Holiday Adventures

Hello everyone! I hope you've been enjoying your holidays despite the looming TRIALS! Me and CZ were talking about trials today. Apparently some schools like Sydney Boys has already finished them last term :O I couldn't imagine doing them that early.

Anyway here are some stuff I've got up to since my last blog post:

On Friday I went to GW and SS's 17th birthday party. Here is a badly taken pic of the dress I wore:

My mum bought it for me to wear to the party and when I saw it I was thinking odd...this dress look's familiar. It's actually RH's semi-formal dress but hers was purple, my mum bought it in coral. MQ said it reminds her of a towel. Lol. At the party VB was wearing my red semi-formal dress. Haha.

Le photo my sis took of me before I left haha. I'm wearing my Vinnies necklace I blogged about a while ago ! :)

Lol I took this one of my and my sis and she's mucking around



To wrap their presents I used my polka dot paper bags and somebody saw them and said oh hey it's your signature wrapping style and I realised it is now haha. I used the same type for Jashan's bday too :)

I made a cake on Saturday after going out to eat dinner with my family at Temasek :)

I made some sort of collage haha. First make a basic vanilla cake, all the ingredients should be lying around it's just sugar, eggs, flour etc. My sis cut the cake into three bits then let it cool. We whipped up some cream and spread it, with some blackberries, raspberries & blueberries between the layers. My sis piped the chocolate letters haha. Basically you melt chocolate, put it into a plastic bag, snip off the corner and pipe it onto a piece of non-stick baking paper. Let it harden and it will be ready to use. Don't pipe too thinly and the chocolate will break into pieces when you try to pick it up.

The berries were had juice dripping and the cake didn't look that enat so I walked to the store and bought some wafers. Using scissors cut the wafers to how you like and put it all around the cake using cream as a 'glue'. I made it so the wafers at the back of the cake were higher than the ones in front.

When I was done with the wafer decoration I put it in the fridge to kind of 'set' so it no wafers would randomly fall down. Then I chose a gold ribbon from my ribbon bag and tied it around the cake and tied a bow. Done! Haha. Happy birthday GZ! I hope you got a surprise when I turned up at your house like a stalker...

Random note about wafers: You know I never understood the joke 'Why was the cookie sad? Because his mum was a wafer so long' the ENTIRE time I was growing up. I only understood it when I was buying wafers for the cake and I had an epiphany! His mum was a-WAY FOR so long. HAHA

Because I like collages and I'm proud of the final product I made a collage of what the cake turned out like

I went to the library on Monday. There were about 3 tables of people just from our school haha. It was fun :) Tendercrysbeachicken calls this studying-with-friends 'librarying'.

On Tuesday I went to Catswood LOL I mean CHATSWOOD for the first ever time in my life with CL and KT :) It's soo nice. We went to eat ramen for lunch at a place called Makanai and there was this option called VOLCANO RAMEN with a picture of 2 chillies next to it HAHA so I decided to get it and I choked on the first mouthful lol. Then KT tried some and he was choking too hahaha.

It actually wasn't THAT spicy, just the first bite of chilli makes you choke a lot haha. They had an option called SUPER VOLCANO but I didn't get it lol.

Next time I definitely want to try the Wagyu Beef Curry Udon. Yum haha :)

After that we went to get 'Froyo' (frozen yogurt) as CL calls it. It was my first time ever trying frozen yogurt. It was a self-serve place and it was really fun, there were so many flavours like Blueberry, passionfruit, strawberry, even taro (it was really nice), peach etc and our self-serve tub was so colourful after hehe. And you got to pick your own toppings! We got peach, blueberries, some syrup and something chewy called mochi. A whole tub that we shared was only $10 so it was pretty cheap too! And super yummy :)

I actually didn't like that many toppings. My favourite flavour was passionfruit :) Once KT gets to sending me the pic we took of our froyo I will show you guys hehe

Also me & CL took our dogs to the dog park!

Biscuit loves walks

It was our first time going to the dog park. She was so excited she ran around in circles for ages. We were about to leave the dog park (no other people had come round with their dogs except an old man with his labrador that he didn't let off the leash because it was too boisterous) and then this girl with a black dog walked past us in the direction of the dog park and we were like...should we follow her back to the park lol. So we did and all the dogs got to play haha. Her dog's name was Ziggy and it drooled on Biscuit lol.

She was SO tired out when we got home after that she slept for probably >3hours after

Anyay that's about it! Hope you guys are enjoying your holidays!

Love: Michelle

Collage Mania

Hey guys! How have your holidays been? So rainy outside :(

I downloaded this new app on my ipad which lets you create collages and I've been going a little bit crazy over making a million collages...

Here are a few hehe:

There's actually a story behind the odd leopard background...Biscuit has a cushion on her pet bed that has leopard print haha. It's really fluffy

hehe

This is a full collage of talented Biscuit's circus tricks

Some mini carrot cupcakes GC made me :) So sweet

My sis piping a green tree

Haha my crazy collage mania..I made A LOT MORE above just a few :)

Yesterday night I had hotpot at GZ's house for his 18th bday.

Birthday cake! :) His house is so nice hehe



Today I had lunch with SS and CL at GPK and afterwards 'studied' with RH at the library..we were mostly talking haha. 

I guess those are my adventures thus far! 

Enjoy your holidays despite the weather!

Love: Michelle



Starlight!

Today me, my sister and RQ helped out for STARLIGHT DAY woo by selling merchandise at Winston Hills Shopping Centre :) We got through about one little purple box of merchandise :)

                                  Volunteer shirt and boxes of merchandise behind me :)

If any of you readers want to buy any Starlight Merchandise- of which all proceeds go to the Starlight Foundation which helps sick children in hospitals- please leave a comment below of which iten you would like and bring the exact amount of money to school tomorrow for that item and I will give it to you tomorrow :)

Here is a page of all the stuff we are selling-there are 2 types of pens, a stress ball in purple or yellow, keychains in blue, red, yellow, green, orange and purple, a silver badge/pin, a gold pin, a wand that lights up (the purple stick with the star on top) and purple shopping bags(the fabric type).Unfortunately the silly straws (pictured bottom middle) are not for sale (because Starlight didn't send any to us in the mail)

Personal recommendations/experience: boths pens are good quality, one is blue and one is black, in fact I use them in my math exams haha. My mum says the shopping bag is sturdy and the stress balls are helpful. We got a wand last year and it still lights up :) Every item is $5 except for the gold star pin, which is $20.

Haha just then my dad was like "You did a good job today, here's a present" and handed me a cookie. :3

Love: Michelle

P.S. Yesterday me and RH were at Castle Towers Food court and at McDonalds I was buying a small fries and RH wanted water so I asked for a free water and when they gave us our food they gave us a BOTTLE of water. Mount Franklin. Haha I was so excited I came home and told my whole family and they were...suffice to say not as excited as I was. Haha.

Thrifting Adventures in my mum's closet :)

Hey everyone!

Today I was on the bus home from the library and I was considering whether or not to buy this cool jumper I saw today at towers, and I thought I would go home and scrounge around my mum's closet to see if she had any cool over-size jumeprs first :)

Whilst I didn't find any jumpers, I found some awesome genuine vintage stuff my mum said I could have hehe :) I was trying them on and I showed her and asked her if I could have them and she was like "Wow those are from so long ago...Of course you can have them." :) Haha I think she was more surprised that I would be interested in such 'old' clothes

This is what I found:

This strange floaty two piece dress that's short in the front and longer in the bottom and it's sheer at the bottom too so you're supposed to wear them with these...

These white tap shorts kinda-thing. HAHA it's such a unique combination of clothes :3

I also found:

This deep red white-polka-dot ruffle blouse :) I can envision wearing it with high-waisted shorts :3

That's all I discovered for now, but I'll probably go back some other time and scrounge out some other goodies hehe :) My mum has such nice clothes hehe nicer than any of my clothes actually...

Love: Michelle

P.S. Well done to the brave brave people who shaved their head today for Shave for a Cure: CL, MK, TK, CZ :) :) AMAZING!~



Happy birthday Jashan and parties at libraries

Happy birthday JB, may I take this opportunity to say your house is beautiful and your room is very bright and pink. I've always wanted to be those people with the extremely personalized rooms, you know the ones with photos everywhere and posters and signs that say Michelle's Room etc Lol but I would feel sad taking it all down if I moved out I think. Also it's a lot of effort LOL

JB's curtains are so lovely

BUT since I go my Polaroid I'm going to pin up all the pictures I take and I think that would add some personal character :)

Space cleared out for dancing with ncie gold streamers

Ooh here is my present to her, I feel quite proud of the wrapping hehe cos I think it looks quite cute :3

I decided to stick a little bow in the front for some random reason :) The food was amazing But I forgot to take any photos of it :( There were literally bowls of every kind of yummy stuff imaginable to snack on :) And a chocolate fountain too!

LOL on the way to her house in SS's car we saw JJ walking and looking very lost so I quickly texted him like ARE YOU LOST? do you need a ride?? haha but luckily he wasn't :P

I used my new GHD to curl my hair and seriously IT'S AMAZING usually it takes me about 40minutes with a curling iron but ghd only took me maybe 20 minutes? :)

It's a magical device

And I was looking for stuff to wear and I found this random blue floaty top I forgot even existed in my closet (I've never actually worn it) so I decided to wear it haha

Don't you love it when you're looking through your closet and you find random cool stuff you forgot you had? The top has really nice lacy details but you can't really see it in the pic :) And I wore the blue wedges my sis bought the other day with it so it was kinda matchy haha

Me and NS :) Blue wedges yay! LOL I don't have a full length mirror at home and I was so excited when Im saw JB's I decided to take a photo lulz. I am seriously so jelly of people that have full length mirrors. I used to have one in my room but I broke it, on my birthday too, about 3 years ago. Some people consider that bad luck but I don't believe in superstition that so I'm all safe :)

ANYWAY WOO HAPPY BIRTHDAY

There was also a huge gathering (party) in Castle Hill Library today. I guess that's what Baulko kids do, you know, casually spending our whole Saturdays at the library LOL.We're in Year 12, what life?? :P

But there were so many people today: KT, MP, RC, RH, GZ, CL, DM, BA and me :O We didn't even plan it, it was just a lot of people coming to the library on the same day. Well I guess in a way it's not so much a coincidence, but more of a response to the half yearlies coming up soon :(

Anyway, off to dinner! Sorry for the unusually long absence of blog posts :3 I blame English Advanced.

Love: Michelle

Edit: I am so glad a certain wonderful inidividual is all recovered now, HAPPY DAY, what fantastic news hehe :) YAY she's so strong and such a survivor

Franky and Blades + Leap Year

Woo yesterday was the 29th which certainly isn't a day we see often (once every 4 years to be exact) :) How did you guys spend it?

I got sick on Tuesday so I stayed in my comfy bed on Wednesday and drank hot chocolate :)

Everyone around is concentrating on their Frankenstein and Blade Runner comparative essay

Franky (best book ever)

Blades

Been going to library so much this week. Castle Hill library = new home

SRC dinner tomorrow night!! I was hoping to wear the new blue wedges my sis bought but itf it's raining maybe not

I'm going to bring my Polaroid and take one last pic of me and VS with Miss K for the last day we can say we are SRC Presidents :)

Love: Michelle

Biscuit got a pet bed

Photo spam alert hehe :3 We bought her a red elevated pet bed :D It's been so warm lately she doesn't even go downstairs to her kennel to sleep, she just reclines on her pet bed all day :)

Hehe I love instagram :) The little doggy toy Biscuit is holding is named 'Cookie' she LOVES IT it's one of her outside toys :) Spolied doggie has outside and inside toys :p

Went to the library yesterday and caused havoc lol. Finally met JK btw who I've been friends with on facebook for years and haven't actually seen in real life (until yesterday afternoon). We went to Coles to buy food and for some reason everything was so cheap....watermelon for 99cents and plums for $1 something and kit kat for $2 !! Since I'm probably the most unhealthy person in the world obvs I went for the kit kat lol

Found an awesome book for extension english :)

And we found out what happens when you facetime someone, they pick and then you turn one of the devices to face the other one you facetimed. Confused? FACETIMECEPTION.

So basically KT facetimed my Ipad and I picked up and then RC turned the iPhone so it faced my Ipad and this is what we got...so trippy lol

Love: Michelle

A rainy week and curly fries

Today, it is my sister's 19th birthday! we can't celebrate it with her though cos she's on her road trip to some lake. She's been texting me though and said it's been raining really hard over there (they rented a house close to the beach). I feel sorry for them cos they can't use their outdoor spa and go to the beach a lot in this sort of drab weather :(

Today after school, AM, BT, RH and I went to 'Great Bagel and Coffee' in Castle Towers and ate curly fries with morrocan salt, something we have been craving for a while :) So nice to have a chat and a break from studying (although we did go to the library after eating).

It's so cool how when we're together, sometimes everyone is talking and getting excited and then a second later we will all break off and stare into space for a few minutes in relaxed silence haha. It's like that at recess too; sometimes we will barely say a thing to each other but the silence is so relaxing and comfortable. :)

On another note, THANK YOU KT for the cool presents you got me from HK :)



Studio Ghibli CD!! I can't believe you knew exactly something I've always liked :3 I ALWAYS listen to Hayao Miyazaki's soundtracks whenever I'm studying (even when I'm not) :D For example my 'Study Playlist' on YouTube is basically all made up of Studo Ghibli instrumentals :)

Also THIS ROFL so reminds me of the all the times I would tell you of my Crisis-Core-addiction last summer. HAHA it's so cool :3

Thank you! You still have to tell me about all your HK adventures sometime haha like bowling until late in the night and studying in special HK libraries :D

Oh another thing; my dog has recently been obsessed with PIG EARS. She LOVES chewing them. My mum always buys her them everytime she goes out to the store

Yummy pig ears for lucky Biscuit :) Now I better finish my Ext1 creative piece. Our teacher told us on Monday if we don't hand it in tomorrow then we will get an N award :(

Love: Michelle

P.S. Muck up tomorrow!! Hopefully the weather clears :(

First day of school

Hey guys! It was the, for some people, dreaded first day of school today. I've actually been looking forward to this day for ages, at the risk of sounding like a nerd haha but oh school, how I have missed your routine and seeing friends everyday and eating breakfast at the normal time and getting to have study periods this year instead of sport! Woo!

Shoutout to KT, who has been in HK for the past SIX WEEKS! So glad you're back :)

Today the lovely BT baked us cookies and wrote us all letters for the first day of school :) thanks B!

I think the key to enjoying school is to change your mind frame about your subjects and even tutoring. I used to always say I hated math back in junior school and that was bad because the more I said it the more I dreaded it, but over the past year I have been learning to appreciate and even like Maths, which means I now look forward to all my subjects! Well almost all the time. Still working on it though, but I try to limit saying things like 'I have chem next :(' or 'double Maths on monday mornings suck'. It really does help your attitude :)

Last night my mum gave me a red pocket to put in my skirt pocket at school for luck :) to keep the luck I now pledge to not open it until year 12 is officially over :)

I've also developed a little sprain in my right hand wrist because I've spent the whole last weekend non stop sewing for RH's and my muck up outfits. Totally worth it though :) so proud of them hehe. After muck up on Friday I will have a DIY tutorial on them showing you guys how I made them :D

My sister, after spendning the last 3 days at O Week, some uni camp, has now left for a week at Lake Somewhere with 6 of her pals. I hope she stays safe! Also my Dad is currently in Perth for the week for a business trip so it's just my mum and I this week :D

Love: Michelle

Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day readers! Shame about the rainy weather (although outside looking more and more sunny now compared to the deluge yesterday and this morning) or else I would have walked my dog down to the park and maybe had a bbq :D

Yesterday I met up with VS, who has been in India for the past 5 WEEKS! Such a long holiday! So glad we could meeet and chat, I've missed her hehe :)

I thought I was running late (and we agreed to meet at 10) and I was at the bus stop at 9:50am and texted her to tell her I might be a little late-ish then LOL she called me and started rambling and I couldn't tell what she was saying and I finally was able to decepher that my text had woken her up and she'd slept through her alarm. Poor girl, I don't blame her she's still all tired from her holiday :)

I had a peek around the Camera Shop in Towers to see what they sold and walked around for a bit looking for hair pins :) Recently I've also been liking hair pins and clasps. My sister bought me some the other day when she went thrift shopping :D

Anyway VS and I decided to brunch at The Great Bagel and Coffee Company :) The bagels are great but I didn't try the coffee so I can't confirm that one haha

They give you really big knives to cut your bagels witha nd no forks. We also got curly fries with morrocan salt :) SO YUMMY reminds me of that time BT :D

The bagels were pretty small-ish but really filling and we could hardly finish the cakes I had brought with me for dessert. OH YEAH forgot to say 2 days ago one of family friend's came over for dinner and brought with him a whole box and really nice cakes :D

This one was my favourite:

Still haven't eaten this one yet, I brought it yesterday for someone at the library but since it was raining they couldn't make it ><

Okay I was telling KB about this on facebook but funny story- it was raining SO HARD

Okay photo does not do justice to deluge outside; our shoes were soaked and when cars esp TRUCKS drove past we got sprayed with water all over lol

So anyway me and VS decided to walk down to the library and we only had one umbrella (mine) then we got there and we were soaked and tried to dry off in the bathroom

Trying to dry our shoes....

Then we decided to sit on one of those couches and read a girflfriend mag whilst waiting for the rain to subside (it didn't) and there was this RealGirl story about being addicted to eating soap and I was like to VS "Hey remember in year 5 camp I ate some handwash?" [truestory] and she was like WHAT EWWWWW no wonder I thought you were weird in Year 5!!! Me: "You thought I was weird? :( " VS: YOU ATE HANDWASH who wouldn't?????

HAHA to clarify it's cos it smelled like fruit and also okay I was pretty weird LOL but hey it was one time! Haha now I sound like that girl from Mean Girls and someone will put a pic of me in the burn book and be like "Michelle ate handwash" and distribute photocopies of it in corridors and I'll pick it up and be like "Hey that was like one time!!!"

Lol if anyone gets what scene I'm talking about HI-5! It's the 'Made out with a hot dog' one btw haha

Anyway VS had to go and catch her bus and since she didn't have an umbrella I decided to walk her to the bus stop but before we left the library she was like Where's my wallet?? Then I realised Where's my umbrella???

So we tried looking in various places and even asked the guy at the front desk but he said he couldn't find them then I went back to the place we first looked and heypresto they were there HAHA so we walked off to towers. Only when we got to towers did we realise...WE FORGOT TO BORROW OUR BOOKS!! (I had reccommended VS some ItGirl books haha)

So we decided to trek BACK to the library (keep in mind it's still POURING OUT THERE throughout all this) and went to borrow our books. The self-borrow place then told VS she had an unpaid fine on her library card so we went BACK to the counter with the counter guy that definitely knew us by now HAHA and paid the fine, then borrowed the books.

THEN we walked back to towers and went to Coles to buy Peppermint Tea :D After that we walked to the bus stop, waited together for her bus THEN I walked back to the library. Phew! That's a lot of trips to and from haha and I got soakeddddd so I had to go back to the bathroom and use the hairdryer (it didn't work). The library too is FREEZING with the air-con on full blast and I was only wearing a strapless dressa nd a denim jacket so I was soo cold haha and I told my mum to bring stockings and new non-wet shoes when she came to pick me up.

Love: Michelle

P.S. Can't wait to film the Prefect Vid tomorrow!! Hoping it doesn't rain! SS, RC and VB are ah-mazing (they recorded the audio part yesterday) :D Also, I should get started on sewing me and RH's muck-up costumes ><

Summer weather has finally caught up!

And by that, I mean it's very hot here in Australia (as opposed to the constant raining we had in December). Perfect weather for swimming, which is incidentally what I will be looking forward to be doing tomorrow at RC's birthday party :) Ah summer days...
Yesterday my cousin and his fiance came over for dinner :) My mum made really nice food:

This is nice steamed fish :)

My mum makes the BEST steamed oysters :) She puts vermicelli on top

An up close of my oyster. There's a soy sauce-sauce my mum makes to garnish them it tastes really nice :)

Ooh Biscuit got a new toy recently

HAHA it's the starry unicorn thing from Neopets :) She LOVES it. When she want to play fetch she will hold the unicorn in her teeth and brush it against your leg then drop it on your foot HAHA :3

This is Biscuit enjoying her new toy :)

I also rewatched 'Grease'

Remember this movie? I LOVE IT! It's my favourite musical  :D My favourite songs are 'Summer Nights', 'Beauty School Dropout' and 'We Go Together' :) You should watch it if you haven't already!



Hmm what did I do today....Well I decided to study UMAT (well do some practice papers) and since it's so HOT I went to the library :) Nice air-con there. I procrastinated a bit by reading an It-Girl novel (BT remember that time I borrowed one on your dad's library card haha and we were joking about how his card borrow history is just full of It-Girl books?)

It-Girl makes me want to go to a boarding school :( Waverly Owls!!

OH on the subject of Dad's I'd like to do a shoutout to my Dad: HELLO DADDY! I know you read this blog HAHA :)

Ooh I also saw HH, BT and RH at towers tioday and we shopped by RC's present which I hope he will like :) Just casually standing in the can aisle in Coles trying to decide which flavour he would like best and constantly changing our minds haha

OH ANOTHER EXCITING THING: Biscuit's mother Tia had another litter of puppies!! They were vorn on Boxing Day so they're only 9 days old :)

Here are some PHOTOS:

Love: Michelle :)