rambles & mumbles...

This episode is quite fun and reminded me of Mago Mago Arashi's 'Totsugeki Bangohan' segment. The only difference from MMA is that this totsugeki segment is done in the luxury restaurant, not at somebody's household. Off course before that we have our home garden recipe. This time it's a very simple recipe but honestly I've never thought that it'll go well together :).


( Attack!!! )

Finally, the vinyl house episode is here! I learned a lot from this episode and building one of this is not as difficult as it looks. Now I wish I have a bigger house that can fit all these gardening stuff. Imagine just pluck your veggie and go straight to kitchen to process, that's freshness!

At the rate this project going, which turned out they started this quite sometime ago, we'll have tons of this garden episode or snipets of it for quite some time XD


( Let's build a vinyl house! )

Today is Arashi's 5x15!!! Omedetougozaimasu!!!
Read so many wonderful write up on our wonderful rainbow boys, it warmed up my heart <3

Back on Manabu, I wish Ohno would guest on this segment, he'd be very thrilled and awake. It's not equal to the deep ocean fishing but still, it's fishing XD. The whole segment is really pure entertainment.

( Tsuri away!!! )

It's been awhile since the last time I did Aiba Manabu cap. This is much much better compare to reading 80plus page of contract :( (I still need to do it tomorrow, during office hour LOL). Enough of RL rant. What do we have in this episode? Lots of laughter and fun episode, PLUS Aiba-chan's engrish is back! But in here, we get to see Aiba-chan's MC skill, which I appreciate a lot. He puts in the excitement into anything that he talk about that any ordinary information becomes interesting. From the way he phrases his explanations to how he pokes the guests curiosity, they're so easy to understand and digest. And that, requires skills and experience. Not anybody can work with this kind of style, I think it's more like Aiba-chan's style. Overall, very entertaining episode plus it's informative and we have a sequel next week, yey!!!

( Let's learn on what's great about Japan XD )

Following up on Aiba Manabu Epi 61, we have the jerii fry...

so... I made them... because, it's easy, cheap and ... yeah...

Hyaaa.... It's been a long time ne...

I know I haven't been doing Aiba Manabu for the longest time because... I'm lazy plus being sick for the longest time didn't really help either, and plus I was flying around trying to do my job well, so less time to do Aiba Manabu because I want to watch lots of stuff and do lots of stuff too. BUT, this episode contains my favorite food item,TOFU! Plus, with Aiba-chan making it... hmm.. it's rather hard to resist. PLUS, they finally completed the shoyu project! I've been wondering about that shoyu for awhile as they didn't really show Aiba-chan shaking that shoyu bottle anymore, so I was happy to see that it's finally done and we can see what homemade shoyu looks like!

( Let's learn how to make tofu... )

For the simpler homemade tofu, I found this blog that I think worth to try:
http://www.lafujimama.com/2009/09/how-to-make-tofu-no-fancy-equipment/
I guess it's time to further utilize my soya milk maker, hohoho...

It's been a little bit more than a week from New Year and... it's shitty... not much good things come across me these few days and I think things will get more shitty as we're coming to a year end. And as usual I go back to my oasis to drown my sorrows (along with sake, ramen, and anything not suitable for a diet)...

So, the first episode of Manabu for 2014 is gotta be very close to the big day itself, so we're having Aiba-chan making MOCHI!!! The gooey sticky mochi (ok, it's mochi mochi, cute right? LOL). I really love this threesome pairings together in a show (I won't be surprise there's a fanfic on these 3 out there). Their chemistry and teamwork in producing an interesting and entertaining episode is just... LOVE!

I won't be using my dictionary because this is my quick therapy session, but the gist of it should be about there XD if you feel something amiss, do let me know )

( Mochi Mochi!!!! )
ahhh... I feel better LOL...

as expected, tamagoyaki episode is just full of cuteness, AND informative, as usual. I like how they feed in the information in this episode coz I learned a lot haha... and in this episode, Aiba-chan basically did all the dirty work and Watabe and Sawabe were just being noisy as moral support and making Aiba-chan stress at times LOL... I really like Watabe and Sawabe, they really know when to not be so loud and when to poke on Aiba-chan and as a result we have series of laughter while learning XD.

a bit on RL, today i got an award (something equal to the top employee of the year thingy) to recognize all my hard work for my less than 1 year tenure while 90% of the people in the company probably don't even know what I'm doing huehehe, and with that expectation is higher, target is higher, stress level is higher... hence the quick post of this episode, Aiba-chan's smile is therapeutic LOL...

( Shall we start the egg lesson? )

When they're talking about mugi miso... and what do you know, there's a Kyuzu fair at Isetan and they're selling fresh MUGI MISO! What a coincidence! I bought about 400gr, but come to think of it... it may be gone in a jiffy considering that now I have to fight with my dad for the share of miso paste... -__-"

I want to do Epi 19 too but it'll take too much time, same reason as the mamachari episode. They throw in lots of superstitions in that episode. You'll recognize some of them if you've watched anime like XXXholic XD. Okay, enough about the previous episode, let's talk about Epi 21. Wait, what about Epi 20 then? Hmm... oh yeah, it's basically just to show that Japan does survey on literally everything by perfecture. Not that it's informative, but it's literally just information overflow. Whoever did the structure of that episode choose a really bad topic, no, it's a good topic but presentation is very bad, that's all. Epi 21? We're back with everybody's favorite, Epi 18 part 2! This time they try to squeeze in more, they have 7 techniques to make your live easier... I don't get the tendency to make the episode to be information overload, I'd think they should just stick with 4 or 5 and make the scenarios or experiment longer, or better still, MAKE AIBA-CHAN TALK LONGER! Seriously, it used to be 2 members for this kinds of segment but now they have 3? In a small room, 30 min length show, it's too many! You'll notice that Aiba-chan speaks lesser and lesser in the last 3 episodes and those comedians speaks louder and louder. I'm already worried over Aiba-chan getting quieter in VSA and Anishi and now this? For goodness sake, it's Aiba-chan's show, he needs to be in the center and speaks more, like what he does on the first few episodes. Seeing Aiba-chan talk less and only smile politely alarms me. At the very least, he LOL-ed quite a lot in this episode so it doesn't look so bad, but if you notice, he does talk lesser.

( Pretties... though he speaks lesser :(... )

But if you watch Tensai Shimura Doubutsuen 7th Sep episode, Aiba-chan looked so genki and hyper on his own segment. He talked A LOT and laughed A LOT as well... and he looked so relax there. Perhaps he's been in TSD for almost to (?) or more than (?) 10 years that it's like being at home, whereas in other shows... he can rely on Sho-chan & Matsujun to cover him on VS and Anishi and Manabu is quite new for him... I don't know... perhaps this will change, it's just a phase... we'll see... 頑張れ相葉ちゃん!