Note:  This will my last post for at least two weeks.  I am headed to Myanmar in an hour, where I will have no internet access for two weeks and questionable internet access for an additional two weeks.  Fight on without me!

I never thought I’d pay for someone to shave my head with electric clippers.  But I found myself in Kuala Lumpur alone and without electric clippers, so I could either buy some clippers or pay for a haircut .

Since throwing money away is an even more deeply held prohibition of mine, I gritted my teeth and walked into a barber shop in Chinatown.

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