~*angie's lil reverie*~

Approaching April

We are just 2 days away from April. It's kinda scary that first quarter of the year had passed by just like that.

For the first quarter, it's all about CNY and wisdom teeth extraction. After my wisdom teeth extraction, I had been feeling sick for a while and I had just recovered. Hopefully, I will be more healthy in the next 3 quarters as it sux to be sick.

This is a happy weekend for most of us as it's a short week with Public Holiday falling on Friday. On Thursday, I met up with my sis they all for yummy buffet at Orchard Hotel. The alaska crabs were really good. However, I guess I shouldn't be eating too much seafood (or I shouldn't eat at all) as my wound kinda hurts after dinner. Hmm... I shall refrain from eating seafood until my wound is much much better.

As for Friday, Jianhui and I went to watch GI Joe - Retaliation. The movie was good with all the fighting and shooting. After movie, we went to meet up with my secondary school friends at Little Part 1 Cafe - a cafe near Thomson Plaza. I had not met up with them since New Year Countdown! That was so long ago! Exactly 3 months ago! And I'm really happy to have Limin back in Singapore too! It was a great catch up session with them, hearing good news from Jordon & Huling and Sean & Stephanie! So happy for them! =p

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Oh ya, I will be having a 21km race this Sunday. Good luck to all the runners and myself!

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Angeline winks
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Loss of appetite

To be honest, I have been trying to lose 2 kg for the longest time ever and was unable to shred off the extra kilos. Now, I had finally lost 2 kg but I don't feel good at all. My chest feels congested and tight that I don't dare to eat too much. It seems like my esophagus is blocked or what. And I can't really enjoy food which is a sad thing especially I love to eat so much.

Ultimately, health is more important. For now, I just hope that I will eventually feel better and get to eat normally.

I can't wait to enjoy my favourite fried chicken wings, seafood and all the junk food. =p

It's revenge time! hehe

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Angeline winks
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Goodbye Raymond Ah Q

Raymond Ah Q had left us on Thursday morning. He had fought bravely but he had lost the battle eventually. He was diagnosed with Leukemia in October and he had left us in March. Seems like the chemogeaphy was not able to save him.

He's a nice, honest and filial person who had touched many people's hearts. This is epecially evident when you see so many people tearing at the wake. Even his colleagues were tearing like us.

Goodbye Raymond Ah Q. You will be deeply missed by all of us.

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Angeline winks
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Day 3 after Extraction of Wisdom Teeth

I'm still good.

The only problem is, I am constantly feeling hungry as I have only been drinking milo/cereal, eating porridge (without meat), mashed potato and little bit of small pieces of chicken and noodles. I am not sure how long I have to continue with this soft diet. Hopefully, when I see my dentist again on Wednesday, she would tell me that I can go ahead with normal diet.

I'm totally starved!ARGH!

Oh yes, I am very irritated that I can't brush teeth too. So far, I have been brushing my teeth lightly (with no toothpaste) and using dental floss plus antiseptic mouth rinse.

As I want to avoid having food stuck at my wound, I have been swallowing food these few days. Now, I finally know how important it is to chew the food to enjoy what you are eating. Without chewing, the food is bland if you just swallow it directly.

I can't wait to eat my fried chicken and happy food soon!

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Angeline winks
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Saturday, March 09, 2013

Bye Bye to my Wisdom Teeth

After postponing my dental surgery for a year plus, I finally went for my dental surgery yesterday. Jianhui was really nice to take half day leave to accompany me, if not I would be scared to go alone. After the surgery, I would recommend all to have somebody to accompany you to the surgery. I was feeling very nervous before the surgery as many had shared many horrible stories about tooth extraction. The other time when I was supposed to go for the surgery, I had fever out of the blue. If you know me, I'm that kind of person who would have flu more often than fever as my body is "cooling" kind. I guess, my body freaked out and hence the surgery was postponed till yesterday.

I had decided to remove my bottom wisdom teeth which they usually call it the impacted teeth. Instead of growing upwards, it grew sidewards (due to limitation in space) and biting the neighbouring tooth. In the worst case scenario if you don't remove the impacted tooth, you may have to do root canal for your neighbouring good tooth or even extract it totally. Dentist recommends me to remove the top ones too, but I guess since they are growing well (as of now), there is no need to remove them first. I shall solve the more critical problem first - which is to remove the bottom impacted teeth.

When I started to lie down there, I started to freak out as I had no idea what would I be going through. All I know there would be some drilling, pulling and stitching. There was music playing in the surgery room which I presume it is to make the patient (or even the dentist and nurse) relax?

While I was still trying to figure out what's going to happen, my dentist (Dr Sylvia Tay) started to inject those long needles into my right and left cheeks which I think she is administering local anaesthetic. Thereafter, she started to ask me if it's painful. Strangely, I dont feel anything now.

Then, they used a cloth to cover my eyes, leaving my mouth open. That's when the real thing got started. And yes, the drilling started. If you hate the sound of that equipment when you go for your usual routine teeth cleaning, I tell you this is worse. Super long and persistent irritating sound which gives me goose pimples. Then I could feel that's cracking sound (which is traumatizing), followed by violent pulling and jerking of my head. Now I know why some say you could have bruises after the surgery. I feel like I have been to a fight and was beaten badly. I could see the dentist taking out bits and pieces of my tooth. When she was done with the left side, I knew I had made a right choice to remove both the bottom ones this time round. As I definitely did not want to go through such trauma.

After 45 minutes, the surgery was over. My jaw and mouth feel really weird. It's numb and I have no feeling. Not painful at all. Just experiencing weird numbness which is scary because I have no control of my tongue. I can't even swallow saliva. And I can't talk too. I had to whatsapp Jianhui though he was just beside me. I was bleeding non-stop that I could taste the blood taste and the gauze was all RED. It's just gross.

After collecting the medicine, we took a cab home. I was still feeling okay other than the bleeding of the wound. Other than that, so far, I'm good and I hope I continue to feel this way. The only problem is, I can hardly eat food, so it's causing me to be hungry constantly. Sigh.

I will be on medical leave for 6 days, so I shall take this opportunity to rest well and recover.

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Angeline winks
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Sunday, March 03, 2013

It's March

It's March. Time is flying so fast that I got a feeling that we would be approaching end of first quarter soon.

This year has been a year of baby showers so far... I had attended a total of 3 baby showers to date. I'm happy for the new parents - George & Liu Yuan, Edwin & Stephanie, William & Nam and lastly Chet Siang & Yixia. Congratulations to them! It's not easy to be parents and it's only when you go through the pain then you truly understand how difficult it is to be parents. For that, I am very grateful for my parents for giving me the best they can give me - unconditional love and concern.

Baby Kimberley - Photo from George

Baby Gareth & us - Photo from Edwin & Stephanie

Baby Javier

I had just visited my uncle who was diagnosed leukemia last year. He wasn't in a good state. I wish him a speedy recovery and may he get well soon. He's a nice uncle and I really hope that he can win this battle.

Somehow, people have been reminding me that I'm turning the big 3 this year. Actually, getting old isn't scary if you are healthy and all well. It's more scary when you realize that you have not achieved anything in your life when you are old. And now that I am going to be 30 this year, it is definitely a time to do self reflections - Looking at my failures and how I could make things better or what could I have done to make it better?

Feeling kinda emo nowadays. Another sign of getting old? I hope not.

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Angeline winks
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