Dental Appointment

Dear Diary,

I have less than 2 days to submit my dissertation topic and I seriously have no idea what topic I should choose and do. Out of the 20 topics, I have eliminate a few which then make me left with 5 topics to choose from. I eliminated more till I'm left with 2.

Some of the dissertation topics really sound alien to me. I don't know which smart soul will actually choose such chim topic as their dissertation.

Anyway, I was contemplating between the Breast cancer and a Microbiology topic regarding Inflammation Bowel Disease. And as you know, I will definitely be much better in handling Microbiology topic but sadly, the journals has no conclusion to it yet and I'm afraid I only have little journals to work with. However, Breast cancer being the upper hand having so many journals to read from since there is so many ongoing research on cancer. But I realised, the more I read, the more confused I become.

I am seriously stuck in a situation which I find it hard to choose. If journals and conclusion weren't a problem, Microbiology topic would have won me hands down.

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I visited the dentist today after a year. I didn't know my filling from last year were all almost depleting, till the hole could actually be seen again. I still remember I had trouble eating because my tooth hurts and I had the same problem again just recently after biting into a chunk of Chicken Rice bone.

All I intended was just to do polishing and scaling but I end up having thoughts of getting my supernumerary tooth extracted. When the dental assistant asked me "Why do you want to extract that tooth?" Yes my blunt answer was "I don't like it."

Exactly. I just don't like it. I have never like it! Even my family find it ugly and keep teasing me about having that extra tooth, well they used to before they convince me now it's nicer. It was the only reason why I keep my mouth close when I smile because it appears horrendously ugly on pictures. I'll be dying to smile showing my teeth.

But sadly, I was told to consult a specialist first before extracting. Because they are afraid that if one day I were to do braces they might need that supernumerary tooth of mine that I have extracted. So braces that is? I wanted to but the cost of braces is making me having 2nd thoughts. Come on, the cheapest for braces could go about 4.5K? At this age, this amount of money is definitely crucial to me, especially when the word wedding accompanies. Lol!

So I had 3 fillings to do and yes, polishing & scaling for my teeth was done as well. And don't be alarmed how much the bill came up to,

$345

Yes, I know it would totally add up to that plus minus because each scaling + polishing and a filling could easily cost you $80 each. Don't forget consultation fee as well as if they were to use any other extra treatment, it might cost another additional kachings.

So yes, I'm $345 less this month. On top of that, I have my school fees to pay. Well, a life of a student cum working adult. You cannot complain.

Till here. I shall head off to sleep. Heading for lunch at Shabu Shabu with my dearest bestie tomorrow. A belated birthday treat for Hernie. GOODNIGHT.

P.S: I promise once I'm back from lunch, I'll continue my dissertation research.

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥

Daily Scoop

Dear Diary,

Good morning upper east siders! Sorry, not Gossip Girl. Hehe! I am awake early at this hour. Gotta take a shower and head off to work later on. Yes, I'm schedule to work today's Sunday this month.  And then meeting my dearest girlfriends after work. Talking about my girlfriends, guess what they bought for me as an advance Birthday gift?!

The Pandora bracelet & charms! Yes, I ask Pag to put it on for me the moment she passed it to me. I was so happy that I scream and jumped for joy when I got this. And I have 4 charms now already on my chain plus another 1 cat charm that Pag still have them ordered for me. Wee!

Don't mind the 'Azie' bracelet, it was given by S and it's one of my favourite as well. Hehe!

I have been wanting to get one but it was so expensive and I'm not going to splurge myself on these kinds of expensive stuff. So all I did was just to keep the catalogue in my shelf and look at it once in a while. HAHA! But finally, I got this on my wrist!

Girlfriend Hanali & Pag have one for themselves too and Pag has completed hers! Hehe! And the best part, just like the Pandora slogan say, 'Your bracelet, your story'. It really explains your liking and I think even explain what kind of person you are from all the charms you have. I have ordered 4 more charms, a dangling tiara, a lock and key, eiffel tower and a red faceted separator bead. I love Eiffel tower, I have one pasted in my room, my Christmas water bottle gift is an Eiffel tower from JM and I'm getting an Eiffel tower charm! Yay.

Hopefully, to complete the whole chain with charms when my Birthday comes this year. Hehe!

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Anyhoos, I am still in my post-examinations mood celebration even though exam's are over like 1 week ago. Lol! I don't know how elated I feel. Okay, not really elated because I have actually not graduated yet. More like a little bit stress-free.

Spent the afternoon catching up on movies that I've missed. I catch 'Thor - The Dark World' the other day. You can find all the movie reviews in my Facebook. I usually keep my movie reviews public.

So, I was being a pretty laid back after the exams until my lecturer email us and mention that all of us have got to choose and submit our chosen dissertation project topic before the 31st March. I have definitely left than a week to choose my topic and I still cannot decide! 

There are like 20 over topics to choose from! And mostly are about Cancer and their bio-markers and few of them are Microbiology topic. Even so, the Microbiology topic seems a bit vague. And as a Microbiologist, I would rather choose a Microbiology project topic but I'm afraid I will have a problem finding journals to that, compared to Cancer topic, it's much easier. There are a lot of research done about cancer and I love cancer & oncology topic, it was one of my strongest module in Polytechnic scoring mostly A's. It's interesting BUT you need a deeper understanding to this because there's just many terms that you'll definitely come across with. I can just imagine I'll be more confused than ever.

30 journals to fish out. Goodness gracious me.  I just hope like again, I can pull through this. At the same time, I am so worried about my exams results. Wonder how I fair for it after writing mostly crap this semester. 

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Enough about school, it's giving me a headache. As I have not met my cousin for quite some time, I decided to give them a treat for some Waffles Ice-cream. Oh yes, we are always venturing into nothing but Waffles Ice-cream. Haha! There are still a few more places that we have yet ought to venture together and try. We did Swensen's and Gelato the other day, personally, I have tried Createaf Waffles as well and 2 days back, we tried 'Daily Scoop'.

I would say the ambience is really comfy and cozy. The staff were nice as well but I find the place pretty cold, so don't forget to bring your cardigan or jacket if you are cold intolerance like me. Hehe!

For people who love variety of ice-cream flavours, well for me, I don't really quite fancy their ice-creams. They have just mostly basic flavour like Strawberry, Vanilla etc. But I love to venture into more different flavours like how Ben & Jerry's would have. I wanted to try their Butterscotch flavour but there's pecans and I don't eat nuts. The only options I'm left with was Hazelnut Haven and Kookie Monster. I love Cookies & Cream, so I settled for Kookie Monster together with Cousin Dil while Cousin Lyna had the Hazelnut Haven.

Price wise was okay too. I don't know how much a waffle or one scoop of ice-cream would cost if you were to pay separately. I chose their promotion set. 1 waffle plus a scoop of ice-cream and chocolate sauce cost $6.20. Affordable right?  An additional 50 cents for maple syrup.

Look at thoseeeee! Salivating aren't it?! Hahahaha! 

So here's come the verdict. I'm a sucker when it comes to reviewing food because I am not picky and all food usually taste nice to me even if other people don't find it nice. So, you can just imagine when I say a particular food is horrible, it's definitely 100 times horrible for other people. Lol! 

The Ice-cream is nice and the waffles, is really soft as well. - Quoted from cousin Dil. I would of course recommend this place a 'to go for' especially for some good affordable waffles ice-cream. I just hope the waffles was bigger. Hehe!

Till here, I am going to spam with a little more pictures of Waffles ice-cream.

Daily Scoop

43 Jalan Merah Saga

Singapore 278115

6475 3128

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥

Year 2 Semester 2 - Post Examination.

Dear Diary,

So sorry to have abandon you for quite some time - almost a month. Reason being, I had tons and tons of assignments to complete followed by examinations which came after.

And today officially mark my last paper, at the same time the completion of my 2nd year. Alhamdulilah! I have completed Cellular Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Molecular Genetics and Endocrinology modules this block. Well, my school call it block instead of semester. And I won't deny of all modules and examinations that I have sat through, this semester was the hardest. I really mean it when I say hardest! Imagine staring at the examinations questions for so long?!!

I just hope that I'll be able to maintain my stage grade throughout. I really need to in order to graduate with the honours that I want but I doubt I'll be able to because I seriously think I wrote crap in my exams. Like wise, after every examinations when my uni mates & I tend to discuss what we wrote, I, yes! Me, myself and I, ALWAYS end up writing answers that is so different from everybody.

I remember one exam question asking regarding eukaryotic evolution, while others wrote regarding mutation, I was the only "smart" a** soul who wrote about alternative splicing.  And I just realised for today's Endocrinology paper, I had another different answer from my classmate. The worse thing I've already chosen the right answer but I went to change it to another wrong answer last few minutes before the paper end. Can you imagine how much I felt like slapping myself? But it's okay, I'm not going to dwell about this anymore, it's making me really sad. 

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We were supposed to do a post-celebration together with my uni mates but apparently, everyone had plans. So end up it was only Vaish, Isaac & I who head to Little India to have lunch at Sakunthala. It was my first time there and Vaish recommended us the dishes. It was really nice!

And it was Vaish's birthday but she was the one who treated us for lunch. Such sweetheart! I owe you a treat babe during my Birthday and HAPPY BIRTHDAY. After lunch, we end up walking around Little India for a while and headed home after that.

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My room was waiting for me to get it clean. 2 weeks that I've left it like that without cleaning because I was just too busy with school. Can you just imagine the room being so sandy and dusty, lots of hair lying around, eraser's dust from erasing notes off, I just hadn't had the time to mop and vacuum. And I have piles of at least 70 sheets of papers to be recycled which I used them to practice and memorize chemical structures. Lol! 

So the moment I came home, I got everything mopped and vacuum. I even shifted my furniture around to clean off every little dust at every little corner. And now it's spick and span!

And despite the holiday, I realised I have so many things to do just as I thought I could sit down and relax. So many catch ups to do with my best friends, girlfriends as well as my cousins. So many movies to watch and I have one poster project that is due in 2 weeks time. There you go.

And the semester break is shorter this time due to the Chinese New Year which pushes everything forward. 2 weeks time, before I'll be starting my Year 3 Semester 1 and there you go, my CRUCIAL year for graduation. My dissertation, my project for my honours. Should I love you? Well, I guess I should try to learn to.

Till here. Prolly catch up on some movies I've missed now. Hehe!

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥

All Day Rice.

Dear Diary,

07 Feb 2014

I took half-day leave and did facial with Bestie Hajar. She went to Korea recently and guess what she bought me?! I'm a happy Princess now!! Thank you Hajar!

It was last year there was this 2 guys who came into my work place and sold off this voucher at $9.90. Well, this was one selling technique. My colleagues and I were so happy to see the voucher selling at a cheap price. And so we gave them $10 to buy their vouchers but no 10 cents were return back to us. They "made" us feel distracted by talking and laughing with us and so when they left, no one will realized that the 10 cents were not given back to us.

But they were wrong because I was smart to realize even when my colleagues did not. But I chose to keep quiet about it because I don't want to be a cheapo to ask for the 10 cents back. But can you imagine how much can they earn by not asking that 10 cents back by selling it off to my whole office building? I am SURE people gave them $10 instead of $9.90 to buy the voucher and I don't even think they carry so many change of 10 cents with them. RIGHT?!

So from the voucher, we could choose from 3 different services like Facial, 20 mins Massage as well as 1 time Slimming treatment and so I bought 2 vouchers. I decided to opt for facial and wanted to bring Adik along but she was too busy to take leave, so I decided to ask Bestie Hajar instead since the last time she brought me to a facial massage which was also under promotion.

The place is called BeyondBeauty and the people there were friendly. And one thing I believe that in order to make a customer to always want to return back to your place is to provide good services and treatment. And another selling technique they used, being pushy. Still, their pushy is not so bad since after I said no for two to three times, they decided not to push me anymore. But the person left me with a face that is full of disappointment, which is okay but she showed me this unhappy and a little bit of anger in her. I mean, come on, when I said no, I really mean no. If you can push me to say yes, I can push myself to say no as well.

Another selling technique, when she did a review on my face. All she said was NOTHING positive at all. The conversation just kept going on and on about how oily my face is, how terrible my face was, how the pores are clogged because I always wear make up, how blemishes are formed at my face because I love to squeeze my pimples, so many black heads and so many white heads. I was like "debating" half the time with her saying I DO NOT wear make up and I DO NOT squeeze my pimples. I don't seriously! They burst on their own.

So she were giving me all this bad reviews hoping that I would top up some cash to do some I don't know what oxygen machine treatment. Like what the heck?! After the conversation ended, I totally had NO self-esteem at all left in me and all I wanted to do is just to leave the place immediately even without attempting their facial services. Is that how they treat their customer?

It is not like I haven't been to any facial before, I did. And reviews about my oily skin is not what I have heard only yesterday. But they didn't say like as if my face had no hope at all. I was thinking half the time "Man, is my face that horrible at all?! Is it that ugly that no one would even dare to look at it?" But I brush that thoughts off because hey, that must be one of their pushy selling technique. Even if my face was horrible as what, I wouldn't even want to come back to their place anymore.

Facial:-

The facial was normal which consist of Cleansing, Extraction and putting on the Mask. But I felt like they were in a rush when they did the facial on me. The lights were on and the room was bright. They did not put on any nice soothing music but instead they played Chinese New Year songs which I don't even understand nuts. And I could hear loud conversations exchanged between their colleagues. I mean I don't mind them talking but they were just shouting to each other. Other colleagues could just walk into the room when you are doing your facial which basically I felt like were intruding into the privacy I have. All in all, I just don't feel relax. You just don't. I just wanted to get things over done with quickly and leave the place.

The beautician did provide me some good tips on how to take good care of my face with a little discouragement of course by saying again about my face. And I did not know that Hajar who is on the other side of the room could HEAR everything. Like what the heck?! Thank God it's MY bestfriend, so I couldn't care less but what happen if another stranger hear it? They must be thinking that they are doing facial on the ugliest person in the whole wide world.

After the facial, they provided us some nice tea which is I guess that is only good thing about it. But the next day, my colleague CR said my face look nicer and better. But who cares, with this kind of services and treatment, I wouldn't even give a second thought to it.

Frankly, of all beauty treatment that I have been to, Spa by Norfasarie is still the BEST place ever. But they have already moved to a further place away from me, all the way to Changi. I hope they could open another outlet nearby my place. Still, I wouldn't mind travelling for the kind of services and treatment they provide. Shall book an appointment soon with them next month onwards. =)

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After facial, met up with Bestie Hernie since she wanted to dine at Sinaran so bad. And guess what, I ate rice after so long. Oh man, what a spread! Hehe!

After lunch, we headed to Yew Tee since I wanted to try the new Banana Crunch badly from McDonalds and there you go, my bestfriends accompanied me. I treat them for Ice-cream! Hooray. Hehe!

If you have tasted Durian McFlurry, this taste about the same. It doesn't really taste like Banana but more to like Passionfruit.

And then we had SOD which taste somehow like KOI and I loveeee the both of them.

My Double Froth Green Tea.

08 Feb 2014

Muhammad had his first pay and so he decided to give the family a treat at Sakura. But I know Sakura might be a bit too costly for him to treat especially for his first time pay. So I suggested Hj Maimunah instead which I think is rather reasonable. Rushed down to Geylang the moment I end work to meet up with the family there.

After settling down, we start to order lunch.

The bill came up to a total of 60 bucks if I'm not mistaken, we were all so full and I think the price is still reasonable compared to Sakura buffet.And yes, 2 days with rice. I have stopped eating rice for a long time. Guess I'll gain weight again.

And before I go, I bought this baby at Courts Tampines. Been wanting to buy waffle maker to make waffle for a long time. At the same time, I wanted to get myself a bread toaster for my bread. And so the seller there recommended me this. 3-in-1. Waffle maker, Bread toaster and a Grill. I am so in love with this! Weee.

Till here.

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥

06 Feb 14

Dear Diary,

I've got One Thousand and One things to blog about. Sadly as soon as school started, I don't really have much time left on the computer. Half the time my days are spend going to school and work. And as I'm hitting my year 3 very soon, I have quite a number of assignments to complete.

I know I usually tweet this a lot but frankly, given a choice in life, please do not attempt to work and study part-time altogether. LOL! I know I am not being fair when I'm saying this because I am doing this myself and there are a lot of people out there who is doing just the same. But I am just trying to be honest and just sharing my personal kind of experience.

If you are the kind of person who likes to keep yourself always occupied with things to do. Going to school & working does help a lot because most of the time these two things definitely take up most of your time. But do it at a risk because with school, comes your assignment which dateline you have to meet and fulfil. Subsequently, the EXAMINATIONS. This NEVER fail to give me the shivers, sleepless nights and goosebumps especially when you know your results is out.

I mean it's fun to go to work and school. It makes you feel like a matured adult knowing you can/trying to handle two difficult things in life. But with this, comes greater responsibility and management especially. You have to manage your time very well to divide time between these two. Yes, people who are not working have greater advantages to do well in exams. Because while you are working out there from 8am to 6pm, they can use that timing to do their revision. Imagine having that free time in a week, how many can they do their revision? Compared to you who only have the time to do yours after work.

Honestly, I don't usually do any revision after work because I spend my time after work to do my running and by the time I'm home, get shower etc, I just hit the sack. I left everything to the last minute from revision to assignment. But please DO NOT be like me.

And another obstacle is feeling all sleepy when I am doing my assignment or revision. Even coffee doesn't help now. Guess I develop ;coffee resistance;. But the good thing is, when I start blogging, Facebook-ing and etc. I feel wide awake.

Well, till here people. I'm leaving my 2nd part of my assignment for tomorrow. The eyes can no longer open. Goodnight.

P.S: I was trying to complete my assignment but I fall asleep so here I am blogging to make myself stay awake.

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥