What Is Happening ?

There was this news yesterday regarding parents complaining about fairy tales and wanting a ban or change of those tales. Among the list are classics like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, The Ginger Bread Man etc...

The reason behind this was because these fairy tales portrayed negative issues and it might cause trauma or psycological impact to children. What the F*** ??!! Are these people for real ? Wait till you hear/read the examples they gave...

o_0 *unbelievable*


Examples of the negative issue:

1. Cinderella - Cinderella was a young girl who was abused and being forced to be a slave
2. Little Red Riding Hood - Big bad wolf tied up poor old grandmother and impersonating her
3. Ginger Bread Man - Ginger Bread Man was eaten by a fox at the end


Now, the psycologist has a term for parents who overprotect their children - it is called "cottonwooling" the kids. I always feel that it is quite normal for a parent to overprotect a child sometimes, but this is just way too absurd.

Sometimes I wonder... Do these people actually stop and think about what they are requesting ? They are requesting to change the story of these fairy tales, fairy tales that have been around for decades, fairy tales that are a classic, fairy tales that are well known to most children or even adults...

Just imagine the new Cinderella is not a slave, her Stepmother and Stepsisters adores her and she gets to go to the ball without problem. Then what ? There will not be a need for Fairy Godmother anymore, no glass slippers, no pumkin coaches, no magic etc... And imagine in the future, when an older generation talks to a younger generation about these classic fairy tales... I can foresee there bound to have lots of confusion and argument...

*sigh*

Christmas

One more day to go till Christmas... Hooray !! Christmas is one of my favourite festive seasons... To me, Christmas is all about family and friends, the good food, the Christmas deco, the presents, Christmas carols and of course, Santa.

Talking about food, I realized that there are certain food which have become the traditions for Christmas. During Christmas season, you will definately hear about roast turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, apple sauce, fruit mince tart, fruit cake, christmas pudding, chocolate truffles and christmas cookies.

Doesn't all the food make you hungry ? Yum... Mmm.... Mmm.... Alright, lets do something then, so eeny meeny miney moe.... which of the christmas food should i make ? and the result is...........

The Christmas Fruit Cake !!

So last Sunday, I baked my ever first fruit cake. It was slightly over baked (due to my negligence, I was watching movie on my computer and forgot about the cake :p) but thank goodness it wasn't so bad. It came out slightly darker than it supposed to be and a little bit dry. But other than that, it tasted pretty alright.

Next on my list will probably be the chocolate truffles or mini cheese cakes. Hmm... or I might just do both :> until then, here's wishing all of you out there: Merry Christmas

Just Me

Lately I am obsessed with photo editing, particularly photos of myself :> It all started with the idea of creating a profile picture for my facebook. I wanted to use a picture of me but still keep a certain secrecy. So I ended up croping part of my photos and adding some artistic touch to it :p