ouch

i scared myself looking at the mirror this morning! the bruise sort of spread (that should be good), but it seems to get bigger!

tried very hard to take pictures to capture the bruises... so here's the best i could do (forget how shabby i look at home ok. focus on the bruise!!!)

my left cheek

my right cheek

hope this gets better by sunday. dun want to go out looking like an abused person! imagine the stares i will get!

days of no verbal communication

thank god for msn / sms / facebook!

what would i do without these technologies during my 10 days mc from removal of my 4 wisdom teeth? Can't open my mouth to widely and with cotton gauze stucked in my mouth, i can't really talk much... so communication is restricted to the above wonders. of course, the bad news means replying to my office emails / sms. but it is also where i received lots of well-wishes from friends and colleagues. thanks for all your concerns! its not painful... just still having the "bloody" taste in the mouth. somehow, it is still bleeding... not terribly, but still need the gauze to stop the bleeding. hopefully it will stop by today!

lil'c wanted me to post pictures of my 4 wisdom teeth. but i thought it will be really gross. firstly they returned me the teeth, still bloody (sorry for grossing anyone out) in the bag. I wanted to wash it clean and decide to listen to one of my colleague's advice and soak it in mouth wash. but i totally forgot abt it till the next morning, so the teeth went green! haha! anyway, after soaking in water for another day, it sort of got better, but i still think it is gross to post it on my blog.

so this is the third day of my mc, still eating baby food - porridge, porridge and more porridge. but this morning, i tried eating a slice of pandan chiffon cake, i actually took like 25mins to eat 1 thin slice. so i guess i will have to take it slow for the type of food i eat for now.

enjoying the fact that i get to sleep late these few days, but starting to get bored with local tv in the afternoon... yes, even with cable. so i am embarking on the journey of watching my comfort dvds starting with SATC all over again! so its season 1 for now... let's see how long it takes for me to complete the full series with the movie :)

my tooth of wisdom

while chewing my vegetables (yes... vegetables) during dinner yesterday, i felt a piece of "stone". so i spit it out and realised this piece of "stone" was actually part of my tooth! its about 0.5cm, considered big to me. quickly checked if which tooth it was, if it was bleeding etc. realised it was the last tooth, no blood and no pain.

went to the dentist today and was told that the broken tooth was my wisdom tooth. apparently it was already broken, so any pressure to it would have chipped it. then the next news - i would have to remove all 4 of my wisdom teeth! given a choice to do GA or LA. being one of those who do not want to subject myself staring at my dentist while getting my tooth extracted, and not wanting to subjecting myself to the pain twice, i made a decision to do GA. as i will get 10 days of mc, i need to plan the dates properly to ensure my work and personal schedule is not badly affected.

so pray for me all - THE DAY: 24th Aug, 12.30pm. my operation (hopefully just the teeth and retain my wisdom! haha!)

therapeutic saturday

had quite a therapeutic day today...

after a late night yest, woke up at 10 plus this morning by my sister. my god-sis has invited us to her place in the late afternoon for a popiah / pie tee party cum mahjong session. sounds familiar? i had an exact same itinerary last sunday! like my sis said, i will not reject a pie tee treat...

so while waiting to go out, i decided to get started on the petit puzzle i bought last week. its a disney horoscope puzzle and the design for the capricorn is using donald duck (one of my fav). so why is it petit? the puzzle pieces are so small that they gave a tiny tweezer as a tool to pick the pieces. it was quite relaxing to piece the puzzle together and as it was great that it can be finished within hours (knowing me, i will lose my enthusiasm if i had to drag myself to complete it in days).

the final product - all framed up

football season starts again today. lucky liverpool is only playing tomorrow, so i won't be getting any adrenaline rush tonight. so its a nice peaceful saturday for me...

post long weekend

even if it wasn't such an eventful holiday, it feels great to not work for 3 days. go shopping on one day, mahjong another, then nua at home for the last.

going back to office was dreadful! no mood at all even though there were plenty to do. thank god i had to go for a meeting in jurong today, so i left office after lunch. of course, there was a dinner with RL and SC to look forward to! plus... my meeting ended early, so i was in time to meet RL earlier than expected and took the train down to vivo city.

dinner was great. not so much the food, but mainly the company! havent met SC for a while, so catching up over food, updating each other on our lives. it made the start of the work week easier... tmr is mid week alr! now can't wait for friday for another catching up session!

familiar faces

started this year's regional conference today at pan pacific hotel - SINGAPORE. yes, you read right. SINGAPORE. my 2nd year, and still no chance to travel out. haha.

anyway, this time round is a bit more "easy" for me as this is the second time. met familiar faces that i met last year, met new faces to the names on the emails. one familiar face caught my attention at the registration this morning - the ex-ops director of kfc malaysia. went up to say hi and realised he joined the malaysia franchisee just 3 weeks ago as their CEO.

the world is so small yah? you can bump into people after circling round in the industry.

milestone at work...

you must be thinking what achievement did i do at work? well, its not really work related... but still something worth remembering, the first time i bring my girls out clubbing! haha! unlike my ex workplace where the team hangs out after work very often. think this is only the 2nd time i went out with my girls after work (the first was a birthday dinner earlier this year).

so i decided arrange a clubbing session with my girls (i am a hip and happening boss mah! lol!), especially since one of them has never gone clubbing before (going with her mom to zouk doesn't count) and the other only went with her friends that leaves by 12 midnight!

so we started the night after work with dinner at Central's Manhatten Fish Market. we didn't really planned where to go, so we made a round at clarke quay, before settling for... zirca! haven't been there myself, so didn't mind trying. it was pretty much like MOS's main hall... we got a seat upstairs as it was less crowded with seats! we had drinks, danced at our table (yah... a bit loser right?) before we decided to cross over to Rebel. hip hop and r&b is so much nicer to dance to! plus a super crowded (and young) crowd, we managed to squeezed into the dancefloor.

so we had drinks, we danced, we club hopped, we stayed out late till 2.30am! it was a pretty sucessful night out, especially since this old bones haven't been clubbing for a long time!

a pix after dinner

our first drinks

just before we left, still very sober! haha!