Aliiham!!!

Okay, by now a lot of people, mostly Shouters would know about Al's new header and her association with seafood.

For those who missed out on the discussion that night, it all started like this:

Al asked me to come chat at SO because the topic was tattoos. So, I went and somehow I think she was teasing me so I threatened to tattoo "sihams" on her eyes.

For a better picture, I drew this:

That is basically supposed to be eyes and yea, I'm gonna tattoo sihams on her eyelids so when she closes her eyes, TADAAAAAAAA!

Someone suggested to tattoo different coloured sihams on each eye. For example, grey for raw siham and red for cooked XD

Then someone mentioned that she was afraid that Al would "siham-fy" her car. And this came into my head XD

And last but not least, Aliiham's house XD

p.s. aL, don't angry la ok? It's funny XD
Just imagine how much laughter and joy you've spread =P

How it happened

On April 15th, 2007, I was in Northbridge (it's Perth's China town) with her (some of you would know who...) for dinner. After eating, it was raining and it was quite a walk to my car. So, we were stuck in the rain. Then I noticed the sign "The Tatt Shop".

I went "Oh, let's just go up and look at some designs and get a quote for a tattoo".

45 mins later, I came out with my dragon.

Yes people, I, Ryu, got my tattoo in a spontaneous decision while waiting for the rain to stop.

*looks around*

I'm not lying!!!!!!!!

*looks around again*

Okay, okay, it wasn't THAT spontaneous. I already knew I wanted a tatt on my wrist and I wanted a dragon. So when I went in, I just talked to the guy, Jon (or John), and he showed me a few designs. I saw my dragon online and I just knew I wanted it.

So, I asked him how much would it cost (my budget was 200AUD) and he said 130AUD. I asked if he could do it now. He said "Yea."

And the next thing I knew, I was in the chair and Jon was putting on his black latex gloves, opening a new needle.

Basically after I approved the design, he drew it on this piece of tracing paper with some kind of blueish purple ink. He then pressed it against my skin and the blue ink pattern is transfered onto my wrist.

Then the machine starts... I was kinda worried cause I saw that his hands were shaking when he was opening the new needle. Then I realized that his hand shook because the machine was always vibrating (the needle is supposed to be going up & down really fast).

The first sensation was "Oh, this isn't too bad..."

The second sensation when he pressed down was "Aiyeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

After that my hand just got rather numb. It still hurt, but it's a bearable pain. So, it's good =)

And to show you guys how it went, here's a collage:

(p.s. click to enlarge)

And that was how I got my tattoo =)



Let me leave you guys with a funny pic...


Why is this funny?

Cause...

THAT'S MY HOUSE!!!!!!!! I NEED TO TURN LEFT TO GET HOME!!!!

Lolz... Actually road workers placed that in front of my house because the junction further down the road was closed.

But I found it funny.



Don't you guys think so? XD

Ryu = Dragon

Okay, before I get more peeps thinking what the hell did I do to my wrist, I would just like to say thanks to those who really do care =)

And well, I don't know if what I did was another act of abuse on myself or rather a show of strength. I am Ryu. It means dragon (for those who don't know). And I want to be a dragon (metaphorically of course -___-").

These few days, or week? have been rather hard on me. Stress with studies, work and of course the unavoidable personal issues of emotions & basically a roller coaster ride of ups and downs and huge plunges and jerks of left and rights... you get what I mean...

Anyways, I have done what I have wanted to do for a very very long time.

Ready?

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Yes.


It's real this time.