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HELLO MY BLOGGIE MC BLOGSTER!!!!!!
Yeah, so I might be posting for a few times these holidays to let everyone know about my thoughts and things I'm just curious about in general. I'm feeling methodical so lets just have a numerical list here:

1. After watching about every single episode of Masterchef, I do wonder why one must make such a large quantity of food only to plate up the minutest amount. Is this, perhaps the reason why top restaurant quality food is so expensive? For example, in a pressure test, the contestants had to plate up George's 'Capsicum Terrine' and basically they used about 15 whole red capsicums, chopped them nicely and fit them into an arms length (from your elbow to your hand) log tray when a 7x2x5 cm slice.I know that chefs must actually save the rest and use it for another time, but seriously, is it that hard to cut a few more slices up and make a nice, real dish that satisfies one's appetite? Also, if you give me a massive plate with 3 pieces of ravioli and some kind of oil dressing that you pass off as 'consumme' or 'broth' I'm gonna be annoyed. I come the restaurant to eat not admire your crockery. Perhaps it is an incentive to order more from the menu. Ironically, I dont get why waiters take the menu away from you once you've ordered. For me, I actually enjoy looking at the pictures of desserts and it makes me wonder whether I should have some...

2. I bought Maybelline Baby Lips (lip balm) for $3 in Antioxidant Berry. And I was loving it. Until I lost it for a week. Then I bought another one because my lips were drying out. I tell you, lip balm is like an addiction. It's not a placebo effect! Well anyway I bought another one for $4. The next morning, I found my long lost one, at the back of mum's car.

3. Let me give you a little bit of advice-take it from the sushi queen ie ME ;) Do not ever mistake avocado for wasabi....

4. My total 'pants' count is now 3. If you didnt know, I never wear pants. And then winter came. Because Stockings and leggings dont suffice. I have a floral pair of jeans that I wore on mufti, a light blue tube jean (that I got for $39.95!!) and black leggings which I still count as pants cos theyre warm.

5. I had this fricking weird dream the other day that I swear lasted for hours. My bath tub was my fish tank LOL. And one of my fish jumped out and landed in the basin. (btw I have gold fish). And it was flapping around as all fish do when theyre out of water but I was too scared to grab hold of it and put it back in the bath tub. So I ran the tap on to make sure it stayed wet, for two days HAHAAHHA.That was my attempt at keeping it alive. By the time I came back, it had died :( And its eye split in half :S

6. I hate it when you text a person, asking them something relatively important and they dont answer  your question. Big Pet Peeve grrr.

Goodluck for trial study and umat prep! Wishing everyone all the best :) xx

Payphone

Summary of my weekend:
 I bought this song on itunes. Enough said! :)
Also, I realise I gave my mother's day gift on the wrong day. Just a week early...
Anyway, it IS the effort and thought that counts and in my opinion, the handbag I bought for her was pretty classy.
I must say, I'm quite excited for the UNSW law night and 3on3 basketball !
I made a new study room. I found 3 'exam desks' at home- theyre exactly like the ones in the school hall...fold up and everything. My new room is called the 'zen room', consisting of 4 white walls, 1 window, 1 desk, 1 chair, a wardrobe and exactly 1 bin to chuck all of my excess scribble in. You ask, why call it the zen room? Simply, when I am in this room, I am in zen mode 8D

ORDER OF SUSHI NOOBNESS

The other day I was asked a question which seemed a bit 'why would you ask that?!' because they knew I had bad eyesight. If you didnt know that then I guess just consider that for the scenario. 

I was in the car with Person A who knew I had bad eyesight. They pointed to a sign far in the distance (one of those black boards with orange digital writing about road blockages/expected traffic etc) and asked me to read it. And I found that because it was quite far away and that my contacts are a tad out of kilter, I couldn't read what it said properly. And then Person A asked me in a very condescending tone : 'but don't you have your contact lenses in?' 

So then I thought, 'why would you ask that?' You KNOW and even at times tease me about my eyesight so you understand that if I didn't have my contacts in, I wouldnt be able to read the fifty road directions on the street directory you just asked me to read. And then when I cant read a sign that is just under a kilometer away, you ASK me if I have them in?!! REALLY REALLY! Just because someone has their contacts in doesn't mean that they can fully read the text a mile away. You know, for someone with bad eyesight, having glasses/contacts doesnt always make every letter appear so damn crisp and shiny. I think I was just mad at the fact that they always tease me..sigh. 

Anyway, we had a fun maths lesson with Mr @lder on Thursday. He told us about how the Titanic didnt sink..or 'snap' the way it was portrayed in the movie. Also, it didnt obey any physical or mathematical laws haha. Very interesting. 

I have this sort of new love for half grilled smoky salmon. If any of you are regulars at sushi trains, you may have tried the 'grilled' salmon dish where they place a sliver? of salmon ontop of an oval of rice and they put a blow torch on it. OMG THE SMOKEY FLAVA with the shallots and onion and THE WASABI and THE GINGER and soya sauce ALL TOGETHER OISJDFOI MMMM. Do try it :) 

Alrighty, I must tell you of this, well how do I say it... 'Order of Sushi Noobness'. 

When you first go to a sushi train, you may say to yourself- what is all this rawness? Everything looks so funky! Dont even mention the fact that as you walked through the very doors, everyone frigging screamed something at you! Was it japanese, chinese, korean? And OMG everyone is staring at me! So I sit down and see the dishes go past me. Oh my theres a raw prawn!!...I swear it just blinked at me! Never mind that, I see a familiar face coming, it is none other than THE SIX TINY ROLLS IN A 3 BY 2 RECTANGLE WITH CUCUMBER IN THE MIDDLE! HAW HAW EASY PEASY JAPANESY! And then I finish that dish. OH maybe now I'll try EXACTLY THE SAME PLATE only with... SALMON IN THE MIDDLE HAWHAW RAW FISH! Lol, this is still the noob stage, clearly. 

The next stage, called nooblet, occurs when the diner wants opts for the dish consisting of 2 slices of raw plain salmon ontop of 2 ovals of rice, and for that extra bit of funk, theres a green shallot on the top. And maybe, they try the cute little egg ontop of again, ovals of rice. 

Stage three is called competent, where they enjoy the sushis with ROUND inside out rolls of rice with salmon, tuna, avocado and cucumber in the middle. If you choose chicken-teriyaki then you're back to nooblet. If you choose chicken-katsu then you're midway between nooblet and competent. Get real folks, eat the damn fish. Stop clinging onto the chicken. 

Stage four is known as, quite simply WASABI. Yep, you have started to complement the dishes with a mixture of soy sauce, ginger and wasabi. And you realise, HEY THIS STUFF IS LIKE A DEER TO A CAVEMAN. Solid progress my dear. 

Stage 5, also known as SASHIMI is when you have the audacity to talk to one of those waitresses for a PLATE OF SASHIMI. And you know why you like it? Because not only does it have the wonders of raw fish all on a plate, but it has a dollup of the finest wasabi right in the middle of the plate. Respect the salmon. But also respect the tuna. And the kingfish. 

Stage 6 is when you have the heart, and may I say the mind, to look at a prawn, with its aghast face staring right back at cha (remember the first time you walked in?) and actually tear it apart and consume the delights of its inner goodness. And then comes along the $7.50 gold plates with a massive shell clam thingo with scallop mornay. I think that's what you call it. This shiz is sacred people. Good on ya for eating it :)

I must say that I'm at stage 5- I love my sashimi and I think due to my incredible dislike for prawns and other seafoods in general, that I'm gonna stay on stage 5 for a long time. I must say that very rare beef is lovely but you need the shallots and sauces to accompany it. I am yet to develop a stage 7 and maybe 8 if that exists but that would involve me getting out of my stage 5. Where abouts are you on the sushi noob order? :D 

Friday Afternoon

This morning, I was feeling great, absolutely pumped for my speech. On the way to school, my dad said to me:

Dad: 'so you're just speeching today'

Me: 'yeah'

Dad: 'so it should be easy, you just copy it from book'

Me: 'WHAT WHAT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT I NEVER COPIED ANYTHING. I FRICKING INTERVIEWED THIS PERSON AND WROTE MY SPEECH WHAT'

So yeah, I was pretty insulted by that. 

Anyway, I've probably mentioned this to a few people but after getting maths results this week, I realise how funnay Mr Alder is. When he was trying to emphasise the fact that (a X 0) isn't equal to 'a' he pressed pretty hard with his chalk, on the blackboard and the chalk broke LOL. And then I looked on the floor and saw all these small bits of white chalk and ROFLd. 

I dunno if ive ever mentioned this, but I really like interior design. When I was young, I always saw my dad painting walls and tiling and i realise that I'd love to be given a plain room and have the chance to just make it all awesome. I think this explains why, in my free time, I paint :) OH and speaking of painting, does anyone remember when they watched 'The Princess Diaries"(one) when Mia's mother was launching darts at a piece of canvas and the darts had to hit balloons filled with different colours of paint? OMG I REALLY WANT TO DO THAT. And I have to say that the end result isn't too bad, artistically.