(Pre)Interlude

This is hopefully the prelude to a new blog I wanted to start once I started living in London. However, the living was so stressful that I just couldn't bring myself to write about it. Has that ever happened to you? When it's like writing about something is living it once again and that is just too painful to contemplate?

So the name of the blog was supposed to be "London I" something like a pun on the famous London Eye, my eyes being newly made normal and of course London & I. But now that I have explained what it means, the charm is lost somewhere, the mystery and the allure...ok if it possessed any of these things, they would have been lost. So I have decided to stick to this blog (yay!) and instead upgrade it. Make it swankier (read: not pink!) and add cool pictures, links etc. Let's see could I make it a current event special, or maybe a gossip special (I suppose gossip from my workplace wouldn't appeal to the larger palate)...hmm yeah I know it could be a general outlook of my usually boring life...like it already was.

With that optimistic (pessimistic) thought, thus ends the brief interlude...a transition between student and real life...now you will either hear from me very often...or never.

Top five benefits of a hazy world

This post has been written in the post-operative discomfort of a person recovering from Lasik. Just a quick aside before I launch into the topic at hand: don't go for the surgery if you expect to jump up from the operation table and run around. Expect blurry vision, headaches and the surgeon reassuring you about the astounding success of the operation while you just want to get your contacts or even your spectacles back cuz your eyes are screaming for them and your optical nerves are bursting for relief. It's been 4 days and I am wondering if I am exaggerating...will let you know in another week or so.

So now to the topic of discussion: (in countdown style, never done this kinda thing before)
5) You never notice the dirt: Take off your spectacles, don't wear your lenses and unless it smells, even the yuckiest toilet, like one of those in the stop-over hotels on the Delhi highway seems like they are in a five star hotel. (of course its not advisable to become blind in one of those places, jeez it was just an example!)
4) You can get off from doing a lot of work if something has happened to your visual aids: "i can't see..."
3) Even if you accidentally break your teeth when the world is hazy for you, people don't blame you. (Of course, you have broken teeth and people might laugh at you for years)
2) You don't need to swim if you don't want to: you can always blame the haziness
1) When everything is blurry, and then you suddenly wear your glasses or contacts and things come into focus, you are pleasantly surprised everytime: it's such a beautiful world.

Nah, Lasik (even without all my discomfort) just doesnt come anywhere close.