Thu 31/08/2006 18:15 green to blue
"When rainy days come, would you still be singing you love my smile?"
Modern chronic depression, a term that was unfound till recent years. What is it doing to us all?
Whereas depression had been present for years, chronic is the word we should be watching out for.
Chronic cough, is usually caused by a dusty environment or well, by inhaling lots of smoke from cigarettes. Dust and smoke, both which are caused by us.
It would stop if ample abstain time is achieved.
What about chronic depression?
Is it inherent from our environment, lifestyle, belief, teachings...etc?
Did we do upon ourselves a disease that stains our mind and threatens our lives?
Or are we being programmed to follow a path to our own dismiss?
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Old style of Life
Years ago, when i was still in primary school, a hair cut costed S$4. (roughly 2 euros)
The barber is usually an Indian man with silver hair and a pair glasses for see me better with.
The seats in the barber shop had those vintage looking state of the art barber chair with flexible height adjustment and inclination adjustment. (always wanted to buy one, refurish it and place it right in the middle of an empty room - which, i do not have anyway)
He would use his scissors for snipping off my fringe and top, then proceed to use the electric razor to shave off my back and sides, ending with the usual question, "side burn, want?"
Come 1990s, a new trend of barbers came onto the scene in Singapore. They were not longer called barbers, they were hair dressers, in a hair dressing boutique.
Those used to be places where my mum would go, but not my dad. Man would go to barber shops with the friendly Indian man that speaks in 3 words sentences.
Then we move on to late 1990s, express hair cutting booth becomes popularized. All it cost is S$10 (around 5 euros), and you would have a hair cut done in 10 mins.
Typically, you would walk into the booth, whip out a ten dollar note, slot it into a queue dispensing machine and, wait for your turn.
There would be an indicator light that looks like a traffic light with Red, Yellow and Green.
Red means that you'll be served in 20mins or more.
Yellow means that you'll be served in 10mins or more.
Green means that you'll be served within 5mins.
This is a high tech self programming hair cutting system, wala, welcome to the new world of automation.
Automation in Hair Cutting industry, people would have laughed at the idea back in the old days.
Imagine the weird sense of deja vu when i come across this barber shop. (in picture)
the photo of the JBK barber shop sits on Dunlop St, Singapore
The barber is usually an Indian man with silver hair and a pair glasses for see me better with.
The seats in the barber shop had those vintage looking state of the art barber chair with flexible height adjustment and inclination adjustment. (always wanted to buy one, refurish it and place it right in the middle of an empty room - which, i do not have anyway)
He would use his scissors for snipping off my fringe and top, then proceed to use the electric razor to shave off my back and sides, ending with the usual question, "side burn, want?"
Come 1990s, a new trend of barbers came onto the scene in Singapore. They were not longer called barbers, they were hair dressers, in a hair dressing boutique.
Those used to be places where my mum would go, but not my dad. Man would go to barber shops with the friendly Indian man that speaks in 3 words sentences.
Then we move on to late 1990s, express hair cutting booth becomes popularized. All it cost is S$10 (around 5 euros), and you would have a hair cut done in 10 mins.
Typically, you would walk into the booth, whip out a ten dollar note, slot it into a queue dispensing machine and, wait for your turn.
There would be an indicator light that looks like a traffic light with Red, Yellow and Green.
Red means that you'll be served in 20mins or more.
Yellow means that you'll be served in 10mins or more.
Green means that you'll be served within 5mins.
This is a high tech self programming hair cutting system, wala, welcome to the new world of automation.
Automation in Hair Cutting industry, people would have laughed at the idea back in the old days.
Imagine the weird sense of deja vu when i come across this barber shop. (in picture)
the photo of the JBK barber shop sits on Dunlop St, Singapore
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