Extraction aftermath (part 3)

It's been a week now...

No more pain but a disgusting part came to my attention in past few days...

Firstly, The extraction site actually is deeper than I thought when I used touch light to flash my mouth/mirror 2 days ago...Darn!

and the most troubling part is - IT'S SMELL like a rotten flesh. (that's why I wanna see what's going on in my mouth).

So, yesterday morning, I went to the dentist and ask him about this...and thankfully, he said, it's normal as the wound have not fully recover yet and mouth is the very dirty place for those bacteria to grow and affect the extraction site but if your body is strong, your body will win over those bacteria and heal the site.

"OKey! then how! Listerine-ing every few hours or feel disgusting?" I asked

"Yes! It helps and also chew with your other sides of molar tooth." the dentist replied confidently

"Okey! for how long?" I asked eagerly as I can't really stand the smell.

"A week, It will get better day by day. And...don't worry about it, it will be fine." the dentist started to loose his patient.

"OKey! I trust you! That means the "hole" will fill itself" I don't care and asked again.

"Yes! Just don't worry too much about it" the dentist moved his way to call for the next patient.

Hence, I thanked the dentist and left the place.


Yesterday after work, I'm in front of my PC and a soon after I feel the "smell" (or maybe taste the smell! how a smell can be taste and feel but not smell? A weird feeling), a thought sparked me to get some research on the"tooth extraction after care".

Yes! a lot of idea from the www. Warm Saline Water, Warm Tea and even just plain water will do the trick to make the "smell" gone or weaken it and the interesting one is using sterile gauze to put on the extraction site to kill the bacteria and keep the site clean. That means speedy recovery. I want it!

Hmmm! Good idea, later will go to ask from the pharmacy. Hope they will have it.

It's really a sickening experience and I just hope it will be the last wisdom teeth I have to extract out (actually, there are 2 more at the upper ends and thankfully, they didn't give me any problem (yet)).

What I am worry the most now is not the the site can't heal itself, it's whether it can fill the hole up!

Anyway, let's see how it goes!

Next week will have a vacation in KL. Hope I will get better by then...

p/s: It's fast, half of the January 08 is gone. Feeling the joys of Spring!

My Marriage!

It's time! It's time!

I will be a husband to someone I truly loved! 2008 is important year. I am 28 and will get married on 22 February.

Why this day? It's Pat's (Pat is my mum) 55th birthday. Indication of her true retirement of taking care of her 2 mighty sons. And of course it's a good day in the Lunar calendar of Chinese culture.

Not going to be a big celebration or reception on this day. Just a small ceremony of signing the marriage certificate. Looking forward to it.

Planning to have a wedding reception on end of this year or early 2009. At the meant time, Car and I just have to get the marriage cert before we move to Sydney in coming March and April.

Yay! I am a bit nervous but looking forward to the wonderful life we shared together in future.

Lastly, really thanks God for letting me to meet Car- a wonderful girl who is awaiting me to discover with my whole life. Lup ya Car!

A month after 14 Dec

Yes! It's been a month. I am officially 28yrs and 1 month old.

Firstly, my extraction pain is nearly 80% gone. Hooray! but still can't really chew conveniently, hence, porridge still my primary food and it will not for long. Maybe for another 2 more days after I take off the stitches.

Past 2 days, I just mostly stayed at home ice packing, Listerine-ing and porridge-ing for my own comfort. Actually, I just did not have mood to go out or have any activities. This mood will go on for coming 2 days I think. Not till I feel free to enjoy the KFC chicken. :)

A good news to share!
Finally, I started the conversation with Car regarding my belief -> Christ. Yes! I am a Christian.
That happened on Saturday night at one of the bistro when we got nothing to talk and I started this conversation.

"Do you know anything about Bible, Jesus and Christianity?" I asked.

Car looked at me and said: "Basically No. Even I had attended Sunday school more than 10 years ago and sorry to tell you that, I forgot nearly 100% of it and what I do remember some was Adam and Eve as they are the 1st human being on earth"

"OK, tell me about Adam and Eve then" I happily asked her again.

"Hmmm! They are created by God and God called them Adam and Eve" She replied.

"That's all"

"Yes"

"Will you want to hear more about Bible, Jesus and the most importantly, God?" I asked this question with a "very eager to tell" look on my face.

"OK! I also want to know more about it" She gently replied.

Then, I started the conversation about my faith to Car and thank God, she was kind of interested in it. What I did told her were:

1. Genesis events: The creation of universe, The bullshit of Evolution, Adam and Eve dismissal from Eden, Towel of Babel and Noah Ark.
2. Jesus and his life.
3. Why Jesus bring salvation and cleanse our sins.
4. Bible explanation of Death, Heaven, Devil and Demons and Mosaic Law.
4. Some part of the Revelation in Bible.

I could not say I am good in understand the Bible and I afraid, no one could ever say that. For me, Bible is a very strange "book", the 2nd time you read it, it will make you realized more goodies than the 1st time you read it. Same thing applies to the 3rd, 4th...time you read it.

OK! The most important part I shared with Car is why I believe in it.

It's really hard to explain in word but I will try my best to define it. It takes a lot of examples and stories to support with my explanation.

Mainly, for me:
I believe there are "someone" out there watching us. "Someone" far more greater in power than us. Try to browse back those movies such as "Independence Day", "Alien series", "Predator series" or even the latest "Aliens vs Predators Series", you will know what I am talking about.

YES! I believe there are "someone" similar like them watching over us on earth. In short, I believe the "someone" is God and He is watching over us. Monitoring every single tiny move we made. Our kind, for God, just like the relationship between human and ape. Ape will never know what's "blog", just like human will never know God's thinking in broad.

Big Bang theory and Evolution, for me, just can't explain the creation of the universe and humankind. Why? Here! The best explanation! scientifically!

OK! back to the basic! The initiative is "believe". If you believe in Big Bang Theory or Evolution, by all mean, that's your choice but you have the right to think wiser and broader than this.

"Don't be Afraid, Just believe" Jesus said it 2000 years ago to lead our way to hope. a hope for eternity.

Extraction (part 2)

It's the 2nd days.

The afternoon "pain kicking " feeling just terrified me. It's around 2:30pm and I rushed back home to rinse my mouth with Listerine to soother the pain and guess what, it helps.

Because of the fish porridge I ate during my lunch time? But! now! porridge is the only thing I can conveniently put into my mouth, not just because I could not open my mount wide enough to chew other stuffs, but I just do not want my wound to get infected. IN SHORT! I WANT A SPEEDY RECOVERY and live my life normally again. For the time being, other foods = poison for me. Try to imagine the wound get infected and start to swell and decay....fug! I don't want that.

The 1st thing I wanna do after I fully recovered is: having "dinner plate" at KFC. That's nothing like KFC Chickens...For me, Malaysian KFC is the best among Australia, Brunei, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.. I tried KFC in these countries but their KFC chickens just not as good as the KFC chicken here in Malaysia.

It's Friday again...TGIF but not for me. I have to endure the swelling in my mouth and I know it will be gone very soon. Thank God for the strength He gave me...

Some of the (odd) things I encountered today:

1. Received a bad new from Labuan. The job I finished on 8 Jan failed again. This task will be a never ending matter. Too bad!

2. One of the Indian politician was assassinated in Johor. Wow! Malaysia got assassin. A sign to be a developed country I think.

3. Yang Zhong Wei (note: the link is in Chinese) released his album today. The guy who sang very well in Taiwan 1st Xing Guang Da Dao. A singing contest in Taiwan. Looking forward to hear it.

4. Pat and Car are starting to play around with their new toy: Gym Ball (Swiss Ball).

5. Discovered the trick I long desired for in RA2 (Red Alert 2). Yes! It's a PC Game back in 2000.
(I start to like wikipedia, I can link anything to them.)

6. Eating porridge for the whole darn day!

Never mind! Tomorrow will be better for sure!!!

1/3 of January 2008

Yes! It's 10 Jan. 1/3 of the January 2008 is gone!

Time flies. Since I stepped into 2008, the time seen moving really really rapidly. 1o days of 2008 was gone. Yes! I was spending my days fairly wisely. Good on me!

Yesterday I Extracted my bottom right wisdom teeth.

Why extracting my wisdom teeth? Actually, It was not painful at all and it just had a tiny cavity on it and seen I will move to Sydney in few months time, I decided to extract it to prevent the high cost extracting operation in Sydney.

Why now? Hmmm! I think I might be fairly busy for coming weeks or months. I looked at my planner and found out the best time to do it is early January as I got some idle time now.

OK! Let's talk about it!

The booking time actually dropped on Monday (7 Jan) but I postponed it due to the urgent working trip to Labuan on 8 Jan.

Some of my wisdom tooth extraction history: I got my bottom left wisdom extracted 2-3 years ago before I start my life in Sydney. Yes, it was done at the same place in Miri. Where? "Grace Dentistry" a very experienced dentist did it for me. I trust him (maybe he's a Christian, should be more supportive to Christian fellow). The only down side of this dentist: He did not use the medical gloves. :( (Car told me this)

I reached there around 9am and the operation started around 9.30am. Soon i lied on the dental chair, the dentist applied a dose of anaesthetic that he said will keep me away from feeling any "suffering" for coming 3 hrs and the operation will finish between 15-30mins. Good! and let the "fun" part begin...

Before that, let me briefly introduce my "3rd molar tooth". Both of them had been there for about 5 years. Since the time I was studying in Tassie, the left-handed side started to draw my attention. What kind of attention? The bad one! It could not fully erupt and it start decaying. From then, I knew I have to take extra care not just for the decaying one but both of them. Actually, both of them didnt make the way out from the gum. :(

OK, 3 years ago, when i was here in Miri attending my brother wedding, I extracted the left-handed one. It was really a scary experience, during the extraction, thanks to the invention of anaesthetic that bring most of the pain away but the operation pressure is the one that petrify me the most, feeling the movements of the dental equipments going around the teeth was just not pleasing me at all even it was not painful.

Rinsing my blood out very 2-3 mins also made me feel disgusting. BUT I HAD SUSTAINED IT...

This time, the feeling was still there but I seen more ready than last time. soon after the dentist put the "digger" in my month and start the "digging" job, the pain started to kick in. It just did not seen right, so I requested another dose of anaesthetic. I got what i desired and the "digger" was in my month again...

Keep praying the teeth will come out quickly really helps. At least it diverted my mind from keep thinking about the equipment movements in my mouth. Avoid to think the aftermath also make me feel more harmonious. 20 mins later....after the dentist keep complaining the space is too small, my tongue keeps blocking the way...finally, the teeth was out. Hooray...and now my mind divert back to the aftemath- the killing pain after the anaesthetic was gone. The only thing I could do was requesting more pain killers.

Back home! still jumping but as the mouth could not open conveniently, So, i decided not to talk much. And the good thing: The extraction kill my appetite! Good, I could loose weight now! at least for 1-2 days. Better than nothing...:) The wound (the hole previously holding the teeth) was keep bleeding. It's disgusting and I keep changing the cotton wool in my mouth.

The bleeding continue! Time: 2pm...Could not sleep! Why? My saviour-anaesthetic is going weaker and in the other hand, the pain is emerging and I started to take the pain killer. Ice bag! Yes! My another saviour, even it's fairly weaker saviour but it's better than nothing. The pain went into the peak around 4pm, I was shaking on the bed. It continuously torturing me for not long: 2 hours.

Then, the pain starts fading but the bleeding continues...It was a good sign. Yay!

Now! 25 hours after the extraction. I am getting much more better. Lucky today is a Holiday! Sufficient rest is the key. Hopefully, the swollen will gone by today and I could continue my daily routine tomorrow.

Enough for the story...here is the extracted teeth...

The teeth was surfaced partly (only like 2mm) above my gum and the remaining was fully underneath my gum. It's like 3/4 inch under my gum! -_-'






The dental equipments...make me think of the SAW series...

Good Morning 2008!

It the brand new year of 2008!

A leap year (with 29th Feb/366 days-for those who don't know!).
A Olympic year in Beijing (as I like sport).
Ha ha! I will be 28 during most of the days in 2008...

For myself:
A life changing year (will move back to Sydney).
A start of my 11th year as a non-uniform student (left high school end of 1997).
A year that I started with Car. (Thank Car for the nod to be with me! Thanks God).
A year I will sure draw a lot closer to the Mighty One.

And I'm sure a lot of extraordinary things will happen around me this year...looking forward!

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My 2006/2007 in Miri

My Snippets of Life:
2nd Nov 06: Back to Miri from Sydney! I miss Sydney but i know my decision to come back to Miri was wise and rational and now I think i had accomplished my intentions here in Miri! Thus, it's time to back to where I suppose to be.

2nd day after i landed Miri via Brunei (Bandar Sri Bagawan), I went Johor Bahru for a friend (Kheng Chiang) wedding reception. Yes! Singapore. Re-visit the wonderful place I left in 2005. (The "back-home" feeling was there and it's amusing to talk about it). That's on November 2006.

21st Nov 06: I started work as a Project/software Engineer! a SSB's contractor. My first full-time job in Malaysia...

14&15 Dec 06: Engaged in "online-ing" my system in SSB. (even lump in my Birthday celebration...hate it!)

Xmas 06 in KK. Count down with Nik and Chiun! My best friends in Miri. Long tiring road trip from Miri to KK...

New Year Eve in Miri with some of newly met friends (Annie & Jannet).

Yay! It's 2007 (It's a year/ 365 days ago).

Jan-June 07...Work Work Work! But:~

April: Met lovely Melisa...

May 07: Sawadekrap! Bangkok/Pattaya

June 07: Closer with DorDor...

July 07: Met Car! Introduced by Chiun. (Car was Chiun TARC coursemate back in Segamat, Johor.)

August 07: Love is in the air....dated Car! Happy Feets! Thanks to Tanjung and Embargo!

Oct 07: Bali...where I found some touch of Bondi beach and not forgetting the Tatto horror...

Nov 07: Start the year-end blue...

Early Dec 07: Year-end blue continue...

14 Dec 07: Yay! I'm 28! Finally, this year I had the celebration! Thanks mum for the cheese cake!

25 Dec 07: Ho Ho Ho! Xmas & Car's Birthday!

27 Dec 07: ... Resolutions were set! (actually still have the room to add-in some more!)
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My 2008 life! will be a fruitful one for sure.

2008, with Car, Let's the journey begin...