"Are your toilet tank-lids chipped, cracked, broken or missing?" -- ToiletTankLid.com

 

 

Yes, as a matter of fact, I just dropped and broke a toilet tank lid past Sunday (Happy Chinese New Year!!) Oh well, great way to start a new year.  I can tell you, the feeling of dropping it is one of the worst I ever felt; I felt so defeated, like failing a midterm in university (tasted that a couple times)  I felt so bad that I didn't realize I got a cut in my left pinky finger (while trying to hold the ultra-sharp broken edge of that porcelain china lid)

 

And the cut was quite deep, it wasn't going to stop bleeding unless I get proper care.  So I ended up going to a hospital.  A nurse there was telling me that he's not sure if I need to get stiching, so I started waiting there (watching the Truman Show on TV).  After an hour or so, realizing no one in the waiting area get called, and that I won't get called for maybe another 10 hours, I had the nurse to look at the cut again.  Bleeding stopped, and although the nurse wouldn't say it on record, I don't think I need stiching, and so I just went home.

 

One "good" thing came out of this, this little cut will prevent me from playing some of those "dangerous sports"... I don't think I can hold a hockey stick with my pinky finger sticking out.  I probably won't even play soccer on Friday.  I guess my face won't get any more abuse (for at least a week).

 

P.S. I didn't think I can type with that finger, but I guess it's ok, I don't see any blood spilling (yet)

Just the other day I was telling a friend of mine from the states about my floor hockey game on Monday nights; "isn't that a dangerous sport?" I was asked.  I guess Americans think of hockey as an extreme sport; big towering guys, speeding on blades, throwing bodies at each other, and occasionally putting the puck in the net.

 

I told my friend that it's not dangerous at all, it's just bunch of friends playing some hockey, nowhere as dangerous as the professionals.  Well, the very next time I play, I got hit by the orange ball (it's floor hockey) right on my left eye.  The ball was travelling rather fast, and I got hit pretty good.  Good thing was that it hit more on the bone just under my eyebrow, so my eyeball did get all of it.  And my eye didn't get swollen (like getting punched in the eye); no one in the office seemed to notice.

 

Just when I thought I have tasted enough danger of sports, last night I got hit by a soccer ball right on the right side of my jaw.  Now, I have tasted my fair share of ball pie in Friday night soccer, and I can't recall any of them being as hard as this latest one; this guy was striking the ball and I was fairly close to him, didn't expect the ball go up so high so fast.  So hard that it is actually the left side of my jaw felt strained.  My friend there wondered if I have some concussion symptoms (No, I'm fine, but... where am I again?)

 

I can't remember (hmm, symptoms...) if I ever have strained jaw before, but I guess that's how it feels when you get punched in the face.  Hopfully it won't get swollen either.  And I think if I can just keep my jaw moving, the strain should go away quickly, so more biting action (i.e. food therapy)