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28 days ago
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting Makes 1 frosting for a 2 layer cake 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened 1 cup white sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups heavy cream In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, salt and vanilla until smooth. In a small bowl, whip the heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Fold into the cream cheese mixture. Worked amazingly well and extremely easy to make!!!
146 days ago
So far I have been following my originally planned schedule (which has never happened before). The sun was shinning very bright in my room at 6-ish, so it is hard to sleep any longer. I went down for my having my rice ball + miso soup breakfast and there was a big group of high school kids. Looked they were getting ready kind kind of ball tournament game. The hotel I was staying in was in Higashi-Hiroshima. It has nothing but the shinkansen train station, this hotel and a 7-eleven. It is very nice and comfortable, but it is too far away and you have to time the train schedule well. It is better to spend a bit more to stay in the main city Hiroshima. Enough about that, but the location is very likely the reason why I suddenly changed my plan to went all the way South to Kagoshima. After the breakfast, I walked to the train station and just missed my train by a few minutes (saw it leaving the station as I walked into the station). I waited inside the enclosed waiting room ...150 days ago
Nara is no doubt the cutest city I’ve visited so far. All the symbols, selling item has deer either cute or serious face. But deer is still a deer, it just never looks serious enough for me =P I got up at around 3:50am and couldn’t fall back to sleep again. At least the night before, I got up and still managed to go back to sleep for a couple more hour. I still don’t feel tired (mind) but my feet are hurting. Really, I haven’t walked that much today. It just the accumulated physical activities that’s getting to me. I am current sitting on the Shinkansen heading to Nagashi-Horoshima. Odd, everything single time I am sitting on any train, I immediately doubt myself and think I must have gotten on the wrong car. Hey, I do have track recording constantly getting on the wrong train regardless which region. The worst one was in Austria getting on one that’s not even running and I felt so oddly empty for a long time sitting that and while missing my real car. Anyway, but the ...162 days ago
I am starting this blog writing in the middle of the Kenrokuen Garden because I have found the best spot of the garden. It is so comfortably breezy and lightly shaded. Besides, my feet are hurting, so I have to find a place to sit =P Just sitting on a wooden bench, looking up at the beautiful clear sky. It is 28C today, definitely much much hotter. It is still fairly dry so it is actually quite nice. I hate those hot and wet weather. I am thinking century ago when this garden was created for the local lords, they may probably writing they daily journal the under such pretty setting. Two in two that my originally planned “highlight” of the trip turned out to be not that of my expectation. Yet, I have absolutely no regret going to those cities. I ended up finding more interesting and memorable discovery by going to those places. The garden is pretty, but is it no Butchart garden like the one in Victoria. It is some what comparable as the free QE park in Vancouver. QE ...
170 days ago
This is quite an wonderful experience to pick Takayama which lead me to Toyama and the local train JR train rides. Not doubt the local trains are slower, but it is so comfortable..so soothing. Yes, it is actually presently relaxed to see he pretty mountain and rice fields slowly passed by rather then rushing through on Shinkansen. Some local train looked like they were built in the 70’s. The operation was very manual. It is quiet interesting to see the train driver was signalling with various hand gestures. I really wonder if anyone will see those signal and why does he has to do that when apparently no one is looking at him?! Anyway, another thing I love about local train is how close to nature I can be. No AC, just an old fan with nature breeze. The not too hot nor cold and still raining a bit just feel totally like home. Since I am visiting smaller than, the air quality is so much better. People also walk a lot slower too =P I shouldn’t say slow, but definitely not in ...
