Shampoo and hair stuff

I decided to use the amazon associates, because I was looking for a way to post pictures that I don't need to transfer from my camera to the computer. I think this amazon associates will work for me. :D

Right now, I'm using the Herbal Essences Touchably Smooth shampoo & conditioner, and I think its making my hair a little too oily at the top. It might be because I'm using too much conditioner. It's a bad habit that I have from winter when my scalp was so dry. I love the smell of herbal essences though.


Since the shampoo & conditioner that I'm using right now is almost running out, I will be on the hunt for a next set of shampoo & conditioner. My hair is getting pretty dry at the bottom because of color and straightening chemicals. It seems like the herbal essences isn't moisturizing my ends that great. So I think I will look for a shampoo that is for color treated hair.

Because my head was pretty oily today, I was in need of clean non-oily hair. I made sure not to put too much conditioner at the top of my hair. While blow drying my hair, I was telling myself not to put any cream or any moisturizing product in my hair. I wanted NOTHING on my hair for a change. After my hair was completely dried, obviously without thinking, I put on some hair cream. I was telling myself not to put anything on my hair, but totally forgot about it in 10 seconds. Wow.

I like the hair cream that I'm using though. It's not too oily, it reduces frizz, and it's good to put on before going to sleep. It's called "Tsubaki Chan" (椿ちゃん）. I got this in Japan, and it has tsubaki oil in it, which is said to be good for the hair.

Before I had my hair straightened chemically, my hair was so frizzy and wavy. To reduce the puffiness, I used the tsubaki oil. I'm not sure how pure the oil is, but it was "oil" and not a hair cream. I think tsubaki oil is a Japanese thing, because I never see any oil for hair in the U.S.
It made the hair pretty oily, but it definitely reduced the puffy volume of my my hair. Besides the weird oil smell, it's a really good product to use on frizzy puffy hair. Thanks to the hair straightening that I got, I don't really need to put the oil anymore. Tsubaki hair cream works good for now, and it smells much better than the oil. :D

Indian Collection tea bags + etc

I found this India Collection tea bags at the local health food store. It's pretty nice to try out different type of tea, and this box includes: Dargeeling Green, Darjeeling Spring, Darjeeling Summer, Kashimiri Chai Green, Kapili Assam Black, and Nilgiri Black. I'm not sure if I would like to buy these again, the quality of these don't seem so good.


This was my dinner today. Chicken cutlet + spaghetti. The chicken is a thin sliced chicken breast breaded in flour+egg+panko then fried. The tomato sauce is pre-made in jar from Publix :D.
I must say, this dinner tasted pretty good, and I would like to give myself (and publix) a credit.

These are "corn cream soup cheese bread". Yea, I'm not sure myself what to call this. For the topping I used mostly leftover stuff; canned corn, canned cream of potato soup, and cheese. These turned out just okay. I haven't been able to make really good bread lately. Need to retrain myself in baking.

That's it for today's blog update.

I'd like to try to not make this blog emo or controversial, but I will note some things about recent events that's occurring in Japan right now. I can't help myself in watching or reading the news about Japan lately.
What's important right now is worrying about the missing people, those who are in the evacuated areas, and to get enough supplies delivered to the evacuated areas. The weather is reported to be very cold, and the most important thing is to have food, warm clothe, and living supplies for the people who have lost their homes. Also support and comfort is so important to have for those people who might even have families and friends who are still missing.
Radiation is NOT going to reach U.S.
If it did, everyone in Japan is probably be in panic right now, and you will probably see the important people of Japan, like the prime minister or the emperor, leave the country first.

I hope Sendai and the North East will recover fast. Well, I guess hoping doesn't do much, so we will make everything recover, and I believe it will!

Okay....eh

I tried and retried many times to make an app on my phone to work...to upload pictures on this blog. It just works for one time and than it doesn't work the next. I'm using the computer more often now since I came back to FL from Japan. So I decided to not rely on the app, and use the computer! OMG

I am feeling pretty bored lately, so I'm going to try to enjoy myself by making this blog an "anything blog" . I would like to focus on Japan stuff, bakery stuff, or just stuff in general. And I will be uploading the blog via computer, not the phone. So hopefully I won't abandon the blog like I did before.

Try again

I'm going to try again with using this app again to update this blog. Hopefully it won't have any trouble with uploading the photos.


The picture is one from today. The bread is from 進進堂 (Shinshindou). I heard this bakery is only in Kyoto. There is couple of stores within Kyoto.

I had the cream bread. I've noticed that they use real vanilla beans in the cream. Bread itself taste just ok, but the cream was excellent.


http://www.shinshindo.jp/index2.html
クリームパン (cream bread) about 160 yen