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Thursday, February 21, 2008 , 9:40 PM

UPUDATO!

Smelly goes to the dentist.

After 6-7 years of MIA-ing from the dentist's chair, I finally sat on one just hours ago. The total bill was totally jaw-dropping. Can you imagine all I had was a 'basic' (quoted by the dentist) wash, filling, X-ray and fluoride treatment!?! But I guess it was all worth it (I hope!), cus' the X-ray says I actually have 2 wisdom tooth! And the best thing is BOTH of them grow SIDEWAYS. T_T Suay or what? You tell me. Haha but thankfully the dentist told me with regular flossing it might help to alleviate any problems in the future. Hmm will flossing widen the gap between our tooth? Shucks! Shoulda asked her!

The entire process was quite alright I guess. My sis and I were freaking out the whole time during the wait. I guess our primary school experiences totally undermined our trust in the entire dentist population. Remember how they drilled and 'mined' at your teeth till they were raw and hurt a lot and bled a lot? Haha I can still remember that jab when I was still a Pri 1 kid.
'Best' time of my life, oh yeah. ._.

The dentist did an examination for me and then she did an X-ray for my tooth, my first time ever looking at X-ray snappies of my teeth, all of them! The feeling was like looking at ultrasound snappies of babies! Not that I've had any. Yet. Lol. Had to bite down on this oversized plastic mouthpiece thingo, almost choked on the thing when I tried to swallow my saliva cus my mouth got a lil' dry from all that vacuuming. So...NEVER swallow during a dental procedure. Take that from ole Smelly. :)

She laid a body pack (sorta like an astronaut's blanket filled with cool fluids) over me and took the X-ray. And I had goggles on the entire time I was in there. Did the filling after the X-ray and it was really painful my nails were digging into my hands as she drilled at my teeth, there was this numbing pain throughout the entire body. Was super happy went she finished the filling. She used white filling instead of the greyish black ones they used in the past.

The finale was fluoride treatment. I had to put on these teethguards like thingos (those wrestlers and American footballers use) and they were filled with these greenish gel like substance. According to the dentist, it was to remineralize my teeth and prevent and slow down tooth decaying processes. And I came out feeling sparkly clean. :D*

My sis's problem was really profanities-inducing, she'd complained of a pain in her tooth. And the dentist did an X-ray for her, after which she did a nerve test where she sent electric pulses through her tooth and knocked on her tooth. And the dentist told her her nerve died, cus' the previous dentist might have ruptured it during a filling. I went O_O when she told me that. I've never known there's such a thing!!! Hope her tooth don't give her any more problems or she's gonna hafta get it removed which will definitely hurt, not sure how much but no doubt it will.

Wii-weet!

Yep we finally went to get the Wii 2 days ago at Funan. The entire process was super funny and embarrassing. Lol. We got the bundle and an extra Wiimote and charger for the Wiimotes. The 2 free games we chose were Cooking Mama (DS owners should be familiar with this game :D) and Tony Hawks something-something. The Wii Sports was included in the bundle too. The minute we reached home, we went about demolishing the packaging and got the Wii console out. It almost felt like we'd found leprechaun's gold or something. Lol.

We played Wii Sports most of the time, stuff like tennis, baseball, bowling and boxing are my favs! Haha I don't like golf as much, putting seems like mission impossible with the Wiimote. Lol. Our right arms are aching big time T_T. We found out that it's advised to do some warm-up before doing Wii Sports O_O.

And there's this function where you can test your fitness level. The first time I did it I had the fitness equivalent of a 33 year old. Zzz. I did it a second time and managed to lower it to a more respectable 29 year old. Haha! Besides these games, there's this thingy called the Mii Channel where you can create Miis and you get to vote for other Miis posted by your friends or other people around the world. And there're Miis that looks like Snoopy, Doraemon, Darth Vader, Michael Jackson, Charlie Brown etc etc. Haha super creative people!

So gamers can feel less guilty playing Wii, cus' of slight consolation that we're doing exercise at the same time. XD As forced as it might sound. But yeah we had a Wii-ly good time so far. :D

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber at Fleet Street.

Ther was a barber and his wife~~~ (Love the songs in this movie!)

Yep watched it finally! Haha I can never miss out on ANY movie starring Johnny Depp whatever role he might be playing, lead or no lead, Smelly's gotta watch it. We went for the student deal so we only paid $6 each for the tickets. :D It's rated M18 for violence and gore, but it was so elegantly played out, the songs weaved seamlessly into the movie itself, felt it really brought out the atmosphere, building up towards the climax at the end. Sweeney Todd's a play, and I can safely say this movie adaptation deserves 4.5 nachos platters! As for the 0.5, Tim Burton could've made it a lil' darker. I guess many people view Sweeney Todd differently, it can be seen as a satire (most significantly with the song about how dire and grim life in London was in the past, how Sweeney sees people in London as 'vermin' etc). The ending was most tragic. Haha fret not Smelly's not gonna ruin it for you guys. If you haven't watched it, whadya waiting for??

Sweeney Todd's definitely NOT for the faint-hearted. And if you have a queasy tummy at the sight of bloodied mess, then you oughta steer clear. :)

But if, like us, you've adapted to the gore in the movie, then you'd be surprised to find it a lil...umm gratifying, as perverted as it might sound. Haha. Anyone up for Mrs Lovett's meat pies? ;D

P.S. I Love You, Lou Hei. Irish men are good lovers :)

Haha yep we love our lou hei alright. Met up wth Yu, Roo, 7 for P.S. I Love You at Cine. It was my first time paying to watch a romance movie (not including Titanic since it's a disaster movie :D) in a cinema. And it happened to be my first time being late for a movie. Lol. 15 mins late to be exact. Yutini left my ticket with the ticketing guy, got it and finally felt my way around the theater. Yeap you heard (umm, seen) right, I had to feel my way around, bending down occasionally to look for my row E. XD. Lesson 2: NEVER be late for a movie. :D

The movie's really heart-warming, though it kinda fizzled away about 30 mins nearing the end. It could've been better if the director picked up some pace in those last 30 mins. But yeah it was heart-warming all the same. It was touching how Gerry (Holly's late husband who died from a brain tumour) had 10 messages for Holly before he died as her 30th birthday present. Holly (Hillary Swank) finally finished all 10 tasks and found a closure to Gerry's death. Hillary was superb as the lost and grief-stricken widow. There was this scene where she just came home from Gerry's funeral and she placed the urn at the foot of the bed and snuggled to her corner of the bed, and the camera zoomed in on her like that. You could almost feel what she (Holly) feels.

Ahhh after the movie, you can almost smell the love, no no not just superficial BGR puppy love LOVE. It was something deeper y'know, mutual understanding (like how Gerry could anticipate Holly's response when she read the letter, awww), love for your family, love for your friends, unconditional love for life ultimately. I appreciated how it wasn't one of those run-of-the-mill cheesy kinda romance movies, it was hmmm...special, cus' it was about love, and about life. Thought it sent a good message for people who, like Holly, had lost a loved one, to carry that love and live on strong cus' like what Holly's Mum said "You can't go on like this forever".

I'm gonna give 4 nachos platters for P.S. I Love You. Made me rethink the romance genre. :)

Okay mushy stuff aside. Headed down to the basement for some food, food in the name of CREPE. Haha yeah crepe. I'd wanted to have some REAL food, like chicken, chicken and chicken. :D Settled for Peach something something Crepe. It was yummylicious though we had a hard time 'sawing' away at our crepe. Hahaha it was fun tho. XD Hopped over to Heeren to window shop and get Roo's hairband. And they concluded that my style was TRIBAL after walking past this tribal-esque shop selling leather products and chokers (very Cherokee-ish me like! :D). I'm more of the rugged side, am I not? Tribal? Most certainly not. Hahaha tribal tattoos are sooo cheesy.

Choo choo-ed down to Bishan and met up with Aunty Lum and Bobo, and we bussed down to Thomson Rd for Zi Char and Lou Hei. Haha I love the yusheng! Loved the sweet and sour pork! Loved the cereal chicken! There was another table having yusheng and they lou hei-ed in silence, they were sitting throughout it all and we were O_O. Hahaha I guess they were just pai seh. XD

Walked to Thomson Plaza to have a cuppa and basically, just chill. The latte's goood! Took lotsa photos, credits to Roo's camera that day! :D I learnt a lot from our conversation, especially about palm-reading. Lol! Picsies below.

now you see it

I know you still do, but...

now you don't! magic! ;)

now you see it...

now you don't! Haha told you I know magic!

Wanna cuppa?

Kena bullied why trying to bai nian with you people T_T Lol.

Swallowing a bullet didn't help tho'. Hahaha.

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