Grobby vs. Kitchen 1:1

Improvised lentil soup -> great success!

Improvised veggies burgers -> fail. Veggie mesh anyone?

A scene at a bar

Guy asks: What do you do for living?
Me: Nothing, I’m a trust fund baby.
Guy: Can I get your phone number?

Another day another post

The inspiration to write is still inside of me but the physical motivation to actually type the words is not with us for the time being. Those who know me will attest to the fact that I am lazy.
Despite previously saying I’m tired of travelling, today I was thinking seriously about several destinations: Thailand, India, and Korea/HK. Can’t stop…

A Haircut Tip for Cheap People (Like me)

Apologies for those of you who are not in the USA  as this is probably not applicable.

I wanted to share  a great and cheap way to get beauty treatments such as haircuts. There are prestige schools / salons that train hair specialists with the best techniques and products. They generally accept clients for students to practice on. This is a really cool deal because you can get stuff done MUCH MUCH cheaper and the risk of turning out with a  purple – weirdly cropped hairdo is mitigated since everything is supervised by the teacher who is a trained professional. So even if the student messes up, the teacher fixes it right away. I don’t know if I would risk with coloring, but for haircuts and such it can’t get better.

Today I went to the Baldwin Beauty School which has a really good reputation in Austin. My haircut was $12 (!!!!) for 2 hours of work: $7 for the cut and $5 for the styling. The end result looked quite good. I have never in my life paid so little for a haircut.

This reminds me of a story about an MBA classmate who wanted to be super cool and went to Bumble and Bumble salon in NYC, paid $100 for his haircut, and looked like a plucked chicken afterwards. I think what the only worse thing than that haircut were the endless jokes he had to endure afterwards.

Updated: So for the NYC dwellers among my readership, there is a good place in Manhattan called Salon Ishi on E. 55th street and Park.  They have student trainees doing haircuts on Wednesdays, starting at 5pm with one week in advance appointment. Check it out!

Mobility is Bliss

After running into a glass door face forward yesterday, the Grobetrotter is licking its wounds and is about to take yet another journey. This time, destination: San Francisco.