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When is the boat arriving?

Should be here soon.

Does it really take a week to get there?

Yeah.

Does Yi Ling call you?

Who?

Yi Ling.

Why?

I thought she was always calling you.

Just sometimes.

I'm sure you know.

I know she really likes you.

Maybe you two should hook up.

I don't know if I'll ever return from Japan anyway.

What the hell are you saying?

Can't believe I got deported.

All in less than a month.

Where do you want to go now?

I don't know.

I can't go back to my old apartment anymore.

I'll just stay at your place tonight.

Too inconvenient?

Stop the car.

Stop it now.

What do you want now?

Are you seeing Yi Ling?

So in the one month I was in Japan you two got together?

You were the one who said I should see her!

Leave me alone. I'll pay you back soon.

You always say that. I've heard it so many times.

I always clean up your mess!

And how the hell are you going to find 7000 ringgit?

You should never have gone to Japan.

At least I tried.

You tried what? Look at you now.

I don't want to do the same thing everyday!

Why can't you be more practical?

You can do whatever you want if you get a college education.

I'm not like you.

I have to feed my family.

I can't rot away in class while my parents starve.

I'm not the studying type.

This country has no place for someone like me.

Why do people always cling to the belief that...

the moon is rounder in foreign countries?

Sounds more like an excuse to me.

You face the same problems wherever you are.

Just face them. Don't run.

Why are you always trying to change me?

I am who I am.

And I like the way I am now.

You can't change me. I will never change.

You refuse to change.

That's inevitable.

So is your belief that Japan would improve your life.

Lending you money to smuggle into Japan was inevitable too.

In the grand scheme of things.

We are always like this.

Never fully knowing what we are doing.

Everything is inevitable.

The May 13th racial riots.

Operation Lalang.

The murders of Shaariibuugiin Altantuya

Teoh Beng Hock.

Those burnt churches.

If I were still in Japan

I could probably see the cherry blossoms.

Petals drifting rhythmically in the air.

They they fall soundlessly.

How lovely it would have been.

I really don't want to go back to the pig farm.

Or the market.