[ 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 ]
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Inauguration. Question-mark.
Be excited. Be very excited.
Because Ursula is thinking of finally going into the manga-translating business.
That is, if Ursula can retreive her nickname back in cyberspace.
It really sucks to use other nicks, which somehow or other feels wierd and irrelevant.
Damn the $#^$&@*&#@~$^% who registered my nick, phoooey!
If i can't get back my nick, am not sure wat others to establish myself with already. Afterall, if i do start translating, aside from my IP address, it'll be wat pple recognize me for already on the channels.
Haha, though another school of thought wud be using my own name. It sounds enough like a nickname no one wud guess for sure. But there's also the probability of Singaporeans getting their hands on those works. Licensing shitez and stuff, you can never be too sure. Not wise.
Ok, aside from all the "contributing to the online-manga community" spirit, i've to admit i've got more selfish reasons for picking up this new past-time.
Since i've entered university, my Chinese has gone to the dogs. My English has gone to the cats. And my writing ability in both (or watever i have of it) has gone to the rats. Not a very pretty picture as u can imagine. So i'm picking up some translating work in the hopes that my once fluent translating skills wud not have left me totally. Though quite truthfully, it is already NO WHERE NEAR the days when i could verbally translate CNN news broadcast from english to chinese and vice versa Chinese news to english at the same speed as the time it is being broadcasted. So i guess if those groups dun mind my rusty and unpracticed translation, we can look forward to my inaugural translation piece soon.
Still, it'll be after exams and in my free time (if i have any left outside of work) before i start scouting around for any groups or freelance works (which is more likely than my joining a particular group, hate being tied down with committments).
So its still a couple months away. (So as always, procastination is actually the bigger handicap than a lack of time in my case.) Time enough to either get attached or detached from certain channels to broaden or narrow down my choices of groups and genres to translate for. DO. NOT. PISS. ME. OFF!
(Hmmm, my dun-take-shit attitude reminds me of one of the more established channels wif such a rep. But same-poles repel. I am not impressed.)
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 2:53 AM
