Westlife - You Must Have Had a Broken Heart

Listening to this song, it reminds me of something which I cannot forget so easily. Mixed emotions. Add them together, you get the lyrics and the feelings sang out by Westlife.

There's something I didn't blog about in my oral surgery blog entry. When I was put to sleep, it was total darkness and a sense of peace befell upon me. No happiness or sadness. Emptiness of the soul. While I was still lying down on the surgery bed, from my eyes, tears were felt flowing my eyes to the side of my head. Voices of the nurses echoed asking me if I was in pain. And I fell back into the darkness again.

Until to this day, I do not why I was crying in the surgery room. Perhaps those are the feelings I've been suppressing so long, released into the air during my most helpless moments.

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Westlife - You Must Have Had a Broken Heart

The way you say the things you do
The softness of the words you choose
The times that you can read my mind
And take my worries out of sight

Your fingers touching on my lips
And say a kiss is still a kiss
And when you look at me I see
I see the pain that you had to feel

You must've had a broken heart, to love me the way you do (did)

Must've been so torn apart, I can see it when I look at you
All the meaning that is in your eyes, the love you give will never die
And I knew right from the start, you must've had a broken heart

You seem to have that certain smile
I can't forget after a while
The day you walked into the room
At once I knew the hurt that you'd been through

Sometimes when its late at night and I see your face in the fire light
Showing all the love you have for me, well I love you as much

Sometimes, sometimes
Must've had a broken heart
Yeah
All the meaning that is in your eyes, the love u give will never die
And I knew right from the start, you must've had a broken heart
Sometimes

The Current Chilly Wet Weather

Many people have been cursing the current weather. Too many rainy days. Office workers get stuck in the traffic jams. Housewives have their problem doing their laundry. Hawkers have difficulty doing a brisk evening business. But luckily this evening, the rain didn't come.

And... I got the chance to have the 'bak kut teh' dinner with SK at Equine Park. Such a wonderful meal! And when William got to know how great my appetite was, he commented as though I was just 'released from jail'. LOL. It's true!

Well, the rainy days really makes me get hungry faster. Hot cocoa for afternoon tea and cereal for supper. Secondly, since after the oral surgery, I was looking forward to have nice food but then I have to hold my horses till I have done my follow-up treatment and recovery period. It's over now!! That explained my good appetite. And.... I just love to eat. Passionate about eating.

Talking about rainy days, my room temperature these days reads between 25.2C and 25.9C. I hope it maintains throughout the year because I just love cold weather. Late autumn and early spring are the best. During bedtime, with just singlet and shorts, I immersed myself into the cold night breeze and slip into dreamland. (fyi: I'm not used to sleep naked- no sense of security; the friction between the weenie and the bolster makes it HARDER to sleep; you get the pun ;)

The only bad thing about this chilly wet weather is, it doesn't give me a chance to do my weekly jogging. I think I'm going gain some weight with all these eating.

Life is fun!

2012 Movie Review

I have finally caught the most anticipated movie of the year, 2012, on Sunday afternoon with Leo, Fies and Keith. Frankly, I enjoyed the special effects more than the storyline. Not much of a storyline anyway. The only part worth mentioning was at the final quarter of the movie, of humans being selfish or being compassion. If I was at the ark, and given to vote, I will vote to open the gates too. The other part was where the people is losing their mother, father or lover. People cuddling each other on their dying moments. Kind of touching. But not that touching enough compared to ship sinking part in Titanic. And... having the money to allow all the old-fart politicians to board the ark were more important than saving genius people and children for continuity of mankind.

I think the best visual effects I like was the town sinking effects while the family was driving away in a limo and the sinking of Las Vegas with the big-belly plane trying to avoid the fallen debris and earth. The scene of St. Peter's Basilica crumbling down at the Vatican was kinda cool too and I thought how come it didn't show a similar scene at Mecca. I read from the Internet that the director didn't want to get himself in the 'Wanted' list; so he dropped the idea.

The movie has partial truth and false in it. Solar flares maximum do happen every 10 years but not in the Hollywood scale. The North Pole is shifting but not the speed of within weeks. And the winter solstice of the sun rising at the galactic center has no physical impact on us. And... as we are surfing the Internet, the neutrino particle is passing through our body with no physical harm. And.... the Mayan Long Count calendar? Perhaps it's towards the end of a cycle and beginning a new one, just like our Dec 31st??

Yeah.. I'm a science geek to know all these stuffs. I'm a Star Trek fan too ;)

Having a Soft Food Diet

It's either chicken porridge, pork porridge or fish porridge. These were my diet on the first 2 days after my oral surgery. The first 6 hours of eating was really a sadist activity. I was looking forward to enjoy the food (damn hungry after fasting more than 30 hours for the surgery) and yet it was so pain to open my mouth. It can hardly open wide enough to put a spoon into it. But eating was painful and satisfied at the same time.

Yesterday night, I was enjoying my tosai, roti bawang and wanton noodles. I can only eat in small bites and still needed the pain killers once a while. Oh.. the mutton curry sold at the restaurants smell so excellent!! But I have to refrain from spicy food.

Once awhile, I continue to indulge myself with ice creams. Nurse orders! LOL.

My Oral Surgery Experience at Putrajaya Hospital

It was like a dream and now the oral surgery is over.The Day Care Wad at that hospital is really spacious. My mom commented it was like a scene from those Hong Kong TVB hospital drama series. I was assigned to bed #9. While waiting for my queue, I waited on the bed, walked around, read newspaper, short chat with the nurses. 2 doctors came to brief me on the oral surgery and general anesthesia procedure respectively, and I put my signature on the consent forms.

After 3 hours of waiting, the Operating Room was ready for me at 10.15am. I was wheel-chaired from the wad to the Operating Room preparation room. There were already a few patients waiting their turns. And I'm being briefed again on the procedure. All these while I was anticipating excitingly on the surgery but at the time, my legs were shaking already. After that, I was moved to a bed and wheeled to OR #5, with all the large over head lights like you seen them in Grey's Anatomy surgical scenes and the surgeons in surgical gowns.

The anesthesiologist chatted a while with me and then unknowingly I went to sleep after they administered the drug. Total blackout for 4 hours. I woke up at 2.15pm at the wad, with dry blood stains in my left nostril; that's where they insert the oxygen tube via the nose into my throat.. or something. I was still on saline fluid drip and 2 big bloody cotton gauze pad in my mouth . Within 30mins I was off the saline drip, able to walk again and the first meal was ice cream! And then I waited for the post operation briefing.

And by 5pm, I was discharged and also because they were closing the wad too for the day. The oral surgeon briefed me that there was complication at the left lower jaw 3rd molar that has impacted the jaw nerves. Wow!

A few interesting notes when I was at the hospital. A trainee doc (as I believe) lost her notes and she was searching everywhere at the nurse counter. I was like, OMG, how can a doctor be that forgetful! In the OR, they forgot to turn on the oxygen gas supply in the first attempt. And... as a good disclaimer practice, I have been asked by numerous nurse at each unit to read out aloud my name, my ID number and to confirm if the signature on the form is mine. It seems I have high BP reported from the Day Care Wad and Surgical Wad. I need to eat more celery and sleep earlier.

Just now, it was the slowest dinner I ever had. I can only eat congee. It's so tough to open my mouth and chew. Oh.. the pain!! Luckily I'm provided with pain killers. And the whole oral surgery in a main Operating Room with general anesthesia procedure, inclusive of lunch meal and medicines only cost me RM53. Not forgetting those nurses with the charming smiles. The chief nurse looks stern but friendly.

I'm trying to make good use of my paid income tax money :P

Yuen Garden Dim Sum Food Review

Though I have been staying here for almost 2 years already, I didn't venture out much into the adjacent neighborhood. And yesterday Saturday morning, Anthony drove me to Yuen Garden Dim Sum at Puchong Jaya. While I was at there, I was surprised there was so much food over there. Hhhmm.. I need to check out more of that area.

The dim sum place was very packed with people and it was my first time I have to queue to eat dim sum. While Anthony and I were chatting at the queue, there was shouting from a waiter towards an auntie with her daughter. Without waiting in queue, she just sat an empty table waiting to be served. And the waiter was shouting loudly in the air she wasn't in the queue to wait for her turn. Then she just left but not without scolding the waiter that the restaurant is being arrogant and vow not to eat there again.

Personally, I felt she's just a bitch lacking the civic mindedness to wait for her turn like anyone else. If I'm the boss, I'm gladly not to do her business.

The dim sum were good, everything was served hot and tasted good. I've seen they are selling some dim sum I've eaten at Hong Kong and not sold at other dim sum shops locally here. The dim sum price at Yuen Garden is at a reasonable price too. Most importantly, I enjoyed eating there. A place which I will try to take my family for a breakfast treat when they come visiting.


glutinous rice with chicken/mushroom; chi cheung fun; eggtarts, fried yam tarts; other assorted dim sum items

Happy 40th Birthday Sesame Street !!

I was in a surprise when Google put up Cookie Monster in the search page; I hovered it over the blue monster and Sesame Street is already 40 years old!! Wow... I grew up watching Sesame Street on TV! (Not that I'm 40 years old now, k ^^" ) I have a few characters in my head which are my favorite.

Elmo is really cute, positive and naive in a certain way. The red color is really striking to the kids attention. The we have Ernie and Bert. Both of them live together and Ernie always like to annoy Bert. In every episode, both of them are always together and I wonder if both of them are.... err.... never mind. LOL. Count von Count dracula has cute ways of counting numbers and ended with this trademark laugh. Ah..ah..ah... So cute!

And the most interesting part is the News Flash segment with Kermit the Frog! Oh! I just so love his character and his face expression. Oh ya... and his voice! So cute too! The most interesting would be having Kermit the Frog acting together with Miss Piggy. Miss Piggy was so infatuated with Kermit! I wonder if both of them got married.

Ah~~ brings back sweet memories! Good job guys at the Sesame Street!