TFv03 CH 17 cannibal stones (annotated)

Annotations for cannibal stones from Honeysuckle & Pain.

## Page 430

***Big Data***

Big Data - "Dangerous (feat. Joywave)"

On the irresistibly catchy
“Dangerous,” Armbruster laments about the data mongers who are “listening”; monitoring our every traceable move, compiling data on our preferences, our
private exchanges, our secret lives increasingly lived in the blue glow of a
screen. Apparently, Wilkis’ answer to his feeling of being eavesdropped-on is
to really give ’em something to listen to.

## Page 431

**chiak tsua**

goof off or skive (literaly "to eat snake")

**mr. self serve snooze**

selfdestruct?

**pang chui lao**

Forget about it! ("let the water flow")

**casting no-head no-tail**

shadow casted by cat in museum is
not here

**take you go market and sell**

The classic Singapore threat
to children. "If you don'ch stop making noise, ah, I tomorrow take you go
market and sell!"

slavery allusion?

## Page 432

**arbo**

of course/and then

**kena pang puay kee**

was stood up, *Hokkien for*
"Fly Aeroplane",  a phrase of unknown derivation describing
being stood up

Fly Aeroplane –like the one on the cover

## Page 433

**double-boiling bird's nest**

Double steaming, sometimes called double boiling, is a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate food such as bird's nest soup and shark fin soup. The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar and the jar is then steamed for several hours. This technique ensures there is no loss of liquid or moisture (its essences) from the food being cooked, hence it is often used with expensive ingredients like Chinese herbal medicines.

**rock sugar**

Rock candy (also called *rock
sugar*) is a type of confection composed of relatively large
sugar crystals

**scarlet green dress**

scarlett (O Hara's) green dress (Curtain Dress) from Gone With the Wind?

**mai**

don’t

**poon**

even

**tup pai**

always

**tan ku ku**

forget about it

**sekarang**

now

**alamak**

Mother of God

**siao liao**

already gone crazy

**mai tu liao**

not dilly-dally anymore

## Page 434

**si beh**

very, extremely

**pui chao nuah**

not satisfied,
angry (literally „spit smelly spittle“)

**kway**

ricecake, chicken, prostitute

**mah si**

? si – dead, die

**murukku**

Indian snack shaped like spiral

**maintain balan**

stay cool, steady

**kim tang tang**

very rich or
opulently dressed. Literally, "dripping with gold"

## Page 435

**bising**

noisy

**semen**

unfortunate common mispronunciation of “cement”

**stunned like vegetable**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9\_lyJt2T3GY

You're welcome.

**lau**

lau jerry

**lao sai**

dribble
shit, diarhea

**pang jio**

pee

**card**

a credit card

**ooh lui ooo song**

Got
money, got satisfaction

**potong**

cut off, castrate, amputate

**potong ice cream**

rectangular popsicles that are cut into
portions from a bigger block

**attap chee**

immature fruits of nipa palms, sweet,
translucent, gelatinous balls used as a dessert ingredient

**dhoby ghaut**

a place in Singapore that often refers to the
Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station, a major interchange station on Singapore's Mass Rapid
Transit network. As a place, Dhoby Ghaut lies along the eastern end of Orchard
Road. There is a shopping mall above the MRT station called Plaza Singapura

**punggol**

residential town in the North-East Region of
Singapore

**serangoon**

residential town located in the
North-East Region of Singapore

**swee swee**

pretty

## Page 436

**yau zha guai**

a ghost, spectre, oil-fried
devil

**Mazda Capella**

is a mid-size car that was manufactured by Mazda from 1970 to 2002

**Apricot stone**

is another name for the seed of an apricot

**grandfudder road**

to drive like you own the road, motorist whose vehicle
overlaps the traffic
lane used by another
motorist (your grandfather’s road)

**Kampong Lorong Buangkok**

village located in Buangkok in the
town of Hougang in Singapore, looks poor from google images

## Page 437

**surau**

Islamic assembly building in some regions of Sumatra
and the Malay Peninsula used for worship and religious instruction

**cartoon**

silly, funny

## Page 438

**heng**

lucky

**tua**

big

**jalan-jalan**

stroll, walk about

**kampong**

the village

**polar cafe**

a puffs and cakes cafe in singapore

## Page 439

**punggol**

residential town in the North-East Region of Singapore

**swee swee boh kay chwee**

perfect
("beautiful and not diluted with water")

**hantu ayer**

 spirit of the waters,
demonic ancestral spirit in Malay folklore (there are many hantus)

**ah chek**

"Uncle", a generic name used to address an older
man

**ah mm**

old woman

## Page 440

**kena arrow**

to be tasked with
something

**suka-suka**

happiness, pleasure,
delight

**hojo kempei**

The Kempeitai was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945. It was not a conventional military police, but more of a secret police. The Kempeitai ran extensive criminal and collaborationist networks, extorting vast amounts of money from businesses and civilians wherever they operated. They also ran the Allied prisoner of war system, which often treated captives with extreme brutality. Many of the abuses were documented in Japanese war crimes trials, such as those committed by the Kempeitai East District Branch in Singapore.

The plague refers to The Sook Ching (meaning "purge through cleansing") a systematic purge of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore by the Japanese military during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Malaya, after the British colony surrendered on 15 February 1942 following the Battle of Singapore. The massacre took place from 18 February to 4 March 1942 at various places in the region. The operation was overseen by the Kempeitai secret police and subsequently extended to include the Chinese population in Malaya. The majority of Singaporean Chinese were Hokkien people. Punggol beach was one of the massacre sites: The Punggol Beach Massacre saw about 300 to 400 Chinese shot on 28 February 1942 by the Hojo Kempei firing squad. The victims were some of the 1,000 Chinese men detained by the Japanese after a door-to-door search along Upper Serangoon Road. Several of these had tattoos, a sign that they might be triad members.

## Page 441

**blind**

Tag for Volume 3: *Wherein the cat is blind*. Is tian li trying to connect with the cat via the ghosts of the dead people?

## Page 442

**mah si**

? si – dead, die

**lao yah pok**

crappy, useless

**tup pai**

always

**spersper**

? whisper?

**sapu**

steal

**balik**

return to (home)

**si beh sian**

very
bored, empty, frustrated

**sewer serpent**

civil servant

**kong sar kong si**

talk idly ("Talk three talk four")

## Page 443

**bomoh**

malay medicine man

**sinseh**

similar to bomoh, a healer

more on bomoh see link

**hantu bankit**

("Rising Ghost") is a Hantu from Malay demonology that looks like a person under a long winding sheet, but it cannot walk because its sheet is too tightly wrapped around its body. It is seen in cemeteries. To avoid being attacked by this demonic ghost, simply do not get within its reach. Sources: Endicott, *Analysis of Malay Magic*, 74-5; McHugh, *Hantu Hantu*, 124; Osman, *Malaysian World-View*, 116, 117; Wilkinson, *Malay Beliefs*, 23

**hantu**

ghost

**frangipani**

plumeria, flowering plant

**seow char bor**

crazy woman

**hantu batu**

stone throwing spirit, Malay equivalent of a poltergeist

more on hantus: link

## Page 444

**buai tazai**

buai tzai – not calm, unsteady

## Page 446

**pecah**

to break, broken

**boh chee**

have no balls

**poon**

even

splash-lizard

a creature shaking loose brown water he saw before on pg 438

**monitor overgrown**

Perhaps Splash-Lizard looks like an overgrown Monitor lizard?

## Page 447

**Metatron**

("one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and
fixer of boundaries", "a measurer“) an archangel in Judaism and
ʾIslām and known in Judaism as the Recording Angel or the Chancellor of Heaven

**kwai lan kia**

troublemaking child

**kishimojin**

Hārītī, also known as Kishimojin, is both a
revered goddess and demon in some Buddhist traditions. In her positive aspect,
she is regarded for the protection of children, easy delivery and happy child
rearing while her negative aspects include the belief of her terror towards
irresponsible parents and unruly children

## Page 448

**he-li-di**

hariti, see above

**sorry no cure**

phrase used to express indignation at an inadequate attempt at an apology

**sarawak laksa**

Malaysian noodle dish

**Rendang**

a spicy meat dish

**cendol worms**

not real worms, but worm like rice

**Pinecone fishes**

are small and unusual beryciform marine fish
of the family Monocentridae

## Page 450

**hitam**

black

## Page 451

**hilang**

disappear, lost, dead

**kuah**

? see, look at?

**chao kang**

mean, nasty

## Page 452

**mai**

don’t, not

**makan**

eat, swallow

**tahan**

endure, withstand, tolerate

**he is not of these words**

evokes John 18:36 - Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now, My kingdom is not of this realm."

## Page 453

**⠮*One day you will find your voice.* ⠝**

Mark Z. Danielewski's twitter info: Here you will not find your voice . . .

**presume a place where you were long ago forbidden**

paradise?

## Page 457

**hilang**

 disappear, lost