My Teeth

 

X-ray of my teeth on 15 March 2024 at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Since last year, I had been having dry mouth.  My teeth was painful when eating and also when not eating.  It caused lots of pain when eating food.  I did not know what was the reason and I thought that I had diabetes since I feel thirsty.  However, blood test shows that I do not have diabetes.  The doctor just asked me to drink more water.  So I went to Chinese doctor, Ma Kuang TCM at Causeway Point.  I had the chinese medicine for almost a month, and the physician asked me to go back to the western doctor.  So the doctor referred me to the General doctor at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.  

Last year September 2023, I went to 888 Plaza, First Impression dental clinic.  The dentist was a locum and she never even do a thorough check on my teeth and she just 'refer' me to the hospital.  I asked her for a referral letter, she said I need to book appointment myself.  For that 'advice' (consultation?) she said I need to pay $10.  So from that visit, I did not go back to any other dentist.  I just need to take good care of my teeth.  

Isaac said that I brush my teeth too hard.  He also had problems with plaque and the nurse need to clean for him.  So in January, he came across an electrical toothbrush, Aquasonic Power Toothbrush.  

Photograph of the Aquasonic Toothbrush charging on the dock and the UV sanitizing chamber

The toothbrush comes with five modes -- clean, soft, whiten, massage and deep clean. There is a timer also so that when you are brushing your teeth, you can know how long you have brushed each segment of your teeth.  After brushing your teeth, the brushes can be put in the UV sanitizing chamber to kill all the germs.  So every morning, Isaac and I will take out the brush heads from the sanitizing chamber, put it onto the aquasonic toothbrush.  There are altogether 3 slots of spaces for you to put 3 brush heads in the sanitizing chamber.  Isaac and I each one took a corner of it.  

Using an electric toothbrush is so much easier to brush the teeth.  It is so effortless when brushing with aquasonic toothbrush.  With the timer, it has really helped me to time my toothbrushing on the teeth.  We bought Aquasonic Toothbrush from amazon.sg.  I really recommend this product because it is very good.  If you want to see the details of this product, click on the link.  After using this product, I am not using too much force on my teeth already.   

Photograph showing the UV- sanitizing chamber of the Aquasonic toothbrush

Now my teeth is so much better, but the dentist said that I need to do a root canal treatment for my upper second premolar tooth because it is a dead tooth.  She said that somehow this tooth had experienced some trauma and is dead.  There is a black cavity on top of the tooth inside the gum if you see the x-ray carefully.  So I need to go back to the dentist for another 3 more session to do treatments to my teeth.  

Beautiful Woodlands

 

Photograph of Woodlands captured while I was cycling on the pavement

Two days ago, I was cycling along Woodlands towards Admiralty at night.  Then I saw the lightings over at Admiralty.  I already knew about the event, the 'Pasar Malam' at Admiralty some time ago, but that was in the day time that I used to pass by every time.  However, two days ago, it was the first time at night that I cycled over to Admiralty, and I saw the beautiful lightings.  I didn't know that Woodlands can be so beautiful!

 

Video showing the beautiful Stonehedge at night at Fu Shan Garden 

 I only know that at Fu Shan Garden, there are beautiful lights at the stonehedge.  I think the MPs are doing a good job at our neighbourhood.  In this Hari Raya Puasa season, I registered for Ramadan Belanja A Meal and I got free meals for my family.  This year, I also applied for another event which is Back To School or something like that, got freebies like water bottle, school bag and cash for Isaac.  Many people in Woodlands love our MP, Mariam Jaafar so much.  She really organize so many activities and really help the neighbourhood a lot during these times where living expenses are so high.  

Watch the reel for the nigh scene I created at YouTube here.

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Wall Charger

 

Mazer Wall Charger (100W) purchased recently

My old wall charger is more than 5 years old already and it is 36W.  The brand of my old charger is Ugreen.  I had purchased a new charger that is White in colour as shown above, Mazer Wall Charger.  I like the colour so much.  Not only is it so nice, it can charge my phone at a faster rate too.  Whenever I charge my phone it will appear 'super fast charging'.  With the old wall Ugreen charger, it will read 'fast charging'.  

Ugreen wall charger is very good.  I have been using the old wall charger for more than 5 years and lately I bought another Ugreen wall charger for Isaac also, as shown in the photograph below.  It will charge our handphone at a super fast rate.  

 

Ugreen Wall Charger

Anker Wall Charger

The above Anker Wall Charger is even older.  It is my first wall charger purchased many years ago.  It is perhaps more than ten years old already.  Anker is a good brand and it is so lasting.  

Mazer Wall Charger comes with 2 years warranty and you can bring it along when you go travel overseas.  It comes with travel pins.  So I would recommend you to buy Mazer Wall Charger if you are looking for one.  

Sometimes when you forget to charge your phone and you need to go out already, then Mazer Wall Charger can help you.  It can charge your phone in just a short while as compared to the older wall charger of mine.  

Gardening

 

My Seven Stars Needle Plant or Rose Cactus Plant

Gardening is my hobby.  Every day when I walk to my garden and see flowers at my plants, I feel so happy.  Besides the above Seven Stars Needle Plant, I also have curry leaves plant (Murraya koenigii), money plant, Mexican petunia or Ruellia simplex, ferns (Nephrolepis exaltata), Money plant (Epipremnum Aureum), Basket/ Corn plant (Dracaena fragrans), Arrowhead (Syngonium Prodophyllum), Mother of thousands or Mexican hat plant (Bryophyllum daigremontianum), Water Jasmine (Wrightia Religiosa), Plyscias Balfouriana, Oyster plant (Tradescantia spathacea), bougainvillea, chilli plant, butterfly pea plant, Papaya plant, clover (Oxalis corniculata), cactus, cotton plant and Adenium obesum (福贵花).

Recently I sold some plants and this give me more motivation to grow and propagate more plants.  I bought lots of soil from Shopee and Lazada.  When the buyer wanted to buy my plants, I gave them the good nice ones.  If they are not so healthy, I gave them a cheaper rate.  When I sell them my plants, I gave them pots with so much soil as compared to the nurseries, where they gave half pot of soil or sometimes three quarter of soil.  

 Potting Soil that I purchased from Shopee

Garden Soil that I purchased from Shopee

Good soil is so important for the plants.  It gave them the good nutrients to thrive in the environment.  So when the soil I ordered came, I need to mix the soil before repotting my plants.  

Picture of the containers I used to mix the soil

I mostly do my gardening at night, where it would be not too hot.  At night the plants would not lose much water content too.  

If you want to buy soil in bulk, Shopee is selling a bundle of 3 at $13, a bundle of 5 at $25.  These prices are for the potting soil on the above photograph.  Yesterday I ordered 10 packets of  potting soil from Shopee!  As for the other photograph of the garden soil, Shopee is selling at 1 packet $6.80 (5 Litres).  There are so many varieties of medium you can used for your plants at Shopee.  Buying in bulk saves money and you do not need to carry them too.