n
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

As I'm typing out my blog now, I am also in pain. Why is that so? That's because I suffered the price of vainity. I did the first part of my braces today, the insertion of the 2 metal rings near the back molars, so, my biting is affected due to the painful poking of the rings into my gums everytime I attempt to clench my jaw. As a result, I can't eat well. I can't even eat rice drenched with lotsssss of soup. Neither can I bite even mee sua (soft bee hoon like noodles)...& I'm basically having a stuttering speech problem...not mentioning a hellava lots of pain. Everytime I close my teeth i practically feel the rings piercing my gums..........I feel like cursing !@#$%^&*...God, help me!!!
However, part of me is glad that after 2.5 years or so, the gaps of my teeth would no longer be there, and my bottom jaw would not look like it's jutting out more than the upper jaw. Plus, I get to lose weight without needing to exercise! (although I think exercise is less torturous & painful now compared to braces) So it's goodbye to gappy teeth & hello to perfect teeth :)




Goodbye my brace-less teeth!!! :(


I also went to the aesthetic and reconstructive centre today regarding the Blepharoplasty procedure. The first thing the surgeon told me was "You have very small eyes."...Sad. Then, he then proceeded to explain more about the procedure and took a ruler to measure my eyes...(11mm...damn small -_-) Basically, he said nobody does the open method (cutting & slicing the skin of the eyelid to form a permanent crease) nowadays, but people are switching to a more advanced procedure which involves vanishing stitches through 8 dots made on the eyelid. I know it's a mouthful, so I'll attempt an illustration:




Seems to have the ultra-ouch factor right? That's basically what he would do, dot 8 points and do a vanishing stitch through the 8 dots, each dot will have the needle pass twice through with a thread that's 3xs the thickness of a strand of hair. I got a little freaked out while he was explaining this part...lol...I mean, the thread is a little too thick right? Needle would pass twice, which equates: 2 X 3 = 6 strands of hair per dot....sounds ultra excruciating. Anyways I haven't decided whether to really go for it, so I haven't set the op date or paid the downpayment yet. The 20 mins consultation already cost me a 3 figure sum. Torching my pocket indeed.

Anyway, I met up with Gerald & the rest of my ex nyjc band mates (by rest I mean, 4 more people. lol...)...We had a nice little dinner at spaghettis and yummy desserts at a japanese restaurant. What can I say? When you have good company, food automatically taste good. This makes me sad again. No solid food for 1 month as of now!...I'm drifting...so, these are the photos:




The 5 of us, Jiahui still looking as sweet as ever.




With Ruiqi who joined us later




Us gals...




At the Esplanade...




The guys




Failed attempt at acting cool/cute




Jiahui and I




Nice displays at the Esplanade


Guess that's so much for today...finally posting photos after such a long time.
So, have a nice week ya all!