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Interesting character: Young lady perhaps in mid twenties with an unusual accent in Mandarin.
I was with a group of friends this evening and we were lounging around on a sofa. Suddenly a friend of mine almost choked and gasped. Shocked, we looked at him and then turned to the direction he was facing. A young lady was sitting at a table just opposite us.
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Interesting characters : Ben, male, slightly overweight, late twenties or early thirties.
Ben,
Bengbeng, it has been like how many years? I can still remember it like it was only yesterday. Ah, the heady days of reformasi. You were so kiasu hitting the books while I was running here and there getting so involved in politics. So meaningless now, it seems.
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Interesting character : mid twenties female with straightened and high-lighted hair. Ample in figure and with a great sense of humor.
Mimi: He is being ridiculous. I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t know he had gone back to his home town for the Chinese New Year. I couldn’t reach him on his hand phone. I went to visit him. I brought along a cheese cake I had baked for the Chinese New Year. His housemates let me in. I waited in his room as I wasn’t comfortable waiting in the living room
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Interesting character : Ah-Moo, eighty year old Foochow. female. Mother of perhap nine children and grandmother of many more. Living alone in a big double storey home with a small garden.
Hello Beng. Hi Benghui. Please sit down Mrs Bengbeng
I am sorry my son isn’t here. He is seldom here. He has moved out. But I am glad you visited. You can visit me instead. But I haven’t any mandarin oranges or Chinese New Year food. I hope you do not mind.
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Interesting character: 1.70m, 60kg male, very fit and well built. Father of one daughter and two sons.
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This morning I had a little project to attend to. I hadn’t expected to meet him but he was kind enough to ferry me around on his little motorcycle. It was quite an experience to ride pillion again after so many years and on such small country lanes.
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Interesting character : female of indeterminate age, wearing white tight shorts and pink singlet.
Venue: steps of a staircase fronting the passageway of a row of shophouses.
The following dialogue has been translated from a mixture of Iban and Malay so some of the original meanings might have been changed a little
Dora: I haven’t gone home a long time. What is there to be ashamed of? Tsk tsk tsk. Apa nak malu? Cari makan aje. I earn a living too. The journey is too long. And then there is only jungle and more jungle. The people are still very poor. I do not send money home now.
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Interesting character : early thirties, male
Mark : You know Bengbeng, recently your blog, your stories all about women. All one-sided. Blog about men. 50% of the human population is male.
Bengbeng: What is there to blog about?
Mark: Blog about how little beauty is worth.
Bengbeng: Huh?
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Interesting character : Mid thirties male, father of four daughters
Ming Keng : My grandmother moved in with us about ten years ago. She is a wonderful woman. Zero education but a woman who has worked hard all her life. Her youngest son is my father. She is still able to boil water, cook an egg or instant noodles when the need arises
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Interesting character: Iban lady part-time fruit seller selling langsat, middle aged. Mother of five. A civil servant.
Jessie: : All men are the same. Men are terrible. Before marriage, my husband would do all the shopping for me. He would ask me if I am hungry, help to carry bags etc. Now after marriage, he expects me to do everything. You see my langsat. It is hard work to harvest langsat. Rambutans are easy. He comes home and just lies down on the sofa. His life as a construction worker isn’t easy. But my life is also not easy.
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