[ 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 ]
Saturday, June 24, 2006
A late night's road trip
We're getting to an age where frens our age start driving their own or their dad's cars already.
Its a bloody marvellous feeling i tell u, not to mention a bit surreal.
Ok, lets not tok about those American/ Italian/ Caucasian brats who can learn, pass their test and drive all within a week with minimum fees (learning from their mum/dad/sch-arranged lessons, forking out US$50 fuckin bucks for their practical test, passing and buying their first Volvo, all within the same fuckin week - yeah yeah, thats jealousy and incredulity u smell in the air), or those ABC (or any other variety of spoilt and money-laden but with fuck-zero value system) brats born with a gold/silver spoon in their mouth who have parents who wud willingly pave their paths with George Washingtons or Yusoff Ishaks and easily give in to their precious child's whining and coddling and buy that second car which the family doesn't need (but maybe persuaded into thinkin hey, we can afford it, and mum can take it grocery shopping too! and oh, maybe i can use it when no one else's using? ain't that grand!), and which the 18-22year old brat, who's probably still in sch, who hasn't even started working yet and dunno for fuck the value of hard-earned money, sure as hell dun need with the abundance of public transport in Singapore.
But normal pple like us, those of us who've undergone at least a full year if not more (which is usually the case) from taking the Basics Theory exam, to finally taking and passing the stringent Practical exams after going for countless lessons and failing numerous practical exams and in the course of it all, spending wat u could make a downpayment for a secondhand car already (again, in Singapore only. In the States or elsewhere? U can get a fuckin BMW with jus the amount it wud cost to get the car's COE in Singapore).
Of course, this is only spoken by someone who had to hear about the difficulties of learning how to drive from those around her. U dun wan to hear me really when I START my practical lessons (been postponing it for two years now, but now that i'm nearing the end of my uni life, its time to start thinkin about it...).
Anyway, i digress.
Well, as i was saying, its a bloody marvellous thing to sit in a car driven by someone u've known half ya life, whom u tot u knew, but suddenly seem to sparkle when they're in the driver's seat, like a totally different person, manouvering that circular piece of filmsy and seemingly irrelevant piece of wood and plastic, and the tires are actually moving beneath you, and u're travelling on the road, wrapped in a metal and leather encasement that seems to defy gravity and every other physics law as it moves forward, propelled by wat, u think, must be a miracle.
The incredible feeling starts to fade after awhile though, as perhaps 20mins later u find yourselves lost, and in addition to the darkness of night with too few road lamps, trapped in a growing downpour with window-wipers that aren't working perfectly, and the loud, excited and exuberant laughters turned to loud strings of curses, and your plans to go to the West Coast Park for supper ended up as late night MacDonald's at King Albert Park.
Thus marks the first of the life-endandering stunts i've sworn (jokingly) that i wun particpate in until their Beginner's Triangle gets removed - bout one year after they get their driver's license at least. Having eaten those words, now i'm jus conceding to wear seatbelts instead (that are hopefully reinforced) throughout the whole journey, even for those sitting in the backseats.
When we were on the return journey back home in the wee hours of the morning, it suddenly dawned on us that.... hey, my mum din put up any resistance when i suddenly jumped up and raced to my sis to tell her to get ready cos Xiang and David, who had jus gotten his license, is driving his dad's car and we're going for supper!
Amazing. She had just put her two only offsprings at the mercy of a newbie driver who had only taken to the road twice by himself, is short-sighted but does not wear glasses, goes up curbs when parking, has his sister to give him road directions, and nevertheless still got ourselves to some godforsaken place, got lost, and in the end spent wat shd be a fifteen mins car journey from Bukit Panjang to West Coast Park into a thirty mins one with many U-turns that ended up in Bukit Timah.
I'm already looking forward to the hour-plus journey Xiang is going to take us on when she eventually gets her license (and if i dare to put my rear in her car with reinforced seatbelts) and drives the normally fifteen-mins-by-car journey from my home to some great makan places for supper.
*beams*
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 5:47 PM
