Daily In, Daily Out

We have rather dry eyes - not too sure if this was a product of poor contact lens practise (yes, we're guilty of wearing lenses for over 8 hours, in the shower, while sleeping but that's about it - we be creature of hygiene) or if it was something inherent all this time where our lacrimal glands proclaimed the Age of Drought.

The first time we ever popped in contact lenses was in Glasgow (we'd gotten the B&L brand, Softlens?), and upon walking out unto Buchanan St. it was as if our world just suddenly expanded - the clarity of everything was just mind-boggling! The streets were wider, the sky was brighter, the people were bigger, the colours more vibrant...you get the idea. Having your eyes opened for the first time, kinda thing.

However, we've stopped wearing them once we started working, for a couple of reasons - both linked to the fact that we have dry eyes. First, we don't cherish the idea of waking up to face the day by popping in a contact and suffering blinding pain for a couple of minutes, and probably only to have the contact pop out 10 minutes later. Second, we run a high risk of a contact popping out sometime in the middle of the day - this has happened a few times already. They never happened while we were in Glasgow, though.

It's because of this our compliance for contact lenses went down the drain. A pair could be made to last 2 months due to very infrequent usage, so much so that we don't even mind trashing a contact that popped out of our eye that we only wore five times in 6 weeks. Right now we still have one more Freshlook Colorblends (Amethyst) to finish - not one PAIR, just one LENS. For our right eye. Yep, left eye goes blind. While this works for outdoors reading turns out to be a bit of a chore, so we don't.

Anyways.

It's not that we dislike contacts - it's just that it turns out to be rather wasteful for us when we can't make full use of it. We prefer contacts to wearing glasses, really. And so we've been contemplating daily disposables for a while - it may be a bit more expensive but given our erratic usage it might turn out to be more cost effective for us. But price still was a bit of a hurdle. So instead of shopping for it at our second home, we decided to give our third home a try - and we're learning to like A-Look a bit more now.

Our ears pricked up when we heard them quote RM70 for a box of daily disposables. And RM50 for a box of monthly disposables. Picked up a couple of boxes of dailies and popped a pair in at the shop itself. And enjoyed the same experience as our first time wearing contacts again :D Now we can just use the spare specs in the car to get to work, pop in the dailies later when eyes are comfy, and dump them at the end of the day! And this Focus Dailies turns out to be rather small and comfy too!

Now, what are we going to do with the B&L Multipurpose Solution pack-of-2 that we just bought?!