Kuzozangpo
and Sawadhekhrup! Before the year comes to an abrupt end without mentioning
anything of the culture shock here, I cannot make this post a new year’s update,
you know why? It’s spooky in many sense. Yeah, yeah! I know….. you know most
and you know well about Thailand especially Bangkok with all shopping stuff,
malls, amusement areas, Tuk Tuk, Khao San Road, Patpong, Pattaya, Som Tam,
Chang, and not to forget Ann, who speaks a little Dzongkha and most Bhutanese
know her, the Tokyo mall in MBK, Watson's, Tesco Lotus, Seven-Elevens, etc…
I
know you know many more than the mentioned. What many don’t know is, this is
not for the ladies anyways, beauty and grooming parlors are dotted everywhere
for women and equally dotted are massage parlors, I haven’t been to any.
Look
for hair cutting shops as you stroll around and walk aimlessly with no sense of
direction. Many a Bhutanese, including me still have doubts about which is
east, where the hell is north and so on. And in downtown Bangkok, forget
directions, one’s own hotel disappears within minutes if you are not careful. People
literally squeeze in between jammed cars to walk ahead. OK, back to hair-cut!
For
men, getting a decent hair cut here can be pretty cumbersome. Now, don’t jump
into conclusions for those of you who know me-a supposed bald preaching of
hair-cut. If you are smart enough, you can look for hair cutting shops on
Google Maps and even if you find one, you will pay way above the normal.
As
minimal as hairs on my head, men’s hair cutting shops are also minimal. After
you have found one, get in, speak some Thai-English and get yourself a
hair-cut. I am talking about me, not generalizing. The person who cut my hair
or trimmed anyways, gets a calculator and shows me, 300 Baht. What the heck? But
that included washing your head and a little massage. Imagine, if you aren’t
bald.
Next
stop, weeks later, I stumbled upon a clipper in a Tech-mall. Asked, ‘Thau
R-layi’ and I get the answer, 429 baht. This should be a sensible investment
and I bought myself a clipper.
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| How's that for a first timer? |
After
that, I never visited any shops for my hair cut and on two occasions, I
requested my neighbor, Sherub for running the clipper on my head. This is the
third time I have used it and guess what, I did it myself. Just before plugging
in, watched YouTube on how to clipper your own hair and watching religiously,
there you have it, a clean clipped hair and not so good head. Necessity is grudgingly
the mother of all inven
Self-conscious a too little? Looks, Hairs, dresses etc…Well, no one
notices all these now...People are busy getting from A to B, because you are in
Bangkok, the most visited city in the world. So who the hell will say, blink or
even notice if you cut your own hair...
Merry
Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy holidays! Thank you for visiting.
Enjoyed reading this, Lobsang.
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