Wisdom halved

Round 2 is over. At least, I hope it is. My wound is still healing awfully slowly. Well at least I can clamp my teeth together on the left side with minimal biting now. But the drill wound is as bad as ever. It's like an ulcer that comes into contact with my long and sharp canine. It hurts to brush my teeth -.-. Anyway, halfway through surgery, after or when my tooth was being pulled out, i felt a sharp pain which wasn't unbearable. And I felt as though my jaw was being pushed to the right. I think they held my jaw the 1st time. Felt as though something broke there. Or maybe it was just the tooth. At least I saw that it looked whole. Wasn't in the state of mind and didn't have the will to talk to ask them for the tooth back home or anything. I ended up going to another dentist to ask about the bone near the extraction site. I hope I'm one of the lucky ones that have it heal in 1 or 2 weeks. I really don't want to go back after I remove my stitches.

Anyway, the bone totally made my first day of recovery unbearable. Didn't know if it was a bone. Just knew there was a pain like an ulcer near the back of my tongue. It hurt like mad to swallow that day. The second day, I got a little more accustomed to it, but I still couldn't move my tongue around much because of it. So eating became a huge problem. The first night was unbearable. Because I can't clamp my teeth together, I can't chew using even 1 side. I'm glad I had 1 large KFC whipped potato the second day (or was it night, and I only ate around the medium size). Had whipped potato again the 3rd night (finished it =D). And then I wanted whipped potatoes again the fourth day. I got porridge with hard food (that I would usually love). I thought I was able to chew well enough. I was wrong. I ended up chewing on my wound more times than I would like. Night was porridge again. Just like one of the meals for each of the previous days, it was blended. HAHAHA! It tastes ok actually. Because the taste is captured and it's easy to eat (i.e. just swallow). Had steamed egg too. It was ok, but quite a chore to eat, still.

On to the medicine. The antibiotics tablets are HUGE. Okay it's still swallow-able. But I need to concentrate to swallow. Yesterday, my concentration was broken by my dad who told me to gargle when I was battling with the bone near my tongue. I choked on the tablet. Thanks Dad -.-. My choking caused my wound to hurt. Urgh. At least now I've completed the whole course of antibiotics. Anyway, the painkillers prescribed became more a burden than a relief for this round. I had to eat to take painkillers. I didn't want to eat. So I only took painkillers twice this round. Saddens me that I can't stay up late at night the first night and watch TV while eating sugar-coated bread because I was hungry. I even bought bread when going home!

I am craving for all sorts of food!

Had my wisdom tooth surgery on Wednesday 23 June 2010. Went there with a light feeling (that I'm gonna get rid of the teeth). Came back with a heavy feeling (that I have to go back again for the second one). The feeling was... indescribable. I really thank Daisy for telling me to listen to music there during the whole process. Talk more about it after I get the second one done. Have to get the stitches removed too.

[Start of maple rant]
Went back to mapling on Tuesday or Wednesday (I forgot o.o) in the hopes of fighting the Giant Centipede again, and found that my account has been hacked. HOLY CRAP! Wow. And I don't even give away my password.
The thing is, not all my items are gone. I was left with 1/4 of my scrolls, the clothes and equipment my lv 10 and 15 were wearing, some (about 15?) etc items, 1/3 of my setup items, and none of my other equipment. -.- I hope whoever did this is happy. But I wish I could claim them back (if they were just a glitch that would solve itself in maybe a day or two? Dream on).
I lost (among other things) my cromi, red whip, sauna robes, fish spear, red-hearted earrings, goldrunners, glove (i don't remember), cape (i forgot), pan lid, leaf earrings, maple lama staff, calaf, anakarune (I think it was borrowed -.-), my crystals, my potions, my scrolls, my quest items, ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

May Karma befall you!

So anyway, I managed to walk from Mu Lung (Panda there) to Orbis. Quite terrifying at the crocs there (I forgot what they're called). At Orbis, I met someone who wanted to give me 300k after he saw me with no equipment. He said 'That's all I have' 'Take it'. Gosh. That was nice, but I rejected the trade lah. What good would it do actually. Anyway, got back to Victoria safely. Went around sourcing for equipment.
Did 2 quests at dungeon. One was still ok. It would have been easier in the past though, where the final area was occupied by a lower-levelled monster that was prone to my elemental attacks (cold eye then vs red drake now). I spammed pots like crazy. And apparently for the next quest, I had to look for an abandoned note and deliver it. By then my exp was around 90+.
I found the NPC and I SUPPOSEDLY got sucked into a black hole or something. Guess where I go teleported to... Some map with Jr. Balrog. Yeah, I was equipped with what... level 16 clothes and a level 38 wand. WTH?! HAHAHA! I'm glad I was standing at the portal. Just in time to see Jr Balrog delivering an attack unprovoked. I got out (thankfully). Maybe I pressed something wrong, I clicked the NPC again. Wrong move, I got transported there, AGAIN. At least I got out. I am NOT going to do that quest again. At least, until I get decent equipment. And when my exp is at/near 0%.
Met someone when using my sub character. The name was my birthday. So he asked me to wait. Asked me is my birthday so-and-so? I asked why. He said his was the same. Asked me age. He said same, AGAIN! So he asked, got FB? And asked for email. I asked for his instead. He said his was childish, so don't wanna give me. Who would believe that -.-
[End of maple rant]

B&Js

Bought Ben & Jerry's ice cream cause they were on sale till 30 June. 4 flavours I haven't tried before. Can't wait to try them. Been eating the chocolate coated macadamia flavour. Totally addicted! Salted macadamia + Chocolate~ Mmmm~

dammit

Oh great, it's been hacked. Wonderful!

A Cookie Affair

This is so cute:

Vanilla Ice Cream with a Chocolate Cookie Swirl & Chocolate Chip Cookies & Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

That time of the day

I've wondered why I'm not asleep at this time of the day/night. It's nearly 6am at this point in this blog entry. I guess it's the time when I can truly be alone. I can't imagine facing family for too long. The same goes for online friends (I have no life, either that or we're just plain lazy). Anyway, this might sound selfish but this is the time that I don't need to watch other people's mood. This is the time when everything is about me, because seriously, not many people are awake at this time to do anything to me in real time. Smses are replied when they wake up. Online posts are read typically in the afternoon. Offline messages are replied to often at night.

This makes me realise... Even though technology can bring us life updates in real time, we humans are unable/unwilling to respond to them 24/7.

I am NOT D

Been bugging the people (Jing and Pirates in particular) to stop calling me D. I don't mind 0 calling me D, he came up with it. And I can understand Daizy calling me that, cause that's what everyone's calling me when she knew me. But dammit, the people who know me, why are you calling me what someone else is calling me. For the sake of convenience, since D is so easy to type? For the sake of fitting in, since everyone is calling me that?

For goodness sake, my whole name doesn't have a single D in it. Ok so maybe 0 got called 0 by our people (but I don't think any of his closer friends ever tried to call him 0). And my gosh, jing now calls him korkor and pirates calls him old jb (something along that line lah). Since you're using your own names for him, why not for me?! It especially ticks me off when people like jing and pirates call me D, because I've known them for a long time now and I find it ridiclous that they have to use a name that another person calls me by.

It might seem like just a small issue. How come some people can call me D without me getting upset? When Daizy calls me D, i'm okay with it (my mind has already registered that it's her way of calling me, just like my mind registers people online calling me raven). If other people from other FAMs call me D, I will sian diao. And IF bullet calls me D, I think I'll cry. And even when I say this, I can't stop calling him bullet. What the hey, I even smsed dajie one day referring to him as bullet. Shameful. Thank goodness I still call dajie, dajie. Otherwise, 不像话.

Back to topic. I just don't want to feel as though we've gotten further apart instead of closer. I didn't feel anything in the beginning. But when people start spamming D D D, I really don't know what to say.

RavenD is not D. P2/bullet calls me p1 or qijie. sw calls me rav. 0 calls me D. Most people in audi call me raven. I really don't care if my other friends call me D. But my closer friends, please. Calling me what someone else calls me makes me realise that... you don't know what to call me. That makes me feel so important in your heart.

On a brighter note, I'm really satisfied with how our FAM is bonding. It's really fun to play with everyone. (When) the atmosphere is right. It was different from when me and Honey were playing with another fam in team. I could really sense how they wanted to win. I guess that might be how our team behaved around other people. But I do think we play differently with/against friends. I guess it's our different culture. And I really do like our culture. =D

Something (okay, someone) really disgusts me, to say the least. I guess old habits die hard.

MV on youtube

What am i doing 5am in the morning? I'm watching Epik High's MV on YouTube. The first to catch my eye was Run (because I've seen the rest of the more popular ones). It was (for lack of better word) epic. I didn't think so at first because I don't understand Korean. So the first time I saw it, I was 'wow'. Second time I saw it (with subtitles this time), I was 'Wow!' Actually, I couldn't catch some of the longer subtitles (yes I should read more, I'm out of touch). So the THIRD time I watched it (because I was going to post it on facebook, and I'm glad I did), the waterworks began quite suddenly, I have no idea why. That's when I finally caught the lyrics.

Seriously! Heartbreak should be over. It's time to move on, not run away. Go go go go~! Ever wondered why people often say running away is easier than moving on? Because it's damn much faster! In the end it'll be okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

On a lighter note, I got the music player up. So instead of going to Nokia's Ovi Player, I'll just rot here for music. xD Mix pod asks us to upload our own MP3s if we want to play just the music and not the video. Is that like a new way to catch illegal downloaders? Right...

And I finally deleted someone from my buddy list in audi (around a week ago). Told "someone", then she said "No! We need to track him!" to which I replied "Oh no!" All in good fun =D. That person wasn't even a friend of mine to begin with. Playing with him is not a good experience. And I doubt he will come find us if he can't find me online anyway. ;)

I wonder how long it will take for him to realise I've deleted him ^^

Unblocked someone from my msn contacts list and added him/her to my contacts. Then I was looking at the profile for a while. It was then when it struck me. I realised I was a little irked at having this contact within reach again. I didn't want to be able to access that person's profile, like I did last time. I just found it sort of... (for a lack of better word) disgusting. So now, that person is back on my block and delete list again. =)

I walked into the kitchen...
I flipped the switch for the light on...
I looked at the blackish-looking object on the ground...
Is that a black cat?
I got the fright of my life.
The light turns on.
It's just my mum's slippers.
I then realise I don't even own a black cat.

oops

*clicks 'Delete'* OOPS _#*_@)(#+@_)%_$#)*%_)$* Accidentally deleted my blog background around 5min ago. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

My 18th!

I've never believed in listing people on my blog to thank them for birthday wishes. It seems quite show-off-y. So i shall not do that (although i'm wildly tempted to list the 45 people here. haha what a show off). The people who smsed me wishing me a happy birthday really touched me. The smses literally came pouring in. And yeah, i got a little teary-eyed. =D Thanks to them, this birthday was very memorable.

Another thing that made this birthday memorable was the FAM outing. And especially the Swenson's desserts buffet. I realised their ice cream wasn't very good. But the variety wasn't bad. And it's a fun activity to do with friends.

Actually nothing much happened on my birthday. Just stayed at home and stoned in front of the computer. 0 played audi with me for a while =D made the otherwise boring day fun.

Another thing that made my day was anli and yiyang's wall post on facebook. I totally laughed at the 2 posts.

Anyway, because of facebook, i've gotten much more birthday blessings. But also because of that, the number of smses may have decreased >< hehe. But it's the thought that counts! =D

Tears

If you cry, is it a sign of defeat? Or is it essential to relieve some of the stress that's piled on you? And is it called crying if no tears are shed?

This blog is almost totally not compatible with Opera Mini. Tried and tested.

Chinatown

On this morning's 97.2fm show, the DJs were talking about someone asking why 牛车水 shouldn't be called Chinatown, and should instead be called what it's been called in the past (which is in Malay, read up on the Singapore heritage). The person said that since Singapore has a majority being Chinese, we shouldn't call it Chinatown, which is used in countries where the Chinese are a minority race. But Singapore in the first place is a multiracial society. So we can't expect to not have a Chinatown when the other majority races of Singapore has an area specially dedicated for them. Look at it this way, if there was no Chinatown in Singapore, does that mean that the Chinese population 'occupies' all territories other than Little India and Kampong Glam? Of course not. Since that's the case, shouldn't we have something named after us? I mean, do you see Orchard Road being decorated for the Lantern/Mooncake Festival even if the Chinese population is the biggest in Singapore? I rest my case.

on the departure

it's sort of funny when you think back, and realise that we haven't been on the pictures he posted even though we've all been together for so long.