As promised, here's the weird looking angry cat for Tough Girl 101 also known as Kat. Kat, let me know what you think. If you don't like it, we can start over with the design and make another one.

(Kouton the angry kitty)

Also in this collection is a quirky, curious little ox named Lamboo. Mr. Lamboo is also another custom made order, now proudly owned by DoubleM.

(Lamboo the ox who eats everything but grass)

p/s: For products details and pricing please refer to AmICute (main site for all AmICute Critters)

I can't remember when and how it started but I have a deep running love for gadgets. I love looking and admiring them, I love to study them, I love to toy with them and most of all I love to own them all.

We were up in Vancouver for a one day trip and the highlight of the day has got to be La Casa Gelato. It is the only gelato factory/store in the world that carries 218 flavours on location from the 500+ flavours that they have. 218 flavours! That's an amazingly diverse amount of flavours. It is so diverse that we had a hard time picking out just 1 flavour. They range from standard gelato flavours  to very exotic ones like chocolate curry, balsamic vinegar, wasabi and gorgonzola blue cheese (I tried all the above) just to name a few. 

The place was practically swamped with customers and normally I would’ve leave as fast as I can (I dislike overly crowded places) but that didn’t stop me from staying longer. The interesting combinations of gelato flavours were so tempting that I had to walk from one end to another to carefully taste and pick my flavour. 

(image courtesy of La Casa Gelato)

La Casa Gelato has got to be the best gelato I've tasted thus far. So good that they receive a vast amount of media coverage for example the Chinese Network, Vancouver Sun and Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Even the queen of lifestyle, Martha Stewart herself has been there to get a taste of La Casa’s Gelato.

If any of you ever hit up Vancouver, don’t forget to pay La Casa Gelato a visit. It’s highly recommended and a definite must go. 

p/s: I doubt that I’ll ever get much of durian in Seattle, so we ended up picking the durian flavoured gelato. It even had tiny bits of durian flesh in it. I also bought an almond nougat bar, my all time favourite snack. yum yum...

I love popcorns and usually, I can't watch a movie without popcorns. Shopping at Fred Meyer today, seeing rows and rows of self-popping popcorns reminded me of my first popcorn in Seattle.

I would never ever forget about that popcorn incident. It was the first salty popcorn I ever tasted in my life. I bought the popcorn at the movie theatre thinking it's the same irresistible sweet popcorns that I’ve always had in Malaysia and popped it in my mouth. Immediately I turned to MoofMoof with a disgusted look on my face. Here’s how the conversation went: 

Me: Honey, I think there’s something seriously wrong with the popcorn. 

MoofMoof: What’s the matter? 

Me: I think they forgot to put in the caramel. I can only taste the butter. 

MoofMoof: *starts laughing and laughing* Honey, that’s how they are suppose to taste like. They are butter popcorns not caramel. 

Me: Huh? (getting more puzzled) You guys have butter popcorns? People actually eat salty popcorns?????? 

MoofMoof: Of course we do! *lalalalalala and a whole bunch of explanation*

I’ll just stop the conversation right there. There’s a long stretch of popcorns debate to it but I won’t bore you further. Since then, I’ve been constantly searching for caramel popcorns where ever I go. So far I’ve only found 2 places that sells caramel popcorns, one in Puyallup Fair and the other one in one of Portland’s (Oregon) mall. The hunt shall go on and I shall not give up!