[ 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 ]
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Affairs of the heart matters to boys too
Being down wif the flu at home and stucked with the prospects of having nothing to do had led me to pick up and read the many TIME magazines stacked on the coffee table accumulated from the past 2 months of busy work and school life. (That makes *gasp* about 8 mags or more unread - one mag weekly.)
One article jumped out at me.
Affairs of the heart, apparently, matters to boys too.
It may seem obvious to some of us. Yet seeing this result from a cumulative sociological research does give it new perspective.
A link to the article on Time.com.
And a link to the brief findings from the sociological research Dr. Peggy Giordano had done.
I think its kinda sweet actually, that teenage boys have the same propensity to love as teenage gals ^__^
Though i think it may still apply to some of us here... for those of us who have cougarish tendencies *cough* (those who have will noe wat i'm toking about) or for the rest of us who are still in or have never really left our teenage years behind.
A few sickeningly sweet choice excerpts from the Time article:
...A question designed to gauge how attached a teen is to his or her partner might offer choices such as "I would rather be with X than anyone else," "I am very attracted to X," "X always seems to be on my mind" and so on.
...On the love scale, boys scored equally with girls. They were at least as emotionally invested in their romantic relationships as their partners. About 100 of the boys and girls were randomly chosen for additional, in-depth, face-to-face interviews that were taped. The responses were revelatory in their passionate forthrightness. "You think of it as this way: [Would] you give up your whole life, you know ... to save Jenny's life?" one boy said, trying to explain his feelings about his girlfriend. "I'm like a little girl in a relationship," another boy confided. "[At first it] just seemed like every time I was around her I couldn't talk. I was getting butterflies in my stomach, I was just, like, discombobulated or something." Such sentiments were echoed across race and ethnic lines.
...And here's something that surprised even Giordano: both boys and girls agreed that girls have the power in heterosexual relationships, including when it comes to sex.
...It seems as if popular culture is waking up to the reality of the emotionally responsive male....The irony is that boys seem to be the last ones to get the news. "It's like a shared misunderstanding," Giordano says. "One of the boys said that he'd never talk to his friends this way, the way that he talked to the interviewer, because those boys don't have the feelings that he has."
It - this findings - is like the most well-known secret behind a live news anchor's seemingly incredible memory... those in the know knows the 'secret' is nothing more than a screen in front of the camera, timely scrolling the daily reports according to the news anchor's speed of dialogue; while this same 'secret' may escape others and is unthinkable until told or shown otherwise.
Obvious findings i noe. But sweet ^^
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 4:25 AM
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Little particles in the air responsible for killing all of us in the long term
I'm damn bloody sick.
The flu bug has struck again!!
Goddamn haze!
*shakes fist at some farking lousy govt*
Do you know how stupid u made yourself sound to the world when u say "There's nothing we can do about it"??
Catch, fine, lock-up, execute those stupid forest-fire setters!
Damn. They shd replace the whole *certain farking lousy govt* with pple who has the capacity to think!
Like, with our Secondary 1 students maybe?
(It is NOT far-fetched. Come on, u can find it within yourself to agree with me. Unless u are already in the *certain farked-up govt*)
Ok, breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Choke on thin and polluted air.
Trying not to sound elitist is especially hard when I. CAN'T. BREATHE.
Crossing the overhead bridge to school today taxed my mucus-clogged lungs so much i felt like i was a post-lung operatee who'd just climbed Mount Everest. Without the climber's usual breathing apparatus.
Jus as well that i dun have my voice back yet and cant rant and rave (out loud verbally).
Sick and bed-ridden for most of the past 4 days, couching in front of the computer screen the rest of the time and letting my fingers do all the ranting which the rest of my physical self has no energy to do.
My face is taking on a deathly pallor, lit by the phosphorescent sheen of the monitor glow nite after nite after nite.
+ Ursula r e m e m b e r s again + 9:51 PM
