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My mum is really cute about the way she writes things. This is an SMS from her 2 nights ago:

Lina has just eaten a lizard! Earlier she came back with a grasshopper but Pa threw the g over the balcony. FMF and I hope your cat will be ok.

I replied:

i think she'll b fine she ate a baby cicak last week di. thx 4 letting me know.

Later when the parents called mum said that she had gone out AGAIN after eating the gecko and picked up something that made her foam at the mouth. Oh well, as long as she doesn't eat something that's nasty enough to kill her outright she'll learn what's not good to eat. Silly little hunter.

Anyway, I'm now staying in Singapore with my first younger sister (FlowerMoonFish is my second younger sister) and our brother, the youngest, is sponging off us. I'm going to start a new job soon so hopefully I won't be sponging much longer. FMF has left home for a semester abroad at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies (wooooo...). For convenience's sake I'm going to refer to my sis and bro as Grace and Pax, which are partial translations of their Chinese names, 'cos their initials are kind of weird-sounding.

Something I saw in Singapore you probably wouldn't see in Malaysia: A young Malay family with a little girl and a little boy going out in nice clothes for Raya, but dressed all in black, and the parents made up like Goths and heavily tattooed. The father had "tribal" tattoos that extended up to the sides of his face and the mother had tattoos of Buddha and other Buddhist motifs on her upper arms which were visible because her kebaya was see-through. It was very cute in the way that innocent teenagers shopping at Hot Topic are cute, except that the little boy had horrifically rotten front teeth.