TFv05 CH 20 dot dot dot (annotated)

Annotations for dot dot dot of Redwood.

**quote**

from the
song Drone Bomb Me. This track is a direct response to drone warfare and
terrorism. Anohni spoke about the song when it premiered on BBC radio:

It’s a love song from the perspective of a
girl in Afghanistan,
say a 9-year-old girl whose family’s been killed by a drone bomb. She is kind
of looking up at the sky and she’s gotten herself to a place where she just
wants to be killed by a drone bomb too.

longer quote>

I have a glint in my eye, I think I wanna die

I wanna die

I wanna be the apple of your eye

## Page 530

**tombalek**

opposite,
upside down

**ai si**

"want
to die". Courting disaster.

**mai**

don’t

**boh lang ni**

useless

## Page 531

**hwuy**

bright

**kum lan**

stupid

**slaykay**

sloppy

**lau**

old

## Pages 532-533

**Deinos, Lampon, Xanthos, Podargos**

Mares of Diomedesm also called the Mares of Thrace, were
man-eating horses in Greek mythology. Magnificent, wild, and uncontrollable,
they belonged to Diomedes, king of Thrace, son of Ares and Cyrene who lived on
the shores of the Black Sea. Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse, was said
to be descended from these mares.

After capturing the Cretan bull, Heracles was to steal the
Mares. In one version of the story, Heracles brought a number of youths to help
him. They took the mares and were chased by Diomedes and his men.

Heracles was not aware that the horses, called Podargos (the
swift), Lampon (the shining), Xanthos (the yellow) and Deinos (the terrible),
were kept tethered to a bronze manger because they were wild; their madness
being attributed to an unnatural diet of human flesh. Some versions say that
they expelled fire when they breathed. They were man-eating and uncontrollable,
and Heracles left his favoured companion, Abderus, in charge of them while he
fought Diomedes, and found out that the boy was eaten. In revenge, Heracles fed
Diomedes to his own horses.

## Page 534

**kia si lang**

scared

**five stones**

a traditional game in Singapore. See video about how to play
it. Not sure how jingjing did it with cards...

**chiak tsua**

goof off ("to eat snake")

**mati**

die, be doomed

**beh keng**

scripture, cannon (literaly horse
bible, horseracing manual)

**majing**

? magic?

**suay-suay**

catastrophe

**boh beh chow**

so exceptionally good that there's no competition (literally "no horse running")

**makan**

eat, swallow

**how seow**

nonsense („sperm“)

**sian tao ong**

King of the Bullshitters

**goreng**

winging your way around
a situation („fry”)
- Customer damn tough la, so I goreng goreng
him until he give me deposit liao.

**boh lui**

no money

**salah**

wrong

**hong kan**

asking for it

**liao**

finished

**kum pooi**

as if!

## Page 535

**chio bu**

pretty woman

**ai si**

Courting disaster ("want to die")

**jaga**

vigilant

**kang kor**

troublesome

**lepaking**

aimlessly loitering or loafing around

**chua**

breathe heavily

## Page 537

**cheng**

clear

**boh tai ji**

no problem

**hantam rosak**

hit (the)
damaged/spoiled

**mong cha cha**

confused, disoriented

## Page 538

**bo min**

humiliated

**malumalu**

Embarrassing

**chia lat**

difficult

**chinese**

entanglement

## Page 539

**kao peh kao bu**

quarrel with one’s father and mother

## Page 540

**tia boh**

hear no. Spoken by the mentally retarded

**arbo**

of course, duh

## Page 541

**juang lah**

whatever

**kuat**

brave

**arbuthen**

of course

**blur like sotong**

someone totally in the dark as to what goes on

**wayang**

puppet

**chao**

smelly

## Page 543

**beh puas**

not
satisfied

**kwai lan kia**

malicious, irritant
person

**argly**

ugly

**siong**

difficult

## Page 544

**sial lah!**

Exclamation
of surprise or disbelief

**aiyah**

An exclamation of consternation, despair, dismay

## Page 545

**tu lan**

frustrated

**Two rules and one challenge. . .**

Danielewski tweeted this long, long time ago

**kena arrow**

got a task

**ah mm**

auntie

**meh**

A Singlish tag which accompanies questions. Adds a
slight tone of incredulity

## Page 546

**horrijiber**

horrible

**k.l.k.**

troublemaking child

**juang lah**

whatever

Page 548

**toot cartoon**

uncool and
silly

## Page 549

**buay**

not

**kwai lan kia**

malicious, irritant
person

## Page 550

**boh tau bo buay**

incomprehensible ("no head no tail")

**cham**

pitifully disastrous

## Page 551

**boh nang ai**

useless

**how seow**

nonsense

**tiam lah**

quiet

**ka ni na**

fuck you / fucking

**si liao**

finished

**heng**

lucky

**lao chio**

pretty older woman

## Page 552

**pui chao nuah**

being
extremely fed up

**bodoh**

stupid

**kau**

woo and
pursue

**kuat**

brave

## Page 554

**kum gong**

stupid

**kau**

woo and pursue

**boh chup**

Nonchalant

## Page 556

**huat sio**

crazy

**kena arrow**

got a task

**sui-sui**

neat

**hum pah lang**

everything

## Page 557

**kiam chye**

crumpled
and messy

**sabo**

sabotage

**ai si**

"want
to die". Courting disaster.

**si beh**

very

**tum sim k.l.k.**

greedy trublesome child

**hilang**

lost, disappeared

**gui**

devil

**buay tahan**

cannot
endure

**sabu**

grab

## Page 558

**sibeh pek chek**

very frustrated

**kiu kiu kio**

make a lot
of noise

**ah nia**

beautiful

**siong**

difficult, fierce

**stone**

stunned

**mong cha cha**

confused, disoriented

## Page 560

**jaga**

vigilant

**sibeh**

very

**whole jin gang**

everyone

**tzai si**

To know
death. Opposite of mm tzai si: ignorant of death, audacious

**sian**

weary, empty

## Page 561

**pow ka leow**

all-encompassing

**chio kao peng**

to laugh until one falls down

**liao**

finished

## Page 562

**leh**

adds a
slightly quizzical tone to the sentence

**tak jalan**

ignore,
turn down

**mai**

don't

**gao ding**

settled, finished

**tombalek**

inverted; turned upside down

## Page 563

**how seow**

nonsense

**tan ku ku**

forget about it

**all the claims of midnight**

evokes All the lights of midnight, a short story by Danielewski

**anon**

 soon, shortly

## Page 565

**sibeh hao lian**

very
arrogant

**lagi**

also

## Page 566

**kum pooi**

as if!

**kan ni na**

fucking

**mah fan**

bothersome

**heong**

strong, fierce

## Page 567

**no spee-yak**

dumbfounded or flabbergasted, has nothing to say

**lagi**

also

**kena qie**

undergoing something difficult or onerous, such as losing a game

**kucing kurap**

insignificant, incompetent

**kebelakang pusing**

turn around
and flee

**cabut**

flee

**sapu**

grab

**gasak buta**

grab things
in a gluttonous, indiscriminate manner

## Page 570

**got licence**

allowed to

## Page 571

**luan luan lai**

To do
things recklessly or without a plan