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Koleksi Tamadun Pahang
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| Caged in the back seat of a heat-trapped car spearing south down the Hume Highway towards Adelaide. It's their first holiday outside of Sydney. Yellow smears of insects mashed on the windscreen, side windows rolled down and gusts of gritty wind lifting and tangling black hair into puffs of steel wool. The lingering smell of a recent puke and the odour of cracked vinyl seats. Wriggling restlessly the children whine, 'I want to go home. How much longer, Mum?' The father ignores them. His eyes squint into the glare of liquid heat and sun-baked bitumen. He hardly notices the blistered towns peeling away behind them. She cranes her neck around and spots the scatter of playing cards and plastic toys. 'It was hotter than this when we were in Pekan working for the Sultan of Pahang,' she tells them. 'We breathed in the humidity and sweat bubbled on our skin |
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