Reveries and Passions
Saturday, March 11, 2006
more tomorrow than today | 12:47 AM |

nothing deep, spiritual or thought-provocating...
...just some observations from a personal experience...


i have mad respect for fair maidens that use the razor.
lemme elaborate.

once upon a time when i was in gr. 8...i got my first electronic shaver. it's been with me thru thick and thin, good times and bad times, we've even travelled the continent together. However my Electronic Shaver (whom we'll refer to as 'essie' from now on) kicked the bucket earlier this week.

it was a brilliantly beautiful morning when i woke up and greeted essie with a smile. but this morning, something was different...essie was not behaving essie's normal self. at first it was the clanking noise against the mesh screen, then a high pitched scream, i tried to calm essie down but essie's temperament flared. she stopped breathing. i desperately tried to save essie, CPR, PRC, HPLC...but to no avail. a few swirls later, essie went game over. yes, just like that...a relationship of 8 years ended abruptly. quietly i shed a few tears and gave essie a farewell kiss.

i didn't know of a store in UW to get a new essie...so i thought, hey...let's go with the good ol' gilette razor...it can't be that hard to use.

yea, i was wrong.

see...i prided myself as a manly man because a man's fortitude is measured by the frequency at which he shaves. and i shave everyday. i get my 5 o'clock shadow at 3pm. so i buy a razor...borrowed some shaving cream and i was off to my merry ways. as i gracefully took the first stroke across my mark of manliness....i felt every epidermal cell on my face tear, ripe and crackle into a billion pieces. it was the sensation of a thousand tweezers pulling simultaneously. i took another stroke, this time it hurt even more. i'm like...'interesting...maybe if i keep going my skin will de-sensitize'. it didn't.

at the end of the excursion, i was left with uneven patches, blisters and a broken pride. i'm a man and i cannot master the proper use and functionality of a non-electric razor. it was almost as sad as the moment that essie left me.

so hence...i have much respect and admiration for fair maidens who are womanly woman and shave everyday with a razor and not cut themselves or have uneven patches. they shave their arms, legs, moustaches and armpits...and that's a lot of surface that they're covering and subjecting to the 'gilette' torture. see, i'm glad i'm a guy cause i don't needa shave my legs (hair on legs = another mark of manliness).

imma gonna get me a new essie asap...no more razors...and waxing is definately outta the question.

and the princess and the prince lived happily ever after.
the end.