One thing I’m not sure why it’s happening in Canada but not in Vietnam is the consistency of haircut quality. The staff are rotated very often and every time I went to the barber shop there was always a different lady at the store doing the haircut. And the fact that I don’t see men doing haircuts often, in Vietnam, the barbers are often appear to be male and they are amazingly skillful, from cheap to expensive cuts (ranging from 2 dollars to 10 dollars), I always get the haircut I want. Today I went to the barbershop where I used to have my hair done 3 times already, which is GreatClips located at 3052 Elmcreek Rd, Mississauga. I went there around 1PM and asked for a haircut which I had reserved my spot 25 minutes earlier, there was an old Filipino lady, I thought she could be Vietnamese too, but she told me she was Filipino, and she gave me the ugliest haircut I could ever see in my life, the cut was uneven and I turn out to be almost bald, there is no style at all and this kind of haircut I can even do it myself. In fact, I did, today I saw that there are some long hair on my head, and because the cut was uneven, I decided to shave it myself.
The men’s haircut in Canada is really bad, it’s much worse compared to Hanoi. The price was 30 dollars, which is triple time the price I was getting in Hanoi. Also, in Hanoi I got a face massage and hair wash with shampoo from young, pretty ladies. Here, the staff is old and their skill is so inconsistent. This is one of the reasons why I losing faith in Canadian service qualities, I think the system should be able to educate people better to create a talented workforce in any kind of economic field. I might decide to do my own haircut in the future, which will not only save me 30 bucks but I also will have a better haircut than going to a barbershop. I think the only thing I was happy with my spending so far was junk food and fast food. The Canadian infrastructure and city are clean and the air is fresh and low in pollution, but the services offered by the people are not at peak quality yet. I’m speaking about the haircut specifically and possibly the F&B services too. I almost never go to restaurants and coffee shops, because one of the reasons the price is too high, is it’s literally overpriced. I’m saying both the food and the services, can never be as good as Hanoi. Hanoi’s food hygiene might be worse than Canada’s for sure, but the price is like 1/10 from here. I think the only food that meets the quality standard of cheap and good taste is in fast-food chains. But the point is that fast food is bad for health in many ways, it’s an easy path to obesity, therefore, I also never go to a fast food restaurant either.
It’s been more than 3 months here in Canada and I’m brutally honest that I haven’t gone anywhere much besides the tennis court, city library, and the gym. I used to think that it was because I’m not having a friend to go with me but the true reason is that I wanted to both save money and my health. I feel like eating out is the most fun activity out there but since my goal is to beat obesity, I won’t eat much. Eating out is really fun because food here is tasty but again, I’m saying the cost is high and the amount of calories are too high. Therefore, I might prefer to do some biking or walking to enjoy the sunlight and the nature in the park more than anything else. Of course, it depends on whether I have enough time to do it. I usually think that spending time in the gym and at work and studying are the best kind of activities I can do to improve myself right now.