Ask Zulehan stuff

[Amissapanda]

Wow, you have a lot of pets! (And such cuties.)

Adopted from shelter, found as strays, gotten from a friend/acquaintance, bred, or what method did they all come into your home?

 

[FireNinja1]

Ask for ask: Do you like waffles?

 

[ellabella12345]

Do you like lunch or dinner better?

 

[Zulehan]

Wow, you have a lot of pets! (And such cuties.)

Adopted from shelter, found as strays, gotten from a friend/acquaintance, bred, or what method did they all come into your home?

Hey, Amissapanda.

Several of them were given to me by neighbors, but most were strays. In fact, Felix, the orange and white one, used to come over to dig in the trash, and now he is comfortable enough to roll on his back and run inside the house.

Ask for ask: Do you like waffles?

Hey, FireNinja.

I shall gladly reciprocate.

And yes, waffles are life. Chocolate, cinnamon, yogurt, strawberries, and peaches. Toasted, crunchy, Belgian.

Do you like lunch or dinner better?

I more often eat a 'proper' meal by dinner time, so I suppose that. The problem is I tend to study, work, and head out in the morning and afternoon, and evening is the sit back and relax period.

Thank you for the questions.

 

[ellabella12345]

Nice nice C: Fav type of dinner?

 

[Radda]

Do you like affection?

 

[Zulehan]

Nice nice C: Fav type of dinner?

Trader Joe's sells a mean meat lasagna. Just found that out for dinner last night. I would make my own lasagna, but was not in a cooking mood last night.

Hope you had a good dinner last night, too.

Do you like affection?

Yes. In fact, I am up for a hug right now.

 

[Radda]

If I could hug you I would but I can't.Maybe hug your cats? c:

 

[Zulehan]

Finally, there is my other spoiled house cat, Howl:

As a bump for my topic, trivia about my cat, Howl: He meows for cat food and rubs the cat food bag... and cat food is right there in the bowl.

 

[ellabella12345]

Ever been stung by a bee?

 

[Zulehan]

Ever been stung by a bee?

Many years ago: I was walking home from school when I came across an angry swarm living on a tall, thick, old tree. I was more annoyed than anything else, and picked up the pace while swatting them away. Fortunately, I had no allergic reaction.

 

[starlark]

Do you like ube?
(I think that's how it's spelt)

 

[Zulehan]

Do you like ube?
(I think that's how it's spelt)

My like for ube cannot be avoided, since my mom used to get ube products all the time at Vietnamese and other stores. Ube ice cream and ube bread were two of my favorites. In fact, my trip to the Philippines made ube unavoidable. For instance, Mang Inasal, a Filipino restaurant that serves chicken, included an ube ice cream dessert as part of the order.

As indicated, even here in San Bernardino, California, it is easy to get ube products, as there are a lot of Filipinos and peoples of other Asian backgrounds. A particular favorite is a local Filipino bakery that sells an entire ube loaf.

And here is one ube product I would really like to try:



Ube cheesecake, oh my God.

Thank you for the question!

 

[starlark]

My like for ube cannot be avoided, since my mom used to get ube products all the time at Vietnamese and other stores. Ube ice cream and ube bread were two of my favorites. In fact, my trip to the Philippines made ube unavoidable. For instance, Mang Inasal, a Filipino restaurant that serves chicken, included an ube ice cream dessert as part of the order.

As indicated, even here in San Bernardino, California, it is easy to get ube products, as there are a lot of Filipinos and peoples of other Asian backgrounds. A particular favorite is a local Filipino bakery that sells an entire ube loaf.

And here is one ube product I would really like to try:

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Ube cheesecake, oh my God.

Thank you for the question!

Ah, Mang Inasal. I like that place, it serves traditional Filipino food, although me being the picky eater I am can't stand eating more than rice and some pancit. Sucks, Filipino food smells really good but I can't stand meat there after seeing the methods some people go to to ensure their free range livestock is ready for everyone to eat. *retches*

That looks sooo tasty! I've only ever tried ube ice cream on its own, or with halo-halo it's SO delicious! It's not exactly sweet but it's got that nutty tang to it I can't resist x)

 

[Zulehan]

Ah, Mang Inasal. I like that place, it serves traditional Filipino food, although me being the picky eater I am can't stand eating more than rice and some pancit. Sucks, Filipino food smells really good but I can't stand meat there after seeing the methods some people go to to ensure their free range livestock is ready for everyone to eat. *retches*

That looks sooo tasty! I've only ever tried ube ice cream on its own, or with halo-halo it's SO delicious! It's not exactly sweet but it's got that nutty tang to it I can't resist x)

You just had to go and mention halo-halo* and pancit; now I am hungry. By the way, the latter specifically made me think of pancit palabok, which I have not made in a long time (the following picture for the benefit of readers who may not be as familiar with Filipino cuisine as we are):



Mine is made differently from the one in the picture. For instance, the egg would be ground up, and so would the pork rind, and there would be a lot of bean sprouts.

* For those reading this unfamiliar with the term, it is not 'hey low,' but HA! l?, the latter sounding similar to low-ugh, with the h being a sudden stop and click of the throat... yeah, hard to explain.

 

[Lock]

Ah man... a couple months ago, my mom gave my kid ube ice cream for the first time and he loved it. For a while she wouldn't stop buying it for him. As a kid I use to despise anything purple, so she was excited when he ate two bowls lol. I think it took me 20 years to get over the purple thing.

But! I came to this thread to ask a question. (Just so happens everyone was talking about Filipino food and my mom is super Filipina.)

I've been holding onto several summer collectibles cause I didn't want to sell them during the event (it seemed like everyone ran out of tbt when that was going on) But I was thinking of selling maybe one or two... but I dunno if I should just wait longer.

Do you think it's a good time to sell em? or should I give it more time?

 

[Zulehan]

Hey, Lockfancy. Not sure if you have questioned me before, but thank you for joining the topic.

Ah man... a couple months ago, my mom gave my kid ube ice cream for the first time and he loved it. For a while she wouldn't stop buying it for him. As a kid I use to despise anything purple, so she was excited when he ate two bowls lol. I think it took me 20 years to get over the purple thing.

Oh, my, I hope the despising of purple was not due to some horrible experience.

But! I came to this thread to ask a question. (Just so happens everyone was talking about Filipino food and my mom is super Filipina.)

For some reason I suspect she may have been urging you to eat more fish, and in doing so would go on and on about the virtues of fish. If she did, she is exactly like my mom. (Not that I did not eat enough fish; in fact, me and her ate a lot, but she was constantly disappointed with other family members, and would rant about it to me, heh.)

I've been holding onto several summer collectibles cause I didn't want to sell them during the event (it seemed like everyone ran out of tbt when that was going on) But I was thinking of selling maybe one or two... but I dunno if I should just wait longer.

Do you think it's a good time to sell em? or should I give it more time?

I am probably not the best person to ask, since instead of selling them I gave them away to new members, friends, and anyone who I thought helped out around the community. Besides the Popsicle and Ice Cream Swirl I am displaying right now, I have one more Ice Cream Swirl.

And that after I started with about a dozen each, at least.

At this point, it seems the price has stabilized; it is locked at the mid to high 200 TBT Bells range. I am not sure how much more valuable they would get over the months, especially as... was it 500 of each summer collectible sold? I know a lot of Easter eggs were sold, too, and initially became more valuable before sinking again to what I am supposing is their all time low.

Unfortunately, my memory is not long enough to recall 'market' trends for collectibles at this forum.

If you think the current prices for summer collectibles will not get notably higher in the near future, I see no problem in selling, though I suppose part of my question is if you are urgently trying to raise TBT Bells now for a TBT event coming in the near future. If you are not particularly in a rush, I might hold onto them longer.

In any case, I believe the best advice I can give is to ask people like Lassy, Sholee, and Callaway, who are far more invested in the TBT collectibles 'market,' and whose memories are much longer than mine. Also, I do not believe these members would try to swindle you out of collectibles, unlike a few active collectibles buyers I have in mind.

Thank you for the question!

 

[Lock]

I enjoy this thread actually. Before I ended up resetting my main town, I'd occasionally catch up in the Basement so I use to read through yer Q&A. I enjoy yer fresh take on subjects.

I actually don't have a reason for purple phase. My mom use to tell me that I only liked green when I was younger, but I can't remember that either. Although, I noticed that I do have a habit of buying green products without realizing it.

Oh man the fish.... Twice a year the Filipino clan comes to visit my mom from Canada and the entire time they're here they go fishing. At one point, my mom had two deep freezers in her garage just to make sure she could store it all. Eating a lot of fish didn't bother me until the later parts of elementary school... One day some girl pointed out that I had a fish head in my lunch and proceeded to scream while 'telling' on me. I think that was the point in my life where I started to boycott my mom's food haha

I mostly get the lecture about rice and how I don't eat enough of it. When we moved into our house, my mom gave me three rice cookers. I totally get the disappointment rants lmao

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I'm not well versed in the tbt marketplace so I figured I'd ask you in case you had some references I could go with. (and luckily you've pointed me in the right direction) I've been tipping cyclers for any animals I pick up for my new town, but with each adoption, I was running low on tbt and couldn't tip as well as I wanted.

But I was thinking that the holidays are coming up so maybe I should have some sort of tbt stock for that. I haven't been on here long enough to know how the holidays work, so this is gunna be new to me. My alternative was to have a sort of giveaway in my second town that would require people to pay like 20 tbt for five minutes. I had about 500 items buried around that town for it, but then my brother asked me for the kangaroos and then I ended up resetting my main town. (tough month for me and ACNL)

I just don't want to come off as greedy, but it would be nice not to be broke haha
I guess I'm trying to be 'safe' in the sense that I won't be selling on top of a bizillion other sellers.

 

[Zulehan]

I enjoy yer fresh take on subjects.

Thank you.

I actually don't have a reason for purple phase. My mom use to tell me that I only liked green when I was younger, but I can't remember that either. Although, I noticed that I do have a habit of buying green products without realizing it.

Yeah, I bet we all have tendencies that go unnoticed. For instance, I never noticed that almost every song I listen to has piano until my brother, who is a pianist, pointed it out to me. Now it makes sense how I tend to choose musicians.

Oh man the fish.... Twice a year the Filipino clan comes to visit my mom from Canada and the entire time they're here they go fishing. At one point, my mom had two deep freezers in her garage just to make sure she could store it all. Eating a lot of fish didn't bother me until the later parts of elementary school... One day some girl pointed out that I had a fish head in my lunch and proceeded to scream while 'telling' on me. I think that was the point in my life where I started to boycott my mom's food haha

First of all, it only gets 'worse' if you go to the Philippines. Every shop you go to will have fish. No two ways about it. Go into a Filipino restaurant that does not have a food dish with fish, and there is (excuse the pun) something fishy going on.

Secondly, ah, the wanting to fit in: It is why I stopped speaking Ilonggo at an early age. In other words, the Irish-American teachers would not have it, and were sure in their heart of hearts that I was cursing them up a storm in my foreign tongue. Fortunately, I still speak and understand it, though do not tell my family in the Philippines that: I prefer they think I only speak English. That way I can hear more than would otherwise be revealed.

I mostly get the lecture about rice and how I don't eat enough of it. When we moved into our house, my mom gave me three rice cookers. I totally get the disappointment rants lmao

Three rice cookers. That is the amount sitting in my mom's kitchen. I gifted her a fourth not knowing there were already three. Then there is the collection in her garage, too.

I'm not well versed in the tbt marketplace so I figured I'd ask you in case you had some references I could go with. (and luckily you've pointed me in the right direction) I've been tipping cyclers for any animals I pick up for my new town, but with each adoption, I was running low on tbt and couldn't tip as well as I wanted.

But I was thinking that the holidays are coming up so maybe I should have some sort of tbt stock for that. I haven't been on here long enough to know how the holidays work, so this is gunna be new to me. My alternative was to have a sort of giveaway in my second town that would require people to pay like 20 tbt for five minutes. I had about 500 items buried around that town for it, but then my brother asked me for the kangaroos and then I ended up resetting my main town. (tough month for me and ACNL)

I was thinking of having someone pay TBT Bells to weed my whole cycling town and pick up his Weeding Day item, but have not done that yet. In fact, had someone over today weeding the whole town for free. Not a very profitable weeding business I am running.

Anyways, I just make the TBT Bells by selling 'tier 1' villagers, and relying on donations. In regards to donations, I refer to many different sources, but in regards to villagers, I have gotten many hundreds of TBT Bells for low tier villagers, especially 'tier 5,' indicating to me that those villagers are so hard to come by that the members adopting them are mega-grateful. Yeah... members adopting low tier villagers have by far been the most generous.

Oh! Holding villagers. I have a spare cartridge. Tried holding two villagers, and got 500 TBT Bells total. Pain in the rear second time getting a villager 'in boxes,' though.

I just don't want to come off as greedy, but it would be nice not to be broke haha
I guess I'm trying to be 'safe' in the sense that I won't be selling on top of a bizillion other sellers.

Yeah, I have the same concern: not wanting to be the greedy, but also not wanting to be broke. I started off giving 'tier 1' villagers away for free, but realized I need a steady way of making 'income' on this forum, so decided on a rule: all villagers free except 'tier 1.' No matter how popular a villager of any other tier is, 'tier 1' is the cut-off for payment.

Definitely not as many people selling the summer collectibles right now, so I do not think this is the worst time to sell them, certainly.

 

[Lock]

haha my husband lived with me at my parents while we were saving up money to buy our house. I'll always remember him commenting that he had never seen so much fish/rice/idontenoughknowwhatthatis. He didnt believe me when I explained what balut was. So I showed it to him and he told me to go give the poor thing a proper burial. So he went to find a shoebox and while he was gone, my mom ate it XD

(oh lawd, I have so many stories about fish and rice: )
When my mom's family came to visit us briefly a couple months back, I found out that they were only excited that we had an avocado tree in our front yard. (So it was the only reason they came to see my new house.) The entire time they kept telling me how expensive they were and how I shouldn't leave them on the ground. At some point our neighbors went outside to get the mail and saw four SUVs worth of filipinos desperately trying to pick avocados and yelling at each other. Then they all piled into their cars (taking my kid with them) to go to theme parks and fishing. But before they left they gave me a plate of fish and rice and my neighbor was like, "did you just sell yer kid for that?"

I was never taught my mom's language nor have I ever been to the Philippines. My brother and I always had to deal with conflicting opinions from family members about being Americanized. I also went to a Roman Catholic school where my brother and I were like two of the four Asians in the entire school, so we were constantly dealing with kids being confused (and therefore confusing us.) I use to get in trouble a lot actually for imitating things my mom would do and apparently that wasn't normal behaviors for my classmates. XD It wasn't til I got older that I started to embrace what my mom's all about cause I realized she misses her country and it takes a lot to be far from "home." We ended up moving when I was in high school though, but it ended up the town my dad got transferred to has this enormous Filipino community. So my mom has been a lot easier to manage since lolz.

What part of the Philippines have you been to? I'm always told theres a mall with a giant roller coaster. I dunno why but that always sticks with me every time someone says "Philippines" so I prolly need to go to get a better mental description...

The funny thing about them having boatloads of rice cookers is that they will always find a way to be able to use ALL of them.

If theres not a holiday coming up they'll just make up some reason to cook food all day and sing karaoke.

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Ah man! I was actually thinking of paying someone to let me weed. Like that was a real thing I was considering two days ago. Since I had to reset my town I've been trying to get all the badges back. Luckily the weeding badge is easier to get then some of them. I'm dreading getting all the bug/fish/sea creatures all over again... Also the fact that you are letting people weed for free seems more like community service than a business. Not that helping people with their resumes is a bad thing. (looking at the bright side)

I looked up the list of prices for collectibles and I'm gunna attempt to sell like three... I did price them on the higher end, but at least that way if no one buys them I'll be able to keep them. I added in the option to buy in game bells, even though I dread dropping millions. I always seem to get my tbt that way.. I dunno why but I realized how much I suck in the tbt marketplace.

My friend tried to sell tier ones a while back, but I think it was during the tbt depression so thats prolly why no one was buying them. As of this point I've just been giving tier ones away just because of what happened with her not being able to sell hers.