Whoa!!! No update this week???

As expected, the holiday season, coupled with my trip to Southeast Asia (where I'm writing this) has derailed my schedule somewhat. I'm still working on the art for the last couple of pages of "The Disappeared", while beginning the script for the next Twilight Lady story (in the midst of getting over my jet lag from a near 20-hour flight).

So things are progressing slower than normal, and the next Twilight Lady update won't be available for another week. But... expect normal service to resume when I return to the US in February.

Hey, my run of updating without fail for 34 consecutive Sundays was nice while it lasted, wasn't it?

Comments/feedback/suggestions are welcome, as always...

Singlish... guaranteed never to go extinct

In case you were wondering where Lianmei's speech pattern comes from, here's a quick quote from the Wikipedia entry on Singlish:

"The vocabulary of Singlish consists of words originating from English, Malay (mainly Bahasa Melayu rather than Indonesian), Hokkien, Cantonese, and to a lesser extent various other Indic and Sinitic languages, while Singlish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese. Also, elements of American and Australian slang have come through from imported television series. To date, other Asian languages like Japanese, Korean and other lesser known Chinese dialects such as Shanghainese have also been incorporated into Singlish."

It's interesting that Singlish is referred to here as a creole language - a "stable language that originates seemingly as a 'new' language, sometimes with features that are not inherited from any apparent source, without however qualifying in any appreciable way as a mixed language".