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Ah Guan.

I got to know this guy in the shophouse campus of ITB. This fellow always comes to class late and goes back early. Hmm.. this fellow, Ah Guan is wat i call a typical, Playboy Beng. Chinese call Hua Hua Gong Zi. At first when i saw him, i use to respect this guy. I thought, wow… what a guy, so hardworking. Study and working at the same time… not an easy feat u know… until i found out the truth… this guy is a con-men (when it comes to the gals).

Got la one day, we all tengah lepak, i puji him, "wah u so rajin ah" . Then he answered me back, "actually  I dun have to work 1. Im currently working in a supermarket as a promoter." "The reason i work is becos the supermarket im working got lots of ah moi". Aiya.. wat la this fellow… isnt there more to life than Ah moi.

His dirty tricks.
I learnt a lot of tricks on how to get the gals from this guy. His dirty tricks are worth to take note (This is the reason y some ah bengs can get the most prettiest of all chicks in town). But his methods are from the aliran sesat (dark side).. hehe… my ways r diffrent from his.. but… its good to learn and share with one another.

He thought me… the best way to get a gals attention is to bodek the gal, bodek until u want to muntah. Eg. say to the gal ‘ U r so pretty la, if i dun talk to u, i cannot sleep la". Sounds so fake rite? Guess wat, according to him, all the gals he got, is thru this simple basic principle, BODEK. Gals are not stupid until they dun know its fake. But they like the attention. Tats wat he says.

One thing bad about this guy is, he doesnt care about ppl’s feelings. He makes the gal fall deeply with him, then when hes finally bored, he just gets missing in action. He will call the gal everyday, till suddenly when hes bored, he’ll start to ignore the gal, ignore her calls, dun wanna see her and just get lost.. all of a sudden. Then he will go for the next target. Gals beware of this kind of guys.

His new found PASSION.
Ah Guan never liked engineering. He was forced to take up the course. He doesnt look like the brilliant type either. He was a directionless and aimless in life.

But hes definitely a very artistic person. Very particular about certain things. He likes beautiful stuffs. I learnt a lot about the chinese popstars from this guy. I use to buy the gossip magazines and ask him to teach me how to read. Then later, we will comment on our favourite popstars. It just like how the typical guy talks about football. Here its about all the popstars.

After he left ITB, he enrolled in a hairstyling school in prangin mall. We lost contact for quite sometime. One day, when i went to prangin mall to play "ting ting"(arcade games), i bump into him. Then only i found out, he was in this hairstyling school. I was very happy for him. Although he dropped out from ITB, he went on to pursue his passion, hair styling. I admire his courage to venture out of the conventional thinking.

There was once, when i was lepaking in the state-library, i bump into him again. This time, i saw him reading books. I was quite surprised. As far as i know, he doesnt read books. I greeted him and found out, he was actually looking for something to do with hair and sculp stuff from the library books. We chatted. He told me about his progress in the school. He even asked me to be his model for his final year project. Hahaha… i declined, cos im not free.

Then he told me, currently he is one of the top 3 stylist in his school. The other 2 is a gal, and a pondan. Wat impresses me most is his dream. He says, that once hes learnt from the best in the country, he intends to go to japan and strive to be the best hairstylist in Asia. I know he can do it. More importantly, he didnt follow the trend, he followed his passion. Ive heard many ppls dream, this ones an original one. I wish him all the best.

What challenges me is, what made a guy like him change? It is because, he suddenly found his direction in life, he found something to focus on. He’s showed me, that, its never to late to change. I was so happy for him. After i saw him in the library, i went out with brother K, and i told him bout ah guan. He too was very happy for this guy. It feels good to hear, that another brother u use to hang out with is doing well in life. Thats wat i call brotherhood.