In the bungalow I shared with the other Assistant,I was allotted a small room(a baby's room to be correct) but with the bathroom attached.The muster bedroom was occupied by that Assistant.Of course with that arrangement I had the full used of that bathroom while he used the other rooms bathroom.Why? till today I still could not figure out why?.Stupid ain't it not so?.Boarders should not argue so they say.
What ever it was,I was not so concern about it,what bothered me most was the devilish servant he had in his employment.That wretch woman was an old Nyoya or peranakan (mixed parentage of Chinese and Malay).She looked a witch to me.Worst of all I had to share the food bill and her salary with the other Assistant.Of course it would have been a totally different story had the maid be better looking and not insane looking like that one.
Perhaps by reading the above you would classified me as bias but just read on,then you decide.That old woman was quite thin and I cannot help wondering why she looked at me with widely opened angry eyes,with red veins within seemingly red and with her shaggy white hair free flowing,she to me appeared like a ghost.When ever I returned from work she would stared straight into my eyes as if I had taken something precious from her and she wanted to devour me .
There were times that I was alone in the house and whenever she passed me she be growled at me as if I had taken something away from her.Such a ghostly witch.
That was why I was always very cautious when eating the food she cooked.Should it be prepared for both of us it was safe I think.But when the meal came in separate dish,one for her master one for me,I always bore eerie feelings about it.I was suspicious mine could have been adulterated with something bad.Take Maggie mee for example,I just closed my eyes ate only the ingredients but never drank the soup.Fortunately I am still in one piece.Anyway I stayed there for about two months or so.
One thing good was that I had to be away to my division most of the time.In any case I was these only for two months or so.That two months of horrible moments.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
A skeleton In The swamp
I was in SengKang 2 for hardly a month when the White Manager transferred me out to another division,a far interior division.There I was given another new bungalow.I had hardly warmed the bed when I was forced to surrender that bungalow to the Training Manager.From then on it was a sad,sad story whereby I was victimized by a bias,corrupted and unscrupulous White Manager.
On giving up my bungalow I had to travel daily as early as 4.30 a.m.in the morning to my new division to work.That was because I had to share residence with another Assistant in his bungalow.Every morning I was told not to start my motor-cycle but to roll it down the hill to get it started without disturbing the Manager who had his bungalow on that very hill top,while we were at the half way mark,how absurd?.Nevertheless I faithfully complied.
In my Division there was a newly planted swamp and the rubber were about a year old.It was cleared of all noxious weeds and the only weed left to eradicate were the bamboo grass.This were done by repeated spraying of weedicides over them.
That was why I had to go in there almost every morning to observe the progress of our eradication work there.One thing scary about this swamp was that it was rumoured that during clearing a human skeleton was discovered in the midst of this field.However no one claimed to know who those bones belonged to.
I was still a fresh planter therefore scared of ghosts so whenever I went there the place gave me quite an eerie feelings.Mind you those days sleeping alone in that lonely bungalow really gave me many frightening moments especially at night.Well
to be continued.
On giving up my bungalow I had to travel daily as early as 4.30 a.m.in the morning to my new division to work.That was because I had to share residence with another Assistant in his bungalow.Every morning I was told not to start my motor-cycle but to roll it down the hill to get it started without disturbing the Manager who had his bungalow on that very hill top,while we were at the half way mark,how absurd?.Nevertheless I faithfully complied.
In my Division there was a newly planted swamp and the rubber were about a year old.It was cleared of all noxious weeds and the only weed left to eradicate were the bamboo grass.This were done by repeated spraying of weedicides over them.
That was why I had to go in there almost every morning to observe the progress of our eradication work there.One thing scary about this swamp was that it was rumoured that during clearing a human skeleton was discovered in the midst of this field.However no one claimed to know who those bones belonged to.
I was still a fresh planter therefore scared of ghosts so whenever I went there the place gave me quite an eerie feelings.Mind you those days sleeping alone in that lonely bungalow really gave me many frightening moments especially at night.Well
to be continued.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
The Lonely Bungalow
In June 1966,I joined Kumpulan Guthrie Sdn.Bhd.,as its probationary assistant.There I was initially placed in charged of its Sengkang Division,Port Dickson.I was given a beautiful,large bungalow as residence.
It was a lonely bungalow far away from all other residences.A beautiful unfenced bungalow.The whole structure was raised about 2' from the ground level,so all my rooms cannot be seen from out side,only I can watched what were outside. All the rooms had bathrooms attached.An excellent house fit for my position.Only thing was I was alone especially during the night.
Being fenceless made it the more scary for a young man like me.I had little or no time to look around during my first few days.During the day there was a gardener attending to the garden.As an Assistant I was advised to secure a cook/servant to prepare my daily food and to clean the bungalow.It seem the Manager would time and again look into all these.
Fortunately the other Assistant was helpful by securing a cook for me.So I had a cook cum servant an old woman who would work during day and return to her home at night.All ths same I had to live alone especially during the night.This will be my first time staying alone all by myself.
The bungalow was large and very comfortable but being alone all the time made it spooky.A lagre house with a large compound,now how do you like that.The nights were silence except for the cries of insects,and an occasional hooting of an owl in the distant.With that the environment seemingly eerie especially during a windy rainy night.
A strong breeze would make some the windows ,creaked ,opened and closed with a huge bang.Being alone I dare not make any attempts to inspect what were making those noises nor dare I venture to close those windows properly to stop from banging away.The lights were off by ten o'clock every evening by the engine driver from the line-site a distance away.The lights will come back the next morning at five.
There some stories of ghosts going round that my bungalow was haunted,and some of the staffs apparently made it known to me that very fact.Well.I needed the job so I just cover myself with my blanket pretending not to hear those spooky and weird sounds of the night.Those ghosts I presumed,were watching me,taking notes of my every steps before they sound their attack.
Somehow I got the time to look around the bungalow and its vicinity.The compound with its flowers were okay but when I look at the well where my water was from.I got a shock of my life.It was filthy and full of dry leaves with a thin film of rust floating on its top.The water level was low and I had consumed and used those water for so many days.
I had intended to clean it before that could ever happened I was transferred out of that division to another.So there goes the lonely bungalow and those ghosts there never had the chance to make fun of me.
to be continued.
It was a lonely bungalow far away from all other residences.A beautiful unfenced bungalow.The whole structure was raised about 2' from the ground level,so all my rooms cannot be seen from out side,only I can watched what were outside. All the rooms had bathrooms attached.An excellent house fit for my position.Only thing was I was alone especially during the night.
Being fenceless made it the more scary for a young man like me.I had little or no time to look around during my first few days.During the day there was a gardener attending to the garden.As an Assistant I was advised to secure a cook/servant to prepare my daily food and to clean the bungalow.It seem the Manager would time and again look into all these.
Fortunately the other Assistant was helpful by securing a cook for me.So I had a cook cum servant an old woman who would work during day and return to her home at night.All ths same I had to live alone especially during the night.This will be my first time staying alone all by myself.
The bungalow was large and very comfortable but being alone all the time made it spooky.A lagre house with a large compound,now how do you like that.The nights were silence except for the cries of insects,and an occasional hooting of an owl in the distant.With that the environment seemingly eerie especially during a windy rainy night.
A strong breeze would make some the windows ,creaked ,opened and closed with a huge bang.Being alone I dare not make any attempts to inspect what were making those noises nor dare I venture to close those windows properly to stop from banging away.The lights were off by ten o'clock every evening by the engine driver from the line-site a distance away.The lights will come back the next morning at five.
There some stories of ghosts going round that my bungalow was haunted,and some of the staffs apparently made it known to me that very fact.Well.I needed the job so I just cover myself with my blanket pretending not to hear those spooky and weird sounds of the night.Those ghosts I presumed,were watching me,taking notes of my every steps before they sound their attack.
Somehow I got the time to look around the bungalow and its vicinity.The compound with its flowers were okay but when I look at the well where my water was from.I got a shock of my life.It was filthy and full of dry leaves with a thin film of rust floating on its top.The water level was low and I had consumed and used those water for so many days.
I had intended to clean it before that could ever happened I was transferred out of that division to another.So there goes the lonely bungalow and those ghosts there never had the chance to make fun of me.
to be continued.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
The Pressing Ghost
It was quite an experience to be pin down in bed by a ghost while in the midst of my sleep.THe pressing by it was so intensely strong that I could hardly move my limps.Actually it took me quite sometime of struggle to free my self from it clutches,
Well this happened one evening while I passed a night at the bungalow in the second Division of Bentong Estate.It was a rainy night and I was having a good sleep dspite the fact that I was sleeping in a new environment.That bungalow was situated at the far end of the housing and office area.Quite a lonely bungalow without and any close by residents.
There past midnight I was abruptly awoken by something pressing on me heavily.Although I tried struggling with my limps but to no avail I was strongly pinned down.In fright I tried to put up a struggle but no use for I could hardly pushed it away it was too strong for me to overcome..I was frightened because it was a ghost,in any case I could not see it,let alone it was pitch dark.
Fortunately it was for a few minutes only before that creature released me and disappeared.Left alone to ponder what really happened.I was pretty sure a ghost had attacked me that late evening.However fortunately that never re-occurred but that night I could hardly go back to enjoy my sleep.
It surely was a bad experience ,I never slept in that bungalow thereafter.
Well this happened one evening while I passed a night at the bungalow in the second Division of Bentong Estate.It was a rainy night and I was having a good sleep dspite the fact that I was sleeping in a new environment.That bungalow was situated at the far end of the housing and office area.Quite a lonely bungalow without and any close by residents.
There past midnight I was abruptly awoken by something pressing on me heavily.Although I tried struggling with my limps but to no avail I was strongly pinned down.In fright I tried to put up a struggle but no use for I could hardly pushed it away it was too strong for me to overcome..I was frightened because it was a ghost,in any case I could not see it,let alone it was pitch dark.
Fortunately it was for a few minutes only before that creature released me and disappeared.Left alone to ponder what really happened.I was pretty sure a ghost had attacked me that late evening.However fortunately that never re-occurred but that night I could hardly go back to enjoy my sleep.
It surely was a bad experience ,I never slept in that bungalow thereafter.
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