Scammed

I was so happy today after I returned from grocery shopping with a big bag of chestnuts.

I boiled them.

Happily I sat down with one big bowl of chestnuts and a spoon to gouge.

=(

70% of them were rotten.

It’s been ages since I last got a pair of contact lenses and so I splurged on a pair. They were out of stock of my usual brownish with the slightest green tinge contact lenses (honey brown makes me look odd somehow), so I tried the Gemstone Green pair. It really isn’t that green unless subjected to camera flash. Not very noticeable under normal lighting.

I discovered today that Guardian sells Loreal’s UV Perfect protector for RM38.00 but MYDIN sells for only RM31!!!

I’ve Been Pestering God

Can’t just take and not give right?

…Jude – O Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke in your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse form the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present urgent petition, in return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked.

Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Mary’s and three Glory be’s

St. Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid. Amen.

(Publication must be promised)
(This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said for 9 consecutive days)

Good Good Day

People get good hair days but today I think I have a good eye day. It almost looks less sepet.

Exam Tip

I learned a new exam tip from a classmate today,

”you’ll perform better during an exam when hungry because more blood flows to your brain”

I asked him if he made that up or it was a fact for real. He and his friends claimed it is a fact.

Just that you can’t be too hungry.

Progress Update

Thank goodness. I thought I had flunked 3C/3D Mathematics but turns out I got a 46/55. Careless mistakes as usual but nevertheless, I think I am improving on making less horrible careless mistakes. An improvement is better than nothing I suppose. Chemistry quiz today was okay. 
Interesting how some of my classmates here like to call me by Nathania instead.

There was a Biotherm promotion going on in Sunway College and they did this skin test for me without charge. Turns out the skin on my cheek is 35% hydrated and 38% hydrated on my forehead. The normal skin according to the Biotherm lady, should be 40% and above. She was recommending some products for me and goodness, one standard-sized tube of Biotherm facial foam costs RM90. I could buy 4 and a 1/2 of my Loreal Perfect White facial foams with RM90! No wonder they promoted Biotherm in Sunway College… get it?

This random person from another state in Malaysia added me in Facebook some time around December 2008 and wow, I met him in college two days ago! Apparently he is a student at Sunway College too. By the power of Facebook, the world is really getting smaller these days!
Three Auckland University representatives from the medical and health sciences faculty came to have a talk with us today. Guess what they told us?

There are FOUR SEATS in UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO and TEN SEATS in UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND.

Yet we have SEVENTEEN of us JPA-bound New Zealand medicine program students. Do the mathematics.

During the selection interview, if we feel that Auckland is not the best place for you, we will tell you that.

O.O is my only currently available expression regarding this.

Gabrielle Jee…

has officially screwed up her Mathematics test today.

Another Toothy Post

  I used to enjoy eating all these…

  

Now I can’t wait to get my braces off.

My teeth seem to have mood swings lately after they had braces on. One moment I can chew and the next moment, I even find a French fry tough to chew.

My usual routine of brushing, rinsing with Listerine and flossing used to take me maybe 5 minutes. Now, brushing, rinsing, interdental brushing and flossing takes me 20 minutes.

I should break my habit of drinking green tea daily. I swear it is turning my brace adhesives yellow. I need more Colgate Advance Whitening toothpaste.

I shall go prepare for tomorrow’s Mathematics test.

College Updates

Biology lab session… enzymes…

Physics lab session…finding the mass of the Earth…

EALD presentation… White Policy…

Chemistry test…4.30PM… just look at those panda eyes.

♥

What a flirt.

Cheese

Somehow, when you are in Sunway College, there always seems to be interesting things going on and for free. Did I mention for FREE? 

After Physics lecture today, I was planning to go rot in the library before going out to lunch with Wun Yhee and Phoebe. Then, Daniel and Peter were like, “there’s free cheese on the 5th floor!”

FREE CHEESE!

Okay, it really wasn’t that exciting. It was just some culinary talk about different types of cheese and at the same time, you get to sample different types of cheese during the talk. Inclusive of free nibbles like prunes and almonds.

 
We get a free badge. =)

We tried cheese of different ages, some sort of cheese soaked 24 hours in wine (which tasted not very nice…) and I tried blue cheese for the first time. Blue cheese tastes like eating Nippon paint.

At the end of the talk, we concluded that cheap cheese is the best. Kraft’s.

Braces!

The day finally arrived yesterday… and I got BRACES.

It took me 1 hour this morning to finish two slices of bread for breakfast. Lunch was a bowl of tou fu fa and a box of Milo for tea break. After Chemistry test today, I was too lazy to cook porridge for dinner, it took me 1 hour just to finish half a curry puff for dinner. I ended up giving up and using a spoon to scoop out the potato fillings and tossed away the puffs. Goodness.

I am pretty sure that after six months of braces, I am going to look like a long bean since I will be tightening my braces every two weeks.

Today was Day 1 in college with braces and everyone was like, “smileeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” or “can you eat?”

Now I have to go prepare for an upcoming Maths test.

I just had kiwi fruits.

What Tuesday Would Look Like

Pre-Brace Phase

I’m no longer going to have pearly whites again for six months starting this Tuesday =( Then again, =) I shall have better pearly whites after six months. I think I sound like some sort of psycho excited to put braces on for the second time. I hope I get to pick coloured rubber bands for my brackets. I have already stocked up on yogurt, red dragon fruits and kiwi fruits as snacks during brace-phase.

I had scallop noodles, chicken rice, Shanghai dumplings, Beijing dumpings and mango sago pudding for breakfast at Dragon i. Breakfast cost RM78. Goodness. Then I had pomegranate and banana yogurt. I had Oreo biscuits too. I lost 3 kilos over the past week despite excessive eating.

I met up with my family later that afternoon.

We had home cooked Sarawak Laksa.

Excited State

I AM GOING…

TO PUT…

TEETH BRACES ON…

FOR THE SECOND TIME…

THIS TUESDAY!!! =D

I’m so excited. =)

 

I watched Alice In Wonderland yesterday.

Gah!

I learned a good lesson today.

Always read questions c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y.

What happens when you didn’t notice the word HORIZONTAL and resolved the components VERTICALLY instead?

You’re so going to get 0-2 marks out of a total of 15 marks for Physics lab assessment.

Damn.

There goes my 3.75% for internal assessment.

Everything BIG

Old-school spectacles with thick black rims are very groovy these days. =)

Big spectacles are the in-thing these days.

Big sunnies too are in trend. Aviators. =)

And I am still stuck in my self-absorbed era of half-framed spectacles. Un-hippy but big frames make me look like a bug.

Seems like people these days just like everything BIG. Big cars, big houses, big spectacles, big paycheck, big gamin rig…

 

Darn. I should never take "afternoon naps”. I woke up at 9pm from my nap. Like the Chinese say, “you’ll be a Goddess tonight sleeping so much” and snap, I am wide awake now and it is 1.00AM. I have classes at 8.30AM. =(

A Very Toothy Post

 

Post orthodontic treatment…

See that gap? It’s both on the left and right side of my upper jaw…
Mind you, post orthodontic treatment. Those are extraction residual sites after a year of orthodontic treatment.
Apparently two dentists from my hometown have told me that gaps at the side are considered insignificant.
Insignificant… heh…
Also that it is not a problem unless food gets stuck.
Again…heh…
Heh…

OMG max, this used to be how my teeth looked like four years ago

Thanks to whoever who invented braces and retainers, at least the front view of my teeth looks good now.
Unfortunately, there’s that side view gap problem if i open my mouth wide.
Hopefully, I can get orthodontic treatment done again here in KL.

Turning Green

I celebrated Chap Goh Meh with my cousin’s family in Klang last Sunday. The food was awesome. A very good change from my own cooking.

Introducing a wong bok cabbage I bought which, my housemate commented was gigantic.

She said that I will turn green from eating so much vegetables. I think I already blend in with the walls and the walls are painted pandan green…

The wong bok went through a “shrinking” process to fit into my containers. 

Then came more vegetables… I am really turning green.