Nuking people is soo 1998, dear North.
As for you, sweet South. Sparkling.
A few years ago I had to put my pens somewhere at work. I illustrate in my spare time after all, and work and pens are inseperable really, no?
If m' pens were left on a desk, they'd barely survive thirty seconds before the invisible pen-witch whisked them off to her inky realm. If I left them in me locker, well that's a pen relay marathon that ends with me searching endlessly through a maelstrom of uniforms, paper more paper and everything but said pen.
What's a professional to do?
Perambulating past a store next-door to work base, I noticed an asian shopkeep throwing out some cardboard. Imagine it's winter, the city streets, the coats and scarfs, the sky - grey...
Grey like ash. Grey like graveyards. Grey like prison linen.
A whole bleak night of work ahead... then,
I love you Sth K!
There it was, my pen holder of dangerously bright, kick ass Korean girl power!
Push Up! Up! Young Friends! Happy! Dance Party! Music Is Happiness! Young Friends!
I get t' work. My manager takes one look and says, "I'm not even going to ask".
Guess I can't blame him. My locker, always open when I was on a shift, already displayed a nice Spidey-toy, red + blue 3D glasses, a tiny skull, stencilled street art, silver chains, celtic crosses, rings, metallic feathers, Power Rangers toothbrush in a goblet. Now, finally I had somewhar to put my pens... and how!
Ha Ha Ha! Fighting! Wow! Wow!
What was originally in this holder? I speak zero Korean. I almost wondered if it originally held pencils. But everything about it from a western viewpoint screams candy. Candy-pencils?
Thankyou South Korea. Only you could have me confused between candy and pencils.
Y'know if I walk into a store t'morrow to buy a pencil in my town, I'd likely be 'greeted' by a pot-bellied gnome with snot in his beard reading a picture book about fish violation.
I'm certain I wouldn't be confronted by a Korean Wonder Woman kid saying "Fighting". It's a shame.
Young Friends! Rainbow! Here We Go! Good Luck! Love You! Happy??
Um, am I happy? I mean truly happy? Are any of us really truly ever... agh, stop it.
The two question marks at the end of the 'happy' are pretty hilarious I think.
Sure it's so she can cheer you up if you aren't, probably not designed to get you philosophising the concept.
She could never be so pompous.
As for pencil action with Korea's other half...?
Who knows for sure.
"I'd rather my friends care but not understand, than understand but not care" - Rihia2k. (or is it the complete opposite? ow)
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