ragging

spoke to hui yesterday. she asked me to do a favour for her on the most important day of her life.
to lead the 'ragging'.
i am so honoured and proceeded to ask her what is ragging and googled for the definition of ragging.
*gulp. it doesn't look good based on my google result.
but in wedding term, it would be to 'torture' the groom but in a "fun" way.
i am going to put a 'thinking' cap and plan out the activity. i have been allocated 20mins.

filling

i had my cavity filled up yesterday. in 30 mins, the dentist gave me an anasthetic, a clean, took out the remaining old filling and refill it with white filling! it fills really long though..first the needle for the anasthetic looked a foot long!it was injected to the inside wall of my cheek . i closed my eye most of the time, too chicken to see what the dentist is doing. the drilling sound is scary enough.

the anasthetic took 4 hours to wear off.. luckily i am back to normal now.

which one are you?

I recently read a book Cut the Clutter by C T Ewer. She listed several clutterer's personality. She mentions in her book to target the clutter problem by going to the root of the problem: one's thinking. Which one are you?

Personality no.1 - THE HOARDER
The hoarder's slogan is "This might come in handy one day".
Hoarders save everything (plastic shopping bags, newspaper flyers, the list is endless).
Ask a hoarder why he/she is keeping so many plastic shopping bags, he/she will describe how she can reuse the plastic bags . Problem is , hoarder knows no limits so he/she has plastic bags enough to take up the landfill.

Hoarding is rooted in insecurity, financial or otherwise. Deep down, hoarders are afraid that they'll never have the resouces they need if they let go of any possession. Best remedy: knowing stuffs will be with us always.

Personality no. 2 - THE DEFERRER
The Deferrer's slogan is "I'll think about that tommorrow".
Those of the deferral mindset are guilty of the great set aside. Bills, flyers, old newspaper, items that need cleaning or repair and household projects are all set aside to be dealt with another day.

Deferrers need to be reminded that tmomorrow has no more time or energy than today and that deferring decisions drags down each new day with yesterday's unfinished business. The best remedy: Action. Simply making a start creates the momentum needed to finish the job.

Personality no. 3 - The REBEL
The Rebel's slogan is "I don't want to and you can't make me!"
Rebels were forced to pick up after themselves as children; as adult, they are still expressing the mute and stubborn determination when they are a child. Rebel clutter often centers on household activities.

Best remedy: Reminding the Rebel that he/she is in control of the decisions, and he/she can defuse the inner rebel's imaginary power struggle.

Personality no. 4 - The PERFECTIONIST
The Perfectionist slogan is "Next week, I'll organise everything ...perfectly".
Perfectionists are wonderful people but they live in an all-or-nothing world. They do wonderful things when they do them. Perfectionisim forms an inner barrier to cutting clutter because the perfectionist simply cannot abide doing a less-than-perfect job.

Best remedy: Apply the 20-80 rule: 20 % of every job takes care of 80% of the problem. Give permission to perfectionist to do only 20% of the job to get things going.

Personality no. 5 - The SENTIMENTALIST
The sentimentalist slogan: "Oh the little darling!"
Sentimentalists want to keep everything -old text books, exercise books, school papers, faded greeting cards. However, there's so much to remember that the truly enderaing items get lost in a flood.
Remedy: Changing mindset from an indiscriminate "Awwww!" to a more selective stance. Sort it out, keep the memories and bin the rest!

my problem: I have most of the personality traits listed above!!!!!!

cavity

on sunday after church, i took some bread and ate it while i fellowship with the people.
then i felt strange in the mouth. i bit some metal thingie! it turns out, my filling has chipped!
darn! it is that same tooth ...it has chipped twice! thanks to that nurse from hell who drilled such a big hole in my tooth. for the record, i always get A for my teeth and when this nurse came, she gave me C for my teeth. How can my teeth get so bad when I maintain the same regime!
turns out everyone else gets also get graded horribly by her!

how many of you remember that dental nurse from hell back in St Rita?!
i remember the filling fell out about 10 years ago .the dentist who fixed it for me commented: MY! who's drilled such a big hole before?

anyhow, i have now made an appointment to see a dentist here to fix it.
in the mean time, i have to avoid eating chocolates, sweet cordials, cold stuffs..
*SIGH!!