TFv04 CH 11 changi! (annotated)

Annotations for changi! of Hades.

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**picture**

Anwar/Sam Astair/Hailey colors

**Master Zhuang**

Zhuang
Zhou, often known as Zhuangzi ("Master Zhuang"), was an influential
Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC.

"This epigraph is from the famous Chinese philosopher Master Zhuang,
but I think MZD got it from a book titled “A Chinese Bestiary: Strange
Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas”. The following
is from the introduction and sounds a lot like MZD during interviews:

 People who read the “Guideways Through Mountains and Seas” today all
suspect it because of its exaggerations and absurdly extravagant claims
and because of its many strange and fanciful expressions. I have often
discussed this by quoting Master Zhuang who said “What people know is
inferior to what they do not know”. I have certainly seen this in the
case of the Guideways. For how can one completely describe the vastness
of the universe, the abundant forms of life, the benevolent sustenance
of yin and yang, the myriad distinctions between things, the admixture
of essences bubbling over in conflict, wandering souls and strange
divinities who take on form, migrate to mountains and rivers, and adopt
beautiful appearances as trees and rocks? Yet,

 Coordinating their diverse tendencies
 They resonate as a single echo:
 Perfecting their transformations,
 They blend into one image.

 People call some things “strange” yet they know not why they call them
so; they call some things “familiar”, yet they know not why either. What
 is the reason behind this? The thing is not strange in itself; it
depends on me to make it strange. It is from this “me” that its
strangeness results: it is not the thing that is fundamentally strange."

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**chia lat**

terrible, or cannot make it, difficult

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**lagi mong cha cha**

too confused, disoriented

**chiong**

rush, hurry up

**bak chew tak stamp**

blind ("eyes
have been pasted over with a stamp")

**macam**

like

**kenging**

malinger, faking

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**por**

carry

**cha pah lang**

everything

arrow

delegate somebody to perform a task. Generally used only if the task is unpleasant or boring.

**gorblock**

idiot

**chop chop kali pok**

being in a hurry

**kena pang puay kee**

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

**kay shack**

very tired

**boh pian tapi**

can’t do anything about it, but

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**tua liap**

big round ones (eyes, breasts, testicles…)

**hilang**

disappear, lost, dead

**mati**

woman

**ming**

? chinese word ming means name

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**terbalik**

upside down” or “inside out”. Sometimes used to mean
a reversal

**kway**

rice cake

**selling backside**

While it literally alludes to prostituting oneself, it is used in conjunction with any
instance when one has to contend with hardship.

**fish**

Popular euphemism for "fuck"

**orbi good**

term which
is used to to express that someone deserves his current predicament

**buskok**

busok - "smelly"
or "rotten", being a cheat or playing dirty

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**chinese**

Where is the necklace?

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**lagi huat sio**

too crazy

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**chinese**

Go back! You must go back!

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**chinese**

Do not take off, Jing. To me, promise to me.

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**do’wan**

Don't Want

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**cabut**

flee

**sian jit pua**

very boring

## Page 275

**Oiwa**

Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya
Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most
famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30
times, and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today. Oiwa appears
as a ghost (Wikipedia)

**Otsuyu**

Botan Dōrō is a Japanese ghost story (kaidan) that is both
romantic and horrific; it is one of the most famous kaidan in Japan. The plot
involves sex with the dead and the consequences of loving a ghost. Otsuyu
is the ghost of a dead woman (Wikipedia)

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**chor**

crude, hard, demanding

**ha na**

enough

**habis**

finished or end

**shiok**

awesome, great

**chik ak**

1.“what a pity!” 2. a verb that means to build bad karma, i.e.
to do something that will return and haunt you

**zhong**

bell

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**okiku**

another ghost. From Banchō Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷 The Dish Mansion at Banchō), a
Japanese ghost story (kaidan) of broken trust and broken promises, leading to a
dismal fate. Once there was a beautiful servant named Okiku. She worked for the
samurai Aoyama Tessan. Okiku often refused his amorous advances, so he tricked
her into believing that she had carelessly lost one of the family's ten
precious delft plates. Such a crime would normally result in her death. In a
frenzy, she counted and recounted the nine plates many times. However, she
could not find the tenth and went to Aoyama in guilty tears. The samurai
offered to overlook the matter if she finally became his lover, but again she
refused. Enraged, Aoyama threw her down a well to her death.

It is said
that Okiku became a vengeful spirit (Onryō) who tormented her murderer by
counting to nine and then making a terrible shriek to represent the missing
tenth plate – or perhaps she had tormented herself and was still trying to find
the tenth plate but cried out in agony when she never could. (Wikipedia)

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**sapu**

grab, steal

**lagi**

too

**siong**

fierce, difficult

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**tsao like siao**

run like
crazy

## Page 283

**cower power**

t's only natural to cower in the face of danger. As such, many a classic Distressed
Damsel and fearful child will cower behind the nearest Love Interest, parent,
or Big Damn Heroes when presented with peril (TV Tropes)

**eeps**

A short scream or yelp

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**koon**

fall asleep

## Page 288

**niu che shui**

Chinatown in Singapore

**seri**

? The Seris are an indigenous group of the Mexican state of
Sonora

**Serangoon**

town situated in the central-eastern part of the city-state
of Singapore

**Smith Street**

a small street running through the heart of the Chinatown
district in Singapore. A local joke has it that the road got its English name
when the British asked Chinese locals the name of the road, they given clueless
answers "See mee?" (Hokkien for What?) as they could not understand
English. Thus they duly recorded the name as "Smith" instead

**talk 3 talk 4**

from the
Hokkien "Kong Sar Kong Si", to chitchat or indulge in idle talk.

**kong sar kong si**

talk idly

**iblis**

In Islam,
the devil is called Shayṭān, and refers to all evil forces under leadership of
the archdevil known as Iblīs, who was cast out of heaven, after he refused to
prostrate before Adam (Wikipedia)

**lamia**

In ancient
Greek mythology, Lamia (/ˈleɪmiə/; Greek: Λάμια)
was a beautiful queen of Libya
who became a child-eating daemon. (Wikipedia)

**oso balu**

also recently

**pawang**

A pawang is
a type of shaman from Malaysia
and Indonesia.
The pawang deals with magic involving weather, wild animals and spirits, but
they may also be employed for cases of sorcery. Pawang are usually associated
with rivers in contrast to the traditional healers (dukun or bomoh) who are
most often linked to mountains (Wikipedia)

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**tor hwee**

"vomit blood", an expression for extreme
difficulty, intense suffering, or great irritation

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**tapi**

but,
however

**karung guni**

cart (Wikipedia)

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**muka sadin**

poker face

**alamak**

surprise, Mother of God

**hor**

oh!

**berak**

to shit

**lao sai**

diarrhea

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**chinese**

Here!

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**chinese**

She's here!

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**chinese**

She? Who is she?

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**chinese**

?

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**chinese**

?

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**chinese**

He? The cat?