On Saturday, while feeding Zara lunch, the old newspaper man (a man who goes from housing estate to housing estate collecting old newspaper, magazines, car batteries for recycling; and we get paid a small fee for letting him have these old items) passed by our house.<\/p>\n
Like all old newspaper men, to announce his presence, he blasted his recorded ‘advertisement’ repeatedly while driving through the residential area. It was something like this : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n For those who are interested in the scones<\/a> recipe, I’d posted it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n“Paper Lama (Malay: Old newspaper). Siu Gu Poh Jua (Hokkien: Collecting old newspaper). Sao Gao Poh-Ji (Cantonese : Collecting old newspaper). Old newspaper. Bateri Lama (Malay: Old batteries)”
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\nZara very quickly learnt up the ‘chanting’. And here’s a recording<\/a> of her chanting, with me prompting.<\/p>\n