Fragile patch

On Sunday, I went for my second haircut in a month at my friendly (and chio) hairstylist’s. Before the last haircut, I had been going to the barber’s for a convenient but nosso nice crewcut. But you know, you have to pamper yourself every now and again. And my hair grows really quickly.

So, for a little bit more than what I pay the barber, I had a shampoo and scalp massage by some funky dude whose name I didn’t get again, and a stylish haircut by the chioest hairstylist you’ll ever see this side of Orchard Road. Actually, she could give me a Mohawk and I still wouldn’t mind. Or notice. Until I got home and my mother were to ask, ‘why you look like red indian?’

Cheryl the Chio started the usual hairstylist/barbershop conversation, but steered clear of politics (because this place, damned stylo one), asking me what movies I had seen lately, whether I had been clubbing, and asking why I didn’t go to the Zouk 20th Anniversary Bash.

I yammered away, as you would to a chio hairstylist who asked you those things: Went to Mohd. Sultan instead lah, had teh lah, nowsaday cannot drink lah, too old to party lah.

Then Cheryl suddenly asked, ‘Eh, before you came back here last month, you went to the barber for a crewcut right?’

I said yes.

‘You shouldn’t’

‘Why not?’

‘Because you have a fragile area’

‘WHAT YOU MEAN FRAGILE AREA?’, I asked, so loudly that the other customers turned to look, causing their respective stylists to go tsk (or ‘zhk’, depending on whether you’re a pinyinophile or a wade-gilesophile. Gotta get these things right, you know?)’ because they nearly cut their customers’ ears off.

‘There’s one part of your hair that grows more slowly than the rest’.

‘Oh no! Beijing 101 time!’

‘Don’t worry. I style for you and give that area more volume’.


Looks empty? It’s not. Everyone’s hiding below the window sill.

Next Hair Salon
Pre-haircut and waiting for my cup of tea.

Surf stop: enter the myoclonic jerk
iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: Waltzing Matilda – Slim Dusty – West of Winton, of which I have the original CD and therefore didn’t steal music.
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34 responses to “Fragile patch”

  1. J Schnorng Avatar

    Mr. M, you and your fragile spot are truly foraging the path ahead into middle age, and damn it, you make it sound like so much fun.

    Regards,
    J

  2. J Schnorng Avatar

    Mr. M, you and your fragile spot are truly foraging the path ahead into middle age, and damn it, you make it sound like so much fun.

    Regards,
    J

  3. Postmaster-General Avatar

    You heard me Mr. Old Chikopek. Dun deny it. But thanks to you I get to see chio bu. Someday I hope to become as old and perverse as you.

  4. Postmaster-General Avatar

    You heard me Mr. Old Chikopek. Dun deny it. But thanks to you I get to see chio bu. Someday I hope to become as old and perverse as you.

  5. willowink Avatar

    That’s a very refined way of referring to thinning hair. Will remember that.

  6. willowink Avatar

    That’s a very refined way of referring to thinning hair. Will remember that.

  7. Titania Avatar

    She’s cut my hair before. did u get the nice head massage?

  8. Titania Avatar

    She’s cut my hair before. did u get the nice head massage?

  9. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Yes, but not by Cheryl.

  10. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Yes, but not by Cheryl.

  11. cowboy caleb Avatar

    My hair is long liao. I better go search for her name card you passed me a couple of weeks ago.

    Wonder if she does eyebrows.

  12. cowboy caleb Avatar

    My hair is long liao. I better go search for her name card you passed me a couple of weeks ago.

    Wonder if she does eyebrows.

  13. Ah 9 Avatar

    mmm u read Wallpaper one?

  14. Ah 9 Avatar

    mmm u read Wallpaper one?

  15. brandon Avatar

    dude, i’m 25 and my stylist has said that to me too.

  16. brandon Avatar

    dude, i’m 25 and my stylist has said that to me too.

  17. ej Avatar
    ej

    n im 27 n thts wat my stylist said to me too. well..guess we’re all balding already. eeeks*

  18. ej Avatar
    ej

    n im 27 n thts wat my stylist said to me too. well..guess we’re all balding already. eeeks*

  19. Sandra Ng Avatar

    perhaps its not the age then. chikopeks lose hair easily. thus explains why most are balding. ๐Ÿ™‚

  20. Sandra Ng Avatar

    perhaps its not the age then. chikopeks lose hair easily. thus explains why most are balding. ๐Ÿ™‚

  21. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    I am not balding. Yet. I just have a fragile area.

  22. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    I am not balding. Yet. I just have a fragile area.

  23. J Schnorng Avatar

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  24. J Schnorng Avatar

    Aiyah…you know why ham sup guys lose hair? Grass doesn’t grow on a busy street!

  25. J Schnorng Avatar

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  26. J Schnorng Avatar

    Aiyah…you know why ham sup guys lose hair? Grass doesn’t grow on a busy street!

  27. tania Avatar

    all the guys there have funky names, my stylist’s titus. i wldn’t have caught his name if he didn’t give me his name card

  28. tania Avatar

    all the guys there have funky names, my stylist’s titus. i wldn’t have caught his name if he didn’t give me his name card

  29. myoclonic jerk Avatar

    thanks for the surfstop, mr miyagi! ๐Ÿ™‚

  30. myoclonic jerk Avatar

    thanks for the surfstop, mr miyagi! ๐Ÿ™‚

  31. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    cheryl is my stylist too!.. hehe.. speaking of old..me almost got ear snipped off by her last time cos i said “we all getting old”..(me same age as her)

  32. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    cheryl is my stylist too!.. hehe.. speaking of old..me almost got ear snipped off by her last time cos i said “we all getting old”..(me same age as her)

  33. Pauleon Avatar

    hehh been to next too. wa nice to be pampered man. hehh.

  34. Pauleon Avatar

    hehh been to next too. wa nice to be pampered man. hehh.

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