In Continuum.

Shampoos and Shoulders

This is not the brand of yet another shampoo out in the market.I think there are already enough brands out there to confuse the hell out of old people.I think people are no longer buying shampoos for their uses,but for the colour of those creams and the smell of the bottles.We dont care if they remove dandruff,or if they are suited for oily hair or not.If they smell good,they are going into one of those NTUC bags and going home with me.Well,at least that is my philosophy when it comes to shampoo shopping,but it is not like i have done a lot of that myself.

Anyway,like i said this is not another advertisement for a new brand of shampoo.I hereby confess my fetish for the two things mentioned in the title of this entry,as stated above.I think i am obsessed with the brand of shampoo a girl uses,and her bare shoulders.I know it is not a normal thing to like about a girl,but i think those aspects of a female is really attractive,in a very odd and strange way.

I was talking with Corinna online,and coincidentally both of our display picture were in the same tone.Mine was John Mayer in black and white,while she had an anonymous girl in black and white,with her left shoulder bare,reflecting the light off her smooth skin.I told her then that i like shoulders,though it is a strange thing to be attracted to.Im glad she didnt make a racket out of it,but i still think it is rather strange to be attracted to such a thing.I mean,you dont honestly go up to a girl and tell her,"Hey,i am attracted to your shoulders",now do you?

Like all strange fetishes,i think if i tell the world about my liking for shoulders(Which i am doing now),people are probably going to give me that queer eye,like the ones people give to toe-lovers,or people who engages in SM,or anything that involves whips and leather.It is not natural,but it's not like i can help it now can i?

My mother forced me to go to a tuition class when i was in Secondary School.The O levels were coming,and my Amaths results werent all that great.Anyway,so she signed me up for a tuition class over in Hougang,and i joined the class - awkwardly - halfway through.The teacher,Mr Ong i remember,knew almost all the students in the class,and the students had a close bond with the students as well.He even had a contest by grouping the students into teams,and the team that gets the most amount of points by the end of the year will get $500 from him.Of course,it will be shared but,that guy was a good teacher,despite the bribe.He pulled me up from a F9 to a B3 at least,so i am glad.

Anyway,i was the loner in tuition classes.I was the one sitting in the corner of the class before it started,minding my own business on a discman,or working on a homework left undone the previous night.I never engaged in any communications with fellow tuition classmates,nor did they bother to make contact with me in any way.But i understand,because i was a dork back then.I had a bowl for a hair,and my dressing senses wasnt something i was tremendously proud of.Anyway,so i minded my own business,and most of the time people will come in in their school uniforms.A particular girl i recalled from Cedar used to come in in her school uniform all the time.She would come in with her bunch of other Cedarian friends,and at the front of the class they would make a scene so loud i felt like stapling their lips together.Seriously,they werent the kind of girls you would want to hang out with,and because of that i took special notice not to sit anywhere near them.

But they came late one session,and the only available seats were in front of me.Today one of the girls wasnt wearing a school uniform,but rather her own clothes with the top half of her body revealed.It's not as skimpy as it sounds,but both her shoulders were revealed,and i remember staring at it as if they were made by folding a bunch of thousand dollar bills.It was out of obsession or craving,but rather it was the first time i realised that a person's shoulders could be attractive in that way.

And as for shampoo,it has a lot to do with the smell of it.Corinna and i were talking about perfumes(Yeah,perfumes),and i mentioned something about women spraying them on their wrists to allow the men to smell it while kissing the back of their hands(I still hold that to be true,dear).She mentioned that perfumes,instead of attractive people,they attract the wrong people because every human being emits a certain kind of scent,and by putting yourself under the cover of perfumes you attract the people that are attracted to the perfume,rather than your original scent.Which also means that they are not liking you for you,but rather because you smelled good one fateful night.

So you see,a person's scent plays a great part in the rules of attraction.I dont think i have a distinct smell,or smell good in any way.But girls and babies have a smell i think,and they smell good almost all the time,strangely.Personally,i have never taken particular note on how somebody smells.Of course,it'd be weird to go up to a person,and instead of shaking their hands you start to sniff them all over like a dog.Not just because it is impolite,but because you are making a big ass fool out of yourself.

I remember there was this one time in lecture when i was sitting behind Shariffah.Before we go on to anything,Shariffah has really long hair that reaches her waist,and she is the most beautiful Malay girl i have ever ever seen,and that claim is not because of the incident below.They are two totally independent views,and i shall elaborate on the incident now.Anyway,i think she was either talking to somebody who was then sitting beside me,or she was passing something to me.She did so,turned back to the front,and on came her hair whipping into my face.It was painful i must say,and she kept apologizing afterwards.But as i held my face and moaned a little bit,instead of forgiving her i asked what kind of shampoo she was using,because it smelled good.

I know,inappropriate,but i guess i just wanted to know.I have been using Herbal Essence for a long time because of the "OH!!!OH!!!OH!!!",orgasmic like advertisements they used to show on TV.But i switched to Head and Shoulders and they smell absolutely fabulous.Anyway,what im saying is that shoulders and shampoos dictates a lot about the attractiveness of oneself.And that is tried and tested,results guaranteed,at least for me.