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LOVE ARTS: It is a good day to be an emo (part 3)

(Previously on IIAGDTBAE part 2)
in the process, i accidentally knock my head... and i was bleeding with a black color blood... was it the after effect of the long black?

When i look up, i realized that wasn't my blood. It was the black paint from one of the palette earlier... i wonder how it end up on my forehead? Without further sinking to this self-imaginations of mine... i woke up from this hallucination... again, i suspect it was the after effect of my long back. 12:24pm, a little girl running towards the area where the painter standing, she bang on him, thus i was accidentally pushed by him, and it was at this time that Mandy called me, and one of the color from the palette was splashed on my forehead... coincidentally that's a black color, i like this color... it mix and matches well with the color of the world where I'm in now. In the little girl's hand, she is carrying dying injured bunny... probably she is on her hurry, rushing to the veterinary which is next to Starbucks. It was too late for the bunny... the bunny died from the badly wounds... she broke down in tears... and walked away... with some unknown forces urged me... i follow her.... she came to the woods, dug a hole, and she looked at me... without saying any single word... i helped her, together we buried the carcass under an acorn tree. I broke a branch from the tree, and found a piece of cloth... wrapped it around the branch....it reads "R.I.P Fluffy"... a name that the girl named her bunny.

LOVE ARTS: My first ever inked on my skin

I really can't believe that i did it... with much anxious and worry about the pain on getting tattoo that my friend told me, i decided to gush out my juice of guts to get myself an inked. Well, after much research on the design (I'm using Sailor Jerry's arts as reference) and consideration, as well as changing the initial plan on the design, I finally decided on this...



ISAIAH 53:5 means "By His stripes, we are Healed"

Surprisingly, the process of getting it done is not pain at all but just a little itch plus a few uncomfortable stabs felt on the skin, i was a little disappointed that the tattoo is a bit lower then I've expected, but that just leave a space for me to get another tatts of the word "Cultural Mandate" at the spot where right above the cross has left.



And I'm not done yet with probably 2 black stars at the back of my shoulder supported with 2 tribal arts (I always wanted to get the tribal style of tattoo) then it'll be perfect and done. I've drawn an artist impression attached below. Hopefully, it'll be looking like this after done...


After i get this tattoo, one of my Conservative Christian friend accused me for being "worldly" or whatever that she can describe out from the bible. But with the ultimate teaching of the bible as well as the preaching from Pastor Kong about Cultural Mandate, I'm doing this to engage the culture and reach out to the lost where most of the Christians dare not to or can't to. And with the ending of this post, i want to include here a very interesting testimony.



The tattoo artist who did this tattoo for me who is a Buddhist, she is a very anti-Christianity kinda person. As she doing the tatts for me, she questioned me on whether Christian can do a tattoo or is it a taboo, but i simply answer her with what i know for not being superstitious, not religious, but daring and confident to enter to marketplace and engage the culture where the lost are in. I also share with her how i got save as well as how God has transform my life and bless me, and i told her about cultural mandate that City Harvest Church practise too. And by the end of the day, she was somehow change her mindset towards Christianity and jokingly challenge me that "if i follow her to temple, then in return she follow me to church service!" and we even exchanged phone numbers to contact each other. Thought that she won't easily accept Christ like this, but i've managed to sow a seed, planted in her heart, and i believe that, one day this seed will grown and reap in harvest!

That's the power of Cultural Mandate that we Christians shouldn't be judgmental, shouldn't be religious, superstitous, not vain and vulgar but be confident to step in the marketplace to move for God! Halelujah!

LOVE ARTS: It is a good day to be an emo (part 2)

(Previously on IIAGDTBAE)
my phone ring... it reads "Mandy"... i pick up the call....i didn't say anything.... the girl in the other hand keep repeating "Joe, Joe? are you there? Hello?..." but i remain silent... The rain pours down heavily now... i wonder when the rain is going to stop...


The rain finally stop at 11:28am, i walked inside Starbucks just to grab a cup of long black... strange... something is wrong..very wrong..i don't take coffee usually, i guess i just want the bitterness to fill up the space of my mouth... the staff at the counter greeted me with a smile, and i replied "what's with that grin on your face?" She look surprised... i find a sit.. i sat down and facing towards the glass that i can look on the streets... i saw an old man walking with his back carrying a heavy pile of old newspapers... the heavy burden that he can't sustain anymore... he collapsed... everyone that walked pass him seems like unaware of this old man's existence... i have a sip on my long black... like it's name... the long and dark never ending bitterness filling up my mouth... i poured the remaining on the floor.. each every words and lyrics of Slipknot's Vermilion are began to surface in my mind. I walked out of the shop. And i saw a lady painting a scenery at outside of the coffee shop, thought that she is painting with variety of palettes on her hand... yet still what i see in the painting is a black and white. Mandy calls again, Mandy is definitely saying something, but what i heard is a distortion of sound wave... i was somehow pushed by this sound wave and i fell to the ground... in the process, i accidentally knock my head... and i was bleeding with a black color blood... was it the after effect of the long black?

LOVE ARTS: Emerge Rising Fashion Competition

On 22 November 2009, Our fashion team consist of me, Jasper, Yi Zhen & Leanne were one of the 9 teams in the final. Though that we didn't win anything, but we enjoy throughout the process, and also the great friendship that have gained through this competition. Well honestly speaking, I never expected that we will be qualified for the final during the Preliminaries Round 6 weeks ago, we really give out our best, and i would like to take this opportunity to say thanks again to my teammates for all the hardworks that had put in. The theme of the Fashion Competition is "Harajuku".

Model - Yi Zhen
Designer/Assistant - Joseph
Makeup Artist - Jasper
Hairstylist - Leanne



We started at approximate 4pm on the day and were given 90 minutes to finish our makeup, dress up, hairdo and so on... You can see everyone including me are quite stress and focus throughout...







This is my idea on putting a wing as a tattoo on Yi Zhen's face, sadly, the concept is not strong enough, compare to the facial art that we applied during the Pre-lim round.





And we're all ready and take a few final shots with other contestants as well as Hannah Tan (the judge on that night) before we go on stage.



*this photo is courtesy of Jessyca

And special thanks to Hui Li for the photos, Rou-Xi my best friend for turning up and suppport me, though i let you down... and also million thanks to the ++VU++ cluster that supporting us.

Thanks for reading & See you on EMERGE 2010!!!

LOVE ARTS: It is a good day to be an emo

I've been thinking this for quite sometime... I'm imagining myself in a world of black and white... the funeral song of mine "Hurt by Nine Inch Nails" being played on the background... i would apply some emotionless look, I'm gonna wear it when I'm walking down the streets... i walk pass by a friend of mine... unnoticed that he is greeting at me, i walked pass by him, as if like another stranger passing by...then i walked in to a guitar shop... i purchased a white Gibson Les Paul, and i poured the black paint all over it, i cut off the string... then i would sell it back to the owner at $25.80 (Don't ask me why, the figure just came out of my mind) I think at this very moment the song "If I Was Your Vampire by Marilyn Manson" are playing at the background, and in the same time... the rain started to fall by now... everyone on the streets began to flee and seek for the shelter nearby... while I'm still wearing that dark look.. walking slowly, through the rain... one little girl stare at me inside an Italian Restaurant through the glass... my phone ring... it reads "Mandy"... i pick up the call....i didn't say anything.... the girl in the other hand keep repeating "Joe, Joe? are you there? Hello?..." but i remain silent... The rain pours down heavily now... i wonder when the rain is going to stop...