hope my bunkmates don't read this

as we all know, tekong is filled with ghosts and spirits of all sorts and forms. there are white shadows, black shadows, little boys, little girls, old men, old women, pontianaks, phantom soldiers, only god knows what else.

i was joking with my cousin about it. he said he was worried he wouldn't be able to sleep on the first night because his current sleeping time is around 10 in the morning. we said he could make a checklist of all the ghosts because he's gonna be seeing all of them on his first night, and then tick them off one by one.

first the little girl comes in with her grandmother. "hey that one's not sleeping!"

after a while they leave the room. "crap, he's not scared, NEXT!" and the pontianak enters to try her luck. on and on until daybreak, he'd probably meet all of them.

so anyway i was telling my mother about all the ghosts and other fun stuff, and she got slightly worried. she suggested i become a christian and go to church so that god will protect me. then she told my father to bring back some protection from china to help defend against the myriad of friends that i may encounter.

today my father came back, and he bought me a fat jade and gold buddha pendent. and it costs 3080rmb, which based on the latest exchange rate, is equivalent to 607.684sgd. fuck he's mad. i could think of a whole lot of better things to do with that money (like buying cds, he he).

when my mother said 'protection', the picture in my head was something more like a paper talisman and less like a 607 dollar buddha.

now imagine if it doesn't work...