Cinderella ~ My Fairy Tale ~

I'm perfect because God made me!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Home Sweet Home

I'm home... for 4 days already...
Home sweet home!
I better make a list of what I am going to eat!!!
  1. Roti Canai
  2. Bak Kut Teh
  3. Poh Piah
  4. 1901 New York Chicken Hot Dog
  5. Durian
  6. Mom's dishes Never Enough!!
  7. Curry
  8. Assam Laksa
  9. Japanese Cuisine
  10. Western Food
  11. KFC Cheesy Wedges
  12. Papaya milk shake
  13. Maggie Goreng
  14. Teh Ais
  15. Milo Ais
  16. Soya Milk
  17. Char Kuey Teow
  18. Chicken Rice
  19. Sour Sop
  20. Red Bean Ice Kacang
  21. ... still making my list...
I have completed 8 out of 20 so far... where mom's dishes are not counted because I have only eaten a few dishes only! More to come!! And I'm gonna go back FAT!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Habit

It has been going on for so long and it has become a habit…

A habit is like a slow poison…

It penetrates through your skin, into your flesh, into your blood stream and finally reaches your heart…

Once the poison reaches your heart, you are hopeless…


I’m…

Just too used to have the person around…

Just too used to seek help from him…

Just too used to have that person to quarrel with…

Just too used to depend on the person…

It seemed that whatever that person does for you become a necessity…

No, I do not take it for granted…

I cherish it…

It’s a gift from the heaven…



The best gift ever - The friendship between you and me.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

FIRE

Stupid arrogant MAS staffs, you all can go to hell!
What is so GREAT of your airline anyway? Just because I got a Q class economy ticket? So what? What's with stucking up your nose and say "No, it's not available" when there are actually more seats available for the internet booking.
Are you still gonna stop me from booking a seat if the flight is departuring today and you still have un-sold seats? No wonder you are in debt until Air Asia take over your stupid money-losing-domestic routes, where they can earn from it while you guys lose money!
Business Class? You may be the top ranking of all flights but your economy class service sucks!

PS. That only applies to "stupid arrogant MAS staffs"! Don't look elsewhere losers, don't deny that, 'coz you are! Damn it!

PPS. To those kind and helpful MAS staffs, I'm sorry but you are working with a bunch of arrogant losers.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

小叮噹感人的結局

某天,大雄如往常般,忘了做作業在學校被老師罵,也如往常般被技安、阿福他們欺負...

連未來的老婆宜靜也答應要先嫁給別人。

今天跟昨天沒什麼兩樣。

唯一的變化是,小叮噹突然變成植物機器人...

無論大雄怎麼踢、打、罵,小叮噹都沒有反應。

大雄不知道小叮噹到底發生了什麼事...

只傷心得哭了整晚。

可是,無論大雄再傷心透頂,小叮噹也只是紋風不動地坐在地上...

大雄也伸手到口袋裡但口袋也豪無任何動靜。

然後大雄想起抽屜裡的時間飛行機,穿著睡衣到22世紀去找小叮噹的妹妹小叮鈴。

小叮鈴還沒完全聽完說明,就被大雄催著坐上飛行機飛回20世紀。

小叮鈴一看哥哥動也不動,馬上知道是電池用完了。

正想換電池的時候,小叮鈴想起一個非常重大的事。

沒有備用電源……

大雄不懂得其中意思,只在一旁催。

小叮鈴只好問大雄:你願意讓哥哥跟你的回憶都消失嗎?

原來舊型的貓機器人的耳朵裡,裝有備用電源,以便充電時能保持至今為止的記憶。

可是……小叮噹沒有耳朵!(這是眾所皆知的吧。)

大雄終於裡解了事情的困難。種種回憶在大雄的腦海裡奔騰大雄跟小叮噹曾飛到過去、未來,也曾到恐龍世界,海底世界,更在宇宙打過仗……

小叮鈴拼命解釋給大雄聽。若要裝新電池,小叮噹醒來時會失去一切與大雄曾有過的回憶。若保持現狀,記憶不會消失。

結果,大雄選擇保持現狀。

此時,大雄還是小學六年級。

十數年後……

從海外歸國的大雄,已成長為英俊迷人的青年,並就職於某家尖端科技的企業。

他身邊的新娘,正是宜靜。

當年,小叮鈴回到22世紀後,大雄只跟身邊的人們說,小叮噹回到未來的世界去了。

時日一久,也就沒人再提小叮噹的事。不過,小叮噹其實一直被保管在大雄家的壁櫥裡。

大雄為了修好小叮噹,拼命用功讀書,然後國中、高中、大學,成績逐年昇騰。最後出國到著名的大學留學。

現在,大雄身在他自己的研究室中。

他叫來平日嚴禁其出入研究室的妻子宜靜。對她說:

妳看好,我要按開關了。

說完,大雄頰上情不自禁流下兩串淚珠。

他就是為了這一刻,苦學了十幾年……

為了這一刻,從一個老是忘了做作業、成績從倒數起算的笨學生,爬到今天的地位……

開關按下後,久久一陣靜寂,靜寂……

終於,小叮噹開口了:

『大雄,我等你很久了。』

葉子

認識他是在寒假剛過完的一個溫暖下午。照慣例進了麥當勞
點了中杯健怡,找到老位置。

早春的陽光也很舒服,拿吸管時一個不留神,把我裝零錢的
小錢包給掃到地上去了。彎身,小錢包並不是孤伶伶地映入
我的眼裡。小錢包身邊躺了一個大錢包。伸手把兩個錢包都
拿起來,收起我的小錢包,把大錢包擺在一旁。心想或許不
久之後就會有個慌慌張張的人來領他回去。
  
太陽漸漸的收回他溫暖的光翼,最後一絲陽光從我桌前撤守
時,也是我該撤守的時候。大錢包依然孤伶伶躺在那裡,像
被惡意遺棄過一次,現在又等著我再遺棄他一次。我不會遺
棄他的,我會把他交給麥當勞,讓他在薯條香中繼續等待。

拿起大錢包,大錢包的拉鍊上拴了一個護貝過的葉型小紙
片,上面寫著:

『我是葉子的錢包,如果你看到我而沒看到葉子,可不可以
打葉子的手機,跟他說我迷路了,電話是………幫幫我嘛!
好不好?』

翻出了電話卡,或許我還可以幫『葉子的錢包』最後一個
忙。撥通了電話,收訊不是很好。

「請問是『葉子』……先生嗎?」

遲疑了很久,終於加上個先生以示尊重。

『..是的,我是葉子,請問你是……』
「我是替你的皮包打電話給你的………」
『我的錢包……my goodness……他現在在那裡…』

聽那個口氣活像小孩被綁架一樣。

「在你下午待過的麥當勞,我會把他留給麥當勞姊姊…」
『呃…我現在正趕往那裡,你可不可以等我10分鐘…』

葉子堅持不讓我把錢包交給甜美可愛的麥當勞姊姊,雖然偶
而會有瑕疵品,但是根據我長年泡這家麥當勞的經驗,這家
的麥當勞姊姊除了嗓門大了些,不開口還可以端得上台面。

10分鐘佔生命的多少?我不知道。10分鐘可以讓我做什麼?
剛好夠我走回家,當然我也可以選擇等待。我決定等待。

「好吧!」

我又給自己點了一杯小杯健怡,坐在面對馬路的窗口。葉子
的錢包就擺在我面前,我想他該一眼就可以認出來的。不知
道過了多久,有一個人貼在我面前的玻璃直盯著我面前的錢
包看。我睜大了眼睛看著他,他在窗戶外比手劃腳的,不知
道比出了什麼名堂。好吧!既然他不進來,那我出去好了。

走出了麥當勞,男人快步的走過來。那個樣子很像要從我身
上撲來,急忙把錢包擋在前面,跟他保持一臂之寬的距離,
萬一真的要逃命的話,那我好歹也有機會。

葉子接過了錢包,緊緊把它抱在胸前。一臉感激的對我說:

『謝謝你……我找了他一下午囉!』
「不客氣…」
『還沒請問…』
「我們會再見嗎?!」
『機會應該不大……』
「那你就不需要多記一個名字,反正你很少有機會用到...」

對於不太可能會再度相遇的人,名字是多餘的東西。反正下
次遇見時說不定還是得再問一次名字。或許到時候這個人已
經在印象裡完全風化,對面不相識也不無可能。所以,我沒
有跟葉子說名字。

從那個星期開始我常常可以在週末的麥當勞看見葉子。也不
知道是不是故意,他老是跟我坐同一排,不同的是我喝健
怡,他喝咖啡。

認識葉子久了,我發現葉子的東西上都有一個葉型的的小紙
片。小紙片上寫著短短的文字,表達著他對周遭事物的觀
感。葉子的鑰匙圈上有一串零零散散的鑰匙,葉子說他從上
小學開始鑰匙就只有增加沒有減少。小小的葉型小紙片在眾
多的鑰匙中被吞沒。

『我是葉子的鑰匙,雖然葉子不怎麼喜歡我,但是我是葉子
生活的生活如果你看到我被葉子惡意遺棄,請你打葉子的手
機,號碼是……告訴葉子,我對他很重要。』

有一回,我開始好奇,萬一有一天丟掉的是他的手機,那要
怎麼找葉子呢?於是我跟葉子借了手機。

『好啊!』

接過葉子的手機,我開始端詳起上面的葉型小紙片。

『我是葉子的手機,葉子很寵我。葉子不大可能把我忘在這
裡的,他可能有事離開一下下。但是如果他忘了我,請摳他
摳機,打代號00。然後等葉子打過來,告訴他我在哪。』

『你在看什麼?!』葉子對我一直看葉型標籤覺得很好奇。

我把手機還給他,說:

「你的葉型小看版很有趣。」
『哦!你說那個啊!人難免都會丟東西嘛!不管你喜不喜歡
他,他都是你的,你都得找回他。所以掛個小看版昭告天
下,他是我的,通知我領回他……』
「你所有的東西都有這個小看版嗎?」
『嗯!像是一種歸屬證明,只要是葉子的,都會有葉子的看
版。』

葉子在他所有的東西上掛上小紙片,強調所有物跟所有者的
關係。葉子怕失去他的所有物。這些東西是他生活的全部,
不管他喜不喜歡他的所有物。但是葉子的生活靠這些東西而
成立。這些東西屬於葉子,而葉子也屬於這些東西。

葉子話多。像秋天的葉子,風一吹就悉悉窣窣個沒完沒了。
葉子之所以絮絮叨叨,因為他寂寞。葉子之所以寂寞,我想
適因為他太優秀。葉子有優秀的家世背景,優秀的學歷才
能,優秀的工作。但是葉子說他沒有朋友。雖然葉子的手機
老是響起,但是葉子仍然堅稱他沒有朋友。每回葉子總會想
盡辦法跟我說話,就算我不答腔,葉子也可以說得很高興。

『今天天氣真好…..』
「嗯….」
『我喜歡這種天氣,你看這是我剛剛從我家花園採來的…』

葉子獻寶似的遞過一朵山茶花。都忘了是山茶花開的時候
了,山上應該是火燒似的山茶熱熱鬧鬧開滿山。

『這是我媽種的…』
「很漂亮,山上的山茶花應該開得滿山都是了吧!」
『想不想上山去看看….我有開車…』
「這種天開車沒意思,這種天要走路上山才好玩……」

我咬著吸管這麼說。停了五秒鐘,葉子拉了我就走。

「葉子,你做什麼?!」
『你不是要爬山嗎?我們走啊!』

葉子脫下他的西裝外套,一路上還是嘰嘰喳喳的。很難想像
眼前這個人天天坐辦公室

『喂!我們現在常常見面,你總該跟我說你叫什麼了…』

這是每一次葉子見到我會說的開場白。暑假前最後一個週
末,我問他:

「這是你每禮拜泡麥當勞喝咖啡的目的……」
『嗯…』

葉子用力的點了點頭。突然間我不想跟他說我的名字了。我
的名字成了一個咒語,一旦說出口,那麼葉子的麥當勞魔咒
就會解除,他不用每個禮拜泡麥當勞,喝那種低劣的咖啡。
那我也不用特別期待週末下午的健怡可樂。面對這個問題,
我都避而不答。躲避歸躲避,問題還是在,時候到了總要面
對。

灰姑娘本質就是寒酸,不管仙女給他的變身再怎麼華麗,午
夜十二點的鐘聲一定會響,灰姑娘還是得面對寒酸。睡美人
不會永遠沈睡:野獸總有變回王子的一天。反正所有的咒語
都有解除的一天,我不想違背遊戲規則。

「你可以叫我蓮子。」

灰姑娘試著保留住玻璃鞋,就算只有一隻腳,那也夠了。足
夠讓灰姑娘再看見王子一面。足夠讓灰姑娘還懷有一絲希
望。

『不會吧!你沒有姓氏的嗎?』

葉子不解的問著。喝著健怡,我沈默了五秒鐘。

「這真的是你泡麥當勞的目的嗎?」葉子仍然用力的點頭。

其實留著玻璃鞋的的灰姑娘適冒險的。就算灰姑娘保留住了
一隻腳的玻璃鞋,如果王子對灰姑娘一點意思也沒有,那麼
灰姑娘也只能抱著玻璃鞋跟一肚子癡心妄想,繼續拖地板洗
碗盤。日子依舊悲苦,而且更為悲苦。沒有那一點癡心妄
想,日子會一如往昔。有那一點癡心妄想,天天得承受一次
失望。所以這一次灰姑娘決定砸碎玻璃鞋。既然咒語終將破
除,那倒不如破個乾乾淨淨。

「林蓮衣。」

停了五秒鐘我又問了一次。

「這真的是你泡麥當勞的目的嗎?」

我期待著聽到一個不同的答案。就像期待午夜十二點的鐘聲
響過之後,一切都不會有改變的灰姑娘一樣。

『那你泡麥當勞的目的是什麼呢?!』

問得好! 現在連我都不得不問自己這個問題。本來麥當勞對
我而言有陽光有健怡,後來麥當勞對我而言有陽光有健怡有
葉子,現在麥當勞對我而言有什麼?!

我並沒有回答葉子。默默的我起身,在陽光還沒撤守之前,
我離開了麥當勞。沒有說再見。玻璃鞋是可以說再見的唯一
理由。但是我把玻璃鞋都砸了,我有什麼理由可以說再見。

過了一個暑假。一樣的麥當勞,一樣的建怡。只是沒想到還
有一樣的葉子。

『暑假好嗎?!』

一樣多話的葉子。

「嗯…」

葉子叨叨絮絮的說著近三個月來的生活。我一直沈默。砸了
玻璃鞋之後的灰姑娘,再遇見王子時,該跟他說什麼?我以
尷尬的沈默坐在葉子對面。喝著健怡,讓氣泡填滿我的腦
子。

週末下午,我慣性的推開麥當勞的門,點了中杯建怡。但
是,我換了一個角落的位置。我努力的要使我的生活回歸正
常。辛蒂瑞拉的命運終就只在拖把跟髒碗碟間。雖然曾經拉
過幸福的衣角,但曾經有多少可能會成為永久。一直回鍋短
暫的幸福,不但填不飽肚皮,而且只會越來越餓。所以有時
候遺忘是一種必然。

『蓮子…』

該死。為什麼要在我正努力說服我自己忘掉葉子的時候,又
聽到葉子的聲音。咒語已經解除,他不必要在出現在這裡了
呀!葉子在我對面坐了下來。但是沒有說話。這不像葉子。
抬頭面對沈默的葉子。我不知道該說什麼,於是跟葉子在這
尷尬的沈默下僵持著。

『你終於肯抬頭看我了…』

謝天謝地,葉子還是多話的葉子。

『問你一件事?!』

我點點頭。

『你討厭我嗎?!』

我搖搖頭。

『那你為什麼躲我?!為什麼不理我?!』

問得好!我也在問我自己。

「你只有一個問題。」
『我一定很討人厭…』
「不會的…」
『說謊…』
「我說實話…」
『證實給我看。』
「如何證實……」
『把妳的左手給我……』

我乖乖的伸出了我的左手。葉子拿出了一條五色幸運帶,帶
子上有一個護貝葉型小紙片。葉子把他套在我的左手腕。小
葉片上仍舊有葉子寫下的話。

『我是葉子的女朋友,葉子很愛我。如果你看到我,卻看不
到葉子那請記得提醒我,三不五時打葉子的手機,電是……
告訴葉子,我想他……』

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Gold Coast

So I was away from Newcastle to Brisbane for 5 days...
Our destination was Gold Coast actually but the air ticket to Gold Coast was at least double the price to Brisbane when we bought the tickets. Funny huh? It's just an one-hour-train ride apart but such a great difference in the price. The adventurers include Fritz, Yu Wooi, Michelle, Sim, KB and me. Too bad that HL didn't join. Anyway, he will be going there with his parents during Christmas break, enjoying a different form of "fun".

Day 1. Brisbane
Our flight was 2pm... but we left home very early ~ 9.45am. HL "intentionally" woke up and send us off (not true). When 6 of us reached the Newcastle domestic airport, the Jetstar counter was not even opened! You know, kiasu people like us want to be the first one to check in. The counter opened after a short waiting time and any outsiders can see 6 kiasu Chinese rushing to the counter. This is when we found out that actually angmous are also very kiasu. At least we followed the line into the counter unlike this granny who cut into the counter from the side. No, she did not cut queue. She was just smart enough to take the shortest route to the counter before us.

Newcastle domestic Airport

Brisbane Transit

Queens Street

While waiting for Fritz's friend, David...
The consequences of don't-know-what-to-do...

Chilling at Queens Street

Outside Casino

Don't-know-what-bridge

I'm just the Keh-leh-feh

So random

Day 2. Gold Coast - Movie World
We left Brisbane YHA early in the morning, taking the first train down to Gold Coast. Everyone rushed to the nearest train station at Roma Street. The journey was about 1 hour and piggy me (as usual) slept nearly throughout the journey. Even KB was very impressed in how I could sleep in such difficult position (sleeping dead on my right arm), without any complaints of pain. In fact, it did hurt a lot when I woke up but not when I was asleep. =p

Once we reached Gold Coast, we headed straight to our booked apartment at Broadbeach. The apartment was superb... look at the photos and you will know what I meant.

Looking out from our balcony

3-rooms-apartment

Jacuzzi in Fritz and Yu Wooi's private bathroom

Shared Toilet

Sim and Michelle's Room

My bed for two nights

After putting our luggages in our apartment, we took the shuttle bus to movie world...

Movie World

The 6 adventurers

Cannot wait to conquer all the extreme rides! (Err... not me! Hahaha!)

90-meters-high BATWING

Two of the three conquerers

Launching...

And they conquered it!

Superman - Escape

Check out the 90 degrees fall

And we managed to escape from the subway thanks to superman!

Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster

Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster was awesome... 4 of us were in one car and we cannot see where we were going because we were in total darkness... correct myself, almost total darkness... Every second was full of surprises, such as travelling backwards, going upwards... It was simply awesome! Next, we also went for the 4D Shrek show about how Shrek and Donkey saving Fiona from the stupid dead king spirit... It was GREAT! Having water splashing out onto your face when Donkey sneezes, the feeling of spiders crawling on your neck *shiver* and more...

Shrek 4D cinema

After the Shrek 4D show, we went for the police stunt show. There are only 2 shows per day! We cannot miss it!! It was so good that I couldn't use any words to describe it but to say "GO WATCH IT YOURSELF"!! Ok ok... I'll just upload some catchy photos...

Police Stunt Show

More...

More...

And more!!

Of course, we must not miss the PARADE!!!

Parade - Batman

Parade - Marilyn Monroe

Parade - Hunting Daffy?

Parade - Scooby-Dooooooo

More Parade Characters

Check this out!

The prior two extreme rides - BatWing and Superman could not satisfy the 3-thrill-seekers - Fritz, Yu Wooi and KB. So, they headed to the Lethal Weapon... The height and speed are both to the extreme category... *Salut*

*Ta-Da* This is the Lethal Weapon

Surprisingly, all these could not satisfy our thirst and hunger for excitements. We ended up taking rides at the kids section...

Me on Flying Daffy Duck

The carousel gang

Me in Tweety cage...

Ended with some crazy poses for final photos...

Shoryūken!

Charging...Charging...Charing...

Ultraman

That's all folks~


Day 3 - Sea World
Woke up early for our next destination - Sea World. Everyone was well-prepared for the upcoming challenge.

Sea World

We are fully prepared!!

She was cleaning the glass...

Dolphin!! It's sooooo near to us!

Some seahorse ride...

The view from the seahorse part I

The view from the seahorse part II

Of course we could not miss the Seal show and the Dolphin show! (Although I have already watched it so many times in other places - Singapore, HK, Taiwan...) BUT! Their shows are very special. It is different from the other shows that I have watched. For the Seal show, it should be called a play to be exact. A play of the seal being an inspector and how it arrest this guy... The dolphin show was magnificent too! It shows how beautifully the dolphins dive and more! Once again, "GO WATCH IT YOURSELF"!! Worth watching!

Seal show

Inspect inspect...

See who's taller

CPR CPR!!

Dolphin show

She was riding on two dolphins

Beautiful dive

Who can sing better?

Lucky audience who get to play with the dolphins

She was bounced up by the dolphins

After completing all the non-waterpark component, we headed to the water park for more fun! Five storey high slides, snake slides, water fight, etc.

Exhausted...

At night, we went to the one and ONLY ONE Versace Hotel as well as into the Jupiters Casino to take a look.

Versace Hotel - one and only one

Jupiters Casino

Day 4 - Dream World
The final Theme Park of our trip - Dream World! This day, there were unusually a lot of people... we found out those kiasu angmous were already waiting outside! Dang! I thought we are Kiasu enough!! After Su Pin arrived, we rushed in...

Dreamworld

Gold Rush

Ah~~

I swear I am innocent!

Went for shows too - Spongebob square pants - A-must-not-miss-show according to Yu Wooi

Spongebob square pants show

Self-taken group photo

The 5 thrill rides in Dream world - The Giant Drop, Tower of Terror, Cyclone, Wipeout and The Claw. We did not have enough time for all the rides but we managed to get on 3 of them - Tower of Terror, Wipeout and Cyclone. Tower of Terror was unexpectedly fun! I was screaming my heads off when the "train" started immediately at 157 kmph but ended up finding it fun when the "train" stopped at an altitude of 120m and free fall back down. Queuing up for cyclone was a pain in the arse. We waited for nearly ONE HOUR! ONE FREAKING HOUR! And the ride was only 2 minutes? Or even less! Wipeout was fun too. We were securely locked onto our seats and hanged up high mid-air, turned and twisted. Initially, I was so freaked out by how it goes when watching the others screaming heads off during the ride but when I actually got onto it, it was not as scary as I have expected. What's more? I find it ADDICTIVE and FUN!

The Giant Drop vs Tower of Terror (2 in 1)

Cyclone and the slides at WhiteWater

Wipeout

The Claw

Mini version of Lethal Weapon

Some kiddy stuff

Met up with some animals too! Koala Bears, Kangaroos, etc...

Kuella =p

Tiger island - tiger show

We also went for the log ride... The ride known to make people VERY VERY wet...

Log-ride

Our log

The consequences...

Our final ride was the motor coaster... It was funny that this angmou before me was too big size to fit into the motorbike. Two staffs tried really hard to get him in, but the rider ended giving up. Let's not talk about the big size angmou, even KB felt pain while riding the bike. What I'm prompting is that the seat is not big.

Motor coaster

Took photos with the Nickelodeon Stars... =D

v^-^v

Just so random

As you can see my blog is getting shorter and shorter on my trip... I'm lazy!! Gosh! I've been spending nearly the whole day blogging ok?

Day 5 - Brisbane Domestic Airport
On Day 4 itself, 6 of us travelled up to Brisbane again. KB was staying for a few more days and continue with his Australia tour to Cairns, Melbourne, etc while the 5 of us overnight in the Brisbane domestic airport. Yeap, and that's about it... Everyone was DEAD TIRED but it was a memorable trip. =)