I hope you’ve seen my adorable new bento box by now, if not click here for my previous post!

It’s a new obsession of mine and I’d like to keep you updated about my bento making adventure as it develops, so here’s my first attempt: Ramen and salad!

It’s not very creative or diverse, in fact it’s quite unbalanced as there is almost no protein except for some cheese in the salad. We were all at home you see and the others (cousin, sister and friend) had requested a bowl of Ramen (aka 2-minute noodles) for lunch so I decided to prepare my own portion apart and adapt it for use in a bento box - practicing for when I’d have to actually take the bento to work you see ;)

There were some problems with ramen in my bento box… most importantly my little box is not water-tight! Eeek! Then there were some other issues that arose later, like space to fit everything in…

So what did I do? How did it turn out? What was in the salad?

To read more please visit my blog at Daily-dabble.com!

Hello and welcome to the Sunday Social Meme! :)

How to play: Tag 3 blog friends and the answer to this week’s question/s on your blog and remember to let your friends know you tagged them so they can play too!

This Week’s Question:

If money and time were not a problem and you could go anywhere/do anything in this world, where would you go/what would you do?

My answers: I know I’m a bit old for this but I’d really like to go to Disneyland and spend a week there :) Then I’d also like to travel to Japan and to Iceland. Those are 2 places that interest me a lot.

Japan because of it’s culture, architecture, food and so many other things… Iceland because of it’s natural beauty and the fact that there are so few people around and the land is still virtually unspoilt… I am fascinated by it.

Then lastly I’d like to go to America, there are some friends I’d like to meet in person… I’ve known them for many years and I think it’s about time we meet! :)

Other than that, if I had lots of money and time I’d spend money helping those less fortunate or hit by natural disasters and volunteer with some missionary work or something similar - personally I can live on quite a little, so I’d easily be able to help others too.

Here is my list of 3 SanrioTown blogs for this week:

1. Sweet Strawberry - a very cute blog with lots of photos of her Hello Kitty collection in real life she also likes mangas!
2. Bibibi - an interesting blog by a self declared charm addict who likes shopping for cute things!
3. Gleek - she’s a ballet loving gleek who shares all sorts of adventures in game and in the kitchen! Yes, head over to Blog of a Bunhead to find some very cool recipes with step by step photos too!

Remember to leave a comment here with a link to your answers and let your friends know you have tagged them so they can play too!

How do I install a visitor counter on my blog?

This is a question I’ve been asked a few times so here’s how you do it:

1. Go to www.easycounter.com and sign up and follow instructions to create your counter.

2. You will get a counter code that looks something like this:

We will only be using the part that I’ve underlined in pink. Notice it’s the part that has your username in it (the orange arrow is pointing to my username on the above image)

3. Before using the code, we have to create a category in your blog, this will simply be a place on your sidebar dedicated to your counter, like mine:

I called my category “x Visitors x” you can call it anything you like.

To create the category go to your blog management area:

click on: MANAGE then CATEGORIES then ADD NEW

You should see this on your screen:

Type your new category’s name “Visitors” and click on the ADD CATEGORY button below.

4. Now we have a category we need to add the counter to the sidebar using the blogroll function:

Click on: BLOGROLL then ADD LINK

Type the name of your link (orange arrow) the address to link to (pink arrow - this is the site we got the counter from, we must link to them)

Then before you press ADD LINK button, scroll down to the ADVANCED section:

Here you type or copy and paste the image address we got from the counter code (see step 2 above) and scroll back up to the top of the page to the CATEGORIES section on the right side of the screen:

Select the category you have created for your counter (pink arrow).

Now you can press the ADD LINK button and you’re done! ;)

Your little counter should be in your sidebar now! Yay!!

I hope this was clear and helpful, please leave a comment below to let me know!

Happy Blogging!!

As many of you might know from past blog posts, I have an issue with the Hottest Blogs section of our blog dashboards.

I have started a topic on the forums to catch the attention of the SanrioTown team and I hope they will look into the problem.

To read my request and give your support please visit this topic on the forums!

If you agree with what I’ve said or have anything to add, please leave a reply in the forums so they realise it’s a problem worth sorting out ;)

Thanks for your support!

Today I found out that all the quests in the Harbour and Florapolis have been reset!

Apparently even if you’ve already done them they reappear on those 2 maps and the very helpful and friendly GM-Ben told me that there are also additional quests which are only available if you redo all the quests on those maps!

This means that you can earn all the friendship points, money and items again for redoing the quests and you will increase skills and experience! It’s a great opportunity for all.

Of course you dont HAVE TO do the quests again, you can just ignor all the question marks on those maps, but I think I’ll be redoing them… just for the fun of it! I’m sure there will be many people doing them at the same time so there will be lots of group fun to be had too!

Apart from the quests reappearing in the first 2 maps, all the quests in Paris seem to have disappeared!

Not really, only for me it seems! It has been days that I have been searching for new quests to do. All I keep finding are those Replenishing the Stock quests from the Material Merchant! Those are timed it seems and they will just keep coming, but where are all the other quests? I know I havent finished all the Paris quests!

I’ve been to all the surrounding maps already, and have made my rounds twice within the city walls too, entered each door I have access to, but nothing!

Where oh where have you gone dear quests???

Hi there and welcome to the first day of the Welcome Back Week!

There are many great things going on now so if you have been wondering whether to leave the game or return to the game after a long break, now would be a great time to get in and take advantage of all the cool events and perks (5 times the Loyalty Points and a Golden Train Ticket amongst other things!)

For more details about it for those who didn’t receive the email last week, click here!

What are you looking forward to most?

I have a few things I’m interested in… firstly the Loyalty Points because they are really useful for when you need to get the higher level farms and if I can get enough I can even get some cool accessory from the Item Mall!

Then there is the possibility that many people who have stopped playing will return for the new events - this means seeing old friends again and meeting new ones!

And then there is the “something BIG” that has been talked about in a hush hush kind of way…. could it be? Do you think? Nah… But maybe, just maybe it is…

Tokyo!

Who knows… but it might be! Wasn’t it scheduled to be revealed in the summer? Oh, but which summer because in some places it’s winter now… Hmm……

What could this BIG surprise be???

We’ll just have to go in game daily to find out!

You Are Cheerful and Bright

You are total optimist. In your view, there is no other way to live! You seek happiness… and not the temporary kind either. You’re looking for a permanent high.You are often playful. You believe play is an important part of a full life. You prefer waters that have small waves. You want to have fun, but you don’t want to be swept away.

The Rubber Duckie Test

Yes, I do try to be optimistic about the future although sometimes I tend to get stuck in the rut that is the present… When I think of the future I’m definitely optimistic! That’s because I have plans for myself, but more importantly I know that God has even better plans for me! This gives me the assurance that everything will work out for the best because I trust in Him.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Romans 28-31 (KJV)

So I was looking at the Dashboard here on my blog - you know they are running on the Wordpress system so the blog management interface is the same as that of Wordpress.com where I first started blogging a few years ago…

Each time we publish a blog post we should find our link appearing in EVERYBODY’s dashboard in the Latest Posts section… I never see my own, maybe they don’t show us our own, do you ever see mine there?

Then scrolling down there is the Hottest Blogs section, now I’d have thought these are blogs that are really very active, lots of posts but most importantly lots of comments, else how can you call it a hot blog?

Well, strangely enough there is a blog that has been on the hottest blogs list for 2 days now and they haven’t written a post since January! That’s 7 months without a post!! And there is only one comment on that post. How does that work???

I mean my blog by far is not one of the best on this system, but even mine is better, much better and more popular right now than this blog that apparently is one of the hottest… perhaps it was once, but this year, no… it doesn’t deserve to be on that list now. There are many fantastic blogs in SanrioTown and I’m saddened that the system is not publicising them accurately. I have some blog friends here that post daily and post such cool things. I’d love to see those people get a chance to shine!

Anyways… thats all I wanted to say… it was eating at me seeing that blog there getting so much undeserving attention!

Rant over!

UPDATE: I’ve started a topic in the forums about this, to show your support please go here and leave a reply!  Thanks!