Random Recommendations

Saturday, October 22, 2005

1. NIVEA facial cleansers ROCK! Though they come in such small containers, but just a tiny BIT is enough to lather onto your whole face, unlike those stupid big bottles of cleansers that you can fill your ENTIRE palm with yet is unable to spread all over your face. BLEARGH!

2. I still maintain the belief that certain (sanitary) pad companies have mostly GUYS working in them, which explains why they don't do their proper job of retaining SOMETHING properly. Two words: Whisper rocks!

3. Piercing of your tragus should be considered PROPERLY. Especially if you have 'loser' skin like mine that has infections so easily like it's free-of-charge (Oh wait, infections are REALLY free-of-charge).

Well, on Thursday night, being a spur-of-the-moment thing, I got my tragus pierced. That Thursday night we were all happy and all.






All went well, or so I thought, until exactly 24 hours later.

Xiang brought me home and I went to take a shower. Came out and lay down on the bed watching TV like a sleeping buddha while the Good Jerk was playing his favourite D2 at a corner.

Then I felt water trickling down my ear where I had pierced the tragus.

Nothing wrong with it. I had just finished bathing. And it was frequent that I got water in my ears after baths. But this was weird. I didn't wash my hair, so where did the water come from?

Sat up, put my little finger into my ear and looked.

Wow, blood!

Please let me remind you, if you're not sure if its blood, don't touch it because it is VERY DIFFICULT to wash blood when it gets stuck around the corners and under your fingernails.

Tissues, cotton buds, cotton wools, pillows and my handphone keypad were the victim of this bloody incident.

It was really weird that such a small puncture wound could bleed that much. But the most difficult thing was cleaning my ear.

Thank goodness Good Jerk was there. I guess I'm not wrong to say he's the one that had all the fun.

Like, duh! If you were with us last night, you would have thought we were two kids playing Doctor and Patient. Needless to say who's acting which role!

He was cleaning away the blood, acting like an expert and describing the situation to me (the humble patient) how it looks like etc etc. Then he would apply the aloe vera gel, settle back and say "Ok, you're gonna be okay".

Then he realised no, the blood didn't stop. So he used a spray bottle to squirt water into the ear again (thus cleaning away the aloe vera gel which he will GLADLY re-apply AGAIN!) and the cleaning process starts all over.

We must have spent 45 minutes like that until I had had enough of the nonsense and decided to take out the stud.

And when I decided that, where did my 'doctor' go?

He fled. Literally, to the other corner of my room sitting in front of the computer, not doing anything.

Slowly, I took out the stud which feels awfully weird, but surprisingly NOT painful. The bleeding eventually DID stop, or else I wouldn't be here typing about this right now.

So, girls and boys, think TWICE about piercing tragus. Go do your lobes for all I care.



Finally, when the bleeding is stopping

CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 1:02 pm