Monday, May 09, 2005
OoooOooOOooo....
Word of the day is 'Ooo' (pronunciation guide: Take deep breath, purse lips and let it out first in a down scale gruff voice. Then think of something happy and go oooOOooOOoo. Note the specific intonations of highs and lows. Now you've got it!)
Okie, that sums up my day succinctly. Go tend to your fields peasants......... *sweatdrops from bewildered masses. HEY Princess LAZYBONES, get your butt here and start writing if not...Yeah? You'll what?We'll expose your little secret. Haha, we know what you did today. *eerie music plays* ...Urm..no way... You wouldn't be so cruel...No wait...I'm innocent....Innocent I tell you!!*Evil sniggers, JAWS music in background* We saw you!! Yes, we did....my preciousss..Hey...wait a minute...this is getting too weird. Okay enough with all the corny references. So what...you can't threaten me over what I did today. In fact, I'll say it myself..hahhah! Take that!*Deep breath* I...I ate a whole bar of chocolate. Happy now??*Sounds of cheys ring throughout the imperial courtyard and shuffles of feet*Hey...guys...where are you going...Hey...IT'S A MAJOR THING....HEY!!!Fine, fine. I concede defeat. I'll explain my sudden interest in 'ooos'. So today, I woke up thinking that I be able to have this one day to myself potting around and getting stuff done. There's this HUMUNGOUS stack of papers, textbooks, lecture notes, files and....did i mention really thick textbooks...well you get the idea, hanging around my walk-in closet up taking up much valuable space for my clothes, bags, etc. Actually, it's just that my mum had been bugging me to get that tidied up. But, even if she had'nt, I'd still would do it so you can imagine how bad it is if even I, the messiest princess alive, can't stand it. Anyway, I digress.
So what happened was at 10 plus a.m, my mum barged into my room and said, " Eh, I forgot to remind you yesterday but you have the dental appointment today leh."
My sleep-deprived groggy was like, "Crap. Another day blown." My dental appointment was at NUH to extract 2 wisdom teeth under LA. Actually, I was supposed to get 4 done all at once under GA but after a while I chickened out course I did'nt fancy getting not knowing what was going on while I'm out. Plus, my mum said it was supposed to kill brain cells or something. 'Hogwash!' as my surgeon promptly proclaimed (okay so he did not say that exactly but you get my drift) but err on the side of caution as I always say. =)
Anyway, once I was settled down in the dentist chair, the nurse began wrapping me like some human Ba Zhang (Chinese dumplings). First was the normal blue paper bib, then came the quintessential sterile green cloth, and then they used another of those cloth to wrap my face, effectively only exposing my mouth. Good idea since I'd be staring at the dentist cuz I'm so damn curious about what he's gonna do! Did i mention that I have this strange fetish for going to the dentist? Weird but hee.
Ohoh...And did i mention that I actually like injections?? OKIE...But even so, before they proceeded to blind fold me, I was staring warily at the injection syringe which the manufacturers had so thoughtfully crafted it out of metal making it look like a silver beacon of PAIN! Injection on the skin is fine but in the mouth?? Hrmmm.....I had no idea what to expect.
Lucky for me, I was born with crappy pain receptors when it comes to needles and my threshhold of pain saved the day. I had like 8 injections on the top and the bottom gums and even 2 at the soft palate and it did not even bother me at all! So proud! I was gabbing away after the jab and even after my extractions. But that's cuz half my face (half of my lip, half of my tongue, the gum, cheeks right up to my ear) was numb! My bottom wisdom tooth required slicing off the gums to get to it as it was partially embebbed while the top just required a 'simple' extraction. So, i got to hear the drill bit which did not hurt at all. But the extraction was rather shocking as I never had one before. I have a new found respect for the arm strength of dentists. OMGWTF, how in the world did he just pull out my tooth like it was nothing?!?!
Anyway, my nice herculean dentist warned me to take the painkillers before my LA starts to wear off around 5p.m. So, I took them about 4.45pm and congratualated myself for being so clever. ARGH...stupid )@(#*%&(*$ painkillers...LOUSY PONSTAN!! It did not work until around 7p.m. By then, I had gone through the most agonizing headache of my life. Yes...headache...not toothache. I told you i'm weird. I think I should be someone's research subject. One of my friend kept suggesting that when she couldn't believe that I was still walking around not feeling jungry at all when i have not eaten a bite the whole day but that's another story.
So now, I'm still biting on a sterile guaze and praying that my painkillers will last least I be subjected to more headbanging misery to which no amounts of icepacks can remedy. That was the throaty..'ooooo...I'm in agony' and now for the upbeat 'ooOOoo' part of my day.
I"M GOING TO JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT SUMS it all....No more need be said.
9:28 PM