I iz so not drunk. In all seriousness I had an awesome night on Sunday, just hanging out with work colleagues & being merry. I’m keeping to my new years resolution of living life to the fullest & having fun!

Have fun with the pictures below, more on Facebook if you’re my friend

Anyway, off to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 today. Really looking forward to it as it’s pretty much the last installment for the series. I’m not really a Potter fan but it’s out in the cinemas so thought it would be a good idea to watch.

Also, having my wisdom teeth taken out on the 9th of December. A week before Xmas party. I completely forgot the date when I booked it but by hook or by crook I will be partying it up on that damn boat this year, drinking booze out of a straw if I have to. I know I don’t often drink & let my hair down but this will be a nice change

Ok time to get my geek hat on. As for the blog layout, I’m going to be fixing it soon & adding twitter to my sidebar, changing the icons, adding buttons & other tweaks to the layout. It’s a work in progress.

Anyhoo I better be off now. Gotta get the day started! Typing this on my iPhone. TTFN!

2010 has been a big year for me, finding myself and footing in life. I’m in the process of a redo of my blog layout, feels like I need some new ‘clothes’ for it as its a bit dated. I think I’m needing to get something more classic and then focus my efforts of developing this space.

Here goes!

The orthodontist said that to fix my underbite, I’d have to get braces, undergo surgery to correct my jaw bone, get another set of braces, plus retainers at the end. Once I heard all that, I think my jaw literally dropped.

I can’t imagine going through the surgery and not having the results guaranteed as the surgery comes with risks (won’t be able to talk for 4 weeks – this would be tough!) and not to mention teeth can move and it can all go south from there.

So I’ve decided not to go ahead with it. Thinking about it, its actually plastic surgery (changing my profile) and I don’t think I can subject myself to that much torture when things aren’t that bad. I have a lopsided jaw but things aren’t that bad to justify going under the knife for that. Though I do have to get surgery to remove my last wisdom tooth, which isn’t that major anyway.

Should have got braces when I was younger, would have made much more of a difference. Meh.

What will I do about this? Schedule time to blog. Yes, I’ve said it before that I will and somehow I’ve not done that cause of too many other distractions. Well, after getting my place straight for my house inspection in 2 weeks, I’m back on to try and force that creative side of me to come back. I hate not being able to write properly. I used to love writing and blogging and it was my de-stressing mechanism at the end of a long day. So hence why I’m a little up to here with stress levels. Too many things happening all at once.

On the bright side, I’ve got an iPhone now which will help with the blogging once I fix up my layout and update my WordPress. I think I’m running version 2.4 or something and its now up to version 3.0.1. Yes, I am that behind. Once I get everything sorted with that, I’ll be getting off my arse and doing stuff. Speaking of which, time to do just that. Cleaning is not my latest de-stressing tool so here we go!

I finally got in to meet my orthodontist for the first time today. It took 2 months to get an appointment with him, must be a really lucrative business to run! Anyway, I digress. This is probably a good guide for people who are interested in getting braces. I must remind my readers that I am in no way an expert in braces and this is merely what my experience has been thus far.

I know people will think I’m crazy in wanting braces, but I want it for a few reasons. Mainly being that I’ve got a unilateral cross bite, which is prominent on the right side and being a perfectionist, I didn’t like the fact that one side of my mouth has crowded teeth while the other is pretty much straight.

I had made this appointment 2 months ago and have another booked for a month away. So today’s visit involved providing my ortho with the OPG that I took, him taking my history of my teeth/dental records, taking a couple of impressions of my jaw and bite, taking photos of every angle imaginable.

First he looked at my teeth with the little mirrors that the dentist uses and looked around my mouth. He took a couple of measurements with a few menacing looking metal ruler things. From my meager knowledge of human jaw anatomy, I think he was taking the measurement between my top and bottom jaw and another measurement that I couldn’t quite make out.

He then took a piece of wax and I had to bite on it to to see how bad my bite is. After that, they took a few pictures of my smile, my side profile, my front profile and my teeth. I had to wear this really weird contraption that looks like a BBQ tong, only a bit more rounded. It was to keep my mouth open for pictures. I can only imagine I looked like an idiot with that contraption while the dentist took pictures of my smile and I can imagine that its going to be interesting cause that thing really stretched my lips. I can only imagine that when it comes to putting the brackets in as it’ll be quite painful after a long while.

Then, the dental assistant mixed up a composite for some moulds for the impressions of my upper and lower teeth. It feels quite gooey and its just slightly room temperature. The cool thing about this is that the powder is white, but mixed with some liquid, which makes it turn purple. Its then put into a weird machine which mixed it and poured into little bowl things which is then popped into my mouth and I had to bite into it to make impressions of my teeth. The really cool thing is that the stuff turns white once its set. And the most annoying part of it was the fact that the thing stuck to my teeth so it was a bit of tug of war to remove it from my jaw both times. Haha

That was the end of the consultation. Well, for this time anyway. I got given a referral to get a lateral cephalometry thing, which is like an X-Ray of the whole face to check for my jaws in relation to my face etc. Who knew there were so many parts to this thing! They definitely are very thorough. After that my orthodontist explained that my next appointment would involve him coming up with a treatment plan and outlining the best treatment option before proceeding. He told me with the preliminary consult, he couldn’t see any easy treatment for me. He explained that my right side of my lower jaw is a bit bigger than my left, which could have stemmed from my left side only growing from the caudal side or something along those lines. I wasn’t paying much attention after he said he couldn’t see an easy way to treat. I remember that he was saying that my upper jaw was underdeveloped and my teeth were actually quite far behind and my upper lip is a bit flat. From my basic anatomy of the human body, I know that the lower jaw is easier to fix and an over bite with space in the jaw is easier to fix than a slight overbite with the upper jaw being underdeveloped.

After that trip to the orthodontist, I made a trip to the Radiological Clinic to get my x-ray thing done. It was interesting cause it took less than 2 minutes and I was out of there. The waiting in the waiting room took the longest, I think I was there for a good 15-20 minutes just waiting for the girl to come back from lunch to snap the picture.

After that, its just a month’s wait for my next appointment with my orthodontist where he’ll write out and go through a treatment plan with me. I must say, he is a very nice and friendly guy, unlike all my dentists in Malaysia. I guess that’s why they are worth the fees they are charging. Expensive, but I know that I’ll get my money’s worth with the service.

I guess since this will be an ongoing thing, I’ll be updating about my trips to the orthodontist and we’ll have to see how things go from there. Its going to be an interesting journey!

I haven’t been reading or writing much lately and somehow I find that I’ve just lost touch with my creative side. Well, I’m starting to get into a routine again and am hoping to update more regularly. With pictures too

So won’t be too long till another post! Oh and another layout change. I’ve gotten quite sick of seeing that header. Haha

Takes out sandwich box in search of chewing gum. Take said chewing gum, unwrap, pop into mouth, and get back into work.

Colleague: *Sniff sniff* What’s that?

Me: Oh, that’s me.

C: Huh? Really? *Laughs*

M: Yea *laughs along* Its just chewing gum *shows sandwich box*

C: Huh? What?

M: Its the chewing gum. Bubble gum flavour?

C: Oh, I thought you meant you farted!

M: *Laughs hysterically* No, silly. Definitely not me. There is such thing as a toilet. And even if I did, I wouldn’t admit it!

That was definitely a good laugh

I guess you could say that I have many posts to write. Work Christmas party, December holidays (Malaysia & Perth) and my NY Resolutions.

I’m not a believer in making New Year’s Resolutions but I guess in keeping in line with peer pressure, I shall have some resolutions but I refuse to call it NY Resolutions. 2009 was a year filled with all sorts of up and downs, lessons learned and things accomplished. I figured going and reflecting on the previous year would make a good platform to set some goals to achieve for the year 2010.

If you know me n real life, you know that I live by my diary and am ruled by my BlackBerry in terms of my scheduling. I have appointments written up in advance, I plan and make endless lists. I guess the lesson I learnt from 2009 is to let loose a bit more and not live in such a structured routine but to let my hair down and party a little. This month I turn 24, which is pretty much the last year I can say that I’m in my early 20s. Next year I’ll be in my mid 20s. Now that is just a sad, sad thing to say. But like the saying goes, time and tide waits for no man and I ain’t a man anyway. So I’m resolving to live life to the fullest and go out more this year. People to see, things to do.

Going on that note, I will be blogging more now. And with pictures in each post. I’ve let my blog go for a while and it feels strange not penning down my thoughts. I will be changing my layout to a sleeker design that I have yet to decide yet. One thing at a time. Next post will be the work Christmas party. However the photos might seem, there is a story behind it. I’ll leave that till the next post. But yes, I was seriously hammered, but I maintain that I didn’t pole dance. I merely posed with the pole an Jay happened to be there with the camera waiting to catch the action. Fine, here is the incriminating photo but you’ll just have to wait for the other photos

Yes, it was a bottle of Pure Blonde

Enough of that, moving right along. For now, the only other thing that I resolve to do is celebrate my birthday at the end of the month. If you have any ideas of what to do, please suggest something. Sorta tossing between going to the pub (not driving there) or having a picnic/sunset beach get together thing. Pick something to do. I guess most people are invited so if you know me and you’re in Perth, either call/e-mail/SMS/Twitter/MSN/FB me to get your invite

That’s all for now. Till next time!