Nostos Day 1
March 20th, 2009
how do you do it? do you sit around saying, okay dudes, let’s go out and mug someone today. let’s go out and terrorize. let’s bring along some bricks to shatter windscreens, and this knife from the kitchen table should we need to push a little farther. what is it? greed, cruelty, desperation, poverty, defiance, idleness? ineffective enforcement, poor regulation, corrupt police, weightless punishments, arrogant fearlessness? when you’re splitting someone’s head open or dragging them by their bag’s straps on a hard tar road, how many words do you use in your head and heart to justify what you’re doing?
so i was walking to the train station. in that ramp leading up to the turnstiles, i was swarmed by a bunch of kids no older than my Short Brother who’s 16 this year. they were selling some prepaid phone cards, all dyed hair and ratty jeans with dirty toenails, so loud and so enthusiastic. miss ah miss, want prepaid card anot, i give you very good deal laaa! miss, just one minute of your time only… their peers nearby were haggling good-naturedly with other passersby. i politely declined their persistence, but stopped nearby to watch them do their thing. many of them made sales in the fifteen minutes i stopped to finish my bubble tea, and they would pump their fists excitedly in the air. i admired their freshness and their energy. they were like little windmills in the sky.
pictures:
#1 reassurance is always good
#2 perfection
#3 genetics
#4 long lost
#5 progress
#6 blueberry analogy man
#7
#8
#9 for the recession
#10 a special something i got from home, grabbed quickly from the hands of Kimo on 5th Avenue right before i left for JFK in a yellow cab. it’s kind of funny how things work out. but anyway this is a pink LG Ice Cream cellphone kindly ferried all the way to New York and back, for my delight and titillation. i am excited! i will be spending the next couple of weeks exploring every nook and cranny of this yummy phone. great timing because i left my phone in a foreign country last month and am currently phoneless. i’ve also never had a flip phone in my life, so i guess i better start practicing that head toss and phone-snap that so many ladies execute with such finesse.
#11 the toucan’s fish
#12 the salivary glands liketh
#13 it’s always christmas at number 45
#14 heirloom
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19 i learned the word ’serendipity’ from book number 89
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45 Comments Add your own
1. Evilbat | March 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
hmmm… the panhandlers here aren’t quite that energetic.
#17 reminds me of a pen I was alleged to have “stolen” in grade six.
2. shadowking | March 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
mhh i dont go around destroying stuff
so i cant really tell you what i would think
but it is probably a thing you have problems to justify the first time
but than it becomes easier and easier until all of that is only natural to you
Of course I break rules as well, but i think the rules that I break are not that bad… and as long as i am not caught everything is ok
(please dont expect something really big and criminal. I am a pretty good guy)
ok i guess thats what i am telling myself in my head… :D even though it is really not a hard “crime” :D LOL calling it a crime…
even making such a fuss about something like that
those boys… i got confused there
I first thought you wanted to say how bad they are because of the “young”-part and the “all dyed hair and ratty jeans with dirty toenails”, but after you said you admired their freshness i dont think that you saying they are bad would be true
rather the oposite is the case …. probably…. ahhhh i am confused
3. reallybites | March 20th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
#2 – gah! i still can’t manage to get it right!
#4 – i want
#18 – mr muscle? haha.
4. foreverjas | March 20th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
love sweet valley high ! :)
i love the pink lg phone too ! pink pink!
5. Artificially Tamtim | March 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
you’re so #16
how is the malaysialand?
6. sheon | March 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
#2 : yum yum..i love runny eggs. especially of kampung chickens
#4 : i just had a couple of those yesterday, after like a million years of not having had them!!!
#6: blueberry analogy man needs some trimming…..
#8 : a typical malaysia tabby
#12 : makes me forgo my diet plan if this comes with my meal…
7. LJY | March 20th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
sweet valley phases.. hahaha
it’s a tad sad how times change, because my younger sister has never read sweet valley! instead she reads mary kate ashley twins. and the gap between us is only four years!
8. mac | March 20th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
“greed, cruelty, desperation, poverty, defiance, idleness? ineffective enforcement, poor regulation, corrupt police, weightless punishments, arrogant fearlessness?”
it is a bit of everything, isn’t it?
welcome home.
9. songjun | March 20th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
didnt i get #17 with u haha it looks really familiar
10. Michelle | March 20th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Who is left handed? :)
11. nj | March 20th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
hey pinkpau! i’ve been a silent reader for quite some time now, and i enjoy reading your posts=) u’re a very talented young miss, keep up the extremely good writing.anyways, i couldn’t help noticing that you read SV books! OMG! they were the love of my life back then. it’s silly perhaps, but i still do read some series, especially the special edition ones, when i feel nostalgic. my fave was the magic christmas. haha, sorry for being so random=P
12. ShaolinTiger | March 21st, 2009 at 12:29 am
Your pics are getting good :D
13. mac | March 21st, 2009 at 12:59 am
yes yes totally agrees with nj and st … gifted. writings have been bordering on the thin line of sanity and insanity lately, but i guess that is how u define genius? :) pictures totally simple … but the eye for detail … the ability to catch it … awesome. always entertaining.
14. grace | March 21st, 2009 at 4:05 am
glad you are back blogging =)
15. Cobller | March 21st, 2009 at 5:50 am
I’m so jealous. My mum made me sell all my Sweet Valley books before we moved abroad. :(
16. jessica k. | March 21st, 2009 at 5:54 am
sweet valley twins! i love it very much back in primary school. still keeping the old books which i had recommended to my young cousins before. sadly, they were not interested. :(
17. Jun | March 21st, 2009 at 7:10 am
omg i almost had a heart attack when i saw #19 and was like, since when did u manage to invade my room and took a pic of my SV collection, when i realised they’re not in numerical order and prolly not my collection then ;p
18. Angel | March 21st, 2009 at 7:50 am
Head toss – Go for it. But the phone snap? Better not. That’s how I killed my phone (But then again, it was totally worth it :) )
19. hanna | March 21st, 2009 at 9:08 am
serendipity! that’s the one with jessica’s purple cookies!!! right right? god i cannot believe i remember that.
20. bosscat | March 21st, 2009 at 11:06 am
may i ask where can i get #16???
21. Waifon | March 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I have a lot of SV books, till today! :D
LIM SU ANN ARE YOU BACK IN MALAYSIA!?
22. daphne | March 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
are you in Singapore?
23. Kevin | March 21st, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Woii pet pet ah paus arr..u took so many pics of me must put up the pic of my nose hair sticking out 1 is it..summore damn a lot of black heads..u spoil my saham la sigh
24. Michelle | March 21st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Hey, where are the good places to dine in HK? :)
Very random, I know.
25. lishun | March 21st, 2009 at 9:35 pm
i remember the days of spending all my money renting sweet valley high books from novel house. novel house no longer exists and i got bored once the twins went to college, but man. those memories!
26. smartypants | March 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
#13 it’s always christmas at number 45
sweetie, i feel so very homesick
27. smartypants | March 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 am
and this ..#14 heirloom
28. mysty | March 22nd, 2009 at 3:31 am
i liked the pink feather earring
29. kiasu andrew | March 22nd, 2009 at 6:06 am
did you know i used to read sweet valley twins too in yuk chai
30. lu | March 22nd, 2009 at 9:43 am
i have the same phone! :)) looks so yummy, but i got bored after a while o_0 not many functions sorry to be such a spoiler :P
31. Philip | March 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 am
Serendipity is my favourite English word. It’s some how very appealing.
32. voon | March 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
why not (on msn anymore)?
btw, are u home? :D
33. sabrina | March 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
#19 *hearts*
34. tom | March 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
liking the pics..
35. kellster | March 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 am
hehe i read most of the sweet valley titles that you featured on in your picture.
man those were the days
36. Zeek | March 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 am
hi Pau!
havent been checking for updates on your blog and all i gotta say is you and sweat are the luckiest girl on earth. Who gets to study abroad and go overseas for winter/spring break all the time. anyways good to see some updates on Pau-life!
liked the new random shots. very cool!
37. theuptownlife | March 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 am
aww. sweet valley high.
jessica, devillish, but you’ve got to love her! xD
38. theuptownlife | March 23rd, 2009 at 5:13 am
sweet valley high!
jessica is so devilish but you’ve got to love her!
39. eve | March 23rd, 2009 at 6:54 am
I used to read sweet valley twins too!! and SVU!! and enid blyton!! along with lucy maud montgomery and nancy drews and fear street and goosebump! ahhh, its all coming back. :D
Serendipity. i learnt that word on the romantic blushing pink of Jim Brickman’s Valentine album.
whoaahahahahha… i want a new phn new phn..
40. nina | March 23rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Oh man, I’ve had those same books in #19. Ah, youth and the Wakefield twins XD
41. na | March 24th, 2009 at 3:48 am
i just bought a SVH book from carrefour the other day for old times sake, (stock clearance at $3) and today i see sweet valley again here!
please blog more. (:
42. pinkpau | March 24th, 2009 at 4:23 am
evilbat : tsk tsk evilbat. thievery is not good. what would the canadians think
shadowking : a good dose of rulebreaking is only healthy :)
reallybites : how you know what #2 is!! when i took that picture i thought of you. haha.
foreverjas : i want to bite it!
artificially : omg i know right. that’s why i bought it. home was good while it lasted
sheon : how come you also know what #2 is!!! obvious meh… eh #12 super shiok
LJY : erghhhh MK & A!!! they have nothing on the sweet valley books…!
mac : thank u :) it was good to be back.
songjun : i think so.. hahaha.. it reminds me of you somehow so i guess we did get it to gether
michelle : il mio fratello
nj : magic christmas is the one where they both become older, right? haha i will always remember that scene where jessica was on the bus and trying to flirt with an older man while tossing her hair around and he asked her if she had a crick in her neck.
shaolin : thank u! but these pics cincai take only la :)
mac : aiya u overpraise me again as always! :)
grace : im glad too :)
cobbler : GASP. i feel your pain. all my enid blyton books are gone… i know not where they are :( i hope they are with my younger cousins or in some kid’s playcentre somewhere instead of being pounded into recycled pulp..
jessica k : sigh kids these days
jun : HAHA. i can never arrange my books nicely. i read them too often and am always too lazy to put them back where i got them
angel : ahahha noted :P
hanna : CORRECT!!! haha her disgusting purple cookies
bosscat : i think this was a gift from bali …
waifon : i was … :)
daphne : nope
kevin : dont so noisy beaver. i’m not the pet pet!!!!!
michelle : check out my HK guide on the sidebar. should be helpful
lishun : i never read SVU, but i LOVED sweet valley senior high. junior high was quite awful
smartypants : hugs :(
mysty : i think i only ever wore that once…
kiasu : REALLY?? dont bluff SSD. who’s your favorite character!
lu : simple is good for people like my mom.. maybe i hsould give the phone to her
philip : ever watched the movie? :)
voon : too much spam la on MSN. that day i got some from you as well. stop clicking on those links! i’m so disappointed in you!
sabrina : :))
tom : glad u are!
kellster : ya… nostalgia :\
zeek : why have you not been reading my blog!!! /emo
theuptownlife : haha jessica is always a great source of entertainment. though i personally prefer elizabeth :)
eve : haha wow we are book twins! fear street was all the rage when my friends and i were 10-12.
nina : dont forget todd wilkins and aaron dallas :P
na : i am tryinggg :( too much work in college!!
43. tyris dawn | March 24th, 2009 at 6:14 am
nice pictures. still trying to figure out the flight pic. anywayz, check out my sexy vamp. was bored and took it. ;)
44. TheRealAnonymous | March 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
eh? I tot i left a comment… =(
45. bosscat | April 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
oh.. thought would be nice to get #16 for someone special.. :D anyway thanks!
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