Just learned that there was another armed robbery in our street last weekend - house just a few doors away was broken into just after 5 a.m.
I have lost count of the number of householders threatened with physical violence in home invasions in the past year within our housing area. Funny thing - I never hear about anyone getting caught.
Malaysia is becoming a very, very scary place. Our area is particularly bad because it is basically a Malay area, and Muslims won't keep dogs and don't like their neighbours having them either.
However, I am beginning to wonder about a dobermann...
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- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
2 comments:
Try a chihuahua, they make enough noise to wake everyone concerned. In fact they used to say if you had a German Shepherd (Aslatian) plus a chihuahua that was the perfect combination as the little dog would wake the big dog.
Worst came to worst, you could move to another country!! I wouldn't want to live in such a scary environment.
You could move back to Perth. Housing prices have dropped dramatically here recently.
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