Like c-section it hurts after.

I had a wisdom tooth extraction this afternoon. LA Op. Eeleen assisting Dr. Ong. I’d thought I better pen this down before I learn everything and forgot what it’s like to be the patient.

I was all sweaty palmed and flustered while waiting at the counter. All in dread and worry thinking about the terrible ordeal meihui faced while extracting her eights weeks ago. Dr. Ong was pleasant & amusing. He warned me about all the nasty things that could possibly happen in the name of Murphy’s Law. The roots of the impacted tooth could very well brush across the IDN. The second molar, with its ready-to-go conical fused roots, might just decide it wants a change of environment and come out together, accompanying the eight. 

Cara administered LA on me and I was so relieved when I barely flinched. We had 4 cartridges injected into me eventually. For a brief moment my heart thumped so crazily I was desperately trying to recall all the pharmaco & then i remembered I had not been studying.

They cut the gingiva and turned over the flaps to expose the impacted fellow. Dr Ong then used the menacing bur to drill across the tooth longitudinally. This is followed by the use of pliers (comen?) to extracted the one half. It was met with a dull crack. The roots broke and the discrete parts were extricated with some forceful pull and twist. More cracks.

It all happened very quickly. I tried my very best to learn as much as possible, with Dr Ong’s helpful ongoing commentary and through questions and comments put forward by eeleen & cara. What would I do, without LA. That said, the sheer terror of bur drilling is the only thing that scared me. I knew it’s just hard tissues. But the deep & loud grinding sounds make me feel like there’s a construction site in my mouth. Dr. Ong mentioned that we should just listen to our ipods to distract us from the dreadful noise.

Next time when I started working, I’m going to play indie all day long:D

& they can’t protest with their mouths gaped open. 

So when the last root popped out of the socket, they all raved about how curved the roots were. It’s a nutty acrobatic arch. I get to bring home the tooth. Though god knows what I can do with it.

Maybe the tooth fairy will come by tonight.

Why so quiet

CAMERA OBSCURA

Gig kicked off with Come Back Margaret, Tracyanne Campbell’s ethereal vocals and the rest of the band’s wonderful playing had us cheering and chill.

Come back Margaret he wants to adore you
Come back Margaret I’d like to explore you
Can’t you see the tears in my eyes
With love for him I disguise

I like the free days with no expectations
I like it my way with no limitation
Still you see there are tears in my eyes
With love for him I despise

I totally love the last 2 lines of the two verses. They captured the two very ironical yet so perfectly complementary & intertwined emotions. Clever. Camera Obscura’s defintely got to me when it comes to the sheer brilliance of their lyrics.

From circle 3 we could only see specks of figures swaying on the stage. It wasn’t as bad as I had expected. But binoculars would have really come in handy. Stilll, camera obscura playing live, omg. Campbell & Carey Lander in what I called chic granny fashion, decked in white stockings, mod cut and tailored dresses. Kenny McKeeve & Gavin Dunbar wore suits & looked more in place as my lecturers than musicians. I made a ball I threw it at Gavin because he’s tall.

The Glasgow band performed many numbers from Let’s Get Out This Country. Following Come Back Margaret, there were Sister Social Agony, Country Mile, If Look Could Kill, False Contender, Llyod, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken, Suspended From Class, Keep It Clean, Super Trooper, Tears For Affairs, Let’s Get Out of This Country, Teenager & new tracks. It ended in spectacular style with Razzle Dazzle Rose; the final part truly magical. I was super darned excited when Suspended From Class & False Contender came on.

Suspended From Class

You’re such a beautiful writer
that’s not all you are
I’m sorry about making a pass
it was subtle but I think that you guess
the meaning intended

I can be a friend to you
I won’t pretend
I’m not interested in breaking your heart
it’s not love no it’s nothing like that
I’ll leave that to .. like him
oh, he’s such a delicate thing
now it’s such a fragile thing that we have

I should be suspended from class
I don’t know my elbow from my arse
I should be suspended from class

The concert ended so abrupt. For a moment I thought mr. technician was going to tune their strings but no, they were really gone. We made a madcap dash downstairs to queue for the autograph session. Quite disappointed when the tee shirts merchandise sold out. Times like this make me wished I’m plus size. No one would be hankering after size XL with me. Bought pretty badges & stickers I can’t bear to paste. It’s those things I would nursed carefully in the safe haverns of my drawers and occasionally take it out to stroke & admire.

When it finally got to us, throat ran dry & whatever I wanted to tell them slipped quietly as hisses through my teeth. Campbell stood up and placed her arm on my back as we took a photo. All I could mustered was a “helloooo” when I met every single one of them. I asked McKeeve if they would come back to singapore.

“We would love to.”

Camera Obscura we can’t get enough of you!

the meaning intended

Pathology dept made a wonderful blunder. They thought today was Deepavali & hence have no lessons planned for this week. You know if this happened in JC the teachs would pounce at this chance to load poor students with more makeups and whatnots.

I racked my brains for an eternity thinking of what activity to do after lab. After all, blunders like this doesn’t come by very often. Eventually we decided upon rice table. Sneaks & failed attempt aside.

kelvin you’re on our side hurray:D

Lunch a sumptuous affair. Discovered Tahu Telok. I should have insisted all of us have a plate each. It’s never enough. Their meat were just so yummy. The veggies laid forsaken. Very happy.

We had some time spent at That CD Shop. I know of all the good couches to sit. Chit chit chat chat mutter mutter. Aselyn Debison’s rendition of Over The Rainbow was nice.

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I hope you lied.

castaway

Fishing at east coast turned out to be round after round of cards. Why, we could have done that at sm1b. But limited number rods and more importantly, the lack of patience from some of us detered us from the old man’s sport after some minutes.

Casting was fun. Liane caught a ziying. We didn’t really care if we returned home with a basketful of fishes or not. We were more concerned over searing sun rays cooking us alive & the uneven tanline that results. Whoever upstairs didn’t like the idea of us playing cards in public (allusion to gambling) and thus bestowed intermittent showers after the hot bake session.

Undaunted us retreated to the shelter and resumed. card playing.

Guess who did Kelvin borrow his hat from?

Ziying, pre-bake photo

At the shelter, hoarding the bulk of the space. Mind you, we had with us spectators watching us play.

& ziying, post-bake photo.

Getting the hang of casting.

Our sole contender against Shahira’s brother’s 8. He sure did make a right choice coming to fish instead of prepping for 2 exams tomorrow. Good luck mate.

Fish & Co. We let the real fishermen bring the fishes to our plates instead.

The Ghost that carried us away

Icelandic music with its eclectic & diverse style would probably ring a bell with names such as Bjork, Sigur Ros & Mum (at least to me)

Seabear’s one such indie-folk band to join the ranks of indie artistes from lesser known countries in my itunes. And glad to say it’s here to stay. I Sing I Swim blew me off my feet completely. And then there were Libraries, Hospital Bed, Arms, Sailor Blues, Hands Remember & Seashell. There’s this very distinctive pining, melancholic quality to their songs I can’t place but love it all the same. Overplaying can be an overkill, since after all they do tend to sound the same. However Good Morning Scarecrow was a clear miss for me, sounding like a deviated oriental Monkey majik than their usual style.

And this may sound odd but seabear brings to mind animals. It felt like if elephants & lions could sing they would sound like seabear. Songs of animals. SPCA you know what jingle to use for tv ads.

Hello seabear could you come & perform here in singapore.

luckyfour

Sunday brought out the lazy bum in me, myself turned into some permanent fixture to my bed, face plastered to my little bolster with one hand scooping bites out of mango mousse cake and the other practising dexterity with the teevee remote. Thank goodness for dinner at gardens to pull my body, almost welded to the mattress, up & out.

Stuffy chomp chomp with a particular table staked out by lihong unscrupulously taken away by a group of non-gentlemen had us bringing takeaways of carrot cake, orh luak, hokkien mee, satay & egg tauhuay to liyong’s house instead. Our ravenous stomachs wiped out everything clean. Watched a little of HSM2 & XGB4 before heading out again for supper!

My first time to icekimo, which is situated at a secluded corner at thomson road. They serve peanut butter crunch! yay totally loves peanut butter ice cream:D Waikit & albert love to suan lihong I don’t know why. It’s hilarious. & Liyong was very nice to send us all back after that.

Just a Boy

 

caffeine analog: stylus + wacom tablet + corel painter

Nat geo photog William Albert Allard exploited dramatic side light and captured the open & engaging gaze of a little boy. So captivating, i was inspired to do a rough rendering. Shall revisit this if time permits.

On an another note, itunes suddenly sprung up nostalgia good times with old hits and one song that reminds me why i like indie again is The Room (Four Tets & A Manitoba remix)

Hello noise we love you.

Stomach upset.

pub.secs.in.sync

Yes, decided to use hortparkpotluck photo series in the end. Yesterday over at Udder’s, they suggested using the photo of the swing at Hortpark. Perhaps, more memorable as the one justine gave a ??? face. And we would blank out her face. Flash a caption “You can be the one.” or “Do you have what it takes?”

Something along the lines. It was a laugh. Think i’ll go more formal with this one. Shuyan won’t you love it if D&D was at 6pm.6dec.2006.

iCEO

Steve Jobs is my hero.

hopes high

Realistic optimism reared its ugly fangs when both myself & liane discovered with horror and utter disappointment that our wax-up were not satisfactory because our crown prep could not even clear eccentric movements. I’ll tell you how to break a heart. & there I was, stabbing at a chance to be a future prosthodontist. Silicon putty you killed my dream.

Crappy moods were easily appeased with a gluttony lunch at ichiban sushi with shuyan, eggy & liane. Felt like a busy executive lunch. With still some room to spare we had udder ice cream. again!:D Unabashedly sampled the liqueor ice cream all over again. While I normally veer away from baileys, the ice cream manifestation had me smiling with glee.

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