Been super busy and tired and generally falling asleep all over the place, but thought that I hadn't updated in a while so pulled out some gorgeous cakes I photographed in London :)
Whee :) Penguins! My favourite is the mahjong cake, what's yours?Monday, May 31, 2010
cakes galore :)
HELLO HELLO HELLO :)
Been super busy and tired and generally falling asleep all over the place, but thought that I hadn't updated in a while so pulled out some gorgeous cakes I photographed in London :)
Whee :) Penguins! My favourite is the mahjong cake, what's yours?
Been super busy and tired and generally falling asleep all over the place, but thought that I hadn't updated in a while so pulled out some gorgeous cakes I photographed in London :)
Whee :) Penguins! My favourite is the mahjong cake, what's yours?
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Lindt Cafe + Soul Kitchen
On a spontaneous Tuesday, me and a friend (Minna) went to Lindt Cafe @ Martin Place, after uni. We walked up and down Martin Place a few times, and completely missed it - had to ask several newspaper seller stands where it was, only to have it pointed out that we were right in front of it.
Funnily enough, we didn't have any chocolate (gasp) but instead ordered Iced Coffee, Ice tea and two delices. aka. MACARONS. The Iced Coffee was fantastic, creamy and just enough bitter - but the Iced tea was a tad bit strange. Though it was advertised as being made fresh daily in store from high quality tea, it was really just chilled tea in water with a wedge of lemon and maybe a drop of honey. Macarons were beautiful, and tasty - but still not as good as Adriano Zumbos or the Renaissance Bakery at the rocks. (speaking of which I ALMOST drove to balmain today to buy Macarons but fought the urge :)) I'm still curious though, what are they filled with? The filling isn't creamy enough to be buttercream, and it's definitely not ganache. Any ideas people?
Also, as you may or may not have read on Bosco's blog, Christine, Bosco and me went to watch German Film: SOUL KITCHEN! It was pretty good, very dramatic and overall a fun fun movie. It gave me mixed feelings about becoming a chef though - crappy hours, stuck in the kitchen, dangerous environment - oh but the glory of knife chopping skills!
Aha - dramatic lighting from Circular Quay's Dendy Cinemas.
Love you all :) Have a fantastic weekend kiddies!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The theory of MAX OUT
When you’re sitting on the train (like I am now) and can’t remember what you were doing on Monday, then you know you’ve taken the theory of MAX OUT too far.
The theory of MAX OUT – when you squeeze as much as possible into every minute of every hour, living life so insanely that you need multiple coffees and that when you collapse into bed at the end of the day you don’t regret a single second.
Let’s have a look at the week in review, shall we?
LAST THURSDAY: Skipped UNI and stayed home to cook dinner for the family with Ally, drove out to GREENWOOD for her 18th with her MeCo friends and met an asian Male Model Home at 1am
Spotted: Nate, Jeremy and Peter from Med
FRIDAY: Slept in and missed a morning coffee meeting with sim (died a little inside), instead rushed to SYDNEY UNI to meet up with CHRISTINE and BOSCO – had lunch at Loving Eden in Glebe, walked Christine back to her quiz and had coffee with Richard for an hour (who showed me around the vet building, and Sydney uni is so beautiful it’s unfair). After meeting up with Richard, walked to Newtown (one of my favorite suburbs!) and bought shoes and a dress for Integration party later that night. Rushed off to the 3:45 HOT YOGA class, finished at 6, and then immediately went to a 6:30 hiphop class at Dancekool. Gussied up in the change room for integration, but coming out felt so tired that had to collapse at home, around 10pm
Spotted! David Tang, Shaun, Caroline Banh
SATURDAY: Left house at 8:30 to start working at 10. Arrived at tutoring only to have one of my students say F*ck you. Lovely. Drove to Newtown straight after work for Ally’s Thai La Ong 2 Dinner, and got stuck in one way side streets. Almost parked on Raper st, but decided not to tempt fate and parked on Church St instead. Had a delicious dinner, and was awesome seeing everyone again – some more than others. Sent Ally, Minoli and Michelle to Epping, where Jen called with cravings – so went into Coles and bought so midnight munchies for her and June – we stayed up talking. Home at 10:30
SUNDAY: Church! Lunch, Grocery and Microwave shopping. Fell asleep in the car on the way home and woke up 2 hours later alone, disorientated in the garage – was not very pleasant. Dragged myself awake and picked up Emmy and met Carmen to eat dinner at hOOters (yes :P). It wasn’t bad, but dessert at MAX Brenner was so much more amazing. Emmy and Carmen are beautiful souls. Arrived home 11:45pm
Monday: New day, new course – decided to actually get my ass into gear after a dismal foundations exam. Two crazy lectures with the second years, an amazingly fun contraceptive tutorial (yes we put condoms on crazy man penis bananas) and meeting with our new SG. Worked for 2 hours before catching a bus with Grace to her house and then a lift to Bible study. Got home at around 10pm (pretty early!)
Tuesday: Two more insane lectures on the Pelvis and Female Reproductive System, finished at 11am (yay!) went to CBS, had lunch with Minna and Michael, circled the law library for a bit before finaly figuring out the entrance, and studied for 2 hours. Caught a bus to HOT YOGA with MInna (yay, still my friend even after the torture J) and had a cheap dinner at central and caught a bus back to uni to watch Med Revue – some memorable moments – my personal favourite – it sucks to be me! Home at 11:35pm Not bad, not bad.
Wednesday: Wow. Okay, I really took this day to the next level.
9-11am Two lectures
11-1pm An anatomy practical on female reproduction system (really really not pretty!)1-3pm Scenario Group meeting
3-5pm Histology Practical
5-6pm NOT DEAD YET
met up with Christine at Sydney Uni to go to Newtown for free food at the People’s Kitchen (when I go again, I’ll post more aboutit!), couldn’t stay long because I was just too exhausted 6:30 left for home
8:00 Got home (so early!)
Baked WHITE CHOCOLATE, CRANBERRY and OAT COOKIES again, until 10pm(so no new post there, since the recipe is already up! But it does fulfill my one week baking quota :P)aaaaand slept . zzzzz.
THURSDAY, TODAY: 2 lectures in the morning, Lunch with Michelle and attempted studying in the Library until 5pm, went to a 6:30 FUNK dance Class at Sydney Dance Company and two coffees and 2 hours later, sitting on the train, so ready to get home. Was considering going to an 8 o clock hot yoga class tomorrow, but decided that I wanted to still be alive for my lunch with SIM and meeting up with Phil and Christine for Finders Keepers Markets. Hope I’m still alive by the end of next week.
So, what did you do this week?
The theory of MAX OUT – when you squeeze as much as possible into every minute of every hour, living life so insanely that you need multiple coffees and that when you collapse into bed at the end of the day you don’t regret a single second.
Let’s have a look at the week in review, shall we?
LAST THURSDAY: Skipped UNI and stayed home to cook dinner for the family with Ally, drove out to GREENWOOD for her 18th with her MeCo friends and met an asian Male Model Home at 1am
Spotted: Nate, Jeremy and Peter from Med
FRIDAY: Slept in and missed a morning coffee meeting with sim (died a little inside), instead rushed to SYDNEY UNI to meet up with CHRISTINE and BOSCO – had lunch at Loving Eden in Glebe, walked Christine back to her quiz and had coffee with Richard for an hour (who showed me around the vet building, and Sydney uni is so beautiful it’s unfair). After meeting up with Richard, walked to Newtown (one of my favorite suburbs!) and bought shoes and a dress for Integration party later that night. Rushed off to the 3:45 HOT YOGA class, finished at 6, and then immediately went to a 6:30 hiphop class at Dancekool. Gussied up in the change room for integration, but coming out felt so tired that had to collapse at home, around 10pm
Spotted! David Tang, Shaun, Caroline Banh
SATURDAY: Left house at 8:30 to start working at 10. Arrived at tutoring only to have one of my students say F*ck you. Lovely. Drove to Newtown straight after work for Ally’s Thai La Ong 2 Dinner, and got stuck in one way side streets. Almost parked on Raper st, but decided not to tempt fate and parked on Church St instead. Had a delicious dinner, and was awesome seeing everyone again – some more than others. Sent Ally, Minoli and Michelle to Epping, where Jen called with cravings – so went into Coles and bought so midnight munchies for her and June – we stayed up talking. Home at 10:30
SUNDAY: Church! Lunch, Grocery and Microwave shopping. Fell asleep in the car on the way home and woke up 2 hours later alone, disorientated in the garage – was not very pleasant. Dragged myself awake and picked up Emmy and met Carmen to eat dinner at hOOters (yes :P). It wasn’t bad, but dessert at MAX Brenner was so much more amazing. Emmy and Carmen are beautiful souls. Arrived home 11:45pm
Monday: New day, new course – decided to actually get my ass into gear after a dismal foundations exam. Two crazy lectures with the second years, an amazingly fun contraceptive tutorial (yes we put condoms on crazy man penis bananas) and meeting with our new SG. Worked for 2 hours before catching a bus with Grace to her house and then a lift to Bible study. Got home at around 10pm (pretty early!)
Tuesday: Two more insane lectures on the Pelvis and Female Reproductive System, finished at 11am (yay!) went to CBS, had lunch with Minna and Michael, circled the law library for a bit before finaly figuring out the entrance, and studied for 2 hours. Caught a bus to HOT YOGA with MInna (yay, still my friend even after the torture J) and had a cheap dinner at central and caught a bus back to uni to watch Med Revue – some memorable moments – my personal favourite – it sucks to be me! Home at 11:35pm Not bad, not bad.
Wednesday: Wow. Okay, I really took this day to the next level.
9-11am Two lectures
11-1pm An anatomy practical on female reproduction system (really really not pretty!)1-3pm Scenario Group meeting
3-5pm Histology Practical
5-6pm NOT DEAD YET
met up with Christine at Sydney Uni to go to Newtown for free food at the People’s Kitchen (when I go again, I’ll post more aboutit!), couldn’t stay long because I was just too exhausted 6:30 left for home
8:00 Got home (so early!)
Baked WHITE CHOCOLATE, CRANBERRY and OAT COOKIES again, until 10pm(so no new post there, since the recipe is already up! But it does fulfill my one week baking quota :P)aaaaand slept . zzzzz.
THURSDAY, TODAY: 2 lectures in the morning, Lunch with Michelle and attempted studying in the Library until 5pm, went to a 6:30 FUNK dance Class at Sydney Dance Company and two coffees and 2 hours later, sitting on the train, so ready to get home. Was considering going to an 8 o clock hot yoga class tomorrow, but decided that I wanted to still be alive for my lunch with SIM and meeting up with Phil and Christine for Finders Keepers Markets. Hope I’m still alive by the end of next week.
So, what did you do this week?
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