Singapore, October 2018
Sengkang police looking for loan shark auntie with winsome smile who looks like your mom
When people think of loan sharks, they imagine tattooed burly men with a few missing teeth or scrawny drug-addled runners who have reached the end of the rope.
Now, imagine if everything you know is wrong and the loan shark is actually your mother.
So, say, when you are at work or at school, she goes around the estate and pours paint, padlocks gates and hangs pig head at debtors’ doors.
After which, she goes to Sheng Siong to buy a loaf of bread, a carton of milk, and some chicken bits because you are coming home for dinner and she is going to marinate and air fry those in an hour or two.