HANSEL AND GRETEL 2010

Once upon a time in a far away land, there lived Hansel and Gretel with their father and stepmother. Their parents worked in their own bakery named No Recipe Bakery. Hansel and Gretel like to eat bread everyday. There was a time when both of them ate breads in the bakery with over quantity. Because of that, the bakery turned to have more loss than profits for the business.

One day, the stepmother made a plan to take the children to a big shopping mall and left them there to be lost, therefore with two fewer mouths to feed, she and her husband might run the business effectively. The father did not agree with the plan but he was being controlled by his wife. Meanwhile, outside from their bedroom, Hansel and Gretel overheard them. After the parents going to bed, the children took something from their drawer, which was a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation device.

On the next day, the family walked around in the big shopping mall. Right after their parents abandoned them with such a far distance, the children switched on their GPS navigation device. They returned home safely and that made such a big shock for the stepmother.

A week later, the stepmother angrily ordered her husband to take the children to a bigger shopping mall and leave them there to be lost again. However, after Hansel and Gratel were once again abandoned, they discovered that their GPS navigation device was running out of battery and they could not reach their home ever again. After several days of wandering around, they found a wonderful bakery named New Recipe Bakery. Without any hesitation, they entered the bakery and ate breads as much as they could.

The owner of New Recipe Bakery was very angry towards Hansel and Gretel. He beat up the two children and forced them to be his workers. The owner of the bakery gave Hansel and Gretel many breads to eat although he nearly treated them like servants. Such situation gave Hansel some curiosities and prejudices. Hansel started to think that there must be something fishy with the owner. He thought that the owner wanted them to be fat before he could sell them in the black market. Therefore, Hansel planned to run away from the bakery with Gretel. As they made the attempt to run, the owner of the bakery tried to catch them. Unfortunately, he slipped away and fell down the stairs in the bakery. His head was bleeding while he tried to shout out Hansel and Gretel’s name. Gretel have some sympathy towards the owner. She turned back and helped the owner.

Suddenly the owner spokes, “Hansel and Gretel, I am very sorry for treating both of you like a servant. I need to do that because I want you to know the reality of life. I want both of you know that run a business is not easy as talk and eat. I only have both of you as my children, even though we are not biologically related. I am sorry for not telling this earlier to you. I want both of you to inherit my New Recipe Bakery. I am sorry that I cannot see it grows in your hands...”

The owner died. Hansel and Gretel had nothing to say. They were in silence. They could not be really happy with the sudden event. They might get such a big wealth from the inheritance but they felt so much guilt in themselves.

CINDERELLA 2009

Once upon a time in a far away land, there lived a teenage girl named Cinderella. Cinderella was 20 years old and lived with her stepmother and two stepsisters.

Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters loved her very much because she was really kind, hardworking and good in house chores. During the daytime, they would go out for gossiping with the neighbours, entertaining themselves by watching movies at the cinema or went for window shopping, while Cinderella was working to support her family. At night, all members of the family went home including Cinderella. However, Cinderella could not call it as a day because she still needed to cook and served food for her stepmother and stepsisters. That was the daily life of Cinderella.

One day, the country announced that there would be a ball for celebrating Prince Charming’s 22nd birthday. All people in the country heard about the news including Cinderella and her family. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters were very excited to attend the ball. They wanted to prepare the best dress ever for the function and for that, they needed to get more money from Cinderella.

Cinderella is a very kind person and she loves her family, so she gave more money to fulfill their wishes. Unfortunately, her kindness gave her a problem. Cinderella was running out of money to buy her own beautiful dress. In the beginning, working as a cleaner could provide enough money for her to buy the dress. However, since she gave the money to her family, she needed to think some ways to solve this problem.

Luckily, an old lady came towards Cinderella and asking if she could give her any help. Cinderella told her problem to the old lady. The old lady smiled and helped Cinderella. She offered Cinderella a part-time job in a multi-level marketing business. Cinderella was needed to provide some money to start the business and take some products of the multi-level marketing company as a package. She could have the products for her own use or sell them to other people. She was also needed to find some people to give offer to be her down lines. After doing those kind of procedures, she would get a big amount of money every month. Cinderella was putting a lot of efforts towards this part-time job and luckily in three months duration, she got thousand dollars of profits, which are obviously higher than her own salary in working as a cleaner.

And now, Cinderella was prepared to attend the ball but there was another problem came in. Cinderella’s stepmother didn't give her permission to go for the ball because she abandoned her family. Cinderella was accused for not doing house chores and not serving her family during her busy time in multi-level marketing business.

Cinderella admitted her fault but she could not accept the punishment given by her stepmother. She did not want her efforts in the previous three months to be wasted just like that, so she planned something for it. She started to dress up differently when her family left and heading to the ball. Cinderella put her beautiful dress and make-up herself as someone that could not be identified by her family. She needed to hide her real personality while attending the ball.

At the ball, all the guests were attracted to Cinderella's beauty. She was very beautiful and that made Prince Charming attracted to her as well. Prince Charming offered Cinderella a dance with him. After that, they had a wonderful moment together during the ball.

At the moment when the clock ticked at 12 a.m., Cinderella suddenly remembered that she needed to come home early rather than her family. She waved goodbye to Prince Charming and went home in a rush. Unfortunately, Cinderella didn't realize that one of her high heels was dropped in Prince Charming’s castle. Prince Charming found it and he really wanted to find the owner of the high heel.

A day after the ball, he started to seek for Cinderella through all the country. But later it was very easy for him to find Cinderella. Cinderella was very shocked because Prince Charming found her at last. She was busted for going against her stepmother’s punishment and at the same time attended the ball secretly. Cinderella asked Prince Charming why he was willing to seek for her and gave back the high heel.

Prince Charming answered, "I just want to be a responsible man by giving back this missing high heel to its real owner. That’s all. On my way to find you, I tried to match the high heel with every woman in this country. But before I could match it, no one ever admit that the high heel was belonged to them. You were the only one who admitted that smelly high heel was yours. You have such a pretty face but in contrast you have a terrible feet odours. I guess I'm not interested in you anymore."

After that, Prince Charming left Cinderella’s house. Cinderella stood static like a statue, thinking about things that had been said by Prince Charming just right now.