in a bit of a pickle

I bought this book for doing watercolor paintings in the other day. Decided I want to do a butt load of paintings and sell them off.... This is my first attempt with watercolors, I think it turned out alright.

Also, my buddy Paul Chan gave me the idea to start doing shoes and selling those as well. Found a place near my house that sells tons of shoes.

...did some for myself to get things started. Yet another poke ball but with the addition of a death star!

Tiff X 3

Got my pokeball tattoo finally!

After the pain, I hung out at Star Crossed Tattoo until the show at the Wanch. I met the soon-to-be new owners of star crossed (after Ross and Julia leave). Really nice dudes, Rich and Ross are their names. They just moved here from South Africa with their wives and seem super friendly! you can check out some of Richard's work on his blog here - HECK YES!

The show at the wanch was great! Tiff was in every band that night (a change from Gabe, although Gabe still played in two bands.) The highlight for me that night had to be Hungry Ghosts. I haven't seen them play in over a year and they were so much fun.

HUNGRY GHOSTS

It was a really fun night and every band was just fun to listen to. After the bands were done the night turned into arthur being a karaoke machine(once again) and everyone trying to sing songs that they didn't know the words to.

Not unusual for a night out at the wanch.

Happy Night!

gotta sketch em all

Just some info for all of you nerds.

Also, getting my pokeball tattoo today in a matter of hours!

Just some Berthday Junk

I'm hanging out at the house, today is officially my B-Day.. Having some wine, playing some pokemon with my sis. Found out she is going to help me pay for my pokeball tattoo that I will get (perhaps on my kneecap).

Something like this...

Today we had band practice. Getting more excited about playing bass, glad I stuck to it! If you would like to hear some tunes we have made you can click the link below

Priest/Rogue

A reference to World of Warcraft (not my idea) but nevertheless it is a very fun band. We have a show sometime soon at the Wanch. It is around the 24th or something, I can't remember... I will post more details later when it gets closer to the date.

Also super mega excited that my old band Mammoth is getting back together! All the original members. Super cool guys. Just an all around amazing family of fast dirty sexy metal lovers destroying ear drums together.

On one last note, my good buddy Ross is organizing shows on the 17th and 18th that Greg and I will be playing some of our acoustic drunk folk in.

Shows, shows, shows!!!!

Excited about my Birthday Junk coming this Sunday, lots of good old buddies joining the fun!

New Old Shoes

I think I have an obsession with pokemon....

bought these shoes a while back for 10 HKD and drew this crap on them today...

I have to leave to go teach shitty kids at a stupid center.

Nintendo Power

I was bored the other day and drew this...

Bunch of old school nintendo dudes... Will finish coloring it when i get more markers.

Also I have been playing this game lots now

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Almost the same as the first but still really fun.

All around great puzzle based RPG.

And lastly I would love this desk..

So if any of you are stuck on what to get me for my upcoming birthday.. this is it!

I can do you one nerdier!

Tuesday was 10 dollar tacos in TST at TJ Jacks! It was as delicious as always. My sister graduated just this last year and decided to have a grad party night out type of thing... Ten dollar tacos are ALWAYS a good idea... during 'dinner' Greg and Lindie and I went to some back street crack alley and took a couple band photos

Then after the delicious tacos we went to grab some beers from 711 and went to a ghetto little pool hall that I used to frequent back in the day..

Today I woke up and instead of doing productive work stuff I phoned Greg and asked if he wanted to play pokemon...

So today we had our first poke battle with the card game using some starter decks to figure the game out. Was tons of fun! Now I have to make my own deck(s) but need some more cards before I do that... Toys are Us here comes the 25 year old tattooed idiot that plays a kids card game!

... Future Family!

After the "game" we went to band practice and went through our set list for our Saturday show..

Corey Tam is a good friend of mine who is having a CD release party on Saturday... His CD is effing amazing!!!

If you get the chance spend money on this!!

Anyways this will be the first show I have played in over a year! Should be fun...

the service was shit...

Had lots to do yesterday... stayed up the night before until about 3 or so working on those books, then woke up to finish them off before doing anything else, dropped em off at Zane's and that was that.

From there I went to Mong Kok to the Modern Toilet Restaurant. Basically living in mong kok these days... This is the second time I've been to the toilet restaurant since it opened like 3-4 years ago. My rating from both times -> Decor = top notch 10/10! Service = 0/10 Food = 1/10.

This is not a place to go if you like any kind of service or half decent food. We were the only group in the restaurant besides another group, there were about ten servers that you pretty much had to get up and beg them to come over to you so you could ask them time-wasting questions like 'can I get a glass of water?' then if you're lucky she will come over with a pitcher of water but noooo glass. anyways, they were just crap! So back to what I was saying, only ones in the place, so we finally get to order our food, it takes them an hour to cook the shit, everyone's plate comes just enough apart that the last person finishes before the next starts.... no one is eating together. The food that took the "chef" an hour to make specifically, was really kinda gross...

Well enough on that, here are some pictures of the place.

plunger and poo lights!

wall of urinals that change lights..

Hot Pot Toilet and Urinal Drinks on a Bathtub Table.

there was a very large collection of poo toys.

Speaking of toilets and such, Is it just me or should 'automatic hand dryers' be obsolete? These things suck (when they should blow, hah) but really there is no point to them, they NEVER ever dry your hands, I have to press that stupid button like 20 times to get my hands half dry-er. They have always pissed me off...

Enough ranting like a loon.

After the toilet restaurant we decided to take Derek and Roger (Derek's father) to Stanley. After the long bus ride we got there went through the market just quickly 'cause Roger was getting very tired of shopping. I found lots of pokemon cards and an AMAZING remote control helicopter. I didn't buy the helicopter but did pick up some pokemons. Haha, so after the market we walked along the ocean to my favorite little Stanley pub for a few pints.

Smuggler's inn...

writing and crap all over the inside:

KRUNK NINJA!!!

love you more than money... oh, no wait..

all the breast!

robot guy..

and, we ended the night in Wan Chai of course. Greg and Lindie came down and met Derek and Laena and I in Galaxy... we had a few super cheap drinks, we ended up loading our bags with 711 drinks and played drinking games at the park.

Was a pretty good day really.

pokemong kok

Today was Walk like an EFFING snail day in Mong Kok. They say this city is always rushing, but a lot of people like to prove that wrong! I have never encountered so many bad walkers. ALOT of people in HK walk bad...

Anyhow just got back a little while ago from practice. I am playing bass in this band, I have never attempted an instrument before so it's slow going. It's a lot of fun but I do suck at it.

After practice Lindie went to go teach some kids, Greg and I went back to our favorite little toy shop and I bought a friend for my dude I painted the other day...

Also we have decided to start playing the pokemon card game, so Greg and I bought a few decks...

NERDZ right? We are gonna party as hard as these guys!!

I decided that I am gonna stay in and work on these books for Zane tonight and skip everything.

I feel bad that Zane usually spends a lot of time putting these books together at the last minute due to my laziness, so home tonight!

So that is my exciting and totally not boring at all day and plans for the night.

Two blogs in one day, look at me go-oh-oh!

Also I drew this robot dude...

sucks, my printer/scanner doesn't scan so I have to take a friggen picture of a piece of paper.

facebook sucks rainbow dong

So I have finally decided to start a blog. I am getting annoyed with facebook... and want to stop being so lazy. My prediction is that this blog will last for a little less than a month until I get bored. This blog will mainly be me either ranting or moaning, also just crap about video games, comics, and other cool shit.

So I have recently moved back to Hong Kong (again) and am happy living in this city. I moved here approx 2 months ago from Vancouver. Vancouver was NOT my scene, there are so many things I did not like about that city, so instead of making a giant list of my dislikes, i will just say that I like Asia alot more.

Just a little taste of Mong Kok...

Whats happening today - I just got back from the airport where I picked up my good friend Derek and his dad. They will be staying with us for the next 4 days. Derek has been here before and I'm sure it'll even be more fun this time. I was and am very hungover from last night where we drank entirely too much booze and only spent about 30HKD, man I love this city!!! Anyways back to what I was saying, buses in Hong Kong + me with a hangover = yuck.

What I did yesterday - I painted this guy..