I like this but not that. Want this but not that. (About N. J. Folettia)

I like Legolas but I don't like Orlando Bloom. Wait, let me rephrase...

 

I REALLY LIKE LEGOLAS! :D

I made this pic edit like four years ago. Yeah, could be better.

Okay so...next.

I like chocolate mint ice cream but I don't like chocolate very much. Neither do I like mint herb tea very much.

I would like to see what its like to kiss Captain Jack Sparrow but I would never think the same about Johnny Depp.

I fight for tigers' existence in the wild but it doesn't necessarily mean I am in love with them.

I want to be known but not to be recognized on the streets.

I like to be alone but I don't like to be lonely.

I am a realist who likes to write fantasy stories.

I know life is short but I still feel like some days are extremely long.

I love my parents but I don't want them all the time in my life.

I love my grandmother but sometimes I get annoyed when she doesn't really hear me because she goes into another world very quickly because she is old.

I am a quiet kind of person who dreams about being very vocal and even a revolutionary.

I'm an introvert who wants to be an extrovert.

I want to go places but I can't because of cost restrictions.

I like singing but I have never seriously sung in front of my family.

I like the quote "Don't judge a book by its cover" but I judge people sometimes.

I want to meet up with my elementary school 6 grade class but I don't want to deal with the past I had with them.

DARN LIFE COMPLICATIONS!!!

See ya later, alligators.

Wiener coffee: Food Porn

Wiener coffee is basically coffee with milk and cream.

I type "Wiener coffee" in Google image search and it asks me if I meant "Wiener kaffee" which I might have meant if I were living in Germany. But anyway...I shall stick to "coffee" for now and deal with "kaffee" later. Maybe some other time when I feel more like "kaffee" rather than "coffee".

YUM

Cinnamon in Wiener coffee is definitely the best. I've once had one called Italian Coffee and it had cream and sprinkles on it. Do Italians like sprinkles? Idk.

Not this one (the above pic) but something like this. The sprinkles made me feel like a kid again :3 When I was little I always used to love getting sprinkles with my ice cream. Usually vanilla ice cream or that mixture of vanilla and chocolate. Mmm, good old fashioned simple stuff.

I found this pic (above pic). Look how pretty it is! It's a little whipped cream rose in the middle! And the plate has a rose on it, too. Fancy yummy stuff that is *nods head approvingly*

And of course, when you look up Wiener coffee, which I did in Japanese, you get coffee with sausages in them because ウィンナーmeans sausage in Japanese. Here, let me ruin your Wiener coffee dreams:

Ick. Doesn't look very appetizing, does it?

Of course it is nice to go to a nice coffee shop and have Wiener coffee but always know that if you know how to make coffee at home, Wiener coffee is at your fingertips. All you need is cream and that magical skill to make frothy milk. For me, all I have is cream.

Don't fret when your Wiener coffee (the pic above) looks nothing like the ones at nice coffee shops. As long as they taste good and come in fancy cups, all is good. I don't even bother putting in the frothy milk. I just squirt whipped cream onto my milk coffee. Hey, it tastes good! Don't judge!

Usually it looks something like this above pic. It looks like there are pieces of crunched up tissues in some brown stuff that may or may not be milk coffee. It could well be white clumps of paint in light brown water, too.

Anyway, hope you have a Wiener coffee day now that I've seduced you with all these yummy pics.

See ya later, alligators!

P.S.

Have one more to go!

MMM...YUM :3

I NEED A MASK

So in order for Galligator to start her YouTube channel, I need a mask.

Why do I need a mask? Pssh, duh! It's so Galligator can start her YouTube channel! Ugh! Were you even reading this stuff right?

So where can I get a mask? A cute alligator mask? Or any animal, really. As long as it's cute.

Where?

I need one.

Pleease.

Even my blog is kinda a secret from my parents. Don't want her reading any of this. No! Not him either.

So, yeah.

Byez :P

What People Watching Can Teach Us

First it teaches us to Make Every First Letter Into A Capital Letter... no it doesn't.

Since I'm kind of an introvert...no let's rephrase that. Since I am a quiet shy introvert gamer girl who writes stories and draws pictures and hates math and if that wasn't enough is also an only child, I do lots of people watching.

I mean TONS!

No, more than that...well, anyways.


Like, from my people watching, I can tell you about the system of girls and boys in junior high in Japan. Like, how girl groups and boy groups work and if they mingle what kinds of girls and boys mingle. Also, boy-group hierarchies.

From my people watching I can ask questions that people who don't watch people will never ask like,

• Why do couples hold hands?
• Why do some people discipline their child by slapping them across the head?
• When I get old, will my back bend over?

Grandma from Garfield Christmas show...thing. For the season.

From my people watching I think up scenarios of things that I would never do but am positive that it can be possible if someone wanted to do it...(but don't do it).

• I bet I can take that bulging wallet half hanging out of that guy's pocket while he is on his phone waiting in line or talking with someone. I bet he would barely notice it.
• In this store, the store people don't even watch you while you shop. I bet I could shoplift.
• That old guy over there just bought the train ticket meant for children! It's like 100yen cheaper! He's got some great ideas, I bet I could do it, too.

The last scenario really did happen. An old guy just bought a ticket for 40yen (the price for the children) when it's supposed to be 140yen (the price for teens and adults). He's got it going good there.

Idk if any of my own people watching can teach you anything... maybe it can. I mean, I can tell you in detail (some detail you might not care about) about a certain scene I saw or remember a certain fashion thing that was weird or interesting or crazy or creative.

When I walk around Tokyo and I see one of these
I do a double take then think quietly to myself,
"Oh mah gaud! Only in Tokyo."

I can't remember what people talk about when I eavesdrop (sometimes) on their conversations but I can tell you if it's something that shocked me but when I remember what they said, I usually forget what they looked like but vaguely remember how old they were or something like that.

Anyway, people watching can be very interesting and helpful (?) so you should try it. You might be amazed at what kinds of crazy people (other than yourself) are out there.

See ya later, alligators!

5 Things I hate that other people do: Do you relate?

Rant. Gotta get it off of mah chest, yo. And, comment if you can relate.

1. People who walk while they are on their phone. Oh mah gaud just, can't you leave you phone alone for those few minutes from point A to point B which only takes 5 min?

2. Couples who think the world revolves around their walking speed. Oh mah GAWD I am trying to get somewhere and I need to be there fast and don't you go all "Taking a little walk, a little bitty walk... ladada, ladada..." on me and hold hands in the middle so I CANNOT get passed you it is INSANE the amount of annoyance and frustration you cause me to waste my energy on. UGH!

3. People who decide they want to go the other way...in the middle of the stairs. Going up or going down, if someone suddenly turns around in the middle of the stairway so they can now change direction...UGH! I mean, so in the way and why couldn't you have made the decision BEFORE you started going up or down the stairs, I mean, seriously! I have to practically trip over my feet to try to let you go by.

4. Women with crying babies, in a restaurant, who make zero effort to try to calm their child down. Yeah, I know children are hard to predict and it isn't the child's fault that they are annoying. No, it's the parents' fault that the child is annoying. Just please, take your baby outside or something so I can enjoy my meal IN PEACE for crying out loud (literally).

5. People who listen to your ideas but then say "Well, actually..." or "But my opinion is that..." Uhm, excuse me? Did you not just hear what I said? Do my words even matter to you? Can't you just admit that maybe your opinion is a little off and I'm TRYING TO HELP YOU get on the right track? Just by saying things like that you are completely erasing what I just said and refusing to accept that maybe you might be WRONG.

Okay, that's it.

See ya later, alligators!

5 Reasons You Should Try Goat Cheese

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE goat cheese.

I love cheese but I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE goat cheese.

Oh mah gaud it's like the best thing ever on this planet! Well maybe not to that extent...anyways...

Some people hear "goat" cheese and are all like WHA DA HEYCK!

So let me tell you FIVE reasons you should try goat cheese.

1. It's the best thing ever and you miss out on LIFE if you don't try it. YOLO (boy that's old)

2. It has a taste to it. It's not like Plain Jane mozzarella cheese.

3. It is not salty but it does have a certain "salt" to it.

4. Goat cheese in eggs is like the breakfast of the century. The GOLDEN BREAKFAST.

5. Goat cheese on fresh warm baguette is like...AWWWW GOTTA HAVE SOME OF THAT!

So there!

Now go try it.

See ya later, alligators! :D

5 Things To Do When You Are Bored by an EXPERT

The thing about being an only child is you have to learn how to entertain yourself.

So I'm an expert, naturally. I've been an only child since I was born.

So, here are FIVE things you can do when you are bored

1. Get your movie thing on your camera on your phone and make hand puppet plays.

2. Gather all your stuffed animals together, set a blanket down on the floor, pretend the blanket is water and your stuffed animals are drowning and pretend that you are the one to save them and make them talk while you miraculously save them by throwing them on your bed and making them bounce sometimes.

3. Draw "artistic" pictures in your paint feature on your computer.

4. Make up a song with lyrics and backtrack and everything but all in your head.

5. Sing the dark Christmas songs by putting all the words in antonyms.


How many of these do you think I've actually done?

All of them, DUH!

The Santa Claus and North Pole Theory Part 2

Good grief. So I wrote Part 1 last year in April (of all seasons) and here's the link. Go read it. Now. Refresh your memory. I've had to brief through it to refresh my own memory.

Basically I used two stories "The Story of Santa Claus" and "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" to try to figure out where Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas Claus came from.

My theory was that: from the first story, Nicholas Claus is found out to have been living in an orphanage on a small island. Later he leaves the island, supposedly finds a family to live with, and gets married. He had often found joy in making toys for the younger children so he goes into the toy business with his wife. Out of love for children and since the couple can't have children of their own, he often gives away his toys to the poor children even though the toy shop is in debt. His wife calls him a Saint, therefore, Santa becomes his nickname from her.

So, Nicholas "Santa" Claus.

Now, with the second story I theorized that Nicholas Claus was indeed abandoned by his biological mother because she could not care for him. Perhaps she was too poor. She thought the ruler of the lands, a rich guy, could care for her baby. It can also be guessed that she thought highly of this ruler and even trusted him. But the ruler does not want to care for the child so he tells his right-hand man to bring the baby to an orphan asylum. In the story the sled is blown away but I think in reality it was successfully taken to the orphan asylum. There the baby just named Claus was given the name Nicholas by the headmaster of the orphanage. She takes him in and shows him the joy of life. But eventually the asylum shuts down because it is old or perhaps the ruler does not want it there any more.

Nicholas Claus is sent from orphanage to orphanage until he makes it to the one on the island. Now he is much older and he finds joy in teaching the younger kids how to carve tops out of wood which he probably learned somewhere along the way.

Okay, that was the Santa Claus Theory. Now the North Pole Theory.

Personal Rant on: Japan's Political Parties, the Emperor, and Abe

Hi guys I'm gonna be political and controversial today. Yay *with minimum enthusiasm*

So there was this party of political young people (and a few cute guys) hanging out fliers in Santa costumes out near Shibuya Station. They were members of the Happiness Realization Party. I know. It sounds absurd. Apparently it has to do with something called Happy Science which is some kind of religious thing. According to our very good friend Wikipedia, Happy Science is

Nouns that are Verbs, too: Candle

Candle.

I just found out that you can CANDLE SOMETHING!!!

Oh mah gawd!

From Wiktionary
"To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye."
"candle ‎(third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)"

Candle link Wiktionary

Did you guys know that?

Was I the only one who didn't?

Different Types of Suffering People (Photographs and Hope Included)

When we say "I want to help those who are suffering" we usually seem to mean certain types of people.

War victims

Darfur refugees

The homeless

Homeless family

Those living in slums and other extreme poverty situations

Slums of India

Dense population of Indian slums

Those with life-long illnesses such as cancer or other horrible incurable diseases

Either the pictures were too disturbing to put here or I couldn't find a good one. So, I'll post this. Apparently it's a banner for a facebook page that may or may not exist yet.
Credits for the banner goes to the people who made it on this site CLICK

Those born with bodily deformities that prevent them from doing simple tasks (such as children born with hardly a face in rural villages in third-world countries)

Julianna Wetmore, Age 8 (left), and her sister in 2011. Julianna is known as the girl born without a face. You can find her documentary on YouTube. I'll have to admit her deformities were shocking in the beginning but she is truly a brave and remarkable little girl :)

Here she is in 2015, July 2. To come to this point, she's had over 45 surgeries apparently. 

Orphans

Street children of the Philippeans.
Credit of the photo goes to this blog. CLICK for more photos on iRetouch.

Extreme drug addicts

Credit goes to this deviantart user.

Those with suicidal thoughts or who believe there is no point in living anymore

Don't go to this link. You may get depressed. But I still need to credit the pic.

Extremely obese people who wish to lose weight but can't

I remember this guy. I saw him on a documentary on Youtube. If I have the wrong guy, sorry in advance. But he does look like this extremely obese guy who could not commit to losing wait and eventually died from it. Oh if only he could have seen that life is worth living.
Pinterest is so mean.
Look at the tags! Fat humor funny and LOL? Are you kidding me?! So mean.

People with eating disorders who want to get better but find it hard to do

Those who have fallen into the wrong crowd of the deadly world of gangs, guns, and drugs and cannot leave

theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/03 Gangs in Rio favela

Am I missing anyone?

I don't think so.

And then, there are the other levels of suffering. Say, people who are addicted to something like shopping and go into extreme debt, people who have a traumatic time in their life such as childhood abuse by a parent, people who hoard, people who gamble and go into extreme debt, people who have anger issues or depression, people who have a job in a bad business that doesn't pay well. Or even just your average person can be a sufferer such as when we get sick or get hurt badly or even just a heartbreak.

Anything that is uncomfortable or hurts or causes emotional pain is a suffering.

Surely I'm not saying that all the things above are "just suffering what do we care". I'm saying that yes there are people who's suffering is more higher on the suffering scale then some other people. Say, even day to day stress can be a form of suffering.

When you think about it, just living on this earth is suffering. Whoa, hey, I'm not one of those people who believe dying and going to heaven is better. I'm just stating the facts. In the "Star Trek" series, with Captain Picard (spelling?) apparently no one suffers any more. There is no poverty and all diseases have been cured. But people still suffer on the trips and missions. Suffering can never be eliminated.

Now that I've made you guys all extremely depressed about life, here's some hope.

Even though we may not be able to completely eliminate ALL suffering, we can certainly seek out more effective ways to deal with each suffering situation no matter the level.

On a slightly lighter note, I purpose some medical genius hurry and find the cure for the common cold. That's one less suffering there :P

And yes, though the Internet is pretty convienient, sometimes it's a cause of suffering when you want to look for something specific but can't find it because there is TOO MUCH information on the web. Perhaps Google Search can be a little more...sorted out? Idk, anyway.

To send you guys off with a happy feeling, let me tell you a little something.

I once read this Japanese comic of a bullied girl who one day finds her way into an alternative world where there are only children and they are all fighting against some kind of enemy. She asks one of the girls, "Why do you keep fighting? Why do you keep suffering? Why?" The girl answers,
"To see the sun rise the next day. When I see it, I feel alive and I can push forward again no matter what happens."

I thought that was a really good reason to try to survive through suffering.

Have you guys woken up really early to see the sun rise? I used to when I was little. I'd wake up at 6am and see the sun rising...of course, it depends on the season. It could have been autumn or so. But when you see the sun rising, it makes you feel very fresh and hopeful and ready to go :)

Random Sunrise Wallpaper

Sunrise posted in National Geographic

Dubai Sunrise posted in National Geographic

Sunrise from National Geographic

Taken by Blogger Jessie
Click for more lovely photos by Jessie :)
Lovely picture, Jessie :)

Well, see ya later, alligators! :D