It's a routine for me to head down to Sweenys for my haircut whenever I am back. While it may be weird to some, I only cut my hair here and no where else since 1986.
Yeah, even when I was away from Singapore for the last 8 years.
Fortunately, I do return every 3 to 4 months and so the length of hair isn't too horrible except that
summer in 2006 where I forgo my leave vacation to head up to Provence. What turned out was a year's worth of hair where I was actually able to tie a pony tail.
It was a funny story how I chanced on this place back in 1986. A friend of mine and I were heading to Coronation Plaza to get our hair cut after school. And strangely, the whole building blacked out the moment my friend stepped his foot into the salon.
As it turned out, it wasn't just the building that suffered the power outage, it was the entire Bukit Timah stretch. He had a day's worth of ribbing from me as a result for being a Suay Kia.
Lan lan, we hopped onto the next bus and headed to Holland Village and just pick a salon at random.
The rest as they say, was Sweenys history.
So in the beginning, I was paying student rate and I grew with them from Secondary 3 to Junior College to National Service (not much hair to cut during BMT) to University to working after graduation. It was student rate all this while with slight adjustments over the years as a result of inflation.
Then one day in the late 90s...
Flora (the nice lady who handled my tresses all these years): Eh. Have you graduated already?
JayWalk: Er.... yes. Two years ago. Now working liao.
Flora: WHAT??!! TWO YEARS!! NO MORE STUDENT RATE FOR YOU LIAO. FROM NOW ON YOU PAY ADULT RATE!! ACT BLUR AH!!
JayWalk: *sheepish*
Having being through 3 major renovations with them, I grew to love this place very much.
Sweeny's Hair & Beauty Corner
#03-28 Holland Road Shopping Centre, Holland Village
Tel: +65 6468 1795
Mondays to Saturdays, 0900 hrs to 1900 hrs.
- Voxeros