[ 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 02, 2005
Rumbling. Depressing.
It has been such a busy week that i only have time to sit down in front of my com now.
To make a long, exhaustive, but otherwise pretty mundane story short, we had guests staying over our house for the past one week or so.
A relative and his fren from Malaysia came over for some family staff (visitations among others) n put over at our place.
And becos they're guests n they're such night owls n we cant leave them alone to rot n i'm the only one in my family without work or school from dawn to dusk (apparently my uni life doesn't count), i'm left with the task of entertaining them and showing them around, taking them out for breakfast, lunch, dinner n supper, shopping and sightseeing and relatives visitations, n on top of all that, chit-chats till 4plus, 5am EVERY NITE. Sorry, i mean morn.
DO THEY EVER SLEEP??!
My dad working nite shifts wud take them for breakfast every morn after he return home from work, and where after three such mornings of having slept hardly a wink before forcing myself to wake up to go for breakfast with them, i was mercifully excluded.
I wud take over after that, or sometimes other relatives wud arrive n mercifully take them off my hands for a few hours during the afternoon (where i'll catch up with my 40 winks), n then they're back n its dinner n shopping, sightseeing or more relatives visitations, n then supper at coffeeshops, back to house n sitting around the living room dining table n talk until most of us surrender n go to bed. Usually it'll be my sis first (2+a.m), followed by my mum an hour later (3+a.m), n then me a couple hours later (4 or 5+ a.m).
n they're still awake at that time!!!
Freaks i tell u, they're freaks!
Needless to say, i've been missing most sch lessons this week when i'm so tired i totally fail to hear my two alarms clocks going off n onli woke in time the past two days to make it to my afternoon lectures.
Thankfully, they've gone back to Malaysia this morn.
(which explains y i'm here online finally).
But now my poor mum is sick.
=(
Not enough sleep the past 5 or 6 days i suspect, plus some stomach virus or food poisoning.
So heart-wrenching to see her sick like this, vomitting and such.
Come to think of it, i've never seen her vomit so much before =<
Jus accompanied her to see doc jus now n she pretty much vomitted her med out too.
But thankfully she has stabilized more now (at least she's got the strength to start nagging me again -.-) n gone to sleep.
She still wans to go to work tml (cos hers is unpaid leave), the stupid woman.
Bad as our family finances are and having already gone thru wat she's going thru now myself when i was working during the hols a couple mths back (totally wrecked n faint with flu but still went to work), i understand how she feels.
Cos she's still a temp employee at this new company she joined recently, her position is unstable n she's still on 'probation' (technically she's out of her one week probation, but u noe these companies...). Takin unpaid leave wud not onli jus means a day's wages less as in my case, but will also endanger her job shd the comapny thinks tt she's so prone to sickness it'll affect her work n decide to terminate her.
I understand her telling us that it'll be all right once she's in the office, as with my case where both are big companies, we're not scrutinized by our colleagues n bosses day in day out, which leaves us some space to zone out, have coffee, or go to the loo to rest when we're tired or too sick, jus as long as we finish our work.
In the end i told her to see her situation tml morning first.
It really hurts me to see her having to suffer so much at her age.
Our family needs money, my studies need money, our family expenses needs money, our bills need money, n to get money we have to find work, n well-paying jobs sure ain't easy to find.
It makes me so pissed off that we're so helpless against this whole vicious cycle of poverty.
Aw fuck, i even hate the sound of that word.
I need to look for a part-time job soon.
After my last job at Rodyk, its going to be hard not to be choosy. But its not onli that. Cos my sch workload's gonna be so heavy, every hour i can spare otherwise working is going to need to earn me more than the nornal work rates, or i'll jus be wasting my time working for peanuts (n not the $600K per annum peanuts the pea-brained Mrs. Goh Chok Tong shot her mouth off about), AND still fail some or most of my modules cos i dun have time to study.
*touch wood*
Dunno if i shd give tuition, but am not confident of teaching. n unless i have at least 2-3 students which wud take up too much of my time already, i wun be able to earn a decent amount to help out the family.
Looking for office jobs, but noe it'll be quite hard to find one that pays as well as Rodyk n also give me so much leeway when they noe i'm a student n can't work all the time (i pretty much go to work as n when i'm free n felt like it then, tho since i'm looking to earn money, it still means i sch n work nearly everyday of the week then).
Still, i gotta start looking...
Fucking UOL's exam fees are coming soon... >=(
Thousand plus or two thousand bucks cos of all the subjects i'm taking... 6 in total...*heart wrings*
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP!!!! >=[
Look how my entry has started n rumbled on and on to become?!
This is such a miserable n depressing entry.
I'm practically writing my whole train of thoughts -.-
Life sucks so much sometimes when u think of it.
I'm tired, need to sleep soon.
Gotta wake early to check on my mum.
Will life get any better from here?
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 12:21 AM
