Unaware or Just Don't Care?

I've been in pain the past week - went to the dentist with a slight pain in my gum, came back home with two cavities filled. Ended up with one week of a throbbing headache and tooth/gum-ache. Dentist then took an x-ray and says I have a gum problem; remedy - increase Vit C and Calcium intake and live with the pain.

Got a second opinion this morning (through life's experiences realise that at times doctors/professionals play guessing games). The minute my friend-cum-dentist Sabariah looks at the x-ray, she says there's a lesion on the gums as the root canal done few years' back wasn't a good job - only 1 of the canals had been filled (though not well compacted) and this has led to accumulation of dirt, etc leading to infection.

(Check out demo if want to know what a root canal is: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1759080/root_canal_treatment_procedure_mumbai_india/)

So today was my first out of three treatments to get a better job done. Yeah, no throbbing now, just soreness from the cleaning up of the canals.

Do people really know what they are doing or just out to make a fast buck?

The Red Telephone Box

News on the telly covered the sad fate of the red telephone box in Britain. With the advance of the communication era, they face a sad plight of ‘extinction’. To many, the red telephone box is as symbolic of Britain as fish and chips!

Well, we have our very own red telephone box in Cameron Highlands (opposite Ye Olde Smoke House)! Here are a couple of photos taken in 1992 and another two in 2007.
It's a sight for sore eyes now, obviously neglected. I wonder if there are other red telephone boxes in Malaysia? (Yes, that young chap in the white t-shirt is the same little boy with his granddad in the earlier pic!)

Can we save a piece of history?
Read on!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333543/Communities-rally-round-to-save-the-traditional-red-telephone-box.html

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Tractor-blockade-phone-box-stand/article-391059-detail/article.html

http://www.newtownabbeytoday.co.uk/news/DIALLING-UP-A-PLAN-TO.4639951.jp

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/-The-Italian-connection.4610938.jp