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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!

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. - Alan Cohen

Today, I had a humbling experience in the dental clinic while taking x-rays for fitting of braces. By humbling, I mean that being a rather prideful person, I get embarrassed easily. But because I really need to get the x-rays done, I have not much of a choice except to follow all the procedures. Some involved taking pictures of different profiles whilst smiling dumbly with my full set of teeth exposed. Also, I needed to take an x-ray of my front jaw, but the nurse did not tell me that there was residual plasticine mould stuck on my face prior to taking the x-ray. No wonder one of the dental assistant was trying to stifle a silent giggle. That, to me, thus accounts to a humbling experience. However, my slight embarrassment was quickly replaced with joy cause the dentist told me that my teeth were originally white and nice already, so after my braces, I would have real nice teeth. My case was a case of protruding lower jaw, an overbite of my lower jaw, so no teeth needed to be extracted (I already have 2 lesser teeth than the norm). I'm only doing braces because a) I'm really vain and b) I don't like the 4mm gap between 2 teeth on my lower jaw (yes, I really measured the gap distance, never mind the parallax error). So it's really more of a want than a need.

So anyhows, I think I will be fitting in the actual brace next saturday. Which makes my next saturday a real hectic day as I have dental appointment at 930am, another appointment for my eyes at mt elizabeth at 11am and driving at 5pm. Basically, my next saturday is packed, packed, packed to the fullest possible brim. & while my next saturday gets packed to the brim, my bank account shall get depleted to the lowest possible pit. My mum has agreed to help me pay for my braces first, but the opt for my eyes would be fully paid by my own means. Actually I'm still deliberating on whether or not to do the eyelid opt, on one hand I'm totally sick of my slity eyes, but on the other, that will set me back by 3K...my entire savings, blown in the name of vainity...with no extra left for me to do anything if, touch wood, something goes wrong. So I may need to still wait till I got more money reserves. But the fitting of braces is a confirmed thing. I think what fuelled my desire to do the opt is because I have been using the damn eyelid glue for nearly 2 years now and yet not merely a hint of double eyelid had appeared. Once I remove the glue, my eyes revert to their scary, small, slity form. Really think those with big/non-slit-like eyes or double eyelid people are damn lucky man. Call my thinking or actions extreme, but, when you never have a chance to live a day as a slity, single eyelid person, you will never fully understand her pain.

Anyway, exam results are out, but I'm not exactly thrilled about it. A drop of gpa equates an instant dip in my moodstick. I'm hoping for better results in the coming sem since Im not planning to take any elects for the whole of the new study year. Well, one can only hope. *prays hard*

Guess that's all of my ramblings for today. My bed beckons for its tired owner to get some rest. So, adios for now!