Wisdom Teeth Day 2

Okay. Today it seems that my face is more swollen and more sore.

I had to go to the denitist for a check up and they said my swollen-ness is within expected. So they just looked at the scar and that was it.

For the rest of the day, I had to stay home because it was too embarassing to go outside to do anything.

I played a bit of wii, organized my trip over in LA, had a it of a nap and so on. Very relaxing.

I was hoping that the swelling would go down by tonight so i could go out with my friend from high school. But i think as the day went, it seemed that the swelling got larger... So I had to cancel it today... sigh...

Tomorrow I have another dinner with my friends so hopefully i can go to that one. I warned them that my face is swollen and i might not be able to come..

Seriously though, tonight after the shower, it seems that the swelling got bigger and bigger. As it goes bigger, it gets more and more sore, suppose it is streching the skin further....

Hopefully tonight is the most it swells and goes down over night...

Ku

Wisdom Teeth Day 1

Okay. I think people can guess what I did today...

I got my wisdom teeth taken out.

It was so painful. I was only under local anaesthetics so I could hear all the cracking and pulling of my tooth. Yuck!

It was strange. After they did local anaesthetics, I felt really dizzy and almost feinted. So they had to let me rest for about 20 minutes. It was so strange.Well I was scared and freaked, but not that much that I would feint. Apparently my face was pale and slightly sweating. People recon that was because I have a low blood pressure. Who knows.

But actual procedure didnt take too log. He pulled it out in about 10 minutes. The rest was just trying to stop bleeding and all that jazz.

After leaving the hospital, I went straight home and took a massive nap. It was fantastic! After woken up, My face was/is really really swollen (see above).

I ate dinner which wasnt too hard. Even though I had to mainly chew with my left hand side of the mouth. This could be annoying for the next a couple of days... I am going out with my friend tomorrow so hopefully the swallow goes down by tomorrow...

Kumi

Bad news

Last a few days have been a bit of a blast. Yesterday I went to my dentist for a check up. It turned out that I have no cavities (yay!) but my wisdom teeth are coming out and one of the four will annoy me in next 1 to 2 years. I told them that I am not planning on coming back to Japan for at least 2 years. They wrote me a referral to the nearest dental surgeon so I can at least get that one removed. I was in a bit of a shock because all the dental hygienists were telling me all the scary stuff wisdom teeth could do and it was a good idea and it could ruin mouth if you leave it for too long....

Last night, it was my first time to see people I know other than my family. There was a farewell party for some girl I used to work with as a tutor. I turned up for just about 1.5 hour because I had to catch the last train and the party, for some reason, did not start till 10. Yes I was late for about .5 hour. It was quite funny, about 20 people were just sitting around talking to each other at a bar kinda place. I turned up realised i didnt know half of the people. The only reason I turned up is that the girl who organised the party is my friend from junior high and i kind of know the girl leaving. So half of people didnt know me and the half of the other half people didnt know that I was back. So there was this awkward silence when I turnd up of "Who the hell is she?" and "Wow, What the hell is she doing back in Japan?" So I had to quickly scan the army of people to look for my friend from junior high and I pretty much ran at her... hehe yeah that was pretty awkward.

The rest of the night was actually good. People were just doing what they pleased and occasionally they came and talked to me. It was actually good to see someone that arent my family. It has only been 4 days that I am back in Japan. But it already seems like it is about 2 weeks. .. I dont know if it is a good thing or band thing :S

I turned up to the oral surgeon for the consultation today. I actually saw him for about 10 minutes , only because I was asking him stupid questions like "How will you clean the teeth after the surgery/do I get a band aid after the surgery to cover the scar? and so on even though I was in the hospital for almost 3 hours. I made an appointment to get my wisdom teeth pulled out tomorrow! woohoo I will have a funny face for the next seven days. Hehe Dont worry, I will put those photos in some form so people can laugh at me.

After the consultation, I pretty much went straight home and bummed. It was so good. Nothing to worry about and I was just online and reading some Japanese comics and all.

Good old Lazyness that I kinda forgot last 2 months.

I still havent received music for my auditions in Purdue. I swear they hate me even though the reception lady that I have to call up regarding auditon stuff remembers me and we are up to the point that we have a chit-chat... Sigh

Good night

Ku

xx

My Shopping Spree in Ginza

Today was again, very very hot and humid. I think it got up to 35.

Today, I wanted to go get a new camera, so I went out to Ginza with my mom. Ginza is like a really traditional/old/fashion capital-esc/but yet there are so many important companies located kind of place.

Really famous. It is in the middle of Tokyo. The only reason why we went there was that because it is the only city it has 1. Apple store 2. Department store that we wanted to go to 3. Major Electric store within walking distance of each other.

We went to apple store to get an connector thing to connect camera and ipod to transfer photos. But apparently the connector only works up to 5G ipod. Well I have a 5G ipod so i could have bought it. But I really wanted to get a new ipod as well so I have to reconsider...

Ginza was soooo crowed. It was ridiculous. and everyone was so RUDE! I dont understand why people could be so selfish. its like different kind of selfishness. Its like people are angry at each other for no reason kind of selfishness. So I wanted to get away from the city ASAP.

We went to the electric store to get my Camera. I now have a Lumix TZ50 or something. It looks so cool! Its a touch screen, and can choose an object to focus. and The camera is smart enough to follow the object selected if its moving. so It prevents blurry-ness or something.

After leaving Ginza, we went to shops around a station near my house. I just wanted to have a look at what sort of clothes is in at the moment in Japan. Funny thing was it was exactly the same stuff with what was on last summer in Australia! well, of course with a funky Japanese interpretation which makes more Japanesy. Gladiator shoes are seriously everywhere! And some of the shoes look like a knee high boots. it looks so strange... haha also, I found a gladiator shoes that looks exactly the same with what I bought in Australia. The only difference was that it was about 1/3 of the price of what I bought for... It was heart breaking.

After we got home, I updated photos on facebook (Finally!) and been fiddling with my camera!

HAHA, my brother just called and aparently he is coming home with Mario Kart, Guitar Hero 3, Wario Ware, Mario Galaxy. He is crazy.

We only have Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii fit. So we are going to pretty much double the amount of games that we have now :D

I'm expecting no sleep tonight! woohoo!

hehe mom just laughed at my fisherman pants! Japanese people will never understand this good-ness about the fisherman pants!!

Anyway, Shall leave now.

Kumi

xx

Back to Japan

Here I am, hot and humid Tokyo.
Today was such a tiring day.

Got woken up by Dennis and Matt turning up 20min ealier than expected (nothing wrong with it guys, but it was just not expected) after having only about 2 hours of sleep due to the moe's adventure /puzzle the day before.

Went to the airport, Dennis kept reminding me that I had too much carry-on luggages. Well I had 3 huge bags.
Saxophone (doesnt count as a part of carry-on)
Laptop (Well suppose I had other stuff stuffed in it)
and carry on country road bag (It was 2kg over)
But dennis, I was not stopped ONCE by anyone through Melbourne or Sydney, so you know what you have to do... Be prepared and take a photo when you do it.

Melbourne to Sydney went fine. Going through custom was a little bit of pain just because I had this three heavy luggage's with me to carry all the time. But there were no trouble.
The flight to Narita was supposed to leave at 9:55am. I was kinda panicking because the custom was really busy and I didnt get out of it until 9:40am. When I looked at the boarding info screen thing, I could not find my flight number.... Gave me a fright that I might have already missed the plane. haha also felt sorry for the agen Katherine for failing the mission of kicking me out of the country (well, Dennis would be disappointed).
But it turned out that The flight was delayed to 11:30am because some equipments did not arrive on time or something. so I had to waste my time playing DS for about 1.5 hours. But it seemed that all the flights leaving Sydney were delayed or cancelled. So it must have been bad weather or something was wrong with the Sydney airport. was very disorganised.

Finally got on the plane, told that because it was too windy one of the passage? was closed so we had to line up for the one passage thats available to take off. So that was another 30min delay.
After taking off, we had quite good services from Qantas.
Lunch- I had fish as I was told
Snack- 2 splices, 3 pretzels
Dinner -Pasta
Drinks- 3 OJ about 1L of water
I think they felt pity for us that we have been delayed.

It was such a tiring trip. I sat next to this lady. she was extremely nice but something about her made me uncomfortable and restless. The flight itself was 9 hours but it felt like ages...

I was picked up by my mom and my brother. Funny thing was they didnt realise me until I went and talked to them.. I think because they were waiting for the delayed flight for 1 hour in prior, they were tired. But it was actually quite funny looking at their face expression.

Man, I am exhausted. I will go to bed.
Tomorrow is going to be my rest day from the crazy week I had in Australia.

Thanks again so much for presents people!
During the flight, there were so many teary moments for me....
Also, Laura, I restrained myself from opening the envelop good! I think I can wait untill I leave for US :)

My going away party

It was a fantastic dinner party! Everyone (except Dennis) enjoyed the dinner and Matt's fantastic cinnabomb (no idea how to spell it).

During the dinner, I was on the mission to take a self portrait with everyone on the table. Well surprisingly enough, I succeeded it :P I also had an attempt to try to make everyone move during the dinner but I think everyone was setting down enough not to want to move so that didn't happen...

We mostly chatted after dinner, some people played guitarhero a bit and the others did a puzzle. The teddy bear that I got with people's huge essays is soooo cute and I feel really really lucky to have you guys as my best buddies. The uni people gave me this awesome awesome photo frame, that I am pretty sure I will spend a lot of time looking at while trying to study in Purdue.

Thank you again so much for all the people who came to the party tonight. Without you guys, that party would have been so boring... There is actually no highlight that I can remember, but throughout the night, I had a ball! good fun.

All the photos of tonight will eventually go on facebook so be patient.

I will miss you guys heaps over the next 12 months but I will keep in touch with you and everything will be remain unchanged until I come back to Melbourne.

Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day with moving most of my furniture to Misato's in the afternoon. So I shall go to bed now.

My last netball game

Yesterday...
After a successive day of packing my stuff into boxes, I went to my last netball game.
I usually play WA so i did.
It was an awesome game. We won for like 25-17 or something. can't really remember.
But I remember Dennis was awesome. and everyone went nuts.
At one stage, I was hit in my head by some guy's elbow and felt dizzy....
But the umpire didnt call anything.. probably because I was just running through the guy's elbow area and that's not really his fault... But I felt that I was about to have concussion. haha.

We also filled in for some team that forfitted or something. So we played the second game.
Haha then, I played Centre and GS. neither of which is my usual position.
As it was my 2nd game, I was pretty much too dead to even run back to do a centre pass. and we only had 5 players (No wings) for the most of the first half. It was very tiring. and pretty much I was useless. For the second half, I played GS. Never played it before. I keep on wanting to go into the centre third and being yelled at by my opposition guy. I had 4 shots, none of which actually went in. We lost 37-7 or something. It was still a very fun game.

Tonight, I am having a Formal Dinner party with my close friends just to have a chance to say proper good-byes. I probably should go start cooking or something.

Still, music from Purdue marching band has not arrived yet....