delish!
My mom said this was her fav dish of the nite
and wanted to make it back home.
^_^

Soon Tofu + Beef Short Rib
We forgot to crack the egg into the tofu bowl until 10 mins later *fails*

trying to rock out the cookie monster shirt

yay!
you can tell how much my face got whitened by the bb cream.
first time looking so flawless like those korean stars
and this was taken 5 hrs later!!!

my complimentary dessert xP

We were soooo stuffed. All in all my mom still preferred chinese food over korean food any day, but she really enjoyed the experience esp us giving her flowers for the first time. I didn't know why I didn't do this before, but it was a lot of fun treating my mom cuz it is HER day.

Since were in 34th st, I had to make a stop by H&M and check out their spring collection and actually got some stuff I liked and they gave me this really pretty coral color bag which is the hit color of Spring 2011.

aww the color didn't come out right but it was a really light color

Jenny's 23rd bday

My friend, Jenny, had her 23rd bday on May 2nd, but it was a Monday, so we went to 6 flags on Sunday. She had been meaning to go there for 2 yrs or so already and so planned early with us to get us to go there for her bday. But we (me, Jennifer, and Regina) decided to make it a "cruel" surprise for her. A couple of days before the set day, Jennifer and Regina told Jenny that it wouldn't be possible for them to make it that day. Of course we couldn't all say that excuse cuz then the bday girl would get suspicious. We made sure that she wouldn't make any other plans that day by getting her mom to force her to go eat dim sum with her. After the other 2 canceled on Jenny, she called me to tell me that the 6 flags trip would be rescheduled, and I said ok.

When May 1st came along, the 3 of us went to her apartment. We were supposed to meet at 8 am, but the trains on weekends are >.< and so we ran a half hour late. It was a lot of fun surprising the bday girl, we had our green tea cake with those tall candles and party poppers. We were making so much noise on a sunday morning LOLS I didn't get a chance to take a pic of the surprise part cuz nobody had any free hands to do so. But after the surprise part, we rushed Jenny to change out of her PJs and get ready to head out to 6 flags.

We were really running behind schedule. We had to get from the Upper East Side to Chinatown in less than half an hour. We took the bus crosstown to a B,D train station, but it was getting so late that we decided to take a taxi. But the taxi got so stuck in traffic near the central park midtown area that we only traveled like 10 blocks before getting off and running to the columbus circle station. But we eventually made it Y(^_^)Y

rushing out of the apt to get to the MTA

taking the bus crosstown

We had the entire private bus to ourselves, which was a big PLUS! And we basically just started camwhoring hahahas. We got to 6 flags and had a blast. While me and Jenny were in it for the coaster rides, the other two, Jennifer and Regina, stayed mostly at the arcades and kiddy rides lols It was perfect cuz there were hardly any lines. We also experienced our first coaster breakdown on the Batman ride, but thank god we weren't in a bad position when it got stuck. I finally mastered my fear of the Kingda Ka too. I thought going down the ~180 part would be the scariest part, but it was shooting up to the top that was the scariest for me. But I prefer the NITRO will be forever my fav ride (it's actually the only reason i came back) cuz I can actually enjoy the coaster ride while many ppl had to get on the Kingda Ka several times to enjoy it, which one group was actually doing when I was waiting on line for the first time.

getting stuck on the BATMAN ride, so i whipped out my cam to capture the moment
^_^

Jennifer won a panther! So black and silky!

It was time to get going home. But just before the bus stopped in Chinatown, I took out my wallet to pay back Jennifer for the ticket. When the bus came to a full stop, I don't know what happened to my wallet as I got off. I just remember throwing some garbage away cuz I spilled my drink when I was getting ready to get off. We were getting ready to head back to Jenny's apt to eat the bday cake when I realized that I had lost my wallet. Regina offered to go back to the bus stop to search with me. Thank god I took note of the stores and street that I passed by in order to retrace my steps. But it was all futile, even looking through the garbage didn't bring any luck ::sigh:: I called the bus company and they said no wallet ever turned up. I went to the nearby police precint for the lost & found, but to no avail. There wasn't much cash in it (~$30), but I just didn't want to go thru the hassle of replacing all my cards, but I eventually sucked it up and went thru the replacement process.

The day started off with so much fun and I had to ruin it by losing my wallet. and when I got home, I saw my fb feeds filled with the news of Osama bin Laden's death. My senses were too numb to feel any joy about it. This was such a roller-coaster riding day.

my Happy Mother's Day post will be coming up soon~~

...so from the previous update, I had said I was undecided betw the two puma sneakerinas, but I also forgot to mention that they are a lil on  the expensive side too....$59 in DSW. so i looked it up on-line since I couldn't stop thinking about it and found that to be the lowest price available. Then the next morning, I remembered that I had these MACY's discount cards!!!! they were selling it for $65, and after the 20% discount, it would be $52, so of course, i went to macy's asap and got them. and oh yea, I got the green one; i was so happy to see annie's choice in her comment after i bought it too =P

but while I was doing enee-menee-minee-moe betw the 2 shoes before check-out, i was also trying out other sneakers there. I tried on the shape-ups and toners shoes b/c of all the raves about how beneficial they are, but when I walked in them, they felt weird. it wasn't uncomfortable, but when i took a step, there would be some sort of bulge that pressed up on my arch, which I am guessing is for the arch support, but it felt so weird. But then I saw these Easy Spirit sneakers that looked kinda like the shape-ups in terms of the bulkiness, but they felt SOOOOOOO much better! It felt like I wasn't wearing anything at ALL. it was just SUPER weightless thanks to their anti-gravity shoe "technology"!

this would be great for my feet, but it was $85 0_0 It wasn't so stylish, so I wouldn't wear it on a regular basis, but I will get myself a pair from this brand some time in the future ^_^)Y

Another thing that I've been doing recently is watching alot of hair tutorials on youtube. Watching theses vids can be so relaxing, but actually doing the hair tutorials never works for me but I still watch them cuz there are some techniques that I can work with, but just not for the hair style demonstrated in the video. While I was watching Loepsie's video on making curls with a sock bun, my eye caught on this Secret to Clear Skin video. It had a lot of viewerships so I clicked on it and I instantly fell in love with this girl. I know a lot of ppl like to watch Michelle Phan, but I like bubzbeauty's channel cuz she's soooooo adorable and i LOVE LOVE LOVE her accent! I am just so drawn to her voice even tho I can never do any of her tutorials since i hardly have any basic cosmetic necessities anyways. This past weekend has just been a bubszbeauty video marathon and get so happy every time she mentions eyebrow grooming before any make up tutorial cuz i think doing your eyebrows is an important area that is often sadly neglected. And there have been some products that she mentions so many times in her vids that she's got me convinced to get them too like eyebrow pencil and comb, concealer, and BB cream. But out of those, BB cream is what I want to get my hands (or face) on the most and I will make a stop to a sephora or other beauty department store to try to find the brand that would work for me since I have such sensitive skin.