I Have Been Bespectacled

I haven’t had a pair of spectacles since I left secondary school eons ago… 

I won’t walk into a canal or miss the train door without specs/contacts… but I can’t really see the bus numbers, etc. 

So one day I woke up with a really bad eye. My right eye was feeling sore a hell… I could hardly open it! 

I panicked. 

Omg. I’m going blind. Shit. 
No, wait. I still have one more eye… albeit not that much of a consolation… 
Oooh… Bummer, it hurts just blinking. Urgh. 

So with my left eye open, I sent a WhatsApp to my boss that I won’t be going in for work. 

At the doctor’s… 

Doctor: Okay, so I don’t really know what’s wrong… 

Me: -Oh crap. It’s either I have contracted a rare disease or this fella is a waste of my money.- 

Doctor: So I’ll just give you eye drops anyhow. Do you wear contacts? Are you wearing them now?

Me: Didn’t you just look into my eye? No, I’m not. But yes, I normally do. 

Doctor: For long hours? 

Me: Yea, I work about 12 hours a day. 

Doctor: Ahh! Explains it! 

Me: -Conclusion: he’s a waste of my money.-

The eye drops helped… but I knew that wearing contacts at least 12 hours a day, 5 days a week was just digging the grave for my precious peepers. 😦 

So over the weekend, Lily brought me to this little shop to get my spectacles done! 

While I was browsing around, Shop Uncle drew out this pair of black frames. 

Shop Uncle: This one is good! It is unbreakable! *bends the entire spectacle*

Me: Oh wow! *utterly amused*

Shop Uncle: You buy others, you will come back 3 months later. You buy this one, 1 year later. 

Me: Uncle… I come back and give you business, you don’t want ah? 

Okay, honestly I’m hoping they last more than a year… but then again, I might just get sick of them by that time. 

They’re actually an “army” pair. That’s how hardcore they are!

So this is how they look!

Ramen for dinner after spectacle-shopping!

So because I didn’t want to go through that eye-problem ordeal again, I vowed to myself that contacts will only be used for non-working days!