still heart you, Surabaya

It's a throwback posting for few years back. I got few questions about Surabaya -and why I consider to live here, instead of let's said.... Sodom and Gomorah Jakarta.

Ok, first thing first. I love driving. When I'm in doubt or need to clear the clouds in my head, I will order caramel frappuccino from Starbucks I will drive. And Jakarta is not a condusive city to facilitate my hobby : driving and racing, sometimes.

Hell yeah, forget it.... I will not driving there.

Plus, Surabaya is a very nice city. Heard on people's medok-Jowo-Suroboyoan accent, with their looked-so-conservative-but-not-so-conservative attitude.... makes this city becomes.....unpredictable. Cursing with "JANC*K" or you can just shorten it with "C*K" considered as kind and rude gestures in the same time. So, no offense here. Calling your friends with 'asu c*k' (dogshit) or 'lambemu c*k' (watch your mouth, dude !) are very acceptable and not considered as rude here. If someone is very offensive, I suggest you to stay in Jogja or Solo or somewhere in central Java and not here....  or Jakarta.

Local food are great here. Almost you can't find elsewhere. For example.... rujak cingur (surabaya's mixed salad. With cow's nose inside), lontong kupang (miniclams dish with shrimp paste), semanggi suroboyo (semanggi leafs with peanut paste). I love local food here!

And people here are so..... bonek (dare to bet with their life. As if they have 9 lives). You can see a family of 5 in one motorbike or kids under ages are riding a motorbikes.

Or crossing the rail line.... 

They think they are so cool for doing this!

farewell, gio

Our big family lost Gio - my 18yrs old cousin on January 4th. Rest in peace, my brother. You will truly missed. Sad to see you leaving in this very young age. How is heaven? For sure it is beautiful. Yes it breaks our heart, but no more pain for you. Farewell Gio, til we meet again.

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So, welcome 2016 !

Here I am, enjoying my coffee, updating news in my blog, chilling with my kindle and guess what... life is good. I took 1 day off on January 1st, and yesterday I rocked clinic again. I took 2 new invisalign impressions yesterday. Cheers for amazing 2016 !

First selfie in 2016. I need to improve my upper incisors - intrude them more ! 

Have a nice Sunday. Lotsa love, beautiful people !

2-0-1-6 resolution

2015 was a blast. It's amazing and passed like a blink. I learned a lot, read a lot (and still a lot more !), tried an app that scared me a lot !met a lot of new good amazing people : patients, friends, colleagues.... I didn't travel as much as previous year, but still.... it was awesome.

So here comes the list for 2016 resolution !
1. Exploring Indonesia even more !
I'm not a globetrotter. But I should land my legs to at least 5 different cities in Indonesia this year ! (and Jakarta is not counted, since I travel back and forth there like.....endlessly).

2. Learn Spanish !
Well, I'm not too old to learn a new language. At least, before I hit 30 yrs old, I can greet my patients in 5 languages : Indonesia, English, Chinese, French, and Spanish.

3. Live my life !
Do yoga, and read more. 1 book per month. I should make myself proud since I haven't finished any single books last year due my lame excuse : too busy. Oh, and I should write more.

4. Learn to dance !
This is also in my list. I should learn to dance, babyyyyyyy....

5. Diamond invisalign provider
I hit platinum elite this year with 300 live-ongoing cases. And as I'm still young and eager to study lots, I should learn more to gain more cases this year. Am I too much if I put 'selfpride-achievement' as my reason to do this ?

So, 2016, I will fight to live my life to the fullest with full spirit ! And everytime I feel down, I will re-read my list.

PS : And I should wise enough to be more selective. Note to myself that I don't need to be TOO kind to people who don't worth my kindness ;)

never argue (with an idiot)

Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

And completely waste your time (and energy too)

Agree?

baby shower

3 babies are coming soon and I threw a baby shower for my 3 dental classmates today. Guess what.... the weather was freaking HOT. Glad that the event went smooth.... we just showered them and the blessed babies to come with a lot of LOVE.

Me in peranakan outfit. I just love this style so much!!

Have a great Sunday, people. Will land into my pilates mat again tomorrow morning !!

good morning from surabaya !!

Good morning from Surabayaaa. Very hot today. I think I have melted already!!

So I had done with yoga session, back to clinic for few follow up appointments, and so ready to finish this day with piles of clincheck reviews.

Hongkong invisalign summit trip confirmed. So good to know that I will be back in this city soon!!!

operation smile

I support this operation smile - together with invisalign to help children worldwide by giving them better smile. You can check on my instagram : @gigisehatdental or facebook : Gigisehat for details

Thanks for all supports !

from shanghai with love

Quick post from Shanghai Dentech 2015. I don't recommend any cheap stuffs in hall 2. Especially Dental Life Sciences products. For your patients, just go to a good quality composites. I purchased this brand a lot last year -expected too much from this brand because of their sweet marketing talk. I end up using all of them to mock up and posterior bite risers. In end, no any syringes that I use to cavity filling. Because its all oily and after curing, it will turn out very bulky. Oh and I don't recommend their colour composites too. The worst ever. I prefer to go back to twinkle star from voco as this one is still my best. This DLS is in hall 2. Dont get tricked by their marketing. He has the sweetest talk ever. Just felt surprised this year they still have a booth there. I think they bankrupt already because of the poor quality hahaha

So far, 3M, tokuyama and voco are all standing-applause composites. For the strength and esthetic too. My advice is, never lower your composite standard with cheaper one. Because your patients consents should be your consideration.

Love you, Shanghai !!

shameless selfies - my invisalign journey

Pardon my shameless selfies, I just can't help it!!! I'm falling in love with my smile - as the 10.5 months invisalign progress is super awesome!!!

Bye bye protrusion, bye bye openbite, my own case was a challenging one - but I did it !!! Very happy that these aligners can boost up my confidence to smile. I used to bite my lip when I smiled. But now, no more lip biting !!

Cant be happier with my invisalign. And guess what, my patients are TOO !!! Check out instagram @gigisehatdental for some of my patients' invisalign-gallery.

Counting days to Shanghai for Dentech. See ya next week, good people

sawadeeka!

Had a wonderful peer to peer invisalign study group with an old friend of mine - dr. Thiti from Bangkok. I supposed to visit his clinic in Bangkok when I went there for G6 launching, but he was on holiday (as always!! He even wondered why I always make a lecture trip and not a holiday trip). Thank you for visiting my clinic! We had a tough discussion about some class III cases and it was fun!

Had a good time with Ivan and Eliz also. Thanks a lot for visiting me. See you again in Bangkok !

masterchefs are in the house!

Those 2 rising-star young idols : Reynold (masterchef Australia) and Arnold (masterchef Indonesia) were in clinic yesterday. So good to see you guys. 

Guess what treatment he will get soon.

Only in Gigi Sehat Dental @gigisehatdental  - Surabaya Invisalign Center

Keep you updated!!!!

clincheck review

Good morning from my office !!!

I'm reviewing some clinchecks this morning. Got some difficult cases lately that I need to modify lots. Well, it doesn't matter tho' .... I love to create smiles and seeing that those smiles I'd made can change someone's life!

Now I sound like a saint of smile -haha!!! Anyway, I'm proclining my upper anterior now. Do you notice that it looks better??

I'm also preparing for Saturday's talk show in Ciputra World. I was being invited to give a talk show about managing children's dental health. Well, stay tuned and see you all there !!

Have a great day for y'all!!!

good morning, jakarta!

I rarely stay overnight in Jakarta. I avoided it if I could -due the massive traffic jam that can freak me out hahaha....  but this time i can't resist to stay overnight, taking a short escape to visit my friends' clinics here.

Yesterday I was attending Sam Daher's lecture. It was an awesome one! And yes, I gathered again with my love-to-study-to-the-bits fellows : dr. Ade and dr. Hilly

And guess what.... for the first time in our life we captured a shameless picture in front of Welcome Monument in bundaran HI Jakarta. Just above the flyover Thamrin. Hahahahahaha we put down our professional image by this picture !!!

Finally I visit Dr. Hilly's place in HDS Kemang. A very nice place. Together with Angelo, the new invisalign qsouth east asia manager.

Thanks a lot for your hospitality,  dr. Hilly. A pleasant trip in your clinic. Many times I fly to Jakarta for lectures, but finally this time I can make it. Yaaaaayyy !!!!

Pardon my selfie. But i really love my new smile. It improves a lot with invisalign !!!

baby dental care

My very cute patient this morning !!!!

So today is quite a hectic one since morning. I skip my pilates class and struggle in office already since 7am. My beautiful assistants had scheduled me a hectic morning. But great to have this little cutie pie in noon time.

And great that now I'm having 20 minutes break time to update my blog hahaha...

She had become my patient since she's 6 months old and look at her now.... very2 cute and smart in her 3yo age. I woof you so much Mibelle *kisses*

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