mano e mano.

abc backpackers is the shizzle! been in singapore for the past week, been working like a dawggg but im not complaining. altho my back is giving me hitler treatment and being 23 to nag about this is a definite back problem future for me, scary. its time for some good old chinese massage, and a strict posture while working. first the eyesight, now the back, what next?...beard? YES! fuck reality because i cant grow one, and if there is a god, well my dna didnt come in good terms with em.

i need new jeans! travelling really has its toll on my clothes. i've lost too many shit over the past few months. gotta set things straight with my washing! so yeah, im super lazy to blab about the last week or so, altho we took a trip up to genting highlands, cold cold night. had crusty fried pork and starbucks. oh yeah life is good when your friends drive super fast cars and treat every minute on the road as a scene from tokyo drift. im not into fast cars, so you get the idea of how i was holding on to my life. TRUCK!!! haaaahh. worldcup is over, yesss!! tristan is a month older! and im really sinking into the abyss of not being the best father for not being there for em. but it'll all pay off oneday! sorry son.

so some new work to feast you pervy eyes;

i dont do much portraits but this was an eye-fuck!. based on the original painting with all the etchings.


kurts's owl-dagger. started about a month ago, and still has 1 more session to finish off. you cant hate me too much now kurt, haha.



and i started julian's leg piece, off a fallen king crown sitting on top of a broken mirror stabbing into a rose to unfold its true abyss of its roots. really stoked on this one. he's coming in this weekend to get it finished hopefully.


NEXT STOP, ADELAIDE!!! PROGRESSION TATTOO!!

coo-allah-loom-puor. yes folks, im still here.

heres a quick post update, still in kl, moved to a much much further townhouse( le fotos soon!) hence the future extensive rants about taxi drivers in KL, watched 'the crazies' which was disappointing. i mean the idea behind the movie was althou over-done, it was pretty good. acting almost as bad as 'the happening', gore scenes are the equivalent to a celine dion music video, BUT mad props to their props. if you think 30 days of nights was a bad movie, then you deserve to get hit by a 4ton, but if otherwise...well..this movie is still not for you.. not much of a twist or at least what i expect from a plague-zombie-like movie. 4/10 i'd rate it and spunk all over the cd then consider to allow you to return it to me.

and couple a days ago, got a trooper sat down like cement to finish off an oriental halfsleeve which i was pretty bummed not to have the whole space of his arm to work with, but managed to squeeze in a couple waves here and there. not my style but im learning, cut me some slack ya. made benny and shawn and feka waited for me. sorry guys. thx raymond!!

Really..hungovers arent cool anymore.

so im still in KL. yupe. was suppose to be back home right now, my misses got called for work last minute so we had to postpone out trip to monday. ahhh the inconsiderate multicorporations. aint cool.

feka left to the airport and i caught the next cab to benny's studio. ok one thing that you have to agree with me which is really fucked up in KL is the taxis. u'd either get ripped off or dropped off 2 miles away from the dropping point, snakes i tell you. so this time it was to my suprise, a real nice taxi driver. he charged me 50cents less! yess you heard me, it is that big of a deal here that i would take 15 seconds of your time about it!! its ridiculous.

so anyways did a small tattoo then had a massive feed with the boys, porkchops never tasted better, 22 bucks not the best cut but still was pretty decent, then that sorta leaded to a massive drinking nite with an irish mate and 2 other good friends from sabah, several floors covered in taco joe's vomit residue, literally crawled up to our condo and spawned to bed waking up the next day feeling like a bashed pineapple. its been awhile since i've been drinking this much, probly since hongkong in march (props to julia&ross and the never disappointing band in wanchai), and finally once since birth, I DIDNT LOOSE ANYTHING!! YESSS!!

sobered up and remembered i was suppose to do guest vocals for thanesh's band, CORPORATE YOUTH. check them out! its rare you find a decent punk band in malaysia. they're either try-hards or obviously insincere. or trying hard to fit in the trend and play depressing hardcore. well i guess its always that case in every scene. sooooo finished the vocals and managed to write the lyrics for my part in an hour right before recording. i have this weird habit of writing songs last minute. like literally hours before recording! its not the best way but it works for me, so fuck you. haha.

in case you were wondering what i wrote for my part in their song, here is:

"And the better part of days is the wrinkled eyes from the glaring sun, the visual sore of my trembling heart, over pounding, over patient, over violent
Then I let go all the motions, I obeyed the weak, the masses curse over what my heart tells me to, so I plummet in regret, in strenght still a finger to the manner.
I fell down and felt my knees chuckling over my defeat , over all that I devote for, the compassion and the gruesome grip of trying again. I learn and persevere."

adios muchachos.