July Top 10 Commentators, Thank You!!

It's time for me to formally thank my Top 10 Commentators monthly and really I should have given much attention of giving a special mention of them more earlier here at Kizuna which I wasn't aware of before although I always give my top commentators the linky love that they deserve at my sidebar monthly. Now, this will be my monthly ' must thing to do ' to show appreciation and giving thanks to everyone who keep on visiting Kizuna.

I would also like to thank Mommy Jac of Mom's Special Diary for the cutie Top Ten Commentators badge and Kaye of WHAMaholic for the commentators widget.

For my July Top 10, thank you for all the visits and for leaving your precious comments and for joining me in my journey as a busy Mom here in Japan. THANKS A LOT!!


top ten commentatores
Ate Cecile of Thoughts of a Pinay SAHM
Mommy Eden of Moments To Remember
Mrs. Kolca of U.T.O.T. M.O. P.I.N.K.
Anney of Blog Ni Ako


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And to all my friends who didn't make it to the top 10 and even if you don't leave comments, your visits is highly appreciated. From the bottom of my heart, I wanna thank you all for always dropping by and for leaving a line or two at my shout-out corner. Please feel free of visiting them also thru their linky badges.


Food Trip Friday---ROYCE' BEST SELECTION


I almost screamed when my husband ordered on-line my top 3 of ROYCE' best selection of chocolates the time 'twas delivered to our door one day. Shipping fee is kind a pricey ( 1,100 jpy because they do refrigerated delivery ) so everytime we order Royce' chocolates on-line, we ordered in bunches. It is really a piece of ' Heaven on Earth' for giving us these luxurious chocolate experience.

---ROYCE' Potato Chip Chocolate Caramel for 693 jpy---

You'll never stop munching ROYCE' Caramel. The white chocolate caramel flavor and the saltiness taste of the potato chip blends together in your mouth and if you're into ' too much sweets ', this is for you and I recommend to pair it with a cup of black coffee.
---ROYCE' Pure Chocolate Mild Bitter and Extra Bitter for 693 jpy---

For those who loves bitter treats, this round ridges chocolates is for you. High quality chocolates, with a divine taste,mild bitter 80%cacao and rich and satisfying extra bitter 90%cacao. And by the way, we're bitter chocoholics!

---ROYCE' Potato Chip Chocolate, 2 bags in a carry box for 1,386 jpy---

And if you're in the mood to be bad, I recommend you to try the original chocolate-covered chips, they're sinfully good!

An entry for Food Trip Friday. Chibugan na!!\(^0^)/

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Nostalgia--Honeymoon at Liloan


We went to Liloan a day after our church wedding in the Philippines and stayed at Marine Village in which the owner of the resort happened to be a close family friend of ours. I wanted Yochan ( my husband ) to enjoy the beauty of the beaches in the Philippines and the place is just perfect for us to spend our honeymoon. We went through a private boat to the resort and the staff is friendly to tour us around the resort ( and it was his first time to know about the TIP thingy coz they don't give money to the staffs working in a hotel in Japan ), the food served is on buffet style ( our choice to have ) and my husband loves some pinoy foods ( as long as they're not seafoods ), then we strolled along the beach. We didn't do much activities like diving or snorkeling but we spoiled each others arms during our quick stay there and he told me that he's loving the Philippines! ( dapat lang coz I'm a pinay lol!) He went back 2 days after our honeymoon and waited for me in Japan after working for some important papers to be done.
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---Bongga Villa---



Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^

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Girl's Talk---Emotionally

I'm afraid of making this entry coz I don't post too much personal emotions ( except for what I feel about my kids and husband ) here at Kizuna most especially when I'm really, really down spirited. The thing is I don't want to be seen as emotionally distraught---I am a softie, but I don't want to be seen as one-- gusto ko yung nagpipigil ng luha at ayokong ipakita. I think I'm emotionally unhealthy--hinde ako yung tipong nagsasalita ng marami. I don't know why but I guess it's just me.

There was a time that I was so emotional ( I guess hinde ko na talaga nakayanan ), I called a friend but asked her not to ask a question but just let her stay beside me while I was crying like river--after an hour, I feel a lil bit lighter in the inside. She didn't ask, she cried for me,too but we didn't had an emotional conversation but it's enough for me to feel better knowing that she was there for me and faced tomorrow as if nothing happened. Thanked God for her..

It's not all roses but those bothersome times won't stay either. When it comes, let it pass. Tomorrow's a new day.

A friend of mine told me that and I do believe so....Tomorrow's a new day...

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HipHop has gone Wild Part VI

Yes yes yes, HipHop has gone wild & on an errant path. Today, before we get into it, I got a lil something that I gotta get offa my chest. Lately, after introducing myself as the Blak Smith, I get, what's ya real name? Let me tell y'all that if ya are a serious reader & been followin this blog a while, you should already know why I am OFFICIALLY named the Blaksmith! When I nearly died of malaria in Ghana, I said that I'll be Blaskmith with my PEEPO & ROTGUT SWAMPWATER to slave owners & those who think like 'em. Stop it with this immature shit of needin to know my REAL name & then usin it as a way to annoy my last fuckin nerve as it ain't funny. We all are guilty of a flaw & when I catch myself not likin something about somebody, I apologize as it ain't all about me. If you have a reason to know because you've shown yaself to be a true frend, then I'll tell you why I use MY name for me that I named for ME. Get busy or get lost as if you really concerned with BLAK peepo, you got WAY more shit to do than wonder about my birth given name. That's comin straight from the BLAKSMITH! Now let's get into why HipHop has Gone WILD Part VI!

Ok, we left off at Ms Donda West's death. This was the mom of everyman MC, Kanye West who died on the surgery table in CA on Nov 2 2007. This was a tragic loss for the young man & as his Graduation album was well let me see......coincidentally released on September 11th, 2007, Mr West must have been ridin high with his third # 1 album after goin on a head to head release battle with the newest jay-z, 50cent. Kanye was now on top of the game with his revelant "Diamonds are Forever." You see, even though jay is recognized as the greatest NOW, Kanye can claim more as he rhymes & produces & had his own #1 hits with jay on 'em. But let's go back a little: As I said in Part V, it was made to look like jigga agreed & backed Mr West on his statement about george bush. Goin into the future, we have to look at the policies that barry sortero has either kept OR increased that came from the administration before him. I BELIEVE as I cannot PROVE it but like any group that is fightin for LIBERTY, that kanye had to make the ultimate sacrifice by bein FORCED into it & this is where the wildcards that I spoke of earlier come in.

As I said previously in this series, the 1st person that I saw tackle this dynamic of the evils of the recordin industry was the Concious Rasta in his GREAT book, Rap HipHop & the New World Order at www.libradio.com. That book was written soon after another BS died as in Biggie Smalls who I already covered extensively. Check out all of the ill shit that happened to those involved in & around all of the mentioned peeps.

diddy - became THE PHENOMENA after killin the careers of almost everyone on his label whether it was by the NWO as in Clive Davis(his boss from Arista) or on his own.

Lance UN Rivera - talked about makin BIG moves in the industry after BIG died & basically disappeared.

the Lox - broke diddy's power base as they had a management deal OUTSIDE of diddy's in Ruff Ryder. Ironic how they were unable to unLOX the secret without losin they careers or RESPECT. I luv those dudes!

Lil Shawn - disappeared

Craig Mac - made BadBoy what it was & found GOD. Never was the same after BadBoy

DMX - no proof but believe that he was offered all that evil shit & kept finding God & drugs but not neccessarilly in that order. He is way past his prime, doesn't have a core audience & is now more known for his brushes with the law. If he can get it together, he can still have an actin career but that would put him back where he started with the evil forces he is trying to comabt. They tried to Michael VIC him in AZ.

Mason Bethea - had to leave NYC as he was about to get killed for playin his peepo in the music industry & soonafter found God. He then moved to the ATL & was mentored by his fellow MASON INITIATE, creflo dollar. These Preacher Nigga's is in this shit too as they HAD to make some RICH NIGGA'S possible to set y'all up for the comin of ya great SAVIOR, Barry Sortero. The FBI(Faith Based Initiatives) is a MF!Does anyone pay attention to his name?

Mary J Blige - was there & knows all of this shit & has been in the rooms as B.I.G was on her Real Luv Rmx before Uptown broke up. diddy represented a changin of the guard & was PUNCHED in the face by Grand Puba when this shit started becomin prevalent in the game. If y'all remember, MJB was a lil hoodrat from Schlobom Projects in Yonkers NY whose OTHER claim to fame was a near fight that she ALMOST had with Veronica Webb. She then represented misery & growth for a generation of women like Pac represented for young Blak youth in the hood. Her career goes on unabated.

Lil Kim - made a few albums, started doin the plastic surgery thing & was the only 1 lookin devestated at B.I.G's funeral. She too drank the Kool-Aid but I luv Lil Kim bcuz when a shootout happened at Hot97, she didn't rat on nobody tho it was all caught on film. She's confused, played out & Niki Minaj has now taken her spot as the #1 sexy BLAK it girl.

Jr Mafia - disappeared as they were really B.I.G's peepo but were largely seen as untalented. Pretty much, they all shitted on Kim durin the Hot 97 shootout trial & are estranged from her.

Old Dirty Bastard - the WILDEST card of 'em all & as said on the Wu-Tang's album, this was a man who had a style that could not be FATHERED. Though this has been told to me by an anonymous industry insider & I cannot verify it, some of the members of the Wu are also initiated in this shit. ODB was the kinda guy that one would never know if he was gonna show up & I've even seen him act up at parties while with 50 nigga's. I din't know the man personally but alot of peepo that I know that knew him used to tell me that when not drunk or high that he was a real coo dude. He prolly din't wanna get too involved with the same peepo who made Mariah Carey appear to be fuckin crazy & who diddy worked for after his biggest collabo, Fantasy. He said so himself at www.allhiphop.com/stories/rumors/archive/2007/11/13/18876049.aspx that bush was tryin to kill him & that he had to shake him. Check it out & see for yaself.

Michael Jackson - tho MJ doesn't figure in on all of this, MJ DOES figure in on all of this. It is now arguable that there is no contemporary artist ALIVE in their PRIME that is bigger than jay with the exception of the then MJ. Remember, MJ was on the warpath with the recording industry even calling another nwo member of the industry, tommy motolla, a DEVIL at sell-out, al sharpton's, national action network. Check that shit out at www.mtv.com/news/article/1455976/20020708/jackson_michael.jhtml as one in the know could write VOLUMES of BOOKS on that shit! That FUCKIN sell out ass al had the nerve to defend that devilish pig, tommy!!! WTF??? He's a snitch too!These very same peepo killed just about everyone who died quite UNNATURALLY since the Jimi Hendrix & janis joplin days. When 1 gets hip to the game & starts makin too much noise, they get ya!!!

So now that we went BLAK a lil, we can now open our minds to see where we at today. Because of a certain level of influence, they no longer kill the individual, they kill the FAMILY MEMBERS! I BELIEVE as I have no proof that the Kanye who said that bush don't care about BLAK peepo was compromised as they are limited to just HOW THEY kill you. r kelly's mom died early soonafter he hit big with Public Announcement. Nas's mom was dyin when jay snuck attacked him & jay took credit in resurrectin his career. Kanye's mom died after he din't suffer a sophomore jinx as Late Registration showed you that Diamonds are Forever. THEY HATE women & so aaliyah had to die. Are y'all gettin the picture here yet? This blood sacrifice shit is REAL MAN!

Now it's time for some real serious questions. Why does it seem that when BLAK males from the hood make it BIG in the music industry, they mama's die? In the case of r, his mom died soonafter his first group, Public Announcement came out with they first album, Born into the 90's. Can my Chi-Town peepo give me the lowdown on that? In Nas's case, jay chose to sneak attack him when his mom was dyin of cancer, the same thing that r's mom died from. Kanye gets an asterisk as he didn't come thru the usual channels & snuck in as a producer for the roc but nevertheless, she died much too early, somewhat like how MJ died with a BLAK doctor to conveniently blame & prosecute. Tho she is a yung female, jennifer hudson had to get her fam sacrificed too & what got my heart the most was when THEY found her young nephew decomposin in the car on that fateful Chicago day. We never heard a word from the supposed boyfrend & her sista, mother of the boy just wanted to move on, days after his burial. That shit is TOTALLY forgotten like magic johnson havin that AIDS(is a hoax) shit. As I've previously told y'all, when you get put on properlike, somone in ya fam gotta die if you gettin it in like that. Witness mike jordan & Bill Cosby's father & son's deaths almost the SAME WAY!! Poor mike wanted to retire from the NBA & Bill kept tryin to buy NBC. Them three letter entities is killa's yo!!! There are no coincidences. Witness how THEY FUCKED WITH Mike Jackson before THEY killed him! Witness what has become of Mike Tyson with his daughter dyin & them finally gettin oj pimpson. When Johnnie Cochrane was ready to do some REAL SHIT for BLAK peepo, THEY slow poisoned him with cancer & y'all can check the record on that. I hate when peepo ACT like BLAK peepo don't want better & when a job is announced for 25 peepo, 250 peepo show up & then THEY say that WE don't wanna work. SMMFH!!!!!!!!!

So when we here at black2afrika tell y'all shit like these guys are FORCED in against they will, we don't mean that they get a visit from known mob members threatenin 'em with eminent death. No, what we mean is that before you get too big for your britches & start feelin yourself, they start sendin messages. Remember, these peepo are all HANDLED as in, tourin, eatin food that they don't cook, given lotions, drugs are easily attainable & tainted & they can make you seem crazy if you don't drink the Kool Aid as in DMX, Lauryn Hill, Chris Brown, Dave Chappelle, Common & Andre 3000. They even gettin CERTAIN concious rappers/artists in there so watch who you followin my dude! Watch for glarin CONTRADICTIONS! They also keep a few nigga's onna radical fringe so as to get those easily duped, into formin coalitions so as to spy on these fringe groups from the inside. This is all to HEGELIAN! The media can make or break you & if you start, they gonna CATCH you fuckin up like they got eddie murphy with that dude/chick in his car who soonafter died of some mysterious causes. Most of us are guilty of something that we don't want the world to know about. Now that y'all know this, the next time one of us starts actin weird as in martin lawrence buggin out screamin about "they tryin to get me!" or Gary Coleman & we didn't protect him, it might cause you to think differently. We ain't quite finished with the very interesting Mr West just yet so hold on as things get more interesting in Part VII. Y'all know why. Well if you don't know, it's bcuz HipHop has gone WILD!!!!!!!!!

Couple's Corner--Our Different Talents

I don't know if I have talent--I used to dance at the centerstage and be on the spotlight but now I am dancing while vacuuming some house dust at every corner of the house lol! What else? I'm not a good writer kaya dinadaan ko na lang sa mga pics, not a good cook but I'm learning. I can't think of anything for myself but I guess I'm loving photography more. I'm a newbie in photography and I wanted to improve little by little so what I'm doing now is practice and take a shot of my kids as a subject.


My husband is the opposite of me--he's very good on numbers ( Wakaba is good on numbers,too. I bet she got it from her Dad ), an artist ( he's good on sketching or anything about crafts), a computer techie, a hands-on mechanic and knows about tools or anything on cars. He has a passion on cars and he's enhancing his driving skills on car race practices at the circuit. He also had a good sense of humor and I am his number one fan lol!

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PBW---Janome Beach

---Aquamarine Fukushima's 10th!---

Aquamarine Fukushima celebrates their 10th Anniversary last Saturday and grabbed the opportunity to make it to the event coz it is summer time and we want Wakaba and Haruka to have a load of fun this summer vacation and yes, we all had a blast! After watching the aquarium ( this time, they're really quick of the tour at the aquarium lol) we stayed at the Janome Beach ( manmade shore) wherein they can touch and observe living creatures at the mudflats, rocks and sandy beach inside Aquamarine Fukushima. Another fun family adventures and I love it!!\(^0^)/

---Haruka with a big smile---
---My girls---
---bonding with my kids is my joy---
---Yours trully and Wakaba---

Have a nice week ahead to everybody!!
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HipHop has gone WILD part V

Yeah, we in here & lately, I the BS don't have much time for BS if ya smell what I'm cookin. All of you who hate on me know that the lite shines THRU me, illuminatin me as I stay on this quest to live to be 100 tho I luv DEATH! Above death, I luv my peepo so all of y'all concerned about my health & well bein need not be overly concerned. In all ways possible, I know that the DEVIL is tryin to shut me down & I've been accused of everything such as bein a spy & all that there & ya need to check my archives to see wat I mean BUT THEY won't stop me from tellin the TRUTH. Life is too important to me to lie to y'all & instead of gettin all emotional about wat I write, ask yaself, "what am I goin to do about it?" There is so much to do & not all requires money though that helps. If ya see me in the streets, holla at me & give me some dough, DISCREETLY. I won't refuse it but I ain't askin either! We still livin in a 3D world where all is material but get ready to ELEVATE ya SOUL. We speakin to you & when I say we, I got my ANCESTORS with me & so if ya send me to another realm, I'll still be there CHILLIN, watchin you! Let's get it in now!

Kanye West, producer/rhymer/actor/fashion plate/character extraordinaire outta Chicago. Kanye in Swahili means the ONLY ONE & I was quite surprised to learn that he was born in Atlanta GA on June 8th 1977. Tho his PARENTS divorced while he was very young, he moved on with his mom to Chicago & spent the summers with his dad. His parents were very well respected peepo who gave the young Kanye a sense of worth as his mom was an English professor & his dad was a church counselor. Unlike most rappers who make it, he did not have a street pedigree & therefor as I've stated several times, peepo in the industry didn't want to give him a shot. He pretty much covered that whole time in his song, "Last Call." But the Kanye that I grew to luv came about in the early days when he was speedin up samples as in H to the Izzo. We were all hearin the name tossed around in regards to his production skills BUT who was this upstart from the CHI puttin in mad work with the Roc Family? We soon found out when he had that accident after a studio session in CA. Soonafter, he made, "Thru the Wire" & the rest as they say was HISTORY. His College Dropout album was leaked(probably by Kanye himself) & he retooled it, remastered it, releasin it in February 2004 on the roc-a-fella records. Slow Jamz was the REAL JUMPOFF as everyone could relate & All Falls Down which shoulda had Lauren Hill on it, was the third single but label politics prevented that. But JESUS WALKS???? OMG, that rite there was the JAM & I had just came BLAK from Afrika after my near death experience with malaria in Ghana. Just comin outta that, INSPIRED the FUCK outta me & when I heard it, I knew that this dude was here to stay. WOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

This is who I WANT to think Kanye is! This was the first mainstream major label album from an MC in a long time that impressed me. Man, this dude had songs about drivin slow & gettin 'em high that could go anywhere AND an assortment of MC's from BOTH sides of the game. Everybody was FEELIN this dude & the ROC Fam actually had someone who was JUST as COMMERCIALLY VIABLE as the jiggaman whom as I mentioned earlier, don't like competition. Amerikans luv rags to riches stories & Kanye had the perfect story without havin been shot or jailed. He was in a near death accident & I believe this PROPELLED his story to the forefront as well as his previous production on jigga's tracks & then......the College Dropout dropped. Arguably speakin, the wackest song on the album, Never Let me Down features the jigga man probably because he thought the album wouldn't pop off. Ayo fuck wat ya heard but that album was one of the best of the 00's at least in my humbe opinion. Before y'all start thinkin that I hate jigga, in my OPINION, he is a very good rapper but Kanye was hittin dimensions akin to the Native Tongues & groups from that bygone era. Those Native Tongues were started off by the Jungle Brothers who not only STARTED the CONCIOUS ERA in HipHop but spawned plenty of like acts the most popular bein a Tribe called Quest. I was feelin All Falls Down & Jesus Walks because Kanye was speakin about BOTH sides of bein Blak & I BELIEVE because he came from a BALANCED BLAKground that he was what HipHop needed & that jay had other plans in store. Remember now, we talkin about someone from the Chi & how instrumental that year was for that city. A pretty much unheard of dude by the name of Obama had his keynote speech there that year that PROPELLED him into the National public eye & who is his favorite rapper?

"George Bush doesn't care about Black People!" Those words were first heard on 9/2/2005 in reference to Hurricane Fema that pretty much destroyed the US Gulf Coast. Fema didn't do shit to New Orleans-the failed levees did that! That was the quote heard around the world & personally, I BELIEVE that 98% of Them can't stand US anyway.`Look up a DEVIL named gunnar myrdal for confirmation of this but just to give you a lil something, he was quoted as saying that the "negro problem is the white mans problem." Boy, here go Kanye again with that Blak Shit & even jigga was heard to have supported him but.......did he really? We already have been versed in that jigga is a snitch/informant. I already told y'all that all drug dealers are INFORMANTS. To do something immediately would mean that eyes were watchin like CBS. To not support his producer/artist would look like not bein non-loyalty unlike Memphis Bleek who will always be a millionaire as long as jay is alive. But if you believe that jigga is part of the nwo/illuminati or whatever, who is he really loyal to?

November 10 2007, Donda West, Kanye's mom dies due to complications from cosmetic surgery. This was totally out of the blue & this where things get really MURKY & muddled. As I see it, this is where the unravelling of Mr Kanye West begins. Y'all gotta stay tuned as there is much more to come.

-More of HipHop has gone WILD(Part VI) comin soon-

Mommy Moments--Park Day

---Futatsunuma Koen---



Spending time at the park is one of our Family Fun Day and when the sun is out, we would spend a day having fun, eat lunch with my homemade bentou ( lunch box ) and running around with our kids. At the park we let our kids to have around unlimited fun but kids are still kids, they sometimes get cranky when it's time for us to go home lol! This is where our family spend our family park day during the weekend, we all had a goodtime and aside playing with the playground, the space there is huge where we can also do badminton, soccer, dodge ball ( we always bring our game stuffs with us most especially balls ) and then had some ice cream and a lot of laughters. For a nature lover like us, the park has greens to cherish--all you have to do is just spread your leisure sheet and relax! And hey, it's F-R-E-E!! ^_^ Sharing the photos taken last weekend--enjoy!


---An all-time fave, Air Dome---

---Wakaba, having a good time---

---Ice cream delight---

---Us, sitting in peace while keeping an eye with the kids---



---Wakaba is growing up so fast but not too old to still want to hold my hands----



It's getting hotter this summer so be sure to bring water and a lot of sunscreen! Have a nice weekend to everybody and enjoy your summer!! ^_^



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