Alfian Sa'at
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One of my favourite realisations provided by a student is how a “typical singaporean” character in the story 'video' likes to buy chestnuts before going to her mum’s house. In Malay, chestnuts are called “buah berangan”, berangan is to dream, daydream, it has a sense of the unattainable. So much of our lives here are whiled away, lost in dreaming for what feels unattainable because it has perhaps been made unattainable. This sense is often present in the stories.… (más)