TFv05 CH 06 at last! (annotated)

Annotations for at last! of Redwood.

## Page 125

**quote**

from the song The Hills

## Page 126

**Jikininki**

(食人鬼
"human-eating ghosts") appear in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories
and Studies of Strange Things (1904) as corpse-eating spirits. In Japanese
Buddhism, jikininki ("human-eating ghosts"; pronounced shokujinki in
modern Japanese), are the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who
are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses

The story relates to jingjing’s „lost“.

**tabi**

but

**hilang**

lost, disappeared, dead

**chia lat**

difficult

**boh chiak buay lia**
lah

can’t stop not understanding (catching no ball)

**bakwan**

meatball

**kena makan**

is going to be eaten

## Page 127

**choy**

phrase to ward off bad luck

**hilang kuching**

lost cat

**kum pooi**

as if

**kelam kabut**

chaotic run

**kay teruk**

very tough, severe

**bak chew tak stamp**

Literally translates as "eyes have been pasted over
with a stamp", meaning to be blind

## Page 128

**dungu**

stupid

**maintain balan**

stay cool

**mai siao siao**

don't be crazy

**don’ch play-play**

don't mess around with me

**si beh**

very

**jeroroize**

nulify, make something zero

**eksi borak**

be arrogant

## Page 129

**si peh, si beh**

very

## Page 130

**rojak**

messy, eclectic mixture

**alamak**

exclamation of surprise, Mother of God!

**bukit**

hill

**oxeyes**

a yellow-flowered North American plant of the daisy family.

**sutras**

a Sanskrit word that means "string"
or "thread". In Indian literary traditions, it also refers to an
aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly,
a condensed manual or text.

**siao**

crazy

## Page 131

**suka**

have pleasure, delights

**cabut**

flee

**tanjong pagar**

a historic district located within the
Central Business District in Singapore

**deepavali**

Diwali or Deepavali is the Hindu festival of
lights celebrated every year in autumn in the northern hemisphere (spring in
southern hemisphere)

Diwali or Sanskrit dīpāvali means
"series of lights",and is derived from dīpam "light, lamp"
and oli "glow of light". Diwali is also known as dīpotsavam
"festival of lights"

## Page 132

**You**
will be called upon...

TFv4 p. 778

**strange word**

Entanglement

**chinese**

"Finally changed hands<given up?>, but the responsibility is so heavy, the result is <often> unexpected and dangerous"

**tapi**

but

**siong**

difficult

**si beh**

very

**khia-khia**

to fear, to be afraid, to be terrified

**whole jin gang**

everyone

**heng**

lucky

**blue crumbs**

probably suggesting we get better translation in the future

## Page 134

**chia’h kuay kuay**

achieving a crushing victory ("to eat over and over")

**mabok**

drunk, intoxicated

**hilang**

lost, disappear

## Page 136

**kena makan**

got eaten

**tapi**

but

**si beh**

very

**hilang ngeow**

lost cat

**boh**

no

**chari**

look, search

**kucing kurap**

useless, worthless („stray cat“)

## Pages 140-141

**ENTR’ACTE 1 – yarrows**

Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow /ˈjæroʊ/ or
common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae

Yarrow are also called:

allheal, angel flower, bad man's plaything, bloodwort, cammock, carpenter's
weed, devil's nettle, devil's plaything, dog daisy, gordoloba, green
arrow, herbe militaris, hierba de las cortadura, knight's milfoil,
milfoil, nosebleed, old man's (the devil's) mustard, old man's pepper, plumajillo, sanguinary, soldier's
woundwort, squirrel's taile, stanchgrass, stanchweed, thousand-leaf,
thousand weed, woundwort, yarroway

**hebrew**

And about love, achilleas?
 Achilles knew you to blood,
 thousand leaves won't know us