Rome ~ Feb 2008

hehehe...when one's having a pleasant mood, everything appears pleasant...
so well, with such a pleasant feeling...and the laziness of not wanting to write much...let me load some photos ...(hmm, this is even more work than writing...;PP anyway I've wanted to share these like ages ago, so I might as well do it now...for the sake of wanting to share... how much I miss the laidback Europe ... I want you guys (poor fellas who happen to read my blog;PPP) to feel the slow pace...the relaxing state...the peacefulness from these photos...

(The famous painting~ The Last Supper)

Relieved...for now at least

cousin sis' operation was a success...and since she's young, she's still advised to undergo chemotherapy to reduce chances of relapse in the future...
she'll probably be taking her first chemo session when it's nearing chinese new year 2009...and already aunty, cousin brother and cousin sister herself have been reading about the suffering and hardship of chemo...aunty said she cries reading those...sigh, what can we say, and already now her appetite is very bad after the surgery...she's only 46kg (she's previously very plump..in fact obese)...aunty said when she saw the scale, she said that she's never been this thin before (but not at all in a happy note of coz)...but aunty tried to put it lightly by cracking a joke since cousin sister has always wanted to thin down...

well, hopefully cousin sis...being 21 - young, a big advantage in battling cancer...that she'll be able to take the effect of the chemo sessions she'll be undergoing soon...may God bless her....

Being Female~

after hitting 25 it seems that the aging business is really setting in..

as well after 25 it seems that the effect of PMS becomes more apparent...the monthly mood swings and 'unexplainable' moodiness can be really disturbing sometimes...well not exactly unexplainable but just that you know that it's the hormone that makes you worry and anxious, without much of other 'valid' reasons...but better this than anything else...
and the moment after 'aunt' left for the month...the relieve is obvious too...

being female...what could i say...

but i guess apparently being male there's 'something similar' too? since male experience something similar to female post menopause too...

but well apart from that things been fine i guess...work's manageable now...and braces treatment's infact nothing painful that i thought it would be...it's just some slight discomfort, and barely into my second week wearing it now...still swallowing soft food most of the time...now i know the 'can't wait to take the braces off' feeling (i dont look too bad with it do i?;PP and it's also a worry sometimes forgetting to check in the mirror after eating...if something is stuck in between the brackets;PPP)...but heck i would want time to stop ticking too if possible...will be hitting 27 is a few months' time...not welcoming that...arghhh~~~

小虎队 爱

Thanks Mel for the video...

hehe...actually i have it too...was once a fan of alec su...so saw back all the old MVs including those of the little tigers' days....;PPP

I like this song a lot;P

好人。。。恶报！

刚听到同事们聊到今天报纸的一段小新闻
据说是一位小孩看到他的朋友在水里快要淹死
就跳进水里想救他朋友
结果是他朋友最后被人救起来了
他自己就被牺牲了

同事们的结论是。。。
不要做好人？!

不过再想想
真的
虽然话是说
好人有好报 恶人有恶报
不过同时。。。
好人恶报 恶人好报
也很真
（更何况是今时今日的世界里~~~）

祝表妹快点康复!

saw cousin sister today...
cousin sis had her operation on Friday night, successfully removing the huge tumour with one section of her colon
she had tubes over her nose, hands and body...
but when mum saw her yesterday and said that she appeared fine and was able to speak and aunt was more cheerful too
but today, cousin sis is not a very good condition when father and i went over
she's having the side effect due to painkiller overdosage (using a dispenser machine which she could manually control through her fingers, to lessen the burden to her intestines - therefore no using of tablets or pills)...
she felt like vomitting but couldn't...and she had some fluids in her lungs...
and becoz of this she couldnt take the other tablets she's supposed to take
luckily it's alright to take that later
but it was slighly heartbreaking seeing cousin sis getting thinner and thinner...she was once our 可爱小肥妹
and this is yet the start of the chemotherapy
seeing her painful expression...i really duno what to say...
i think when i saw my grandfather more than two years ago...leaving due to lung cancer...the impact was less as we know he's old...
seeing this happening to a once a bubbly girl is heart breaking

whatever it is...this is just the start of the recovery period for cousin sis...colon cancer has better standing compared to other types of cancer...plus the doc said it didnt spread to other organs...so that's a good news for now...

表妹~加油!
快点好起来!
我记得你上几个月还跟我说你想继续读书
还有还多事情要做呢
一定要好起来！！

Dealing with relative with Cancer

I will be probably be blogging less from now...
this week has been very down..
..cousin sister (she's only 21) has been diagnosed with colon cancer...
...just confirmed today it is already third stage...
...but I still believe that nothing is impossible...
my family will be the one giving her full support, and I'm telling myself that I will also support cousin sis till she heals if possible..and if not..till the very end...
for this, I will be probably reduce my time on internet...considering my work load as well...
if anyone has any suggestion, please let me know...
have in mind...using chinese medicine / herbs as these have been in the story quite often...that the patients life span is prolonged or even healed
thanks to all my friends who's been supporting this boring blog of mine

but apart from that, also tellingmyself to exercise more
havent been doing that much after I came back from Europe

and yet knowing that exercise if one of the keys to reduce risk of cancer

*************
will go to aunty's house after dinner...our first meeting after knowing this incident...I don't know what to say or how to comfort her (or maybe any comforting words be in worthless)..but I guess whatever it is, we just want to let them know that...we are there for them...and we will be there whenever they need us...may God bless them....

Orthodontic Treatment: The few types of Braces

I'm finally doing my braces treatment...I've been 'yearning' for this since secondary school...and now finally I could 'so called' afford it...definitely a 'must-do' before 30;PPPP (how vain;PPPP, really as the cantonese saying goes, "risk life for beauty"

Today I've extracted my first pre-molars (one each from the lower and uppper of the right side gum)

I'm looking at next Friday to do the left side extraction (also two teeth)

and then on the 24th I should be putting on the metal braces if everything's smooth...

and I am not alone...my 'twin' szeling is also doing braces treatment (we verbally said that we'll be doing it together, but she put on hers earlier as she's doing on a different method and as she doesn't need any extraction therefore things faster for her...)

and due to cost factor, i am using the conventional metal braces...szeling's using damon (not sure if it's 2K or 3K...can't remember what are those referring to)

nowadays people are so much luckier with the options available...and if money is not a problem, certainly braces treatment can be something very comfortable...

Option 1: Conventional Metal Braces
This being the least comfortable, least pretty but the most economical option (so needless to say, this had to be my choice)

but even with that, nowadays there are options for the brackets: ceramics (colourless) or other aesthetic materials (by adding RM500 - RM1000 per jaw), and for ceramics use in conventional metal braces, normally only the upper jaw brackets will be in ceramics...

Option 2: Damon Braces

according to the dentists I've consulted, the Damon braces are initially designed for Westerners for the benefit of their jaw/face structure - but for Asians (we have different facial structure, so the benefit of the Damon braces to us...it's claimed to:

1) speed up the duration of treatment (the way it works is also different from the conventional type)

2) for some patients extraction is not needed...

3) less painful (szeling said the discomfort is like wearing a retainer)

4) do not make you get sores / blisters in your mouth as opposed to comventional metal braces

cost range: ~RM6K - RM8K in KL

Option 3: Invisalign (Invisible braces)

This being the priciest (RM 1X, 000 - ~RM25K; SGD10K), offers the best comfort and aesthetic value...basically what I knew is that the transparent mould 'shapes' the teeth bit by bit (meaning changing moulds every now and then) until the teeth goes into the right, proper alignment

there should be more options of braces out there...but guess in Malaysia, these are the common options nowadays

乞衣餐 Beggar's meal

Saturday 04 October...went to Banting purposely for 'Beggar's dinner:PPP
(faintz, felt like being ‘cheated’, the trip was like 'journey to the west', food was nothing special and really too pricey for such setting...and last but not least, made me missed 阿Sa真人show (aiyak, dont bang me please;P)

but what was worth was the place...the 'restaurant' (or more precisely a hut) is located at a bottom of a hill which was really pretty...but it's not a place meant for after dark, coz one side of the hill is a cemetery /. .\ can be very eerie...

anyway I'll just cut the crapz and go for the pictures...some with my own captions...the fun ones first...

羊咩咩话:呢条路我阿爷买了 所以我最大 我要训係度;P

(终于被逼起身 如果唔係就变羊肉饼）

馬騮大哥表演行‘钢线’

同志们，小心电趁呀！

我好中意呢张

做大戏的地方

庙里面的木瓜树

妈妈装紧香

我地就係度食野啦

招牌乞衣鸡（冇乜特别 其他地方的药材鸡仲正！)

乞衣罗米饭 （睇见就饱了)

乞衣卤猪脚（还好)

炒甜酸蟹 （完全唔似甜酸蟹@_@）

结论 个所谓乞衣餐 食过一次 唔会再返去食

野食麻麻地 最惨既係地方太远了

真係冇雷公0甘远 好似去取西经0甘~.~

家.好.月.圆 Moonlight Resonance

想不到我终于抵抗不了‘家好月圆’的魅力了~+_+
本来应该忙着一些工作的东西的
不过昨天妹妹给了我家好的copies
等到晚上终于忍不住
看了第一集。。。然后就第二集。。。然后停不了...第三集 +_+
今天也‘跑’赛跑。。。跑到第13集

（心里好内疚/. .\ ）

不过真的真的好好看
每个角色自己都好喜欢~
自己也特别buyTVB style的亲情戏;P
好多场戏都好感动 令人忍泪忍得好痛苦!
不是每套剧都能给我这种感觉
另外觉得这套比起第一部好似真实多了

还有就是之前听‘爱不疚’其实不觉得特别好听
不过看了故事就觉得特别不同
现在听还挺有feel 多了画面
呵呵呵~