Category: Daily Whatevers

And people ask me why do I go or think of Thailand often…

Today is the 19th of April, 2007. That would mean it was exactly 31 days ago I was enjoying the tranquility Pulau Perhentian could provide me. In four days time, it would have been over a month since my last dive. Hence my cranky mood right now.

Yes, it is my version of the female PMS; but instead of calling it Pre-Menstrual Syndrome, I term it as Pathetically Missing Scuba.

I am lucky to have made it this far, probably due to that trip in search of the 20-year answer. During that brief but meaningful period, I had gained some form of sanity. I found brief but meaningful joy, although the question now remains: “What now?”

I am still awaiting some payment that I will use to purchase some diving equipment, and should complete my working paper for some funding soon.

There is also that plan for the resort that my dive buddy and I are planning to run; hopefully that will fall into place soon.

I have to keep myself busy. I’m rottingbadly here. Spazm has asked if he should start digging now for me. I told him to run a stake through my heart while at it.

I need my sanity.

Help!

Neomesuff has tagged me again. This time, the topic is MOVIES.

Here goes:

THE MOVIE MEME

Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times

P. Ramlee’s Bujang Lapok series, and Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys.

Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater

Titanic. 6 times. Just to look for mistakes by James Cameron.

Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie.

Mr. Marcus

Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie

Awie

Name a movie that you can and do quote from.

Star Wars – Part IV: A New Hope

Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs

The Sound of Music

Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with

Pendekar Bujang Lapok

Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see

Dirty Debutantes 5

Name a movie that you own

Porn or mainstream?

Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops

Suzi Suzuki…I think she was a singer turned porn actress, and now a singer again

Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what?

Gangbang Girl 3..it was on the VCD player in my car

Ever made out in a movie?

You mean acting like the Peramugara Terlampau?

Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t yet gotten around to it

Cicakman

Ever walked out of a movie?

Yeah, my former boss called

Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.

Tragedi Oktober…the acting and dialogue was pathetic.

What’s the last movie you saw in the theater?

The Day After Tomorrow

What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie?

Porn

What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?

Jiwa Remaja – 1976

What movie do you wish you had never seen?

Tragedi Oktober..it was my ex-wife’s idea

What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?

The Living Dead

What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?

Sembilu…Awie looked scary

What is the funniest movie you’ve seen?

Sembilu…Awie’s funny when he tries to be serious

I’m tagging Kimi, DITC, Mocha and Choy

Have you often wondered how your life would be different now had you done or not done certain things?

Imagine had you taken up a different job…

Imagine had you taken up a different course…

Imagine saying HELLO to a girl you have always had a crush on…

How different would your life be now? Happier?

You tell me…

I watched the re-run of “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”, a movie based on a book of the same name, that was in turn based upon true events in Bavaria, Germany in 1976. The actual character in this exorcism was Anneliese Michel (picture above), a devout Catholic of strict Catholic upbringing, who was possessed by several demons namely Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Nero, Cain, Hitler, and Fleischmann (a disgraced Frankish Priest from the 16th century). She was first possessed in 1968 when she was just 17. In 1969 she was sent to the Wurzburg Psychiatric Clinic and was diagnosed as having Grand Mal Epilepsy. In 1975, sensing nothing medically wrong with their daughter, her parents turned to exorcisms to heal her.

For 10 months Father Arnold Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt (shown above) performed rituals according to the Rituale Romanum on Anneliese. 67 rites performed altogether. In the end, as in the movie, she refused to eat and died of malnourishment and severe dehydration. She also suffered from high fever and Pneumonia. She weighed only 30kgs.

I’ve seen some weird stuff, all the way back to when I was 4 years old at least. However, my first time seeing anyone being possessed was back in 1990 when I was doing my Advanced Parachuting Course at the airport in Ipoh. An Air Force female recruit named Rafidah was possessed, and 16 others were down with hysteria. When I was then transfered to the base in Ipoh, and was put in charge of the female recruits, a recruit of mine named Siti Kamisah was possessed. No mass hysteria was recorded with this one, but she was violent. She single-handedly threw six of the male instructors who tried to restrain her, all at the same time. She could also leap over four double-decker bunks and ran through the door of the accommodation block when the door was shut and locked..without altering the state of the door! Cool! She should have been in the Special forces or Intelligence corps. She was in that state on and off for about 4 months before whatever that was inside her could be cast away.

Back to Anneliese, below are several photos taken of her during the exorcism. The link at the end of this posting is of her double-voiced mentioning the names of the demons inside her. This is an excerpt from the numerous recordings made during her exorcism.

Do you believe in the supernatural? Do they exist? The possibility is always there.

Anneliese Michel’s Exorcism (Real Audio format)
Anneliese Michel’s Voice During Exorcism (Quick Time format)

Well, Oneon, enjoy this music video:

It was a great race..superb race. Alonso and Lewis Hamilton finished first and second although they started second and fourth on the grid respectively.

Lewis Hamilton, a F1 rookie, is definitely the person to watch.

I had a lunch date with a certain young, curly-haired girl with long eyelashes yesterday before my dinner with Gee. After lunch, I carried my date as she was already sleepy by then..and I started humming an old song I liked very much some 22 years ago. This song by John Waite, called Missing You, has a nice melody. I remember always putting on this song as I drive from Bletchley to either Steeple Claydon, Winslow or Silverstone in the England.

The song goes like this:

Everytime I think of you, I always catch my breath
And I’m still standing here, and you’re miles away
And I’m wonderin’ why you left
And there’s a storm that’s raging through my frozen heart tonight

I hear your name in certain circles, and it always makes me smile
I spend my time thinkin’ about you, and it’s almost driving me wild
And there’s a heart that’s breaking down this long distance line tonight

I ain’t missing you at all since you’ve been gone away
I ain’t missing you, no matter what I might say

There’s a message in the wire, and I’m sending you this signal tonight
You don’t know how desperate I’ve become
And it looks like I’m losing this fight
In your world I have no meaning, though I’m trying hard to understand
And it’s my heart that’s breaking down this long distance line tonight

CHORUS:
I ain’t missing you at all since you’ve been gone away
I ain’t missing you, no matter what my friends say

And there’s a message that I’m sending out, like a telegraph to your soul
And if I can’t bridge this distance, stop this heartbreak overload

CHORUS

I ain’t missing you, I ain’t missing you, I can lie to myself

And there’s a storm that’s raging through my frozen heart tonight

CHORUS

Ain’t missing you, I ain’t missing you
I ain’t missing you, I can lie to myself
Ain’t missing you, I ain’t missing you
I ain’t missing you, I ain’t missing you
I ain’t missing you, I ain’t missing you, ain’t missing you, oh no
No matter what my friends might say, I ain’t missing you…

Gee and I had dinner discussing our common dream. We are now one step closer to achieving our dream.

This is one of my favourite rap songs from Thailand: