With Compliments!

After purchasing a toaster oven for my apartment (company pays of course), I decided to get my bake on! Also fueled by my impulse purchase of too many bananas at the markets last week (can be read here) - I set my mind on making banana muffins.
With the bananas mashed up and ready I hit the local stores for a toaster oven, sugar, milk, eggs, flour, baking powder and some muffin trays.
Japan doesn't have self raising flour at convenience but you can easily make it yourself by adding baking powder!

I was a little bit cautious at first since I have never used the oven or made the muffins before.

In the process I threw in choc chips and honey!

So here it is - my choc chip banana honey muffins! All I can say is yummy!!!!!!

Street Markets!

Turning one of the city's busiest streets into a crazy fresh food market!
I only stumbled upon it accidentally on the way to the supermarket








I managed to pick up a bunch of bananas (250yen), giant bag of peanuts (100yen) and roasted chestnuts (500yen), big bags of garlic (100yen) and ginger (100yen), roasted potato (150yen), and a bag of apples (300yen)! - it all came to 1500yen which was around $20 aussie dollars! Bargain!!!!

Worst Diet So Far!

So in an effort to get my beloved promotional rilakkuma mug from the LAWSON's convenient store, I had to eat specially labeled bread from their store. Since I started late in the promotion (with 2.5 weeks before it ended) I managed to eat for my lunch (and sometimes dinner) all the bread to last me the next year!

Finally its in my hands!

Wardrobe Malfunction~

My wardrobe collapsed in the middle of the night!
It was mainly my fault as I grabbed onto the rod when I was hanging up a jacket after a small slip!

I saw that that the rod's was not attached on but just have an adjustable lengthening system! Crap!!


I spent the next morning still tightening and rehanging all my clothes again - just in case for weight issues - I stored my summer clothes into my suitcase!

The picture above was taken after I re-attached the rods back for the first time and only to have it fail when I put my t-shirts on ><

Kyoto Lovin'

Hitting the ancient city to catch up with friends from home!
It was rainy and we all got wet and walked home with soaked feet, but it was still fun and loved every moment of it!

I forgot my camera, but used my iPhone to take the happy snaps! I used a cool app on my iPhone called MoreLomo! Its so cool and made all my pictures look good!




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I was only able to catch a few temples on my first visit, but I will definitely be back for more. The last shrine is Fushimi Inari Shrine which was where "Memoirs of a Geisha" was filmed! So magical I have to say~