it's been about a week since my last entry. all ive been doing is working, sleeping and hanging out. ahhh, i love the holidays.
nothing interesting to point out really. still undefeated. fought some really good matches the past week. lasted 5 rounds until i knocked his punk ass out. hahaha. naturaaal.

p.s. the only reason he (alex) lasted so long was because i picked a fighter two weightclasses below his. not making excuses, (i mean, what needs to be excused? - i still kicked your ass :)). haha cant wait till the next bout girly-man.

anyways, im in the process of my second tattoo. im dedicated to getting the right designs, so i went through a couple of different drawings until i was happy. handed the finished work today to some tattooist chick named Wheatley. Lol. Wheatley. and hopefully she'll do a decent job of it. afterwards, hung out with Roy and his friend Bec, treated for mexican, cos im hungry, and apparently Roy believes that all mexican food are the same. i argued that while nearly every mexican dish served in the restaurant had tortillas, the difference was in the salsas.. after a dish of this different variation of nachos served with rice and garlic prawns, we all agreed mexican food was good. (i dont know why i added that, but oh well).

alot of shit been happening. nothing bad of course, just alot of things to keep me busy. btw, anyone remember the chicken place called chicken express? well, it was my favourite when i was a kid, cos theyre specialty was their famous mushrooms, which were just fried mushrooms. and after around 1999 they closed down their shop in strathfield (which was the only shop i thought they had) until, on questing for my mates tattooist, some big bikie dude with fucken attitude in chester hill, i came across chicken express.. and oh fuck, i missed those mushrooms-even if they were 4 dollars 50c: which sucks ass. the thing is, is that that entire day i walked: from my house all the fucken way to chester hill, which btw is farther than you'd probably think. the only good thing about walking all that way were the mushrooms..  (lol.. im a sadkent)

yeah.. nothing much this week. i should really clean my drawing board for sem 2. its collecting dust. plus need to buy new supplies of tracing paper, ink pens and cartridge paper.. i realise these are things you'd probably find boring, but in some sick little way, i like it.. makes me feel all manly and accomplished.
i got work for most of the week. bartending mainly, which is awesome :) im getting sick of having to clean. and whatever free time i have im aiming to use on writing that unfinished story i got in the works. ana knows what im talking about. its gone through several reworks, and in comparison to the original draft its mythos are alot more richer.
i got another idea too, i wanted to make a bunch of comics of gangsters in syd. but then again i remembered the YD series. kinda seems done. (i got this idea one day cos i was listening to music in the fils. it was evanescence and that 'wake me up' song. the first single they released. and it has this mad piano part in the beginning. and all of a sudden i imagined this muffled screaming - try to picture it - and its all black. "How Can You See Into My Eyes, Like Open Doors?" and then you see this shaking of the screen. more muffled screaming, the verse goes by and the black screen becomes more frantic while the muffled screams get louder but farther away. then the bass kicks in, and the camera comes out from the darkness and seems to go through the grass at the feet of asian guy in a suit throwing a rose at the grave. then he turns around, and the camera reaching eye level shows the audience the other twenty guys in suits waiting for him. ok, maybe im not so good at describing it. but one day, ill post that idea - and if u listen to the song and try to picture the sequences, i swear theyll sync completely)

anyways.. its 4:30am friday morn and i need to go sleep. but before i go, for those curious and still do not have any mms capable fones in hand, my finished tattoo design is:

Praying hands clasping garlands of Sampaguita - Sampaguita/Arabian Jasmine is the Filipino National Flower. i chose sampaguita as an alternative to the rosary because i didnt want the blatant use of the crucifix in my tattoo, mainly because i dont really believe the church, and dont think the crucifix fits my belief. sampaguita is also a symbol for struggle. i cant explain it - if youve ever seen street vendors in manila youd know what im on about. and also, i use sampaguita to symbolize my grandfather: who used to come home every sunday and wake me up by the smell of the sampaguita garlands he'd hang on my wall. it was his favourite flower, so in some way i wanted to acknowledge him.

Around the palms is a ribbon that intertwines into a crude crucifix formation - i wanted a subtle crucifix, im not really into doing the normal ones you would see on any rapper or anything, but instead just have the idea of it in their. so with implementing the ribbon i got what I wanted without being so cheesy and cliche. along the ribbon are the words "Kalayaan Para Sa Kinabukasan" which roughly translates into 'Freedom for Tomorrow' and the Ribbon binding the palms together says "Psalm 3" - my favourite bible passage.  but after the re-drawing the tagalog words may change depending on the length of the available ribbon.

Sun and Stars - Components of the filipino flag. the sun is above and behind the apex of the praying hands, the stars are on either side of the eight-ray sun, with the last star beneath the sampaguita garlands. Ive always wanted 3 stars and a sun, and would never get this tattoo without it.

 

 

OK, Anyways. Im out. For you bastards who didnt even take the time to read it, I suggest you do. What the hells the point of me writing a blog if my friends arent gonna read em? you selfish, selfish pricks..

lol

forgive me, early morning shits.
joe

 

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P.P.S neone seen the spiderman 3 trailer? - its okay i guess. lol. couldve done better. i mean at least advertise Venom