back with a new nose

i'm back!! at home at least... but won't be back in action so soon cos i'm supposed to be avoiding crowded places to prevent myself from getting cold or flu which would aggravate my nose.

it's been a hell of an experience getting my nose "fixed". lost like a couple of litres of blood and still suffering from a blocked nose cos i'm not supposed to blow my nose and just try to let it clear by itself. (and when will that come? i want to breathe thru my nose!)

here's to the before and after of me (and my nose).

me still nice and cheery before the operation, oblivious to the suffering that is to come after the op.

this is me a while after the op. all puffy-eyed and unable to even give a little smile. bleeding thru my nose. and at some point i was puking blood and felt like a vampire cos the blood from my nose is back flowing into my mouth. yucks.. i know.

this is me a couple of hours into the night, feeling much better as i'm no longer bleeding as profusely and there were Jen, Jing, Shun and Diya with me, trying to entertain me which was not very wise cos i could only breathe thru my mouth and laughing hard means i can't breathe. also does not help that my ear was blocked badly cos of the nose pack that was stuffed in my nose. think there was a lot of pressure build up in my head.

spent a night at the hospital with a whole room to myself, not cos i stayed in A class ward but that there was just no one else. which was good cos then my visitors got to stay till 10pm before the nurses chased them home. haha.

many many thanks to Xinpei who was the first one to come visit me and brought me a little yellow flower. and to Jing, Jen, Shun and Diya who were with me till 10pm and did not have their dinner.

i'm still having a perpetual nose blood of sorts but i no longer need the white gauze over my nose other than when i go to sleep. and that's expected for about a week after the op. sigh.

the flowers that helped cheer me up at the hospital. from Xinpei and Jingyi. it's a bit cui cos there was no vase at the hospital, only transfered it after i got home. but it's still sitting on my desk now.

nose job!

OMG OMG OMG!! can't believe i'm going to get a nose job in less than 10 hrs from now.

yes. i'm going under the knife not to look prettier but to unblock my nose. and hopefully get rid of my nasal voice for good.

i think i was pretty zen when i decided to go for the operation but i'm getting a little nervous now. i'm going to be under general anesthesia for about an hour to get the septum of my nose (which is the part separating the two nostrils) corrected cos it's now crooked and is making one side of the nostril really narrow.

it's actually not the first time i'm going under the knife and now that i'm going thru that again reminds me of the ordeal i went thru when i was like 8? i was also at SGH and trying to get a lump off my back. it was also a small op but when u are 8, it's like a really big deal to have needles stuck in your hands and being wheeled into the operating room alone. kinda scary. the last thing i remembered before i went under anesthesia was a nurse chatting with me and asking me to take deep breathes. well, at least i think it was a nice nurse.

i dun think i would be coaxed like i was 8 this time but i hope the nurse is still nice. hates fierce nurses who barks at you like u whole them a million dollars.

i'll need to be fasting from 12am (which is abt 10 mins away) so i shall go get my last sip of water. and i'll prob be MIA for a week.

will try to give updates of how my nose look like after the op. haha! if i'm up to it.

wish me luck!

photos up! phew!

Yeah!! Finally done with photo uploading and found a way to embed the slide show on my blog!! (Tho it's really tiny cos I can't figure out another place to put them liaoz.) Pls view all 7 installments. Haha

Choosing and uploading photos have been keeping me off boredom the past few days. (Act not like I don't have anything else to do, but i'm just putting them off - things like settling my FYP account so that I can get money from SFC!)

Anyway went for something exciting the other day too! A movie premiere with Mr President and stars like Zoe Tay. (Ok not forgetting Diya too since she was the one who gave us the tickets :P) It was a charity movie premiere for YMCA for the movie Get Smart. I seriously DO NOT understand why they chose this movie cos it involves the plotting of an assassination of a President in LA and there was a line in the movie that goes something like this.

"Why did you choose to bomb LA?"
"Cos the President will be there."
"Oh, then it's too bad for the stars."

And we were watching the movie with our President among the various stars from Mediacorp. Hmmm....

As for the movie, it was funny, but the best I can say is it's low grade laughter. Would not have paid to watch it. And it does not help that we were sitting on the third row and I was getting giddy with all the fast action happening right in front of me.

Japan photos!

I've finally gotten down to uploading photos. But sieving thru 8000+ photos is no joke so it'll be done in batches.

First installment. Kinky Japan Grad Trip Day 1 & 2. Features us at Aeon Shopping Mall in Narita, Mt Fuji and Hakone National Park.

I will try to put captions if I'm i the mood to but right now it's more of uploading photos first.

Enjoy!

reformat.restart.refresh my life

finally got down to reformatting my lappie after my task bar disappeared on FYP judgment day. now it's like new again and it somewhat signifies my life henceforth. and since i'm in the mood to reorganise my life, i'm looking to upload Japan photos soon, now that I've got the photos categorized according to dates, thanks to Jen. Promise it would be up by next week.

just signed my one year contract with Mediacorp last week. selling my life for a year. it's not that i do not like the job, in fact i'm afraid that i would get too much in it and end up like when i was during internship - have no life. i'm a workaholic.

results out, job sealed, i'm just about to start the next phase of my life but not after a good hard break! it's GSS so time to shop!

drowsy sleepy zzz

i'm very drowsy now... very drowsy from the medication i got after i finally decided to go to the doctor's for my bad bad cough. since i can still claim from my travel insurance.

should have asked for non drowsy medication. i tot it should be find but it's not. i got interview tom morning and post grad trippers gathering tom afternoon. argh. dun wanna be drowsy.

but i'm going... going... gone.

post grad trip

i always tot that no one actually checks my blog so i got really lazy to write anything..

but recently to my surprise, ppl ARE actually visiting my blog and are hoping to know wat has been going on in my life and i'm kinda touched. so for these ppl, i promise i will post more often, and spice it up a little with more pictures.. (even i am sick of my blog, i think it's time for revamp again. but till i'm in the mood to design - i'm one miss procrastinator)

so now, here's ONE picture to show u how crazy i got in Disneyland.



not a very well taken picture but these are the card holders i actually bought in Disney. On impulse. because they are just sooo cute. and soo Disney. i have no idea who i'm giving them to still. can let me know if u wan one. ha while stocks last.

It's actually the second time i've been to Disneyland AND Disneysea but i still truly enjoyed myself there. I think it's that kind of place you'll never ever get sick of. It's just magical to be there and the child in you really just creeps out. Plus i've always believed that WHO you are traveling with is more important than WHERE you are traveling to. So i'm really glad i'm blessed with great traveling mates this time that made everyday a blast.

and my fav pictures from the trip - the jumping shots! don't we look good half way up in the air?

Sayonara Nippon!

Back from my 19 days Kinky Japan Grad Trip!! (And I'm missing Japan already)

Summary of trip

Places visited in Tokyo:
Mt Fuji (where I saw real snow for the 1st time!)
Hakone Park
Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disneysea
Asakusa (witnessed a huge festival there)
Odaiba
Yasukuni Shrine (the controversial shrine)
Ginza
Tsukiji Fish Market (with the BEST sushi in the world)
Harajuku
Shibuya
Shinjuku
Omotesando
Ueno

In Kyushu:
Fukuoka (had yatai dinner)
Nagasaki (atomic bomb museum, peace park)
Kumamoto (Mt Aso, RAFTING)
Beppu (Hells of Beppu which was super boring and totally out to cheat tourists; tried sand bath; played with fireworks!)

Others:
Osaka (Universal Studios, Shinsaibashi, Dotonbori)
Kyoto (Kiyomizudera - a famous temple, Gion - to see Geisha)


It's been a great trip with great people and Japan is just an awesome country. People are nice and courteous and mostly considerate, service is great, food is good and is full of things that are so wow! But mostly I'm very happy that I've not lost my Jap ability even after 5 years of not using it. It's a bit difficult to hold conversations but at least I could get myself understood and get around really well.

And I'm really happy that I got to meet my Japanese frens again, those that hosted me when I last visited Tokyo and Osaka. It's so nice to have friends that one can visit there and it's a pity and I can't meet with with them all. Wished I could spend more time to visit all my frens and to go to Waseda University which at a point in time was my dream school.

I am seriously considering my friend's mum's suggestion of working in Japan. My Jap is not THAT good but enough to get by. BUT Japan seems like a place full of workaholics. We see people in suits even on weekends. And it has the highest rate of death from overworking. Hmmm... KIV.

But maybe I'll make Japan (and Taiwan) places that I would visit on a regular basis after this. For the friends I have, for the great people and great food and of course great shopping(although it's a bit ex to shop there, but they have lots of quirky stuff that I'm so tempted to buy.

Looking forward to the gathering of the Scandalous Six to exchange photos and probably make a scrap book of the experience in Japan.

It's truly an unforgettable trip. Thanks Jen, Jing, Shun, Hsu and Diya for making it unforgettable.