Synonymous eye problems

The phrase ‘eye problems’ is synonymous to Clement Chan, sufferer of unsympathetic encounters of the various kinds of eye troubles, ranging from the erosion of cornea to broken and lost spectacles. Today, while rushing to college when Andy arrived earlier than the designated time, something must’ve went wrong when I felt acute uneasiness on my left eye and had to take the contacts out.

Trala to my utmost disgust my lens had shrivelled and dried up like your balls when you sink yourself in icy cold water and not wanting to be defeated by this, I doused it with mineral water in hoping that would revive it and in the end it turned out that it caused further irritation as a reward for my foolishness.

With no container to place the lens, I dunked it in my water bottle made out of hardy plastic (not that cheap RM1 bottle you buy from 7-Eleven).

So I sent SMSes to a few of my friends enquiring for the location of an optometry at SS15, but most replied in the negative save for Siew Keat, who said it’s near Burger King.

Had to go to my Accounting tutorial with perfect vision in one eye and terrible blur seizures in the other. And, having to close my other affected eye manually in order to see things clearly is like closing one of your nostrils and breathe. In the end all it managed to do is to induce headaches and I resigned in defeat.

I went to Subang Parade with Andy (I dangled free lunch in front of him for him to agree) with three of our other new-found friends. I went into this Optical 88 or sommat, obtained a new contact lens case and poured the multi-purpose solution in it (both ifor free) and went outside in search of a place to eat.

We went into Nando’s, where I took out my affected lens from my water container (had to pour its contents into a bowl since I couldn’t fish it out – Jo Vie’s idea) and wore it. Same irritation, gave up, took out both of my contacts and lived through horrid vision for the remainder of the day -- having braved through this situation multiple times made this disability and discomfort easy to bear.

My 1/4 chicken with two side orders for RM11.90.

Left side from front: me, Kenneth, Kent. Right side from front: Andy, Jo Vie (both notorious for constant bickering with one another).

Spent a total of RM38 in food (since I was belan-ing Andy) + parking ticket + some people owing me about RM2-3 as is the norm when you pay for the rest first and invite the rest to pay you back. Bankrupting ahhhh zomg.

I also slept like 40 minutes in my 3-hour Malaysian Studies class ‘cause was too tired and bored, but then again that 40 minutes was when we had a break the lecturer gave us. We even ended the entire lecture like 45 minutes earlier. o_o

Everyday I have to study or do my homework for at least an hour or more (usually more) not because I want to, but due to the existence of subjects such as Accounting which is akin to reading French, and the mid-term exams are supposedly held at the end of this month which made us go, “SO FAST!!!” when it seems like we had just started college.

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I am deeply saddened that Germany lost in the final two minutes in extra time against Italy. Wanted to watch the match but couldn’t as I have college the next day, but then again it’s a blessing in disguise as I wouldn’t be able to sit through 120 minutes worth of disappointment.

I have this strange inexplicable, unexplainable feeling that Portugal will win against France in 5 hours from now at the time of writing, so much so that I betted RM10 with Andy (who reduced it to RM5 after hearing our Malaysian Studies lecturer stating something about Portugal would win, something about information from bookie?).

Gogogo Luis Figo & Cristiano Ronaldo dancedanceagogo.