the tattoo shop here in singapore is on the 2nd floor, and directly across the street on the 2nd level is a strange little chinatown gay bar, with a home-made spray-painted rainbow flag out front. against the back wall of the bar is a floor to ceiling, life size poster that creeps the fuck out of me every time i look out the window. it has an adult asian guy wearing short cut-off shorts sitting, with impecable posture, sitting on a foot-stool. then, standing in front of him somewhat between his knees is a teenage boy, also in cut-off shorts. the picture is taken from slightly below them, so behind their heads, you just see blue sky and clouds. they have strange nazi-esque intent gazes, looking upward and away, with chests slightly inflated....save for the costumes, it looks like some weird heroic pedophile flash gordon.....sucks about the whole cold thing you've got over there...i can't even imagine what snow feels like right now....it's hot here, but not too bad, it certainly hasn't got shit on houston.....i'm figuring out the food thing here, trying to map out where the nearest restraunts are that are palatable....the local food here in chinatown is definitely out....i stuck it out for a bit just to do as romans do, but they fucking eat the most horrible food in china. everything is fried or so drenched in oil that you feel dirty and used afterwards...also, and i really can't figure this one out,....they only eat the worst parts of an animal....like pork....what the fuck is wrong with the chops?.....or a thigh...there's good meat there...no, they fucking talk me into eating pork knucke, and every where you go you see fried porkskin and pigsfeet,,, and of course chicken feet and wings are everywhere....don't ask me what the fuck they do with all the drumsticks and breasts, because i haven't seen any...if you took them to a taqueria, they'd probably buy a burrito, and then only eat the foil wrapper...anyway, it goes on and on....fish head soup, turtle feet soup, (have you ever looked at a turtles feet and thought to yourself, damn....look at all that meat? of course not..)...pork stomach, chicken livers.....shit looks like fishing bait not food.....anyhow, that's my birch...other than that, loving life as usual...
yours,
scott