Eyes, eyes...Bb!

So, good news or bad news first? Let's announce the bad one first so you can leave on higher note.

My eyes are swollen. They swelled up due to prolong use of my contacts. Which my family doctor, Dr Chen, matter-of-factly described as - and I quote, " ..strangling your eyes off oxygen by wearing contacts longer than the instructed length recommended. Did you strangle your eyes last night Affandy?"

I said yes with the saddest expression I can give. As guilty as the kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar. I pulled my hands off the table half-expecting a smack on my palm.

He flipped out his blowtorch and instructed me to look left, right and up and down while he barbequed my now prune-shaped eye. Technically, the instrument he was using is called a torchlight but the light was cooking my corneas so yah, it was a blowtorch cos the examination was excruciating.

A half-pint of tears later I was diagnosed with medium bacterial infection on my left eye. That's what he told me though I think its medical term is something like Matabengkakiosa Sakitmanymanyingitis.

This was how it looked.

see...crying u noe! pain sia..

ugly like bird! (the eye only..)

So now, lest I wanna be blind for the rest of my life, I decided to get specs. Yes, the traditional way for myopics, presbyopics or hyperopics.

And this is me, now. Very 1998 but I must say, still - not bad, not bad.

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And now we have come to the happier, more positive side to this entry. What else would it be of but my Bb! It has taken her abit over a month but now she has got her wings! Or something like that. Nonetheless, CONGRATS!!

Princess Habibi? Habooby? Hubba-hubba?

Really miss her and things are really not getting better by the day but we're hanging on so that’s great.

Can't wait for u to be back here in SG dear. Till then, there's a dark, overweight, half-bald, swollen- eyed, flatulent Malay boy waiting here for you. I know u prefer me this way so I'll keep it up for your sake. Heh..