whee!

Last Friday, Sheng called me to tell me that a huge wave crashed down on him at the beach and he consequently lost his glasses to the seas. He then proceeded to tell me that the wave took him completely under and it also pulled down his shorts. (haha!!). So instinctively, he hung on to his shorts and didn't mind his glasses. So.. he lost $500 on his glasses but kept his negligible cost shorts. (...)

On hindsight, if I were a man, I would rather lose my dignity for a few seconds than lose $500 and a pair of really new and good specs. But it's interesting how human instinct works. It forces you to protect your dignity. My father says that when things like that happen, your instinct tells you what's important without you having to even articulate or think about it. I suppose that is true. But I would still rather keep my specs and lose my shorts. Haha.

But that's not the point of me typing all this!

The optical shop in Sg has gone to great lengths to find the same frame. And those undying efforts took them all the way to... Hong Kong! So they've found the exact same frame in Hong Kong. Why on earth it is so difficult to find a replica of a simple spectacles frame is beyond me. But in any case, I just am happy they found it. Thank God! So now I just have to wait for the Hong Kong people to ship it over and for the optical shop to make the lens and fit it to the frame and then I can ship it to Sydney! What efforts just for a pair of spectacles, really, a reasonably prudent man would not believe it!

When my dad and I told my mom over dinner today that...

"Hey mom. They found Sheng's specs in Hong Kong"

Mom: "Huh! You mean the specs was washed all the way to HOng Kong? How did they know who it belonged to?"

uh...