Sole in One

Had a bad day at the office. Went to work as usual, just changed out my shoes to something I had not worn in a while. I had used it the previous week before with no problem but this time at work I notice my right side shoe was getting a little loose. Checked it out and to my horror found out that the sole was breaking. So had to make the journey back home quickly to get a new pair. Did not make it all the way. The back broke as I was half way home and had to shuffle the rest of the way. First time I have encounter a shoe-drobe malfunction

Here’s what’s left of it.

 

The Emerald Ring

“In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night

No Evil Shall Escape my Sight.

Let Those Who Worship Evil’s Might

Beware My Power, Green Lantern’s Light”

and so the Oath goes, I caught the opening day movie with the Fan Boys. It was organised by the local comic shop, which was great it meant no queue for tickets and you usually get freebies as well. I’m not exactly a big fan of Green Lantern … more a Superman, Batman, Justice League fan. (Marvel would be Spiderman, X-Men and Fantastic Four) but a comic book movie I would definitely go and watch it. Got the tickets, great seats at Cathay where I caught the movie and man I think it was in digital. (you know I have yet to catch a 3-D movie maybe one day I would)

Anyway I get my tickets and my GL Ring and the place was packed … total sell out, all the tickets had been snapped up. Had the lucky draw and did not get anything ah well at least I caught the movie. It was great, actually the other GL’s were better than Earth’s very own Hal Jordan. I kind of prefer them especially Kilowog. Way cool, Not sure why they start making “planet destroying evil enemies” cloud creatures !! Probably borrowed from FF2. All in a fun movie to catch, so that’s the 3rd Comic Movie I caught this year after Thor and X-Men : First Class. Next up I think it Transformer’s and then it’s the debut of Captain America !! And oh do stay for the credits for the little extra …….

Tooth Fairy

I finally decided to get my wisdom tooth taken out on the advice of the dentist when I had my regular check-up earlier this year, yep it’s almost 5 months since I went to get it checked out and had been procrastinating the removal till now. So made my appointment and was all set for the removal. I knew it would be a long process as I had to remove 2 teeth upper and lower right side. The dentist had already told me it looks like 1 was a straight forward removal while the other had to operate on to get it out. The lower one was the complicated tooth. I arrived at the dentist at 10am for my appointment. They took an X-Ray of my mouth just to be sure where everything was and there was an explanation of what to expect. What was wrong was my lower tooth looked like this …..

The tooth was lying on it’s side and was growing towards the other teeth, it was also near a nerve (in red) and to get it out needed to operate and cut the tooth into 4 to remove it. The nerve maybe damaged I was told, but it was not a motor nerve more of a sensory nerve so I would have use of my mouth but in a small percentage of cases I could loose some feeling. Anyway I decided to go ahead with it.

The Dentist injected my gums both upper and lower to numb the area and then she proceeded to cut up my lower tooth. It was a huge tooth and I was told it’s why you should get your wisdom tooth removed early as it is softer when you are younger and easier to remove. They gave me a squeez ball to hold in case I got over excited. So the drilling and cutting began halfway through they had to change the drill bit as it was worn out. Guess I had like iron teeth or something like that. After sectioning and pulling and cutting and more digging, a part finally came out. On to the other 3/4’s left behind. In the end they had to section it into 5 pieces and the tooth finally came out. By now the numbness was wearing off and I was given another injection so that they can work on my upper tooth. Just a tweak and a twist and a pull and the tooth came out. It was not noon. I was there at 10am, the briefing was about 15 minutes, to take out the upper tooth was 5 minutes, the rest of the time of 1 hr and 40 minutes was spent getting the lower tooth out, half way through I was really nervous and I think I started praying especially when the drilling and cutting started.

The 2 days after the operation were the worst, swollen mouth and the aching was there just a mild one but still persistent.it’s like a headache that never goes away. The painkillers help but it got better after that. I have just return to the dentist after 10 days to get my stitches out and everything seems to be find now. The cut still needs some time to heal but it was healing well according to the dentist. Most scary and painful thing I have ever done.

GROSS

WARNING

Here is my big upper tooth in 1 piece and the 5 fragments from my lower tooth.

X-Men–First Class

Got to catch the First Day opening of X-Men First Class as the missus had some complimentary tickets from her company as part of a company event. We were given popcorn and a hot dog as well as a cup of coke together with the free tickets.

As a comic fan, really love those comic movies that have come out. X-Men First Class is about the beginning of the X-Men or as I would like to call it when Professor X had hair ha ha …. Its really strange seeing him with hair and walking !! Anyway its a great little movie even the missus enjoyed it, go catch it.

I have seen Thor this year and X-Men, I also got some tickets for the first day screening of Green Lantern which was organised by the local comic shop. Free gifts and all that will be the order of the day at that event. Probably wear my Green Lantern Shirt too.

FCBD 2011

I finally found where I downloaded those pics from my phone to. Just in time to write about FCBS 2011 as well. The first weekend of May is usually FCBD – Free Comic Book Day. That is where you can get some samples of various comics for free. Its a way for creators to showcase their works and get readers interested in their comics to continue buying them.


As you can see above it’s a relatively huge event long queue at G&B comics where if you are a member you get 10 free comics while non-members get 5. I went there quite early but still there was a queue. But it was fast moving, besides the free comic books, there was also a sale for Graphic Novels as well as an Artist Signing/Drawing session by Gary Erskine.

While in the queue met "Spiderman" and "Green Lantern" ha ha that was hilarious but the costumes were cool.



Was in the queue for about 20 minutes before I got in. Picked out my 10 free comics and they were giving away other free reads as well, older stuff just good for those bed time reads. Took some of those. And I got my book signed by Gary. Here he is doing a sketch for someone.



Till Next Year !!!!