[ 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 ]
Monday, December 05, 2005
Sick. sick. sick. sick.
My whole family is sick.
First down was my mum which i mentioned in my last entry. Then my dad n me simultaneously on saturday, then my sis in the same day's evening.
My dad n i, i suspect had gotten food poisoning from the chilli crab we had the night before (we had ordered that when we celebrated his birthday belatedly at home on friday nite, n since only the two of us who ate it got ill, that stupid crab must be the cause!), n my sis her usual illness (some sort of breathlessness, which no competent doctor have yet been able to correctly diagnose the problem).
After mum got a call from my sis' camp's teacher-in-charge (she was at her sch's social dance camp - her sch life is jus jam-packed with all her different CCAs, which stretched even to her sch hols now), she got a lift from a relative n rushed sis down to Alexandre Hospital's A&E unit.
As i was too sick (could barely walk a few steps, n even then its to the toilet to puke or shit *sorry*), i stayed at home to wait for news.
Thankfully, when the call came in a couple hours later that she's all rite, n they're coming home soon, i fell into a restless sleep.
Mum had got some med for me while they're at the hospital. Even some painkillers for my fever n bodyache - i only discovered my fever when it had already rose to 38.6 degree celcius after my mum came back; no wonder the air had felt so cold against my bare skin.
Poor mum who has jus recovered only to burn both ends taking care of us two (dad was feeling better after some med n was able to go to work. Y??! i onli had two pincers for god's sake! He had like the whole 2 crabs i suspect, n i'm the one bed-ridden! Not that i mean for him to be vomiting every hour too.)
Sis slept like a log once she reached home (onli waking up once to vomit, from wat i hear from my mum who's up almost the whole time looking after us in turns).
I drifted in and out of sleep that are occupied with fitful dreams that i cannot remember.
Thankfully, my fever broke when i woke up ytd noon.
But i wasn't feeling well yet, even tho my sis had already woken up n was able to watch cartoons and msn her frens online n plan for her Red Cross Camp today (dunno how to learn from her lesson issit?!).
Still couldn't stomach a thing (stomach still hurts even tho the world had stopped spinning n garggling the innerds of my body) n went back to sleep after being awake every couple of hours.
Finally woke up this morning feeling as close to being back to health as was possible when i discovered my appetite has came back!
Thats when i discovered i've probably gone for more than 40 hours without food since my lunch on saturday (not counting the tiny morsels of bread n porridge i've puke out minutes after swallowing them, altho if u wan to be picky...).
Its wonderful to have ya appetite back i tell u! Wonderful!!
U never noe how great it is to be able to feel hungry n want for food until u are sick n the tot of food repulse u so much that u'll rather puke another bucketful than swallow a mouthful of porridge.
Yup, my appetite is back n i'm ravenous.
Unfortunately still, my appetite only stretches to the mild n watery substances now.
But thankfully, i'm able to keep them all down this time.
*grins ruefully*
Xl has an idea to sue the chilli crab sellers for alot of money for putting our family in such state. n quite frankly, i agree with her too
Except that my family do eat there occasionally, n sueing them means we wun be able to show our faces there afterwards (tho we'll prob get loads of money, can eat at all the nice restaurants n wun have to eat at hawker centres zhi char anymore).
Arh! Not gonna order the chilli crab there again when we go down there for dinner in future (if we even do that).
//
Starting on a new book soon...
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
Its touted to be even bigger than Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.
And like Dan Brown's critics, views on this book are extremely polared.
The good are very good, the bad have practically cruxified this book beyond redemption.
For example, one of the reviews : ".... this book moved with all the speed of paint drying on a wet, humid day." had me cracking a lopsided grin through my hazy sedated state. Ok, its not very original, but its a pretty vivid picture. *another grin*
(Maybe becos the book is like 600-over pages long. But the bibliophile in me is already drooling. =P)
But the idea of reading a DaVinci-style chase across Europe set against a background of Dracula lore sounds pretty entertaining.
It also doesn't hurt that Kostova has won the Debut Author of the Year award in this year's Quill Book Awards.
Not bad for a debut novel eh?
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 3:26 PM
