Finally...typing something out now.
The past few days have passed quite quickly, which is a good thing.
What's new?
First time wearing contact lenses. Have always wanted to try it.
Made up my mind and walked into Specsavers, got a comprehensive eye check (covered by Medicare) and had the optometrist ordered a pair of trial lenses for me.
Was told to wait for a week but got a call the next day (on Thursday) that the lenses were ready for me.
They had a staff to teach me how to put the lenses in. It was hard but I was really excited! Wasn't as difficult as what friends had told me.
Been trying them for a few hours in the past few days. I think the optometrist failed to give me the best prescription. It's a little bit blurry, and kinda difficult for me to read stuff on the computer. I asked a friend of mine who also has astigmatism of greater than 2.25 and who is wearing a toric lens, and she told me it's ok with hers.
Will try to contact the optometrist next week and see if she's able to do something.
Look-wise, hmm, a few guys looked at me in the gym that day when I was on contact lenses. Probably I looked weird. Haha
Social activities
On Wednesday night, I went to the local gay health promotion organisation to join their Asian Tea Room.
It's a social group for Asian gay men. There was this guy who's half Asian and half White, but he was still eligible to join. Hahah.
So usually they will have a facilitated discussion on a topic. There were about 18 of us, most of us in our 20s and 30s. They were accountants, markets researchers, phd students, social workers, etc.
We were seated in a circle, and this time, the theme was family. We watched the Pink Dot 2013 videos and after that we talked. haha.
The discussion started from families in general to same-sex marriage to coming out and to other things which I couldn't remember.
It was a really great experience. Though I was quiet that night, probably because I was feeling hungry and a bit tired (it started from 6.30pm till about 10pm), I quite enjoyed it.
I was surprised and happy at the same time to see other gay men, Asians, professionals to sit around, and to talk to each other on an important topic, without having to talk about just sex. We were able to talk about some 'serious stuffs'. Things that are very important to us, as gays, as Asians that we don't normally have the opportunity to talk about.
And tonight, I've actually just come home from KK's house. KK and Chris are a couple, in their 40s that I have known for about two years. They are like my best friends in Sydney, I actually consider them as my family.
They are part of this gay group. And they will have parties on a monthly basis at a member's place.
There were about 25 of us tonight. Every one (or every couple) will bring a dish. I didn't prepare a dish so I brought them TsingTao beers.
Had lots of nice food tonight. Asian (Malaysian) food!
Very nice people too. Although they are in their 30s or 40s, it's ok. Just making friends, and they've got lots of life experiences to share:)
Health
My urine test for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia came back negative. This was done 10 days after the unprotected oral sex that I had.
Because I told the sexual health nurse that I experienced some symptoms, she said it's NGU (Non-Gonoccocal Urethritis). Basically, it's inflammation of the urethra, the tube that carries urine in your penis, that can be caused by many different types of bacteria/organisms.
I was given a single dose of Azithromycin (1 gram).
She said that should be enough to kill the bacteria, if there's any.
It's scary actually, to know that there are so many types of bacteria that can infect you, even through oral sex, that's not picked up in an STI test, because only Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are regularly tested for.
There are bacteria called Mycoplasma Genitalium that aren't routinely screened.
Hopefully I won't get any symptoms anymore. Hopefully I will be fine.
The past few days have passed quite quickly, which is a good thing.
What's new?
First time wearing contact lenses. Have always wanted to try it.
Made up my mind and walked into Specsavers, got a comprehensive eye check (covered by Medicare) and had the optometrist ordered a pair of trial lenses for me.
Was told to wait for a week but got a call the next day (on Thursday) that the lenses were ready for me.
They had a staff to teach me how to put the lenses in. It was hard but I was really excited! Wasn't as difficult as what friends had told me.
Been trying them for a few hours in the past few days. I think the optometrist failed to give me the best prescription. It's a little bit blurry, and kinda difficult for me to read stuff on the computer. I asked a friend of mine who also has astigmatism of greater than 2.25 and who is wearing a toric lens, and she told me it's ok with hers.
Will try to contact the optometrist next week and see if she's able to do something.
Look-wise, hmm, a few guys looked at me in the gym that day when I was on contact lenses. Probably I looked weird. Haha
Social activities
On Wednesday night, I went to the local gay health promotion organisation to join their Asian Tea Room.
It's a social group for Asian gay men. There was this guy who's half Asian and half White, but he was still eligible to join. Hahah.
So usually they will have a facilitated discussion on a topic. There were about 18 of us, most of us in our 20s and 30s. They were accountants, markets researchers, phd students, social workers, etc.
We were seated in a circle, and this time, the theme was family. We watched the Pink Dot 2013 videos and after that we talked. haha.
The discussion started from families in general to same-sex marriage to coming out and to other things which I couldn't remember.
It was a really great experience. Though I was quiet that night, probably because I was feeling hungry and a bit tired (it started from 6.30pm till about 10pm), I quite enjoyed it.
I was surprised and happy at the same time to see other gay men, Asians, professionals to sit around, and to talk to each other on an important topic, without having to talk about just sex. We were able to talk about some 'serious stuffs'. Things that are very important to us, as gays, as Asians that we don't normally have the opportunity to talk about.
And tonight, I've actually just come home from KK's house. KK and Chris are a couple, in their 40s that I have known for about two years. They are like my best friends in Sydney, I actually consider them as my family.
They are part of this gay group. And they will have parties on a monthly basis at a member's place.
There were about 25 of us tonight. Every one (or every couple) will bring a dish. I didn't prepare a dish so I brought them TsingTao beers.
Had lots of nice food tonight. Asian (Malaysian) food!
Very nice people too. Although they are in their 30s or 40s, it's ok. Just making friends, and they've got lots of life experiences to share:)
Health
My urine test for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia came back negative. This was done 10 days after the unprotected oral sex that I had.
Because I told the sexual health nurse that I experienced some symptoms, she said it's NGU (Non-Gonoccocal Urethritis). Basically, it's inflammation of the urethra, the tube that carries urine in your penis, that can be caused by many different types of bacteria/organisms.
I was given a single dose of Azithromycin (1 gram).
She said that should be enough to kill the bacteria, if there's any.
It's scary actually, to know that there are so many types of bacteria that can infect you, even through oral sex, that's not picked up in an STI test, because only Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are regularly tested for.
There are bacteria called Mycoplasma Genitalium that aren't routinely screened.
Hopefully I won't get any symptoms anymore. Hopefully I will be fine.
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