My mom insisted that I have my eyes checked by an ophthalmologist, as opposed to an optometrist because of my degrading eyesight. What’s the difference? It seems the doctors that have been checking my eyesight since forever are just optometrists, ones who measure the degree of one’s nearsightedness or farsightedness, etc. and then prescribe corrective lenses. And an ophthalmologist is a doctor at studies the entire eye structure in depth and answers why one has eye problems.

So imagine my chagrin when even the ophthalmologist was shocked at the degree of my nearsightedness. An eye expert was shocked. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that’s a bad thing… >.>

She described that the retina is the part of the eye that allows us to see clearly. As we grow older, the retina is stretched as our eye changes in size from childhood to adulthood. Imagine a balloon that’s being inflated. As more air in inserted in the balloon, the more it is stretched, which makes the balloon lining thinner as it goes.

So, in consequence, I got prescribed eye vitamins to preserve the structure of my retina to prevent further thinning. It wouldn’t necessarily bring back my normal eyesight. It’ll just prevent it from getting worse. Rawr.

It seems that the recent storm Basyang has wreaked havoc with more than its rains as most of Metro Manila experienced electrical blackout since the evening of July 13. I actually informed our office that I couldn’t be at work because we still didn’t have electricity yesterday morning. But luckily, we got our electricity back around noon.

Which I can’t say for the rest of Metro Manila.

Our office building, for one, didn’t have electricity so my leave for absence yesterday became null and void since our entire office couldn’t get into our building. So my mom and I used our time to go into one of the clinics in the malls to have her checkup. Lo and behold, the extremely long lines to the banks. It seems that the banks only got to open at around 3pm because of the blackouts. And here we thought there was some huge promo or giveaways. XD

I received numerous text messages from people asking me about news and possible suspension of classes because they were helpless to find out for themselves with no electricity.

There also seemed to be a dramatic increase on the number of people in the malls yesterday, probably due to the fact that most people still didn’t have electricity at their homes and preferred to stay at the malls where they could at least entertain themselves. I can imagine what fun it is to be stuck at home with no TV, radio, a cellphone that is about to die, and forced candlelit dinners. >.>

And today, it seems there are still a lot of areas in the metropolitan area without electricity. It this a bad omen for the new presidency?

The thought of getting off my ass and trying to revamp my blog was a bit daunting when the thought first crossed my mind last week. The main points of concern were mainly where to get the inspiration and how to save all the CSS styling that Internet Explorer will eventually ignore; which, in turn, will require humongous amount of patience.

I think it almost came as a relief that I finished this new site design in less than two days. It is inspired by the series Lament and features one of the gorgeous colored images. It’s a non-fluid layout this time with a gothic feel. I’ve realized that in the more than five years that this blog has been alive, I’ve never really designed anything quite dark for it. I’ve done cutesy, edgy, minimalistic, flowery, among others.

The only main problem I had was removing the bullets in the comments. Everything works well in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. I’ve totally decided to ignore IE this time so if you’re one of most unlucky few, I’m sorry. I’m just too darn lazy to fix the design for IE. I guess my lazy ass is still not fully recovered. XD

Link Exchanges

Can you believe that this site has been online for more than five years?! That must attest to my love of blogging, right? XD Also, if anyone wants to apply for link exhanges/affiliates, please feel free to contact me.