Happy New Year Everybody! Kchan is so sorry. Kchan always forgot to say “Happy New Year” to everybody. Every year, Kchan celebrate two New Year. It is more reasons for me to eat good food and enjoy more fun times. Kchan hasn’t gone to the Blog for so long. Kchan is a lazy bum – just sat at home and went to Facebook (bad Kchan).
Kchan’s New Year Revolution
1. Lose Weight – around 5 to 10 lbs by summer so I can wear swimsuit.
2. Reorganize the Maid Café
3. Starting a new business
4. Getting serious at school
5. Controlling Money
6. Going To Japan at the end of the year.
7. Watch 750+ episode of anime
Hallo hallo! Welcome everyone back from the holidays and most recently Anime Los Angeles (ALA)! Everyone had fun neh?
So Mikan haven’t really been updating, gomenasai! There seems to be so much to do lately neh~
Anywho, let us go in chronological order shall we?
Firstly, Christmas! I had a chance to spend lots of timewith my friends! This included Koto, Kai, Stae, Mio, and many many more ♥! This year we decided to do TWO secret santas.
Before celebration, Mikan spent morning and afternoon at Koto’s residence, sewing. Though I cannot say that I am a connoisseur, I do enjoy watching the day pass as I make bloomers and skirts. ;P
So we started our celebration with a family dinner at Souplantation. It was my second time at the restaurant! After the good ol’ jolly meal, we went back to Koto’s to exchange gifts! I was so happy when I got mine, put my friends in chokehold XD hee~
First secret santa gift! Got a baby sewing machine and gloomy doll! XD
Second secret santa gift! What could it be?! (yay finally something MELODY!)
It is a Betsey Johnson layering necklace! One of Mikan’s favorite brands [that I have no money for D:] (next to Juicy Couture, Marc Jacobs, and Chanel ;D).
And a gift from Kchan! It is Tupac Mashimaro! ;x heehee~
A Toki Doki phone charm! So cute neh~!
And this is how big my phone is now! Phone is inside golden owl pouch~
MINT CHOCOLATE~! Nom~
It was a very good Christmas! many gifts given that will be put to good use! (Almost done eating chocolate already heehee~!). I am thankful for having such a lovely group of friends…mucho love!
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And all of a sudden, ALA came around! It was my first time at ALA, so I was very nervous. Kchan said there would be two panels, and knowing myself, I wanted to help as much as possible! So Mikan wore maid dress all days (no worries I washed in-between days) to promote/cosplay and for panels. Cosplay? Yes cosplay! Remember what Mikan said will be the cosplay? Mio from K-ON!
So how did Mikan do trying to do this cosplay?
Photo credit Agent Sakur9
Photo credit Gerald Isip
Not too bad neh? Mikan was very very happy and surprised at results! Especially since I cut my hair myself! YESSSHH!!
What made it even better was that Koto, Emi, and Chiyo wanted to do K-ON cosplay with Mikan too! So we had one fun time cosplaying together!
Can goshujinsama and ojousama guess our characters? Hyuhyuhyu~
ALA is a lot more like a hanging-out convention. Very fun and enjoyable. Mikan met a lot of friend con-goers and photographers, and a few goshujinsamas from Facebook too! Thankies for saying hello!
Saturday panel was playing mini games, including JanKenPo, with the goshujinsamas and ojousamas! Everyone was very excited and rowdy, so it was very fun! Two hours went by really fast, so Mikan was a bit sad..
Sunday was the open Q&A panel. AniMaid Cafe talked about maid cafe culture in Japan, rules and regulations, and answered good questions. Mikan got slightly…tomatoed at one part, but let’s skip over that 
. We also got one lucky goshujinsama to dance with some of the maids to our “Mune Mune Kyun” dance. Good fun! After the panel, the extra time was spent for photos and epic Jenga matches. Ah..what a fun con!
Watch the video here: ALA10 Mune Mune Kyun
One of the best feelings for Mikan? Going to a con for the first time. What a feeling~♥
Next con? Hopefully a new one!
Hi hi everyone!
I have been feeling sick…my stomach hurts! Christmas is tomorrow..hope I will be ok by then nya?
So this piccu was taken before Mikan’s haircut. Yes, I got a haircut nya! I got a pair of scissors, and shnipped my own hair! Most of the maids and hosts have seen it already neh, but it shall be a (hopefully) pleasant shock for the goshujinsamas and ojousamas neh? Mikan’s goal?
Jangg~! *o* All I need is a guitar now~
Please don’t confuse my Mio cosplay with Mio! Though easily confused because both are uber cute neh? Hehehe~♥
Another great event occurred a few days ago! That’s right, Kchan’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ♥. We took over the Japanese grill Gaja, filling half the restaurant! Kchan so popular neh!!
I never realize how little things can be so pretty. While washing/cutting veggies for dinner one day, I realized that the stump looks like a flower! Here’s a pretty close-up:
Kirei~!
So this winter, Kai, Stae, Kaname, Mio, and I went snowboarding! I needed bindings, so Mikan bought a pair of white ones (oh so pretty!). It came with a square BORING stomp pad, so Mikan took the liberty to cut something cute on it, heheh~
It’s a bunny! :L
Before snowboarding, we all gots some food at Los Jilberto’s! This is one of my favorite Mexican food places mm hm! Stae and I shared their huge carne asada fries with a bunch of sauce!
It’s like a mountain!
Other than boarding, Mikan also got to spend lots of time with Koto sewing her SUPER SECRET THINGY. Finally finished. That means lots of num num with Koto neh!
Hooray for yummy sandwich and yakisoba! MMMMmmmmMMmm..
Well too tired to update more! But I wish everyone a
VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! 
I love Christmas. I said that already. But for me, this might be my favorite time of the year. It baffles me as to how people turn so negative at the sound of that stock Christmas music being played at every shopping center. “Oh did you heeeeaar? They’re plaaaaying Christmas music at the maaaaalll~! They’re trying to put me into a joooyful mood~.” How dare they!
I don’t get it. I really don’t. Me personally I love that music.
I mean, it’s not like that music is played any other time of the year. Only like 3 weeks out of the 52 or so weeks in a year. That’s it. And let’s say musically, you just don’t think they’re good songs. Are the songs they play, at the malls, the rest of the 49 weeks any better? I say no.
And it’s not just the music. I see people become so negative around this time of the year for different reasons.
You know what? Forget about all that. It’s all about the idea that comes along with the Season. It’s a time where people shouldn’t be selfish. It’s a time for people to show each other they care about one another.
Thankfully though, there are still people out there that get it. I mean, obviously, otherwise no one would put out any effort. I for one, am enjoying the Season
I love beautiful stuff. I may not show it very much but I’m a girly girl at heart. A classic simple beauty with ribbons and pearls, ruffles and lace! Pastel colors and LOTS of flowers! Irises and daisys personally hehe. It’s why i fancy Lolita so much. The colors and the styles the poofy skirts and blouses and parasols ahh love. I don’t own lolita yet but i will! yosh!
I also LOVE candy and cakes of that sort, and to be around sweet things. Its like the sugar absorbs into your skin makes you feel all sweet inside. odd way of putting it but i think it gets my point across. Though my favorite color is green and my others are lavender and blue, I find pink a happy color, reminds me of frosting. I also find the sugary happiness in music, trance and j-pop and others.
Lately Iv’e been looking around for items and other ways to bring simple beauty into my life. I bought the cutest kitchen timer in the shape of a strawberry ice cream cone. I got some yarn in colors i wouldn’t normally pick and been reading alot of fairy tales.
Some even have a “Lolita Lifestyle” which pretty much just consists of living how you dress, in loveliness.
I follow these blogs to bring beauty into my life and others.
http://lolita-charm.blogspot.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/vie_quaintrelle/
http://suchprettythings.typepad.com/my_weblog/
http://velvetstrawberries.typepad.com/andreasingarella/
http://www.romantichome.blogspot.com/
Enjoy
-Ichigo <}
I am a crazy One Piece Fan. One Piece is one of the biggest anime in Japan. One Piece is written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. The first realease was on December 24, 1997. (Yes one day after my birthday).
Today, One Piece released its newest movie – The Strong World – is directed by Eiichiro Oda himself. Not only that, One Piece released its newest manga #56 with 2.8 million copies was printed. As of today, the manga sold more than 176 million copies – marked the highest selling manga in the history.
This week, Luffy is on a man magazine in Japan. It also has 5 pages of One Piece fashion (I will buy it this weekend). I went to Mitsuwa last weekend and I found a bunch of soda bottle with One Piece on it. It is awesome.
So I am planning to have a One Piece Day aka watching and discussing about One Piece. I love every single thing about One Piece. The story line to character designs are perfect.
The sad new is….Eiichiro Oda is planning to end One Piece in 5 years. He said he has the image of its ending and start working on the last season. (I feel sad – I never want it to end)
I do believe – people who never read One Piece shouldn’t say One Piece is bad because they will never know how wonderful it is.
Please give it a try – you will love it. ^_^
Hi hi! Mikan here! ♥~
Gomenasai goshujinsama/ojousama~ >__<i Mikan been busy lately so no time to post!
But I am posting now! Ohohohoho~
So Thanksgiving was num-num for me! Started early with family lunch. Ate so much I fell asleep…only to wake up for DINNER! Talk about fatty huh? The whole day was spent on eating… sigh Mikan is going to lose any moe-ness remaining because of FATTY-NESS!
The next day was spent with Koto-chan and our friend. We went to see Betsey Bloomingdale’s donation to FIDM. She donated her lifetime’s worth of haute couture dresses and ensembles. It was great! I love watching how fashion evolves through the years and its impacts on people. I also realized that Mrs. Bloomindale seemed to be rather fond of Christian Dior. >> throws an envious fit << I’m ok!
After that we went to get food at a local plaza-market place. We ended up spending under $6 for a great meal! I had chap-chae (korean glass noodles) with chrysanthemum tea and two little korean snacks. Oishii~! Well worth our money neh! Mikan didn’t finish the snacks, so saved it for Momo and Maiyu when we went over to sew!
After a hard day of sewing, we all finally relax and go to friend’s place to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends!
AND MIKAN FINALLY GOT TOKIDOKI SPOON AT YOGURTLAND! Missing first two though..anyone want to give their’s to me? XD
Hope everyone is warm! It looks like it will be getting cold~
Mikan, out! ♥~
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I hope everybody has a great and safe holiday. It is a FAT holiday again. I want to thanks everybody for working so hard at the cafe and all our masters support us.
I started my eating holiday at work on Tuesday – This weekend is HAM and TURKEY.
I want Ice Cream.
I can’t wait until Black Friday to go shopping. I save some money for it.
I don’t really want to think about school at this moment because it is a hoilday.
Can’t talk about business this weekend – everything is fun and fun.
Hai hai~ Good evening Goshujinsama, Ojousama and my darling maids and hosts~ vvv
It has been a while since Tanpopo posted some photos! So here we are! I love this wig it’s such a pretty shade of pink! This is my faux Crimson Camellia Luka cosplay! Which I will probably never do seriously, although it’s a nice idea… But it was fun to play pretend! vvv
Tanpopo also got a little new something something that’s pretty obvious in the picture, care to guess what it is? Hehe~!
Anyways I hope everyone is doing fine~ Tanpopo is withering away slowly with school work ururu… QnQ Can’t wait till winter break!
That’s it for now, so sleepy!
Love you all~ vvv
Well these blogs have been kind of dead for the past week. I guess that’s just a sign of how busy we all are at AniMaid Café. Not just with Café related business but with our personal lives. So I thought I’d drop in and give a quick update on what’s been going on on my end.
Personally, among other things, I’ve been busy with my martial arts classes. This past week I had to take part in 2 different belt tests. One for Jujitsu and the other for Hapkido. I aced both pretty easily, but I think I shined on the Hapkido test. Well I guess I didn’t have much of a choice, as I was the only taking it. If I were to make an error it would be pretty apparent. But luckily at this point these things are almost second nature and I finished without much trouble. … Ok so I made a few mistakes and I think I still have a lot to work on, but if I were perfect at it then it wouldn’t be as much fun as it is.
Yesterday I advanced to my 3rd red (half red, half black). I don’t even know the proper term for this belt but I do know that it’s one belt away from black. March will be the next test and my test into black belt. I think this test is going to be, in many ways, much more difficult than my previous ones. Well that’s what my instructor says, and he hasn’t lied to me yet.
March isn’t that far away if you think about it, but I think I still have a long way to go.