Dental & BS Appointment

It was a "me" day ystd coz Dar had to work and so cldn't accompany me. :( I actually wanted to go and try the McGriddles for brekkies but realised that it might be beef (does anyone know if it is chicken or beef pattie??) & thus decided it wldn't be a gd idea 2 go since Dar don't take beef. But he had 2 wake up early 2 work anyways so juz as well...

Went for Dental in the am for my "big" project earlier coz wanted 2 meet my ex-colleague for lunch but ended up having to wait & thus had 2 cancel the appointment. Spent a total of $220 ystd; $40 each for laminating 2 teeth, $80 for retainers for my lower teeth, $35 for polishing & $30 for filling in a HUGE cavity. My colleagues commented that it was q cheap :))) Wanted to make retainers for both the top & bottom teeth but the dentist suggested just doing the bottom one coz i) the upper teeth were still orderly whereas my bottom teeth were getting a little "crowded" (but i dunno why that needs retainers!!!) n ii) coz he didn't want me 2 scratch my nice laminated teeth when i put on n take off the retainers. How thoughtful... Unfortunately, the retainers will NOT stop me fr grinding my teeth @ nite which really irritates Dar. Guess he will hafta bear w it :P The dentist was surprised @ the cavity in my teeth coz it was already q huge; he had to clean the cavity b4 he cld fill it in but it was too sensitive for me & I had cringing away even though he told me not to. I told him I have a huge phobia for dentists after my horrifying experience w my orthodontist extracting my teeth when the anesthetic haven't seeped in... OUCH!!! So in e end, he had to give me a jab even though he only had to clean the area for juz a little bit more. But later in the afternoon after the anaesthetic have worn off, there was this sore feeling & I felt really uncomfy. Asked Dar if it was normal n his reply, "Huh? How wld I know? I m not a dentist... Ask ur dentist lah!" gosh some help he is! :P

In the pm was my appointment w my BS for trail makeup & also the fittings for my gown. Am so happy to see my gown again hee hee. She has done some alteration for me so it fits much beta now, only that the spaghetti straps were a little too tight & the gown was a teeny weeny too long such dat I kept stepping on it!!! She will be doing the alterations for me & add more beadings to the gown. I hope she add LOTS more so it will b more bling haha. As for my evening gown which is like a cheongsam, it was q ok, only that the collar was a too tight & a bit too high. She had to keep telling me not to slouch so dat the cloth wldn't crease @ my stomach haha. I haf v bad posture I know but it is too late for me to do anything liao (n anyways i m too lazee haha!) Will be goin for the next fitting together w Dar in late May so hopefully he can take some pics then I can post it here :) The makeup artist was q frenly & I m glad the makeup wasn't too thick... here's a pic of me w the makeup... n check out my new pearlie whites :PPPP

Made an appointment for body massage in the late pm since Dar was working n wanted 2 meet him for dinner. The massage therapist assigned to me ystd was q gd n professional; she told me the body mask she was gona use for me wld make me perspire so as to get the toxins out and also so that my skin wld b able to absorb the massage oil better. & I really did perspire a lot!!! She was really q gd so much so dat during the massage, I didn't feel the soreness in my mouth 1 bit!!! But it came back aft the massage... so strange hor? Tried to book her for subsequent appointments but was told she is full till June for wkend appointments! :(

Finally met Dar @ nite 2 pick him up coz his van broke dwn. Went to eat v delicious ice kachang where the ice was so fine it simply melted in your mouth!!! Dar has been raving abt this ice kachang for weeks so I was mighty happy that I finally gotta eat it! Yummz!

Settled!!!

I thnk I haf finally learnt my lesson and am NOT goin to lend anybody any money anymore. First lent my JC friend some money many years back coz he got burnt whilst playing the stock market, only to have him disappearing some months later, dropping out of Uni and chalking up many creditors @ that point in time. He has since "surfaced" but I doubt anyone has gotten their money back. & couple of years back, I lent my good-for-nothing cousin a couple of hundred dollars coz his Dad juz passed away & he was as usual jobless. When I told Daddy that he has approached me for money, he immediately told me not to lend him the money but later "relented" & told me dat if I wanted to lend him the money, I muz b prepared not to get the $ back. Well, I already knew the chances of me getting the money back was close to naught but lent him the money nonetheless as he still had a teenage daughter to support. Couple of months dwn the road, he not only didn't return me the money but had the nerve to ask me to be his guarantor for buying his car!!! What!?!?!? No money to return me but has money to buy car?!?!? Of coz my ans was a flat No although he tried asking a few more times. Needless to say, I never heard fr him again. (oh he still came to my hse during CNY n Dar was v pissed coz he juz sat dwn there wout acknowleging us or bringing up the matter of the $)


The latest incident was me lending $500 to my now ex-colleague fr my branch in Oct/Nov 2006. She claimed that her fam was having some prob (sis undergoin divorce n blah) n thus needed some $; I gave her the benefit of the doubt although I believed that she was using the $ to help her then bf pay for some car parts. My colleagues asked me how come I still lent her e $ know that she is q a spend-thrift/extravagant person but it was diff 2 tell her that i didn't have the $ n some more she already tried to borrow fr 2 other colleagues. Her first 2 payments were q prompt (she said she wld return me $100 every month); first payment in Dec b4 she resigned & 2nd on in late Jan/early Feb when she came back for our branch CNY dinner. Subsequently, didn't really meet up w her but still tok 2 her a bit on n off on MSN but didn't chase her for the $ coz she was in between jobs & nice me decided to give her more time. However when she still didn't take any intiative to return me the $ in Oct, i texted her n told her to return me the remaining $300 by the end of the year to which she agreed. My idea was that she returned $100 every month n it wld b juz nice.


Who knows 2007 came n went & I still didn't get the $$$!!! & I was pissed coz here she was here claiming that she had no money but there she was going places w her bf & doing her hair & all!!! So during the 2nd wk of Jan, I msged her again telling her that it was now 2008 and she again claimed she had no $!!! @ that time I was still q nice so I told her by mid Feb and she again agreed. (Mid Feb coz aft CNY mah so shd haf a LOT of $) Whadaya know... she didn't return me the $ again!!! & I gave her like another 2 weeks b4 I tried to contact her but she wasn't contactable!!! By now I was like really fuming! I msged her a couple of times but no reply; got a mutual fren to msg her but also no reply. Then I tried calling her n she didn't pick up her phone, left her a msg on Friendster also no reply. The mutual fren was saying that I shd just leave like a testimonial on her friendster so make her look bad but I thot dat wasn't v nice so I told her I wld only do dat as a last resort. By then, almost the whole office knows abt her owing me $ coz I was like complaining everyday!!! Had e intention to use another number to try 2 call her & my colleague thot of the same thng so she asked me 2 use her phone to call her as she doesn't thnk my ex-colleague has her number. And she picked up the phone!!! But she didn't say "hello" so I passed the phone back to my colleague 2 ask her to help me to look for her. Well either she heard me talking to my colleague or she recognised my colleague's voice coz after dat she simply hung up the phone. But not before she said "hello" once & my colleague thot it sounded like her!!! By then I was rather determined to either call her @ home or go rite up to her hse to look for her. I mean, she is simply too much!!!


But surprise surprise!!! She actually msged me a short while aft e phone call telling me dat she had actually passed the phone to her mum & dat she had juz gotten her phone back. Then she gave me some crap (crap coz I totally dun believe!) abt how her sis was sup to contact me 2 return me e $ and dat the sis had told e mum dat she had already the $ to me. Well the sis didn't contact me @ all lors & so I gave her the ultimatum to return me $100 by the next day or else I will take further action. She kept telling me that she had no money & dat she wld return me the whole sum of money by the end of the month & ask me to "trust her" but I told her No n I told her to take the money fr her parents or 2nd sis coz I dun thnk it is THAT diff 2 come up w $100. She told me that she wun be able to get the $ from them coz "if they had wanted 2 help the sis, they wld haf helped lg time ago". Well that's not my prob so I told her 2 get either the mum or sis to contact me & tok 2 me or give me their contact but she was like, sis doesn't want her 2 give her my number n even if I tok 2 e mum no use. I tell u, I really felt like a loanshark dat pm what w all the smses flying ard... aftwhich I grew really tired n I told her dat no matter how many times she asked if she cld defer the payment till end of the month my ans wld still be No!


Well, I was quietly waiting the next day 2 see if she wld return the money (I told her 2 return by 1pm) but she said the CDM was dwn @ her place so cld only bank @ nite provided dat the machine was not dwn. Luckily for her, she banked in the money @ 7 plus dat nite. As for the rest of the $200, I was rather apprehensive as to whether she wld return me the money by the end of the month or I wld hafta chase her again. Thankfully she has returned me the money wout me hafing to ask her for it. So it's e end of the saga *whew*



I'm really going to thnk 10 million times abt lending pp $ fr now on. (like e other day, this dirty looking lady approached me to lend her $1.90 to take bus coz she has lost her purse but I didn't. In e end she borrowed from these teenagers but subsequently when the teenagers boarded their bus, I saw her approaching some other passerbys for $ again) Even like Dar, he had helped pp in the past (n also recently) but lending $ or letting them use his tools/equipment first b4 paying up and he always end up finding it v diff to get e $ back. Haiz... v hard 2 be nice pp sometimes hor? ...

sick sleepy

so I didn't meet up w the PA pp in e end coz I was down w fever, sore throat & headache :((( Was alrite in e am, then in e mid morning, started to feel a bit of sore throat & headache n by the mid afternoon, I was down w fever. Muz haf had been the heaty food that I've been eating over the weekend; ate 2 tao sau piah compliments of my colleague & had a bbq on Sat nite. Intially wanted 2 juz meet the PA pp for a while but by the time I knocked off, i cldn't tahan already, so took a bus back n took a nap.

Set the alarm @ 730pm so dat I can wake up to see the dr if I still wasn't feeling well. Called Dar 2 see if he was coming back n was like "why r u @ home?" n he was v surprised that I was sick coz I was perfectly alrite in e am haiz! In e end, had 2 "recall" my Dad home so that he cld accompany me 2 e dr as I didn't feel like driving. Luckily there weren't anyone @ the clinic so managed to go home q fast & went straight to bed haha. Of coz, I first texted Dar 2 get me some food but he took forever to come :P :P :P

Actually I thnk e dr I see is not v gd coz I always take a couple of days to recover. Even now I m still dwn w a bit of sore throat and cough as a result of the sore throat. But wat 2 do, it is co dr n he is e nearest one 2 my hse. The one @ my office is not bad; the last time I was ill, I juz took the medicine overnite n was beta the next day! But the relief dr is not v gd; remember dat she asked me to move hse coz I was having bouts of rashes due to the dust??? really CMI!

Haven't been really sick for a couple of years but this is the 2nd time in this year that I have fallen ill!!! & juz a couple of days b4 I fell ill, I was juz commenting 2 Dar dat inspite of the fact that I take Cod Liver Oil (which is sup 2 build up body resistance), I m still sniffing almost every morning. Dad was also saying that I need to build up my body coz I m like some cold blooded animal that feels cold v easily!!! But wat can I do leh? My body constituition has been weak eversince I was young wor... *ponder* *ponder*