Kelly Azuma

Return to milk Chocoball

I picked this box of Morinaga Chocoball up from an inner-city oriental supermarket (Loi’s). It was a bargain at only 88 cents as opposed to the normal $1.69, and it wasn’t past it’s used by date either, in fact, it still had a year to go. When i looked on Jbox i found it was a newly released flavour and i wondered to myself how did we get it so fast? Usually Perth gets the new or limited release flavours well and truly near the end of the flavour’s life-cycle. So anyway, at that price i grabbed two. As Yasu and i were going to the movies that night i decided it would make a great movie snack.

The name “return to milk” somewhat baffled me though, when did Chocoball ever have the flavour milk? They started out originally with peanuts and caramel flavours, then strawberry, and a few limited edition flavours like banana, black sugar, white chocolate etc. So how could they return to something they never had in the first place?

Anyway, the outside of the ball is white chocolate with a very light, almost indistinguishable milk flavour, in fact, if you didn’t know it was milk, you would never notice. The inside is a dark cookie-like texture, like an Oreo. The dark cookie is a little bit too bitter and there is not enough chocolate on the outside, so the two are unbalanced, and don’t really match well in my opinion. What kind of milk used in this chocoball is not mentioned, but i would say it’s probably powdered milk. It’s kind of dissapointing for me. For Yasu, diehard Chocoball fan that he is, this was an opportunity to indulge in his favourite snack from Japan, he didn’t mind the flavour at all, but he didn’t really over-analyse it.

I only had a few of these, Yasu ate the rest of my box, and his own. In all it wasn’t bad for 88 cents,  i guess i wouldn’t pay the regular price for these though.

Okay i haven’t updated for a couple of days. It’s been a flurry of excitement around here, not to mention work. We’ve been laundering, washing, cleaning, scrubbing, chucking out junk, and finally we’ve gotten to a mostly spotless house. I must say i’m very proud of Yasu for getting rid of his junk. Usually he takes it out, then thinks he might still need it some day, and puts it back and it stays there for another year. This time he just dealt with it and it was gone.

The last few nights have been hell because i’ve had such bad insomnia, if i don’t take a sleeping pill, i can’t sleep. I hate taking those things because they make me feel sleepy the next day and i don’t get much done. That is not a good thing at this time as we have our guest coming to stay in 2 days.

Last night i didn’t sleep at all. I was wide awake all night. So i got to and cleaned the linen closet and the bathroom cabinets. It didn’t make me sleepy but it did get some extra jobs done that i would have had to do today anyway.

At about 5:30 am this morning Yasu woke up and found i wasn’t in bed and came out a little concerned. He escorted me to bed and gave me a face massage, lightly caressing my face, until i fell asleep. It was really sweet of him and felt lovely too.

At 11 am he woke me up to tell me he was off to his baseball game. I wished him well, and turned over to go back to sleep only to find i couldn’t, again.

So i got up, had a shower and did some more laundry. After this i’m off to tackle the front garden.

Tuesday morning our friend gets here from Japan. She leaves Japan tomorrow (Monday) morning but won’t get here until Tuesday morning. Isn’t that terrible? A whole day travelling! Well i certainly appreciate her efforts just to get here, and i won’t let her down entertainment-wise!

If my posts are few next week you’ll know why – i’m tuckered out from all those tourist activities! I will try to post though. Hopefully i’ll be so tuckered out i’ll actually get some sleep!

I found this tag on a smelly flower bouquet that was made in Japan.

Lavender
PERFUME FLOWER
Career and flower is
the everlasting motive

Hmmm…some strange people out there who make up these sentences!

I had a pretty good day today. After a few troubles i finally got to my new circle and found a lovely atmosphere and a great teacher.

My friend Joyce dropped me off in Fremantle centre, so i did what any girl would do and went shopping! I picked up a few essentials from the health food store, then bought some lunch and ate it in the town square overlooking a park.

The town square

Fremantle Town Square

After that i took a free bus ride around the city and got off at the Fremantle Arts Centre, which used to be the lunatic asylum and is believed to be the most haunted site in WA. While i was looking around the arts centre i heard footsteps behind me on the wooden floorboards but when i turned around nobody was there. Freaky!

Freo Arts Centre, pretty creepy looking!

After that i made my way home and cooked dinner. My mum called me later to say she is coming over tomorrow. She lives one hour away by car from me, and it’s a long drive for her, so she comes about once per week. I try to go visit her as well. I love playing with her dog Toby. He is sooo cute and he loves playing with the ball.

My mum's dog, Toby (Maltese x Jack Russell)

Yasu went to bed relatively early, he remembered something he forgot to do at work, and he was worried about it, so he went to bed in a huff. I stayed up and watched Packed to the Rafters, and All Saints.

I had a reading done today which basically acknowledged that i’ve been hard on myself, and also said i have to be more positive, as being negative is attracting negative things to me. The lady also said i will have a big life change around March next year, but only if i stay positive, so i’m going to try my very best to see things in a rosier hue from now on! :) No more dwelling on the bad stuff!

This morning was another of those mornings that i didn’t want to get out of bed. I still haven’t figured out, or rather the doctor hasn’t figured out why i feel so lethargic. I’ve taken matters into my own hands and bought some tissue salts “general tonic for exhaustion, fatigue, lethargy”, but combine that with half a sleeping pill at night to fall asleep and i think they are crossing themselves out. I should be able to sleep when i feel so lethargic, but in fact i just feel lethargic, not sleepy!

I managed to get myself out of bed at 11am and i didn’t do anything at all. I didn’t even go out to the post office like i was supposed to. :( I sat around like a mouse potato (the same as a couch potato but on the computer) for a couple of hours, then took myself back to bed. The next time i woke up it was 5pm.

Ugh, my day was gone and i did nothing with it. I hate being like this.

I made pork katsu with rice and salad for dinner, Yasu came home about 6:30pm and we had dinner together. I usually wait for him to get home before i eat, i prefer it that way. After that Yasu had icecream for dessert and i had strawberry custard (lite). Then Yasu put on his ipod and started singing again. It’s getting to be sooo annoying because everytime i talk to him he never hears what i say, and i end up having to repeat myself. I regret giving him my old ipod bigtime!! My fault…didn’t realise he’d turn into such a singing freak.

Yasu told me he’s planning to take next week off work, for the whole week, so that will be nice to have him around for 1 week, at least his high school friend will be here, so he can’t put his ipod on and ignore us. I have to get my act together and clean the house….i need energy!! I think my cold isn’t getting any better either. My antibiotics run out tomorrow. I’m thinking of going into the city tomorrow to get some tissue salts for my cold. I just need to do something, or else i’ll be sick next week too.

I start a new psychic development circle tomorrow. I’ve been going to a circle on monday nights since may this year, but that circle has ended for the year, and i felt as if i wasn’t getting anywhere, so a couple of girls from the circle and i decided to join another circle. I’m excited about seeing my friends tomorrow and learning a whole lot more!

I guess i’ll leave it there, not much to say as today was pretty boring, and i have to get up early tomorrow morning, boy will that be a killer. It’s also going to be raining, that’s why i have to get up early, to get a lift with Yasu. Night all :)