3 months after Lasik

Like many others, I regretted that I did not do it earlier. I highly recommend!

What I like most?

Remember days when you worked late and didn't get enough sleep but the next day you need to see someone important, you just did whatever to put the contact lens into your eyes? NO MORE

Remember you have to bring solution for travel, sometimes when you forget, you have to go to convenient shop to get a small bottle that cost you so much? NO MORE

Remember you have to wear glasses on the plane because it was dry? NO MORE

I highly recommend Lasik to whoever want to enjoy such a freedom after many years of contact lens.

After So Long.........

Wow, I have not blog for almost 5 months. I was really busy, no doubt. After July trip To Toronto, I went again for family trip in September. It was a lot of hard work to take care of the little ones for 3 weeks. In October, I went to Paris, my company HQ. We were being treated very nicely, I hope they do this kind of meeting once a year. I then had my own team meeting in KL in end of October. The family went to Chennai in November to see their relatives that they have not met. This year, the family really traveled quite a bit. The kids went to Perth, Toronto and India this year. I hope they enjoy them while I am still heartaching about my money spent on those trips.

So what brings me to blog today? I have a new set of eyes. YES, Lasik was done yesterday and today I regained most of my eye sight. It is still blurry when I look at the screen or lights but I think it will improve gradually. Am I glad that I have done it? I really don't know. Yesterday, I almost wanted to kill those who encouraged me. I experienced so much pain in my eyes after the surgery. When my eyesight slowly came back, I guess my brain was trying to adjust and that caused me dizziness. It was so bad that I lied in my bed regretting it. After 4 painkiller and a goodnight sleep, today I feel better. I still have to be very careful with my eyes for 1week but I could do most of the daily activities, may be not carrying the kids because they may accidentally bump into my eyes. I think when the pain is over, I will assess again whether I have done the right thing for myself.

Doctor gave me 3 days off, 1 more day than what she normally gives to her patients because I complained about the pain. Yeh, I am going to enjoy lunch with my friends. Don't get it wrong, I really can't work because looking at the screen needs concentration and that dries up my eyes quickly and then they hurt. I have to put eye drops every 5 mins, so I am still not fit for work. I do think I choose the right time to do this surgery so I can rest over the long weekend.

For those that thinking to do Lasik, we can talk 1 month later :-)

Sign of Aging?

When my mum was 50s, she told me she feel old. She said the same thing when she was 60s and now she is in her 70s. I always thoughts, you should not say that you are old because once you think you are old, you are old. But we can't admit that when time past by, we really feel the difference we are not young anymore.

I am in Toronto for business. I had flew to the west for meeting several times before but the jet lag had never hit me so badly. I tried very hard to adjust the time, like not sleeping in the afternoon when I feel sleepily, I expose myself to the sun, I drank lots of water and eat less carb but no use. Even though I was awake but my mind goes blank in the afternoon. I find it so hard to concentrate and not able to really enjoy the people around me. In the past, meeting like this I was able to work through the day and night, check my mails and sometimes took conference calls.

I do not want to admit it but if this is not sign of aging, what is this then?

July is No Spending Month

June was a shopping season for Singapore. The crazy Singapore sales got tome and we bought quite a few things. My month credit card bill has been so high for the past 3 months and I did not save any cash. One day I work up and declared that July is a no spending month, which means we are not going to buy things that we do not need.

On the 4th day, I went shopping with D and I saw a set of pot was on big discount. I did not buy any pots or utensil when I moved in with D. I continue to use his pot and plates that he brought from Canada. The pot handlers were plastic and they couldn't survive the gas stove any longer. It starts to fall out and it can be dangerous. Is that a must for me to get the pot now, may be not but it was a a good discount and something I have been looking for long. At the end, I used gift voucher to buy the pots. It cost S$129 but since we do not want to spend S$21 unnecessary, I used credit card to pay $29 and used S$100 voucher which I got from colleagues for A's full moon.

I am still holding on not to buy things this month. I hope it can be a success.

Adult Time

D and I finally took time to date, after many complaints to them that our marriage was in danger. I may have over exaggerated but we absolutely needed to do something. Work and children had been keeping us very busy. Spending time together seems to be our last priority. Anyway, we had a good time on Saturday. We attended a church seminar in the morning, head down town to a nice Japanese restaurant for lunch, did some shopping, I had my massage and he went to sit around at coffee bean and waited for me, just like old days. I can't imagine how much I miss this kind of life. When will the kids grow up so that I can have this kind of life more often? I know many couple do this once a week to have some adult time together to maintain relationship. I hope D really set some time for me, not always travel, works and his family.

Old Habit

Lately I sleep very late, 2, 3am in the morning.

Why I sleep so late? I guess I like the quiet time at night, just me, all other people are sleeping.

What do I do when I sleep so late? Sadly, I work.

Are those work that important? Probably not but I like taking my time and doing it slowly.

5 years ago, people commented that I had this lifestyle because I had no date.

Now the dating, wedding, giving birth are all over and I am back to my old living habit again.

Can anyone explain why is that?

Shopping

Today was a big shopping day for us, it wasn't planned but just turned out that way.

In the morning, we finally bought a pair of nice sneaker for N. NB, cost us S$55. I finally give up cost saving and decided that  N should have a nice shoes to run about. So far, he has been going out with his fake crocs that cost S$5. We were pleased with the purchase, especially N. Sometimes it amazed me that even 2 years old know what is shopping and buying nice stuff.

In the evening, we went to return a pair of pants that D didn't like and came back with 3 GAP shirt for D. It was a really good bargain, we had never bought GAP shirt for S$32 each. D bought 3 of them and now I am concern he looks too good at the office. After all, D is an attractive man and I am still dealing with post pregnancy hair loss. I also bought 5 pairs of socks for N, cost S$12 and 7 brief for A, cost S$18. 

Oh, I forgot to mention what happened at GAP shop. N saw his father trying on shirt, so he always wanted to do the same. So we went to kids section and picked up 2 shirt and join his father at the fitting room. N just looked so good in those GAP shirt and long sleeves T-shirt. He admired himself at the mirror for a while and keep asking me, 'Mama, buy!'. We decided not to spend the money as he already has many shirts. What I wanted to say was, those branded stuff really make you look good. Even though is just a shirt but once you wear it, the material and look just make you can't resist.

Everyone went home happily. I didn't get anything but I was happy that I spent money on them