Okay, I got kinda impatient of waiting for my dear to come up with the site's permanent layout, so I decide to get this from DayDreamGraphics and start a temporary blog first. While waiting, that is. So just stick around here for now, till the main site is up and ready.

Wow, it's been almost a month since I last blogged. I was really busy with work lately, with our boss 'fighting' for more work for us to do -_-; It's kinda sucky to get this kind of boss... I mean, all the credits go to her, and we get to do all the dirty chores. Pft...

I was given one and a half days MC by the company doctor yesterday. It was just a mere 'upcoming' flu, and I had only wanted some preventive medicine... but the doc just gave me some medicine and told me rest at home till Friday. I'm like, "Whoa...? Do I need to rest that long?" And he said yeah... and told me to keep out of aircon and crowded places. So yup, here I am, half drowsy after taking the medicine...trying to blog with some clarity at the same time.. @@; Don't mind me if I don't make sense okay.. Heh.

My dearie's student pass application is still being processed. Sigh, if this drags on, then I'm going to give them a call and demand an explanation why it's taking so long. Geez, it's less than a month to the day when his course starts, and I don't want him to rush through getting an apartment here and things like that. Sure, he won't have much of a trouble settling down or adapting, I believe, but still! Pft... Anyway, his sis is getting married on the first Saturday in August! Awww congratulations to her! I've bought a wedding present for her (sharing with dearie, of course!), and it's something that can't be bought in Finland. I hope they'll like it! Because it nearly burnt a hole in my wallet ;-; The present itself costs about S$120 already, and then there's the shipping costs involved.. @_@; Well, ain't I'm glad I'm working and I am proud to say the money comes from my own effort and time, rather than getting it from parents. *grins*

Let me see if I can find a picture of the figurine that I bought for her and her hubby... oo here it is! This is what I bought for the bride and the groom =)

Kawaii desho ^_^?

~ rambled by Arell at 12:23

Snagged from Jasmine's blog:

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"Sighing , she placed her hand inside the recessed" - from 'Digital Fortress' by Dan Brown

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
Printer

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Rhapsody in Blue

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
20:00

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
20:00

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
The TV advertisement in the living room.

7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?:
15 minutes ago, coming back from work.

8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?:
My Yahoo and Gmail inboxes.

9: What are you wearing?:
My striped office shirt with one of the many black skirts I had. (Nope, I haven't showered =x)

10: Did you dream last night?:
Nope.

11: When did you last laugh?:
Does a fake one count? 2 hours ago, in the office before I left.

12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
3 Jigsaw puzzles, 3 poster calendars.

13: Seen anything weird lately?:
Not really, I guess...

14(a): What is the last book you finished?:
Deception Point by Dan Brown

14(b): What book are you currently reading?:
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

15: What is the last film you saw?:
The Da Vinci Code

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
I haven't really thought of this... treat my family to a nice dinner?

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
Hmm. I've been downloading Yaoi manga lately. *blush*

18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Nothing, really. Everything is there for a reason.

19: Do you like to dance?:
Nope. I'm a klutz when it comes to dancing.

20: What is the last thing you ate or drank?
Mineral water.

21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
I hadn't thought about this because I'm not intending to have children.

21(b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
Again, I suppose I don't have an answer to this for now.

22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
Definitely. After all, there's always the possibility of moving to Finland in the future, where my dear lives.

~ rambled by Arell at 20:15

Oh my, I so want this shirt! I mean, it's hilarious XD Of course, you'll need to be a World of Warcraft player, or at least have played WoW before, in order to understand the joke behind it. I'm still contemplating if I should spend USD16.95 for it. And if you include the shipping cost... I think it'll cost me about USD25 for the whole shirt? Or maybe more than that. =( But I really like that shirt!!! *sigh*

Okay, so I started the week afreshed after almost a whole week of rest after the surgery. Although I can take solid food now, it's still a chore to do so. I tried my usual Fried BeeHoon as breakfast today, and it took me about 35 minutes to finish the pack, when usually it'll take me just 15 minutes. And I had to rinse my mouth every time after I eat so that bits and pieces of food won't get lodged in the 'hole' at the wound. All in all, it's still pretty troublesome, and I guess it'll go on for the next three months (as stated by the dentist) before the wound really closes.

My mom asked me why I hadn't been watching the World Cup matches this year. Well... the reasons are kinda simple. One, there aren't any matches showing on TV, and there's no way I'm gonna subscribe to Starhub just to watch those matches. And two, I've lost my interest in soccer. Sure, I still know a few well-known players in each team, but I've lost the interest to sit through a 90-minute match now. I'd rather spend my time surfing the net, blogging, re-watching Bleach, playing WoW, or simply just chat with my dear.

By the way, if you still haven't know by now, there's a new 'food corner' in Suntec City, opposite Carrefour Deli (where the old Handphone Shop used to be). That corner is called "Tasty Treats", and they have all kinds of food stalls there now. Let's see if I can remember some offhandedly... There's Polar Cakes, Old Chang Kee, Bee Cheng Hiang, Ya Kun Toast, a small florist/gift shop, Taiwanese Shihlin Snacks, a few hotdog kiosks, a couple of fruit juice stalls, and there's one Bubble Tea stall!! I tried their Peppermint Milk Tea today, and it was really good! The price is reasonable too. Normal bubble tea (without milk) are priced only at S$1.20 (without pearls though), and milk teas are priced at S$1.80! It's really cheap, compared to the prices in the past during the Bubble Tea craze. I'm gonna try some of their other drinks in the future. They have other interesting items on the menu as well, like snow shakes. I wonder how those taste like. o_O And they have normal fruit juices too! And coffee shakes! I'm so gonna frequent that stall now. =P

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention too, that Millenia Walk (the shopping centre adjacent to my office) is gonna have a CoffeeBean & Tea Leaf outlet!!! *fangirl scream* I'm just such a big fan of Coffeebean IceBlended Mocha, as well as their Mocha Latte, that the staff over at the Suntec City outlet has all recognised me. Everytime I go into the outlet, they would cheerily greet me by my name, and ask if I'm ordering the 'usual'. 'Usual' being IceBlended Mocha, small, without cream. XD I haven't been visiting them since my surgery, but I intend to get my IceBlended Mocha within the next few days. I certainly hope they'll still remember this loyal customer! *grins*

~ rambled by Arell at 20:45

Phew! Just finished ironing all the clothes. I woke up this morning and to my rude shock, my mom had prepared porridge again for me! Blergh. Never mind that it's no longer the plain porridge that I had been swallowing for the past week, never mind that it has bits of carrots and cabbage in it. It's still porridge, dammit! I want solid food already! *sniff*

Oh yeah, happy belated Father's Day! I forgot all about it yesterday, because we had already celebrated it on Friday. My sis ordered a Durian Cake from Angie The Choice, and it's really good! It's not overly sweet, with the right amount of durian bits in the cream... Mmm~ I should really get my dear to try it when he's here. xD

Yeah talking about him. The school will be sending his documents over to the Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA) tomorrow, for the processing of his Student Visa. The whole process could take from 2 weeks to a whole month before the visa would be ready. After which, he'll have to come here personally to collect it. Since his sister will be getting married at the beginning of August, he'll have to fly back again then to attend her wedding. I would love to go with him, but he has the student visa to grant him a 50% discount off his airticket, but I don't. =( So I guess I won't be going over. But I'll be getting something nice for her. ^^ Well, we will. After all, she's going to be my sister-in-law. If I can't attend her wedding, the least I could do is to get something nice and useful for her, right? =)

Sometimes, it just doesn't feel real that he's really coming here to study. The feeling was almost the same as that time when I was at the airport, waiting for him to come out through the gate. That instant, looking at him standing right in front of me, was just... indescribable. We just stood there like idiots, staring at each other, before crushing each other in a hug. You know, hugging the one whom you know loves you, and whom you will love forever... it's really... damn, for once, my vocabulary fails me. I just know that I felt so warm, so complete with his arms around me, even though it was literally the first time we met, face to face. Sigh. It was really bittersweet, thinking about those days when he was here. Bittersweet because those were so happy memories, yet I have to wait for a couple of months more before seeing him in flesh again. Hugging and kissing him in real life definitely beats all the *hugs* and *kiss* which we typed over AIM. =P August come quickly, dammit! >_>;

Okay I'll try and make it a point not to talk about him all the time in my blog. But truth is, I'm really excited and nervous and going over the moon and all... it'll be hard to keep it down, but I'll try. xD In order not to scare away my friends and faithful readers with the 'cheesy-ness' and 'mushy-ness' of my posts. =x All right I'll go on WoW and grind some gold in SM, before my dear wakes up. Have a nice weekend, peeps! ^^

~ rambled by Arell at 13:04

o_O! A friend whom I had known from RO had told me that someone has been stalking my blog and talking about that incident, as well as some bad stuff regarding my dearie and I, in her blog. Well... I'm surprised, honestly. Or perhaps not... after all, I did get that hate(?)-mail out of the blue. I had long put the incident behind me, and I hadn't been talking about it at all after all this while... and I thought she had, too. Until that annonymous person sent me that mail. I thought it's her friends who haven't moved on... didn't know that she hadn't moved on either. I mean, come on... it's been like, 1.5 years already, and she's still talking about this?! Goodness me. Didn't her current boyfriend give her the attention she needed? Or does she crave for more attention and security by bringing the whole past incident up again? Honestly, what is she thinking >_>? But anyway, enough about this. Still talking about it after so long... *shakes head* Like what dearie said, maybe she needs some professional help. XD Anyway my friend asked if I want her url... *cough* Well, I'm not a stalker (like her, apparently) to begin with. I wonder what purpose would it serve people like her to stalk others' blog, honestly. Does she feel better in bashing other people behind their back for an incident that had happened one and a half year ago? If so, then something's really seriously wrong with her mindset, and her level of maturity... o_o; Well, like my friend pointed out, she has been repeating in her blog that she's going to ignore 'us' (my dear and I), but obviously she couldn't coz she kept mentioning about us in her posts. Well.. so much for 'ignoring' huh? *smirks*

In any case, it's always nice to keep in contact with my RO friends even though I had quitted the game long time ago already. I love to hear gossips from them. *grins*

All righty, some personal updates! I got my stitches out this morning. Finally! Now I can eat normally, and no more porridge!! Argh I really got tired of that. So now, it's back to normal food like rice and noodles for me! The dentist said no seafood for about two weeks though. I don't really mind that, since I'm not a huge fan of seafood to begin with.

Jeffrey lent me a couple of JJ Lin's CDs yesterday, after a few weeks of my persistent bugging. XD Well, the songs are not exactly superb, but some tracks aren't that bad actually. But well... overall, it's not good enough for me to spend S$100+ for a ticket to his upcoming concert.

Meh, my Eureka7 downloads are still at 38.7% only. =( It's a freaking 2.93GB file (13 episodes, I think), and there's so few seeders! It's been on my bittorrent client for a few weeks already, and it's not even halfway done. *grumble* Thank goodness there's still Bleach for me every week. >_>

Ah, my dear finally sms-ed me that he's home. Poor him, it must have been a long journey on the road... Time to show him some stuff for entertainment sake. xP

~ rambled by Arell at 17:45

Hey hey! It's Saturday already! I can talk to my dear in a few hours time, muahahhaa. =D I think I've never felt 'free-er' (if there's such a word) after letting all of it out. I might sound bad in there but... *shrugs* It's the truth and it's time to let people know the truth. Whether they want to believe in it or not is their own business and I can't control that. I can finally let the unpleasant past go, now that the truth is out in the open, and just breeeaaatthhheeeee..... It's a brand new day! ^_^

My sis will be going on a Gentings trip today, till Monday. I'm asking her if she'll go again at the end of the year, because I wanna bring my dear there too =D I think the weather there suits him just fine, and we could go tour around the theme park or something ^^! The last time I went there with my family, I had wished fervently that he was there with me as well. =( But oh well, we'll have plenty of such chances in the future. ^_^ He promised to bring me to Lapland in the future too! And his summer cottage =D We'll spend time there, watching sunrises... =) I guess we are both romantics at heart, even though he's the more vocal one. XD

Aaaahhh, I'll need to go to the dentist again today to take out the stitches. *shudder* I wonder if it'll hurt... >_>;; Jane told me it won't, but Shing Hing said it hurt bad for him. Okay, so I guess... it depends on my threshold of pain huh? But I sure do hope that it's healed already... I wanna eat my rice, dammit! I've been surviving on porridge, Campbell Soups, Milo and coffee that it's not really funny >_> I don't think I could take anymore porridge or Campbell soup after this 'ordeal'. XD Milo and coffee are still my favourites though! Though I prefer the latter. *grinz* If my wound has been healed, the first thing I'm gonna do is to grab my IceBlended Mocha from Coffeebean! It's been really long since I last drank that, because the dentist said I must avoid using straws at all cost. =( I miss my IceBlended Mocha ne T_T *pokes dearie* I'm sure you missed it too, huh? XD And and, the Melon Lime Freeze from Thai Express? =x Oh yeah, I forgot to tell him I specifically signed up to be a Thai Express member... so that he can have his Melon Lime Freeze at a 10% discount whenever he wants to when he's here.

I had a long talk with Fina (my ex's current girlfriend) just now over MSN. It was just some idle chat, and then we talked about Dray. Haha, nothing bad about him, of course! I'm just really glad that he found her, because she is exactly what he's missing in life. =) Presevere, Fina! Both of you can make it through and be together. I believe in you two. ^_^ Remember, you promised to let me be your kitchen guinea pig!

Ah, that reminds me. I had a short conversation with Yun (one of my dear secondary school classmates) over MSN too. That lucky girl, how many places had she been to already! Being an auditor sure gets lotsa money in the bank at the end of the month huh >_>? But then again, they have to stay back and work overtime when they have projects and stuff... so, yeah I'm not gonna let work dictate my personal time. Money can't buy time, love nor happiness. So long as we'll have a roof over our head and not worrying about daily expenses, it's enough for me. =) Yeah anyway, I need to meet up with Yun, Ka Wai and hopefully, Fong, pretty soon, before my dear comes here. Otherwise, I think I'll be busy helping him settle down and stuff.

Oh.... I dreamt about Jihao a few nights ago. o_O; That ass... never replied to any of our SMS-es or phone calls. Grrr... he's making all of us worried and upset. It's been like.. 2 to 3 years already. And he had totally disappeared. I wonder why did I dream about him though... o_o; Probably because I just had my wisdom tooth extraction, and his mom was a dentist too... I know the connection is weak but... that's the only reason that I can think of anyway. *sweat* Jihao, just where the hell are you?! Stop making all of us worried here, you baka!

I was about to end this post when my dear sms-ed me with a good night. =) I had told him about my blog entry below as well as the email that I got, and basically he said he couldn't care less what other people said, and he definitely didn't want anything to do with her anymore. Well, I guess! We could care less about people who spread bad rumours and calling us names behind our backs. So yeah, we are gonna move on (actually we did already, but this will be the last time we are looking back =P) and live the life we want to, building our future together. =) It'll be hard but I'm sure we'll walk the path together, hand in hand. Or to quote him, 'paw in paw'. ^_^

Okay, I promised him to go sleep after this post. So night, all! I'll update again tomorrow, hopefully... if I didn't spend all my time talking to my dear and playing WoW with him, that is. Oyasumi!

~ rambled by Arell at 00:39

Okay now, out of the blue, I've gotten a mildly rude email. It doesn't say who it's from, but apparently someone just created an email account to send me that mail or something. The tone of it... sounded really familiar. It reminded me of some annonymous coward 1.5 years ago who left some unpleasant comments in my old blog. If it's from the same person, then I guess I should be surprised that, after 1.5 years, those people are still reading my blog and um, should I say, got upset about it? That'd explain the email, wouldn't it?

Just to set the record straight for once. After being branded as hypocrites, liars, backstabbers, and all other kinds of names, we never even once defended ourselves publicly. Not because we are guilty, but rather we don't want to get embroiled in childish antics. But just this once, let me tell my side of the story.

I don't want to go into details how many times she "fainted" when my dear (Panda, her then-boyfriend) didn't gave her the attention she needed. I can't recall how many times she threw her tantrums and got awfully insecure when he didn't respond to her. I mean, I could still remember an AIM chat where she claimed she "punched her fist into the wall and her hand was bleeding all over the keyboard", because she was talking to him in the main chat but he didn't reply to her. It was a chatroom with me, Dray, Tard, and Panda. I mean, like, wow. Really. You draw your own conclusions about this one, okay?

That's just one example out of many. Offhand, I can recall her 'fainting' in the middle of Joni's job-change from merchant to blacksmith. Reason? Panda was afk (I think?) and didn't reply to her. Yup, fainting, and then her little brother logged into her account and told us "Yuka fainted. We bringing her to doc now." And we were all momentarily stunned. And 15 minutes later, viola~ She's back online and said she's fine, just kinda dizzy and all and her father drove like a madman to the clinic. Yup, to and fro in 15 minutes. That was fast. Okay, that aside. I recalled too, about her mentioning she might be diagnosed with a 'fatal disease' called the "Butterfly Disease" or something, and got all of us worried like hell for the whole night, and then the next day she said the doctor diagnosed it as anaemia. And then, there's the 'bitten by snake' incident. Gee, I still have that chat I had with Tard about the snake incident. Let me see... first, she's unconscious. Second, she woke up from her coma and then she can't feel her legs. Temporary paralysis, I think? Yeah. And then what? She fully recovered in no time! Woot! Despite her apparent speedy recoveries all the time, it does seem pretty unfortunate that all the unlucky stuff happened to her within a few months, don't you think? Ahhh, but the last straw is the best one, out of all. Panda already broke off with her, and after she knew we were together, she came and asked to talk to us privately. Fine, so we went into her chatroom in RO. Her news? She has leukemia. And then she said she'll be going for chemotherapy and all, and still going to army at the same time. Hmmm. You know, she didn't only tell us that. She told Dray and Mochi Light the same thing too. But I'm sure she's awfully healthy now, isn't she? Well, at least I hope she is.

What made me mad was that, in her rant in the old Seiryoku forums, she claimed that she was hurt because when she told us about "the illness that she had", we doubted her. I mean, do you blame us? After all those 'unfortunate' incidents that happened to her within such a short time frame, and the fact that she said she still had to go to the army despite having to go through chemotherapy... which army does that? Do you know how painful it is to go through chemotherapy? This is not even a joke anymore. It's extremely disrespectful to those who are genuinely suffering after going through chemotherapy.

Am I saying she's bad after lying all these while? No, not really. She's still a very nice girl. Kind hearted and friendly. Perhaps Panda just couldn't give her the attention that she needed. With the right person, she can be a wonderful girlfriend.

Look, I'm sorry if I had caused her much pain. Panda had apologised plenty of times in his emails to her as well too. (Yes, he forwarded those mails to me.) So please lay off my back and stop hounding me, calling me liar and what karma shit, because obviously I'm not the big liar here. Okay, I admit the only thing I lied about is my feelings towards Panda when they were together. What do you want me to say, really? Tell her in the face that "Yes, I like your boyfriend." That'd make her feel worse and insecure, isn't it? I tried to keep those feelings down. I kept telling myself that he's taken and all. And imagine how I felt when she kept coming to me, asking me for advice and stuff like that. I had to tell her how to approach him in certain matters, and why he had certain attitudes and behaviours, all the while when my heart was breaking silently. Yet I offered her all the information. And to him, I told him to be patient and advised him too how to improve on the relationship between the two of them. What did I do wrong? Did he lie to her? I think he broke off with her when he realised that he had feelings for me.

Phew. That's nice, to get these stuff off the chest for once. I sincerely wish her all the best in the future. I know you are her friend, and you obviously thought (and probably still think) that we were in the wrong. Now I've clarified my part of the story, and I'm sorry she had suffered during that period, but excuse me, I suffered a lot too, all right? So stop sending me those mails, will ya? It's already been 1.5 years, and honestly, it's time to let it go. It wasn't a particularly pleasant memory for me, for him, and it definitely wasn't pleasant for her too, for that matter. So just stop digging up the past. Life still goes on, whether you like it or not. And stop poking your nose into other people's matters okay? Thank you very much. This will be the only time and the last time that I'll talk about this again. I've decided to put this incident behind my back, and I hope everyone involved will, too. I love my boyfriend, and he loves me too. And the last I heard, she has found someone else for her too. So yeah, I really wish her all the best with her and her soul mate. As for the person who sent me that mail, you are a great friend (to her), but perhaps you should keep your care and concern about her to her current relationship.

~ rambled by Arell at 19:52

Argh, I've gotta go work again tomorrow. *sulks* Okay, it'll be a Friday already, but so what >_>? Let me whine a bit here, since my dearie had went to Helsinki to meet up with his friends to discuss about their game development thingy.

Well.. talking about that. It brought up some memories of our discussion about this. Now and then, we would actually talk about our future, sometimes in WoW, sometimes on AIM. I have always wondered where we would be living in the future. I have no doubt that it'll be with him, but where? So far we have listed a few possiblities. One possibility would be here, in Singapore. This is what he'll be doing in the near future anyway. After he graduates from his course, he'll be looking for a job here and staying here for the time being (since my parents will definitely not allow me to go over to Finland with him... not when we aren't married >_>;). So yeah, he accepted that fact, thank you, dear =), and he prepared himself to work and stay here in the near future, till my parents really accept and trust him, and also till he earns enough to marry me, and to provide for me. However, in the meantime while he's studying/working here, he'll be also working on his current game development with a couple of friends back home in Finland. If some game publisher likes it and buys it, it'll mean he'll be running his own game development company soon. o_O; Wow. So there is a possibility that I'll be moving to Finland, if that's the case. So that's possibility number two. A third possibility would be that... he would be applying to work in some game companies that are based overseas, like in Japan or something. So naturally, if he goes over, I'll be going too. =P

So... all in all, it's pretty daunting not to know where I'll be living in the future. We've discussed about this again and again, but we just can't reach a conclusion because first and foremost, he hasn't even started his course yet. It's almost impossible to predict what could happen. So yeah... but anyway, he always ended the discussion by telling me this: "No matter where we'll be, home is where the heart is." Of course, not in the exact same words all the time, but yeah that's the whole point of his. Which is pretty true, I must say.

I often felt guilty for making him come all this way here, away from his family and friends. I mean... it's really a great distance, from Finland to Singapore. Everything is strange to him here. The weather, the people, the culture. I felt so guilty for subjecting him to all these unfamiliar stuff. After all, if it's not for me, he wouldn't be packing his bags and coming all the way here, would he? But he always managed to soothe my guilt by telling me that there's nowhere else he'll want to be other than to be beside me, and home is where the heart is. Gah, it sounds horribly cheesy but yet everytime I heard him say that, my eyes would start tearing.

Bah, what's with me today >_>? I should stop being emo and writing about these stuff. Maybe I'm missing him a tad too much today. After all, he'll be gone till Saturday evening. Meh~ Perhaps it's a good thing I'm working tomorrow, or else you'll see more of such cheesy and emo posts from me. Haha! Be safe, dear, and come home soon. =)

~ rambled by Arell at 22:14

It's been such a long time since I last talk about my relationship. So yeah... want some updates? =D

After a long process of application and procedures and a nervous phone interview, my dear finally got accepted into the school that he wanted. Well, I guess we are both glad that he was successful on his first try. I knew he is talented. *smirks* Which school could resist such a talented student?? I mean, honestly. XD Okay anyway. So now they are doing some paperwork, sending documents to and fro... some very complicated procedures, which I have no idea what they are about. I'm sure I can't help much at the moment, but once my dear needs my help, I'll be more than willing to do so. Meanwhile, I have a couple of Real Estate Agents' numbers on hand, so that when he's here, we could engage a few and go look at the available HDB flats for rent. He wanted a whole unit for himself, so I guess we'll try and get the smallest one so that it'll be cheaper. =P And we both would prefer it to be near my place too, so that he doesn't have to travel too long a distance after sending me home or something. And then there's another problem of getting another PC at his rented place. He has his powerful laptop assembled by Alienware (damn, that thing cost a fortune >_>;) but if we are to play games together (literally side by side), I'll have to get myself a desktop or something. And that's an additional S$1000+. One CPU unit can be pretty cheap nowadays, but considering it's supposed to be able to run World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2... I don't think the parts come cheap. T_T;

Yeah, apart from all those, I'll have to remind myself to enquire about the availability of Internet, whether it's cable or adsl, and then I need to sign him up for a mobile plan, and... lotsa stuff that we need to do when he gets here. I need to make a list some day... I still have no idea what to do for some of them but well, I'm sure I'll cross the bridge when it comes. I just can't wait to see him again, not just for a week this time, but for months. And hopefully, forever. =) But that's too much into the future, and it's pretty unpredictable what could happen, so I don't wanna think about it too much yet. >_> Still, I'm glad you'll be here, dear. ^_^

Okay, enough of updates for now. Today is my last day of MC. *sobs* And tomorrow I'll have to be back at work. But oh well, its just one working day for me, out of the usual five, so I guess life is treating me pretty good already, even though I still can't smile, can't laugh, can't chew properly. Heck, I can't even talk properly / normally for now. Sure there isn't much pain (thanks to the painkillers for doing such a great job), but I would still feel a slight nagging pain / ache whenever I tried to smile or talk as per normal. It's as if the wound was being stretched. Sigh, I guess it's still not fully recovered yet. =/ When can I eat my KFC?!?!?!?!

~ rambled by Arell at 09:54

Occasionally airline attendants make an effort to make the "in flight safety lecture" and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported:

1. From a Southwest Airlines employee: "There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane..."

2. Pilot: "Folks, we have reached our cruising altitude now, so I am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to move about as you wish, but please stay inside the plane till we land...it's a bit cold outside, and if you walk on the wings it affects the flight pattern."

3. After landing: "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride."

4. As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone voice comes over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella. WHOA!"

5. After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight attendant on a Northwest flight announced: "Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because after a landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted."

6. From a Southwest Airlines employee: "Welcome aboard Southwest Flight XXX to YYY. To operate your seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seatbelt and if you don't know how to operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised. In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with two small children, decide now which one you love more."

7. "Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but they'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you or your money more than Southwest Airlines."

8. "Your seat cushions can be used for floatation and in the event of an emergency water landing, please take them with our compliments."

9. "As you exit the plane, please make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses."

10. "Last one off the plane must clean it."

11. From the pilot during his welcome message: "We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately none of them are on this flight."

12. Overheard on an American Airlines flight in Amarillo, Texas, on a particularly windy and bumpy day. During the final approach, the Captain really had to fight it. After an extremely hard landing the Flight Attendant came on the PA and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Amarillo. Please remain in your seats with your seatbelts fastened while the Captain taxis what's left of our airplane to the gate."

13. Another Flight Attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal."

14. An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying XYZ airline." He said that in light of his bad landing he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally, everyone had gotten off except for this little old lady walking with a cane. She said, "Sonny, mind if I ask you a question?" "Why no, Ma'am" said the pilot, "What is it?" The little old lady said, "Did we land or were we shot down?"

15. After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the Flight Attendant came on with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt up against the gate and, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal."

16. Part of a Flight Attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of us here at US Airways."

~ rambled by Arell at 16:23

I'm not sure if it's the painkiller that's really working, or that there isn't really much pain at all... o.O; But I guess it's the painkillers that's really effective. I've been taking Synflex since Monday, and just now I took my last dosage, after which I'll resume my normal painkillers. I wonder if I'll start to feel pain soon... >_>;

Oh yeah did I mention that my sis finally reach level 99 with her knight in RO? And yesterday, she went for rebirth! So she became a cute 'High' Novice again, and with Ryan, Fina, Eisa and me tanking her, she got to 'High' Swordsman pretty fast. So yeah, she's now a cute High Swordsman at the moment. I hope she won't regret rebirthing... it's just a few hundred hours of levelling again. *shudders* I can't understand why people can be so addicted to RO when there's really nothing much to do in that game. *sweat* Granted, I was once one of them, but hey, thank goodness I managed to get out of it after three years. At least with WoW, I still had time to do my own things, and ain't so crazy over it like I did over RO. =D

Ahhh, talking about games. I can't wait for Neverwinter Nights 2 to be out!! It's supposed to be released this September, I think, and really, I'm so gonna buy it! I'm a huge Neverwinter Nights fan, even though the game doesn't really has it replay value, but still!!! It's fun to be able to try out so many different races and classes, and not to mention different moral alignments! Plus, it's not exactly so hardcore-RPG-ish like Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale... so I could still manage to find some fun in the hack 'n slash system. Heh heh.

Okay, I'm supposed to be resting, am I not? But... I just woke up. >_> Let me go on WoW and level my n00b warrior for awhile... *grins*

~ rambled by Arell at 10:00

I finally got that irritated tooth taken out. My lower right side of the gum had been red and swollen for quite some time already, and yes, the dentist finally diagnosed it as one of my wisdom tooth being the culprit. It was growing crooked, and the upper wisdom tooth had been biting down and chafing the gum in the process. And so, the dentist recommended me to take the lower wisdom tooth out... and in order to stop the pain (it was so bad that I couldn't talk properly nor eat properly), I agreed. I didn't know what I signed up for. *sniff*

Yesterday, I lied down on the dentist chair (?), trembling like mad. I'm not worried about the process, but rather the pain afterwards. All my friends had been telling me how painful it'll be, and how swollen my cheek will become. *gulp* So yeah, I couldn't stop shaking.... that's probably why the anesthetic didn't seem to work. They had to inject quite a lot of it before my right side of mouth managed to go numb. And... then came the horror. The x-ray they did on my tooth showed my tooth's root canal to be straight, and hence it was deemed to be a straightforward surgery. However, in the middle of it, they realised that my root canal was actually hooked! Good heavens. And the female dentist who was supposed to perform the surgery for me was momentarily shocked, and subsequently she went and asked another male dentist (whom she said to be more experienced with wisdom tooth) to come over and work on my tooth instead. So after 1 hour and 30 minutes of drilling and digging, they managed to get that stubborn tooth out. With lotsa bleeding, of course. And all the while, I felt pain. =_=; Yeah like I said, the anesthetic wasn't really working. But it wasn't pain like hell, of course. I just felt pain nonetheless. (Somehow I got a cheated feeling... because the female dentist told me there won't be anymore pain after she injected the anesthetic. Pfft.)

So yeah, because it was a 'complicated surgery' due to that minor glitch in the middle of it, the female dentist told me I can expect up to four days of pain and swelling. Well, that helps a lot. -_- But being the nice lady she is, she gave me four days of MC instead of only three days (which she initially promised). And she gave me powerful painkillers too, perhaps she thought I couldn't bear pain that well since I was whining throughout the surgery process. But hey, I whined because it hurts even AFTER they injected anesthetic into me >_>; And they were the ones who told me to make noise or raise my hands when it hurts. I did, but apparently they didn't give a damn. Pft! Anyway, here I am, working on this temporary blog and not in the office... thanks to the MC given by the kind lady. Oh yeah, did I mention she was nice enough to give me a call just now to ask me how I am? And then she gave me some instructions on how to take care of the wound too. That's really thoughtful of her. =) But damn, I forgot to ask if I could take coffee... I'm dying of the headache here. >_>

~ rambled by Arell at 13:09