It’s 11am the morning after my only brother’s wedding, and I’m on the way to another emotional reunion with my group of college friends. We haven’t been all together in a decade. But first, an iconic NYC B.E.C. (bacon, egg & cheese) from the bodega. It arouses in me no feeling whatsoever.
I first meet up with one of my first friends in university, Trevor. He was always a scholar and writer, but is now also a professor, living with his husband in West Virginia. We discuss the ways we seem the same and the ways we feel different than our more youthful selves.
We are (mostly!) reunited at dispatch HQL-600's final destination of Printed Matter. My eyes were misty. I am reminded that time does not move in the straight line, but spirals three-dimensionally, looping back with slight variations on a theme.
2024-04-21，14:16 UTC-04：
慢遞員蓝宝石喼汁更新：「很多事情在發生，要先參加我哥哥的婚禮，然後與兒時的朋友團聚，在週六一起把緩件帶過去」
COURIER sapphire KETCHUP UPDATE: Lots happening, I’ll be going to my brothers wedding first and then reuniting with a childhood friend to bring the package over on Sat
2024-04-24，21:00：
從香港國際機場出發，搭乘紅眼航班飛往紐約
Departure from Hong Kong International Airport on a red-eye flight to New York
2024-04-23，21:50：
慢遞員藍寶石番茄汁安排在深水埗接手緩件HQL-600，她在那裡上晚班；這般幸運，因為這天慢遞項目會提早跑去深圳又相當晚才返回香港，而藍寶石番茄汁隨意又輕鬆，下班後的等待同時享受一碟家常炸餃；交接終於完成——HQL-600替作一份秘密慢遞員交換的日本醃醬菜糠
Courier sapphire KETCHUP arranges for her pick-up of dispatch HQL-600 in ShamShuiPo, where she is working an evening shift; this is fortunate, because the LIGHT LOGISTICIAN has made a run to Shenzhen earlier in the day and is quite late getting back to Hong Kong, but sapphire KETCHUP is chill and relaxed, enjoying a plate of homey fried dumplings while waiting after work; the handover is finally successful—HQL-600 in exchange for an under-the-table courier exchange of nukazuke bran from Japan.
媒體記錄 TRACKING:
車路士 Chelsea
AoD with BEC
sapphire KETCHUP的同學Trevor先生 sapphire KETCHUP‘s uni classmate Trevor
慢遞派送變成同學會 Courier delivery as class reunion
收件人拍慢遞緩件HQL-600
Dispatch HQL-600 portrait by RECEIVER
也拍背面 And also the back cover
路上 En route
慢遞員sapphire KETCHUP往美國飛 Courier sapphire KETCHUP flying to the United States
24小時一直在路上後第一件事：在皇后區吃烏茲別克斯坦菜
深水埗 Shamshuipo
緩件號HQL-600和煎餃在深水埗一起攬好 Dispatch HQL-600 picked up in Shamshuipo along with a gyoza dinner
