For Whom the Crow Cries...

On 6/12/08 whole family heard loud shrieks of many crows flying over the house while in the house around 2 pm; said loudly to them: "Someone distant to us but known to us has died."

While getting into my car, little kid unexpectedly asked, "What's in the jungle?"

I replied quickly to frighten him, "Ghosts!"

On 7/12/08 went straight to bookstore to purchase Chinese United Daily News & was shocked to see large & small pics of Simon Teo's corpse. The famous sports-master, a friend of mine (also my partner's ex-colleague in Sri Mawar Primary School), who was holding a position I once had in the secondary school close to the huge Chinese cemetery, was killed due to severe head injuries he received when he slipped on slippery muddy terrain and rolled down into a deep ravine at our city's Canada Hill.

On 14/12/08, heard loud shrieks of a crow flying over the house around 9:00 a.m., remarked to partner someone we knew was gone.
Checked papers in supermarket & library but found nothing the next day & the few other days.
Today, 17/12/08 while going through some old Chinese newspapers in the Public Library, suddenly came across the death notice of my ex-neighbor, schoolmate, classmate's sister and my partner's fellow church member, ex-roommate & close friend, sweet warm, bubbly, cheerful Chin Lee Ling... and she died of cancer on 14/12/08 leaving many of us unaware she had the fatal disease.... May she rest in peace....

16 Crows: Bad Omen?

It wasn't too long ago that I mentioned the sight of 16 crows with bloodshot eyes outside my residence. Several deaths-six to be exact soon followed ... What is disturbing, if I may repeat the story, is that the last time I saw a crow in my large garden, a close overseas-educated friend died in an unexplainable accident.

Here's an abstract of an interview by a Korean interviewer with a Malaysian girl in the blog Paths to Peace at http://www.prkkorea.com, dated 30-11-07. It briefly touches on the significance of seeing crows:

Q3. In South Korea, a crow is the symbol of a bad omen, while a magpie is the symbol of a good omen. Are there any superstitions related to animals in your country?
A3. Well, in Malaysia, we have various cultures and religions. Different cultures have different beliefs about animals. Muslims do not believe that a crow is a bad omen. Malays believe that wherever you see a group of crows, the place is dirty with garbage or something. Some other cultures believe that if you see a crow, there is a ghost.

Wow, I had no idea a crow is also a symbol of a bad omen in beautiful Korea!

Nein, no, Malaysian interviewee, my garden and the surrounding areas are spotlessly clean and well-maintained so the crows shouldn't have suddenly appeared during the light drizzle...

Grim Countdown

Since spotting the 16 crows outside my residence on 20th November, 2007, 10 deaths of one person and five cats have been recorded in the vicinity of my place...

Yesterday my car accidentally ran over one cat ... It's the first time an animal has been killed by a vehicle at my residence...

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16 Crows

Another update on unexpected incidents after the sighting of the sixteen crows ...

One more of my kittens suddenly died...That adds up the tally to six...

This leaves another ten more souls to go ...

Sixteen Crows

In an earlier posting, I mentioned seeing sixteen crows and then hearing news of the death of my neighbour. From sixteen crows that were perched on the high-tension wire cables, the birds dwindled to zero as ten flew off, followed by ten, six and eventually all took off.

Yesterday, four of my kittens were found dead. I was stunned. It was totally unexpected.

So the question that begs an answer is whether the crows I saw were the harbingers of gloomy news of both the human's and animals' deaths... and do I expect more grim news today...

Crows of Death?

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Sometimes we do experience the paranormal without realising it.

What do we know about crows? There can be busy all the time... An Indian proverb asks, "How can a crow sleep soundly when the figs are ripe?"

Really? Mere figs or departing souls?

On Tuesday, 20th November this year, I was about to drive to an important engagement about five miles away in the pouring rain and heavy thunderstorm when I happened to glance up in the sky outside my Piasau home. The time was 2:00 P.M. sharp. (By coincidence, my antique grandfather clock died at 2:00 o'clock over 20 years ago and my dad passed away at 2:00 P.M).

Lo and behold! I was astonished to notice sixteen black crows all aligned on one of the electricity cables high above the ground. They were perched on the cable which was just above the entrance to my home.

Having seen a crow once in my garden before a close friend was killed in an accident on a rainy day, I wondered if it was again an omen of impending death of someone close to us.

I grabbed my video camera and started recording the unusual sight.

From sixteen of them, the crows became fewer when six flew off, followed by four and then all of them flew off.

I took my video camera and uploaded everything into my PC. Everything else came out well except the crow video! Disappointingly, nothing could be seen!

That wasn't the end of my story. I grabbed a pen and tried to figure out the significance of the sixteen crows... and here's what I worked out mathematically: 16 crows; 10 remained; 6 remained & then all left. No. of crows which flew off each time: 16-6= 10; 10-6=4 & then all left.
In the Holy Bible, the number '6 6 6' is considered the devil's number and for the Chinese the number '4' is a bad numeral as it sounds like 'death' in the Mandarin language.

Yes, need I say that I canceled my important engagement on the spot with my hand-phone?

Now, today is Thursday 22th November, 2007 and I have just learnt that my neighbour, whom I dubbed 'neighbour from hell' in an earlier posting, has lost his eccentric weird wife. The wake is being prepared with lots of burning joss sticks, hell money, temporally house extension and hell flags as I post this entry. Moments ago, her casket was carried into the house.

Tonight the Buddhist mantras will be sung throughout the night ...

Here is some of the interesting information that I found at Wilkipedia, the great online encyclopedia about crows:

"Crows, and especially ravens, often feature in European legends or mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion. They are commonly thought to circle above scenes of death such as battles. The Child ballad The Three Ravens depicts three ravens discussing whether they can eat a dead knight, but finds that his hawk, his hound, and his true love prevent them; in the parody version The Twa Corbies, these guards have already forgotten the dead man, and the ravens can eat their fill. Their depiction of evil has also led to some exaggeration of their appetite. In modern films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Omen II and Exorcist: The Beginning, crows are shown tearing out people's eyes while they are still alive".


This is a cartoon drawing of the late Brandon Lee, son of the late great martial arts master and Jeet Kwan Do founder, Bruce Lee in a scene as 'the crow' in a graveyard. He was the star in the production of the movie, The Crow in 1994 when he was killed accidentally as the prop gun fired a live bullet, instead of a blank bullet into his body.

Brandon used to drive around Hollywood in a former hearse limousine that used to carry the dead to their final resting places.

This the grave of Brandon with a mysterious philosophical message in a cemetery in Seattle at Washington State, United States of America.