| Here is my little page all about me... Someone that's crazy, weird, and funny, etc...
Name: Cindy Ellen
Birthday: December 10th. The same as Emily Dickenson
Sign: Sagittarius
Parents: Simon and Eleanor
Siblings: Zusie and Maureen
Pet: A Welsh Corgi named Reese
Currently Lives: In Las Vegas
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Hmm... what can I say about me really? I think I'm a fun person. I'm a total nerd. I get obsessed a lot. Not like "Fatal Attraction" obsessed but materialistic things. For example being totally obsessed with Marmalade Boy so I wanted Everything that had anything to do with that anime and when I was obsessed with River Phoenix in Jr. High, I would make my dad rent all those River Phoenix movies just so I can watch him. It's because of him that I discovered Stand By Me one of my favorite movies of all time and made Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade cool. Even though I did like Harisson Ford's and Sean Connery's antics.
I tend to talk a lot especially if the topic is of interest to me. I love English. I love to write short stories but sometimes when inspiration fades away so does the story. I love music. Talk to me about anything to do with music, I can talk to you forever. @_@... I like Ska and Grunge/Alternative mostly. The older bands I think are much better than the new ones that are out right now. Like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Pixies, Blur, REM, and Radio Head. I was totally into REM when I was in high school while everyone else was listening to Jay-Z and Backstreet Boys and Puff Daddy (now known as P Diddy).
What else? I love to read books. I hate those Harlequin Romance books that my mom and everyone else's mom seems to read, I don't really like science fiction, I HATE those same old, same old John Grisham books but those other books in between... Snow Falling on Cedars, Catcher in the Rye, Feast of All Saints, Jacob I have Loved and Wuthering Heights are my favorites. In Jr. High, I LOVED reading V.C. Andrews, despite having all her series having the themes of incest and poor girl turning to rich girl and redemption and evil relatives... there was just something about it that was so intriguing. Not to mention, there was some sexual content too that made every single girl in Jr. High either intruiged or giggle or imagine them. Come on, I know that was another reason we read her books (lol). I loved the Dollanganger series the best. And her only non series book My Sweet Audrina.
A lot of times I am way too nice to people. I can't stand to say no. I really can't. I hate to see people cry and I get a little uncomfortable when people talk to me about serious matters. I am not very good with things like that. I give advice but I feel really uncomfortable. Especially when people talk to me about relationships. I don't like talking about my relationships and so I don't like to hear others talk about theirs either. I don't know why I don't like talking about it. I guess even though I like to make people laugh or joke around with them or come off as someone that is sweet, charming, and just happy go lucky, I really am a private person. Sometimes, it's just hard to be open to people.
I think a lot of people have a very different views of me. I am crazy sometimes, I really am very forgetful and I get distracted a lot. I like to treat people, to travel, to watch movies. To just talk to people about nothing in particular. Like having a conversation about which James Bond is better. Sean Connery or Roger Moore? It's fun to talk about nothing. I have a quick temper but it totally fades away after like 2 minutes.
Here is a list of 100 things about me. This was posted in a Forum that Kirsten runs in Kogeru.net
100 Things About Cindy
1. My grandmothers both have names of Princesses... Cinderella and Aurora
2. I was named after my cousins friend and my grandma Cinderella
3. Hence my name is Cindy Ellen
4. I love the smell, the look, the feel of Christmas
5. I LOVE Dr Pepper
6. I LOVE Halloween. Christmas and Halloween are the only Holidays my mom, my sisters and I go to great deals to decorate the house.
7. I am addicted to Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears
8. I have a welsh corgi named Reese
9. I'm a filipina
10. I can understand Filipino/Tagalog but can't speak it @_@
11. Read Flowers in The Attic three times in Jr. High
12. Loves the Dollanganger series by V.C. Andrews...
13. First Animated movie I ever saw in a movie theater was "An American Tail"
14. Grew up in Appleton, Wi
15. People think I'm from Hawaii or Cali
16. Hates Olives
17. Has this love and hate relationship anime
18. Is obsessed with Cardcaptor Sakura doujinshi
19. Loves to write
20. But can only do it when inspired
21. Loves reading and writing Fanfiction
22. Loves music
23. Is a fan of Creedence Clearwater Revival
24. Wants to work for RollingStone magazine
25. Never fails to Read JANE magazine
26. When I was little I used to make flipbooks and in the back it would always read... "This book was made by Cindy who has written more than 60
books so far..." or something like that.
27. I was a really weird kid
28. I love listening to music of the late 80's and early 90's because that was when I started to listen to music.
29. Was totally in love with New Kids On The Block when I was little
30. Listen and lipsyched to Ann Murray when I was 6 @_@
31. LOVES the Beatles
32. Is a Pen aholic. I LOVE pens.
33. Don't really like talking on the phone
34. Loves to drive
35. Loves to sleep
36. Loves the rain (hence my collective)
37. Loves the Autumn (hence my MB site)
38. I wish I can still be a kid again
39. My mom has 12 brothers and sisters
40. My Mom is 20 years older than my uncle who is the youngest and he is only 7 years older than me.
41. Is Waaay to sarcastic sometimes
42. I wish to live in someplace green like Ireland or Scotland or any of those places. I love Green
43. Hates to Excercise
44. Can get really, really lazy
45. Loves books
46. Wants to meet J.D. Salinger someday
47. Loves to read about the 1960's. My fave decade. So many things happened then
48. Wants to go back to Appleton again
49. Still sits in the kids table during family gatherings. @_@
50. Wants a Yellow Beetle
51. Used to be REALLY obsessed with Evangelion
52. I don't like girly girl things
53.Thinks Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies are cute
54. Loves those Hallmark commercials
55. Procrastinates waaay too much
56. I am waay too opitmistic
57. Loves to see people smile
58. Is somewhat funny I think
59. Prefered Transformers and JEM instead of Barbies
60. The Green Bay Packers are my favorite football team.
61. Loves taking pictures
62. Loves reading fairy tales
63. Likes to sleep with a lot of pillows
64. Loves to drink water
65. Went to Catholic School during my elementary school days
66. Lived in the Philippines til I was 7
67. Proud to say that I wore a Sailor Suit to school also.
68. Wants to go to South Africa one day
69. Likes to cook
70. Has taken French since 2nd grade and it's still not sinking in
71. wonders when I'll ever get married since everyone I know seems to get married these days
72. Has a reaccuring dream about having boy triplets... I hope that doesn't mean anything
73. Can spend a whole day in a book store
74. Never cries in movies
75. But does cry in books
76. Hates those harlequin Romance books
77. Has two sisters. One's the total poplar opposite of me the other is almost like my twin
78. Loves to ramble
79. Is very forgetful
80. Is sometimes indecisive
81. Loves the musical RENT
82. Thinks Paul Newman is handsome especially in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
83. gets tired very easily
84. Everyone thinks I'm just an innocent girl
85. Has an odd sense of humor
86. Once was told by her English Proffesor to stop writing stories with characters dying in them
87. Wants to see the Eiffel Tower
88. Daydreams a lot
89. Likes to Drive fast
90. My first job was in a movie theater. That was just AWFUL
91. Hates poseurs
92. Is messy
93. Loves Urban Outfitters
94. Likes to play hide and go seek in the dark. It's fun!
95. Loves white chocolate chip cookies
96. loves Starbucks!
97. Wonders why most of this list has the mention of food in them
98. Acts like someone way younger than myself.
99. Is sometimes oblivious
100. Loves it when I hear people laugh. I love to laugh
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| Those Innocent, Awful, yet Great childhood days... |
Hmmm... where to start. Most of my early childhood days was spent in the Philippines. I have little fragments of memories of living there because I was young when my family moved to Wisconsin. My mom and I lived in my Grandfather's house. My Dad lived in Wisconsin and would come back like 2 times a year to visit my Mom and me.
I went to Catholic school there, wearing various "sailor suit" uniforms with matching briefcases too! Here are two pictures of me. One is in Kindergarten and the other was in First grade when I spent a semeseter there in a class that was inside this really huge church. I remember being so excited about leaving that place and since our lunch time was either spent inside the classroom and or outside playing in the church yard, my friends and I would run around the classroom, jumping over desks and writing on the black boards. We would buy snacks from the various street vendors that was outside the chruch. Sometimes we would get this desert called "Taho" (pronounced with a short o, not like Lake Tahoe). It was sweet and delicious. But the best time was when my mom or one of my aunts would pick me up and we would go to the park or go to my grandparent's house. I loved my grandparent's house. It was huge and they had these wooden floors that was cleaned and waxed a lot so my cousin and I had fun sliding up and down those floors with our socks.
Those times were really innocent. Sometimes I wish I can go back and visit that old church and all those other parks and my gradparent's house that is now owned by strangers. Sometimes I wish that things didn't change so fast.
When we moved to Wisconsin... It was like a total different world. There was snow. It was cold. People looked different, people spoke differently... The nuns in my school looked so scary, especially when they had their habits on. And I remembered crying when my mom and my aunt dropped me off in my first grade classroom. The kids all looked at me curiously. I wanted to run out of there. That was when I realised that I was the only one different in that classroom. The only one with black hair, with darker skin... I remembered being so happy that this girl named Amanda had the same color hair I did even though her's was dark brown. Later on, she told me in Jr. High that she remembered that day when I first went into Sister Anne's class and because Sister Anne didn't want me to feel odd she told Amanda (the one that had the darkest hair of all) to go along with her hair being black so I wouldn't be the only one.
Those school years were tough. Especially if you put someone "different" in a school where no one was used to such things. Sometimes I hated going to school, sometimes I liked it. I guess as the years went on I got used to having people treating me differently because I was different. Middle School was all right. But I think Jr. High was a good experience. Of course there were times when I hated being in school like everyone else. And since I lived in a small city, everyone knew everyone else. I can show you my yearbook and I can tell you a story of everyone in my class.
I moved to Las Vegas when I was in 10th grade. And like how I felt when I was a little kid moving from Manila to Wisconsin, I also felt the same way when I moved from small city Appleton to the crazy city of Las Vegas. Boy, I was in a total culture shock. There were actual people who looked like me here and there was soo much diversity. I was so surprised. Everything was just so open unlike conservative Appleton. Because of that, my friends and I did such crazy things. Things that I would never imagine I would do when I still lived in WI. I wonder if it's like that for other people who lived in a small place and come to a city that's totally different.
All in all though, even though I sometimes wish that I was somewhere else, that I sometimes wish that I can just be invisible... I don't really think I want to change anything. After all, what happened in the past always makes you stronger and much better experienced in the future. That's what I believe and I think most people agree with me on that.
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