Lasik....botched

Unfortunately, my operation was not successful today. The doctor was not able to create a smooth flap on my first eye, the right eye and the operation has to be aborted.

I was to undergo an custom lasik with blade. I guess I'm the 1% of the unlucky people who have complications. A microkeratome is supposed to be at least 99% successful while intralasik is closer to 100%.

The flap was put back into my eye and a contact lense was placed on it to protect it and promote healing. The contact lense will be in my right eye for about a week before it will be removed.

I am told that I'll have a full refund. The flap will take at least 3-4 months to heal before any eye procedure can be done on it. Hopefully I'll be able to go back to my contact lenses in a month's time. And hopefully no other complications will happen.

Currently, my right eye can still see reasonably and I'm still wearing my glasses. However, there's quite a bit of irritation on my right eye which I hope will get better real soon. Let's see how it goes when I go back for my checkup tomorrow.

Baby Bird!

It has been a few weeks and our guest sunbird has been doing really well! After a few weeks of incubating her egg, we have a cute little baby sunbird!


A sunbird set up her nest on a mop hanging out of our window. Cute litle egg!

However due to the recent heavy rain, the nest actually got pretty messed up that at one point of time, there was only a few strands of fabric from the mop head supporting the nest. My god… your heart would literally jump when the slightest wind blow on the nest!

After a discussion with my dad (who incidentally is quite an expert in DIY), he actually fabricated a wire hoop and supported the nest from the bottom with four strings tied to a metal support on top. Now the nest looks waay more stable and will probably hold the nest till the baby bird grows up and fly off on its own!


Additional support was added for our guests' nest as the nest was dangerously supported by a few strands from the mop head.

Here is a picture of the baby bird taken today! It was all flesh colored when newly-born which quickly was replaced by a layer of black tiny feathers (could be hair but I’m no bird expert… it really look more like hair than feathers!). Now its black feathers are slowly changing into green feathers like its mom! I really wonder whether it’s a boy bird or girl bird… =P


The egg hatched and we got ourselves one cute little sunbird!

I’m going for my lasik surgery later today! Hopefully everything goes really well… I’m so looking forward to it!