we call it sleep sand here

i call it bak sai. eye shit.

hi Joan! Sleepglue is a term I read somewhere in a book - my family (and the southern chinese) used to call it eye shit

oh you guys, I was trying to be polite & not use the most common term here ... sleep shit! Never heard of eye shit tho!

well there ya go commonality. And I don't find it impolite at all. The stuff from eyes, nose and ears are all called ~shit here.

the term's in a dialect, Hokkien. Literally translated, it's eye shit, however coarse-sounding haha.

that's cool to know we think alike about such *important* things all over the world!

there is probably more that we have in common!

oh I totally believe that! (just find it funny that little things like eye shit are the same!)

oh my! so is it left on ur eyeballs?

they're monkey things from the old hairy days am not too surprised we have those terms in common.

seekee: i think it'll hurt if the shit's on my eyeballs! rather, it's in the corners of your eye, i think they call it stardust

YES IT HURTS LIKE MAD!

there's no real good way of disposing of that protein either

either push all to the inner corner of the eyes, then scoop it out, or wash w lots of water

ya dig it, ya lick it, ya roll it, ya flick it.