HOME!

just a brief update on my whereabouts at this very moment, im back home! in kota kinabalu. did a 2month long adventure in europe, all thru austria, holland, germany, and france. and so much story to tell, oh well next post for shizzle. will start tattooing here again from the 24th september onwards all thru september and october. cheerios!

HOLLAND!

okkkkkaaaaaaayyy so its been 3 months since my last post, but who's counting anyways. so at this very moment, im in holland! yes, the beautiful lowlands of milkladys, legal grass and a language i dont understand. yes sirree, i did amsterdam oh too well i dont even remember most of it. went thru the amsterdam checklist of the obvious :-weed(check), spacecakes(soon), sex museum(soon), weed museum(yes), complain about the cold(check), toothbrush(shit).

im travelling with the very talented jeremy tan of think tattoos singapore, im just taggin along like a sock. we did the Rotterdam tattoo convention frmo the 12th-13th of march, set up by the amazing andy of bonzai tattoo(NL). we got in 2 days before that into amsterdam. 7hours to dubai for a connecting flight, we spent a nite in dubai, another world i almost forgot to mention. i would promise a separate post on dubai but i know too well it wont happen.

soo, dubai was great. sand on every corner it felt like a tintin adventure, i was hoping to see a legit old sand-kneegrow on a magic carpet and a talking camel but i was put back to my place straight after asking the first, second, third, fourth person consequtively i saw in the airport for directions, a FILIPINO! it was filled with FILIPINOS i wud believe if i got on the wrong plane. it was good. well again, im obviously exagerrating but who's counting. so yes we spent a good 24hours there, put on our generic japanese tourist outfit with a canon camera strap, lost as fuck, and roamed aimlessly thru the arabic streets. it was beautiful, went to the biggest mall in the world. saw the biggest Carrefour superstore, was pretty stoked. and had malaysian food. yes, good ol nasi kandang. went to this ridiculously luxurious resort world thing with sharks in an aquarium ready to be eaten. so that was dubai. i shall post pictures when i get the urge to go thru my memory card.

now back to the netherlands. we're currently guest working in tattoo parlor in OSS, which is a 45 minutes drive out of rotterdam, called Ace of spades tattoos. real nice decent shop in the heart of a small town, everyone knows each other, turkish spices everywhere. i swear to god the next time i eat frikandelle, fries or shoarma, i wud fart vegetable oil and shit out a pig in all four limbs. for the first time in my life, i am craving chinese food so bad i wud actually cry. yes.

so its the 11th day of our european venture, another 30+days to go. next we head off to belgium for the ANTWERP convention from april 2nd to 3rd. then to germany for the ink xplosion convention in munchengladbach, then the international frankfurt convention. but first, this weekend, amsterdam again!! you know, for business..pictures next!!

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.