My 3 years birthday update!

Okay, finally I'm going to blog about my 22nd birthday surprise now. Fyi, my birthday is on the 28 dec. I know it's like almost 6 months ago but I really don't have the time and mood to blog about it until now.Well actually I still don't really know how and where to start but I keep telling myself I have to blog it so yeah, read on!

Ever since I came over to study in Singapore, I celebrated my birthday with surprises. Since my 20th, 21st and last year 22nd. On my 20th, I celebrated one day in advance at Carmel's house with my first clique of friends in Uni (carmel, xw, peggy, cheryl, qilu, zp). It's suppose to be a steamboat day but after I went back to carmel's room from the toilet before we were about to leave, they off the light and there's a cake in front of me. Super super touched can. Before I'm 20, I never celebrate my bday with friends because it's normally during school holidays and I'm never really the 'bday party' kind of girl. So that's my first surprise bday and I never expect my friends would surprise me like that. Read it here.

My 21st surprise bday happened 1 month before my bday. On the Nov 25th if I remembered correctly. I went back to Malaysia for 5 days and for what reason I've forgot but that week was really happening. I think I blogged about it but I can't find it in my post list! I guess I just forgot to blog or mention about it. LOL LOL. I have the tendency to keep forgetting to update. *rush over and dig my diary out. Okay, No worries, I've penned down everything in my diary so I have my memories all freshly preserved. No pic here because I'm really lazy to search for it in my FB plus I really looked horrible back then so if you're interested go find it yourself! Anyway, still remember on the day before the surprise, chiawei texted to ask me what I don't like to eat and I replied a whole list of food that I don't eat but I thought I was being a little too 夸张 and might shocked him so I told him I like spaghetti and chocolates the most. Trying to act like I'm just a normal girl that eats too because the list I texted him was really long, no joke. It's like I don't eat at all! LOL. So the next day around 2pm chiawei texted me saying he will come over and fetch me in the evening and we're going to have dinner together with the rest. I didn't ask him where we were going and he went to fetched evonne after me. We got caught in the jam heading somewhere near Time Square. The jam is really crazy we took 2 and a half hour to reach there instead of the usual 1 hour? Lucky evonne was with us in the car so we just chat randomly. The jam was tolerable when I'm with evonne. LOL. That was the period of time when I'm suffering from a little claustrophobia and being in the jam would cause minor panic attack. So yeah, when we reached there, cally, soon loong, nic, ernest was already there. So we went to a really fineplace (totally don't remember the name and the exact location). It looked like a small cozy cottage from the outside and they also bake and sell freshly made breads. Then I realised their main course was mainly spaghetti but since I'm suffering from really bad sore throat, I shared my favourite carbonara with Evonne. Then after I came back from the toilet, a chocolate cake appeared in front of my seat again. My first thought was *cough cough. OMG. Why must my favourite food be something that would worsen the condition of my throat. But still I'm super super touched and THAT'S REALLY UNEXPECTED. Who would expect they to purposely bring you out to celebrate your birthday 1 month in advance? And just when I thought that's all they prepared for me, evonne suddenly turned to cw and asked why the cake don't have wenqi's name? Then I looked at the cake and realised really don't have my name on it so I said it's okay la. I don't mind. Then I don't remember who said nah, lucky I bought wenqi's name out and he/she took out a box and urged me to open it. When I saw the box I totally stunned because I kind of guess what's in there and that overwhelming feeling was so great till I have to cover my mouth with my hand because I just can't close them. Super unglam. HAHAHA. I opened it and guess what I saw? A necklace with my name. That's the one I've been wearing till today. Cally, evonne, sl, cw, andre, and meng bought it for me. I hope I didn't miss out anyone. LOL. But seriously that's like the best present I've ever received in my life, till now. Now that I recall, I'm really blessed with friends. Even though I'm in Sg now, they never fail to meet me whenever I went back and that's like once a year? OMG. I'm going to cry le! *wipe away tears of happiness. Every day I looked at my necklace, it will reminds me of friends that I've know for 5 years and counting. Can't believe I only know them for my last year in secsch but somehow they became the few of my high school friends that are still in touch.

And oh on my actual birthday, I went out with my usual sim clique for a dinner at Nando's - Bugis. I really liked Nandos a lot when I'm in Malaysia but the price in sg and msia is roughly the same but of course sg is 2.4 times more expensive than malaysia so mehhhh, not gonna eat that as often anymore. Cause after that surprise celebration in Malaysia, I kept having the feeling that I've celebrated my 21st and on the actual day I really don't feel any thing special than the other 364 days in the year. LOL.

Oh no, I'm getting tired but I still have my 22nd birthday to blog!

Okay, so for the 22nd birthday, wenloong came over to Sg to surprise me! He pakat with my sis for the surprise and he really spoilt the market for my future bf lo (I'm going to have high expectation for my bday from now on, HAHAHA). Can't believe someone not my bf will come to me in person to celebrate with me. He reached sg on the 27th and came directly to my house with a cake. Okay la, for him, I'm going to post a pic. *go take a pic of the polariod using camera and transfer to com.

wenloong, the only guy who knew my darkest secret and vice versa. LOL

So I was in my room with xw, I asked her to come over to talk talk and then I heard my sis came home so I ignored that and continued talking with xw. Suddenly somebody knocked on the door and when I went to open it, wenloong was holding a cake and for the third time this post, I'm stunned again. But this time I managed to laugh out loud like a crazy woman because it just so unbelievable and he look so hilarious holding that small cake!! HAHAHA. So yeah, it's super touching for the third time again and I'm really glad that everyone remember I like chocolates and bought chocolate cake for me.

YAY! Finally I've blogged about my birthdaySSS. Can tick it off my to-blog-list. HAHAHA. Ever since I'm 17, there's one wish I kept constantly wishing on my bday and it came true for all the years till now. I will continue to wish for it to come true till I'm 60 years old or so. LOL. Curious about my wish? I'll tell you, is to remain young and don't age for the year. Judge me or not I don't care! I just don't wanna look old and mature! Oh well, I think the little girl in me had taken over my real age self so I still haven't have the adult feel even when I'm working and no longer is a student. LOLLOLLOL

I think I made a wise decision to blog now because this post really contain a lot of my happiness and makes me feel really happy and loved. Been stressing over work these few days and it's seriously affecting me. This is so not me, too much negativity lately. I need to find something that can keep me happy for awhile. Okay, I think sleep is the only remedy for now. Byeee.



I know ..

Officially a working adult.

First week at work is just mehhh.

Never in my life I've tried using my brain for 8 hours per day for 5 days straight. Being an audit assistant or according to my name card, I'm providing business advisory and assurance services, is really super exhausting, it's even worst than working full shift at Esprit standing for 10 hours.

Have to learn everything from scratch about how to audit a company. Lucky I have someone very patient to ask questions to and explain nicely in details for me. Seriously don't know how I can managed to survive through the whole week without him. I'm not very familiar with using excel or words and he still teaches and explains them a few times for me to understand and remember. HAHAHA. I admit I sucks in computer skills.

Now it's like doing POA non stop for 8 hours a day, from balance sheet to PandL to cash flow statement to taxation. Tedious and detailed work but time really flies. Not sure if I can disclose my working procedures here or job scope so I'll just roughly blog about my office life. Normally I will reached office around 8.45 and start working until lunch for 45 minutes and then until 6.30 or so before leaving. Every night, I'll just knock out in minutes. I'm still having the weekly tuition for my now pri 5 tutee every Saturday morning so I'll have to try to finish all my work on Friday so I don't have to go back on Saturday for OT.

Okay la, really don't feel like blogging about my work life so I'll jump to something everyone in Singapore is talking about - the haze. Today psi is getting better, just checked and it's 82. But they say it's because the wind changed direction but tomorrow it might blow back to Singapore again. Yesterday highest was 401 and that figure is really scary. Masks sold out all over Singapore and the air smelled so bad that you'll start feeling nauseous after breathing without mask for awhile. Every morning when I reached office, I stinked like the polluted air, from my bag to my hair. Hope Indonesia stop burning down their forest and we can have our fresh air back. Feel like going out to jog also can not. Tsk.

Anyway, there's something I'm trying to get used to besides the 9-6 working life and the haze, it's my braces. It's getting better now, as in not hurting me that much but I still can't eat anything that requires me to use my front teeth to bite. So I'm getting lighter every single day and I've lost around 2kg in just 1 week, without exercising. *thumb up

Finally done updating so byeee!!

My first plastic surgery.

Been wanting to do it ever since I'm 16, now finally I get to do to it on my ...

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 TEETH!!

Yes, I'm on braces now! Can't describe how happy, excited and pained I'm feeling all together since last last Sunday.

Went to extracted 2 teeth (one on my top right and one on my bottom left) last last Sunday and had my braces (only the front 8 teeth of both my top and bottom teeth, the back maybe in the next few months) installed last Saturday. Just counted I had 24 teeth now with 2 wisdom teeth on the top row but no wisdom teeth on the bottom. They're blocked and hopefully will not grow out till I die. So I googled and they say on average an adult will have 32 permanent teeth but even with the 2 I've extracted I only had 26 and plus 2 bottom wisdom teeth that's not in sight 28. I'm lacking of 4 more teeth? Hmmmm. Anybody have teeth as little as I had?

Anyway, not gonna show you all pic because personally I feel it's very crooked and unglam and that's a part of me I wanna hide. Maybe when I can take better pic then I'll show some. My sis chose blue and turquoise rubber bands for me on alternate teeth. Not sure what's the rubber thingy called but I call it the rubberband. Still not getting used to it but the pain is becoming more tolerable with every passing day.

Extracting of teeth is not that pain as I first expected but I was shivering from the air con or from the fear, I don't know which. The nurse had to secure my face with both her hands when the dentist extract my teeth VIOLENTLY. With the anesthetic, I didn't felt any pain but I could feel the the root of the tooth leaving my gums. It's a very odd feeling and er I don't like it! The wound is still not fully recovered and I can still see a little dried up blood till now. Ate porridge for the first 2 days and then I can eat normal food.

For the installation of braces, I closed my eyes throughout the whole process and this is what I recalled. Dentist first cleaned my teeth and called me to rinse my mouth after that and I spitted out some blue stuff that tasted salty. Not sure what was that. Then he 'stick' the metals on my teeth using glue as what meichyi told me since she went in with me to accompany me. It's painless but I can feel the metal sticking on to my teeth (it's the same type of feeling when the tooth leave my gums). Next, I get to choose the color(s) I want and he will use them to secure the metal wire that connect all my teeth to move them to the ideal position. Still painless up to now until that one tooth that is super crooked and very oddly positioned, dentist was trying to 'tie' the rubberband to it but he used so much force that I 'ARGH' out loud with all the stuff (I don't know what) in my mouth and immediately backed off from him and sinked deeper into the dental chair or whatever that's called. My body turned stiff and I'm trembling. He called me not to move and continued to apply force on my poor tooth, but it's seriously hurts so much that I teared automatically and shocked the nurse standing beside. Then I very paiseh and said' 我要哭了'when tears already flowing out like mad, so my sis and the nurse have to wipe them away for me and one drop even flowed into my opening mouth. wth. My sis keep saying '不痛不痛' and '要好了' till the dentist asked her '你怎么知道不痛?' Then my sis answered '因为痛的是他不是我.' See my sis very act smart hor? I literally rolled eyes at her but actually I was rolling eyes at the celling because I was lying down mah! HAHAHAHA. So after the very dramatic pain, every thing's done and I'm good to go. Next appointment is 6 weeks later, hope no more pain ok!!

First hour after installing the braces, felt no pain at all just uncomfortable with all the metal rubbing my inner lips and have a little trouble with how to speak without looking weird. Dentist advise me to put some wax on some of the metals so I won't have ulcers but the process of pressing in the wax is another round of pain! No choice but to do it to protect myself from ulcer attack.

Then after 2 hours, hell began. I thought I'm not going to suffer any pain so I bought KFC cheese fries and when I tried to have my first bite. It's hurt so badly that I almost screamed out. I don't know why it hurts so bad so I took out my pocket mirror and analyse what causes the pain. I think it might be because my top row of teeth is too out front and my bottom too inside, you know what I mean? So ya, when I tried to bite using my front teeth the top have to move backwards or the bottom have to move outwards to meet and bite but with braces installed, my jaw can't even move without feeling the pain. Well, it's not like I didn't try to use my back teeth, but the same thing happened, when the top teeth tried to bite down, it's hit the bottom and causes pain. Is the touch also can not touch type of pain.

So literally I can't eat anything that require chewing, including PORRIDGE. wtf? I tried one mouthful but only managed to swallow all the water from the porridge and left with rice in my mouth. Then, I told my mum I can't eat the porridge and showed her the remaining of the porridge in my mouth and she said whoa, 酱严重 meh.=.= 是的妈, 就是酱严重. So I've been drinking or eating mushroom soup, milk, hot chocolate, milo, mashed potato, hor fun soup for the past 3 days through closed jaw. For hor fun I have to use a metal spoon to 'chop' them into small small pieces so I can just swallow them down with the soup. Fluid food only, like a baby. I thought extracting of teeth is the most painful part of the process but I'm totally wrong, the pain of braces is 1000x worst than having blood flowing out from the extracted tooth wound.

On the first night, I didn't sleep well at all. Woke up at 3am and 7am, don't know why. I can't open my mouth wide or talk loudly. My jaws refused to open and I can only squeeze words out of my mouth with my jaws closed. Plus with the little food I consume, I really felt tired easily and suddenly had lots of cravings. Hokkien mee, pasta, koi, mcd, chocolates, ramen, curry rice .... OMG, I'm beginning to feel the emptiness in my stomach again. The tugging and pulling of the braces really makes my teeth felt very tight and pressurized till I can't even brush my teeth. When the toothbrush touches my teeth and even before I started brushing them, the pain is striking and I can't continue. Plus it's only the front teeth I'm talking about, I can't open my jaw big enough to brush my back teeth so in the end I just rinse them. LOL. Now I fully understand 爱美是要付出代价的. This dai jia is seriously fucking pain. Never in my life I've felt this degree of pain. It's like major menses cramp but it's happening in your mouth and the only period you won't feel the pain is when you're in a deep sleep. So it will bother you every minute, every second whenever you're breathing.

On the second night, I didn't sleep well again because I dreamt of something bad again. A woman with short hair was kneeling beside me on my bed and she was covering my mouth and suffocating me with her hands and I was paralyzed. I tried to scream but she's strong. I can't see her face as she had all the hair covering parts of her face plus it's dark and I'm panicking and struggling so I couldn't see properly. It's not the first time I dreamt of something was paralyzing me but it's the first time I managed to open my eyes and see what's pressing me down. Then suddenly I got freed and woke up, I was so tired that I just continue to close my eyes and try to fall back to sleep. But I can't and the image keep resurfacing so in the end I carried all my stuff and went to meichyi's room. When I opened the door, instead of seeing her sleeping on her bed, she was standing up in her dark room and I got taken aback that I forgot what's my reaction was. LOL. She told me she just finished watching her hk drama and was about to sleep now but she need to go to the toilet first. So I  told her about my nightmare and we sleep together. I'm so lucky to have her as a sister. Phew.

The pain become less torturous yesterday and I can open my jaws le! You don't know how happy I felt and it's like all the pain I suffered finally is going away. I still can't bite anything but at least there's no pain if I don't touch them. So I went to meet up with xianwen for a short chat after she finished her work, at the mcd beside her place and we update each other a little. She surprised me by giving me a Celine dustcap! Posted the pic on fb and IG so I won't be posting it here again. She's really super good to me till I don't know if I deserve it or not!! *cries! Laughed and talked with her so much till my jaws hurts again. LOL. Btw, they say your face will slim down when you had braces because it's supposed to pull all your teeth in and correct your jawline, but now my cheeks are so chubby (not say it's not chubby before but it's chubbier now) because they're kinda swollen. I looked so laughable on the first day. LOL.

Anyway, I've heard a lot of stuff on braces from xianwen and xiaoyuan (both of them still having their braces now. so glad I'm not alone) but when I experienced it first-handed, it still shocked me. xianwen didn't suffer much pain even for her first few days but I somehow suffered as much as xiaoyuan did, though from what I heard, mine was a little worst than her. My lips are constantly dry and I can't use my tongue to lick them as my jaw won't let them during the first 2 days. So had to use lip balm and they are very 'oily'.

Ever since I had my braces on, meichyi keep calling me to show her my teeth because she said it fascinating to see them and I look weird and so she can laugh at me. =.= Lucky I get to stay at home for another week before I go to work next Monday. Finally found a job position I truly think I will enjoy doing and I'm really happy. Didn't tweet recently about the job offer or the pain of braces because I thought of being low profile first for the job and the pain, I think the more I talk about it the harsher the pain will be. So now after the job offer had been confirmed and the pain is fading now, I'm blogging it with happiness!!

Okay, didn't intend to blog such a long blog but somehow when I'm typing it out it became such a detailed post. Hope it will help whoever that's going to have their braces done on what to expect, and good luck with the pain if you suffer any! LOL. Ohya, you can pay by installment but will have to pay a certain amount as deposit first. So that's all, byeeee!

Late update - Picnic day!

On last Friday at Marina Barrage with Xianwen. Read her blog for more details as I will only be blogging with photos.

 

Done!

 

Today's really a good, good day that makes me a happy girl. HAHAHAHAHA.

 

Ok, Byeeee!

Smoky girl, girl smoky.

Mblaq is back with smoky girl! The part where thunder keep repeating smoky girl smoky girl smoky girl, girl smoky girl smoky girl smoky, really makes me LOL. For me I think it's a little awkward to keep repeating the same lyrics over and over again without laughing.

Super in love with Thunder's pink hair and Seung Ho's blonde hair! Finally they can have bright color hair instead of the usual brown or black.

Well, anyway, I just received a good news today and I'm super happy!! I'l blog about it when everything is settled and confirmed.

Byeeeee.