I had to get a haircut today, so I hauled my butt to The Emporium, which is an up-market mall like The Podium or Rockwell, but much classier (they have a lot of 3-dimensional flat monitors all around the mall showing advertisements, beat that. And the other day there was a huge make-shift garden in the middle of the mall, complete with a mini-swamp for fishes to swim around, beat that again).

I surmised at first that I didn't really need a haircut as men here sported long and funky hairstyles like they were auditioning for an Anime TV series. But because I didn't have anything better to do I decided to go for the trim.

There were very few places in the Mall to get a haircut and they seemed quite pricey. The first and nearest to the entrance from the skytrain station is Shiseido. The price for a haircut, according to their poster, is freaking 600 baht, which is like 900 pesos. Are they freaking crazy? No way was I shelling out that much.

So I headed to the next one. There was an ad at the door screaming about something in Thai, but the number "199" was unmistakable. I guess I could do with 199 baht.

The service I must say was excellent. They served snacks (I didn't eat anything
though) and they gave really good massages and hot towels. When it was time to pay, however, I nearly screamed at the amount they were charging me.

800 baht. I have never paid for a haircut that cost over a thousand pesos in my entire life. Apparently the 199 that I saw at the door was for something else.

A nose-hair trim maybe.


Morale of the story: Learn to cut your own hair.