What couldn’t be more annoying than to see the person who left you hanging in mid-air? Never mind if what I’m talking about is online – to be more specific via facebook.

I always had this notion that people shouldn’t give up a fight without even trying. If it won’t cost you your life and you’ve already made that first big step into going after something, you shouldn’t give up at the first signs of trouble. Life is like trekking one of those raceways. At the end of it all, you may be the winner of end up defeated. But at least, you ran the course of the track.

I am a believer of signs and divine intervention. For how can one explain why I got high grades in that board exam subject I honestly thought I’d flunk? Or how could anyone explain why I suddenly had the urge to look at the side mirror and see (to my surprise) how my car’s just a few inches away from another parked vehicle while carelessly driving in reverse this evening? I could even cite how my cousin ended up with ” The One” after she received the sign she had been praying for. Truth be told, at those certain moments when we’re unsure of what to do next, we always, always wish or pray for a sign as an assurance that our next step is the right one.

So, imagine my confusion when I realized this evening that I’m missing a heavy, huge, hardbound, thousand-pages book from my library. I’ve already searched high and low… even called up my mom to look for the book in my room just in case it decided to go home on its own. I even had to ask my former housemates if they had unintentionally brought it with them when they moved out months ago. But so far, hours after I began a frantic search for “The Book”, I’m as clueless as I had been three hours ago. I’m now even considering the idea on how we have a naughty house elf hiding our stuff every now and then.

Or perhaps, just maybe, this is one of those not-so-subtle signs from God telling me that the road I am to take is not the best road out there for me.

Should I seriously take this as a sign then?

I hope playing with new wii games would clear my mind a bit. Anyway, here’s John Lloyd Cruz and Solenn Heussaff in a short vid about signs and sign seekers. Enjoy! (‘coz I did)

After such a long time, I finally paid a visit to my dentist this afternoon. Doc Mary Grace was not around and I was told she recently gave birth (Congrats!) so I was seen by the more senior dentist attending the clinic today. If there is something I am really very anxious of doing, going to the dentist is one of them. I had such a horrible childhood experience with the dentist that the memories of my visits to the dentist as a child continue to haunt me to this day. Anyway, today, I finally mustered enough courage to visit one. I had oral prophylaxis and dental filling of my two incisors done. The dentist remarked on how good my teeth were naturally aligned with each other but… (of course, there’s a “but” in here) she also remarked on how I had an “overjet”. I just nodded in agreement despite not knowing what the hell she meant. LOL.

I looked up the word in google and my teeth fit the definition alright:

overjet [o´ver-jet]
extension of the incisal or buccal cusp ridges of the upper teeth horizontally (labially or buccally) beyond the ridges of the teeth in the lower jaw when the jaws are closed normally.

To give you a better understanding of what an overjet is I also managed to get a picture from the internet:

Of course my teeth aren’t in such a sad and sorry state but I had also inadvertently discovered how something was going wrong with my teeth over the years. Being a nail-biter, I noticed how I had been having increasing difficulty biting my nails over a certain portion of my upper and lower incisors! How’s that for a eureka moment? LOL.

My dentist told me that the only way to get around this is to put on braces to slowly correct the problem. I can almost imagine how my teeth would look like in ten years or so and the outlook is very grim so I’m bracing myself for the possibility of wearing braces soon. I’ve learned that braces would cost from 15,000 to 30,000 but it’s not the cost that bothers me. It’s the unsightly appearance of having metal wires on my teeth whenever I flash that smile. Then, I learned that lingual braces are now available in the Philippines. Unfortunately, it costs an arm and a leg so I better hurry up getting a job or a good-paying residency training somewhere if I want one. *sigh* Either way, I can almost hear the POS system at my dentist’s clinic doing a kaching.

Grrr… why does looking good have to be so expensive?!?!?!

Don’t you really hate it when your inbox gets all flooded with nothing but spam? I opened my other email recently and almost fell off my chair when I saw this:

OMG! 40,000+ emails???!?!?! It even surpassed my other email account which I’ve been keeping for years! I hurriedly opened my inbox and realized where all these spam messages are coming from.

Yep. From this blog. Boo! Turns out my Akismet has been deactivated all along since God-knows-when! No wonder I have 3,000+ approved comments and another 3,000+ pending comments in my dashboard! Since I’m officially free from hospital duties, looks like someone’s gonna do a major cleanup of her blogs. I blame it on seo moz and what-have-yous. These people dying to be on top of google search are spreading spam like some virus. Curse them!

I just couldn’t understand the weather these days really. One day it’s scorching hot that you’ll have to open one of thosemonte carlo fans to keep you comfortable. Then, just early this March, it rained like crazy. Supposedly, the sun’s up and shining these days. Who would have thought it’s gonna rain in March?!?! What about our summer plans?!?!?! I hope that global warming won’t spoil the fun. Come on. I’ve been waiting for summer all year!

I never felt so shortchanged like what happened the previous night. I went back to Lyf Center Spa to use one of the coupons I have from Ecotech. Since I already consumed the three freebies before (skin analysis, 30-minute back massage and basic facial), I figured it was time to use the other coupons as well. I paid for a Pigment Control Facial worth 880 pesos and with the coupon I used, I was entitled to a free service of a lower value so I chose to have a Lyf Therapeutic Foot Spa worth 500 pesos. Since I’ve already tried their Pigment Control facial before, I looked forward to another good service from Lyf Center Spa. Oh boy. I was in for a surprise.

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