my little panda kitchen

a little treat to celebrate the end of exams (and chuck in luke and my birthdays, since we were too busy to organise a proper cake for both of our birthdays). a beautiful vegan cake by annabelle from my little panda kitchen!! definitely a photogenic subject for some glamour shots, but more than that a super duper delicious choc matcha cake - perfect for celebrating. ahhh the sweet taste of freedom ^_^

Karen  ♥

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wild berry mix smoothie

The way I make my favourite wild berry mix smoothie at home! This stuff (+ sunlight coming through the window) keeps me going when I'm studying, because we all know how bland that is...

• Frozen berries
• Frozen banana
• Yoghurt
• Milk
• Muscovado sugar

Basically just blend it all in a blender until the consistency is smooth. Easy as! You can adjust the amount of milk and yoghurt depending on how thick you want the drink to be, I always just eyeball the amounts (because I'm lazy). I also like adding in a banana and muscovado sugar to give it some extra oomph, flavour-wise. Yum!

私が大好きなスムージーの作り方、カレン風です。最近勉強が大変になってきたけど、これを飲みながらテスト勉強すると何とかできるよ！

• 凍ってるベリー
• 凍ってるバナナ
• ヨーグルト
• 牛乳
• 黒砂糖

材料が全部混ざるまでブレンダーでブレンドしてね。すごく簡単だよ！牛乳とヨーグルトの量を調整してスムージーの水っぽさを自分の好きなぐらいにします。材料の量も適当に入れて大丈夫。ベリーと一緒にバナナと黒砂糖も入れると味がすごく美味しくなるよ。暑い日にもバッチリ、作ってみてね！

Karen  ♥

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Candy Candy

I was home alone the whole day and I really didn't eat good things except for breakfast. I had 4 pieces of raspberry jam-ed toast, strawberry yoghurt and a cup of milk. Then for lunch I had 3 raspberry yoghurt tops muesli bars and a self-made, really dodgy omelette. Then for afternoon tea/before dinner snack I had candy and a soda flavoured ice candy block thingy.

Yeah, not the best.

But it tasted good!

Grape flavoured whistle candy! It's a Japanese candy that I used to eat all the time! You put it between your teeth and breath in air and it makes a whistling sound, and it's super loud. I used to get in trouble all the time for being too loud with these candies!

They also come with a bonus toy. The side of the box says if it's for boys or girls, obviously my brother didn't check because I got a boys box. It came with a little green spinning top.

And a bottle full of soda flavoured ice candy!

And here's a nice little song about candy!

Quirks

Call me a total weirdo but I'm going to blog about food and soap. Yep, I'm going to talk to you about chocolate, jam and foamy soap!

So, I don't usually eat that much chocolate but my mum had left me a whole block of the new Cadbury chocolate and I couldn't help myself but eat it! It was the new marvellous creations chocolate. The goodness of Cadbury milk chocolate with popping candy, jelly beans and smarties. Okay, it doesn't sound that great but it is seriously so amazing! I could eat it forever! The texture is really weird, chewy and creamy and crunchy all at the same time, but I seriously can't get enough of it!

My friend from dancing also gave me a cute little box of Guylian chocolates as a late birthday present and just on Saturday I got to share it with my family. It tasted as good as always but it's a little too rich for me so I only had one of those (and saved the rest of my stomach for the Cadbury goodness).

Also, I came home from school today and treated myself to 4 slices of raspberry jam-ed toast. Call me an even more of a weirdo but I might just be a tad bit obsessed with jam. Berry jam to be exact. I eat it on toast for breakfast and also when I get back from school. And my favourite brand is Dick Smith's. It's just so good, okay?

And when I went to wash my hands, like a little good girl, before eating my toast I found some new stuff in the bathroom. My mum had bought, especially for me, some new soap. Not just any soap but foamy soap that smells like pink grapefruit goodness. IT ACTUALLY SMELLS SO GOOD! I was seriously just sitting at my computer smelling my hands when I first washed my hands.

Okay, I get really excited over weird things.

+ Vivian

Today was a very, very nice day. I went out to the city with the lovely, lovely Vivian! She is super adorable and super amazing! We went out to buy a gift for a friend and just nice stuff for ourselves.

We met up at Central and walked our way to Market City in Chinatown. Crazy because Vivian has like never been there! Anyway, we went to Rubi and Jay Jays and Vivian has already spent almost $50. She's crazy. She bought some really funky boots that were reduced to $15 from $60 (score!), and a Minnie Mouse shirt from Jay Jays. I bought a matching shirt too! Aren't we cute?

Then we walked our way to Pitt St. On our way there we were on the lookout for cute clothes, but I ended up at Fuji Pan! I bought a raspberry pie and green tea melon bread. SUPER DELICIOUS.

When we got to Pitt St we got Moochi. It was Vivian's first time having Moochi, which was pretty exciting. Today I had pomegranate yoghurt with strawberries and crumble. It tasted really good, probably the best combination that I have tried so far (though I am yet to try green tea yoghurt or the mochi toppings).

At this point we had decided that we weren't really shopping for things anymore, we were just hanging around and having fun. So we decided to walk to Broadway (which Vivian had only been to once!) but we didn't really look around, we went to the park opposite the shopping centre. We had so much fun at the park. I'm not joking. We took weird random photos and laughed our heads off. And we took some beautiful polaroids too.

This was inside the shopping mall, in the food court.

The park all blurry! (I'm a bit obsessed with unfocused scenery pictures at the moment)

Vivian being her gorgeous self.

 

This was on the way home.

When I think back about today it makes me smile. It was so much fun hanging with Vivian, and she is super gorgeous! VIVIAN, WE SHOULD GO AGAIN! Though my feet are killing me at the moment from all the walking we did today...

Fly!

Today is the 24th, which means my brother flew off to Japan on his own! I am so jealous, I really want to go back to Japan! He is going for a month, and attending school there as well. I woke up at 5:30am and was off to the airport!

I didn't have any breakfast before leaving the house so at the airport I had a donut and berry smoothie! Hadn't had a Krispy Kreme and so long almost had forgotten how great they taste!

After we checked in Luke's baggage and all that stuff he left with an air-hostess and my parents decided to hang around until his plane left. I think they were a bit worried about him.

So we walked up to the observation deck to see if we could see his plane. We couldn't... So we went back down to the food court area and we could see his plane from the huge window so we waited there. And when the plane started to leave we were all waving. I think my dad was getting teary...

After Luke's plane went up into the sky and we came back home it was only 10 o'clock so we had a little break and then I went shopping at Broadway with my mum. This was my outfit for the day. I wore my skirt that I got for $10 and my favourite lace up boots, with my REAL sweater.

And these are the things I bought today. I went to a lot of different shops but I only bought stuff from this cute little shop called Gumboots. It's kind of like Pumpkin Patch but so much cuter and nicer and better and all that good stuff! I bought a mirror for $2.95, tights for $12.95 and cute red and white polka shorts for $14.95! I can't wait to wear the shorts, they are so adorable! I'll wear them with tights because you know, it's winter...