That's right last night I revamped the look of this page, its a little more robot like, but not quite what I envision. It'll get there... eventually!
SO back to bento boxes, for now were just going to start with the Jbox.com bento section. So bento boxes are the Japanese way of making lunch boxes attractive. They can get incredibly fancy and be made of incredibly fine woods and hand painted with matching chop sticks. They generally have two tears but can go up to four or more for special occasion serving ware like new years. You can get a store bought bento from convince stores and train stops but a lunch that is really special is moms beautifully crafted golden example of domesticity hand made lunches, complete with all the cute bells and whistles like having your veggies cut into little hello kitties. In Japan a girl can show a cool boy just how much she likes him by presenting him with her top notch bento skills at lunch time, you know how gramma says "the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach". The number 1 staple in bento is rice there is alot of it to eat with the other stuff being meat and vegetables (the vegetables can be pickled) and onigiri. Onigiri are rice balls! a ball of sticky rice, either in the shape of a circle, triangle with rounded edges, or a scoop. The circle and triangle have a bit of seaweed to act as hand holder and can be stuffed with a piece of pickled vegetable or something along those lines. Moral of the story is mass of beautiful deliciousness. So for more info on the contents of a bento click here, and go to google images to see some beautiful bento lunches, and to order some inexpensive bentos go to J-box (if you are over 18 and don't mind some pervy otaku stuff popping up everywhere J list is the place for you).
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Long time coming!
Hey internets I'm still alive, and no one died on the way. I realize, that for the month of August I have sort of been MIA. Don't worry my co-workers did not feed my legs to a bear so I could never leave. I can't say I'm in one piece I've been much more scatter-brained than normal - seriously I went to turn off a TV that was already off. I ended up wasting efforts by having to push a button twice that I didn't need to push in the first place, how silly. Also, tre merde (Georgia Nicholson may also add poo).
Too sum up my last few week at Algonquin Park: Fuwar! It was crunchy, I had a lot to finish and SO little time but it happened and MAN did I learn alot. I would never trade what I learned this summer for anything and I want to continue to increase my knowledge so I'll do what I can to get back ^_^. But come to the end of my contract I'm an unemployed bum again -.- so back to the land of job hunting it is!
Job hunting really is not so bad, except for the million times that one has to fill out exactly the same information that is on their resume. We put so much work into a resume so its so unfair to have to go through all that work again, and in such an unrefined manner. I for one strive to have an attractive resume especially colour wise. BUT it must be done an we shall press on. I swear if I get a part time job that does not have a definite end of contract or anything of the sort I will absolutely not quit until I head off to Japan.
Oh Japan you wonder? I don't know if I've actually mentioned this but I will seriously be going to Japan to teach English for two or three years once I finish school. If I'm going to be off getting a college diploma after Uni then it won't be for some time but that just gives me the time to learn some basic Japanese ^_^.
Well other than considering my future and looking into my short term job goals I have been full force getting preliminary planning done for my new favourite expense, Anime North. We are taking on a monster of three cosplays, Black Butler, Full Metal Alchemist, and Gurren Lagann. We want to enter the skit competition and costume competition, in other words we have a lot of work ahead of us! But its SO worth it for the fun, community, and awesome.
My last bit of news is the upcoming aspect of School (Monday hello?). Actually I don't have anything interesting to say, just that I'm excited cus I love all my classes, well as I have not been in any of them yet, the idea of my classes. It's going to rock! I hope ^_^
Other wise I'm back on the Anime block (um yay much?) and my love of bento boxes has returned, hopefully that's the topic of my next blog. Anyhoo, Goodnight!
Too sum up my last few week at Algonquin Park: Fuwar! It was crunchy, I had a lot to finish and SO little time but it happened and MAN did I learn alot. I would never trade what I learned this summer for anything and I want to continue to increase my knowledge so I'll do what I can to get back ^_^. But come to the end of my contract I'm an unemployed bum again -.- so back to the land of job hunting it is!
Job hunting really is not so bad, except for the million times that one has to fill out exactly the same information that is on their resume. We put so much work into a resume so its so unfair to have to go through all that work again, and in such an unrefined manner. I for one strive to have an attractive resume especially colour wise. BUT it must be done an we shall press on. I swear if I get a part time job that does not have a definite end of contract or anything of the sort I will absolutely not quit until I head off to Japan.
Oh Japan you wonder? I don't know if I've actually mentioned this but I will seriously be going to Japan to teach English for two or three years once I finish school. If I'm going to be off getting a college diploma after Uni then it won't be for some time but that just gives me the time to learn some basic Japanese ^_^.
Well other than considering my future and looking into my short term job goals I have been full force getting preliminary planning done for my new favourite expense, Anime North. We are taking on a monster of three cosplays, Black Butler, Full Metal Alchemist, and Gurren Lagann. We want to enter the skit competition and costume competition, in other words we have a lot of work ahead of us! But its SO worth it for the fun, community, and awesome.
My last bit of news is the upcoming aspect of School (Monday hello?). Actually I don't have anything interesting to say, just that I'm excited cus I love all my classes, well as I have not been in any of them yet, the idea of my classes. It's going to rock! I hope ^_^
Other wise I'm back on the Anime block (um yay much?) and my love of bento boxes has returned, hopefully that's the topic of my next blog. Anyhoo, Goodnight!
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