[ 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, December 16, 2005
Morbid acclaimation
Phew... tiring week.
Jus came back from meeting Ian today (he's gotten hunkier! :) ).
Aside from the usual lectures, the unusually enormous stack of homework, i had plans nearly everyday n reached home late every nite not to sleep, but to do my assignments into the wee hours of the morning, prepare for the next day, or go online for some overseas meetings.
Freak, i knew i shouldn't have given them hopes about being their Translator/Editor.
Its sai gang i tell u (literally meaning shit-work), its not like i'll be getting any money for it n imagine the time n effort it'll take! And my england n china isn't wat it used to be. Trust Americans to be so deprived of billingual translators... -.-"
I still laugh when i remember how each of them responded when they first found out i'm a Singaporean...
*someone: u're a Singaporean??!
me: yeah :)
someone: OH. MY. GOD. Your english is amazing!!!!!
me: erm....
me: is it?
someone: yeah!!!
someone: its fantastic!
someone: ya english is superb!! its perfect!
me: erm....
me: its ok i guess. lolx! =p
someone: no, seriously! how did ya english get to be so good??!
someone: wats the main medium of conversation in Singapore?
me: erm.... english?
........... -.-"
ROTFLOLx!!! XP
Multiply that part of the conversation (or similar ones along the same lines) a dozen times and u get the picture of how most of my online conversations on irc scanlation channels eventually turn out... its a joke i tell u.
I almost died laughing the first few times it happened, until i realized they were serious.
They had pretty limited knowledge bout Singapore's culture or way of life - aside from all our best airports, air-flights, air stewardesses, our being a clean, strict, law-abiding country, our being part of South East Asia, in the equatorial region, our being a British colony in the past - that i wun be surprise if they had actually surppressed saying that they had tot "Singapore was part of China/Taiwan" only out of politeness.
(Actually, i was pretty impressed wif wat they come up wif already... equatorial region? British colony? Did they read it off a travel brochure or smth? Where did they learn that? Even i had forgotten that bit of history myself already, lolx! oops =p)
Then i wud go on to explain how Singapore is multi-racial, how most of us use english as the most common medium of conversation becos of the many races, how we attend english-educated schs, how almost everyone here is at least billingual (even if some are not effectively so), if not multi-lingual, and they'll be so impressed, et cetera et cetera.
And the trouble starts pouring in when they noe i'm effectively billingual in ENGLISH and CHINESE...
Suddenly i'm grabbed (invited) to every channel the news spread to, invited to all the channels for big shots that normal free-leechers like me aren't even aware of, and all the big shots from every scanlation group and channels started toking to me and started, for lack of a better word, courting me to join their group, either as Translator or Editor, permanent or free-lancer.
It got to the point where i'm afraid to go online even for a short time to leach my stuff becos i'll be bombarded from all sides. Alternating between nicks dun help cos most of them noe my other alter egoes. or IP address.
It has its perks no doubt - i get priority in queues, power (or voice) in many channels (not that i'll noe wat to do with it since i'm mainly in there for the leeching n to catch up wif some peeps), n i get to tok with some very interesting pple.
Oh well, this happened a few months back already.
but now that my nick is changed n i tot i'm safe as an anonymous leecher again (no such perks anymore unfortunately, n once i was even kicked from some channel who didn't recognise me, the nerve!), the same thing is starting to happen all over again...
I'm jus too lazy man.
I may not mind free-lancing for a couple of works that i like (since translators are so sought after, we get to choose to translate watever works, pieces or titles we like) if i find the right group (whose themes i like) to work for, but def not make any commitments man.
The tot itself is scary enough.
I read some very good translations sometimes and am always impressed by these tranlators' passion n dedication in their work - they're not paid for it man, n they churn out chapters after chapters week after week! I wun have the same dedication or perserverance.
So far i haven found a group that i wud like to join or even work for.
Hmmm... i'll look around and see if they're any nice groups/peeps or good raws (i.e. untranslated works in Jap or Chinese) as n when the mood strikes me. But def more discreetly than the last time.
=/
A note to Singaporean manga enthusists who're half decent in languages or any other effectively billingual irc leechers, who do NOT like to be poached for sai-gang like these: Beware! If u dun wan trouble, keep a low profile...
Not that i can actually dun say where i'm from when i'm asked though...
//
Also, side tracking...
Happy 21st Birthday Vivian~!!! =D
Hee, its always nice to have ya efforts (the reason for being busy half of this week) appreciated when u give gifts.
Jus glad u're happy gal =)
Ah muaaarrrccckkkzzzz!!!
;)
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 12:28 AM
