We have this quote in Hokkien dialect: Ai Sui Mai Mia. Basically means one chooses beauty and ignores life. Example, how ladies often wear high heel of 4″ and above, despite knowing that it hurts their feet. All for the sake of beauty.

While I don’t commit the high-heel sins or buy apidexin to lose weight (Thank God for my mini-size figure), I do commit contact-lens sins. I’ve been wearing glasses since primary 3, and moved on to wearing contact-lens since senior high school, can’t really remember. I did switch back to glasses during some point of my college life, but found lens more convenient.

So far so good, I only had one bad experience where the lens broke and went missing inside my eye. I found it at the end of the day, but it didn’t hold me from wearing lens.

Then came the era of black-iris-lens, from Freshkon, which make your iris looks larger. Whoa, finally I found my life saviour! Cause my iris is quite small. Been using that kind of lens since 2 years ago (maybe, I forgot) and never looked back to normal lens.

I sticked to Freshkon until I moved here at end of last year. Changed a few brands, but still have big-iris effect. But with latest changes, I found something weird with my left eye. Don’t know how to describe it, but it’s something that can’t be solved by using eye-drop.

And, the video below just adds up the scary feeling in me. Eh, it’s eyes – my window to the world – that I’m talking about, I surely won’t trade it with beauty. Guess it’s time to switch back to normal contact-lens or even use glasses.

Speaking of glasses, I had bad experience with optical here. First, when I bought my latest contact lens last month, I requested to have an eye-check cause I haven’t checked it since 2-3 years ago. So I wanted to confirm if there is slightly increase/decrease or not. But.. the lady-boss gently refused to do so and asked me to pass my glasses for her to check the eye-minus. -__-”

What’s the point? It’s clear that she assumed I’ve been wearing glasses for years and didn’t know my own eye minus. Hello? I purposely wore glasses to do eye-check. Ask before you assume, please. Customer service part fails completely.

Second, few days ago I decided to shop for new glasses. Been wanting to do it months ago, but just not in the mood. Again, I purposely wore glasses so I could have an eye check. *insist mode on* We went to an optical shop, recommended by a few friends, located nearby where we bought the watches.

The owner rejected my request as well, saying : “Oh no need, is your vision still clear with current glasses? If yes, no need to do eye-check. Besides, the minus will stop increasing once you reach certain age.” Another fail kind of customer service. I never saw optical shop which refuses to do eye check for the customer-to-be.

Ok, the owner probably didn’t want to waste his time doing eye check for me, and in the end I didn’t buy any glasses from him. But.. he can ask me to choose the glasses that I like and then proceed with eye-check. Is that too much to ask for? Well, after we insisted only he said : Ok, choose your glasses and we’ll do eye check later. Anyway, I didn’t find any that I like, all old school glasses, just like the old-school uncle (read: owner). Bleh.

Seeing the way they do business, I wonder how this small town can grow and move forward. Sigh.