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Those who play...
Play against the entire world.
There are no saves.
There are no walkthroughs.
There is only one chance.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Being blind for a day was fun.

Armageddon week.

As it's aptly named, stuff went bad as bad as they come. Whatever that means.

Wednesday night was late for me. But it was ok. Went on normally.

Woke up on Thursday morning. Hell broke loose.

My right eye was giving me problems. Problems like hanging on a cliff is a problem. I couldn't move them without feeling the pain. The thing was, I could either keep them open or keep them closed.

Tough decision.

My left eye was affected, in a sense, that whenever it tries to open the right eye would try to open too and would hurt. I couldn't do a one eye thing either, because if I tried, it would be something like squinting the right eye, causing pressure on it, which in turn will hurt a lot.

So basically I was blind. If I couldn't take it. Like I said, I could choose to have it open all the time or closed all the time, but I couldn't be totally blind, so I would sacrifice some pain in exchange for sight for as long as it could take. Then more pain when it closes.

Fortunately for me, my sister just came home from the polyclinic because of some stomach problems she had in school. She changed clothes and brought me back there on a taxi.

After about 40 minutes of walking around and waiting, I got a referal letter to Tan Tock Seng hospital. So I took a cab there, and met my mom there. From then on, the pain was too much for me for sight, and I became blind for about the next half hour (I can't see the time).

My mom would hold one of my arms and guide me around the building, until one point where there was a nurse... She had a miracle drop. Two drops of it into my eye and the pain stopped (My parents later deduced it was anesthetic in nature). It kept my eyes painless for a while, until after the doctor checked on me.

He said it was due to the overuse of contact lenses. The exceptional dryness of my eye has caused the lens to injure the cornea, which causes the world of pain and the blurred vision (I did an eye test with my specs on and I could see prefectly with my left eye while the right eye can only see the largest single number on the top. It was a 3).

After the checks the pain acted up again and I was blind for the rest of the day, except for a few moments of sight I deemed absolutely necessary to sacrifice pain for. I felt around the house a couple of times, but I spent most of my time lying on my bed and falling asleep.

When dinnertime came I tried to open my eyes to see the food but it was too painful so I had to eat blind. Can't tell what was on my spoon until what was on it went into my mouth. After dinner I sat on the sofa, and listened TV. When I got bored of it, I went back to sleep again.

By next day morning it was still quite disturbing, not painful, so I stayed home (I have the MC for it anyway).

Saturday came, I went out with Jo and KS to Marina Square to own some noobs. We played House of the Dead 3 first, while KS played CS. Then we played 3v4 against these bunch of fag noobs who used an all stun team (Venereal Spirit, Dwarven Sniper, Spiritbreaker and Demon Witch against out Venomancer, Morphling and Anti-Mage).

Then we rematched them, but this time we joined with 2 strangers. They took a quite lot of stun again (Sand King, Skeleton King, Spiritbreaker and Bone Fletcher), but this time we 3 took the pushing combo (Keeper of the Light, Prophet and Broodmother, the other two took Demon Witch and Butcher) and totally owned them like the fags they are.

After that we went to the arcade for a while, and saw this guy with maximum points on his Initial D card. It was madness.

Then we left Marina Square, and after about 15 minutes of deciding at City Hall MRT Station, we went to HarbourFront to meet up with Joanna and her friends (Jo's invited). Then we got there, and saw some familiar faces. Jun Hong, Jason, Jeffrey, Peiying and Peiling. There was a guy who looked like Andrew, and I mistook him for him.

Did I mention that Jo was told they were at Sentosa, but when we got there, they were actually at HarbourFront? And that if KS didn't suggest messaging Peiying to ask, we would have taken a bus to Sentosa?

They were eating when we got there so yeah. They finished up and we left. It took a hell lot of time to decide where to go, and hearing about spending $1,500 on a VIP room for 30 odd, 40 people sounded too much for me. In the end we settled for pool at Cineleisure.

Pool. One of my most disliked places. Going out with a bunch of people for pool is basically this: 2 people playing, the rest talking cock at the side.

I have a cheaper alternative to paying $8 an hour. We can go to a open space, have two people play Scissors-Paper-Stone, and the rest talk cock. It's free, and it's still as interesting.

So then, we went off yet again, leaving Joanna and her new friends at KBox, and walked a long distance to a basement McDonald's. We ate a bit, talked a bit and Kai Shing came to join us.

There was talk of going to Singapore Shopping Centre for more pool, but it was late and Peiying went home withe her sister. So it was us guys, 7 of us, off to more pool.

What made the whole interesting was the fact that there were many nice cars on the road that night. I was talking with Jason a lot about them. It was nice hearing a souped Evo shifting gears.

We were there for a long time. I wasted some money on a lame Ambulance game there, and just feel wasted there. After a few hours we left and went back to the bus stop to take a Night Rider home. On our way back, there was about 5 cars, speeding down the road together. It was fast, and all we saw was a Civic and an Impreza. What was funny after that was that a bus rushed past us too, at at least 80 km/h, and we just made mock, impressed sounds. It was a very funny moment as it is cool.

We skipped the stop first, and went to 7-11 for some stuff. They got food somewhere else, and then we took the Rider home. It's nice to be on the road at midnight. There's really not much cars, but if you see some, it's some really nice ones.

So it concluded the night. I came back and slept in the morning.

I woke up in the afternoon, and got ready to go out again. This time it was to Marina Bay with Jo again, eo, Anthony and BJ for steamboat buffet. The coincidence was i haven't ate anything.

Me, Jo and Leo met at Woodlands, and ran late. Anthony and BJ were already there with the table, and we sat down and ate. Anthony, for some strange reason, was deep frying bacon using oil from bacon. Oil kept sputtering, and some nearly caught my right, weak eye. We ate meat mainly, and drank drinks from another place with the bowls for soup.

We alternated eating and playing at the arcade next door after a while. Then after that I just lost interest in eating and played some Initial D. It was mainly crappy. Then I got a new Cappu and got on my way to beating all the strongest guys of all the areas. And still having a clean card.

After we spent enough we went off. And to the next place where there were cars, toilets and drinks. We went to the toilet, came out and got drinks, and I looked at the cars. There was an RX-7, an Evo(VII I think), a MX-5, a Silvia (no idea what model), and a MR-2.

We took the bus back to Marina Bay and took the MRT home.

And I decided not to sleep for the early day tomorrow because experience has taught me that no sleep is better than little sleep. It's the adrenaline.

Ciao.

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