hi there, welcome to my first blog post :^) i'm audrey and i've got something to say about the summer holidays, due to my waking up at 1pm this afternoon.
summer just started for me
i’ve been on my summer holidays for around a month now, which is quite surreal, as i have been wasting away walking into town on weekdays listening to the same songs over and over again. i do so with full pockets, (i can never be bothered to bring a bag with me) where i stuff receipts, change, a slippery phone sans case and constantly disoriented hands. there’s something unsettling about wandering familiar streets during the working hours, with vehicle emissions slapping me in the face almost exclusively at every corner; the hum of air-conditioned shopfronts coating the breaths of sick, stay-at-home kids, retired workers and school ditchers. i've tried to envision a before-and-after comparison: one of busy hong kong, where i stood upon the native brown-red brickwork full of tripping feet just last march while i was on break, and the now, still roads of standby taxi cars, the occasional businessguy scurrying to starbucks for a coffee break, with a side order of empty shopping mall mornings. so no, travel books– our city does sleep. in a nocturnal manner actually, when everyone is busy inside their own indoor boxes.
aud.
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i’ve been on my summer holidays for around a month now, which is quite surreal, as i have been wasting away walking into town on weekdays listening to the same songs over and over again. i do so with full pockets, (i can never be bothered to bring a bag with me) where i stuff receipts, change, a slippery phone sans case and constantly disoriented hands. there’s something unsettling about wandering familiar streets during the working hours, with vehicle emissions slapping me in the face almost exclusively at every corner; the hum of air-conditioned shopfronts coating the breaths of sick, stay-at-home kids, retired workers and school ditchers. i've tried to envision a before-and-after comparison: one of busy hong kong, where i stood upon the native brown-red brickwork full of tripping feet just last march while i was on break, and the now, still roads of standby taxi cars, the occasional businessguy scurrying to starbucks for a coffee break, with a side order of empty shopping mall mornings. so no, travel books– our city does sleep. in a nocturnal manner actually, when everyone is busy inside their own indoor boxes.
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photos taken with nikon f-401s and ektar 100 film.aud.
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