Guitar Extreme Makeover

I had a traumatic experience transporting az's guitar to josh's place via public transport! Haha, because I couldnt fit it into my guitar case meant for sween's classical guitar, i had to carry a naked guitar! Plus, it was heavy & bulky for my frame, so I looked like quasimodo lugging around firewood! Haha, it didnt stop there, because I spent really long waiting for the bus at the bus stop, all the passing cars were staring at me as if i was some loserish wannabe rock star. However, the irony was that it was a really old guitar with 1 missing 4th string, 1 missing knob, superrrr dusty in all the hard-to-reach places & with uncountable scratches on the varnished body. I do so not look like a rock star, more like bringing it to the garang guni.

Hahaha. After that, it was quite an adventure checking out the hip elderly central in Tanglin Halt with Josh. Had dinner at the food centre, grilled Chicken Chop for a cheappp $4. With this damn ancient looking radio playing perfect10Fm in the background, competing with some Hokkien Songs from the stalls opposite. We felt rather out of place in the place mostly filled by balding, pot-bellied ah peks guzzling their bottled tiger beers. After that, we visited Sheng Siong Supermarket & I swear its THE place to hangout. Everyone was there on a sunday night. Packeddddd & bustling with activity. To say that it's a wet market with aircon is an apt description of the place. It even smells of slaughtered pigs. Josh was really excited about showing me the cut up pieces of frogs, placed right in front of the live frogs, but it wasnt there when we saw the frogs. The funny thing was the tank filled with fish were all facing the tray filled with frogs, as if trying their best to break through the glass to gobble the beady-eyed frogs up.

Then we went back to his place to fix up the guitar. Hence the extreme makeover for the guitar. Josh wanted to endow the guitar with expensive martin guitars strings, but its not a good idea to waste such lovely things on my retarded fingers. Haha, so we stuck to the normal ones. It was like a painful surgery for the guitar. So anyway, while we were dismantling the strings, haha the nut fell off. The bridge thingies kept falling out while the strings were being installed. Another knob fell out while he was twisting the knob. Haha.

Yes, I was referring to these round buttons on the bridge.
Josh struggled trying to pull out these buttons with the pliers.
After which, they kept popping out like a whale trying to fit into size 6 blouse.

Haha, spot anything missing?

Its ok. I brought it home & gave it a good wipe, not once, but twice. And BOTH times, the white cloth turned BROWN. I bet its like a decade of dirt on it. Now it looks GLEAMING new (literally). 10 times better than it looked originally. :)

Haha. Now Im much prouder of it. Asahi Guitar sia.
Its like sooooo rare, you cant find any useful information on it on google.
Haha. I just hope it'll be kinder on my fingertips.

Unfortunately for all of you,
I have blind faith that I will eventually overcome the horrible steep learning curve,
so in the meantime you'll just have to tahan my noise-making.
Suck it up man! Hah!