Joaquin Miller; Songs of the Sun-Lands

The charm, of memory is that it is
choosy, chancy and temperamental;
it rejects the edifying cathedral
and indelibly photographs the small
boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon
in the dust. (Click for pictures.)

Sunday, January 14

Sometimes, whatever life throws you takes you through the most exciting journeys in the World Wide Web. I just got back from a futile visit to a clinic; all the GP did was to prescribe me my 4th course of antibiotics - oral, eye drops and ointment - and refer me to an opthamologist. Apparently my stye is not a stye but a chalazion, and it needs to be operated on. Le sigh. It is very depressing. Not only is it extremely tender, the cyst is also so large that it is pressing against my cornea and hampering my vision. Plus, it's also very hideous and I hate looking hideous.

Lynn said maybe I should seriously consider wearing an eyepatch. So while I know it's so dramatisizing events, I started googling and discovered many eyepatch.coms and eyepatch.orgs dedicated to the One Eyed Community. Some patches were lacy, some had embroidered angels, some came as part of sexy pirate lingerie sets. . . Then, I came across this Yahoo! Group called eyepict which sounds very fetishist. Hur, but it says on the site that it was created by a Mr Yuuichi Shibuya "in a attempt to create a group where people who wear eyepatches are considered interesting, intruiging and greatlooking! And not a freak like many people do." Sounds legit enough I guess. And wadya know - there are many hawt One Eyed Temptresses out there.

There is this Colombian Senator, Viviane Morales, who struts her stuff in a patch. Unfortunately she lost the 2006 senatorial race; still I love the lady pirate politician thing. And songstress Lady Viola who fronts San Francisco band "Ragwater"; she actually has two perfectly fine peepers, but just prefers to go Bandit in an Eyepatch. I think in the past hour, I have developed a fetish for eyepatches. If I ever lose an eye in future, please do remind me that endless possibilities still exist. There is life after losing body parts; just depends on how you look at things I guess. That is the strength of mankind.

Swirls and whirls
and butterflies.

11:34 PM

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No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says:
The things have been.
- Samuel Boyse

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