The Lift Is Out Again
The block's only lift fails on a Sunday, and Encik Rahman, the retired postman on the ground floor, organises the carrying of groceries, a sewing machine and one very old aunty up eleven floors.
One Durian, Three Balconies
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One Durian, Three Balconies
A complete story. Farah, the student who moved in with one suitcase and a rice cooker, is given an entire durian by Mak Cik Lim as thanks for the stairs. She has never opened one. The smell reaches the eighth floor within minutes and the seventh soon after, and by evening three balconies are involved in what becomes, accidentally, a dinner.
- Opening a durian with a butter knife, badly
- The laundry sisters and the right way to do it
- A neighbour who complains and then stays
- Running time about 24 minutes
Next week: Encik Rahman learns to send a voice note.
Transcript
Hello, and welcome back to Small Flat, Loud Kettle. I am Nurul Izzati Rahman. One quiet story every week from an old apartment block in Cheras, no cliffhangers, no villains, just neighbours. Tonight's story is called One Durian, Three Balconies. Farah, the student on the ninth floor, the one with the single suitcase and the rice cooker, has been given a whole durian by Mak Cik Lim as a thank-you for last Sunday's stairs. Farah has never opened a durian in her life. She has a butter knife. The smell reaches the eighth floor in about four minutes, and the seventh not long after, and by evening three balconies are involved in what becomes, by accident, a dinner. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Mind the spikes.
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