Meeting
someone we have not seen for a long time is perhaps a joyous occasion but this is
not normally true. Of course I don’t mean seeing someone who has jilted you and
she is leading a happy life in that sense. Believe it or not, for all that you
know, the ‘person’ you meet might be from the ‘other side’…
I don’t
know this person but he introduced himself as James. Since he started to talk,
I only sat down and recorded his story:
James likes
to bar hop meaning instead of sitting in a bar for the night, he would just
jump into one bar, have a mug of bear and then hop into another and have
another mug. According to him it is the ‘atmosphere’ that he likes. I suspect this
particular habit of his has something to do with his German friends.
So the
story goes it was just passed 1am and James just exited from a bar in Penang
downtown. As he was heading to his car, he noticed Joy, his former lover stood
in a dark corner and she was wearing long white gown.
It was a
surprised to see Joy as she told James she wanted to work in Singapore about 7
years ago. And two years later Joy and James met in the same bar James just
walked out to tell him that she had a new found boy friend. And that was the
last time James and Joy met until that night.
James: “Hey,
Joy! Long time no see. Come out from there and let’s chat!”
Joy
remained silent but smiled. So James opened his car door and invited Joy in. He
drove to a small hill top where they used to meet in old time. James stopped
over a 24-hour shop to purchase some peanuts and beers.
At the hill
top where James and Joy were alone.
James: “How
are you getting?”
Joy just
remained silent and she just smelled the beer and peanuts that James had passed
to her. So James went on with his seemingly solo conversation while Joy just
smiled and remained quiet.
Finally
James took out his handy and had a selfie with Joy.
After a
while, James succumbed to the effect of alcohol and only to wake up early in
the morning. Joy was not beside James and he thought Joy must have left during
his deep slumber.
A few days
later, James met Joy’s new found boy friend, Albert. So he casually started a
conversation with Albert:
James: “How’re
you with Joy?”
Albert
looked stunned and responded: “What about Joy?”
James: “You
know, Joy, your girl!?”
Albert
pondered for a while and said: “Joy died two years ago before our engagement.
She fell from her apartment after consuming some pills!”
James
disbelieved the news he has just heard and finally he visited Joy’s family and
confirmed the sad news. At that point, he took out his handy and searched for
the selfie photo with Joy but found the photo never existed!
Since then,
Joy always appear in Jame’s dreams wanting to get married but James cannot buy
in the idea of marrying a ghost, and so is Jame’s mother.
By the time
I met with James, James was still haunted by Joy’s ghost. However, I had not
physically ‘seen’ Joy hovering around so I have no way of validating what James
said is a truth. We can perhaps attribute it as one of the urban legends…
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