The Heart Keeps Beating

[ Me ]

Nickname: Ursula
Birthday: 7th January 1985
Zodiac: Capricorn
Where From: Singapore

Laidback, sensitive, fickle, easily-tickled, fiercely loyal

Manga and anime lover, enthusist, collector and critic/ Coffee lover, addict and expert maker/ Aspiring future wife of famous culinary chef/ Aspiring future wife of a 1.8m tall hunk

My Friendster link:
http://www.friendster.com/vivis

[ Likes ]

Sleeping, dancing, books, manga, anime, chocolates, coffee, Jap food, Italian food, Ayumi Hamasaki, people, my sister

[ Fave Books ]

Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowl series, The Inheritence Trilogy series, The Da Vinci Code, Memoir of a Geisha, I Don't Know How She Does It... and all my comics n manga!!!

[ Currently Reading ]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke

Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke

The Well Of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall

Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced The West
by Lesley Downer

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
by Milan Kundera

The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova

[ The Wishlist ]

My Amazon.com Wishlist:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=yourlists_pop_1/103-2401787-9502236

Phillips MC235 Thin Stereo Microsystem

Kathy Van Zeeland bag
(saw on amazon.com going for bout US$65... Why dun Singapore stock her goods??! >.< I wan it in Topaz colour~!!!)

The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien

Inu-Yasha Theme Song Collection

12 Kingdoms/ Juuni Kokuki anime VCD sets

GUESS bag (darn, i dun have the $120 required to buy it now and i noe it'll be gone soon, Guess always changing their apparels every month or so u_u)

DKNY gold and crystal-studded watch (very ornamental, more a dress watch then an every-funtion watch. still, pretty~)

Mphosis pale gold SLIPPERS (i run through my shoes and slippers like they cost nth X/)

The BodyShop BLUSHER in Golden Pink

The BodyShop blusher BRUSH

Shiseido eyelash CURLER

Full-length wall MIRROR(s) for my room

A new big every-purpose BAG

Pretty SHOES

A Digital CAMERA

A bloody new PC or laptop with the speed of light and a gazillion GB of memory!! =[

The Sims 2 (PC game edition)

[ The Memories ]

Friday, October 29, 2004

Life of Pi

I am reading Life of Pi now.

Everytime i start a good book, which is often reccently, i'm filled with the ache and longing to devour the book whole (literally, a physically impossible feat i understand, but...the urge! the urge!) so that i may noe the whole content of the bk in the shortest time possible. But it cannot be, for a good bk have to be properly masticulated n digested, n this, takes time.

It is especially not easy when the book is between 300-800pgs long, when i wud feel the longing n urgency so in the first 100pgs or so.
If the bk is much acclaimed, as is the Life Of Pi (winner of the Man Booker Prize), this urgency is esp. strong. n i take no pride in the fact tt i have to take time; slow minutes by even slower hours, to fully savour a good book. But alas, its not an option.

When the urges are esp. strong, i fight it watever weak will-power i have, suppress the trembling in my hands (really!), to finish the pages one at a time. Fighting the urge so that i may take in the splendour of the narrative, the desciptions, and languish in the story's unfolding. I held my greed in check - no, i cannot finish the book too quickly; it does the book no justice - finish a few long chapters, 100pages or less, and then set the book temporarily aside, taking time to fully languish in wat had been unfolded so far n give it some food for thought. The urgency to finish the book then is the greatest, but i've no option but to suppress it. A good book cannot be swallowed without slowly savouring its richness.

Jus as good wine have to linger in three senses or more before we swallow it - swirling it in the wine glass first to give it body n taking it in ya sight, then when the sweet wine finally passes ya lip, rolled around in ya mouth, lingered in every crevices on ya tongue, and we savour the robustness and texture wif our taste n touch.

I'm taking a reprieve - too long already - from the book now. It shd be time before i return to it soon.

May all of u be blessed with similar assaults to ya senses with a good book soon.
tata~

+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 3:26 PM

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