Pink NOTD; Bear NOTD, Rabbit NOTD, FREE Contact lenses

The fireworks display is crazy this year. Either the price of fire crackers were on sale or everyone is a little too happy welcoming the Dragon into the year. None stop fire works for 30 minutes, that's a lot of money burnt.

Our house has a fantastic view of all the fire works from most angle so I ain't complaining much. Not too sure how many dogs died of a heart attack with all the noise from the fire works though.

Started work on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year and we had to wear pink coloured T-shirts as we were doing a roadshow in Gurney Plaza. Coincidentally, Elisa gave me her Lavshuca eye shadow in PK-1.

So I had pink eye shadows to play with for the New Year. Pink still remains one of my most hated colours though. For my eyes I mean. It just makes me look as if its swollen. I'll probably use it to fool my doctor next time I get lazy... kidding!

I used MAC Let's Skate as base then the lightest pink, medium pink and the crazy hot pink. A little bit of MAC Typographic and called it a day. Add falsies and I'm pretty much done.

I didn't want to be too over done in pink. I'm not trying to compete with Barney or Barbie.

Bear Bear's NOTD

Decided to have Bear painted nails for the New Year, It wasn't too hard but my hands were a little shaky from the lack of coffee *sigh*

Since someone requested for a nail tutorial the last time I did my Froggy NOTD, I decided to do a tutorial for my Bear NOTD.

Pictures should be self explanatory right? RIGHT? A circle here, a circle there, a dot here, a dot there and voila, you have got yourself a bear!

Tutorial: FAIL!

Anyway, I cheated, It's much easier to use acrylic paint to paint your nails that nail polish so I'm confident anyone can do this too.

I'm a little smarter than the average Joe so.. I did housework; cleaned my room etc and spoilt all my nails. I R teh smartz!

Citadel's *ahem* acrylic nail colours. You can get these from your boyfriend if they happen to play Warhammer. If they don't just head to Game Forge over at Prima Tanjung, Penang to get it and ask boy friend to pay for it. Kidding :D

Colours I used:

Skull White
Chaos Black
Bleached Bone
Blood Red
Snakebite Leather

Ugly rabbits. No tutorial for this one. Who wants ugly rabbits on their nails. Blah!

Oh, I'm giving away my old contact lenses for FREE to anyone. But there's just two catch. Haaaa~ one: my power is -10.00

I believe it's rare to even find anyone with power as high as mine considering the fact that this power is never sold out. Nyahahaha!

I was in a rush to do my iLasik and forgotten that I still had a total of 4 pairs of contact lenses left. I have two with me. One in gray and one in blue. I threw the rest away as the date of expiry was 2011.

Two: Prove to me that your prescription is the same as mine and these are as good as yours. I'll pay for postage too! Unfortunately, my red packets wasn't too good this year so free shipping within Malaysia only.

Although this lenses can be worn for a year, I suggest you throw them away after no more than 3 months. Chances of them finding a new home is a little slim considering my 'blindness'... *sigh*

Update on my eyes

I took leave today hence free time to finally update my blog.

It's been a week since my eye surgery and it's been somewhat fine. Please note that eyery eye heals in different days and since mine had such high power to begin with, my healing time will be longer. The first day after the surgery, my colleagues mentioned that they were unable to even look at the computer screen and everything was extra bright for them, for me the brightness was fine but I became presbyopia. I was unable to read anything and it was hard to write as I could not see things close clearly. I am still suffering that now but I am able to see far with little or no problems. Doing eveything is a little like before, 60% based on sight, 40% based on guessing. Trust me, my guessing is so good that if I can read just bits of a word in a sentence, I can pretty much guess the rest.

I never realized how many people in the company actually went for this prcedure and weirdly, everyone says the same thing, 'Best thing I did in my life', even our very own Shop & Chomp, said the same thing, except that her's was something like 'Best thing I did in my life, besides marrying my husband' XD

As for me, would I say that? I'm still debating. I want clearer vision and I still want my contact lenses. LOL I'm a little greedy this way.

Best thing besides the eye surgery? I had little to no make up up nowadays. I am finally comfortable to show the world my actual skin. I'm so proud of myself. After the eye surgery, it was NO eye make up for a week. Imagine my horror when I first heard that, no mascara, no eyeliner? NOOOOOOOO!! Let me just die! Leave me alone and let me dieeeee!

Dramatic isn't it? But it was really how I felt. One week later, I don't care anyway. I just slap on some BB cream and blusher, colour in my eyebrows and I'm done. In 5 minutes flat and that means extra snooze time, yay!

I never claimed to have fantastic looking skin. My BB creams and foundation covered everything. Ahh, the wonders of cosmetics! Muaks!

A little while after surgery, I happily planned that after the surgery, I was going to secretly defy my surgeon's orders and wear contact lenses! Then I finally found out why that won't be happening.

1. Flattened cornea shape
2. Normal cornea shape

I remember him telling me that my corneo shape was going to change. I didn't expect that much. If you see 1. this is the shape of my cornea now. It's so much flatter than normal. No contact lenses are going to stick. *sigh* There goes my plan.

I can't wait to use make up again atleast, so many EOTDs I wanna try! So many bloggers out there with fantastic looking EOTDs that are calling my name!! ARGH!

Eye finally see! i-lasik done!!

Happy retirement, my old faithful glasses!
Dang one more box of unopened contact lenses T.T

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Finally saved enough money to do my i-lasik (intralase lasik) yesterday. If you're wondering what is I-lasik, it's a newer form of lasik. They don't usually let you know this but in lasik, they use a blade to create a flap. ie: cut open your cornea. If you're lucky, things will be smooth and nice, there are times when they might over cut your flap and end up cutting off your entire flap or even times when they cut a flap but left a small pinhole of uncut cornea right in the middle of your eyes. The cut might also be uneven. With i-Lasik the computer takes over the cutting of the flap so it's bound to be safer. I decided to get it done in Penang Adventist Hospital as they were the only ones in northern Malaysia what does i-Lasik. The other one is in Kuala Lumpur. Another reason being that PAH's price was reasonable. Others are priced atleast 40% higher.

Went for my eye assessment on Tuesday and went thru with the surgery the very next day. Was worried sick when the surgeon told me that he'll have to do manual calculation for my eyes since the computer is unable to calculate due to my extremely high power. See toldja I was half blind.

If you're wondering why do we need an eye assessment, its cause in order to go thru the surgery, we need healthy eyes, It's a little sad that about 50% of people usually fail their eyes assessment. Thus I was shaking in my boots. Even before all this, I have frequently 'abuse' my eyes. Reading in the dark, falling asleep with my contacts lenses on, not using eye drops, poking my eyes with eyeliner pencils, liquid eyeliners, mascaras, you name it I've done it and that includes walking into doors and hitting my eyes due to my own carelessness.

What you might see is the pic on the left, without my glasses, the pic on the right is what I see. At merely 3 feet away.

Things might not go well, I might still end up with glasses and I will NEVER be able to wear contact lenses ever again. This is because the shape of my cornea would have changed and flatted. The contact lenses part hurt me the most knowing that I have worn contact lenses for the past 11 years and my love for coloured contacts. To me, no eyemake up is really complete without coloured contacts for us Asians anyway. How sad it that. And to have the possibility to wear glasses after the procedure is a total pain in the *toot*.

I trusted my surgeon, Dr Tah since I knew he was the super careful type that will never do the procedure if he was not comfortable with it. He wasn't the money crazy type and was an extremely humble man. I really put all my trust in him when I decided to go thru with the procedure. Worst I had to decide in less that 3 hours for a life changing experience. Good or bad. There was many risks to consider.

In the end, I decided that I did not wish to live the rest of my life blindly and forever searching for my glasses every morning and not being able to function without my glasses. Also I acknowledge the fact that long term use of contact lenses is bad for the eyes. Not only it distorts the shape of the eyes, there will also be risk of eye infection that might lead to something worst as well as the fact that contact lenses are actually very very dirty things. A fact that all these while, I rather not think about.

I told JH that I decided to go thru with the surgery and all he said was, 'Ok, lets go get you new glasses soon' and ' I like you in glasses anyway'. That really sealed the deal and also reminds me of how much I really appreciate him and love him, they way he accepts me as I am. Flawed and all.

Eye see youuuuuuu~
Nope, my eyes didn't turned horribly weird afterwards, It still looked normal after the surgery

The entire surgery was pretty much painless. It would have been great if my mom and dad was there with me thru the surgery but I didn't tell them to come since I fear it might gross my mom out. My managers and colleague came for the moral support instead which was comforting.

I accept that fact that even after the procedure I will not be able to get 20/20 vision because my power is too high and there wll be leftover power. I've been warned that I will probably have a max of -150 left but from -1200 to -150 doesn't sound too bad :P (There I've finally revealed my biggest secret ever. My eye power was actually -1200) My colour contacts wasn't because I was vain, it was because I neeeeeeed them and hey if I had to wear contacts anyway why shouldn't I 'beautify' myself by getting coloured ones, right??

GO ME! lmao

A BIG BIG thank you to the surgeon, Dr Tah and the nurses at Penang Adventist Hospital's Vision Centre! And not forgetting all the well wishes *muaks*

P.s: If I said anything wrong, please don't sue me. I've given all my money to PAH for the surgery.