Pierced, at last

I never thought that it would happen to me.

I was shot.

In the ears.

Cool.

My girl friends Jacq, Yi Hueih and Seok Ping decided that I should face my fears of pain and jabs, and people holding menacing looking gun-thing around my face (it doesn’t help that they are wearing labcoats). After all, I’m pushing twenty-one (but dragging along twelve, nevertheless). So, they had a quiet discussion – right in front of me, in Bata shoe shop, now that I think about it – and planned to get my ears pierced.

It’s a conspiracy. But it was a funny, sweet, and surprising conspiracy. =)

So there I was in Mid Valley last Friday, made out of innocence and virgin ears, following Jacq to Poh Kong after she bought her shoes from BATA (Marie Claire actually, but I like to rub it in XD). Apparently, Ping and Hueih were waiting near Poh Kong. But when we reached there they were actually in Poh Kong, and I thought “wow, they buying gold ke?” I didn’t see it coming.

All of a sudden, they asked me to sit down. And I saw… a gun, on the counter. At least, a gun-like thingie la. My ears suddenly feel very exposed, and then suddenly I have someone drawing dots on my ears and asking me if it looks balanced, and then there’s Hueih using my camera to take a video of my moment of “torture”, and then a gush of alcohol was sprayed to my ears, and then there’s a feeling like my ears been stapled, and more gushes of alcohol, and then Jacq, Hueih and Ping stood there looking at me proudly.

That was my “rite of passage” – completed with efficiency, encouragements from my friends, and a whole lot of my “arrgh” and “eeek” and “oh nononono”.

Thus, a world of maturity and earrings beckon. I still can’t imagine myself in those dangly earrings though; it takes some getting used to even to see tiny silver stars on my ears now. But strangely, I did feel a little bit more grown up. When I thought back about the whole affair, I laughed and realized I’ve learned an important lesson, and the piercing will remind me of that.

Of course, I have no more virgin ears to boast about, but maybe boastings like that would wear out when you turn, say, forty anyway. By then, there should be better things to boast about ^^

Thanks Jacq, Seok Ping and Yi Hueih for the early present! You guys surely left a “mark” for memory~