Saturday, March 14, 2009
Moving to a new address!!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Miki's Survival Camp
After recovering from a good meal, there quite a few activities to be done here. Remember i mention about the uses of bamboo just now, we'll teach you how to make them and a few more. Ever fancy blowing a traditional blowpipe, that's here too. You need to be careful walking around the outer campsite area, the well camouflage traps is set up to catch anything from rats to Wild Boar, you'll just have to see it to believe it, its ingenious how these traps was made and set ups, everything they need, they just use from the forest.
This Little guy, I've seen some small frogs in my time but this one is ridiculously tiny. We found it by accident, well actually my friend found it. His name is Martin Boakes, was with me visiting Miki Survival Camp. While looking for insects and such he notice this odd looking piece of leaves stuck to another bigger greener leaf, and said "whats that, oh its a piece of leave?" i replied "yeah a piece of leave!! Oh......hang on........ it a FROG!!!" The tiniest, littlest frog i ever did see..here it is..
After that interesting discovery, we chatted away the night in front of a burning campfire and had ourselves a good bottle of rice wine.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
No postings!
I've been quite busy for the last few month on my guiding trips that i didn't do any tattoo work.
So i have yet to post anything, rest assured that, i will post something, not soon, at lest something.. LOL, catch ya later alligator!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Making of the Tattoo
There are many ways of creating a tattoo. Some of the practices in olden days were risky, causing infections and maybe even death, but in the end the principle in making a tattoo in sterile environments is still the same: the skin is lightly pierced with one or several needles, and while the piercing takes place some type of ink is applied to the wound.
The piercing is done along the lines of the desired design, and it depends much the skills of the tattoo artist how the final result looks. In olden days the instrument to pierce was made from sharp bones, bamboo, rattan or shell, attached to a handle(woodden stick). The piercing was done using a mallet to fast and sharply hit the ‘needle’ at one end of the handle, and the simplest ink can be made very easily from soot and oil. Another local recipe (Rungus, northern Sabah) suggests pounding charcoal, mixing it with sugar cane water and straining it. A more sophisticated ink is made from boiled guava tree wood and the bark of mango tree in coconut water until black and thick. The mixture can be kept in a jar, and a few shards of iron, and tobacco may be added. This mixture is also applied to blacken teeth (Rungus, northern Sabah).
Once the design is completed, which may be anything from a few minutes to a few hours, the wound is left to heal. Generally this should be within a few days: the skin peels off like after sunburn, and under the new skin personal body art appears…
The picture on your right is a sample of modern day tattoo machine (gun). The on the left is the usual commercial instruments whereby the one on the right is a home made machine. To Be Continued...
Sunday, March 9, 2008
St Michael...
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Tattoos in Borneo
Borneo has been inhabited by modern man for at least the past 40,000 years, maybe even longer and may have played a yet to ascertain but crucial role in the development of modern man. As with many parts of the Austronesian world, the people of Borneo have taken the tattoo to aesthetic heights, and they played always a very important role in social and religious life.
Well preserved for thousands of years, Borneo tattoos are testimony of living traditions, proud cultures and a turbulent history intercepted by fierce tribal wars and headhunting. Though being the third largest island in the world, little was know of Borneo until the Second World War. And it is only now that certain states – Borneo is divided into Kalimantan (Indonesia, ca 73% of the island), Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo, ca 26% of the island) and Brunei Darussalam (less than one percent of the island) – undertake serious efforts to conserve its ancient and ever so rich and diverse heritage. Because even 50 years ago many tribes in the hilly and rather inhospitable terrain of
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
ITS BEEN A WHILE!
For some of you that dont know..i'm getting married soon, so i'm kinda cracking my head here to find fundings for my big day..my heart was shattered today when i found out that my loan was not approved by the bank..now i'm really down in d pits. Fuck, money can be such a pain in the ass. Cant live with it cant live without it, this is the only time i really need $$ that i dont have, money was never really important to me as long as i have enuf to survive day by day, i can always find more.. but this is the time i really need lots..money is not everything but you are nobody without money.
Sure make you wonder about the good old days when you dont need money, just harvest your surrounding for food, but then again there were no computers n internet line either..LOL
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Sandakan Visit...
ANYONE KNOWS WHAT THIS IS????
Here goes......we found a unidentified spider. It has a very strange appearance, it has a cup like thing on its back..it is only active at night and during the day it close up concealing itself like a dead leaf. At first we saw it i could not believe my eyes. If anyone knows the answer please inform us...if not we might be on the verge of discovering a new species of spider...we nickname him or she "transformer" hahahaha...
Danum Valley Relived
- Orang Utan
- Borneon Gibbons
- Red leaf monkey
- pigtail macques
- western tarsier
- Rhino hornbill
- wrinkled hornbill
- black hornbill
- pied hornbill
- Pacific swallow
- whiskered tree swifts
- black backed kingfisher
- brown wood owl
- crested fireback pheasant
- reticulated phyton
- Wallace flying tree frog
- Harleyqueen's flying tree frog ( if i'm not wrong)
- parachuting gecko
- many bul-buls n many bablers
- many spiders
- redsided water snake
- slug eating snake
- asian paradise flycatcher
- malayian blue flycatcher
- pied fantail
- bearded pig
- Tons of leaches
- brown wood frog
- spotted rock frog
- mouse deer
- and theres a few things i forgot i think