Saturday, December 27, 2008

Update

Days like these, I feel happy. There's fog outside my window permanently, and I'm trying to replicate that in my bathroom. Especially when I know that my father's going to use the bathroom after I take my bath, I run the geyser so hot that the bathroom mirror steams up, and then write "I'm Going Bald" or other such messages for him to see. Yes, I'm mean. I use different ones for my mother, targetting other areas of vanity, naturally.

Days like these, I feel unworried. There is a reason winter is so wonderful. I don't have to bother about what I'm wearing since all the outside world gets to see anyway is a denim jacket. I can wear sneakers day in and day out. I can drink more tea than I should and blame it on the weather. I don't like washing my hair during winter, though. So I chopped it off, in spite of my inner self screaming out to me to not do it. I feel like Bruce Wayne in a cave of bats when I enter a salon. I lie throughout the procedure - why yes, of course I use leave-in conditioner. And yes, I do wrap a hot towel around my head once a week, and crack eggs onto my scalp every Sunday. What do I look like, a retard? The lady cutting my hair yesterday asked me if I was in a bad mood because I was cutting it all off, and I was so tempted for a moment to invent a dark emo past for myself and turn it into a hairdressing confessional. So tempted. But I decided to keep that for another day, it doesn't do to push one's luck.

Days like these, I feel the old desire returning to wreak havoc in the world in some irrelevant way or the other. Maybe I'll do something big. But first, trip photos tomorrow.

15 have survived.:

SPIRITed! said...

"Days like these, I feel the old desire returning to wreak havoc in the world in some irrelevant way or the other."

Its the weather's doing, I tell you!

Anushka said...

I LOVVVE this post.
I can totally relate to this.
Only, my hairdresser wouldn't ask me all those questions, because they'd know I don't.

raghu said...

haha and the name of the blog is spring has sprung :D
haha
you write so well.. so damned well.

Unknown said...

The Emo past! The Emo past! We needs the Emo past...We needs...the prescioussssssssss!

Anonymous said...

Emo people don't cut off their hair. They grow it out and then have strange haircuts that fall over their eyes. It's the cheerful, normal people who cut off hair.

i.am.like.this.only said...

you did not chop of your hair.
you are lying.
and if you really did, i'm sorry but i'll just have to kill you.

little boxes said...

you chopped your what?
hair?
are effing mad?
your salon visit reminds of Everybody Says I'm Fine...
but yeah i do that thing on the steamy window too :P

A Benevolent Sultan for Life said...

:), well as a smattering of vogue I should not comment, but, I think gals in small hairs looks cute .

La Figlia Che Piange said...

Long hair is annoying in winter but short hair is ALWAYS annoying. Wait for it now. Just wait.

Doubletake, Doublethink. said...

@ spirited: i LOVE this weather :D

@ dotl: who be this hairdresser?

@ raghu: ah well, kya karein, hota hai.

@ the prophet: but what if the hair's already long?

@ PoM: i'm telling you, my emo past would be VERY dramatic.

@ soumi and bdc: it's just hair, it'll grow back :D

@ sougata: i'm sure they do.

@ opaline: ohno.

Anonymous said...

If the hair's already long, they get fringes and stuff. Or maybe strange hair coloring.

Magically Bored said...

You cut off your hair???
>shocked<
And what's wrong with conditioner and eggs on the scalp?
>looks hurt<

CheshireCat said...

I am tempted to listen to the darkemo past which induced chopping off of hair.I have one in mind which involves voodoo and lots of black tees.
P.S.The weather is delicious. :)

Sroyon said...

Even when you can't sneak in just ahead of your dad, here's another tactic (if you haven't discovered it already). Dip your finger in oil and write your message on the mirror. It won't show normally, but when the next person takes a hot bath, water will condense on the rest of the mirror but not on the oily writing, and your message will show up. It's kinda cool.

Doubletake, Doublethink. said...

@ the prophet: valentino, aren't you :P

@ fishy: nothing at all. but maybe that's why you're bald :P

@ the sol: it is, and i didn't have time to invent one. i shall.

@ sroyon: i use Vaseline :D