to thrive means to adapt. in instances when adaptability is not possible, one can opt to chart his own path and thrive elsewhere.

Disturbing a peaceful ecosystem

I haven't had much problems with my oral hygiene for the last decade, except when i needed to extract my wisdom tooth. All four of my wisdom teeth are impacted, and i've made it an annual activity to have them extracted one by one (not because i want to prolong the agony, but because my pain tolerance is very low and i can only handle one extraction at a time).

I had my 3rd wisdom tooth extracted 3 weeks ago. It has been by far the worst I had in terms of impact to my gums. The doctor actually used scissors and drills on me. Up to now, I still can't fully chew with my left side of the mouth, I still feel the pain of the wound. I especially feel the wound when I'm gargling and desperately trying to get rid of the stuck food particles. I can still feel the wound so vividly that I now refer to my recent experience as the great wisdom tooth excavation.

I hope my fourth and last wisdom tooth won't be as bad.

Plan Thwarted

On September 18, my boyfriend and I will be celebrating our first anniversary. I already thought of the perfect gift last July, a watch. He's been saying how much he liked watches, so I thought I wanted to be the first person to get him one.

So I did my homework and asked around on what nice watch I can buy. A few weeks later, he's been more and more vocal on what watch he wanted, taking it so far as to posting a poll on facebook and even dreaming about the watch he wants to buy. I was afraid he would thwart my plan to give him the watch as a gift so I conspired with his closest friend to prevent him from buying. It worked for a while, but his desire for that watch grew more and more. Finally, he decided that he will buy the watch on his next credit card cut- off date, which is one month earlier than our anniversary.

It has now come to the point that it's impossible for me to give him the watch he wanted. Giving him that gift would've given me so much joy, knowing that he would've loved it and I would've loved to be the one to give it to him. Now I'm left with other gift options, but none that would be so perfect as that watch. Yes, he would still have that watch, but at his own expense, at the same time depriving me of the joy of giving it to him.

This incident made me think how we sometimes ruin God's best plan for us just because we cannot wait. Our own desire grows more intense each day that we let this desire take control of our actions. Of course, we do not know what God plans for us in the first place, but if we are sensitive enough to feel Him nudging us, we wouldn't have chosen hasty decisions that would lead us to a plan that's only second best to God's.

I am still disappointed and sad that I have to give my boyfriend something else. I do not love him any less because of this, it's just that I would've been happier to have seen his face when I give him that gift. But that's not gonna happen anymore. So I'm now open to new suggestions. Anyone?

Sleep Scrimping

I heard fom a friend that optimum sleeping hours is either 6 or 8 hours, anything more, less, or in between is already unhealthy. This was advised to him by a doctor. I'm used to sleeping 8 hours but I'm training myself to catch 6 hours of sleep starting tonight. Hope this works!

breakfast at jollibee for a change...aside from being P5 cheaper than mcdo breakfast rice meals, it's more eco-friendly with the use of small mugs...i just might patronize jollibee more than mcdo from now on...;)

Excel exercises

interesting Youtube links

Sharing with you some useful links I found on YouTube

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdDhWfpqxg – Sixth Sense

 

A creative use of ordinary gadgets like camera, projector, and mobile internet device.  When these gadgets are used together, the camera serves as a sensor of images, which then inputs the information onto an internet mobile device and automatically searches for information about it.  The projector then flashes the information onto any surface.  Imagine having an actual mobile device like that in the future?  It'd be like having a sixth sense.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY – Do Schools Kill Creativity?

 

An interesting view on education and how people's out-of-the-box thinking should not be hampered by it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w – Hans Rosling – no more boring data

 

Aside from the mountains of world data on health, mortality, per capita income, and the like; this video shows how to creatively and animatedly present data via charts.