True to my word.. for now

HI YET AGAIN

YES THIS IS ME POSTING A DAY AFTER I POSTED

LIKE I SAID I WOULD

I'm extremely tired right now so my wording might be pretty simple but oh well deal with it

I blog at the most inappropriate times, every time.

Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Yes, that's a big hello to you. And to you, and you, and you, and everyone reading this.

Wow. September 3, telling you I'd post the next day. I guess it's like that 365 blog I set up last year - I got behind and so I was SUPER reluctant to post anything, but guess what, I finished it and 2011 is out on display for the entire world to see!

Why I put that, I have no idea. Just excuse my poor blogging skills at 2:19am in the morning. I don't know why I do this to myself. By the time I wake up, it's inevitably going to be some ridiculous hour of the morning and possibly the afternoon and the entire morning is going to be gone. Seriously.

(Unless you don't know my Tumblr, and in that case, you probably won't ever see it) :{D

Just an aside though, I have no idea why I hide my Tumblr from the rest of the world. Actually, my description of "hiding" is pretty loose. I'm super easy to find if you know what to input into google. And if that's not a big enough give away, my usernames for the majority of social networking databases are pretty consistent. All you need is mediocre searching skills - oh, and, the majority of you actually come from my Tumblr and read this so.. I don't know why I'm even saying this.

I can't believe it. I'm procrastinating typing about the events in my life by telling you all something completely irrelevant that has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Sorry! Eeeeeeeeeek. Where to start?

So, it's like 2:43am and I'm about to absolutely crash. Like, there comes a point at night where you're just like NO and you feel physically sick to the stomach trying to stay up. That's me right now. I'll continue this post when I wake up. I actually feel like doing absolutely no work for the rest of the semester. It's terrible. I have no motivation right now! :(

Just kidding. It's almost 3am and I'm still awake.

I'm still alive guys!

After numerous requests to update this blog and my lack of motivation to do even an ounce of study this weekend, I decided I might as well prove to the general public that yes, I am indeed alive, and probably more importantly to give an update or two on my life.

So basically, in a nutshell, I've done jack.

It's week 5 already and I'm falling so behind on study. I don't mean to express full desperation and seek pity, but then again, it's nothing new. It's pretty much how I roll - motivation starts out strong at the beginning and gradually wanes throughout the semester. Regret and stress start to sink in, but by that stage, it's too late to rectify all the lost time. Fear of failure settles into me and I pick back up. It's a perfect description of my work ethic - intermittent and inconsistent, but it seems to balance out in the end, so I'm not really complaining.

The last post I made was over a month ago. I seriously can't believe that a month has passed already.. but let's have less of my bickering and carry on with the show.

So many things have happened in the past month. It's crazy to think how that many events have been packed into the short space of a month. Where to start?

I decided in the 5 or so hours that this editor has been open that I think I'd much rather just post about one event per day/a few events per day for the next couple of days. That way, I can sort of concentrate on a bit of study catch up while filling the rest of you in on what's been happening in my life.

A touch of red velvet

Today my best friend came over to make red velvet cupcakes. We went shopping for a few ingredients and then when we came home we realised that we kind of left out the cake patties......... ROOKIE ERROR ALERT ha ha ha hah ahaahahahhsdkjsnjknfgksjngsg anyway we compromised and decided to make a cake instead. :D

Red velvet cupcakes have always been a favourite of mine to bake. My batch this time, however, failed to meet my usual expectations. Somehow, they turned out a little burnt on the outside and even though they tasted as good as the usually do, it just wasn't up to scratch. I'm going to attribute this fault to my best friend HAHA I'm such a great friend!

And here is the recipe, as usual!

Strawberry shortcake!

After copious numbers of messages back and forth, Jess and I finally decided that our baking session was a go ahead. Despite the dreadful cold and wet, we managed to partially ignore our reluctance.. us Asians are so laaaaaaazy!

A lot of people have been asking me the recipe for this amazing strawberry shortcake, and yes, it was absolutely delectable! I tasted the crumbs when it came out of the oven and I have to admit that I was expecting something a little less short-bready and more.. doughy.. if that makes sense.. but I tasted the rest of this cake and was thoroughly delighted!

Here it is, the long-awaited recipe!

Black Coffee Lyrics

Today, I went to the Gold Coast to visit my friend John. He's amazing - brains and a musician. Love him to bits. Anyway, back to the focus of this post.. we went to a beautiful little cafe which was tucked away, meshed in with these run-down little Asian eatery places. I totally wasn't expecting it to be in a location as it was. I guess that adds to the grunge factor of the place.

I really need to learn to sleep earlier. Maybe then I'll wake up earlier and won't struggle so much for the rest of the day. Or maybe I should just become a coffee/tea/caffeine snob. Maybe, but then again, there's the issue of my intolerance to caffeine.. should one override the other? I actually thoroughly enjoy coffee, although I'm not that much of a connoisseur. My expertise are limited to the Starbucks caramel macchiato, which, in my opinion, is amazing BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S PROBABLY CRAP OK.

I set my alarm for 8:00 and naturally, couldn't really.. get up the same minute I woke up. Instead, I played Subway Surfers to try to kickstart my adrenaline.

DON'T JUDGE ME OK SUBWAY SURFERS GIVES ME A VERY SUBSTANTIAL ADRENALINE KICK. Like seriously, if you don't believe me, you should give it a go.

So, continuing on, to add to the disorganisation of everything, I had to leave the house at around 8:30, but obviously when you wake up in the morning you really don't care whether you're going to be late, provided the time hasn't passed already. AND most of my clothes were in the wash, so I had to scurry downstairs and throw together a really.. idk I didn't like it, but it was the best outfit I could come up with, given the situation. I absolutely gunned it out of the house after mum's little freak out about not knowing where to go to catch the train etc. UGH by the time I left the house, it was 8:33 and my bus came to Sunnybank Plaza at 8:37 SHARP. I ARRIVED AT 8:37 AND THE BUS WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO LEAVE, LIKE I COULD SEE THE DOORS SHUTTING so I ran and caught it.

The train ride was good. Free wi-fi, and more Subway Surfers. I could hardly complain, except that I wish I had a book or something to read on the train - mainly because I know my battery would probably be dying.

I got to Nerang at 10:34am sharp and I started looking for John. Apparently he'd parked on the opposite side but I didn't know that........ awks.

What an amazing station.

Road trip

George, Danny, Dylan and I went for a road trip. It took literally the entire day and most of the night as well. It was actually such a strug getting up in the morning because I went to sleep at around 2:30 this morning after committing to spend most of my limited savings on ASOS and UrbanOutfitters for Winter/Summer clothes.

FAR OUT, I'M SUCH AN IMPULSIVE SPENDER. I REALLY NEED TO EFFING CONTROL MYSELF.

Anyway, that aside, I was supposed to meet Dylan at his house at like 10am but I only woke up 10 minutes before that and I had to get ready. Literally impossible. Instead, half an hour after, they drove over to my house to pick me up. How sweet. :D We picked up George and his mum fed us amazingly just like most other Asian mums. UGH SO MUCH FOOD, I FEEL SO BAD LMAO.

I found out we were driving up to Mt Glorious. I suppose it's near Maleny/just north of QLD. Just kidding LMAO I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT IS, I have the most terrible sense of direction imaginable. We arrived at about.. 1ish I think to the Mt Glorious Restaurant. It was beautiful! Beautifully pricey, too. I had a honey roasted chicken filo with like.. mango-ey, slightly curry sauce. It was.. nice, but the chicken was a little overcooked, and overall, definitely not worth the $29.65 I paid for it.

Michelle's baking experiences

Hello, haven't really posted in a while because I've been so busy with my holidays! While they're supposed to be about catching up on sleep, I've dedicated my holidays to furthering my sleep deficit. And I have to write this freaking scholarship speech as well which is kind of a bit of a screw up for my holidays.

8 MINUTE SPEECH BRO

Anyway, Linda came over the other day and we baked butterfly cupcakes and brownies. The brownies looked really disappointing and burnt because of my incompetence in working with the oven and the cupcakes had a similar story except for the fact that I could like, mask some of the.. err.. more interesting cupcakes by turning around the "wings" and pretending.... Nothing. Ever. Happened.