it's so weird..

it's so weird to not be able to do a TOTAL hair flip anymore.

YES PPL

i have finally cut my hair!
it's now shoulder length, with the minimums of all minimalisms of layering
so technically, it's sort of a straight cut with a teennyyyy weennnssyy bit of layering at the front.
i don't mind hairsalons, really.
but it bugs me when they try to sell off their hair products..
and you know, it wouldn't be too bad if they sell of their hair products without much comments, but EVERY SINGLE TIME any one of them tries to sell me something, they ALWAYS come with stupid comments.
well, not stupid per se.
but it's just pretty impossible to tell if they ARE selling the products to you because you DO have a hair problem, or if they're just creating a big fuss about a teeny weeny problem.

here's the most RECENT example at some hair salon in bangsar?hartamas? i dunno la..somewhere there.

ms. x, the hairstylist, combs through my hair and points out that i seem to be BALDING

ms x: ehh, you keep this hair parting for very long already izzit?
sw: uh yah
ms x: yah you see, you seem to be losing a LOT OF HAIR already from this area.
sw: oh yes ahh..maybe lah.. exam stress and what not
ms x: so you can either change your parting, or try our scalp treatment!! it's very good. it kills off germs and removes excess oil so that it doesn't stress your scalp and so your hair can grow better
sw: *totally ignored her scalp treatment suggestion* oh..change parting like how?
ms x: nehh like this.. *and she combs my hair into this..really weird ah-beng-lala-mui parting*
sw: -__-" quite ugly. nvm. i think i'll stick back to my old hair
ms x: try our scalp treatment! it kills off germs and makes your scalp more healthy. then your hair can grow better.
sw: nvm nvm..it's ok. i'll see what happens later on.

ok now, it wouldn't have been that obvious if she had suggested the treatment just ONCE.
but to repeat it AGAIN, with the same tagline of killing off germs or something along the lines of letting your hair grow better, things start to get more fishy ya know?
and it DOESN'T even end there.

ms x: soo..you wanna wash hair right? ok. you want normal shampoo or treatment shampoo.
sw: huh? ok so how much extra do i have to pay?
ms x: 5 dollars extra.
sw: -_-" (babi sial..treatment shampoo oso extra 5 bux..they use the same bloody shampoo oso i wouldn't knowww.....but watever larrrhhh) okok..treatment shampoo
ms x: ohhh..then conditioner? normal conditioner or treatment conditioner?
sw: *omgawd..wth is this mann. a customer being spoilt for choice? for EXTRA MONEY?*..okok..both treatment.

so fine. that's extra 10 bux for treatment-y stuff, which i would never know if they were actually treatment-y or not.

still doesn't end there.

ms x: so, your boyfriend ah that wan
sw: hm? ohyeahh.. LOL. why? very weird ah? different races and all that?
ms x: no lah..normal what these days. how old is he?
sw: ahh..20.
ms x: still young!! how old are you??
sw: i'm 19
ms x: ooo..yeah, you look pretty young
sw: hahaha..but i've been growing loadsa pimples lately. see?
ms x: aiya..cannot see. you don't even have to put foundation! actually, you're very fair. skin white white
sw: white? i thought i was yellow (yes, i actually said that. LOL)
ms x: yea but you're really fair
sw: hahah i suppose. haven't been out in the sun much. but i'm not much of the physical-caring-vain-pot type. like, i don't bother puting on make up and what-not. i just..tak jaga lah.maybe that's why pimples all coming out.
ms x: actually hor, if you really take care and pan leng leng properly rite, you'd look VERY pretty
sw: hah? yes ah..don't think it'll make much of a difference though..
ms x: yeah..see like your eyebrows. do you want to shave it? we have it here. we'll shave your eyebrows to put it back into shape
sw: ??!?!?!?!? -__-" *just played along* yeahh..do you all have threading?
ms x: uhm. no. we don't have threading. we only have shaving. but threading is very painful! and usually indians only do it.
sw: ..... (indians only do it? babi..where's this lady from?) uhh..nvm lah it's ok. i'll go home and repluck (and ihad just plucked it one week b4!! so obviously this stupid lady is just selling of her schemes lahh). i don't have the time anyway (which we really didn't)
ms x: oh but it's only 5 minutes!
sw: ..i'll see how later. if we have the time or not.

u think it ends here? HAH!
no where near ending

justin, my younger brother, was with p and i at that time.
and prolly by some memory effect or what not, he suddenly remembers that he had forgotten to wash his hair!

ms x: ohh you wanna wash hair ahh
justin: no...donwan
sw: how much to wash for small boy?
ms x: oh..10 dollars.
sw: oh..ok (babi..SMALL boy, with SHORT and LITTLE hair, 10 bucks?? confirm con job.)
ms x: so you wanna wash?
sw: nvm it's ok lah..
ms x: boy you wanna wash?
justin: no..donwan
ms x: donwan wash ah
sw: nvm it's ok.

i tell you...15 minutes later she asks again if the little boy wants to wash his hair.

so she was almost done with my hair, when she asks me about the bloody scalp treatment again.

ms x: so you don't want the scalp treatment? if no time nvm. can make appointment, next time you come back
sw: hah? LOL. nvm lah it's ok. how much is it anyway
ms x: *quotes the price. i think it ranged between 60-100 bucks*
sw: oh..nvm lah it's ok. i pokai redi after today.
ms x: oh yes ah... LOL! nvm. ask boyfriend to pay.
sw: .... -_-" i'm not so bad lah..kesian the fella

so when FINALLY she was DONE with my hair, she pulled the best-est trick of all.

ms x: there, i've put the serum on your hair. do you want to take the bottle back?

ok. it sounds as if she was giving it for free, which of course, she wasn't. but it was just the way she phrased her sentence.
do you want to take the bottle back? makes her sound so....generous.

sw: oh..uhm. how much do i have to pay for it?
ms x: oh..65 dollars.
sw: LOL! hahhaa it's ok. thanx

then i walk to the counter to pay, where she then gives us her card and tells me something about taking a cab to hartamas/bangsar the next time round if i wanna come, because earlier on i had told her that i stay really farrrrr away from that area and that i was only at that area coz p had wanted to come to that hairsalon

you know, i wouldn't mind goin back to that hairsalon.
only if SHE isn't there the next time round.
tak layan lah..having ppl to sell me products and stuff.
geeeeezzzzzzzzz

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on another HAPPIER HAPPIER note, guess who turned 49 yesterday???!?!??!

DADDY!!!!!

(and i know he'll kill me if i put his photo up, plus he doesn't even know about this blog, so SHUSH!)

and someone turns 20 today!!!! :D

it's not everyday u turn the big TWO-OH
that's exactly 2 decades!!

so happy birthday sweetie!!!

and i hope you have a great oneeee

*hugz*