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It's that time of the year again here in Singapore. Sporadic showers at dawn, dusk, and noon, with temperatures at a cool 25° Centigrade. I hear vehicles cruising along the rainy roads the whole day, along with the honking of horns indicating that an accident could soon occur. I wake up today to a crash, there was shouting in the distance as I checked the time on my phone. I don't know the exact details of the accident, but it was right outside my apartment complex.
My Sunday was spent indoors. Reading, doing work, listening.
The Cantonese have a superstition that if dogs were heard barking and yelping in the distance, it meant that the spirit of a recently deceased mortal was passing through. The spirits come, and we're supposed to gently lead them back. Back where? Back where they came from, back where we all were before we were born.
It was as if everything that I had heard in the past hour had built up to the howling dogs. Engines that seemed to belong to large vehicles were starting here and there, but I never saw any near-by when I looked out the window. The crickets that usually annoyed me with their chirps were not there although it was calm outside, and the downpour had been reduced to a mere drizzle.
Then there was the dogs, oh god, the dogs. It sounded as if there were two of them, two dogs with different personalities. One sounded like a whine, like the sound it'd make if it were hit by it's owner for reasons it did not understand. The other one sounded more like a threat, get off my territory or I'll bite you, that sort of thing. The whole ordeal lasted for about 10 seconds.
I wish it's bright and sunny now. Bring the heat, the humidity, anything, I don't want it to be dark.
  
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luxury probelms, dude. It already snowed last week where I live... But fortunately there aren't to many dogs around here, only 1 of my neighbours has one and it is basically a rat, so no howling around my place
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some of your sentences are impressively flowy! you got style.. not sure why you are being so romantic about dogs and darkness.. too much harry potter?? hah kidding. Thanks for the slice of life.
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On November 04 2012 22:39 meteorskunk wrote:
some of your sentences are impressively flowy! you got style.. not sure why you are being so romantic about dogs and darkness.. too much harry potter?? hah kidding. Thanks for the slice of life.
Try reading Catherine Lim if you can. Singaporean author, really great.
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Catherline Lim, Catherine Lim. I will keep an eye out. Singaporean literature does interest me. Singapore seems like a good place to learn about culture.. like eastern culture specifically. catherine lim
catherine lim
thanks catherine lim
like a catheter and a marine and rhymes with jim or sounds like an arm and a leg ( a limb)
k thanks
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On November 04 2012 23:24 meteorskunk wrote:
Catherline Lim, Catherine Lim. I will keep an eye out. Singaporean literature does interest me. Singapore seems like a good place to learn about culture.. like eastern culture specifically. catherine lim
catherine lim
thanks catherine lim
like a catheter and a marine and rhymes with jim or sounds like an arm and a leg ( a limb)
k thanks
If you want Eastern Culture, look at China or Japan. Singapore is where cultures are put in a huge iron pot to make a stew.
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When I read this blog, I loved how it impressed upon me the fundamentally different way you probably go about constructing sentences in English given your unique background. Keep writing, I want moar!
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Singapore is a great place for Asian culture 101.
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On November 05 2012 03:13 farvacola wrote:
When I read this blog, I loved how it impressed upon me the fundamentally different way you probably go about constructing sentences in English given your unique background. Keep writing, I want moar!
Thanks, farva!
On November 05 2012 03:31 Disregard wrote:
Singapore is a great place for Asian culture 101.
I'm just afraid we've twisted things too much.
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Your style of writing definitely fits the weather over where you are.. dark and intert. I quite like it, although I don't know if connecting this feeling to the dogs was the best (only imo) thing to do. You could have kept the theme of crashes.. But I don't even know what you are trying to achieve with this piece :p
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Thanks for your reply. Anyway, its like this: accident so maybe someone died, and the dogs are barking because the spirit of the guy who died came back. The first dog who whines is scared, the other is territorial.
Sounds stupid now 
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