Category: Bracie Gracie

I like the idea that Obama won! 😀

I was eating keropok lekor during lunch, as my dessert I would say and I heard a sound coming from my mouth. Like something clashing but ignored it because I couldn’t feel anything, it didn’t hurt.

I felt that there was like something stuck in my mouth after that, thought it was some leftover of the keropok still stuck in my mouth. But no…it was one of the brackets of my braces. It came off! It’s now hanging on the arch wire, sliding left and right with much joy after having stuck on my back teeth for close to 5 months now. Times flies doesn’t it…I’m going into my 5th month of wearing braces.

I’m reporting to work very early tomorrow so that I can go off earlier to see my dentist after work. No more keropok lekor for now!

I’m also growing back my hair. It has been about 6 months since I cut my hair short and it’s about time I grow it back. Pappy loves me with long hair and he has been reminding me twice about keeping my hair long.

“I don’t look nice in short hair, is it?”

“No…I didn’t say that..I just asked you to keep it long.”

“I really don’t look nice in short hair, is it?”

“I didn’t say that…just keep it long.”

Some guys really dig long hair. I’ve got pretty mixed reaction with the cut of my hair. It’s either, “What happened to you?”  or “You look damn nice in short hair.” I’m not really sure which one I look better in but the thing that prompted me to cut it short is when I see someone who can pull it off with short hair and looks great, I have this sudden urge of wanting to cut it and have that kind of style too.

I still like my hair short…but I’m going to keep it a long short. Not too long and not too short. Get it rebonded and I’ll look like a goddess.

Then you’ll see me walking like there’s a strong wind blowing towards me…but there’s just no wind…just me swinging my head. Hahaha.

I also liked the idea that I found another alternative to drive home from my work place. That would make it the 4th route to drive home from work. And do you know that one of the favourite things I like to do is to keep track of the odometer? Knowing how far is the destination from my house. And do you know that I only knew that I could actually reset the odometer (not the main one) to zero so that I can see the kilometres going up instead of jotting down the kilometre from the main odometer then get it subtracted with the new kilometre measurement once I reach my destination….after 2 years of having this car?

That’s not the only thing. I also realised that I could actually make the wiper to do a quick job, just one wipe of the windscreen by pushing the steering column switch up lightly…after maybe a year and a half of driving this car of mine?

The most classic one of all hor…is I don’t even know that a spare tyre existed…because it’s hidden in the bottom of my boot and I don’t get to see it. It’s covered and when I don’t see it, I think it doesn’t exist. I had the guts to tell AAM when I called them up one day to fix my flat tyre that I don’t have a spare tyre and asked them to bring one for me to have it replaced with my flat tyre. The operator must be laughing at me then it suddenly dawned on me that a spare tyre do exist after calling my dad. I had to then call AAM back again to rescue me…because I had a spare tyre with me. They don’t fix it for you if you don’t have one.

So you see…sometimes I’m a bit dungu…but it’s being dungu that makes you smart.

😀

Thank you for giving me back my Avril!

And thank you for giving me 15 cents back for each litre of petrol pumped!

Today I sort of like woke up from the gloominess I had a few days ago. I realised that I’m working with a bunch of very brilliant people, so brilliant that I feel I’m not very brilliant……yet. I like to be surrounded by brilliant people, makes you feel that you are learning from the best. Of course, you feel a bit pressured if you are the kind who keeps comparing if you are better than the others. For me, I take it as a form of motivation, pushing you to be better.

The starting part is always the hardest. At least I know I’m trying, else I won’t be feeling bad for the past few days.

The deadline is going to be there still, so is the workload. However, it’s really a matter of choice for me whether I want to choose to go to work happily or sad. I was just looking everything at a bigger picture and I think it’s really not that bad lah. Then, I was also thinking about my journey thus far. Each job that I had previously and now are totally unrelated to one another. I started every job from zero, learning from scratch and if I was able to do that before this, I should be able to do it now, or maybe even better.

I love myself for my writing skills. I’m not a writer and nor do I structure sentences with perfect grammar. But I’m thankful that at least I can write to get the message across. Writing something for others to understand simply is very important.

I look very highly upon people who can write well. In fact, one of the unlisted listed requirements of the person I love is that he must write well too. Well, but so far I’ve also fallen in love with those who doesn’t write well. It’s just that you will have plus point if you can write well because I think people can write well falls under the cute category.

Pappy came today. We are both excited about this Sunday. He said he came for the MAHA Exhibition in Serdang but I can tell you, he’s here for that as well as to pick Iris up from the airport. Just the thought of it makes me smile. I’ve never felt so eager to pick someone up from the airport.

Going to the dentist tomorrow in the afternoon. Coincidentally, a friend of mine is also going to the dentist to follow-up after a week of getting braces. Now I have a gigi besi friend. It’s cool. She was inspired to get her braces done after she saw me getting mine. I actually made more friends with this braces on. People will come telling me that they used to wear braces too or people that they know wearing braces. There are also people who’ve come to ask me if it hurts. It’s an ice-breaker topic. Putting on the braces is already a part of my life. I don’t really feel it there anymore. It’s well-blended and I have my own way to get food unstuck.

Have a lovely weekend ok? 🙂

I’ve decided to make way for another category for my blog, dedicated to my entries on braces. It’s called “Bracie Gracie”. Out of the 6 days that I’ve been wearing braces, I’ve wrote 5 related braces entries, so I really do need to have a category for that to document and collect my braces journey.

It feels much better today and I think I can chew a little more as compared to the past few days. Lunch it was Bubur Ayam McD because a few of my colleagues wanted to give me a farewell so it was just a simple lunch with the 5 of us. For dinner, I had macaroni. It just came to my mind while I was driving home and because there was no parking near the mini market. I just went home, parked my car then walked out to get my macaroni and Prego sauce, and some potatoes, for future mashed potatoes making session.

Did a demo and training at work to the whole department. Never done this before, at least to the crowd of my department. More so, now that I’m with my braces..sometimes it feels like I can’t pronounce certain words properly. Like whenever I say the word “F”, you can hear a slight sound of wind blowing at the end of me pronouncing the word. Maybe it’s a good thing, I don’t get to say the authentic 4 letter vulgar word starting with F because it sounds too cool to be considered a foul word, if it were to come out from my mouth with braces.

Anyway, before putting on the braces, I always thought there was only one kind of braces. When my sister got hers two years ago, she had this elastic band across her teeth and after every appointment with her dentist, she comes back with different colours of elastic band and proudly telling me that the dentist even let her choose the colour she preferred. So I thought since when did braces get so fashionable?

I don’t know what is the name of her braces and I don’t think she knows as well, considering the fact that she never once mentioned about it. I didn’t go to the same dentist as she did because my instincts just wanted me to stay loyal to my current dentist. Mine is known as the Damon System. The dentist gave me the brochure when he suggested that I consider braces. I did not take action, until about a year later, which is now.

So whenever I feel that putting braces is a pain, I would always visit the website and read the good things about this Damon thing. I managed to find a short clip that shows you how it works. Like magic I would say!

There are many cars on the road today than usual. And when I was picking up my colleague at Kelana Jaya LRT Station, the parking was already full by 8:15am. Scary you know? Because it wasn’t like this before this. I guess more people are utilising the public transport since the hike in fuel prices.

Traffic jam along LDP was horrible today. Started in Puchong, right up till the direction towards Kepong. 2 accidents. 2 stalled cars. So bayangkan lah.

By the time I reach home at around 8:30pm, I was thinking whether to make mashed potatoes as planned or go for instant soup or porridge. Decided to stick with my original plan and today’s the first time I actually made mashed potatoes and it’s not bad. ahhahaa.

I only make do with one potato, butter, salt and pepper. Some people add milk or cream to make it smooth and fluffy but I don’t have the two ingredients at home so I skipped using those. But nevertheless, my potato tasted fine so I guess I can just stick to my own recipe. After all, nobody else is eating but me.

For the first time ever since I’m with the braces, I actually feel full after finishing a bowl of mashed potatoes.

With that, my lunch at the office tomorrow will be mashed potatoes. Need to wake up early tomorrow to prepare.

I’ll be leaving the current workplace exactly one week from today. So far no sad feelings yet but I have something that I was made to do before I leave. So, I’ll try my level best to do and give my very last shot.