Every haircut at QC is $10. If i go every two weeks, i have to pay $20 a month. In a year, i would have paid, $240! Even if i have alot of money also cannot spend on such stupid haircuts la! If my hair really long, then maybe the $10 would be well-spent to give me immunity. BUT to cut just a few inches of hair, NO WAY MAN!!!

Call me a miser but i really think that amount of money can be spent more fruitfully - like donate to charity (haha.. not really), buy nice clothes & watch movies! Therefore, to save that amount of money, i decided to hand that important but stupid task to my mother. It's important because i NEVER want a GI cut again. It's stupid because to cut my hair every two weeks is just plain dumb.

Well, my mother, in my memory cut my hair when i was much younger. Maybe when i was in primary school if i'm not wrong. That's why i thought it's the perfect solution - i can cut it in my own house, my hair is kept short and MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT"S FREE!!! ZERO DOLLAR!

But even FREE comes with a price haha... To make this clear, i APPRECIATE MY MOTHER"S HELP 100% but I REALLY worry with every cut she makes.

First of all, she is a bit LAO HUA - old people myopia in another words haha... So she would always put on her spectacles for the cut. The thing is, she wears the specs close to the tip of the nose (am i putting it correctly?) like some super old granny who can hardly see. Scares me to death i tell you.

Secondly, because she hasn't cut anyone's hair for a long time, her skills are pretty rusty. Well, but it wasn't good to begin with right?! Every time after she makes a few cuts, she would rush infront of me and see whether she made the right cuts or to check if both sides are balanced. She would go "Can or not ah? See see see!" and it really frightens me. If Robyn's song go "And it hurts with every heartbeat", i would have to sing "And it (my heart) jumps with every cut she makes"! haha... But i shall not blame her for it. After all i'm the one who asked for the haircut knowing what i was in for. Plus, i feel so bad for making her go through this traumatic experience every two weeks (we just ended the second cut) - she feels so stressed that the burden of cutting my hair NICE AND SHORT lays in her hands.

Thirdly, her cutting tools are really just the usual pair of scissors and a comb. She doesn't dare to use the shaver and neither will i allow her to - i don't want to go near the possibility of hearing "OPPS!" when she is using the shaver. The scissors will do. haha... But the issue here is the pair of scissors used is quite lousy - not sharp at all. I complained to her about it today but she said it's actually a NEW one. I just went speechless. Prayers are DEFINITELY needed in such crucial moments.

With that said, i'm still very satisified with the haircut i got. It's not super-stylo but it's good enough. It's short and i STILL LOOK MODERATELY DECENTLY GOOD. Since no one around me are professional hairstylists, i doubt they can spot the "screw-ups". haha...

SO THANK YOU MOTHER!!! NIANG... HAI 'ER(child) says THANK YOU!!! hahah...

In the past, i hardly had to worry about any screw-ups in my haircut. Basically because i had been going to the same barber for the past 17 years. The barbers knew me and knew what i wanted. That's the reason i have been spotting the same haircut throughout all those years. Then, i couldn't care less about how my hair would turn out since my priority was not to look good or cool (and i wouldn;t anyway). Change was definitely not an option because I didn't want to waste time worrying if my hair goes out of shape of not.

But there's also another reason why i went to the same barber and had the same haircut everytime. I didn't want to change my FENGSHUI. haha... I've been doing well in my exams everytime and being the unreasonably and unlogically superstitious me, i think part of it attributes to the barber. haha... I believed that cutting from the same place and spotting the same hairstyle, my results would remain the same - good. hahah... Well, i do have my other weird superstitions but i will not share them here - they are my SECRETS TO SUCCESS!!! haha!!!

But of course, i've grown out of that stupid superstition of mine. FOR THE MOMENT (who knows i might revert back in my uni days? haha). Army made it compulsory for me to change my hairstyle and made me realise how important hair was because i LOOK ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS without hair! haha... I didn't like to look at the mirror when i was in my BMT days and even if i did, i would cover the top of my head and imagine myself with the "hair" i used to have. Now that i have the privilege of keeping my hair slightly longer, i am very much more concerned about how my hair would turn out - even though the variations are limited.

All i can say is, it's a much more HAIRY situation from now on. haha

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On another note, remember in the last entry i spoke about the VIDEO Tribute to the bloggers shown during the "moving on " party? Ivan posted the video online and Kenny helped me to get the screenshot for my part. (thanks kenny :)

BTW, thanks Ivan for the very kind words. I really do feel very appreciated by what you, jillian and the library has done for me (and the other bloggers).

So before i go, let me show you my "few nanoseconds of mini-fame"! hahah...