Chimcheree Giveaway!

Well, thanks to Churichan and her Lolita Yogurt blog, I have found out about (another) gievaway. Goodness, but I love these things! LoL. Maybe I´ll get lucky, or maybe I´ve run out of luck, but let´s have lots of people participate because if I can´t get anything, I´d still feel satisfied if someone I knew got something! :D

These are the things she´s raffling in the giveaway!! Cute, huh!

Check it out here: http://chimcheree.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-first-giveaway.html

Lolita 30 day challenge: Day 4

Day 4 : 10 different kinds of food you like.

 This was easy-peasy!! In fact, I had to cut out a few foods.....

1. Curry. I love and adore curry to the nth degree. I especially like chicken curry, since I also love chicken.
2. Carrots. The best vegetable and snack in the world.
3. Chili con Carne. Yum. I like it in all its variations, from the regular ground-beef-and-beans kind to the stringy-pulled meat-without-beans kind. Make it hot and spicy, it´s even better!
4. Chicken Tandoori. Delicous chicken, and add a spicy yogurt sauce? A++!!
5. Chana Masala. I love legumes.  Beans, lentils, chickpeas...... so if you have a dish based on chickpeas and it´s spicy....I will eat it and love it.
6. Lentil soup. Pretty plain and average compared to the other exotic dishes I´ve named. But lentils are great.
7. Chicken rice soup with lemon. My grandma is the best at making this dish. If you don´t add lemon to it, it really loses its touch.
8. Berries. Anything that has "-berry" as part of its name, I will probably like. Blue, black, red, straw, give them all to me!
9. Fajitas. Tortilla. Chicken. Green pepper. Spicy.  ´nuff said.
10. Chocolate: As long as it´s not mixed with anything fruity. 

As you can see, I´m more of a "spicy or salty" kind of girl rather than an uber-fan of sweet things.  On that last one I was debating "meat buns" or "stir fry noodles" but I thought that I should at least include two sweet things in the ten.

Lolita 30 Day Challenge: Day 3

Day 3: 10 things you hate in lolita.

This was a bit harder than I thought it´d be.

1. The stares and laughter: While on some days I enjoy being the center of atention, I never enjoy it if I get laughed at when I´m in lolita. Related to this, 
1. A. Lolita is not very well known or accepted outside of Japan: I know that the fashion can´t help it, and that slowly this situation is reversing, but.....sometimes I wish that Lolita were as accepted as the "goth" and "punk" and "grunge" looks are in the West. I wonder if I´ll ever see the day when a lolita walks down the street and gets a "Nice JSK!" or "Nice lolita look!" from a random passerby.
2. The expenses: Buying brand clothing is horribly expensive--even if you buy it secondhand. Even now Bodyline prices and those of other "offbrand" shops have been rising. Being a lolita, whether a lifestyle one or not, definitely depletes your pockets. 
3. The lack of real-life stores outside of Japan: Of course they exist--but if you´re unlucky enough not to live in San Francisco, Paris, London or New York, you´re pretty much stuck. Finding lolita items is nearly impossible in regular shops; even "loliable" clothes are rare. 
4. Store webpages that are in Japanese: There are a lot of brands and stores nowadays that not only  ship outside of Japan, but also have webpages (or at least staff) that know English. But this is not the case when you leave the "larger" brands. I have had to give up buying one or two JSKs that I really liked from the sheer impossibility of navigating through their webpages, even with the help of a translator.
5.  Shoe sizing: It has got to be the most darned confusing sizing I have ever come across. I still don´t understand how I can measure my feet, give them a few free "extra" millimeters, order the shoes, and still have them pinch my feet. This has happened to me with all my lolita shoes--and believe me, my feet don´t regularly grow and shrink. 
6. Petticoats: While the floofyness of petticoats recieves my undying love, I also somewhat dislike them--in summer, they are very hot. Bleh. Also, petticoats additionally force you to wear bloomers or boyshorts underneath your skirt unless you want to flash your panties.....which adds to layers and therefore the heat. 
7. The "exclusive" and "snobbish" behaviour of some lolitas towards others. I haven´t suffered this myself, but I´ve seen it, and I hate it. 
8. Head-eating bows: I love bows. But these are just a bit ridiculous looking in most situations. (=_= That said, i actually own *one*).
9.  The "consumism feeling" that all lolitas are trapped in. We oooh and aaah over brand (or offbrand), and buy buy buy. Lolita is a focus of a lot of money. That said, the positive aspect is that many lolitas sell sell sell when they´re tired of their pieces.
10.  Heart-shaped lolita aprons: I think they are horrible. Regular frills in an apron are alright, or ones with cute prints, but I absolutely  can´t stand ones like this:

<---The horror of the Heart Apron of Doom


Though I seriously don´t know whether the fact that BTSSB came out with this other design is scarier. Ew.--->

Giveaway haul

I recently participated in a giveaway on a blog. To my surprise, I actually won something! Naturally, as Murphy´s Law and my Bad Luck determined, I didn´t actually win either of the 2 (out of four) packages that I really wanted.....figures that if there was a 50/50 chance of getting them, I wouldn´t.....but at least I got something! My first time winning anything in a giveaway, actually, so I was happy.

I got: two sets of chopsticks (one blue, one purple), two erasers (one dango one panda), a cellphone charm (a notebook one) and a really cute panda sponge. Which has somehow become lost in my room already, 4 days after getting the package. Or maybe my Mom kidnapped it. She was eyeing it and saying it was cute the other day.... So I´ll rely on the picture that was posted during the contest to show you my "haul":

 

Thanks again, Chibirubie! I´m looking forward to your next giveaway, whenever that may be!