Bald-om

A few days ago, I posted a teaser picture of a female shaver. I asked my readers to guess what I was going to use it for, and offered a prize. Well, now it’s clear.

Here’s a before and after picture:

Yep, ladies and gentlemen, I’m now bald. And obviously, the Venus Breeze was to shave my head. Why did I shave my head though, you might ask. The reason is simple. I shaved my head to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia, in lieu of the World’s Greatest Shave 2008.

The prize was a $25 donation on behalf of the person who won it, and since nobody claimed it, it’s going to go to the most outrageous answer- Xingyi’s. Her answer is as below:

Knowing him, it’s probably to track the difference his purchase would make to affect Australia’s economy and its effect on the GDP. Then he’s going to draw a couple of graphs to illustrate why we should vote for him as King of the World.

Sorry, babe. I already won the position without contest.

I first heard about the World’s Greatest Shave from Natalie Tran, and proceeded quite immediately to join it. Cancer is something I identify it, with two women whom I absolutely love having had cancer, and having had to suffer through chemotherapy and lost their hair. I identify with the depression and the despair that can come, especially when they’re women, as its not socially acceptable for women to be bald.

Though personally, I find myself quite powerless to do anything to prevent them from entering a mental slump, I thought I might do something to prevent other people from having similar problems. And I decided, for reasons none other than that, to shave my head to raise funds. I must say I did quite well raising funds, though I believe I didn’t raise as much as Hugh (from Hugh’s News). Ah well.

Here’s a video of the shaving (sans the part where I actually got shaved by the razor, because I was running out of time to render):

I planned to record it live to YouTube, but sadly TPG had to go throttle my connection (serves me right for using 150GB a month), so after some thought, I thought of using the V mask instead of my typical headcrab zombie. And yes, I know, it looks quite a bit like Andrew the Angry Aussie at some points.

Before the shave, I looked up a few sites, and found HeadShaver to be a very comprehensive information site for shaving heads. I had decided to use a female shaver (and got a good case of the nerves trying to buy one – I’d never be caught dead buying a female razor!) because I’ve noted that they tend to be more gentle on the skin. Also, I found that the Venus Breeze is indeed a breeze to use. There was no need for any shaving liquids or anything. Just wet and shave. And oh, it was also very clean and smooth.

A day after, I met a friend of mine who had come to see my new hairstyle. She had just went to Hungry Jack’s and had a Bacon Deluxe with her. This was our conversation:

Me: You went to Hungry Jack’s?! And got a burger! Is it for me?

She: No. Monks don’t eat meat. No Hungry Jack’s for you.

Me: -_-”

Finally, I’d like to say a big thank you to these people (going in accordance to number of letters in name): Tou, Cat, Ash, Alan (who did most of the clipping and shaving), Amy, Suba, Kelsey, Vincent, and Jasmine for appearing and supporting the shave initiative (and also shaving me, and not nicking me, thankfully). Thanks to Shyuing and Liss, and Tim, for your support, even you couldn’t make it. Thanks to Stanley who made a very long distance TT.

p/s: See if you can spot the World’s Greatest Shave badge in the picture in a previous post of mine.