haha went to cut my hair today at chapter 2 near bugis village with Wk, it was quite fun to cut at a salon after 2 years plus of cutting at the barber in camp or at the one a few blocks away. Cutting in camp was very cheap, a mere $3 bucks; but how good you look depends on the barber, who's quite inconsistent all the time. Catch him when he's at his peak and you would look decent. For really bad haircuts, I remember having to wet my hair every now and then to make it look better in camp, and when outside I have no choice but to use mousse/gel to style it up. And as for cutting at the barber near my place, the standard is much better and I can lie about my age haha, I would usually say I'm still a student so as to get a cheaper rate. So cheapskate now that I think of it, but who cares? And yes, back to my haircut today, it was so cheap!!!! its only 20 bucks after a 20% discount since we cut before 2pm. It feels good to cut at a salon, I especially like the rinsing-of-hair part and the whole experience really makes you feel more 'pampered' in some way right? Washing of hair was very ticklish and I had to bite my lips to prevent myself from grinning too obviously, wonder what the woman will think if she sees me smiling like some fool while having my hair washed. And when the hairdresser wrapped a towel round my hair after it was washed, I really found it immensely funny. I can't imagine how I looked while walking back from the basin to my seat and when I looked into the mirror, I was right- I looked absolutely stupid!! haha

Anyway, Priscillia, the hairdresser did quite a good job, though the styling of hair would be a chore. I had asked her earlier if it were possible for me to have a style that doesn't require much maintenance, given that most of the time I couldn't really be bothered to wax/gel it but she said that short hair requires some additional effort, and that I have to agree with. Looks like I have to wake up earlier/ allocate a few minutes to styling my hair from now on. I have no choice! I look really weird now after I washed my hair and dried it. It's thin, sparse, and sticks out in all directions. No way am I going to go out in this state haha. Am gonna dye my hair later this week, should be quite fun. Afterall, it was two long years of plain boring short black hair. Actually nope, I recall dying my hair at the end of last year, I dunno what got into me that time but I figured that if I were to leave the dye on for a shorter period of time, the colour wouldn't be that strong. I was very very wrong. Even under normal lighting I could tell that the colour was far too obvious. I decided to act as if nothing's changed when I returned to camp after block leave. Major mistake. My stupid PS and other seargents spotted it when I had company PT in the evening. I was like 'oh no.... I'm gonna sign extras for this!!!!' When I'm outfield I had no choice but to tahan the heat and keep my helmet or jockey cap on while others were happily airing their sweaty heads. I simply could not risk having any CO/OC/PSOs busting me right in the middle of outfield. It would be a double blow, having to endure the remaining outfield period with the thoughts of doing extras on weekends....eek. Thank goodness nothing happened ( except for the time when my company's OC spotted it from the second floor when I was doing saikang on the first), but other than that reminder to go something about it before I get into trouble, I was left alone. If I'm not wrong I managed to keep my dyed hair for about a month before cutting it very short and dying it black TWICE so as to make sure I would not get into trouble. The first black dye I bought slowly faded and I had no choice but to dye it again since my battalion has this stupid practice of RSM/CSM checking all our hair once in a while and there was an impending one coming up.

And I suddenly remembered another incident, this time in VJC. I dyed my hair in JC2 but no one spotted it till that fateful day. I think it was one of those slack days where the lessons were quite useless so I decided to go to the library, along with a few others to do my own stuff instead of attending lessons. I slacked the whole morning away in the library and decided to go home at about 11.30am. Now, back then in VJC ( dunno about now ), students were allowed to leave school only after 12.40pm on a normal school day, so officially I was not supposed to go home but I figured so many students have managed to get out of school even at 9/10 plus before so it should be fine . As luck, or rather, bad luck would have it, I was wrong. While on my way out, I heard a loud shout from behind " Stop walking the two of you!!!! " I knew then that I 'm gonna be dead meat as I recognised the voice as that of Mr Tan YH. That idiot has always been quite a fierce disciplinarian, even though he's only a PE teacher. My friend and I turned around to see him walking briskly towards us. He then asked whether we knew what time it was and what lessons we were supposed to be attending. I forgot what answers we gave but the exciting part's coming up. He told my friend to walk back to school ( even though we WERE still within the school compound) but not me. After my friend had gone , he became very fierce and asked loudly " I give you one last chance, you better tell me what the real colour of your hair is , or else.... " With that ominous warning ringing in my head even though it wasn't spelled out, I said "black". I was then told me to go dye it back and meet him at his desk the next day during recess. I have no choice but to ask him to postpone it till the following week since there's common tests coming out around that period. Thankfully he agreed, but I didn't dye it back black haha ,I cut it really short and gelled it on that day I reported to him!!! haha gelling hair makes it look darker and he was satisfied.

Ah...its always so fun and thrilling to be doing something like that, 'dangerous' it may be,but the excitement makes up for it, and I feel triumphant if I know I manage to 'pull it off' for some time before going back to normal...