Little Cozy Corner

Something just ocurred to me today while I was chatting to Ted. It was regarding a profile photo which he saw on my Facebook account which he thought was cute. It was a picture of my friend and I told him that she looks a lot older than she is and I personally feel that somehow, I am the cause of what she has turned into today.

I’m not saying that she’s turned bad or anything remotely close to that but I’m not sure if it’s just teenage rebellion or I have indirectly become some sort of a role model when it came to body art and having loads of metal piercings particularly on the ears.

Perhaps I’m just taking it more for what it’s worth and maybe I’m not but I can’t help feel that although she may not admit it, and it’s not as if I asked her, she may have felt that she wanted to grow up to be just like me. On a personal note, I can’t really remember why or what got me so interested in body art but more likely than not, it was my dad. He had a couple of tattoos and I wished I could clearly remember what they were as I would love to get one of them in his memory. But I know for sure that he did have Jesus tattooed on his left upper arm and it was really cool.

Anyway, to be totally honest, me getting piercings the minute I was out of high school was just a phase in my early teens. If Mum is reading this, which she may, I have to admit that I used to get my piercings first and then tell her about it. She wouldn’t be happy about it and would grumble a little but my reasoning would be that if it didn’t work out or heal properly, I’d get rid of it and of course, I made sure that all of the piercings I had healed well. *snigger snigger* Yes, I was very cheeky back then.

So what turned out to be something that I enjoyed doing because it irritated my mum turned into something that I realised got peoples attention. I used to get stares everywhere I went because of my earrings and even now, I still get whispers behind my back and sometimes, it’s not at all conspicious! I enjoyed the attention I was getting which sparked off more reasons on why I should get more piercings. But I did one up….I started thinking of getting tattoos.

It took me many, many years to decide what I wanted to get because I knew there was no turning back once the ink is on. Also, unlike piercings, you can’t just scrub it off - piercings you can just remove the piece and it heals though there will be scars but tattoos…that’s a whole different story there. Mum was more against me getting a tattoo for various reasons I never really knew of but one thing was sure, I still remember her saying,’Over my dead body’ when I told her that I wanted to get one done in Amsterdam with my cousins. Even with that, I kept on nudging her about it and kept on talking about it. By this time, I had lost my interest in piercings.

So after leaving hints lying around the house like pictures of my tattoo and me casually asking her opinion about the design and what not. I wanted her to know indirectly that I was going ahead with it anyway. I finally took the plunge and I got my virgin skin inked with another friend. I was very proud of it and Mum in turn actually accepted it I guess. She even helped me with the daily cleansing and dressing I had to do so it must have meant something, right? She was even with me when I got it touched up - yup, she waited with me. Fast forward a couple of years later, I was itching to get inked again and this time around, she was there with my sister but it really took a long time to complete and she told me that she would never go with me again! *lol*

Today, I’m still itching to get more tattoos but I don’t like to rush into things and am still thinking of what to get and where to get it. Thing is, both my sis and I are somewhat similar when it comes to piercings but she hasn’t gotten a tattoo yet. Although I doubt she will ever get one - she goes woozy at the sight of blood and faints when she sees a needle. So needless to say that it will take a lot of courage and determination if she really wanted to get inked! *lol*

The thing is, the trend that I noticed happening back home was that a lot of teens seem to be doing what I was doing when I was older. This is what I’m saying when I say that I feel somewhat responsible for this reaction. Then again, I might be flattering myself for saying this! Maklumla, perasan kononnyer!! Heck, it could even be all those music videos that one can get freely the whole day since everyone now has Astro at home. I really do hope that I wasn’t an influence when I was back home because although I do keep my inks under cover most of the time, I am proud to show them off and I am not shy about it either.

I gotta admit though, with Kulim being a small town and we still got a lot of conservative people living there who think lowly of tattooed girls, my ink most of the time still turn heads! And like it or not, deep down, most tattoeed people do love the attention although they may not admit it on the surface. Heh.