AUSTRALIA

Indonesia

Melbourne(We Are Here)

Singapore

My auntie’s favourite English porcelain figurine...

How did

that happen?

is lying on the marble floor of her flat, smashed into a trillion pieces.

My dad needed to go to Singapore and Indonesia for work, and Mum wanted us to go with him.

Carol and Lewis and I are making a movie.

...that no one is allowed to touch.

It's about a dog with superpowers

My mum's big sister lives in Singapore - Aunt Xui Li.

She collects cheongsam and English porcelain...…starring… Tilly!

I tried to talk her out of it because...

Whenever she sees me, she sighs,

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and says she wishes I was more Chinese

Mum promises we'll stay with Aunt Xui Li for two days only before we travel with Dad to Indonesia,

but I'm not so keen on that either.

Aunt Xui Li lives on the forty-first floor in an apartment made of windows

My mum doesn't like heights so when we're there she mostly sits in the kitchen,

but I like to press myself against the glass and pretend I'm flying across the city...

...with superdog Tilly beside me.

Dog of Steel!

Aunt Xui Li has given me a cheongsam:

‘Authentic,’ she says, ‘from the 1920s’.

When I put it on my mum and my auntie get all excited,

but it's tight and scratchy andit makes me want to roll in the dirt with Tilly. I take it off as soon as they aren't looking.

They settle down to watch tv. Brad gets on his skateboard and travels to Indonesia.

I sit on the sofa with my player.

Brad wants me to write him a new story

so I try to think of one.He hasn't been there since he was little.

His dad's friend, Adhi, drowned in the tsunami.

And his dad misses him a lot.

?

Instead, Brad says he's going to teach all the kids in Adhi's village how to skateboard,

but before he can do that...

Mum calls me and says I need to get ready to go out for dinner...

...and that I have to wear my new

scratchy itchy cheongsam.

So, before I put it back on... The little English porcelain figurine dances out onto the runway...

I take one last flight around the flat and across the city.

and before I can stop – a trillion billion pieces.

CRASH! How can I make it up to Aunt Xui Li?

Not even Tilly the Superdog can help me this time.