bespectacled me

I've been thinking of putting on my glasses, just to walk around and around inside my campus and enjoy the multi-coloured living magic that had all the the gardeners around Beijing working so hard all spring. Whenever I walk/run for school, the plants always catch my attention, so I think of how nice it would be to be able to see them without the blur from my shortsightedness.

On that beautiful sunny last Saturday, completely filling up two shiny blue Beiwai buses, we had all gone to the Botanical Gardens for a school excursion. (This all happened in a course of a day: I had first decided to go so I bought the ticket, then not to go and sold my ticket off, then decided to go again and bought a new ticket at the very last minute. Just for a side note, turns out that the guy who had bought my ticket missed the bus in the end and didn't go, hahaha)

I couldn't even remember what it is that had kept me busy these last few weeks; and even if i remember I wouldn't write it down, because it would be boring. But while in the garden, that crisp botanical scent and perfect light breeze every now and then somehow blew that rush all away, away from me. We then spent a leisurely afternoon around Chaoyang, ate some Vietnamese food, and went home with the sweetest-smelling rose. (from which I learned that a dead rotting rose and freshly cut up tomatoes actually have a strangely similar smell)

But from Sunday onwards, like always, time rolled into another hectic week. Yes, even Sunday was a busy day, because Monica and I volunteered for helping out at church, so we had to attend their meeting etcetera. Besides that, spending time with Monica after church mostly means shopping like crazy, till the sun goes home and our feet go numb!

Today at noon I attended an interview for my summer internship; it went rather well for a first full-costume (black suit and skirt) formal interview, except for the fact that my feet now have giant blisters from the pair of newly bought shoes. Remembering words of advice from Hery, to put on a professional look, first I had my glasses on; but then decided to take them off because the look made me more nervous. To me it' not that big a deal not to be able to see everything so clearly, but just recently Yoichiro had laser operation and seems contently satisfied about it. I have no other way but to be stuck like this because my myopic eyes are only of -1.00 dioptre, which is not heavy enough to undergo any surgery. Since as long as I can remember, I had tried to make it both better (drinking a LOT of carrot juice and beta carotene; doing eye massages) so I could just self-cure it like some people believed; and worse (reading in moving vehicles and while lying on my back; watching the TV from a VERY close distance) so they could operate on me, but none seemed to work. The glasses prescription for both eyes are still -1.00, and I guess they may -for better or for worse- remain so for my whole life.

My one and only option is just accept the way things are in my world (out of focus and blurry world) and on occasion get my specs out for a movie OR A CONCERT! Yes, the upcoming Jay Zhou concert in Beijing is surprisingly only a week away from now! I'm not exactly a concert person, and I would have preferred to go somewhere and travel around. But with Kutu and her already prepared iPod with lyrics, we'll be having the best night ever! woohoo! This is getting more and more incoherently twisty, so I shall wind up this roundabout blogpost; and you can let your eyes rest for a while!