Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Karung Guni Man
The "toot toot" of his klaxon horn echoes through the neighborhood as his drives his lorry down our street, inviting residents to bring out their newspapers, appliances, and other unwanted items, which he buys and reconditions for resale. Our affectionate name for the fellow comes from the Malay words "karung" for "sack", and "guni", referring to the hemp (or jute) material used to contain rice in the old days -- the southeast Asian origin of the term "gunny sack". What may be junk to us is a living for our neighborhood Karung Guni Man.
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2 comments:
Ah, he must have come to visit you guys again - knew you were back in town and had plenty of "treasures" for him in your childhood abode. You're quite prolific today. Hard to keep up :)
i love it. organic recycling and community building. i would like to see the lives of objects that evolve and move from family to family in the nabe. even cooler to someday buy back something you sold before, transformed into something you've come to need.
someone should make a movie of this before it fades away.
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