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Thursday, November 13, 2008

10:13 PM

Sidenote: I’m blogging this post on Microsoft Word first, ‘cos my internet connection is screwed, despite repeated restarting of laptop.
Mygawd, my entire laptop is screwed. Must be a virus or something -_-
Sidesidenote: I attempted to be subtle in putting several blog URLS in this post, for some strange and unexplained random reason. Yey.
Sidesidesidenote: You get to hear about my teeth, wao! :O
Today I woke feeling unhappy at around 7.30 in the morning. Woken by my domestic helper. Hmm, yeah, some might be wondering why the hell I woke at only 7.30, instead of the normal school day 5.30 or so.
If you thought that, you obviously didn’t read my post yesterday D: I woke at 7.30 ‘cos I’ve a dental appointment at (only) 9.30 and therefore, I’ve no need to attend school! I’ve a valid reason one hor.
Anyway, yes, I woke up at 7.30 feeling unhappy (not to mention, very sleepy D:). I proceeded to sit up dazedly, loosely clutching my bolster, and a few seconds later, I promptly fell asleep again ._.
This scenario repeated itself, however, even after my domestic helper shouted very loudly at me to get up the second time.
The third time she shouted I got very fed up and got up just for the heck of it ._.
Oh, and did I mention why I was unhappy? –checks post-
No, I didn’t. Bah.
OK. I was unhappy ‘cos I couldn’t go to school ~~toady~~ (WTFH. Toady, lol!) today. Damn dental appointment at 9.30 or thereabouts and dunno what time the consultation (for me-and-my-soon-to-be-braces) ends. So, I most probably couldn’t go school, which sucks (never thought I would actually say this lor! :O) because today is the last day of my primary school life, excluding Graduation. (Sorry if I reminded you people of ... sad stuff D:)
OK lah actually it’s also partly ‘cos I wanted to play Game Of Life ._.
-cough-
So,
blah the brushing-teeth whatnot. But before I brushed my teeth, I watched Sushi for a while and prodded her. I think she was sleeping also, at first -_-
After brushing my teeth and washing my face and blah, I changed. :D Into an Outfitter Girls green tee (“Green is the new Black –insert tree image- Save the Trees –insert tree image-“ – so eco-friendly hor?), and my new just-right jeans ;D No more short jeans thank you! :D
(To understand that part, you’ve to read my archives leh ._.)
Hmm then I stumbled (for I was still slightly sleepy) into the living room, and I took up a Judy Blume book to read. Yey! It was a short book lah, but whatever.
I was joined shortly by my parents. My father took half-day leave to bring me to the Dental Clinic at SGH (Singapore General Hospital, yey (maybe not ._.)), so that’s another reason why I couldn’t change the appointment to another date. My father already took leave! D:
Anyway, once my mother saw me, she was asking why I was in this outfit, and shouldn’t I be in school uniform ‘cos I wanted to go to school? I was like, oh yeah hor yeah hor! and asked my domestic helper to get me my uniform. (D: I’m a spoilt kid bleaah)
But then once the uniform was placed beside me, my mother and grandmother started ranting about why I shouldn’t go to school and all. Walao! Tell me take uniform then say don’t go school!
Bleah. So I got very pissed and said grudgingly, “Don’t go then don’t go lor!”
My attitude very bad. I must change it -_-
So after that (plus my sulking D:) we went out lah, with an umbrella in my bag ‘cos it was raining.
Blah the walking to the MRT station to TAKE THE MRT :D and whatever. My mother bought me a ham-and-cheese sandwich for brekkie! :) And then we (as in my mother and me-and-my-father) went our separate ways on the MRT platform lah, ‘cos we were going different directions (my mum was going to work what).
OK... blah the TAKING THE MRT as well ._. My father and I alighted at Outram Park (?) station and walked out. The floor was v. slipperrrrrry and it was drizzling.
Don’t you just love :D drizzles? The air is like, so cooling and stuff lah! :D Plus the –cue song- raindrops falling on your ~~head~~ -cue end-song- skin is a nice feeling as well!
But I digress.
We reached the waiting lobby (?) at 9.44 (I know this ‘cos the time of registration was printed on the ticket thingy) and registered immediately afterward :D My registration number was 6065 (don’t ask how I remember this. I just do :D). My room number was 5!
OK fine my father registered and I sat there to guard his stuff -_-
We waited for like, 50 minutes before it was our turn lor! Damn anti-climax can, every time the registration numbers on the screens flashed, there would be this beeping sound, and I would excitedly turn my head from the Judy Blume book (mentioned earlier) and look at the screens in hope.
Walao lor, got 6066, 6067, 6063, 6062, 6064, but no 6065 can! Until, like I said, 50 minutes later at around ... 10.35 or something.
So me and my father went into Room 5 with our stuff in tow. The orthodontist (how to pronounce this ah? ._. Ore-TOE-don-tist?) was a guy Dr. Toe (to protect privacy, his name has been changed).
Dr. Toe is very weird. He keeps calling me dear ._. Like, "Open your mouth, dear.”
Weird right? -.-
OK so anyway, done with all the formalities like hello and such and he asked me to get on the chair-thingy. So I did. Then he was like bite down, dear and very good, dear. ._.
Erm, basically, first I’d this ... pale-green-plaster thingy in my mouth. Dental plaster, I think :D He pressed the plaster down onto my bottom teeth and waited for a while for the plaster to harden (I think). He kept touching the plaster lor! :O
And then he used another pale-green-plaster thingy on my upper teeth (see above) and waited for a while as well.
The plaster thingy was like, minty ._.
When he took the hardened plasters out, my mouth had to open very big because it wasn’t soft and malleable anymore D:
I think next he put some pink-plaster thingy on my bottom teeth and asked me to bite down, dear again.
And then he got me to rinse my mouth, and then he tested if my front-teeth nerves were still alive ‘cos I chipped them in P3 in a foolish game that featured me being swung around, off the concrete floor by a larger friend O.O and which concluded in my friend losing her grip and me, erm, getting sort of flung off onto aforementioned concrete floor, face-down.
Yeah. But actually it didn’t hurt a lot, not like a bad stomachache or whatever ._. I felt a little numbness after the initial impact, and all my friends around were damn frantic and panicky and Ohmygawding :O (I suddenly have a mental image of chickens clucking, their claws to their faces, and their faces like :O leh -_-) At first I wasn’t scared ‘cos it didn’t hurt but when I raised my head (all my friends gathered around to see), and my friends were like OhmyohmyGAWDing and saying it broke or whatever I was really really scared can. D: And I cried lah!
But I digress again -_- Waha I won’t say anymore :)
So erm, the hearts (that’s what Dr. Toe called them) of the front teeth were traumatized or something. So the nerves could die, but they didn’t, which was proven by the tingly-slightly-painful sensation in them when Dr. Toe put this dangerous-looking metal stick onto the slight cracks in my teeth (left over from when a previous expensive private dentist attempted to replace the chipped-off parts with ceramic or porcelain or whatever).
Anyway, after that I had to go for 3 X-rays D:
In X-ray Room 1, I had to take off my spectacles. When the female X-ray person took me to take off my spectacles and place them on the table, I went to place them on the...
Don’t laugh hor!
...
CPU under the table. Walao not that I cannot tell it’s a CPU lah, but I didn’t know where the X-ray person pointed what! I wear my spectacles for something can! ._. I was also very bewildered lor, when I thought she asked me to put on the CPU.
So the X-ray person kindly led me to said table and I put the spectacles there lor. :D
Sidenote: Ooh, Sushi is climbing all over the keyboard leh! So adorable my darling :D
The first X-ray was this weird thing. My head was clamped by this ... clamp and I’d to bite a knob (encased in a plastic bag for obvious hygiene reasons) with my –cue song- two front teeth –cue end-song- :O And then got two weirdly-shaped thingies that moved in a –cue lame song- circular motion –cue end-lame-song- around my clamped head when the machine was turned on.
Oh but the X-ray person also told me to smile! and even when I did already, it seemed to her it wasn’t a proper smile.
You know why?
Because it really wasn’t a proper smile. (Bwahahaha I’m so lame hor? :D)
But yeah, it’s a little difficult to smile when your teeth is holding a weird knob thing between them.
Not my fault lor! D:
But anyway I still managed to painfully create a wiiiiiiide smiiiiiile for the X-ray person. :D
The second X-ray was even weirder lor! -_-
1. Machine pokes into your ear,
2. Cannot move (despite discomfort from having something poke into your ears for half a minute).
._. Pain D:
The third machine looked weird but was actually okay! :D
I had to close my eyes and bite a grooved-stick-like thingy gently, while my right hand kept the grooved-stick-like thingy in place. There was a curve at the end of the stick, and the curve formed a circle. A tube O.O with an opening the same size as that of the circle on the stick was attached to the machine’s ... hand and it was maneuvered by the X-ray person to be right in front of the circle on the stick.
So basically I’d to sit there and hold the stick -_- Not too difficult or painful! :D
After the X-rays were done I went back to Room 5. But someone else was inside ._. so Dr. Toe asked us to follow the aide (?) to take photographs.
V. weirdness :O I had to take almost all of them without any showing of teeth (does it not completely defeat the purpose of going to a dentist?) , and in different angles somemore lor! I sat in a swivel chair though! :D
Swiiiiiiiveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel :D
-cough cough-
Erm anyway. After the photograph-taking of my face, they put re-something in my mouth. Retractors or something lah. And pulled them so my mouth hurt! D: And also stuck a glass-thingy into my mouth at weird angles and stuff -_- They took photographs of all that lor! :O I looked weird in those pictures -.-
Before each photograph some weird vapour O.O (?) was sprayed via a pink tube at my teeth. I’ve absolutely no idea what any of that meant, though.
Gah.
Afterward Dr. Toe came into the Photography room :O He put ... blue rubber bands (?) between some of my teeth lor. They do not look like the red ones I use to tie stuff at all. At first it was painful but now it just feels foreign and sort of ... chewy and nice.
The rubber bands are supposed to separate my teeth, I think. ‘Cos I most probably will be getting my premolars (I’ve 8 of them leh) extracted. Not all (that’d be O.O) but two, I think :D So it’s easier for my teeth to grow normally! :D
-_-
Dr. Toe also showed us the X-ray pictures.
I realise I’ve a very big brain cavity leh :O
P.S. Sorry if you find this post lacklustre OK? D: I really don’t know why leh! Maybe it’s kinda boring or something. Sorry! D:
Please don’t leave me –weep- can! D:
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To be continued :)