The past Sun and Mon has been very hectic but enjoyable.
After mass on Sun, I went out for dinner with my church choir at Botak Jones. Afterward, some of us went to MacDonald for dessert and ended up talking till 1.30 in the morning. Ben drove me home and we all met for breakfast at the market a few hours later at 9.30am. The insisted I try all the usual breakfast fare Singaporean like themselves had grown up eating like Chee Kueh( not sure of the spelling!), glutinous rice, soybean milk, prawn mee and Lor Mee. I ended up eating the latter and tried a little of the former as well as Soybean milk. You can imagine how full I must have felt then! But since Mon was a public holiday and Tues was the first day of school for those from NUS and NTU, the rest of the day was spent with friends. I met Michelle and Cynthia for lunch ( which I practically ate only ate a bit of Mich's salad) at Novena Square and then Cynthia and I joined Isis and Vanessa at the famous steamboat restaurant opp Novena church for dinner. We were so stuffed that we could hardly move afterward.
It was truly a fun day!

Oh how I hate dentists...or should I say going to and dealing with dentists...no offense to you dentists out there( esp my cousin:))

Due to what my regular dentist told me, I have lost another tooth today. I lost 2 of my wisdom teeth about 3 months ago. At that time, I asked to check out some of the teeth next to the problem giving wisdom tooth as one or more of them was always giving me pain. He told me it was from the pressure excreted by the wisdom tooth( due to the lack of space in my mouth). And so I went on with my life, but still experiencing pain from those now and again. I just chalked it up to the slow healing process of having my wisdom teeth taken out. But lately it started hurting with more fervor so I wanted a second opinion. After searching around, I found a dentist by the market near my house. Upon arriving there, he told he was fully booked till next week but said he would take a quick look at my teeth( at the receptionist's desk mind you). It took him like 5 seconds to diagnose that I had a decaying tooth hence the pain. Since it needed looking to immediately, he gave me a list of dental clinics nearby. I went to one of them later that afternoon and the dentist there promptly gave me the same diagnosis. His options were 1) fill in the hole at the tooth but with no guarantee that the decay had not progressed so far that the pain would not stop. If so, I would have to come in again to have the tooth extracted. 2) was simple, just extract the tooth now.
Since I have a phobia of dentists, I REALLY wanted to just fill in the hole and hope for the best. But I knew that since the pain had been going on for the better part of the year ( since last Oct..but I don't really know if the pain was from that or just the wisdom teeth pushing against everything or both) the decay was prob in a bad way already. So thus I am now 1 short of a complete set of teeth( not counting wisdom teeth).

I can't believe that my Bestie Isis did something SOOO SWEET!!!

About 2 weeks ago I went out with her and while we were out, I got her to help me choose and buy some Chinese herbal tea since most of the time the aunties at the shop doesn't understand English. So when she asked why I was so interested in tea I told that I always loved tea and coffee and this past summer I have been trying out different types of tea. Mostly the ones I have tried are the English teas as it was more difficult for me to get the Chinese teas.
So as a birthday gift, she went out and found 21 different types of teas( as it is my 21st birthday this year) both Chinese and English ( some brewed already and some in tea bags) and put them all small separate containers. She even labeled them in both English and Chinese so if I ever wanted to buy it at the Chinese herbal shop, all I had to do was bring the the container:) So sweet and thoughtful!!! On top of that she gave me a sketch book with a few of the pages already decorated with my pictures and some notes from her.( She knows that I lost my passion of drawing after AEP but still like to draw once in awhile)
I LOVE YOU SIS!:)

And so the whole nation is once again bathed in red.
And in exactly a week from now at this time in the US, I will be sleeping in my dorm room awaiting the week long RA training. Sad that the hols had to end so fast...can't believe I'll be a Junior! An upperclassman! woah! I hardly feel like one though:P

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

- Henry Van Dyke



These words bring much comfort.