THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST, SPEAK TO ALL WHO LISTEN...
My mother is quite psychic. At least, we believe so in our family. I, myself have never seen a ghost but let me relate what happened once when I was a child. I remember I was about eight years old and my sister was 10. We were sitting out in the swing in the evening. …
I was living in one of those SIT flats in Kim Keat Avenue. During my pre-university days, I would study late into the night in the tiny kitchen. There were only two bedrooms in those flats and as they were occupied by my brothers and sisters and mother, i didn’t want to disturb them by …
In a corner of the corridor backstage of a local theatre, where the actor’s changing rooms are, there is a tiny, almost unnoticeable, little porcelain idol. I’ll tell you why it is there. I was acting in a play in the theatre and was dead tired by the end of an unusually long run of …
I had a friend who died in a motorcycle accident. Poor thing, she was very close to the family. She was riding pillion on her boyfriend’s motorcycle when it happened. He suffered serious injuries and was in the hospital for a long time, but she was buried the same day of the accident. Her mother …
My great-grandmother told my mother this story to make the point when my mother was a small girl that she shouldn’t accept things from strangers One day, when my great-grandma was grinding chilli on a large grindstone in the courtyard of the house, which was quite open, she was approached by this mendicant medicine man. …
My girlfriend and I were studying together in the Union room (of one of the education institutions here) late one night. I had a key to the room because I was a member of the union and we were mugging because she was a student there like me and the exams were coming up. Most …
I was sitting with my elder brother on the back porch of our semi-detached house one evening. We have a lot of banana trees in the back. There was a wind blowing and the trees were rustling very loudly. Suddenly, my brother, without looking at me, said, “K, go inside.” I was about 16 years …
Many years ago, I gave birth to my seventh child and was in the government hospital, in bed resting. One night, I was in a bed in the far corner of a room. The lights had been turned off after we had all been told to go to sleep. I was just dozing off when …
I used to live with another girl in a house in Chancery Lane. There was actually a third party living there. One that didn’t pay rent and never even showed its face. I never told my friend, and I don’t think she ever knew, which was better for her. This thing i am talking about …
When I was a small boy, so I am told, there was an incident that affected me directly. My grandmother was bringing me back home quite late at night after visiting a relative’s place, when suddenly there was a strong and unusual rustling in the branch of a tree ahead of us. No one else …