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August Rush

My boyfriend was flipping through the channels last night, and he ended up settling for the second half of August Rush. We’d seen it before, but I had forgotten how awesome the soundtrack was. The guitar slapping song, “Raise It Up” (that little girl has an amazing, amazing voice)… all really great music, but my favorite is definitely “August’s Rhapsody“. It’s hauntingly beautiful and never fails to give me the chills, especially near the middle-end. Perfect note to end this movie on!

Omurice

Last week I made omurice for the first time. The first two were a bit misshapen, but by the third try I managed to make a properly-formed omurice! I was so proud of it that I grabbed a camera to commemorate the success – but not before I took a bite out of it to make sure it tasted ok

I didn’t follow the recipe to the letter for the ingredients, but I figured you should be able to put whatever you want in fried rice. For mine I pan-fried ground pork, bits of cabbage, onions, frozen peas/corn/carrots, and added in the mixture of ketchup, cooking wine, and a bit of salt and pepper for flavoring. Then I added leftover rice to the mix, set the finished fried rice aside, and started on the “omu” part of the omurice, by frying two beaten eggs (on medium heat) for each serving.

The trick to making pretty omurice that “looks like the ones in restaurants,” per my awesome cookbook, is to put the fried rice on the eggs when they’re half-cooked through and still a little runny – turn the heat to low if needed – then slide half of the omurice on the plate before flipping the pan over. This was a bit tricky, but since I’m not an experienced cook by any means and I did get the hang of it by the third try, I’d say it’s very doable.

Omurice is one of those ultimate Japanese comfort foods that I’ve always wanted to learn to cook, so this was a fun cooking venture for me. That it got the thumbs-up from my boyfriend and his cousin was an additional plus, even though we were having omurice for dinner instead of breakfast ;D

Moyashimon Loves Takoyaki!

I’ve been so hungry these last couple of days, and I couldn’t figure out why. I had regular meals, but at random hours of the night/day I’d start gnawing on my boyfriend because of the mysterious hunger pangs. I think it’s because I’ve been vectoring/staring at my new wall, which has takoyaki in it.

Damn you, yummy-looking takoyaki! T _T

WTF Japan!?

The title… really says it all here…

The site credited for the video is definitely worth checking out too Even though some of the posts made me cringe and others I didn’t dare click/watch… it’s definitely good for laughs! WTF Japan, Seriously!?

And OMG…

Cannot… unsee…

Pixel Ellipsis – Migration Complete!

The overwhelming need to update pixel ellipsis took over rather quickly and has consumed me for the last few weeks. It was sparked by me finding a folder (which I hadn’t created) on the old site that had text files (which I hadn’t uploaded) titled things like “paris-hilton-got-laid-in-cancun.” pixel ellipsis had been hacked before, but somehow this was the last straw. In between my volunteering stints I took advantage of good internet at my boyfriend’s to migrate most of the walls over onto Wordpress, and also did a preliminary redesign-hack of Chris Wallace’s awesome Gallery Wordpress Theme. Once I had moved all the wallpapers onto Wordpress I decided to soft launch the site since, given my intermittent access to internet, getting the site 100% fixed up and complete might’ve taken months

If you’ve visited over the last couple of days you probably noticed me making tweaks and changes here and there – changes will continue until I get the site to 100% (right now it’s about 80% complete). In the meantime I hope you enjoy the redesign – drop a comment or a rating if you do! I have high hopes that all the different functions that Wordpress offers will make the site a lot more interactive and web 2.0-y, while still delivering what crap and I had wanted when we first started the site 3.5 years ago – to own a small spot on the internets where people can find high quality, user-friendly walls.

As to whether or not I’ll be walling again – nothing’s for certain, but redesigning pixel ellipsis has definitely made me want to wall again! I’ve been doing a lot of traveling the past couple of months and won’t be completely settled until near end of the month, so maybe there’ll be something then. Maybe with a capital “M”.