Greetings to all members of this great forum!
First off, a simple introduction. After working for years in Singapore and then Kuala Lumpur, getting caught up in the quick and hectic pace of life there, about a year and six months back I decided to move out to a rural town in East Malaysia and take over the day to day operations of my Father-In-Law's Oil Palm Plantation and also to set-up and run a stone quarry business.
The pace of life here is considerably slower and as such I am learning to slow down and discover some of the long forgotten pleasures of life. 1 year back (after almost 20 years of cigarette smoking) I picked up an estate pipe, a selection of pipe tobacco and stopped smoking cigarettes. With cigarettes, it was always a 5-10 minute fix just to get a nicotine hit. With pipes now, it takes me 45 minutes to over an hour, but the pleasure I derive from it is well worth it. I never really enjoyed the taste of cigarette smokes but I absolutely love the taste of Pipe tobacco!!! Needless to say, with countless bouts of acquisition disorders, I now have 15 pipes in rotation and over 20 different tobacco blends in the cellar!!!
Moving on, I have recently discovered wet-shaving, which is to me another long lost pleasure that was given up for the faster paced life. I stumbled on this forum about 2 weeks ago and now I am totally hooked/obsessed about this new hobby (can i say that?).
Equipment wise, I have only one shave cream (Body Shop Maca Root) and a Body Shop shaving brush. Being in a small town, I cannot find any of the metal DEs for sale here but I managed to pick up the Plastic Gilette Super Nacet DE. I have purchased a Wei Shi from eBay and plan to pick up either a Super Speed or a Merkur soon. Yes yes, more acquisition disorders
OH and I did purchase a Straight Razor on eBay and it is also on its way but I do not think I have the guts to use that.
Shaving wise, I have shaved with the plastic DE 4 times. First shave was BBS with a couple of weepers, second not so with razor burns on a particularly stubborn spot under my chin with double the weepers. I then watched Mantic's videos and his statement "Beard reduction, not beard removal" and my subsequent 2 shaves did not have any burns or nicks with the last one being the best BBS so far.
What more can I say... I LOVE IT! I plan to get more "stuff"
but I think getting it here locally in Malaysia is difficult. Anyone here who has knowledge of local stores carrying shave creams, soaps, brushes and razors would be my instant best friend!
Well that's about it. Looking forward to more insights on this wonderful forum!
Cheers!
First off, a simple introduction. After working for years in Singapore and then Kuala Lumpur, getting caught up in the quick and hectic pace of life there, about a year and six months back I decided to move out to a rural town in East Malaysia and take over the day to day operations of my Father-In-Law's Oil Palm Plantation and also to set-up and run a stone quarry business.
The pace of life here is considerably slower and as such I am learning to slow down and discover some of the long forgotten pleasures of life. 1 year back (after almost 20 years of cigarette smoking) I picked up an estate pipe, a selection of pipe tobacco and stopped smoking cigarettes. With cigarettes, it was always a 5-10 minute fix just to get a nicotine hit. With pipes now, it takes me 45 minutes to over an hour, but the pleasure I derive from it is well worth it. I never really enjoyed the taste of cigarette smokes but I absolutely love the taste of Pipe tobacco!!! Needless to say, with countless bouts of acquisition disorders, I now have 15 pipes in rotation and over 20 different tobacco blends in the cellar!!!
Moving on, I have recently discovered wet-shaving, which is to me another long lost pleasure that was given up for the faster paced life. I stumbled on this forum about 2 weeks ago and now I am totally hooked/obsessed about this new hobby (can i say that?).
Equipment wise, I have only one shave cream (Body Shop Maca Root) and a Body Shop shaving brush. Being in a small town, I cannot find any of the metal DEs for sale here but I managed to pick up the Plastic Gilette Super Nacet DE. I have purchased a Wei Shi from eBay and plan to pick up either a Super Speed or a Merkur soon. Yes yes, more acquisition disorders
OH and I did purchase a Straight Razor on eBay and it is also on its way but I do not think I have the guts to use that.Shaving wise, I have shaved with the plastic DE 4 times. First shave was BBS with a couple of weepers, second not so with razor burns on a particularly stubborn spot under my chin with double the weepers. I then watched Mantic's videos and his statement "Beard reduction, not beard removal" and my subsequent 2 shaves did not have any burns or nicks with the last one being the best BBS so far.
What more can I say... I LOVE IT! I plan to get more "stuff"
but I think getting it here locally in Malaysia is difficult. Anyone here who has knowledge of local stores carrying shave creams, soaps, brushes and razors would be my instant best friend!Well that's about it. Looking forward to more insights on this wonderful forum!
Cheers!
), from this shaving complusion (and other Acquisition Disorders), because at times..."Resistance is futile".
