creep

i slept the whole day away. it's terrible. i felt like i've wasted A LOT of time. and worse off, because i've slept too much, i now feel abit sick.

and sleeping too much, also makes one moody and depressed from being in all day.

my laugh quota has not been met today. and i am down.

the other day, when the little kid visited, we had a talk about the supernatural. her mother, apparently, can see dead people. but she's pretty ok about it, so it seems, until she went to europe and she got very frightened. she said, those in europe dont look the same as those in our region. they looked more tortured, and they were everywhere on the streets.

in any case, the topic came about when we suggested to bring her daughter to sentosa to play on the beach and build sandcastles and stuff. but she shook her head and said that i will never bring my daughter to sentosa, especially palawan beach. she described them to be everywhere, all over the beach. when she reached the beach she got a shock to see so many just roaming about. but she wouldnt mind letting her daughter play on East Coast Beach.

so what do those that she sees look like? either shadows, or like human beings she says. they can look just like you and i, she says, but somehow you know that they are not alive. infact, they appear to be slightly transluscent.

the closest scare? she woke up in a hotel in korea to see a middle aged lady sitting on her bed next to her looking down on her. she looked at the lady, and went back to sleep. she grew up with this "sight" and so she's quite used to it. she thought the lady was harmless...and described her to "not be the 'fierce' kind".

the scariest scare? she was sleeping in her mother's place and suddenly a dark colored hand with long nails whipped out from under the bed and caught her arm. she shut her eyes, refusing to open them to see the owner of the hand, and eventually fell asleep. and the next morning, she had claw mark bruises on her arm.

she also talked bout how when she met another one of my sister's friends, she kept spotting a gray shadow behind her every once in a while. on one of the two occasions she sent this friend home, she saw the house in which this friend stayed in, and noticed that it was very "dark".

and then, on the second occasion when she managed to go into the house, she described the house to be very "dark", and she saw a shadow walking into one of the bedrooms. very dark very dark. she told this friend in the end "eh...ur house ... err...very ... err...weird right?"

then thats when she found out , a taoist priest had said to this friend that her house is the site for the gateway to hell, and the entrance is in one of the bedrooms.

freaky huh?

do you see babies, we asked her...she said no. but i see children occassionally. most are ok, u dont bother them they wont bother u. occasionally will meet the "fierce" ones. those are the ones who died tragically...like murder or something. then, when she sees them, do they converse with each other? "no, come to think of it, i've never seen them talk to each other" she says.

now my sister's friend, the one with the sight, is a christian. and she said, her sightings became more pronounced after she converted to christianity. so she asked her pastor, why, why do these people linger, and neither go heaven or hell? the pastor says, it depends on how u look at it, there are demons too. maybe u're supposed to use this gift to help others, or maybe, once u converted, they (the spirits evil etc) feel like they have lost their power over you, and so they show themselves more often so as to scare you back into their hold. but the impt thing is, they cant bother u, she keeps saying, at the most "they will ya-wo (press me). but i believe that they will never be able to enter me, as long as i do not let them."

i think i've heard before that christians don't believe in ghosts. but we were talking, it seems like the catholics have these belief that there is a plane, on which, spirits linger until heaven decides what to do with them. they just stay in this plane until they are judged. maybe my catholic friends can shed some light on this eh.

so came the question, why did God give her this gift (or curse) ??

well i think, it's so that we appreciate life. to know that there is an existence of an after life, would therefore make life more fleeting, more emphemeral (or how to spell?). it's a short space in time in the physical world, and an eternity in the spiritual world. wouldnt u appreciate life more?

so after the whole scary story thing, what did i do? i went for a drive to dark dark places to scare myself. maybe thats why today so shacked out. :S