The other day I saw a ton of really insane stuff. First, while sitting on a bus stuck in traffic, I saw a flat bed truck. On the back of that truck was a huge, white Converse All Star sneaker roughly the size of your average S.U.V.
As I got off the bus I saw the most wild traffic accident ever. A truck, which had been carrying cases of soju had gone around a corner too quickly causing the load (of soju bottles) to fall out of the truck and onto the street. Part of me wanted to run out there like Homer in that Simpsons episode when he finds a turned over sugar truck, and tell the guys, “You go get help! I’ll stay here and protect the soju!” But in reality all I could do was kick myself for leaving my camera at home.
So I’m turning it over to you. What did you see / do on a day when you forgot your camera?
I never forget my camera, but what happens to me is my battery dies, then only to discover that my backup battery is dead too. I missed a lot of action shots of people in Insadong. But yeah, I know what you mean, my camera is literally my third hand!
Would you be interested in a link exchange with The Daily Kimchi? Cheers!
Comment by Gdog — October 18, 2006 @ 1:19 am
Yeah a link exchange would be killer, simply due to the fact that you had a lengthy post about Homever. I’ll put one up the next time I write some junks.
Comment by Wyatt — October 18, 2006 @ 8:49 am
I was in Shanghai and were advisted to visit the “Yes Club” at the stadium (just south of Xu jia hui).
I didn’t fell like birng my camera out. The club was in essence a “booking club” (like the ones in Korea Town, L.A.)
where the wait staff hook you up with other ppl…. but that’s beside the point… all the waiters and waitresses
wear these silk shirts and black pants and have that wet anime hair look… and which both sexes try to look
androgenous… and then the music was in pumped by DJ Dong Dong as you could see from the graphics being purported onto the wall..
but that is still beside the point… well, when the androgenous looking guys started dancing up against each
other it was the gayest thing I had ever seen. Basically close enough to be grinding against each other, only their
pelvises weren’t grinding.. they were yelling and whooping… Me and my associate couldn’t help by look, laugh, and stair.. and they thought they were the coolest things ever. After a while, the female waitstaff so how hot and jumping the action was, so they
started to join in in the pseudo grinding action.. but the girls were on the ends an the guys in the middle, which
was still pretty gay.. then the girls had a great idea.. why ddon’t we cut in between the men, so the guys don’t
have to be pseudo grinding on each other… then the gayness started to subside… I really wish I had my camera. at that point I had
enough of the club, paid our tab and got out. So much of the Yes Club.
but the club was the gayest thing I had ever seen.
Comment by Andy (美國土子) — October 25, 2006 @ 6:14 am
all this time, there was really no one on the dance floor except for the adrogenous, blood red silk shirt wearing waitstraff.
Comment by Andy (美國土子) — October 25, 2006 @ 6:16 am
Everyday in Beijing I see a traffic accident, and I can very rarely get my camera out in time. One day I saw a man hit by a truck, he was a delivery person for a Korean JJa JJang Myon restaurant-his naeng myon was leaking out of his deposed metal delivery basket.
One thing that I really wished I would ahve had my camera for, but I was on a motorcycle so I might get honked at for figiting with a camera, was seeing 10 rows of bikes maybe 20 people deep clogging a whole road which is very very busy with cars. They just ride in the way as if to say; eat some nuts I am riding here.
Comment by Jake — October 27, 2006 @ 8:09 am