For starters, I have moved onto my second job since graduation, and baded
CRC/S&A goodbye, along with the cozy Kandahar street, Bugis.
Admittedly, it feels weird not being able to walk past the hustle bustle of Bugis + Bugis Village on an almost daily basis, to be able to meet BD for lunch and/or dinner on a whim and fancy - seeing that his office is just a stone's throw away.
What I do miss most, is the ability to lunch at my favourite soup shop located right in the midst of all that hustle bustle, allowing myself to retreat into my little world of thoughts, while slurping my soup and munching my sandwich away ~ Ah my little lunch haven.
On the other hand, it has been a really long while, since I last pushed and challenged myself to step out of my comfort zone, and I am getting my hands full trying to keep up with the pace of the world!
I am enjoying the new challenges that my new job brings along, the new knowledge that I've gained, hanging out at department stores during and after shopping hours, and all that pretty watches that my eyes keeps feasting on!
Only to reach home every night, exhausted and really quiet. :(
But I'll get used to it eventually.
Next in line, we have my teeth!
I have never been unhappy with my pearlies my entire life, and my teeth rarely troubles me.
However, I've decided that I did not like the slight butterfly tilt that my teeth movement have taken to lately - post wisdom tooth/teeth removal, and have decided to put it to an end!
Rang up the dentist, whined a little and viola!
6 blinged up teeth!
I dont know about looking like a kid, but I do feel like a dorky teenager with a slight speech impairment.
On one hand, I try to take my time to slow down my speech, because being the ever excited Daphne - there are times where In the midst of my own sentences, I have difficulty understanding myself.
On the other hand, halving the speed of my speech makes me feel retarded and slightly frustrated, as my train of thoughts are functioning way faster than my speakers. There is a disconnect in my system at the moment. :(
Declining chomping speed + using molars instead of my incisors to bite, makes normal burger eating almost impossible for the first 4 days!
My food diary goes something like this:
Before installation, BD insisted on breakfast, so that I wouldn't starve, because we wouldn't know if I would be able to eat. So clever!
:)
Post installation, I was happy as a bee, and chomped down 2 prata and a chicken curry for lunch, followed by a peri peri catch with rice at Fish & Co for dinner, and wondered to myself if it was all normal for me to be eating with such gusto (after all that horror stories that I've heard about losing weight, and not being able to eat etc) , and finally it was during supper that I realized how much pain it was for me, just munching on my bee hoon goreng!
I wasted my plate of beehoon goreng and went home semi hungry.
I refused to eat when I woke up the next day, and emo-ed/sulk in bed, until my ever thoughtful and sweet baby hand delivered porridge to me.
I had nuggets for dinner, and chewed mostly on one side of my mouth.
I also resorted to deconstructing my sandwich/burger during feeding times.
Eating Subway became pretty systematic -
Plan A: Get counter lady to slice 6" bread into quarters, attempt to bite, only to fail miserably.
Plan B: Pinch bread into mouth friendly sizes, stuff the cucumber/tomato/lettuce slices individually, then the ham slices sorted along with the second layer of pinched bread, and skip the cookies.
Well, Plan B works!
Thankfully, I had a long weekend to recover from this ordeal, and I am eating up fine now.
I am also very glad that this would end in less than a year.
Miss Dentist estimated the treatment to last for about 9mths in total.
I promise I shall be diligent with my retainers after! :D
Ps: I keep having recurring thoughts about having white squares on my teeth after my braces are removed. :(
