My maid broke the last bottle of water-based hair liquid I have. I have visited 5 stores but they don’t sell them anymore. All the hair cream at the stores are Super Hard, Extra Firm Gels that keeps your hair straight up if you want them. The young men now keeps their hair upright and disorderly. The manufacturors thinks older men either have no money or have no hairs to comb.
Maybe I should try the gels. My few strands of white hair will stay straight up for a few hours if I buy the XXXtra Hard Hair Gel. The only thing is I will feel like an old idiot.
Hi Tian Soo
Have you tried Mustafa, my favourite store for things cheap and sometimes unique. I have bought Yardley Lavender Haircream there and they even have that green Yardley pomade.
My uncle, bless is soul, used it and my aunt had commented: Even if a fly were to land on his slick hair, it would slide off!
Hi Tian Soo,
No need gel anymore, just cut short your hair to crew cut style like me. I don’t need to comb anymore. Massage the hair with water and made it stand upright. That;s cool man! Ha! ha! :)
Hi Tian Soon,
I used to buy from a company that claim that all their cosmetic products are chemically free. It comes in a pack of three, namely the super booster, the conditioner and the shampoo which cost about $100.
After a while, my friend told me they can see a lot of baby hairs. I have since stop as it is costly to maintain. Now all my crowning glory almost gone. Time to look for my toupee hidden somewhere in the storeroom!
Dan
Beg your pardon Tian Soo not Tian Soon.
Dan
Kenneth,
Yes I forgot about Mustaffa. I can also drop by Jalan Berseh Hawker Centre for some pigs ears, skin or intestines. If that gives me enough energy Desker Road is also nearby. Want to join me?
Steven
I am so glad you are back to normal again. Yes you are cool. Hope the women here will like the new COOL Steven Chan. If you can get one of them to massage you hair daily you will be Super Cool.
Dan
I think the recent success by some Japanese researchers in growing new hairs from stem cells is hope for us yet. When they eventually succeed in making all old peoples hair turn Black, do we still need Silverhairs Club?
Hi Tian Soo @ 5,
Massage the hair daily not good enough.
Forget about the gel .
Full body massage is even better. It will make you Super XXXtra HARD and Extra FIRM.
Ha! ha! :)
Hi Tian S00 @6,
Quoted words from your post.
Useful tips :
A circulating e-mail is telling Golfers that minutes before a lighting strikes, it is possible for people in the vicinity to feel electrical static charge causing their hair to stand straight up. It went on to advise that if you see or experience such a phenomenon, run immediately to lower grounds, preferably not around tall trees, water pools or any place with metal fencing or poles. As for those using XXXtra Hard Hair Gel, you are advised to keep your hair below the height of trees around you.
HC
Hi HC,
Suddenly I was disconnected when I read your advice to keep the XXXtra hard hair below the height of the trees. Heh, what do you mean?
Your tip came a bit late. I was recently in Krabi for a swim in a large enclosed pool surrounded by hills and trees. The scenery was beautiful, and the water was cold from the mountains. However as it was a “must go” tourist area, I joined the fun with hundreds of other people, in the highly sulphated emerald coloured pool, under lightning and thunder.
Gosh, I came up safely. Will remember your advice next time.
Terence Seah
Hi Terence,
Wow, that swimming pool in the hills of Khabi which you swam in, sounds super refreshing and gorgeous. Pools are known to be hot spots for lightning unfortunately. It is believed that our metal plumbing in the house can also act as conductors.
About the Xxtra hard hair, the longest hair recorded belongs to a chinese lady and it measured 5.627m (18’5.54”). IF that hair was gel to stand straight up, you will need sunglasses to look at the top. Certainly, not good for her to be on a Golf course during thunderstorm.
BTW, there is no record of Tallest Gel Hair in the Guiness World Record so far. Anyone … ?
HC
Hi TS
Pardon me for diverting from your main topic – hair cream.
There are many things which I’m missing nowadays. For example, the mee goreng man who peddles to our neighbourhood with their signature ‘kling klang’ sound; the old lady who carries the nonya kueh in two big nonya kueh baskets with a bamboo stick strung across her shoulders; the simple games of hopscotch, five stones for girls and goli for boys… just to name a few.
Just reminiscing….
Regards,
Gabriella
How about the “Kachang Puteh Man” and the ice ball with red bean in the centre and colour sugar syrup and milk covering the outer of the ball?
Gabriella
I too miss the ice-cream man who peddled his Magnolia ice-cream on a three-wheeler. Uncle Ang will affectionately call me “Chilli Padi” everytime I buy an ice-cream from him. If he does a second visit late at night, he’ll put my ice-cream order in a little basket which I will drop with a string from my bedroom window and draw it up again.
The ngoh hiang peddler, the char siew fun peddler with delicious bak kwa, the char kuay teow peddler. The street peddlers of yesteryears in Marshall Road, selling simply delicious food.
Hi Tian Soo,
1) I to MISS the “desert man ” in KL who peddled his deserts at night on a three wheeler. He will shout out in Cantonese ” Mak Cheok, Hoon Tau Swea , Far Sang Wool whenever he pedals along our homes.
2) Another is the Wantan Man also in the night whose assistant will knock 2 pieces of bamboo poles together. ” Tok tok Mee ” From afar, when we hear the tok tok sound, we will rush excitedly with our porcelain bowls to buy the noodles.
Just imagine for 50 cents we can get a BIG bowl of delicious noodles with wantan and char siew.
3) I MISS the beef “lai fun” in Seremban. It looks like loh shee fun but much longer. Different from Spore version. If you ever travel to Seremban , don’t miss this special dish. Yummy!
During our time in the 60’s, hawkers peddling their wares plied the streets either carrying their baskets on their head (the Indian putu mayam or vadeh and murukku “fritters”) or the nyonya kueh carried at the ends of bamboos on the shoulders like what Gabrielle said, or on wheels, like the “tok tok mee”, (Steven’s recollection) and the chye tow kway. Then afternoons will have visits along the passageways from the sellers of nasi lemak and curry puffs, remember? Mmmmmmm, I still can feel the taste of the lor ark (braised duck) sold by the “Bamboo pole” hawker and there’s even a bit of gambling with the throw of the dice but I cant remember how it works. Somehow the fish balls with the yummy chillie paste that went along with the lor ark tasted much better than now – I think the fish was 100% meat with no additives. Wait wait, do you also remember the ice potong man who came with the gambling idea also? You buy his ice cream but play a game with the satay sticks (about 20 or so) and draw 2 at a time,which must be of different colours. If both same colour, you lose – got no ice cream to take back or something like that. But alas now is a new era of mass food production churned out in the industrial kitchen and distributed to the sellers – well at least we count ourselves privileged to have tasted the real original good stuff – all done by hand.
When I was teenager, I often walked pass this coffee shop at the junction of Upper Serangoon Road and Upper Paya Labar Road. There were a couple of guys always kneading dough to make Pow. Obviously their Pows sell very well.
I am fascinated by the amount of energy required to knead the doughs. They perspire all the time and their sweat droplets flows down their forehead as well as off the tip of their noses onto the dough but they never stopped.
Even more fascinating is when they have formed their doughs into Pows and arranged them neatly in a trays ready for steaming.
They would fill their mouth with water and spray the water as evenly as possible on the surfaces of the uncooked Pows. They don’t have mechanical sprayers. I thought then that they let their 2 front teeth rot so that the water can flow off easy from their mouth.
For many years after that I always peel the outer skin of pows before I eat.
I think it is people like them who help us grow up healthy during the early years. We were quite disease resistant having survived.
Hi Tian Soo,
Just for your info, the pow stall is still there. But the 2 mouth-spraying assts are long gone. Now the kitchen is in the back, so even if they put cardboard or rat-meat, we won’t know.
Can come and reminisce with brunch if you want. Car park is a problem.
Hi Charles #17
Your proposal of a brunch sounds interesting… wd like to join in if it doesn’t clash with any of my other appts and the meeting place is near the MRT.
I’m now almost fully retired. Difficult to stay employed inspite of the fact that our Government is encouraging oldies like us to continue working unto death… and harping that there aren’t enough locals for jobs. However, I’ve many ECAs on my time-table to keep myself mentally and physically alert. Moreover “An idle mind is a devil’s workshop”.
Cheerssssssssssssss
Dear Gabriella,
When you’ve had enough of free time, you can go back to teaching like what some of my friends do. They work as Temp teachers only when the form teachers are unable to conduct the classes.
Meanwhile have plenty of fun lunching and dining around,
Geok Suan.
Hi Gabriella,
OK, but we will have to wait for Towkay Tian Soo to give his blessings.
The nearest MRT is the Serangoon Central MRT. Everything else depends on Towkay TS. Will contact you when we are going.
Hi Geok Suan #19
Tks for your suggestion. Excellent :-)
Hi Charles #20
Noted w tks!
Cheersss
Cheerssssssss
TS,
Have just consulted my better half about where you can possibly get these water-based liquid hair-cream.
She says you can try the “OCEAN” shop, level 3 at china-town hawker centre. This is the shop where she usually purschase her essentials/comestics stuff.
You can give it a shot – good luck!
Thanks Ivan. I shall not just think of the food when I next visit China-Town Hawker Centre.
wah wah wah ah lua ta tian soo ,
de thing dat i will miss hor…is those day when ROXY cinema in katong & queen cinema when ve blockbuster showing 1 armed sword man & bruce lee show..my so called lua ta will ask few of us to buy all de seat ticket & we will sell @ a higher price ( hum chee )or betta known as black market ticket..after all ticket sold out , we will ve HAPPY hours till we all got KNOCK out….lor…
many more but dun 1 to be to lor soh lah…..hahahaha
sam huat huat
Haha!
It just shows our “age” when we talk about old times. And yes, they are a part of us. The 50s and 60s are often talked about with great nostalgia and a longing to get back to those times. But how far have we come since… the pictures you see of the old kampongs and Chinatown are a vast contrast to the present. And would we really want to go back in time?
I remember my grandfather regaling me with stories of the past, the Japanese war years, the hardship and deprivation faced by the citizens, the loss of family fortunes.
Now we can recall our own past experiences to our children and grandchildren in much the same way. We, too, are going through this same recollection and nostalgic phase of our lives.
Ah Huat #24
Don’t everyday work2. Call me to “leem Kopi” at street 52 when you rest from work. This small thing I miss. We can talk about SEX and Twa Pek Kong. No MLM.