C'est Moi

there's the usual: eat sweets like there's no tomorrow, don't brush your teeth regularly, smoke, weaken your resistance so much that your body won't be able to fight off bacteria.

but there's also the most obvious sin: ignore your dentist when she teaches you how to brush your teeth and floss them properly. ignore her for a couple of years until you develop gingivitis and then worse, paradontitis. then you have to go to a specialist...

... a specialist who will poke at your gums with this sharp instrument until they start throbbing and you begin to wonder if this is the precursor to root canal in some damnable future.

... this same specialist will charge an exorbitant rate for the first evaluation session and promise even more exorbitant rates for the subsequent treatments (oh believe me, there will be more than one!à

... this branch of dental care will, of course, Not be covered by insurance

which means that my hope of getting a decent 4-megapixel digital camera with video-taking capacities will remain just a dream, or any faint hopes of going to spain, greece, or the uk will have to be snuffed out.

yaaarghhh this throbbing will go away in a month's time... at least i hope so! para naman i can eat without guilt again =)