My Scary New Specs

Hmmm, maybe I should not have listened to my subconscious' prompting to get a new pair of specs. Although these are the benefit(s) (and you'll soon realise why the letter 's' is bracketed):

- Things are slightly clearer (well, things were slightly blur initially so this isn't too big an improvement)

- This is a new pair of specs (I'm not sure if this is a benefit. But since I want to tell myself that there must be more benefits other than the above, yup, here's one more point. And no, I'm not self-rationalizing. Hmmm, am I rationalizing about not rationalizing?)

- And... I can't think of a third benefit, sadly (Hmmm, maybe this point should be moved below).

This is the other side of it (and once again, yup, this is a list):

- This pair of specs seemed more fragile. Although nothing was mentioned earlier on with regards to a sturdy pair of specs, that was because it could naturally withstand stuff like walking into something/someone. It was not a point of consideration up till now.

- My new specs seemed to have a higher tendency of sliding down my nose, and I have to prop it up more often, as if I do not feel nerdy enough like how they love to portray bookworms doing rocket science (yup, I do feel nerdy having to prop up my specs).

- Things are BIG! Everything seemed to be magnified, as though I walked with a pair of magnifying glasses literally, even if the magnification was something like 1.1. You'll soon notice that this is a general point with lots of complications:

- With the floor magnified, it seemed/felt as though I was walking on the moon. I don't moon walk though, but it'll look absolutely spastic if I walked with huge exaggerated steps (It's funny how Michael Jackson called his dance "the moon walk" when it resembled more of "moon sliding" whereas my initial unstable walking motion resembled more of "moon walking").

- With the magnification, everyone looked big, and intimidating too. If you see me pulling back while chatting, you know why.

- I feel small because everything seemed big. At least this one didn't have any negative impact like inferiority complex and all. But hey, if people who feel small in whatever sense describe themselves as a small fish in a big pond, this pair of specs certainly made me feel like a plankton in an ocean!

- And the worst case scenario (ie. my worst nightmare has been realised): THIS PAIR OF SPECS IS MORE ANTI-PIANO THAN ANYTHING!!! In fact, everything I see is magnified in proportion EXCEPT the piano! Somehow, the curve on the piano is much more pronounced than the previous pair, and it seemed as if the piano had curved outwards from its centre. And, on top of that, the keys are slightly bigger in the middle, and much smaller at the ends. Oh no! My ministry is at stake (and possibly my life is also at stake, if a previous crappy conversation with someone about puking and electrocution was true).

I don't think I can see the scores from the stand while playing without my anti-piano specs (But then again, it's not like a strongly anti-piano pair of specs would help much without the keyboard view). It's either I choose the keyboard or my score. OK, although my short term memory is not to be trusted, I must learn to memorise tau geis and chords. Arrrgh, forget it. I'll just play by ear and smoke my way through come the time I need to remove my specs and play before I start to feel weird/puky/nausea/dizzy/whatever-you-can-think-of, but Wei will find out. Aha! Probably I'll place the score on my lap and play during service, but I believe Wei would be frowning when I portray a slack image, and something that is one of a kind. Oh no, that would be a new stunt in my list. Arrrgh, what am I to do? HELP!!!

Thought: My degree must never go up again. Goodness knows what those future specs have in store for me. =/