Chubby Bunny

What comes to our mind when one says Chubby Bunny? A picture of a bunny rabbit with the puffiest cheeks? A well-rounded fluffy white thing with cute red eyes? Or a person whose cheeks are stuffed full of marshmallows? Well for me, what comes to mind is me. Just having had my wisdom teeth removed has presented difficult on me and my family. I normally eat lots, so having my mouth so swollen i can't even close it properly is making eating difficult. To make matters worse, i can't even brush my teeth by myself! I feel like such a pain, mum has to especially cook things for me to eat, the bar max has become my best friend, she even woke me up during the night so that i could take my painkillers and not die of pain when i woke up in the morning. THANKS MUM! AND WILSON! =D And i thought things couldn't get worse, my unit 3 exam results for biology come out tomorrow, and you have to collect them in person, but since i barely have the energy to move around the house, i couldn't possibly catch the train to and from the city just to pick up an envelope!! But at least it puts the pain in perspective.

The friday before i had the surgery, two of my youth leaders prayed that the whole process would work out smoothly and if things didn't they reminded me that it was God's will. So i suppose this whole experience is God's way of teaching me patience and consolidating my faith. Praise be to God for he loves us and wants the best for us. When i think about it, i haven't really ever experienced this degree of discomfort, i had a pretty injury-free life, apart from crashing a rented bike with no brakes and running head first into the corner of the washing line, i've never even had a blood nose or broken/fracture/torn anything. As you may or may not know, i'm doing the 40 hour famine this year, for the first time ever. And my prayer going into this challenge was that i wouldn't concentrate on the money that i could and would raise, but on raising awareness and being thankful of the things that i have, how much i have to be thankful for. My father in heaven is a father who listens to my prayers and i'm so glad that he doesn't answer in the way that i expected, what could one gain from that!

My diet for the past 60 or so hours has been water, potato, sweet potato, congee, jelly, Yakult, egg and pear. I have had so much butter and evaporated milk in my mashed tubers that i won't be surprised if i gained weight even though i haven't been able to eat much. In case you are ever fortunate enough to have any teeth removed, i suggest orange juice jelly (orange juice with gelatin, not the coloured packet stuff) with vanilla yoghurt, apple juice jelly with evaporated milk, steamed egg custard (like the one that Adam made on Masterchef, just for the record, i'm pretty sure all asian mums could make the same dish, i've certainly had it since almost forever) and Yakult. That is if you like Yakult. Some people don't, which really rocked my world upside down in grade 3 when my class visited a Yakult factory. Strange huh!