bonjour brightside

happy birthday to me! no one should have to spend their birthday studying and cramming on the eve on an exam. it is a shame and i would be lying if i said i wasn’t a tad disappointed…but that’s life… so i choose to accept it with grace and then i’ll have a proper celebration after the exams are over. wooo double joy!

THANK YOU for all the lovely FB wall messages, to the amazing friends who surprised me at 12midnight sharp, and also to my wonderful family… much love xox

p.s. i will reply the FB messages after my paper tomorrow! it would be impolite of me to leave all the kind messages unreplied!

finally! i made an appointment to get my wisdom teeth extracted on wednesday. it is getting too painful to bear right now. i’ve been popping copious amounts of panadol and aspirin but they’ve stopped working, i feel like my head is going to explode and i wish someone would kill me now. tomorrow i shall stock up on enough panadeine forte and neurofen to last me a lifetime. i hate teeth. dentists earn too much money from teeth.

i am trying sooo hard to grin and bear it/suck it up, but the throbbing pain takes my perseverance away. i saw this woman in dr E’s rooms last week and she had urinary incontinence and prolapse and chronic pelvic pain… and she actually thought it was common for most women to go through that….. well oh well. i reckon women put up with a lot these days.

i am sorry to sound so sore but severe pain and ‘bright and shiny’ do not go well together……. oh last week i assisted in 3 surgeries! one hysteroscopy d&c, one cone biopsy and one laparoscopy. plus! the staff at the practice actually bought me lovely almond pastries from this italian patisserie on my last day, how sweet of them! i’m going to think happy thoughts from now on so i get less bothered by the painnnn

i have this pain in my tooth and gums that persistently aches and triggers 78263424 neuronal synapses when i bite on it. it also radiates to my head, giving me a throbbing headache that impairs my ability to concentrate….so much for trying to study. i am literally going insane…!!!! the pain is just incapacitating, even though i took 5 panadols. i saw the dentist on friday and he said my wisdom teeth were impacted and required extraction…… i wish he could have yanked it out there and then, but he said i had to get x-rays first. GAH! so i have to wait till monday to get the x-ray done and golly knows when they’ll send my films back to him and then he’ll ring me up to arrange for an appointment……. hopefully it won’t take long because my exams are in less than 3 weeks! damn wisdom teeth! i always seem to get into trouble just before major exams. last year i was terribly ill for 3 weeks just a month before the end-of-year exams…. it is a horror i don’t want to relieve. sigh please please please let me have the surgery and get well ASAP i don’t care if it hurts like mad or costs me a Louis Vuitton bag (my heart is breaking) or if i have to look like a chipmunk for 3 days. (well actually i care!!! but obviously i need to pass the exams….or risk dire consequences.)

it is tres gloomy and cold (brr!) outside and i woke up (late again, as usual) feeling awful… i blame it on the oreos i wolfed down before going to bed last night. this is what i call a downer day, where you know it’s going to be a crap-awful day the moment you open your eyes… so i gave school a miss, was supposed to spend my time studying very conscientiously but as you can see i am still(!) procrastinating. i want a large poufy skirt (see picture) and some glossy patent black lace-up oxfords, and some nice brown leather boots (i really need new boots!). i think i might feel better then!

on a side note

i was just wondering… have you ever met a person whom you know is the love of your life? it doesn’t matter if you dated before and then broke up, or are still loveydovey together- what i want to know is whether you’ve ever had that feeling you get when you look back on fond memories and you just simply know….? do things like these exist only in the movies, or do they really happen to real people in a real world? anyway forgive me for the rambling soliloquy, i’m beginning to think that bad days always put me in a semi-contemplative mood. haha

+picture from lorick (the designer behind the waldorf collection in gossipgirl, which.is.back! yay!)

p.s. just caught ‘how to look good naked’ on tv! ooh it looks wikkkid!

hi i’m back from sydney! it was a blast, and the weather was magnificient! didn’t get to explore sydney because i was at the IMPACT conference mainly (it was fantastic, by the way!) but i’m definitely thinking of coming back (how could i not?) will update more in a later post because i’m swamped with work right now plus my arms are sore from canoeing