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Ignorant Kids

I was in the living room drinking my chilled bottle of water when my nose picked up a scent of cigarettes. Knowing that there was no one in the household who smoked, I looked out of the window but found no one below my block (I lived on the second storey). So the next place…
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Hotel Line

Angel: ‘I have no energy left. So many guests checked out today.’ Ray: ‘Haha. It’s over le lah. Go shower and head home. Tomorrow still need to wake up early.’ The two students on internship at one of the hotels in Sentosa was in the cafeteria, where a few other friends were next to them.…
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Deprived Helper

My maid Lati was doing the laundry when she called out to me, asking why were there holes in my underwear. I had figured out what she was talking about before I even saw what she was holding. It was a set of three underwear that I bought, that was made of sheer material over…
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Rolling In The

Girl: ‘Put lesser! You want to concuss here ah?’ The stone table next to me had two girls rolling their cigarettes and had a sheet of paper with some powder on it. They were using some plastic cards to divide the substance and scooping some into their sticks. Definitely not something I would come by…
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Language Barrier

Standing at my usual bus stop, the next bus was coming in two minutes, and the bus after was three minutes away. A small Vietnamese girl working at a massage shop behind me stood beside me and asked if I had a lighter. I had seen her a few times and out of the few…
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