I’ve been looking and following the developement of LASIK surgery for quite a while now.

It used to be a Hollywood extravagance where the treatment was so expensive that only movie stars could afford it. Not to mention it was quite dangerous at that time.

According to research done by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) in 2003, 18% of LASIK patients needed retreatment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASIK). So almost 1 out of 10 LASIK patients do not get what they want.

I can imagine why with the technology 5 years ago, where eye alignment correction technology was not really good.

It simply means that the machine doesn’t follow your eye movement very efficiently during your surgery. Imagine the lasers are burning your eyes and suddenly your eyes moved and the machine kept on burning … like a DVD burner gone haywire.

Spoilt la your eyes like that.

One day I heard my friend went for LASIK and she said that the centre is quite well known and reliable. So I decided to go and check it out.

It’s called the Centre For Sight. It has branches in PJ Taman Megah, Rawang, Klang and the United Kingdom.

I went to the one in PJ. I went in and told them I want to know about the procedure for go for LASIK.

So Linda, a Business Development Exec, came to my assistance and explained the entire process of pre-surgery, surgery and post-surgery.

Basically I need to go through a series of check-ups to determine the conditions of my eyes and whether my eyes are suitable for LASIK surgery. I agreed and she signed me up for the check-up.

The check-up will take around 1.5 hrs time, whereby the conditions of your eyes such as myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism as accurately measured down to 0.01 accuracy (normal eyewear shop will only measure up to 0.25 accuracy) by the Wavescan Wavefront System.

Then some they put some Mydriatic drops to make your pupils dilate, so that the doctor can examine the inside of your eyes.

Now, this was the only part that it started to get abit uncomfortable. Basically with your pupils dilated, your eyes will be Super sensitive to lights. And the doctor need to shine bright light into your eyes to examine it … so be prepared to cry uncontrollably

The doctor advised me to go for a less invasive procedure called the Advanced Surface Ablation (ASA) because the conditions for my eyes are reletively minor. As compared to LASEK, it doesn’t require a flap to be created on my cornea.

The recovery however is slower than LASEK, which means I will only be able to see the 100% results in a few weeks time as compared to LASEK, which takes just days.

Now, for the $$$ it involves.

Pre-surgery examination : RM 100 (refundable if decide to go for surgery)
Surgery : RM 5176 for both eyes (RM 4676 – if sign up within this promotion month, and available for 1 year 0% interest repayment with a few selected bank’s credit card)

Conclusion is that I think its a pretty good deal for me, and knowing that the centre uses an FDA approved procedure adds assurance that I will get what I want from this surgery.

The only thing left is for me to find extra RM 500 every month to pay my loan …

** BOSS !! If you’re reading this, you know what to do right ???? Give me a raise !!! ***

After reading about the Terry Fox Run KL on Kenny’s blog, I decided for the first time in my life to join a charity marathon run.

I dun like to walk, let alone run. I slipped and fell and landed on my arse a few days ago (dun ask me how … too embarrassing). I’m now with a sprained left forth and little toe; and I have a huge pain in my ass (no pun intended). I have 2 assignments due next week and they’re not even close to finishing.

Under such circumstances, you might think that “Hey, wth am I doing running around Lake Garden in a Sunday morning, where most of us just came back from clubbing a few hours ago and still sleeping like a pig. Somemore got pain-in-the-arse and sprained-left-forth-and-little-toe and don’t-like-to-walk and 2-assignment-due-next-week.”

Well, the reason is because, he did it.

Terry Fox (Curtosy of www.terryfoxrun.org)

When Terry Fox was 19 years old, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a kind of bone cancer; and doctors have to amputate his right leg.

After witnessing the pain and suffering of cancer patients, he started the Marathon of Hope to raise awareness and money for cancer research.

He ran 42 km each day for 143 days, a grand total of 5,373 km, before he had to quit after being diagnosed with bone cancer in his lungs.

Terry Fox died one month short of his 23rd birth day.

Now, tell me, after knowing that Terry Fox ran 42 km a day for 143 days, with a prosthetic leg and bone cancer in his lungs. Is there any valid reason for me not to take up the run? Just because of a small pain-in-the-arse and sprained-left-forth-and-little-toe and don’t-like-to-walk and 2-assignment-due-next-week?

HELL NO !!!

I don’t want to look like a pu**y.

I’m a man without fear !!!

Terry Fox Run … here I come !!!

P/s : Those who are interested can pre-register here.

Been sick since Monday, starting from food poisoning to severe cough, fever & throat infection. Man, I felt so sick about all those different symptoms that I feel like creating an entirely new blog category dedicated just for it @_@.

Somehow I managed to tough it up until Thursday and I finally got to a point where I think I would end up in the hospital if I don’t take a day off to rest.

So immediately after class I went to see the doctor. It was around 10.20pm.

Blarrrdy hell !!! There’s NOT ONE clinic that opens 24 hrs in my housing area. How pethetic is that? So you mean I have to wait until the next morning then only die issit? There should be a law against this, dammit!

So I had to drive all the way to Taman Kepong to see to a doctor. And then I had to put up with some of the slowest-working nurse I’ve ever seen.

It was around 10.30pm then, so obviously there’s no one else except me. It took them a full 10 minutes to find a pen, find my record card, find the doctor, walk around, dissapear, who knows what else?

I mean come on, somebody’s dying here!! Just find my card, and let me see the doctor!! It should have taken less than 3 minutes.

Finally I got my meds, and late hour rate for my consultation fees, and dragged my ass home.

At the end of the day, I have 6 types of pills and 1 cough syrup, and it costs me RM80 in total T_T …

Managed to get a good rest today, and feeling much better. Special thanks to my mom for making sure I’m well fed with porridge.

My dinner tonight … Meat and potato porridge !!

Thank you mom !!

Moral of the story is,

Food Poisoning = Diarrhea + Vomiting
=> Throat Infection + Cough + Fever
=> 6 Pills + 1 Syrup
=> RM80

*sigh* …..

I feel like I’ve wasted 3 hours of my life (including writing this post), which I’m never going to get it back, on something totally retarded and useless.

After reading a post on NicoleKiss’s website about the new IM called Moji from TM net, I decided to use the opportunity to approach her check out the technology behind this virtual pet thingy.

Apparently, the term IM is actually referring to Intelligent Messenger, as to Instant Messenger according to MOR(F) Dynamics. According to them, Moji is the world’s first real-time 3D instant messenger, where users create and customize 3D pets and characters that can understand natural human language and therefore can chat, interact and react with users in real time (read more here if you need to fall asleep).

So, being a geek that I am, I got excited and wanted to see how many bugs I can find how it works. So, there I was, downloading the installer (85,395KB) from their website, and got Mojikan installed on my PC. And walla … Moji !!

It will catch butterfly.

It will answer if you talk to him.

It will gather fruits.

And it will die …

Dying …

Dead …

(I need to create a new yellow Moji coz I already killed the red one)

Look ma~!! I just found a new way to torture and kill cute animals with 4 ears by starving them to death!!

Apparently you need to buy Sparx, which are food to your Moji. And you guessed it right, you need to PAY to buy them. And you buy them with MK.

You’ll get some free Sparx for starters. But after that you need to pay for it.

So sooner or later, you will hear people applying for credit cards and say “Oh.. I need to buy Sparx to feed my Moji. Oh, my Moji is so cute. I need to get a credit card and suck TMnet’s dick …”