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by JR8 » Sun, 26 May 2013 9:13 pm
- Biro pens that never seem to want to work. We 'drill' them back and forth through a pad, nothing > bin. don't know if it's the climate or what!?
- A maybe 80 year old man at a food-court decked out like a gangster: Jewelry (lots), wrap-around shades worn indoors, Hawaiian shirt, dyed hair.
- A guy giving me the slow-mo once-over at a traffic crossing (wife thinks it is because he probably thinks she is a 'dirty pinay').
- At Fork and Spoon, a table of aunties all in *very* colorful and jolly outfits.
- Going to Courts. Sofas on the 3d floor. As we go up the escalator all the sales staff are standing in a row at the top, like hyenas waiting for the latest delivery of fresh-meat.
- Children with trainers with ball-bearings in their heel tips, who sort of roller-skate by.
- Bird-song. Some extremely loud and dominating, some in the background that burbles along pleasantly.
- Linguistic emphasis via lengthening a word. Local version 'Ayyyyy-aaaaah'. Similar mechanism (different meaning) in British/Geordie: 'Your're jooooorking man!'
- Competing accents. In Europe if I overheard something, I'd enjoy -say- trying to figure if it was in maybe Norwegian or Danish (they're close). Here it seems to be Japanese vs Korean... and then some of the Chinese dialects are not clear to me yet. Thus you look at physical characteristics, clothing, style, etc., it's quite fun trying to figure a stranger out.
- I note the welcome arrival of a cool breeze.
- - But subconsciously plan for rain that often seems to immediately follow.
- I spy from above a VW Beetle going by. Sunroof. White paint. smallish rear oval window (rear window size being a reliable indicator of manufacture period). It appears quite old, but the condition looks new. Are they producing new 'retro' models... ?
- Stormy every day, but it's not monsoon ... cannot compute
- 5 armed men at a mall.
- Beeping car door locks you can hear from 100+ metres away ['Beep-beep ... ... beeep-beeep-beeep]
- Something that looks like a National Guard Fire/HUMV-type vehicle driving into a petrol station
- schools seem to use alarms, rather than bells for break-times etc. So rather than ding-a ling, you get 'Bwer-wer-wer-wer-wer-wer!' a kind of high-pitch high-frequeny alien death-ray sound presumably intended to instill action.
- A street crossing signal that sounds like a loud deranged bird
- 4 Pinay maids having a picnic lunch on a concrete void deck (maybe they got rained off from the nearby grass).
- In KFC there were many tables of domestic helpers (x-ref above)
- Domestic helpers in KFC sharing tables with Bangla men.
- Scarfies, but not Malay style, more Turkish or Arab - with a large projecting back bun or similar. This creates the ET look, with the extended head the size of a shoe-box, with just the eyes poking out from the front.
- Pimples come up very quickly (from shaving and similar).
- Pinays no longer seem to be just maids, they seem to commonly be working a shop-staff.
- Buying furniture at Courts. They seem to be acting as an agent, a front. Nothing bigger than a kettle is held in stock. We buy a bed-frame, a mattress, a microwave, a coffee-table - all of which will be delivered separately (in three lots) by other companies, in 2-3 weeks time. The kettle we get to take home today.
- A Hello-Kitty branded and decorated line of sandwich toasters.
- Young men with the sides of their heads shaved, with their upper hair pinned or gelled up to expose it.
