BACK FROM THE DEAD

ohh has it been the longest run of not being able to update this blog. was suppose to continue with more photos from my previous australian venture about 3 months ago, and got stuck 1st not being able to find even 10minutes off time to hop on the internet and binge on updating what i perceive as a personal disciplinary routine, 2nd im just getting too lazy. fuckin hell, feeling like a slob doesnt help at all. soooo, im upkeeping again!! yessss..but who gives 2 shits anyways. months has been like years sometimes, and years felt like days.

btw, tristan is 1 now! time flies like dust in a dormitory room. spent alot of time travelling to and fro singapore, hangin out with the think tattoo crew cock talking and furniture peeing. and ofcourse tatt zappin.

did a tour with our old buddies in driven fear, played 3 shows or the release of our new split ep "pale fate".

ohh and yesss the singapore convention is in about 7days! super pumped up to be participating in this show, cant wait!

so as promised, zeee fotoo from august, a quick run thru of what i did while working at progression.



did this on simone, an amazing soon-to-be tattooer and an artist. check out her work, ladymonicle.com.au. spent about 9hours on this chap without flinching. a kitsune fighting a paper lantern ghost. and a few hours after, took me to see penguins in victor harbor! it was amazingggg, altho with my incapability to have good eyesight, struggled to find penguins the whole night. it was in the dark, a tour guided lady with a torchlight, i swear the only thing i could see was the cold air. but ofcourse i had to pretend they were cute. man i paid $12 bucks, gotta be worth something.



mr jamie (simone's bf), who is also a fucking ace tattooer, got this major cock fighting snake, jamie is a dragon born in the year of the rooster( hence the tattoo). a dragon because he showed no fear in my pain staking session, and also a dragon because he was tall as a mother. im asian and im considered 'tall' here, and he was at least 2miles taller than me. he wudve easily passed being white kobe bryant. love this guy, cooked me a meal in his awesome house, slept with his awesome dog for 8 hours and got insanely bakeddddd watching a quentin tarantino flick. 2 sessions in, still not complete. hopefully i can make a trip down to visit these lads again in 2011.



tiki owl on mr.steve.

did a few more tattoos but going thru a huge load of photos in my harddrive seems like too much hardwork now.

and here are a few photos of recent jobs i've done over the past few months being in kota kinabalu and singapore.

Travel log 1: Radelaide! the taco australian adventures

it has been exactly 1 month since i left to the then-thought sunny state of australia: ADELAIDE! obviously i was shitting myself wrong, spewing over the fact that i didnt realise that it was freaking WINTER!! fuck a duck, coz the taco aint good with the cold. yupe, panzy point +1. only under 10degrees but still i was fakking up crawling like a new born wombat because i packed 1 jeans and 3 shorts. but it was all-in-all one of the best 3 weeks of my adult life. so this entry is going to be a pretty long read.



Worked at the super awesome PROGRESSION TATTOO , alongside the super-spastic Matt deverson AKA dragon tribal master! here's why? the eccentric komodo tribal dragon pose, one of the many sacred tribal pose matt whips out---> check out his work btw! dont worry, you wont find any tribal yingyangs in there. HAH! it was an honor! AND it goes to show how being an artist makes you good friends, coz i met matt 5years ago when he was over in borneo. and we kept intouch since. goodtimes!

and ofcourse there were too kind to let me stay with them, 3 mega-super thick quilts, wooden floors, and a heater was my home for 2 weeks. thank you mr & mrs deverson :) . not to forget their furry childrens lucas, leaia, and ....the cutest cat i've ever encountered in my journeys! :



to be honest i have never met cheekier dogs...wait, cheeky snoring dogs! than of lucas and leaia. besides snoring worse than my best friend jim, there are all about the snuggles...and UNDERWEAR EATING. yupe u heard me! thats how we bonded so well.

there wud've been no better way to authenticate a celebration of my first night in australia other than having THAI DINNER! ahh the amazing tanapa restaurant, where entrée's are as filling as a main dish, and restrooms are as long a walk than the chinese marathon. it was awesome, food was awesome, wine was exquisite. and also, meet jamie and simone!

so started off my guest spot with my first job, 10am, icy adelaide, of a severed nurse head on nathans hand. he was abit tanned (i use to think all australians are sun-burnt :S ), but it rocked out well!

i'll post up more works as we get along this travel log. mind you, im trying to keep things in sequence. so stay tuned soldiers.

so anyways, matt and his misses live in a picturesque small suburb, glenelg. just by the beach, and if u are as ignorant of an asian as i am, yes there are sharks! and no, shark attacks are super rare, and as WU-TANG CLAN says it best "shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga", well i dont really see how dat applies or justify shark attacks, but i just thought it was appropriate to quote. so fakk your couch! HAH!

Travel log 2: MAIL-BURN! the taco australian adventure

a week long after working full-on at the progression tattoo headquarters, we sneaked on a few cheap tiger airways plane tix for a quick holiday-in-a-holiday to: MELBOURNE! mainly to watch the awesome canadian based hip-hop act 'K-OS' gig. and yes, it was cold-ER, ahh the miserable weather that is winter. and taxi's in melbourne is def a richmans transport mode, it was the equivalent amount of all our 3 flights put together. well im obviously exaggerating but it came close! ! and they was a service charge! so the next time youre NOT visiting melbourne and in a taxi, shake your asian taxi drivers hand for not being in melbourne.

if i had to narrow down one thing i love most about melbourne, it'd be the architecture! well ofcourse besides lord of the fries.




















spent an amazing 24 hours in melbourne! had awesome vegan burgers, and spent a fortune on books in metropolis. then flew back to the not-sunny-at-all adelaide!

stay tuned for travel log 3!