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 ]

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Invigorating

The time is 11.30pm and you start running.

It is a starless night and all is quiet. But there are the ubiquitious streetlamps placed every fifteen meters to bathe ya path in orange.

The low baritonous voice and soothing music from your mp3 player surrounds your senses and covers your running footsteps and low shallow breathing. Closed from the world, your mind jumps from one matter to the next, one memory after another, in the incongruent sequence only a person who has no immediate schedules has the luxury to indulge in.

You stare unseeingly straight ahead into the distance, the dark night merging with the warm glow of the streetlamps all around you, as you pass by the intermittent road signs and trafficlights and tree after tree after tree.

Less than two rounds later, your mp3 player unexpectedly dies on you and you stop to shake it umpteen times in disbelief, cursing quietly to yourself that you have just changed its battery less than three days ago.

You wrap your hand around it and continue running, wondering how long you'll last without it until you stop out of boredom. You discover that time passes inordinately faster when you had music blaring in your ears.

But as you pick up your pace, the world falls away again and the thump-thump-thump of your rubber-soled running shoes on concrete and the therapeautic sounds of your easy breathing hypnotises you into the cloudy state of un-seeing thinking once more.

You pass by the lone solitary figure sitting on the granite bench, the occasional passer-bys decked out in t-shirt, shorts and slippers and the schoolgirl hugging her books and instrument case to her chest as she walks, and a few cars coast pass you in a wake of red and orange blinking rear lights. But they are no more than just hazy spectres passing by the side of your vision.

You feel like you are the only person alive in the world.

And you feel on top of the world.

And you remember again why you fell in love with running at night.

You finally stop not because you are tired, but because your sister has called out for you from the kitchen window when you pass by your block. Your world shifts back into focus as you trot to a stop.

You have long lost count of how many rounds you ran. When you answered her, it was followed by a cough and a clearing of the throat, and you remember that you have forgotten you are still in the midst of recovering from a cold. You decide to wrap up your last round and head home.

As you stand on the sidewalk and recovered your breath from your last half round sprint, you look at your watch.

The numbers on your electronic sport watch illuminates 12:45.

+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 1:54 AM

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