My Birthday Celebration ~ Night Out!

17 August 2012. Yet another year to declare I'm another year older.

This year, I did not expect any extraordinary birthday celebration but just a quiet and heartwarming time with my family. I didn't even expect to go out at all till Dear told me my god-brother wants me to go down to their usual pub to celebrate my birthday. Ever since I gave birth to Amelia, my trips to pubs had greatly reduced. So, I agreed!

I also took the initiative to gathered my BFFs for a dinner after work, before I joined my god-brother at the pub. Knowing I would be going out, I had to doll up myself, ya? In all honesty, I did not put on too much war-paint but just emphasised on my eyes.

It wasn't really a pre-birthday dinner per se but I appreciated Cindy and Javier for turning up as they originally wanted to stayed at home due to their son's tuition. We had an enjoyable dinner at Joyee's favourite steamboat restaurant though she suffered a mild car accident just that evening. The men simply couldn't stand our topics as we mainly discussed about LUXURY BAGS! After the dinner, we headed to the pub without my BFFs as they needed to work on the next day.

It was really great to be able to meet up with my pub friends gang from time to time, especially when they remembered my birthday every single year! My god-brother, Fabian even managed to summon my next good friend, Larry to come along even though he always have a hectic travelling schedule! Come to think of it, from Network at Chinatown, to Mongkok at Tanjong Pagar, and now S Club, we have known one another for almost 6-7 years. Frankly, to be able to still keep in close contact for so many years whom we known from a pub, it is considerably amazing.

Alright, back to my birthday celebration night out. It is a standard practice in the gang that whenever someone's birthday is here, birthday song will be sung and most importantly, a yard of beer will be delivered right to your face. Naturally, I'd gotten a yard of beer on my hands cos it's a night out for ME!

Me with a yard of beer. I was also wearing my new top from Taobao that night. Oh yes, and that's Larry behind me in the photo, photobombing. :D

When most of them helped me clear the yard till it was left till the bottom (the round base...and the most lethal), I had to drink it up all by myself. The owner of S Club, whom we knew very well too (he's the one in the top-left photo with me in the photo below) saw me drinking up only the base, he 不甘愿 and asked me to drink more. I told him jokingly that I'd drink any alcohol he brought to me and I regret it the moment he came back. Why? Cos when I thought he would have brought a glass of liquor on the rock, he brought along another yard of beer to me, demanding me to drink it all by MYSELF! Blamed me on my silly mouth and promise, I had no choice but to finish 1 whole yard myself. Come to think of it, I think I'm the only one he brought 2 yards on someone's birthday...多有面子啊!

开心不忘娱乐. While we were happily enjoying ourselves at S Club, I also took photos with most of my gang ( some just hate the camera!), making more sentimental footprints down my memory lane.

I heart them so much, the friendship's most definitely gonna be a lifetime thingy. Who says friends whom we made from nightlife won't be longlasting?

Last but not the least, I gotta thank my Dear for spending my birthday night out with me and our pub gang!

My birthday most certainly didn't end with this. More birthday celebration posts coming up next! ^^

 

Eye Infection gone BAD~

Gosh...not been blogging for the past 2 weeks and I'm truly apologetic about it! Truth be told, my missing updates has a reason... 

Remember my post on contracting eye infection on 'Eye Infection...on a 29th Feb~'? Well, my eye infection had in fact gone BAD, and I mean REALLY BAD. For some period, I thought I could have gone blind or something *Touch Wood!*.

It happened on the 2nd day when I was on Seoul, Korea. When I boarded the flight from SG, my eye was still quite erm...fine. During my 1st day there, my eye looked like this:

Seemed like it's on the road to recovery ya? I myself thought so too but unfortunately, the condition just turned from "recovery" status to DISASTER. The next morning when I woke up, I knew my eye wouldn't get any better when I felt my eye...

It turned to this...

Yes. It had gone back to the same condition I had when I had my eye infection on Day 1. In fact, this swelling went even worst than Day 1. I didn't really notice until I went to freshen up and kept feeling something's hindering me from closing my eye. To my horror, I saw that my white eyeball area was COMPLETELY SWOLLEN!

Sorry if it looked kinda gross but it did happen, on me. It was the first time I had such swelling/infection that affected my white eyeball and I was really scared. Imagine I was in foreign land and my eye condition turned into this state. I was literally on the verge of going crazy, from panic. Fortunately, my partner from Seoul brought me to an eye clinic she recommended and for the 1st time in my life, I visited a foreign doctor in a foreign land.

The doctor was NOT gentle at all. In order to check my eye, he twisted and turned my eye as if my eye wasn't swelling or in pain at all! I wanted to be brave and tolerate throughout but he was so rough with my eye, I couldn't stand it and kept fidgeting with pain all the way. This korean doctor told me this was the result of an allergy and hence, prescribed me with 2 eyedrops - 1 for allergy, and the other for inflammation. With that 2 eyedrops, they were like miracle drops which greatly reduce the swelling at the white eyeball area within a few hours! I was so ecstatic and thought I would recover in a matter of few days. Again, I was WRONG.

My eye swelled again the next morning after I was back to SG. I was truly scared then. If the eyedrops prescribed by the Korean doctor were no longer effective, did it means my eye had gone seriously bad? I told myself I need to get to an eye specialist no matter what & I got myself a referral letter from my GP to National Eye Centre, Singlasik Centre. Oddly enough, my eye didn't swell that much anymore on the day I headed to the eye specialist:

Still very red and slightly swollen, but not that swollen anymore.

Took a few tests when I was there and my eye specialist said I had double vision. He was pretty puzzled but he reckoned it was due to my swollen eye. I tell you, I literally had trouble moving my eye to all directions and they looked kinda blurred when I tried to move...Finally, he told me my eye had gone from infection to inflammation state. Like my post title, eye infection gone BAD. He prescribed me a new anti-inflammation eyedrops since the one korean doctor prescribed had expired and told me to keep using the anti-allergy one.

This was how my eye looked the next day upon my visit to the eye specialist:

I would say it got really better....slightly but nonetheless better. With this, it also kickstarted a month-long of me without any eye makeup on.

This was how I looked after 3 weeks upon my 1st visit to the eye specialist:

Still a little red somehow but definitely better already!

This was how my eye looked just a few days ago...

Went for my eye checkup earlier today and eye specialist said it was definitely better already. Swelling is now 100% gone but based on my encounters on my left eye to him, he checked my eye once again and told me my left eye is a little dry. Prescribed me with eyedrops to prevent dryness and I would only need to see him 3 months later. Phew...it was really damaging to my wallet to keep going back to him!

Throughout my visit to the eye specialist, I kept asking him if he knew the cause of my eye infection. Unfortunately, he told me since I didn't go to him from Day 1 I had the eye infection, it was impossible for him to tell me what could have caused this eye infection that turned terribly bad into inflammation. This is really GREAT. Now there's no way for me to know the cause and therefore I wouldn't be able to prevent against it! I certainly wouldn't want another infection just to know what could have caused it either!

Sigh, now I can only trial and error. I hope it's not my cosmetic cos I will really hate to go without any eye makeup for such a long period! Speaking of which, it is time for me to put my eye makeup back on which somehow can also help test if they are the cause (though I sincerely hate the infection). Silly I may be, but I won't want to go so plain all day long...it bores me T.T

Let's wish this to be 300% over so I can be back to my happy self. :D

Eye Infection...on a 29th Feb~

Today is 29th February 2012, the only day that will occur once in every 4 years. I am also not sure if it is pure sheer luck or 2012 is really a 不幸之年 for me to have this happen on me.

Just yesterday, my left eye felt very uncomfortable & pain for the whole day. Went to have it checked out at a clinic listed under my company's medi scheme & was told I had eyelid infection. Well, doc said it wasn't serious & I didn't insist on a MC. I was...wrong.

This is how I looked yesterday...

*Note: It is my left eye, but photo shows as right.

Thought this uncomfortable feeling & pain will subside after a while since even doc said it wasn't serious, I presumed I could go to work the next day.

Until...my eye turned to this state when I looked myself in the mirror early this morning...

I literally gave myself a shock when I saw myself in the mirror! Who is this ugly duckling!? Now, it didn't look that 'not serious' anymore so I decided to visit my usual GP instead....for better assurance.

Turned out I had contracted eye infection from bacteria attack. Gave me 3 days worth of MC & adviced me to go back to him for review on Friday. My GP even told me he hoped not to see me so often anymore when I was about to leave his room. What a funny GP, but honest!

I heard from him that this swelling will take 3-5 days to subside so now, I'm more worried about this hindering my trip to Seoul. I SERIOUSLY hate going overseas in a sickly condition, much less when I can't have full vision! To counter that, I just have to be obedient for these few days & quietly hope the swelling will go away before Sunday...

Year 2012, please do not give me anymore problems!

Fake Eyelashes Overload

Since my Taipei trip, I found myself really addicted to fake eyelashes a.k.a falsies. It was really sudden and unwittingly, I bought myself too many bloody eyelashes, HAHA!

Bought 2 boxes myself, and the rest were from my brother
who went Taipei 1 week after mine!

Love these lashes cos they look so SEXY~~~

Took the one shown on the lower part of the picture and applied it for one of my colleague's wedding dinner. The lashes weren't exactly soft as those I used before (perhaps cos they are just too cheap so the quality isn't of the best), so it took me longer than I used to take to apply them onto my eyes.

Did a smoky eyes makeup after I KO from work and I really like my makeup for that day! Kudos to my 2 new eyeliners whereby 1 of them is in fact half eyeliner, half smudge-r!

Applied the falsies but didn't emphasise on my eye MU cos
it's work/day time...

My smoky eyes MU for my colleague's wedding!
Did it when almost KO from work, hehe!

Like I said, although the lashes weren't that soft, the design of the lashes is really pretty. It also helps to enlarge my eyes a little! Most of my colleagues commented I look nicer with darker eyes MU so I believe I should really emphasise my eyes more so I can pass off with bigger eyes and a more prettier me (I hope)!