My ugly 'patch'

This article was in the Newpaper a few days back, reporting on a tattoo-removal programme going on at some muslim community organisation providing cheaper service to those who wants to remove their ugly 'patch'. People interested in removing their tattoos maybe can check around the web for it cause they kinda half the price as it's a community programme. Tattoo removal is wayyy more expensive than getting tattooed.

This guy in the report with the dragon on his shoulder, actually I didn't think that it looked all that bad. The shading and details are quite good considering that it was done like 10 years ago. He said his tattoo wasn't a gang tattoo, it was just something his friends and him did to represent themselves as a group. But he still got into trouble with people asking him which gang he was from and why he got tattooed when he wasn't in any gang.

That's the thing. Tattoos = gang are so passe and yet so many people still cannot accept it. That guy said it kinda limited his job opportunities and he had to hide his tattoo from his future in-laws cause honestly I don't think that anyone would very gladly let their daughters date a man with a dragon tattoo without any reservations.

I guess it would be the same for me when the time comes when I'm a parent but of course that's still a long way to go and now, all I can say is I love my ugly 'patch'. Like what the heading says, 'Defiant at 18.'

There're lotsa reasons for someone to get tattooed, but it's really more of a self-expression thing. I can go on and on about it but there's this thing today that kinda reaffirmed my thinking. I dropped by Dad's place and his childhood friend was there and cause he was an ang kong siao too Dad asked me to show him my tattoo. And I could feel that he was kinda proud of me, in a way I carried on his...legacy if you will, and I was glad that I could get his approval too.

Just a sad little lost boy craving for his father's acceptance? Maybe. But what's me is me, and it's a way to show what I am. There'll always be haters who will say you're wrong or you're not good enough but the choice is ours to believe in them or believe in ourselves.

For now, I can still see myself getting inked many more times in years to come although I think I'll be on a shoe-string budget for quite sometime still.

Inked.

Haha since I'm at it here's a bonus photo below. Don't be too impressed my room just got great lighting and this FBT I'm wearing is owningly tight. I just love to fake being fit when I'm a fat fuck: