allygong

Hi guys~
This post is actually part of my English homework.
Our teacher introduced a Tumblr blog to us called www.theburninghouse.com, on which people post a photo of items they would grab if their house was burning down. This concept is really interesting and I spent a while looking through all the pictures people from around the world sent in.

Our assignment was to document what we would take in this scenario, and then write a bit about each of the items. So here are two shots of the items I would bring if my house were burning down!

Name: Ally Gong

5. Louis Vuitton (Tivoli PM) handbag gifted from mother.

On the bottom row, from left to right:

1. Candy by Mian Mian, and Shanghai Baby my Wei Hui. These books were banned in China and I picked up the translated copies at a bookstore in Asia and have read them countless times. (My favorite book is The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera, but I have no particular affinity for my copy of it, merely the story, so I wouldn’t grab that book.)

2. Gold necklace given to my at birth from my great grandmother.

3. Heart locket my old boyfriend got for me.

4. Wallet

5. MacBook Pro containing the contents of my existence.

6. Purikura (Sticker picture) collection,  (small photos taken with various people in Japanese photobooth machines.)

7. Postcard in frame that I sent to myself from a theme cafe in Shanghai. This postcard acts as inspiration to do well in both school and daily life.
The cafe I bought this in was called Momo Cafe, and there are shelves of postcards lining the walls. The idea is to buy postcards, coffee or dessert, and fill them at the couches and tables with the provided colored pencils and pens. Then, you buy postage stamps and put them in the mailbox with the year you want it sent out. There are mailboxes on the wall labeled with the present year all the way to fifteen years in the future. I received this one recently.

-A