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still seeing msg

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I saw a commercial yesterday for Campbell’s that said there is no msg in over one hundred (and twenty? eighty? I don’t remember) soups of theirs.
I don’t know if they just didn’t include the soups that I have in that commercial, or if the soups that I have are old, and they switched their recipe.
Either [...]

I’ve seen the glowing light of msg

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I saw this commercial yesterday for some canned soup. Not sure of the brand, and I don’t want to falsely advertise. (Based on this and the previous post, one would think I’m watching a lot of television. o_O)
The commercial was playing, but I wasn’t really paying attention until they mentioned “no msg” in their ingredients. [...]

yucky ocha

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

I am still surprised, after almost a year, how gross ocha can be if made with tap water here.
I’ve probably been spoiled, living in L.A. where water comes from high up in Colorado. Here, it comes from groundwater, where there’s lots of minerals.
Although I can tell when I’ve been served tap water in restaurants in [...]

a boring record

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

I managed to finish my art journal last weekend to come home this weekend. Well, I didn’t have time (and probably still won’t, unless I un-lazy myself) to paste these lace border things as a final tying-theme-together touch. But let’s forget that.
Saturday (yesterday) was the surprise 25th anniversary for my aunt and uncle, at my [...]

all things Japanese

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

I don’t want to go to sleep (despite it being almost 3 in the morning >_<), but I don’t really have the mental capacity to do much of anything, so I’ll just ramble on here for a bit. (Nice statement, no? “I don’t want to think, so I’ll just write in my blog.” :x)
Last Saturday [...]

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