Ban Chua Gan, otherwise the slum known as Do It Yourself Happy Homes
"It has been two daysŃno, threeŃwithout sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets from sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in her hut, Jacky is crashing hard, and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates that sponging little punk for all the tablets he smoked a few hours agoŃtablets she could be smoking right now. Back then, she had a dozen tablets packed into a plastic soda straw stuffed down her black wire-frame bra. The hut was alive with the chatter of half a dozen speed addicts, all pulling apart their Krong Tip packs and sucking in meth smoke through metal pipes. Now that the pills are gone, the fun is gone. And Bing, of course, he's long gone."
—Canoe. Speed, called yaba by Thais, shabu in Japan and Indonesia, batu in the Philippines, and bingdu in China, each name referring to methamphetamines, is on the tail end of ripping its way through Asia.'
