Old Man Lim sat at his usual corner table, his eyes fixed on a cracked smartphone screen. He wasn't scrolling through news or messages. He was staring at a series of grainy YouTube thumbnails, their bright red and yellow text screaming for attention: PREDIKSI TOTO MACAU JAM 4 SORE .
To the uninitiated, these were just numbers. To Lim, they were a map. Old Man Lim sat at his usual corner
The fluorescent lights of the "Sentosa Corner" cafe hummed with a low-frequency buzz that matched the nervous energy of its patrons. It was 3:50 PM in a small, humid corner of Southeast Asia, and the air smelled of burnt coffee and ambition. these were just numbers. To Lim