You See, Don't Mix It, Baby!

We mixed it, which is why we can't see. Clearly, that is. Because our spectacles are missing.

Happens that the guys didnt' want to waste the weekend and so we had a boozing session at the Castle on Friday night. Our Friday night gatherings used to be a usual affair but things change over time - so when there is a suggestion for a meetup we do try to make it unless we've already made a prior engagement elsewhere.

And usually we'll have the Combo Meal when we do meetup. The Combo Meal consists of 1 Carlsberg Special Brew and 1 Carlsberg/Heineken/Skol/beer of choice - finish the Special Brew while it's cold (best in two gulps) then enjoy the other beer slowly. Don't really know since when Dunhill Menthol Lights became part of that meal - we'll like it to remain optional only.

It so happens to be one of the rare occasions where Who? could join us too. And while lad, Lemon and us were expecting Who? to bring the his own choice of booze, mana tahu the feller came with puffer fish instead - a bottle of Absolut Vanilla, a bottle of Coke and ice. A nasty silent killer Absolut Vanilla is, although we normally take it with Sprite/7-Up/Ice Cream Soda. When asked why he got Coke as mixer, Who? said he was thinking of Vanilla Coke. And it did taste like Vanilla Coke...to an extent. The bugger poured so much vodka in each cup that the mixer couldn't mask the smell!

Needless to say, with such a cocktail of drinks we ended up having to do a post-mortem on Saturday morning as to what happened:
Lemon fetched us back.
Wallet? Rushes to check. Check.
Phone? Yep.

Seems like we got everything. Only when we were about to drive that we realised that we couldn't see properly...and we can't find our specs.

Sigh.

The frameless spectacles we had lasted quite long - it lasted us from college till a couple of years back. The Liquid specs barely lasted a year before the lens coating started smearing and a bit of the frame broke. The just-lost GA Blue pair (a lovely metallic green frame) fared slightly better, lasting slightly over a year.

And so a new search for spectacles began. Frameless? Wireframe? Thick plastic frames? Half-frame? Those mixed-alloy bendable ultra-light frames (can't afford the expensive titanium alloy version)? For someone who detests keeping his spectacles on all the time, we certainly do take a lot of effort in finding a pair of specs. Comfort and narcissistic appearences matter. Brand cannot be allowed to matter, seeing our history with spectacles, not to mention our budget doens't allow us to touch Oakleys.

In the end we settled for this. A pair called Inspira. Plastic frames for comfort on the ears (the metallic one gave hell on the ears when worn too long), wireframe and small lens. A rare find, and one that didn't require us to hunt through three different opticians nor take hours of trying different specs! And our specs were ready within an hour!

Where we got our specs. A Look at The Curve. Funky but bulky spectacle case.

The specs is missing. Long live Inspira!

If our spectacles make a return comeback, we're going to cry. For happiness that it didn't get lost, and for sadness at the hole in our pocket. And delegate that pair as an emergency pair somewhere...maybe the office. Liquid is already our emergency pair in the car.