perpetual homecomings never quite hitting that slow reprise in televised riots and reckless transgressions. everyday's the same except when it rains, then it finally cools down for once and all the lights out ripple in the waves of runoff down the bus window and it actually looks kinda nice. when we went shopping together in mong kok, we saw this little diorama of these tenement buildings inside of this glass case and you had these little figurines of people putting up food stands, riding their bikes or walking or waiting for the buses which always looked like it was just arriving. maybe this is the city everyone thought of when they talk about those old days i guess. you know, the kind you came back here for. dunno why you did, but hey, you're here now i guess. maybe those figurines look up and the lights on the glass are like little stars or maybe they'd think of us walking past like thinking of people in dramas happening outside of them.

shapeless midnight

what do we have here...

minakami tam

office worker in wan chai. originally studied in toronto but returned home for work which met with much approval from family despite rising tensions within a city that she no longer recognizes. likes reading manga and picked a japanese sounding name as her nickname in high school and kept it even though people say it's a long name. has a way with speaking which gives a fanciful air, making her popular still as she takes things with a level candor. her actual name is tam ka ming

ko

delivery worker. rides a moped around hong kong. while not the most extravagant job, he finds it gives him a sense of freedom with a kind of job he doesn't sit around too long in. likes miniature scale models of buildings. can be seen frequently around in's point near yau ma tei. took a political science degree in toronto where he grew up but his family and minakami's see each other often hence why they know each other. thinks of minakami like an older sister