It’s New Year! I wish you:
First is good health, second is that next June and July, you will get into the school you want. Hihi I know I should wish more but I just don’t know what else to say.
Ah, and I’m sorry for giving you the lucky money a bit late. It’s not that I forgot, I just want to write some words for you. Hihi, do you find me annoying? And hey, do not spend this note, ok? If you did, you’d be dead to me. Oops, should not say that in New Year, but don’t lose it or spend it, ok?
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One of our writers received this 5,000-dong note as change, just in time for the New Year launch of & Of Other Things. A wrinkled glimpse of another’s world, the note is dated February 1st, 2012—Tet, last year—and just legible in small, smudged ink. The message contains well wishes, written by a girl to a boy, with a final note to be mindful not to spend or lose the money with which she has granted the added value of luck. How many hands have fumbled for her forgotten wishes as they flowed through the pockets of consumerism? Does the author in question still consider the recipient as being “alive”? The note’s time-based wishes have long since been spent, but the story of its origins has not been told. Thus, the message lends itself to & Of Other Things to propagate an idea of connection that hopes to go beyond the unknown author’s relationships or money endlessly exchanging hands, to a greater sociological and artistic experiment—fostering the serendipitous return back to the hands of he who let it go.
