Paranormal Activities...

This post was supposed to be published on Friday, 22 January, 2010.

Went to watch Paranormal Activities the other day at Summit USJ, along with Nic and 2 of my colleagues, Dal and Joan. Dal had seen the movie before, and kept insisting that it's a 'must see' for anyone as interested in supernatural entities as myself. So we met up one evening when all of us weren't working, and watched the movie together (scary movies should never be watched alone). XD

If you haven't seen this movie yet, my recommendation is: Watch it! 

90% of the movie was shown through the lens of a home videocam ala The Blair Witch Project style. However, it wasn't quite as jerky or nauseating. To me anyway. It was also seemed to be in rather low quality, home movie style...because that's what it was supposed to be. The buildup of the movie was slow at first, introducing the main characters, showing how they interacted with each other, and giving a short history of how the female protagonist first encountered this demon that was following her. The most interesting thing to see was their bedroom door moving on its own in the middle of the night and her boyfriend being a total ass.

However, things really started picking up later on, and the slow pace of the movie is justified. She gets up in the middle of the night to stand beside the bed staring at her boyfriend for an hour or so, then goes outside on her own and sits for (presumably) another few hours despite the cold. And though this is all caught on tape, she doesn't remember a single thing. Then the glass from a photo frame containing their photo is broken, with scratches across the boyfriend's face, on the inside of the shards of glass which still cling to the frame. The girl even feels the thing breathing on her, and when the camera pans to include her in the frame, we can see a lock of her hair moving on its own as if blown by something, which causes her to finally break and run downstairs.

There are other things which occur, but I won't spoil the movie for you by revealing it here just in case you haven't watched the movie yet. But trust me, the ending is the best part. Muahahahahahaha.....

Ghost stories....

This post was supposed to be published on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

I had a field day with my colleagues during night shift yesterday because we started telling each other ghost stories. I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ghost stories. I'm absolutely fascinated by the supernatural. Of course this totally contradicts with the fact that I would like nothing more than to stay as far away from 'them' as possible.

*Warning: Do NOT continue reading if you're a scaredy cat. I do not want to be responsible for you having sleepness nights, nightmares, or seeing/hearing imaginary things that are not there.*

We discussed second and third-hand eyewitness accounts about spirits seen and 'smelled' around our office. There have been stories of people hearing their names called from just outside the ladies washroom in the middle of the night. The voice will sound like another colleague's voice, however upon being questioned, that colleague would deny ever leaving the office. (That happened to me once when I was new - a friend had heard me calling her name from outside the toilet, but I had been at my desk the entire time). Another person had passed a middle aged lady wearing a 'tudung' (a headscarf worn by Malay women) who was entering the washroom while she was exiting it. The person stopped to chat with a friend just outside the washroom, and shortly after, decided to go back into the washroom (I have no idea why, women just seem to love being in the washroom for some reason). However, upon entering the washroom, she found that it was empty. Anyone who has been to the washroom (which is located outside of my office) will know that there is only 1 possible entry and exit (unless you're smaller than a monkey)

After hours of entertaining each other with stories, we finally ran out of new stories to tell and moved on to searching for more stories on the internet. Two of the topics we searched about was the infamous, supposedly haunted Ria and Amber Court apartments in Genting. Though I'm far from skeptical, to be fair I've never personally visited both those places...nor do I ever intend to! Now, both these places were said to have chains on the doors of certain apartments, along with Chinese prayer paper (also called a fu) pasted in the shape of a large X. The spiritual presence in these apartments were apparently too strong and too nasty for management to allow further guests to stay in. Certain apartments even had prayer materials such as red candles and food offerings outside the door. Even with such precautions, there have been tales of dark shadows seen moving around, knockings on walls and doors in the middle of the night, sourceless voices heard, and some people have even seen these things floating mid-air outside the windows of their rented  apartment.

After listening to and reading so many stories of such occurrences, I've gotta say, its left me craving for more! LOL.If you have your own stories, be sure to leave them in the comments box!