Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Surfer hair

I've mentioned some of the hare-brained stuff I do when I'm postcall. In the midst of being partially stoned, I usually resort to some of the oddest behaviour known to man. It was an exhausting call last night, I'd admit, barely slept with the pile of laparotomies coming in and a handful of craniotomies.

My hair was growing a tad too long and I decided to drop by the neighbourhood salon for a cut. That was the original plan, just something high and tight that would be simple and manageable. In a fit of insanity ( no doubt after getting inspiration from the various style magazines ), I had my hair tinted and dyed. The most amazing thing. Lulled by the monotonous music and the chatter of the hairdresser, I just blanked out for a moment under the scissors and woke up dyed blond! It's not the first time I've done so but I haven't had my whole head coloured before!

So here I am, looking vaguely like a stoned surfer dude - minus the tan. Who are we kidding here? And also minus the tight abs.

16 comments:

Petie said...

Boy oh boy aren't you in real trouble :) What do u think the reaction from your colleagues would be? But I bet Yummy Yee would get a kick out of it :)

Anonymous said...

paul, you need to show photos. seriously, dude, i wanna see your gnarly do. e-mail me the photo if you don't want to post it here.

Anonymous said...

I was going to tag to your last blog that you obviously have loads of "cute potential". Now you just sound even cuter already. Yum. :oP

Hope the guys at work are suitably impressed.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, Paul ! I'm gonna back up raphinou on this one. You need to show photos. Even if it's a photo of your head ?! Though, I don't think that's what raphinou had in mind. ;-p

Is the end result okay ?! I've had friends who dyed their hair and they looked absolutely horrible.

Francis Ford Faggola said...

Heya Unca Paul... I'm sure you look okay with the blonde hair... I think your stylist sensed a little too much knowledge and wisdom emanating from you so he/she decided to tone it down a bit by giving you a himbo complex, ehheheh... maybe now you can act dumb and get away with it... blondes do have more fun eh?

Oh, and I am with raphinou and ahmad, pics of the new do pls... and, are you gonna go all the way? ie dye EVERYTHING blonde? it would make it more authentic, heehheh...

Joel said...

I did that one (the pic is posted at the bottom of my blog sidebar). I swore to NEVER EVER do it again. The blonde hair and midrift bulge did NOT go hand-in-hand.

Anonymous said...

I'm going to join the other and say:

pics please :D

grave_creek said...

well at least be reassured that the people at work wont really notice since you have to wear those little hats when you are in surgery right??...who am i kidding???!!!!lol!! theres nothing more striking than an asian with blonde hair!!lol!! all i have to say is make sure to use some purple toned shampooo since i once dyed my hair blonde and with the high chlorine in the water or something,it ended up with a greenish tint!!!!

Jay said...

1. Driving with your eyes closed.

2. Insulting a big black guy's momma, yo.

3. Coming on to your married-but-cute boss.

4. Going blond when you're Asian.

These are all activities I consider 'high risk'. But then again, it's the studly Paul we're talking about, so chances of survival are higher than normal. I fifth the request for a pic! Just the hair babe, if you're shy :-p

savante said...

Someone get me a digital camera please! I would love to post my pic here with my hair!

But actually I've darkened it a little today. It looked way, way too blond! Even under the caps that we wear at work, I still had blond bits sticking out and it had everyone staring :)

Paul

Anonymous said...

paul, even a normal camera would have sufficed. just get the pictures developed and then scan them on a computer.

anyway, boo for darkening your hair before we got a chance of seeing it!

jayandkay said...

I have a digital camera. How can I be of help? Furthermore I'm skilled at Photoshop as well. Can do touch-up/enlarge on anything you want. :)

savante said...

I chickened out! It was too blond. I looked like one of those ah beng pirated DVD sellers. Might as well have gotten some torn tee-shirts, some tattoos and a cigarette to match!

Paul

Anonymous said...

boo, paul, boo! we want to see your blonde do! (^__^)

i'm thinking of getting my hair cut soon. i've been thinking of getting a sidewalk, which is nicely demonstrated here by the cutie, shawn desman.

Anonymous said...

I must confess that a blond Asian with torn T-shirt, tattoos and a cigarette sounds rather tempting to me.

savante said...

No longer a blond though. Now a dark-haired brunette with slightly auburn highlights.

Paul