i just got myself a sticker. its 45 cm big on my right shoulder blade

opera face. think its guan gong. but he dun look fierce.
then on his crown.. supposely requested for a butterfly wings.. but they look like lettuce leaves
and my shoulder above those butterfly wings not to be
a stone buddha. who look really sad without some curly hair

its a nice tattoo over all, 300 sgd. done up in lijiang by a manchurian art student studying in the north, residing in lijiang for 8 months annually. 

this guy very interested.. done up his like some bob marley fan. really tall.. look too gothic to belong in thiong kok. he is religious.. believing in that tibetian buddhism or something. as he cuts through my skin, injecting black oozzing stuffs, he kept singing songs in that monotonous tone, as if to milden down the pain i am feeling.

now and then, the lyrics gets into my nerves...as he sings in mandrin "miracle's gonna happen soon!", "no one will know the pain u and i is going through...", " i wanna go back to my homeland.."

zzz...

it took 8 hours to get the face up...ending the 1st day of my sticket session, leaving a look alike jouney-to-the-west look-a-like sand monk

the 2nd day lasted 3 hours... filling up the crown with delicious looking grapes... paintin up the leaves that should belong to covering the penis of mr adam, (sigh), and a little buddha head that has many cracks.

at the end of it all.. i wanted the pain to continue badly... its really pretty addictive...

so whats with this ahbeng sticker?

u ask urself. u ask many. why all go make totems..

i am in china now.. the best tattoo i can think of is something that belong to the country.. with a sense of nationalism in it... as a chinese.. why not have a opera face? my only worries now is will it affect me insecuring a job in a decent museum in the future.. perhaps.. this is the risk i have to take, perhaps not.

i always wanted to get a tattoo done up since poly time, but its always the money issue and facing the anger from my 2 folks.
now, with a little more stable pocket money, i just give a dun give a kookus and rocket for it. and for my folks, i dun even get to roam changi airport, aiyuh.. dun care first la.. at most i tell them china now got very good sticker... 2 months later it will drop off...

the tatoo was suppose to be an indulgence as well.. i'd always been looking for things for people. people who meant a lot. i just want something that its for me now. and stop looking for sheep toys and starbucks coffee mugs for once.

but knn la.. the lettuce suppose to be butterfly wings... if i know.. earlier.. i dun even put them liao.. put more grapes... put durian spikes even more attractive.. zzz