Ear Piercing

Gal had her ears pierced on 9 Aug 2009 which falls on S'pore National Day and Guan Yin Dan. My mum said that it will be good to do ear piercing on Guan Yin Dan so we went ahead to do it on Sunday.

Gal felt the pain after the 1st earring is inserted on her right ear and she cried so loud that everyone is looking at her...she didn't want to do again on her left, she used her hand and shoulder to cover her left ear for a long time and I have to keep coaxing till she lets down her awareness and the 2nd one is inserted...sad to say, the left one is not aligned properly due to her struggle...so I will bring her to pierce again at another shop when hubby is back.

In our days, we do ear piercing in goldsmith shops so we tried to find goldsmith shop to do the ear piercing for gal in chinatown but nowadays, they do not have the service anymore. In the end, we approached a shop which does tattoo and piercing which is operated by "Chinese"...I'm not biased against Chinese but the professionalism is really not there...I regretted to have gal's ear pierced there because of the following:

1) I do not know if the "gun" they used to pierce is sanitized cos I did not see her using anything to clean it before use...
2) She did not apply the alcohol patch to gal's ears before inserting the earrings...
3) She only brought out the alcohol patch upon MY REQUEST! which was after the right ear is pierced!!!

For the past few days till now and the future, I'm really worried for gal's health...I'm at fault, I let down my caution on these little things, I should have asked and checked properly...