ITS THE NEW YEAR!

its the new year now and time is a really sneaky guy. 2011 is old news at the moment and i havent updated this in almost a mocade (month decade). anyways, 2011 was an amazing year for me, grew so much as an artist/person, travelling and witnessing the world around me and the people i have met that have may or may have not moved me. such a beautiful year indeed. travelled to over 35cities, in over 10 countries, food poisoned in more than 3 of them, learnt 6 foreign ways to say "hello, i would like to see the menu please", so much pork, drunk times in salzburg, the catacombes in paris, sober in amsterdam, AND FUCKING SLAYER!!. new year resolutions? well same as the many years before this, keep livin! im gonna keep it short and brief on this one, and probly some of the works i've done in the past 2 years that i havent had time to upload on this blog, so please proceed to the *tattoo works* tab above. happy new year guys!

and to begin the fresh twothousandtwelve years after the birth of what christians call christ, zeke flew all the way from kuala lumpur to get this anatomical heart and umbrella. 5hours of canning, the most colors i have ever used on a single tattoo in such a long time.




oh and also the last few tattoos i did on the last days of 2011. enjoy the year ahead!


bandung, indonesia


collaboration i did with gary jones, bandung indonesia. i did the left side.


singapore


kota kinabalu





AND LASTLY, A FEW WORKS I STARTED IN THE LAST MONTH OF 2011:

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!!