heh

gone.

Another move.. another dissapointment

So,

my time at the restaurant has come to an end.

Starting Monday, I've been transferred to the Head Office.

Completely different environment, completely different people.

Completely different job.

I must admit, i'm really upset.

I'm upset that i had no warning, i had no time to prepare myself for this complete change.

They've changed what i do, what i've done for the last year.

They've changed the best job i've ever had.

I am so uncertain as to how it's gonna go from here.

Whether i'll be able to adapt.

I've stayed this long for a reason.

By doing this, they've taken away my reason.

I love this place, i love the people i've met.

I've been stressed, challenged, bored, angry, irrational, sad.

I've done so much here, given so much of myself for a year..

i dont know how to take this with a smile.

I have though, learnt enough to know not to give up,

even though giving up looks so good right now.

I know that change is inevitable, and i cannot undo this change, their decision.

I have no choice here.

I do see it as an opportunity to go back to school.

I need this degree, i need it so i wont keep finding myself in this situation anymore.

I dont want to be stuck. I dont want to have no options anymore.

I found out after work, yesterday.

Today is my last day here.

The weather is perfect, the full windows are open in the closed Wine Bar.

The wind is amazing and my shoes are off.

I'm going to miss this place.

Yeah, this is my wish.

My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to be.

That your dreams stay big, and your worries small.

That you never need to carry more than you can hold.

And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,

I hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same things too.

11:11

I'm gonna rant a little. okay alot.

11/11/11 just passed by.

Catching the clock at 11:11 usually makes me really happy. any day of the year. I am absolutely one of those people that believes in it whole-heartedly and i make wishes with all my might. So obviously it meant alot to me to make that day a special one.

You can understand how frustrating it is to see negative and hateful comments on it from people who really should not be saying anything at all. I mean, seriously, if you dont believe in it too, do you really need to bring everyone down with you?

When Steve Jobs passed away the world was in mourning, Mac user or not.

The ones who acknowledged the fact that he truly did change the world.

It sucks to see such arrogance from every direction.

"He was a human being just like everyone else, i dont see what the big bloody fuss is about"

Seriously, guys?

The ignorance that comes from these people astounds me.

Have you ever come up with a system that changed technology? Have you ever done ANYTHING to make your name a household one? Will the world remember you when you die? Have you dedicated your life to a single idea that morphed into something so big that generations to come will be using from YOUR idea. your goals. and your dreams?

No. you havent. so you cant possibly imagine it coming true. and having the world live off your dream.

Having a good percentage of the world awaiting your next idea. hanging on to them and feeding off them.

You have never given hundreds of thousands of people jobs, all over the world.

You know nothing about what it takes to become that powerful, to have changed so many lives.

You know nothing.

But with that single comment, you prove that you think you know everything.

That you think you have the power to determine who deserves to be remembered and who does not.

With that one comment, you have proven that for every man that has the ability to surpass negativity and the people who never believed in him enough to reach his dreams and beyond, there will always be hateful, spiteful, jealous and most of all IGNORANT people who will try their best to crumple thoughts and disprove achievement.

Making a wish at 11:11pm- on 11/1//11 is believed in by people all over the world. I am one of them. The biggest wish ever. the kind you make with all your heart. your eyes are closed tight. and your channeling every belief system you've ever had. Yes, i do that. and many many other people did too.

It is NOT your place, as a disbeliever, to tell me i am wrong. or to tell me I'M ignorant. or to tell ANYONE else they are. Why? because you do not KNOW. you dont know anything. this is my belief against yours.

No one is forcing you to make that wish. No one.

If we're going by literal concept, you're going to say that believing in it is like believing in the unseen, unproven.

WHY THE HELL NOT?

Whoever said it was not okay to believe in the unproven? Did anyone ever make it ANYWHERE by NOT trying something unproven? think about it. WHERE WOULD WE BE, if everyone sat back and let things happen. Never trying anything not done before.

and even if that wasnt so!

Does it affect your life in any way at all? Does it mean that if i make a wish, your day gets worse? No.

it really doesnt.

You say the world needs less people who believe in stupid, childish things like this.

Can you come up with a justifiable reason WHY? who are these people hurting, and why does it hurt YOU?

What the world really needs asshole, is less people who insult other peoples beliefs for the sake of having a good one-liner added to their list of insult accolades. The world needs less people who open their mouths when it's not needed, when all it does is hurt other people. Your negativity does not prove your point. Your negativity does not make ANYONE feel better, except you. That makes you selfish. All you're really doing, is trying to take away from what other people believe, you take away from their happiness. And just to make someone else feel stupid, to feed your sick need to prove your negativity ? THAT is gross.

That makes you absolutely disgusting to me.

Your disbelief does not change the minds of believers.

You're insulting people you THINK are ignorant, not realizing how ignorant it makes you to us.

There are people who believe in different things then you. all over the world.

It is NOT your place and it is NOT your right to tell people not to believe in something THEY DO. or to even chastise them for it. We do NOT deserve to be called stupid, or wrong.

Dont be a hero. You cant fight them all.

I'm not saying the wish i made at 11:11 is going to come true. Hell for all i know, you might even be right.

But i believe it MIGHT come true. that's enough for me.

That's the difference between a belief and a FACT.

you are what you wear.. on your feet

When it comes to my feet, i look most for comfort. I wont say beauty cause i tend to favor the unfavorable in a sense?

I go for the brightest, weirdest colors and i dont even care if they match.

Most of the shoes i wish i could live in, are really not feasible to wear here in this god forsaken hotland where fur goes to DIE.

okay so, if i could.. i think those ones up top would make me happier than a monkey.

Just as important as a real one

Next week is my invisible pretend birthday.

Blanket fort and presents and the most fattening food.

THANK YOU.

Todays Letters

Dear Mister, Today you asked me for a full list of all the Jodi Picoult books i currently own. You do already know that she is my absolute favouritest bestest author like..EVER. You constantly surprise me with awesome gizmos and your effort astounds me! But please, she has 18 books and i have 7. dont go overboard all at once, you hear! Dear rain, i permed my hair on Sunday. Please dont play with my heart and frizz my hair like you always do. Dear boss, no thank you for working me to the bone all last week and for being too busy to follow up, i could have spread my work out over last week and this one instead of rushing it all out last week. Dear heart, don't beat so loud.

Today, i'm going on a date after work. To have my favorite chicken noodles. dig it.

Dress your man.. well.

Men always talk about how much more difficult it is to dress up for them then it is for women. and I suppose that's true... to a certain extent. It's sad that in Singapore, the majority of guys that tend to dress noticeably better than most, tend to be the guys with the most...money? Its hard to find the time and money to dress.. really well here.

When i research on this in let's say.. the states? I've found that a pretty awesome shirt or a really swell tie can be found for like.. 2 dollars.. they've stores and just as many men's style clothes as there are womens.

It's amazing really.

If i could dress my man every day, i'd do this.

Mine, yours?

Thoughts are mindless and consuming. Thoughts can lead to decisions being made, regrets, failures and ultimately, success. I wish all my thoughts could be put to paper. because sometimes you need reminders of the person you are and what has made you become who you are. I believe failure is never an option when it comes to your thoughts. that there is no right and wrong. There arent any spelling errors and punctuation is practically non existant. you dont even need to take a breath to think. I like that it's a big bubble that just constantly gets bigger and bigger and sometimes bursts, but ultimately is never ending. constant.

I was reminded today that some of those thoughts need to be heard. whether they are understood by the intended or not.

1) You will never, ever know how sorry i am.

2) I believe too strongly sometimes

3) You will always be the villain to me.

4) You are too good to me.

5) I am too good for you.

6) I miss her so much i still talk to her

7) I pretend

8) If i try hard enough, it might make me feel as good as you one day.

9) I believe God is taking a shower when it rains

10) Christmas brings hope, that's my new year.

11) Vegetables should make people fat, cupcakes should make kids go to sleep.

12) Life really is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

13) You will always let people down

14) I fail when it's important

15) I wish you love.

Mine, yours?

I need my inhaler STAT

Looking through all these blogs on the world wide web, i'm so inspired to create beautiful things. and take amazing photos. my camera is dusty from months of non-use. im thinking i should take it out for a hurrah sometime soon.

I need a new lens so badly.

It's raining so heavily here at work and my heart is really too weak to handle all this thunder and lightning, especially when i have to work outdoors :/

nuts.

I have official date number 2 with the mister after work. egg-cited.

He's my new favourite thing

We spent our day here.

Hammock style. it was lovely!

He made a container of cookies. 70 cookies. extra yummy cookies.

i made him a little bitty container of egg mayo. he liked it nomnom style.

he licked the container.

I have not made a dent in mine yet.

i think i might need to make 70 eggs to make him full.

(:

Me me

A. Age: I'll be 22 on the 18th of Dec (:
B. Bed size: Queen, 3 huge mattresses stacked high. I wanted my princess bed.
C. Chore that you hate: sweeping? yes, i hate sweeping.
D. Dogs: I want a pug. or a teacup puppy.
E. Essential start to your day: Coffee!
F. Favorite color: Green. Navy Green.
G. Gold or Silver: Silver. definitely.
H. Height: I really dont know. Im not short though.
I. Instruments you play: Guitar.. and i can pretend to play the piano real well.
J. Job title: Administrator. I am actually a lion tamer here.
K. Kids: I want 2.
L. Live: Serangoon Gardens, Singapore (:
M. Mother’s name: Valma, officially. Anyone who's ever met her calls her Pom.
N. Nicknames: Tessa, Tess, T, Paran...
O. Overnight hospital stays: Many.
P. Pet peeves: Bad pronunciation. Un-straight lines. Tags sticking out of clothes. eugh.
Q. Quote from a movie: "This Too Shall Pass"
R. Right or left handed: Right handed
S. Siblings: A younger sister that i always mistake for still being 12... and 2 older brothers. we are ...too close.
T. Tattoos: Just a few.....
U. Underwear: huh?
V. Vegetable you hate: brussel sprouts. ueghhhhhh
W. What makes you run late: Clothing picking will be the death of me.
X. X-Rays you’ve had: too many. all over. im sickly!
Y. Yummy food that you make: Last week i made a Spicy Sesame Chicken Penne Pasta. It was too spicy for my sister, but he finished the entire pot (:
Z. Zoo animal: The lions! I can stand there and watch them for a good hour.
.

Maybe

Maybe it's been raining for at least 3 hours every day

and absolutely stifling hot the rest of the day.

Maybe my hair has been going abit nuts because of this game the weather is playing with Singapore.

Maybe I have to sit outside to work today, and maybe i really like it (:

Maybe I've had the best weekend, ever.

Maybe i'm enjoying a hot tea and the breeze is lovely cause it's gonna rain

Maybe i'm allowing myself to move on?

Maybe someone is stealing my heart..

Maybe!

Dear future you,

I know we havent begun our journey yet, I know there's more to come.

I pray we find the strength, to make it through a bad day. or seven..

I hope you have the patience to tend to my whining. and bitching about the things i cannot change.

I know you are patient and kind, or else we would not have made it here.

I know you treat me right and you are always there.

I know you make me want to be a better person. I know you already have.

I hope you always stay this way.

I need you to understand that i do not always know the right things to say,

or even the right way to act sometimes.

I need you to tell me when i'm crossing a line.

I need you to explain when something upsets you,

because you respect me enough to do so.

I pray you never let it fester, cause a year will go by and

you'll find yourself...unable to try anymore.

I have had people come and go. They didn't know how to act. or to apologize.

The weight dragging two people down. was too heavy to carry .

I think we will know how to handle situations, or situations will handle us.

I think we need to understand that it is not weak to put someone else before yourself

It does not mean you do not respect yourself.

It is love, and love is selfless like that.

Thank you for allowing me time to clear my head.

Thank you for your bravery and courage

To step into an unfamiliar world, mine.

I know our future isn't carved out in stone, but i must confess

I cant wait for our life to begin.

Penny For Your Thoughts

I told everyone the story before
Of the way he shut, closed the door.
Of the past and all the things we'd seen.
Of all the places we had ever been.

My heart was tied long ago.
To a man i knew, would never know.
You feel it though.

I failed to cut the strings he tied
too tight to breathe, too boxed in.
It was by chance i met another one
willing to carry those strings for me
willing to cut me from my noose.
Now i allow myself to see.

i'm turning the tables, on my feeble attempts at love
I allow you in, walk yourself in, close the door.
Your heart whispered gently, but i screamed out a no.
I'm sorry, yours will be the last i ever intend to keep.
come in i'm only turning these tables, you see.

I intend on setting fire
to this long forgotten bridge
i intend to throw the weight
of the world on top of it
i need to hold your reason,
i need to cradle your thoughts.
i need another excuse
for letting all of this out

Drown me up, beam me out
We are all sinking, and the fastest way down is not.

(:

Happylist

It's Thursday again!

I like how these past couple of weeks, work hasnt been such a chore to think about. My days are still long and tiring mostly, but i used to look forward to the weekends so much more! not to say i dont do that still, i just dont count the minutes down like i used to. Which is awesome!

I've been reading Happylists and it's been awhile since i made one of my own, so im going to!

10 things making me incredibly happy this week

1. I finally colored my hair again. It is awesomely red.

2. I realized this week that i dont even feel the urge to bite my nails anymore! (lifelong bad habit mostly-kicked!)

3. The feeling you get when you help 3 strangers, in one day of rain. (Thank you, handy dandy umbrelly!)

4. The mini tummy-attack i got when someone fascinating did something amazingly sweet for me. (2 things, actually)

5. Not letting work stress me out completely.

6. New friends, old friends, family.

7. Last night my mum dyed my hair. I'm 22 and she still takes care of me and i love her very much.

8. Exercise has become pretty routine for me now, it makes me happy that my body has finally gotten used to it!

9. The ice cold latte i get to drink every morning when i reach work. perfect start to the day. always.

10. The sound my iphone is making, roughly every 3 minutes, a couple of hours a day (:

Birthday

It was this awesome guys birthday this past weekend. We celebrated twice.

You are strong and weak at the same time. and that's why everyone adores you.

Happy birthday, love. Thank you for allowing me to grow up with you.

MY BROTHER IS A ROCKSTAR

I dont remember a time growing up when my brother wasn't playing soccer.

Either at school, with his neighborhood friends, cousins, or by himself.

He is the best soccer player i know. Always has been.

He's been playing as a Singapore National player for a few months.

He hasn't found the back of the net, for a few months.

The longest drought i've seen, coming from him.

Until last night!

My big brother is officially a National goal-scorer now.

His friends, the family and basically everyone who's known him for all these years, the ones who know that this has been his dream since he was a kid, the ones who know how special and important this is.

We are all so proud.

Lightning Doesnt Strike The Same Place Twice

There are only so many times you can try the same thing.

The Most Truth You Can Get Out Of Love

I have felt so many kinds of loneliness in the past year.
The kind that make you tear up cause you realize you spend
too much time wondering how someone thinks about you, when
that person really doesn't care a damn the same as you.
I've felt the kind of loneliness where you're sitting at a table with
a huge group of people, and still feel like the only person there.
I've felt the kind that makes you curl up in a ball in bed, weeping
at the thought of being alone.
Like you want him back, only because he was there. And now in
his place is no one, nothing.
I've felt the kind that makes your insides hurt and your heart ache.
It's supposed to go away with time.

But it doesn't get better. Some days it's less than before
Some days you'll find a song that'll make you forget about it
for awhile. It makes you smile and fills you up from the inside out.
Some days you wish you could hold onto those days.
Cause there'll be days where you feel the opposite.
Days your heart just can't fit your body.
And your mind asks questions you can't bear to answer..

It's such a whirlwind of emotions, Being alone..
It makes you so happy and then kicks you. so hard.

Sometimes im so ready for life to begin.
Marriage. Kids. Career.
Sometimes even imagining it gives me chills.

I'm starting to wonder if maybe the most fundamentally real
reason anyone settles down.. Is to curb those earthquake emotions.
Maybe we just don't want to be alone?
We don't want to feel like this, we don't want to worry about
Running out of time. Or love.

Maybe the most truth you can get out of love, is the fact that it doesn't last..

I'd rather go, while you're still insistent on laziness.

Have you ever reached a point where you realize that everything you knew about the steps it took to fall for someone, have changed completely? I mean, where was i when it became so..different.

When did it become solely about sex?

At which point did men decide that chivalry made no sense anymore?

When did it get so complicated that everyone felt the need to swear off telling the truth, getting to know someone and being themselves, to get the one they were after.

When did divorce rates start skyrocketing like this?

Why is it so hard to stay faithful?

If you werent ready to put a ban on other women/men forever after that day, why did you bother trying?

It's natural progression to allow for arguments, for disagreements.. throwdown fights.

When did it become okay for anyone to believe that because you avoided these fights, you were making things better?

Do you honestly believe that by pretending to be okay with things you're not, you're squashing the issues?

Sacrifices are definitely needed to ensure harmony at home, but if the things you're sacrificing are ultimately the reasons you're gonna run into the arms of someone else, do you truly believe you've fixed anything at all?

I hate hearing people say they wanna find someone that'll "accept me the way i am"

IF YOU ARE A GRUMPY DOG THAT TREATS ME LIKE SHIT, I WILL NOT "ACCEPT YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE"

no bro, nobody will.

and very honestly, with that attitude? you dont deserve it either.

Wake up, you want respect, RESPECT HER.

Ask her out on a date, take her out for dinner. Some place nice. Hold out her chair, tell her she looks beautiful.

Order water, not beer. Listen to her, stop rambling on like you're the only one with a life at the table. Ask her about herself and stop trying to impress her, cause she doesnt need it. She's already out with you.

There's a fine line between the words impressed and just plain turned-off.

If you need an ego boost, go tell your friends. They won't dump you for being a pig.

You know very well when a girl is interested in you. Or interested in something further than a first date.

If you want a second one, show it. She's not gonna take you seriously unless you do too.

Bring her for a walk and hold her hand.

Send her home and walk her to the door.

You will never go wrong, why?

CAUSE NO GUYS DO THIS ANYMORE.

They've all gotten complacent and lazy. Girls have gotten accustomed to this laziness too.

That's why they sleep with you. on the first date.

worse still, the first time you meet. at a club.

I'd just like to know.

I dont mind where you're coming from, or how you've made your way here

But you're not noticing the things you need to.

Please stop.

So I stay

I love how you challenge me.

I admire so much, your innate ability to always, always reach your potential and aim higher after you do.

I'm so proud of how responsible you are. I'm so happy you know what you want in life.

and you're not afraid of the crap that you know you will definitely have to endure to reach that special place.

You dont bitch, and you never whine. You never complain, you ask for more.

You are more.

I love how you already know all this.

I like how from miles away, i know the thousand untyped words you mean to say, that you dont.

And that you know i have untyped words too. millions.

As we talk about his run, i imagine him running it. Sweat rolling down the side of his face, his shirt clings to his back and he's pushing himself again. He can always go farther, faster.

He sets a goal, reaches it, then sets a higher one.

He does not stop.

There are a million people i could try to picture.

You know like how before you sleep, you try to pick out what you want to dream about?

like if you wish hard enough, your dream might actually be what you want it to be?

I could try to picture a million others..

You challenge me with the way you live, and the values you keep.

The responsibility you oblige to keep. You challenge me, without saying a word.

Dear God

I'm so thankful for the past couple of weeks.

It's so easy to let yourself get bogged down by all the small things so determined to bring you down.

It's so easy to allow seemingly unattainable goals help you fall into a pit of self pity.

I'm so thankful that i prayed for strength during a really dark time.

I asked you for some hope and peace during wartime in my head.

I was exhausted, and hurt and angry that everything was going wrong, i was confused about the future and everything i wanted up to here. And like everything else, you heard and unlike so many others, actually listened.

Thank you for letting me feel sorry for myself, for hitting bottom cause it made me realize that it got me nowhere, really fast.

I'm so thankful for my work. For the job i've had for the longest time i've ever had one.

For how it challenges me and frustrates me, for how it makes me wanna give up

and makes me wanna do better all at the same time.

I'm so thankful for the people i've met here, the friendships i've forged.

I'm so thankful for the key around my neck, for the freedom and support my family showers me with, every day. I know i bitch and i whine and i rant about them, but we are solid as a rock. and i know there are millions who have not been so lucky.

I'm so thankful for music. It lifts me and helps me, every single day of my life.

The power that comes with listening to a song and letting it move you to tears, or giggle in the bus all alone, or kick off your shoes and dance around the office is nothing if not god-like.

I'm so thankful for the words i manage to write. for being able to express anything i need to articulate in a sentence or two. For reading a phrase and letting the words form a mountain of thought so deep it brings tears to my eyes.

I write because there is a voice that will not be still, no matter how silent.

I am so thankful for words.

Thanks.

Tess

This is how i met him by accident, on a night we always planned. I had never known his smile would stay so long.

I pick up my guitar, i try to form the words that would lead me to thoughts of you.

I don't get very far

cause it's been hazy. It's been me,

dealing with trying to remember you.

As the story goes,

we had to read a few books,

learn a few lessons, write some of our own stories to get here.

You tipped your hat and the match was struck

Light.

Dont forget the voice you use when you call me at night.

Before you roll those pretty eyes to bed.

Dont regret the time you're taking,

the promises you havent made yet.

He heard my heart say no more.

He will hurt you again, no more.

He was the darkest part of my day.

Took me away.

I wanna be scared the way i used to, love the things you said.

I want to breathe the air i did before you left.

I'd sail away to find you, through the storms and through the seas

I'd put a hello in a jar and make sure that it does reach, you and say

Please dont let me try to go away.

I'd tie a ribbon in a corner, i'd spell your name in red

The one i want cant even hear me,

and this time i really said, I am found

I want you to stay around

I dont see your face, and often

I dont know when you're around

But your smile lives in the corners

of my upturned tired brows

In a thousand different reasons, i could never explain in words,

your song reaches into branches of things i've never heard.

You are the unsung moment, in a song thats filled with noise.

I'd play it back and bring it to you, in a box that's already yours

TOMS

Kay,

Everytime i go to toms.com, i convulse at the thought of paying over a hundred bucks for a pair.

But honest to god, i have one pair so far, and i could eat, bathe, sleep, run, skip and mop the floors in these.

This is the Red Womens Classic in Red. This is the one i have. It's been wonderful to me so far. But it's hard to match with everything see. Tessa needs her red shoes. But i'm not allowed to wear it at work, which is uregerjcvjes.

I'm thinking of this.. kinda blah. but it'll match anything.

These are just so pretty i wanna die.

But omg. Singapore, these? nfhjecbjsebcejcm

or should i just stick with the plain ole whites?

I mean, dude. They last (even after running and jumping in puddles, which is a must for me)

they dont start stinking, they've got good friction..

im flat footed see, finding a pair of shoes that dont remind me of that constantly is a big thing. a big big thing.

Im planning to get another fairly soon. I just dont know which ones to get this time.

I do know that my collection is pretty much gonna grow every month. Im hoping to have a cupboard-full in all colors and textures and patterns someday. But for now, it's still a decision to be made.

antsy!

Have you guys been noticing the weather lately?

Seriously, its ridonk!

I dont know about you, but my hair has been a wild hot mess thanks to the weathers bipolar disorder.

WHAT DOES JESUS DO

Rain! Heat! Rain and heat! heat again! rain! drizzle!

"DANCE, MY PUPPETS. DANCE!"

So last night i did alot of this

and this...

The new Thrice album will take the rumble outta your belly and make you boogy

" You havn't told me what you want "

" I want you to stay around "

shark

Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do, I still feel you here 'till the moment I'm gone.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

Don't even get me started on smoking.

It is an absolutely beautiful rainy day here in the in the garden.

My boss is out for a meeting. I've got a huge room to myself,

plans to transform our storeroom into an office space for me and the Banquet team,

a very sugarless hot latte,

Bon Iver on iTunes..

+a pile of work i will get to in just a little bit, promise.

How often has anyone with a tattoo seen an aunty on the bus turn her face and pull her kid away from you? hands up!

This shouldn't even be up for debate, people. Seriously.

(I am totally excluding tattoos of vulgar words and images and hate slogans and the likes..)

I have tattoos. I have seven. Unfortunately, the issue of tattoos in the work place continues to be a contentious one.

Do you really think wearing the skirt and blouse, or that shirt and tie, makes you professional?

Society has attributed professionalism with putting on the right shoes, and the appropriate heels.

The increased popularity of any one person above 18 obtaining tattoos are becoming more and more apparent.

It still baffles me how close-minded some people still insist on being. Tattooing has a gut level of appeal, to all ages.

It's very simple, people with tattoos are not forcing you to have them. If you dont like them, dont get them.

That has nothing to do with people who dont share your thoughts on the subject.

Pipe down grandma.

Open your mind to the fact that things are changing whether you like them to or not. People with tattoos have just as much brain matter as you do, we speak the same, we need to eat and breathe and dump and love, just like you.

Ignorance should never be misconstrued as professionalism, or any form of worldliness.

I reiterate, i have seven tattoos. I read books in my spare time, i spend time with my friends, some have tattoos and some dont.

I eat, laugh, give up my seat for people on the bus, i dont scream curses in public and i smile at old people.

I got kicked once while in the bus helping a lady pick up coins she dropped, because? She thought i was stealing them from her.

Its funny really, everyone who gets tattoos knows the problems they're going to have to deal with regarding the general public and their insane aversion to these things.

Once in awhile it gets to us, but mostly, getting them probably hurt more than the looks and stares of the close-minded.

Back to work,

happy friekin monday!