"im a 13 year old gawky teenager again!" -lij's words

i finally made the possibly life changing decision to put on braces.

i did the less conventional way which the sides of the teeth are ground to create space for the one or two obnoxious ones..

the dental tools and the whole grinding thing made me feel like some workpiece at the construction site. and also sounds like some scary cutting machines at my work shop.

nonetheless to say, there were many moments of uncertainty, self doubt and even regrets. this morning, before during the procedure and after, especially. my teeth kinda look frankensteinish(some unnaturally angular because of the cutting tools).. the misalignment kinda accentuated.. and i got the yellow rubber thingy(not really my choice.. i wanted white. okay pink next time)

i also felt bad subjecting my teeth to such torture(especially when i felt funny sensation..am i causing a permanent injury to my teeth?)

now i have to stick to a rigourous long brushing ritual, involving 1 normal soft toothbrush and 1 small special toothbrush, flossing, applying protectioning cream to my teeth to strengthen them(u see, they r weak now, thats y i need to strengthen them)

i can only hope for really pretty teeth and pretty smile at the end of it.
(*cross fingers no more ugly unglam shots from my right profile)

okay la, i admit i hiao la. haha.

but also didnt wana risk my teeth turning more n more outwards as i grow older and mayb creating nice lush spaces for plaque. ha

solidcoloursthursday

quite a few solids ran away too fast.. so only managed to capture these few with my lousy ancient picture capturing relic.



made some pictures of a solidpurple yanwei in manual 'continuous advance' mode. ha.

thanks to my ah ma hands, mr woo in a blurry rather solidarmygreen.

me in a very solidnavygreen wahlaueh attire. supposed to resemble a recruit doing pumping. (but failed terribly)

baggage from the past

on some little boat across the seas from the other end.. took about 7 weeks to make its way here. my baggage from nl has arrived this evening. and reminded me of the past.

the boxes. //selected fr a few rounds of picking up boxes, retrieving from the friendly chinese grocery store and Albert Heijn

the contents. //bought where, worn where, packed how.

the packing.

the lugging.

the posting.

the ending.

saw some scrawl on the ex-yr 2 area (our yr 4 id pantry area to be):

"I wish to be million miles away from here."

Strange.

Cuz I wish to be 13 hours away too. and maybe a couple months back.

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its kinda good that studio is killing my braincells.
its getting so busy that i hardly can miss my thosedays and be melancholic.
but still, it doesnt mean it went away.

have you sneezed lately?

Told yanwei recently some rather lame but cute thing i made up about super leaky noses and sneezefrenzy that some of us are getting these days.

That is...

Someone is thinking hard of you!

^________^

okay, im now having my sinus cold cum flu-induced cough.

Whoever's thinking of me, please think discreetly..but keep thinking still, ok?

hurhur.

[ a new Chapter ]

the new school semester is starting this week...

its a very different feeling from my last semester when school starting means 'the fun begins now'.

guess it was really 6 months of holidays.

time to work hard now!

its weird cuz now i have an overwhelming feeling of putting up old posts.. like sheep's visit.. trips to germany.. trips to many many more. hmm. im living in the past. i know i should move on. but im a sentimental shit. a ox-stubborn one at that.