All Stitched Up

I just had my tooth implant operation yesterday. It was a simple procedure of screwing some piece of metal into my gum. At least it did not feel as scary as the tooth extraction. Haha so it is baby food or old man food for the next few weeks or at least until I remove my stitches. Thanks dear for accompanying me to the dentist to give me moral support, honestly I was more scared of this than the operation I had last time to sew up my forehead hahaha. Dunno why, perhaps it was that scary dentist who traumatised me when I was young during my root canal treatment. Anyway the treatment involved cutting open a flap of my gum, screw the metal base of the implant into my gum bone, and then adding some cement and bone fragments to stimulate bone growth there. So now the onus is on my body to produce bone at that area, so I must drink more soya milk or calcium. No cow milk becos the bone fragments used is extracted from cow bone, so there maybe an issue of tissue rejection. Haha so now I got moomoo implants in me. Anyway I am just glad that it is all over and I can just rest and concentrate on recovering.

Haha and to coincide with this is the long weekend, well not so long since I would be working on monday but then at least it is a complete weekend. Perhaps we would catch the movie UP today or have a nice meal together. Hehehe looking forward to it. Also looking forward to serve the children at church today as they do their 40 mins of prayer. Another highlight of the week was volunteering at APSN Delta Senior School where I played soccer with their soccer team. It is just heartwarming to see how their teacher/coach manages to inspire them in whatever he say and do. And he is such an inspiring individual, with the stature and the voice and the mannerism to go along. He looks somewhat over-qualified for the job, but then I guess that is where his heart lies, to serve the underprivileged of society. Well, maybe they are not so underprivileged, cos when they play you can see the pure unadulterated joy in their countenance, and it is just infectious. Haha and they really look up to people like us who dun interact with them often, and yet are willing to take time off to spend time with them. I really wish I can go down more often, it really takes the grind off the hectic schedule of work and makes one more human.

Lastly, hahaha just to share abit of my thoughts on the book I am reading now which is THE CRAFTSMAN by Richard Sennett. Basically the main argument of the book is that we should all strive to do whatever our craft is to the best of ability and not for the sake of performance bonuses or other economic rewards. We should take pride and joy in whatever God has ordained us to do and take it to our human limits. But the journey is difficult and becos of technology, human skill has taken a backend row with machinery replacing human skill or the lack of in many areas. But then we should still be adaptive and find our niche area and develop a skill in it. Perhaps that is what I should do, instead of being a jack of all trades, it is perhaps time to develop a mastery of one. Hahaha I wonder what that should be.

So, before I sign off, hahaha just wanna say a big thank you to my dear for being there for me and for supporting in times when I need it. Sorry for the times when I was being unreasonable and all the difficult times together. But then thanks for sticking around all these years. Love you so much dear.