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Today's blog is all about food, food, foooddd!!! and is terribly overdue. My apologies! I'll start straight away!

Makizo Restaurant.

Okay, don't blame me, i had this around last week sometime so my tastebud memory might be a bit blurry but here goes nothing!



Name: Makizo Japanese Restaurant.
Location: 210C New South Head Road , Edgecliff.
(conveniently located next to my school!)



After a long day at school, my fellow hungry students and i stumbled into Makizo searching for the "yummy food" that we had heard about. Nothing lifts my mood more than good service, a quiet atmosphere with gentle instrumental music and the delicious smell of good food in the air!! And now, to the food!



The Wakame salad! It's really simple but super yummy!



Tempura with Udon! Cool arrangement huh?



My dish, Teriyaki Chicken with Wasabi mashed potato. I must admit, this sounded like a weird combo. Usually, when eating teriyaki chicken i have rice, but wasabi mashed potato?! What the noodle?! But i can tell you, it was really worth the try and after all, they serve "modern" Japanese Cuisine. The mashed potato would melt in your mouth and had a subtle aftertaste of wasabi. The mash combined with the tender juicy chicken pieces was the perfect match. I usually am not the sort to take spice, but the wasabi was very subtle and thinking about it makes me want some now!



Banana tempura. Again, what the noodle?! This is not your ordinary desert dish. I have to admit, im not much of a banana person but it was hard to resist the sweet crunchiness of the banana tempura. If anyone reading this right now decides to go to Makizo, i recommend they try this but thats just a thought. Oh and

and now....
onto actual cooking!!!!

Soph's baking day!

Now that we've eaten food, we question to ourselves.. can we make food?



Just a quick shot standing in her pristine clean kitchen... RAR!


Pokemon Cupcakes.




I know, so... it kinda looks like lumpy yellow turd atm wtf.



VrmmmMMmm! Man, holding that electric beater was dangerous but so funn!!



I look pretty happy, yes?!
(and would you look at her view in the background, that's so mad cool!! Her view is amazing!)



Here's another picture of it, i really love this picture of Sam and me.
(note: we look like asian tourists no?)
and...
the end product.




Lumpy... pokeballs wtf. Must've been some real retarded pokemons in there!
Okay, i'll stop lying... it's because when the cupcakes come out, they kind of looked like.. this.



Which looks more like scones or muffins to me......
and, when we got sick of pokeballs, we decorated some more..



Guess which one's mine? and Sam's one is looking dangerously and poisonously blue.
NOM NOM!!!

- The End -

Romeo and Juliet lives.
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Location: Canberra, Australia.
Event: Art assessment. (eww...)
Date: 25th March - 26th March.
Time: waking up at 5am, returning next day at 5pm. (sleep deprived!!)
Purpose: Using available exhibitions to answer one of three essay questions.

Highlights: Got to cut in line for "Masterpiece from Paris" exhibition (the queue was fricken massive!!), worked well with friends (we were the most organised!), got the essay over and done with and shopping (found a pair of really cute earrings!)

Lowlights: Sleep deprivation, crappy frozen food, mosquitoes (kill them all!), temperature moodswings (hot and then cold like the temperature PMS), restrictions (not allowed to have any mobile, camera, net, ipod access - teachers thought we could use them to cheat so not allowed!)

Overall summary: 5am wake ups are not good, it leads to bad skin, bad temper and bad appearance. The "Masterpieces from Paris" was awesome, when i actually started appreciating the fact that i may never see it again in my life again unless i fly to Paris. So cliche, but i fell in love with "Starry Night" - Vincent Van Gogh. The privilege of being able to cut in line is also uber awesome, but it means death stares from people who have been queuing up for hours. Stress and camps usually end up in junk food snacking and crazy laughs. This is our last Canberra camp ever. <3. Even though we were stressed and it felt annoying at the time, this is something for us to cherish.