Cinderella ~ My Fairy Tale ~

I'm perfect because God made me!

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Life Is Like A Boat



Nobody knows who I really am
I never felt this empty before
And if I ever need someone to come along
Who's gonna comfort me and keep me strong

We are all rowing the boat of fate
The waves keep on comin' and we can't escape
But if we ever get lost on our way
The waves would guide you through another day

遠くで息をしてる 透明になったみたい
[Tookude iki wo shiteru toumei ni nattamitai]
暗闇に思えたけど 目隠しされてただけ
[Kurayami ni omoe takedo mekaku shisarete tadake]

祈りをささげて 新しい日を待つ
[Inori wo sasagete atarashii hi wo matsu]
鮮やかに 光る海 その果てまで
[Azayaka ni hikaru umi sono hate made]

Nobody knows who I really am
Maybe they just don't give a damn
But if I ever need someone to come along
I know you would follow me, and keep me strong

人の心はうつりゆく 抜け出したくなる
[Hito no kokoro wa utsuri yuku nukedashita kunaru]
つきはまた新しい周期で 舟を連れてく
[Tsuki wa mata atarashii shuuki de fune wo tsureteku]

And every time I see your face,
The oceans heave up to my heart
You make me wanna strain at the oars,
And soon I can see the shore

Oh, I can see the shore
When will I.... see the shore?

I want you to know who I really am
I never thought I'd feel this way towards you
And if you ever need someone to come along
I will follow you, and keep you strong

旅はまだ続いてく 穏やかな日も
[Tabi wa mada tsudzuiteku odayakana hi mo]
つきはまた新しい周期で 舟を照らし出す
[Tsuki wa mata atarashii shuuki de fune wo terashidasu]

祈りをささげて 新しい日を待つ
[Inori wo sasagete atarashii hi wo matsu]
鮮やかに 光る海 その果てまで
[Azayaka ni hikaru umi sono hate made]

And every time I see your face,
The oceans heave up to my heart
You make me wanna strain at the oars,
And soon I can see the shore

運命の船を漕ぎ
[Unmei no fune wo kogi]
波は次から次へと
[nami wa tsugi kara tsugi e to]
私たちを襲うけど
[Watashitachi wo osou kedo]
それも素敵な旅ね
[Sore mo suteki na tabi ne]
どれも素敵な旅ね
[Dore mo suteki na tabi ne]

~Rie Fu~

It has been a while since I last tagged.
There's a translated lyrics of it and guess I'll be posting it up a bit later.
Yes mom... You have been following me & keeping me strong and for now I'll comfort you & keep you strong...

Friday, May 19, 2006

Cindy's week

It has been quite a tiring week yet an interesting one.

Let's begin on Monday, the first day of class after a 3 days break.
Nothing interesting, especially Musculoskeletal Anatomy Class where we have to sit in Nursing theatre for 2 hours listening to long lecture. It was tiring partly because our lesson starts at 8am this day. No break in between 2 hours of Clinical Exercise Physiology and 2 hours of Musculoskeletal Anatomy - 4 hours straight! Sister-in-law has already mastered "sleeping skills", and therefore no one except for me, who sits directly next to her, notice her sleeping. Just imagine that we have to suffer till 6pm.
Conclusion: A super boring and tiring day.

Tuesday is a bit more interesting.
1) Shorter day. Ends at 2pm.
2) Practising "mono-tone" throughout the 1 hour break.
What is so fun about mono-tone? Simple text won't be able to express it. But it is basically speaking with only one tone. (Just imagine when you are happy, angry or sad, you express them in one tone.)
3) Laundry day. Why is it interesting? 'Coz I haven't done mine for 28 days. (Last laundry day was 17th April =p) Surprising? And I am not running out of clothes to wear yet. Just that I don't feel like wearing something inappropriate to lesson.
Dress? No, Hock Luck! No dress. Skirt? Don't expect me to cycle with my skirts!!

Wednesday, the day I got kidnapped by Wen Ya & Hock Luck from Michelle.
They lured me to them by burittos or so called "wrappa". Michelle couldn't afford the ransom - one packet of udon mee. So... I was "brought" to Morpeth. I like these 2 kidnappers. One gave me nice bed, cooked nice food for me and told me not to help. Another shared his "kimball" chilli sauce imported from Malaysia & coles brand cheese with me. (I wanted his Bulla ice-cream actually) Moreover, watched movie with 3 people, including sis-in-law, dai lou and the kidnapper himself. With such privileged, next time I would volunteer to be kidnapped by them again. Luckily michelle cannot afford to pay the ransom! XD

Thursday, one lecture only with Dr. Robin Callister. Get free lunch from NUSA & went to the lab with sis-in-law and Hock Luck. Did revision on the shoulder girdle, arm, forearm, wrist & hand.
Quite a lot to learn especially the extensor and flexor on forearm and hand. Not as productive as the previous private study but I think we can do it bit by bit.

Today, Friday! Lesson starts at 10am. Had 2 hours of don't-know-what-he-is-talking-about lectures and headed for the lab again. This time, sis-in-law couldn't make it therefore there were only H. Luck, Jesselyn and me. (With a special guest, William) Met David in the Anatomy lab. Well, I was glad to meet him. He helped us a lot in this private study, making it easier for us to learn. We decided to do upperlimbs again since we did not complete it the previous day. So, we, with the help from David, analyse all the muscles from the shoulder girdle to the hands. Then we did the blood vessels & the irritating nerves! Yup, that's it!!

Monday, May 15, 2006

Beach & Steamboat Fiesta!!

After one whole night of hardwork, I finally finished my Learning Goal.
I HAVE to finish it by Saturday since we have planned to go to the beach on Sunday.
Lesson starts at 8 tomorrow morning and I'm yet awake to blog. In fact, I felt sleepy already but due to my wet hair after the bath, I shall just "blog onlyyy laRrrr"!

This morning, I walked to Stannett Street to find that no one was there yet. (We were suppose to meet there) Therefore, I called Dai Lou & Edison, only to find that the Morpeths are "on their way" & the Allowahs are "just leaving home".

While waiting, a poem got stuck into my head.
It was 徐志摩's 再別康橋...

輕輕的我走了 正如我輕輕的來
我輕輕的招手 作別西天的雲彩

那河畔的金柳 是夕陽中的新娘
波光裏的豔影 在我心頭蕩漾

軟泥上的青荇 油油的在水底招搖
在康河的柔波裏 我甘心作一條水草

那榆蔭下的一潭 不是清泉是天上的虹
揉碎在浮藻間 沉澱彩虹似的夢
尋夢 撐支長篙 向青草更青處漫溯
滿載一船星輝 在星輝斑爛裡放歌
但我不能放歌 悄悄是別離的笙簫
夏蟲也為我沉默 沉默是今晚的康橋

悄悄的我走了 正如我悄悄的來
我揮一揮衣袖 不帶走一片雲彩。

Couldn't stop reciting it until I saw 2 familiar faces walking towards the bus stop, Edison & William. The 2 "just leaving home" appeared but NOT the "on the way" people. Apparently, according to Edison & William...
Definition of "on the way" = still at home -.-!!
However, sis-in-law and her friend came 15 mins before Dai Lou and Hock Luck. This very cute sis-in-law scared that I was alone, so she hurried to the bus stop.
*so touched*

Anywayz, we went to the beach and had great fun! Took a lot of pictures too~~~~~ in sis-in-law's camera. hahaha...
Before going back, we had i~c~e c~r~e~a~m!!! *drooling*
But honestly, gelatissimo is still the best! I must go again!!
sis-in-law then invited me to her place for steamboat since it has been very cold recently.
"Go onlyyy laRrrr"! How can I miss steamboat fiesta!?!

While sis-in-law was preparing tonight's dinner, I followed Wen Ya to coles to get some grocery. Cycling is tiring, especially up the hill.
Oh, I have to show off a bit here, 'coz it's not easy cycling up the hills near Morpeth. I managed to cycle up parkhill street but of course completely exhausted and really felt fatigue!!

Back to steamboat. sis-in-law prepared 2 pots - spicy and non spicy, for the sake of me I guess. I don't eat spicy food. Steamboat is really "CHUN"!! Everyone just ATTACK. Kept on fighting for the fish balls and meat balls since we only have limited ingredients.


STEAMBOAT!!!

After steamboat, we have dessert prepared by Edison. "Longan, Rambutan Sprite"
It's F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S!

When most of the dishes have been put into the dishwasher, Hock Luck came out with his Bulla ice cream!


Hock Luck's Bulla Ice cream, that is definitely the cause of ME putting on weight!

I tasted it, it was even BETTER than the ice cream I had earlier...
This Hock Luck... lure me!!
Moreover, he took out his "Dove milk chocolate" and showed us.
eeeeeee...... Wanted to pretend not to see also cannot.
If I put on weight, it will be his fault.

Bottom line: Never show a cancerian food, she won't be able to resist.

And THAT's ME!!!

Finally, upload a picture of 10 of us in the STEAMBOAT FIESTA!!

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

The Notebook

Have you ever heard of "The notebook"?
Just in case you have not, it's a novel written by Nicholas Sparks.
I have always wanted to watch this movie and finally I get the chance to.
Thanks to Kimberly who borrowed it from her housemate (I guess) under her name and lend it to me before she has the chance to watch it.



They say you never forget your first love that's definitely the case in "The notebook".

A sweeping love story was told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The notebook follows the live of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians jam on the porch, that doesn’t stop Noah and Allie from spending one indelible summer together before they are separated, first by her parents and then by WWII.
After the soldiers come home, everything is different. Allie is engaged to a successful businessman and Noah lives alone with his memories in a 200-year-old house he lovingly restores. But when Allie sees an article in local paper about Noah's handiwork, she knows that she's got to find him and make a decision once and for all about the path her life and her love must take.

Yup, I've spend 2 hours or so watching this movie today. This is really GOOD! Grab a chance to watch it if you haven't.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Happy Birthday to Serene and Sister-in-law

I wanna blog. Wanna blog after clinical exercise test, 8th May 2006. But I was too busy. Not busy sleeping but busy celebrating sis-in-law's birthday at Morpeth. I sacrificed my studying time for sis-in-law's birthday cake. Yes! I'm the one making her cake. Although it was just a cake mix, I have to beat the filling manually since I do not have an electric beater. That took me really long since I put in all my effort, my love & my sincerity! What to do? She is my "sister-in-law" afterall!
Right after my 5~6pm class, I cycled all the way back & dashed into the bathroom to take my beauty bath. We, Jesselyn, Serene, Jun Shi & I, has already planned to leave our place at around 7.30pm to Morpeth; I'm already lagging behind time and I really have to do things fast. To my surprise, Kimberly, Yee Man & Xin Yeng were going as well... so, 7 of us walked together using the main road. (Uh uh uh! No shortcuts! It's safer this way..) Not to forget to mention, it was a terribly cold night.
I was also a bit blur leading the way. It's really embarrassing to mention that I brought them the wrong way, even though I'm Morpeth "regular customer"!! What to do? It's so dark! I turned in one street before Acacia Avenue. =p
BUT! The road meets somewhere connecting to the Acacia Avenue, so...
As well entered Morpeth House, the Launae Street ppl has already arrived.
We were very excited about the food and everyone couldn't wait for dinner!
First of all, we sang 4 different languages of "Happy Birthday" songs - English, Chinese, Malay & Cantonese, then we had sis-in-law cutting "my" cake.
Alright, 23 of us just ATTACK~~~~~~~~~

"Wow! Serene, your pork is very nice!!"
"Wah~~ Wen Ya, your pasta is good!!"
"Jesselyn's chicken is sooo tender!!"
Everyone started complimenting on the delicious foods!

"Dai Lou, Dai Lou!! Your fried rice is good!" I pointed at the fried rice and told Dai Lou.
"Really?" He replied without looking at where I was pointing.
"Yup..." continue pointing.
"Eh? Cindy, that's not my fried rice!!" He screamed when he saw my finger pointing towards another pot of fried rice.
"Oops..."
"That's mine!!" Sze Yee shouted.
"Ok then, Sze Yee your fried rice is good."

Sorry Dai Lou, I can't eat your fried rice, you know why...
Next time don't cook spicy seafood fried rice!!

"Cindy, the cheese cake is good!!" <--- sis-in-law & others "Cindy, how come your cheese cake stick to the pan?" <--- Edison! "Eh, Cindy the cheese cake very rich." <--- also Edison, while stealing the whole pab away. "I want somemore." "How did you make the cake?" Well, I was so happy that everyone likes it, especially sister-in-law! Yea, 'coz she is the main character today. Everything we do has to be based on her flavours. After dinner, we had a few photo shots session & proceeded to the card game - "Mafia". Just in case you don't know how to play the game.... 3 cards are picked as the power card.
In our game: J, Q, K
J = Spy/Detective
Q = Doctor/Healer
K = Mafia/Killer
Other cards: Civilians
We can have only one J and one Q but we can have many K's depending on the size of the group.
Cards are being shuffled and distributed. Each person can only glance at the card once. Remember your own roles.
One Narrater starting telling the whole group of people to go to sleep. When narrator tells the Killer to wake up, he opens his eyes and decide who he wants to kill. After deciding, the narrater will tell the killer to go to sleep and wake the healer up. Healer will decide who he wanted to heal and goes back to sleep. Finally, the narrater wakes the spy and he has to guess who the killer is. The narrater is able to tell him either yes or no. Then he will go back to sleep again.
Narrater will then wake everyone up and tell whether there was a murder or not. If so, the players have to nominate at least 2 people and vote who is the suspected killer. If the killer was not found, the game continues until there is no more civilians left.

Yup, that's what we did during sis-in-law's birthday and poor sis-in-law was always the 1st one being killed in the game.


Back to 6th May 2006, Serene's Birthday. It was a Saturday and that is when the Bara Room 112, 121 & 310 are having dinner together. The night before, my dear roommate and I spent hours on the dessert that we will be serving. We of course invited friends from Evatt's House, Edwards Hall & Bara Room 206 residents.
Before Serene coming into my room, we swtiched off the lights and lit the candle on her cake. She was indeed surprised when she saw us.

Dish 1 - Curry Chicken
Credit goes to Kimberly & probably Cindy?? LOLz!!

Dish 2 - Cinnamon cake
Credit goes to the boys.

Dish 3 - mixed vege
Credit goes to Jun Shi & the birthday girl.

Dish 4 - apple crumble
Credit goes to Yee Man & Xin Yeng.

Dish 5 - 麻吉
Credit goes to Tian Mun.

Dish 6 - Sausage
Credit goes to Sexy Hu.

Dish 7 - fried vege
Credit goes to Sexy Hu again.

Dish 8 - Nutella 饅頭
Credit goes to Shook Hui.

Dish 9 - 西米露
Credit goes to Cindy & Shook Hui.

Dish 10 - not a dish... Ribena
Credit goes to Cindy. =p


Anyway the food was fabulous, no one has the time to chit chat.
Just ATTACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gosh!! Everything was so nice so delicious.
I'm gonna put on weight for sure.
BUT!!!
This day is INTERNATIONAL NO DIET DAY!!
NO DIET!! Eat all you can!!

After the dinner, we had game sessions!
We played 7-level pig and mafia.

Now, proudly present our pigs.

Round 1

Congratulations to Kimberly
7-level pig


Round 2

Congratulations to Yee Man
7-level pig

&

Xin Yeng
6-level pig

Proudly present Cindy & Sexy Hu are 0-level pig in Round 2.


Hmm... guess that's all for now! Once again, Happy Birthday to Serene and sis-in-law!! "Belated" Birthday.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Cam Whoring

Venue: Evatt's House, Kimberly's Room
Date: 4th May 2006
Time: 3.30pm~5.00pm
Cam whores: Cindy, Kimberly & Sexy Hu
Reasons: Stress from Clinical Exercise Physiology & nothing better to do

Prologue:

A cooling autumn day, 3 girls dragged their feet back from Huxley Library when Sexy Hu requested for a glass of juice from Kimberly. As Kimberly was staying a few steps from the library, she offered both the girls back to her place. They gossip a while in Kimberly's room & decided to get their drinks in the kitchen. Everything went on well as planned - Cooling autumn day with a glass of icy cold fruit juice...

Interlude:

Cindy was looking around when suddenly something caught her eyes. "Supre" bag! A green colour "Supre" bag! Kimberly was really excited with it & started to show both Cindy & Sexy Hu her collection of "Supre" bags! Blue ones, Green ones, different shades of pinks as well as a very special black one. Then, she started showing all the clothes that she bought from Supre, as well as a pink evening gown that she bought for only AUD5.00!!! Sexy Hu was quite curious with evening gowns while Kimberly continue showing them other evening gowns she had. A red one and a blue one. She suggested dressing themselves up and be camwhores! Yup, and they did.


Kimberly, Sexy Hu with a devil horn & Cindy

Kimberly, Cindy & Sexy Hu

Cindy, Kimberly & Sexy Hu

Cindy & Sexy Hu with a devil horn

Sexy Hu~ *drool*

Cindy

Cindy & Sexy Hu *pretending*

















So, the dress up camwhore thing went on for an hour or so. Cindy wanted to change back but was stopped by the other two. They were saying that since they have already dressed up, why not just take more photos & they did! Same 3 people, same room, same spot, different poses...


Epilogue:

"That was a bit too much of camwhoring," Cindy thought. Soon they changed back to their own outfit & this is it!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Kyo - Sarah


Kyo - Sarah


Like this song a lot...

Sarah is pretty only when she cry. When she sees her mother at the bottom of the glass, at this hour, "I" see fire extinguish in her eyes and the fear of the future, hidden in the voice. So, why "me"?
People can see her smiling when her father sleeps. It was too sad and too extreme when he died. Sarah knows that the hope of an egoistic dream exists under the white cherry trees. So, why "me"?
"I" had the easy life but "I" was not used for nothing, then "I" shared her sorrow, today "I" am somebody. In front of her, "I" incline myself that Sarah is the queen of the women because I can see an angel this morning in "my" kitchen.

eRm... not so sure how to direct translate...
I haven't touched French for so long and I'm not 5 years old anymore which means my learning ability drops to a very low stage, memory dropped as well... and it's harder for me to pick up a new language at this age... (finding excuse for myself only... =p)

Sarah, elle est belle mais seulement quand elle pleure
Quand elle voit sa mère au fond d'son verre
Et ce, quelque soit l'heure
J'ai vu tellement de feux éteints dans les yeux de Sarah
Et la peur des lendemains, bien cachée dans sa voix
Alors pourquoi moi ?

On peut la voir sourire parfois depuis que son père dort
Il était bien trop triste et bien trop fort mais depuis qu'il est mort
Sarah sait qu'il existe sous les cerisiers blancs
L'espoir d'un rêve égoïste de vivre seulement

Alors pourquoi moi ?
Alors pourquoi moi ?

J'ai eu la vie facile mais je n'servais à rien
Puis j'ai partagé sa peine, aujourd'hui je suis quelqu'un
Sarah, reine des femmes, devant elle je m'incline
Car je peux voir ce matin un ange dans ma cuisine

Sarah, elle est belle mais seulement quand elle est nue
Le corps tendu par ses grands airs, mes doigts collés à sa nuque
Sarah, reine des femmes, devant elle je m'incline
Car je peux voir ce matin un ange...
Un ange