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Sunday, July 31, 2016 - 22:24 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Eye To Eye


They served well.


Mr. Ham: Whew, looks nasty.

Me: Was about to change them any day now, really, the coatings were all coming off. Isn't hard to spot that the break is exactly where I grip the frame when removing my glasses, which probably caused stresses to build up over time. They remain surprisingly stable, that said, and I wouldn't be shocked if it becomes a fashion statement someday.

Dropped by my optician then for the first time in four years, and had a new pair made up with the whole works - transition, anti-glare, blue control, everything - and let me just say, it didn't come cheap. But then, I'd consider my vision as valuable as my workstation, and all the stuff that goes between me and the ground... all the more as the employers are subsidizing part of the very substantial cost.

In fact, we've gone over the reluctance for optometrists to give up customers' prescriptions before, and to be brutally frank, I'd suspect that local ones are increasingly falling prey to e-commerce - yeah, they're going to protest that there's some magical human factor involved, and that the quality and fitting of online purchases is uncertain, but when the price is a tiny fraction of the bricks-and-mortar quote, can you really blame consumers for giving it a go?

Mr. Ham: Uh-huh. *flips through papers* No idea how retail rents are gonna hold up, as I've said all along... seems like the local papers are really trying to push engineering for some reason, nowadays.

Me: What a coincidence, was just involved in promoting the programme at a public briefing yesterday. And seriously, research and critical thinking is something we could do with a lot more of; then again, I can't deny that this is not the best of environments to challenge orthodoxy and overturn stuff...

Mr. Ham: *continues flipping* ...and what's this? The university's holding increasingly inappropriate and raunchy orientation camps? For shame! Utterly unacceptable! What is this world coming to? I can't even...

Me: And there I was in the lab, wondering what all the screaming was about. Yeah, the organizers got whacked pretty hard, sponsors pulled out, and it went all the way to the Acting Minister of Education. Last I heard, they shut everything down. Too bad, so sad - but I'm surprised, Mr. Ham, I never knew you to be the sort to be against such things.

Mr. Ham: Against? No, what I meant was, why wasn't I invited? The cheek of them!

Me: ...at least it's quieter nowadays.



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