The Dawn of a New Day

Sunday, May 15, 2005

yeah yeah that's me. for today at least. the most unfortunate thing happened to me today as i strolled unsuspectingly along the bustling streets of orchard. just as i was about to walk past the ice-cream man, a lethal speck of smouldering cigarrette ash from some yellow-toothed-gum-diseased-rotten-nailed-black-lunged goblin flew into my LEFT EYE. of course, goblin didnt take notice. i blinked. (not at him-- i was trying to get the jolly little bonfire out of my eye) Anyway, it got even worse. For those my well-informed friends, i am currently in my first week of hard lense wear, no? and the bloody speck sneaked under my lense, so each time i blinked, my lenses would move, and mr.speck would graaatee and cchhafffee at my iris. i wanted to scream and tear my eyes out of my face, grab anyone pluck at their eyes and nose and scream hysterically "IM GOING BLIND SAVE MEEEE!!!!!!!!!" but all i could do was blink and blink and blink and the tears were just falling and falling. A couple of passerbys shot me quizzical looks (or maybe some other look--i was almost blind anyway) Guess they were thinking to themselves "poor girl, just got dumped. must be." i don't suppose they'd think i got lost huh, too old for that. anyway, back to the speck.

i really needed to get that speck out right, so i had to take out the lenses first. Wei (who happens to be the hero of the story, as you shall see), sat me down at a bench nearby. i squeezed out my lenses, which were blood-stained, and dabbed the rest of the blood away from my eye with a tissue paper. haha. ok i was just kidding about the blood. gotcha didnt i? bahahha gullibility. anyway, wei offered to get me saline solution and a lense container from paris miki in taka which was really the best thing anyone could offer to do for me at that point in time. So, for the next few minutes, i sat blindly and blinked stupidly at the stream of people walking past me, oh, and got attacked by 1 surveyor, who stared at my bloodshot left eye in horror for a split second before he tried to regain his composure. i swear i wanted to slap him with his survey forms. BUT, being the polite girl i am, i did the survey like a little blind mouse anyway. A little while later, wei emerged from taka triumphantly with 3 bottles of saline in his left hand, and 1 lense holder in his right! yayyyyyyyyyyyy maaaaahhhh savior!!!!!!!!!! ahhaha i know he ran coz he just took like what, 5 minutes? and honestly im very touched. perhaps it's times like these when i am placed in a completely helpless and vulnerable situation that i realise the goodness in others i guess! so here's to you wei, thanks sweetie. you're a life saver!

9:14 AM
still alive, but not kicking.