FIRST WEEK BACK | SUBJECTS | N2

heyhey, 

this post will be mainly comprised of life updates and less of food but yeahhhh lets get on with it! 

so first week back at school was a blur. 

• timetable was okay but not so good
• fell asleep in modern on day two
• fell asleep in english on day three - tried so hard to stay awake obviously couldn't even though the talk was really interesting 

but really- biggest thing was dropping out of 3 unit English. I have honestly been thinking about this for the past term after deciding to do 11 units but this holidays for me was spent on 3u english so much that I felt like i understood the unit so well and I liked my related text and it just feels like I could do so well. Plus I had Cathy who tutored me and I liked her approach to teaching and just feel so comfortable and at ease about the unit. 

But then someone else dropped it and told me the 'logic' to it. and I don't usually follow people's thinking and get swayed so easily but then i understood that there really was no point to doing the unit. 

i initially chose it as a 'safety net' unit to my other units. I was going pretty well at english to begin with from last year so I thought that if I was to flunk out on any subject, english might pull me up. But thinking about it again, if I really desperately want a 99+ i gotta do well for all my subjects regardless so in a way, I really don't have a safety net with that 1 unit. 

so even though i enjoy it, why waste time when I already have modern, textiles and 4u maths. 

so yeah, went to see harrison and changed and told cathy who was really supportive but arghh!

I don't know why but I'm feeling both good and bad at the same time. 

But yeah- knew that i'd be feeling shit today so went out in the arvo with the others to get N2.

best fucking decision ever. 

my babies

so we got the 

FERRERO REVEAL ($8) - left- fucking beauty the gelato had nuts in it and its dipped with a top layer of choco & nuts like ferrero roche style with a syringe with choc ganash on it and a wafer 

ICED LEMON CHOINESE TEA SORBET ($6) - middle- it melted quickly because of the weather but it was so refreshing huehuehue

MATCHA ARUKI ($6)- right- green tea gelato with red bern omfg yes

so the two $6 flavours were specials because of Chinese New Year so that was pretty cool, and most of the shops around the city had special CNY stands so it just makes it a whole lot cooler. 

EXCITED TO GO OUT ON SUNDAY NIGHT FOR MORE CNY FESTIVITIES!

but yeah, now gotta prep for tmrs 6hrs of maths with terry lee or another 3 fucking terms cry. 

SCHOOL | LUNCH HOPPING | DRINK DRANK DRUNK

• last free day before the real torture starts 
• instead of staying at home and doing last minute work I spent the morning at school- while school has not even started yet 
• me, xin, michelle went to school a day before to sew 



cutie hehehe

• got most of the work that i planned on doing done woooot
• went back and met chen at central then went to chur burger 
• ermegawd yum
• so we got the beef cheese burger with the tomato jam, mustard mayo and pickles that was $10 like soooo friggin cheap 

• sweet potato fries $8

• hopped to newtown and went to black star pastry 
• yuuum
• yuuuum
• yuuuuuum
• got the lemon and pistacchio and also watermelon rose cakes

lemme just give you a zoom

• came back chilled, tinas friend came over and gave me wine 
• hehehehe good night

charlie & co | happylab | messina

was ppose to post this 2 weeks ago, but drafted it instead so here: 

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hey y'all
I haven't really done much today, so this post will pretty much be the most productive thing i've done hahahas. 

today me and tina decided to go out and have some sister bonding time in the city cause we espeicially wanted to check out sydney festival at hyde park(especially the rekorderlig booth hahahs). but what was an aimless walk around qvb stocking up on lush and happylab saw us walking to hyde park hungry and desperately for food- then walking out in disappointment as we realised that sydney fest starts at 4.30pm and now 3 hours beforehand. 

so we ate our sadness away with charlie & co. burgers at westfield sydney!

Had to add this pic in cause the fries were too photogenic

me and tina were initially thinking of food hopping, so we'd only order a person's share of food at charlie & co. and grab the rest at someplace else. But urrrrrgh was this so filling and delicious. 

we chose their roadside chicken burger (panko-herb crumbed free-range chicken breat with mixed lead lettuce, rippened tomato and aioli) which was friggin amazing from the first bite. with that, we had parmesan and truffle fries which left us feeling full, satistified, and flabby at the same time.

 Although we didn't have any space left for lunch hopping, we were still keen on desert. So we walked around to museum, caught a bus, and walked for 10minutes all the way to Gelato Messina at Darlinghurst. But it was all worth it.

 We ended trying Blood Orange sorbet and two seasonal flavours: Lychee Martini Sorbet and Alfajores. FUAAAARKING good. the lychee is perfect for just too many ways and the atmosphere itself is adorbs and warm (your server would give you samples non stop) 

Then we went next door and had cake HAHAHAHS

Here "My Big Fat Green Paddlepop" which was like a green paddlepop ( made of white choc) followed by the flavours Cucumber $ Lime, Yoghurt and Blood Orange. 

THAT SEEMS TO BE IT! PRODUCTIVITY x10000

TEA CEREMONIES | SANGRIA | FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO BACKWARDS

• had tutoring with cathy. cathy > aaron omg shes so nice i can't believe i only properly talked til now
• 3u english is killing me though
• afterwards came to chens - went to get pizza and made sangria with sarah & maddie 
• my sangria taste nice- SUCCESSSS
• discovered my love for almond milk 
• all day eryday almond milk 
• chen's dad taught me how to properly pour chinese tea with the full chinese tea set hehehehehe 
• made nutella crepes but it doesnt taste like the ones at town hall 
• lazily chilled, and thats why this song totally suits the mood of today 

going back to school tomorrow to get on with my textiles. i'm so fucked and so tired i think i've already burnt out hahahas. 

but weirdly i'm excited to go back. can't wait for my frees to go out and eat, sleep, chill HAHAHAHHAS. 

i really want this year to be great- regardless of mark i just want to do my best and feel proud of myself for trying and not necessarily being the best out of the best. 

so here's my school/hsc year resolution

• do maths everyday without fail- no falling asleep in kalinas class anymore! 
• modern history- do much better, talk to ms cooke. show lunney that no im better than 20/25 and keep being ranked 2nd overall
• English- be betterpls
• textiles- do good. stay on my game. 
• umat drills every night 
• stay on top of terry lee

is this too much to ask? argh. workwrokworkworkowkorw

ICE SKATING | FESTIVAL | JAPFOOD

Reaaaally good day today.
A couple of us went out for our last fun trip before hsc year.
Firstly went ice skating and faced my biggest fear. Have not gone back to that place ever since year 6 and fell on my butt and spent the whole time on the wall.
So at first it was fucking hideous and then it got better and ended up being able to skate off the wall solo for a while hahahahas. didn't fall off my buuuuttt! i think thats all that matters HAHAHAHS. 

Then went to sydney fest at hyde park at the messina stall. Sooo fucking good omfg.

So we got the Twist Hot Dog, which was: a milk chocolate gelato hot dog, served in a warm finger bun with essential condiments passionfruit 'mustard', raspberry 'ketchup' and buttercream 'mayo', and coconut 'onions'. It was okay, we didn't like it much hahas. 

Messinaweiner (Pluto Pup)- baton of mapon syrup gelato coated in pancake batter, deep fried and crispy- dipper in plum sauce. 

Soooo fucking good omfg i saw this on a blog and made a mental reminder to get it. sososos good. 

GELATOFFEE APPLES- green apple sorbet, with a caramel milk chocolate glazed candy apple red finish 

Soooo good too! its hard to bite in cause its so cold but yeah so good speechless. 

EYESCREAM LOLLYPOPS- redskin, banana and pop rocks. 

So if you don't know me I'm a sucker for pop rocks and this is just totally awesome. The lollypop looks real good with its pink/yellow swirl and at the back there's a plate of banana pop rocks which is just superb. 

Then went to Kansai and did the all you can eat and had so much sushi and just died in ecstasy. So yeah, don't expect a good pic cause everyone was eatting so much we didn't have a chance to take any ahahahs. this all you can eat 'buffet' isn't like any other normal buffet you'd go to where you'd come out to a stalls of food and pick your portions. It works like a normal restaurant where you'd order plates that have a set price. Yet if you get the $29.50 buffet option you can pretty order as much as you want. overall, pretty good. I've been eatting clean and smaller portions for the last few weeks so i was pretty full by the halfway mark but still kept eatting cause there's so much food and the group wanted to eat more than our price's worth. 

( 6 kids = $180 omfg) 

 their sushi is nice but they overprice every dish, which makes you think that you're eatting more than you paid when it's really not true. For example, one sushi roe nigiri (which tasted crap) was $3 for one! like one piece of cut up sushi roll. so yeah, pretty smart of them. 

Other than the sushi roe nigiri and some soba noodles with the sauce that taste like water, everything was real good ( especially their 'spider' sushi set (crab inside out sushi) ) 

First time in a while i actually went in a food coma where i felt so sleepy on the train and had a food 'walk of shame' to the car. (when you feel bloated and have a food baby)

 Going back home to figure out tina had apple cider for me hehehehehehe.

Good daaaaaay :))

MARKETS | SHOPPING | AWKSIES

• went out with the crew to a good day of market frolicking
• planned to go to glebe markets but ended up at the rocks market
• eeeeeh wasn't that good. Only ended up tasting food and buying nougat
• butterbeer shaved ice was goood
• mark wilkinson songs like a fucking angel 
• watched street performances and drank 'original lemonade'
• caught a train to town hall and ate sushi train omg looove my sushi
• went shopping around
• went to revlon which had a 'buy anything and get a 99$ gift pack for free"
• bought 12$ worth of shit got so much free shit
• went a got 'gimme brow' from benefit. it was expensive for a small thing but it felt right and it works like a gem. 
• got hit on again by a creepy man with stoned eyes

man: hey girl you beautiful

me: oh haha thank

man: you beautiful. you're my girlfriend. 

me: (ehhhhhh) haha *walks in opposition direction and turns back to see him still checking me out*

very much done with creepy men. you'd think that after a bajillion creepy men I would have one nice guy at least. has not fucking happen. 

got shoved into signing a petition and saw this guy with a 'fuck tony abbott shirt' and had a really awkward conversation: 

me: omg i love your shirt

him: hahahs yeah well with 25$ you can wear one for yourself

me: hahahs thats good *waits for kristie to sign petition* 

him: yeah like with all the things that he's done like marriage inequality

me: yeaah

him: and asylum seekers blahbalahablahaba

me: uhuh *signs sheet* 

him: have you joined in any protests before for marriage inequality?

me: uuuhh no haha..

i know he was making an effort to create conversation but it makes me feel so uneducated omg. you cute why you put me on the spot. 

went to get my crepes. met the fob guys again. i swear they know who i am they keep making weird eye contact and laughing and maddie was not helping. again. 

maddie: omg ann yeah so i know your modelling job in germany was hard

me: OMG MADDIE SERIOUSLY STOP. 

guy did not make my crepes, so some newbie girl made it and it ended up tasting CRAP. 

thats what you get for embarrassing yourself in front of strangers. 

great day raking! excited for next week :) 

BUSY WEEKEND

• first busy weekend in a loong time
• first time going out with a purpose that does not make me regret so badly

So sat and sun was spent on MedEntry UMAT course. finally spent some time doing something useful, makes up for lying to myself that i'd study hahahas. 

for those who don't know what UMAT is, it's basically this extra exam (on top of hsc) that students gotta do if they want to get into a med course. if they were to get good atar and good umat, they'd defs be guaranteed for an interview. 

I came to this course thinking that I'd do it only cause i want to broaden my options and had really no idea what I'm suppose to be doing or what the exam would be like or anything. perfectly blank slate.

But the course was so beneficial. it allowed me to really get the know hows to tackle the exam, the interview as well as learn more about the options available, the courses available and also network with other people there (although i barely did, and probably the thing I regret the most) 

cameout thinking that maybe I would be able to beat the test and get into a med field,it isn't as scary as it seems, so for all who wants to do UMAT i defs recommend this course. 

yeaaah...week update cause i really didn't do anything hahahas. 

Im too fucking fickle.

Liking someone for so long then quickly lost interest and when ,after a whole year of not seeing them, randomly meeting them recently makes me curious again.
And the cycle returns.

You shouldnt have approached me you lil shit, you got me worked up again.

UPDATE + JANMIX

2014 have been starting out goooood.

haven't been doing work, just going out or staying at home playing with the new phone hehe. 

20 days until school starts, not fucking ready. 

I want more of this summer holiday, its too good. 

ANYWAYS, here's the jan mix. Hope you all enjoy it and support the artists on here ! 

2013 IN REVIEW

THINGS IVE LEARNT 

- have more confidence and self-value: 

2013 have seen me make more positive choices, healtheir decisions, getting myself out there with others and also sticking to the ones that make me feel good and all of those have really boosted my confidence and self-value this year. 

- dealing with friendship breakups: 

Usually i tend to have as little as possible cause i hate those awkward ends to friendships. However this year ive 'brokenup' with a few of my (ex)closest friends and at first i couldnt deal with it as well and have relapse where id regret or feel down while remembering the good times. 

But it also has taught me something valuable: those people who you dont fight for and who dont fight for you are not in ur present circle for a reason, be blessed with the good memories but also be happy that its done. Yeaaah cheesy 

-getting shit in school isnt the end of the world: 

Omg if the old year10/11 me hear this ill be like yeah tell that to the 72 on my report for chem. 

i realised when i stopped worrying and panicking for subjects and just do it cause i find it fun and just take it steady the outcome is so much better. 

And plus, this year i got aaron so aint gonna fail HUEHUEHUEHEUH

Oh btw aaron if youre reading this -which i swear you are cause ur responses are so based off my rants- i kept having dreams of u coming back from america and being nice CAUSE WE HAVE SOME UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS HERE YOU HAVE NOT TEXTED ME/MSGED ME BACK. noooooot being clingy or desperate but my pet peeve is not responding- like is something wrong with u? are you okay?i can see your 'seen' but dont know if i need to come save you from a cave cause youve got no connection TO REPLY. At least say 'k'. Another pet peeve but thats better than a fucking fb 'seen'. And i even wished you a good trip :( 

- being more considerate towards others

Still working at that. But this year ive troed to stop secretly thinking for myself in others situations and just being there for others. Especially with tina and dealing with her immense socialising at uni and not being at home so much. Beginning of 2013 i was definitely pissed off but im starting to be more accepting...trying at least hahahas

This year i want to: 

- BE ON TOP OF MY GAME. which means no more last minute studying, weeklong procrastinations, rebelling in maths, sleeping in english HAHAHAS

- BE HAPPIER and least stressed for no reason

- BE HEALTHIER and feel good not for the weight ive lost but what ive achieved physically and mentally 

- GET OUT THERE MORE AND LIVE THE LAST YEAR OF HS - MAKE MORE FRIENDS 

- ACE THAT FUCKING TEXTILES MAJOR AND MAKE THE JUDGES JAWS DROP

Danke for joining me on my 2013 trip of random rants, mood swings, grossly grammar-ed posts and promises to do things that i never do (like this months soundcloud playlist) 

Hope y'all have a great 2014- this year better be good! 

Cheers and Ancora Imparo :) 

(I dontt think that really makes sense, ohwells)