Wise Hotel Tips

I think I'll throw in another naughty piece for this holiday season as so many visitors are traveling and putting up in hotels.

This extract is from Miri's great Community Net's blog. I guess it'll be a great idea to borrow something from my many buddies there. It's titled Ghost Protection in Hotel.

Just two days ago I was escorting an old buddy and her daughter with all their luggage to a hotel room. They'll be holed up there for a number of weeks... so this piece today will be sound advice for them! Haha... D & S ...Beware!


Ghost Protection in Hotel

My friend who works in a hotel sent me an email, please read.

----->Believe it or not

In every single hotel, there shall be at least a permanent room which should be left vacant at all times. No matter how full the hotel is, they are not to sell that room(s) to any guest. It is said that special room is 'reserved' for those 'special visitors'.

So, if you plan to stay in some hotel, always book in advance. Try to avoid a walk-in. If the receptionist tells you there's no more room available, do not insist on one anymore or try to bribe him or her to give you a room. If you do that, most of the time the room you have will be that 'special room'.

Sometimes, those 'special visitors' might go to other rooms also, so here's some tips on how to protect yourself:

- Before entering your room, always knock on the door first, even if you know the room is vacant.

- After you enter the room, if you feel very cold suddenly and have 'chicken spores', leave the room quietly and immediately and go to the receptionist to request for a change of room. Most of the time the receptionist will understand what's happening.

- After you enter the room, immediately switch on all of the lights, and draw the curtains to let the sunlight in.

- Before you go to bed, arrange your shoes so that one of them is upside down. Some say this is representing yin & yang to protect you while you're asleep.

- Always leave at least a lamp on while you're sleeping, preferably the toilet lamp.

- If you're staying alone and they have given you a twin bed, do not sleep with the other bed vacant; try to put your things like luggage on the other bed before you sleep.

p/s I was told that there was a recent exorcism performed at a well-known hotel not
too long ago and I know it's true ...

Just an Old Building...

...but is it really haunted? It's somewhere in Malaysia...I'm not disclosing the location so as to protect the owners' privacy.

Both these mysterious images are taken from my video shooting in a very old building, believed by many locals to be haunted, that dates back to the early 1920's. The building itself holds a frightening secret-it was used as an interrogation centre by the occupying Japanese Imperial Army's dreaded cruel Secret Police, the Kempeti.

Many civilians and anti-Japanese military personnel were tortured to extract confessions and information of suspected anti-Japanese activities.

Nearby is a huge cemetery with many graves that date back to the late 19th century...

The film was shot on October 29 this year and it was after I had screened through it with my computer that I noticed this figure unexpectedly appearing for a few seconds. I'll show this video in my Blip t.v. soon.

Miri's Most Haunted Tree

For some time now, Mirians have been talking about a certain part of the city along the Miri-Pujut highway at which witnesses claimed to have seen some sort of supernatural activities... It goes back to the time when three brothers lost their lives tragically, ramming their expensive vehicle into a tree close to the Pujut Maybank across the road. Here is the Borneo Post pic dated 20/1/1997 of the appeasement ceremony conducted by their family members. Remember, don't ever pick up three persons around this place...they may not be whom you think they are....

International Ghost (6)

You know, I've always dreamt of being in merry ole England since I was a kid. At the age of 6 it would have been just to see some tall buildings like Big Ben (You keep hearing the BBC playing its loud chimes), the Tower of London (tales of head- chopping) and Buckingham Palace and also to watch those smartly reddish-dressed parade soldiers with their unusual 'bamboo hedge' tall hats changing guard at the palace (I had been given a slide viewer which was viewed by peering with both eyes into a binocular-like apparatus and my favorite was the London round slides series).

But now, as I get older, the thrills sought by those of my age tend to change and we progress to other more unusual exciting attractions. Well, sex is certainly one amonst many others... the supernatural would be another!

So England with all her many historical places and fascinating though often bloody history would be a hell of a place to spend my vacation in!

In the pic above, which I accidentally stumbled upon in y possession, it purportedly shows the Brown Lady Raynham hall in Norfolk. It was photographed and caught on film as well so it seems that ghosts do exist in that country.

Now if we Malaysians have a big fear of the supernatural, we may think twice before being irresponsible by doing things in the dark like fooling around in dangerous isolated forested areas, having late nights, going out with strangers, doing things in graveyards like grave-robbing (The jury's out if the Indons are responsible), taking drugs and so forth.

Hell, some may even reconsider committing heinous crimes like the unnecessary senseless murder of the Mongolian beauty, Altantuya ...

Come to think of it, if there are scary spirits out there who have been wronged , I would hope they find justice and that the guilty perpetrators of murderous crimes be haunted by them for the inhumanity of their actions and the consequential pain and suffering of shattered lives left behind.

Ah...back to England...Perhaps, England still has so many supernatural entities because of its long rich illustrious history... and Malaysia has a shorter one. Even now it maybe has successfully exorcised this land of some of these entities by official decree such as the ban on more terrifying horror books and exhibitions of the supernatural... So fellow Malaysians, let's just go to England for some ghosts!