Photos from my visit to Harlem Irving Plaza (mostly referred to it’s initials, HIP) in Norridge, IL, a suburban city of Chicago.

Shot from my visit to GameStop, Target, Food Court, and halfway of the mall.

If you Nintendo fans and video gamers living in this local, you’re lucky, Target, Best Buy, and GameStop are 3 major retailers in 1 place and shopping mall for your video gaming needs.

Harlem Irving Plaza

GameStop

Target

Popeyes

Dippin' Dots

This shopping mall opened in 1956. I went here for my first time in 2009. This shopping mall has a standalone Dippin’ Dots location, as I went here for my birthday coupon. They used to have a Subway and Great Steak in the food court, all of them have since closed. Disney Store also had a location here too, that also apparently closed down around 2013-2014. It also the only shopping mall in the state with a Popeyes in the food court.

Shot from my lunch time, Western BBQ ‘n Bacon Steakburger Combo Meal with a free birthday milkshake (I had the limited time flavor, White Chocolate made by Ghirardelli). 

Also, my first visit for this year in 2023.

Tonight, here's the new rebrand and cover for my arts, entertainment, popular culture, and new, theme parks brand! 😀

Also, I'm opening art commissions soon, stay tuned for more info! 😀

Photo from around lunch time. I went to Olive Garden for my birthday lunch and I had the new Chicken Marsala Fettuccine. For my birthday coupon, I got a free dessert and had the Chocolate Lasagna.

Well, it's my birthday today! 😀

Proud to be an artist, arts, art designer, cartoonist, collage maker, video gamer (mostly with Nintendo, as I grew up with playing video games from the company and their franchises like Super Mario and the Super Smash Bros. series), entertainment (popular culture), theme parks, voice acting (mostly with Tara Strong, Grey DeLisle, Tom Kenny, and Eric Bauza), and nostalgia (mostly with VeggieTales and Chuck E. Cheese, as I grew up with these) superfan! 😀

Speaking of me getting into the entertainment media industry, I would love to join SAG-AFTRA in the future, so that I could hire unionized members of SAG-AFTRA to do a voiceover role for my future cartoon, video games, and other media (as cartoons airing on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Nick Jr., PBS Kids, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, and Apple TV uses mostly unionized members of SAG-AFTRA from Los Angeles, CA).

As I'm entering a new rebrand, and my birthday is this Thursday on January 19th, here's my new profile icon! 😀

Mario deserves Canadian candies (Smarties and Kit Kat (Canada/International)).

The candies I brought from my visit to Canada back in December of 2022 last month.

Yes, speaking as a Filipino-American based in the US, the Smarties candies exclusively sold in Canada and internationally like in Europe, is not available in the US. It’s also the name of the tablet candies sold here in the US. In Canada, it is known as Rockets there.

My favorite moments from tonight’s new episode of The Really Loud House with Luan and Leni talk bubbly to each other, and the second one with Luan in her beautiful yellow sparkling long sleeve shirt! 😀

Photo from my visit to Benihana, and my first visit for this year in 2023.

Yes, looks like I bought Mario (in his wedding outfit from Super Mario Odyssey) and Lincoln with me.

If you guys are familiar with the Japanese steakhouse company (if you live in larger metropolitan cities like Chicago (where I’m based), New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Orlando, Miami, Washington, DC, Dallas, and others, I highly recommend going to there, also for special occasions like I used one for my $30 birthday coupon already today.

As I saw one of my favorite animation, anime, and video game-based voice actresses, Jessica DiCicco's Instagram story, she was revealed that she is voicing the Yellow Toad in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Yes, I'm proud of her doing voiceover based on one of my favorite Nintendo video game franchises, Super Mario! 😀

Yes, as a voice acting, Loud House, and Nintendo superfan, who has a Nintendo Switch, where Jessica has done video game voiceover work. Recently, she did the voice of Chuckie Finster, and reprised the role of Lucy Loud House on the game I'm currently playing for the Nintendo Switch, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway.