We drove to the hostel back again and headed to the reception and asked for two rooms once more and quickly paid up as the rest of the members lugged their equipment along with them.As usual, I had p.o.r.nsak as my haversack as I piggy ride her all the way to the room *ahem* just a figure of speech anyways when you have someone that falls in love heads over heels and seemed attached to you like a leech from the rivers of Thailand.
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Talking about leeches, yucks! I won"t mind if it gets stuck in my outer skin and sucks on my blood. It"s like a natural bloodletting or cupping kind of thing. But if one single leech enters the urethra, boy oh boy, does it spell BIG disaster! Just imagine this type of leech happens to lay it"s young inside the bladder and became bloated in time and one keeps urinating blood every time... Yeech...! Such an awful thought...!
It was now I began to think about it and not back then when we"re out doing military manoeuvres such as black water flotilla and wide river crossings at night. Getting snapped by crocodiles was one totally different matter altogether as we have snipers on board boats as we manoeuvre these exercises out of protocol back in Kanchanaburi. *shiver* *shiver*
There was an actually an incident where an unwed girl somehow had gotten one of the leeches inside her when she was planting rice in her village. The swelling on her stomach got bigger and her mother tormented her and kept drilling who had deflower her but she kept denying. So one day, unable to control her fury and shame from the other villagers, she raised a stick and starts to wallop the girl pretty hard... Resulting in internal bleeding. And you know what could be found among the clotted blood? LEECHES....!!!
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The wandering and shifty eyes of some members of the SPI team raised a few questions by the owner but we dismissed it by being tired by our journey and the project that we were on just earlier clearly shook some of the nerves.
It was slightly over 2 pm when we finally settled in our rooms and each of us bathes with some sort of ceremonial bath that was filled with chrysanthemums and jasmine flowers. This was prepared by p.o.r.nsak after she chanted over 8 small sachets of mixed flowers she had bought and stored in her sling bag. This is used in bathing ceremonies to get rid of evil attachments as well as cleansing one"s soul.
After each of us had taken a sachet and poured its contents in a small bucket before scooping the water to cleanse from the head down, we all felt a little calm and relaxed and able to think ahead for our next schedule. That little episode between p.o.r.nsak and I against those unseen spirits soon diminished from their memories until the video cameraman brought in his equipment and asked everyone to gather around.
There was a 24 inches TV in our room and after he had made an attachment with his video camera, he presses the play b.u.t.ton to let everyone view on what was happening during the time.
What they had seen was almost out of their belief since the video camera captured the black willowy wisps way before the narration had started and even those they were translucent, it seems that they eyes glowed with anger with a certain degree of vengeance as if their territory had been violated.
These wisps seemed to jump out from the statues and jumped back in as if they were shadows playing within the swaying branches in the wind. The part when p.o.r.nsak shouted them to hurry back to the van right till he climbed on top of it to continue filming, everyone in the room could see the menacing figures of black willowy wisps threatening to advance towards the van.
The distance was only being separated by p.o.r.nsak, who threw the lime-soaked rough sea salt mantra induced at them which kept them at bay as well as my releasing of the psi energy spheres from both hands which made them scatter and retreat back to the house in the background.
Everybody stared in disbelief and the respects for both the SPI team and my work colleagues deepen. After they had watched the whole doc.u.mentary, the video cameraman took out the Hi8 tape and broke the notch on top of the ca.s.sette preventing it from being overwritten and marked in the permanent market of the date, time and location for the doc.u.mentary.
Subsequently, he inserted a fresh tape and mount the camera on top of the TV and pressed the record b.u.t.ton. This piece of evidence was rare and definitely worth an interview so the rest scooted offscreen leaving p.o.r.nsak and me on the bed.
Now the Narrator became the interviewee and I became the sidekick. Well, a hero"s gotta have a sidekick, right?
"p.o.r.nsak, how did you know when to prepare such weapons of choice such as lime juice and salt earlier?"
"To be used with Tequila, what else! Actually lime is acidic and therefore is sharp in nature. Sea salt is a kind of element that appears for many millions of years so basically, the main element is unknown and yet it is normally used to sprinkle or lightly thrown at their direction to ward their movements."
"I don"t quite follow you, p.o.r.nsak but I can look for an explanation elsewhere from the Monk you had referred us to. Furthermore, what was that ball of fire that escaped from your hands and into the paths of those menacing figures, HunNaa? How come we were not informed that you had endowed such powers before?"
"Actually its quite simple, one needs to merely focus the energy around him and turn it either into an energy ball or fire that you had mentioned earlier. Also, it can produce friendly and unfriendly fire if one desires to."
"Would you care to explain further, HunNaa; or maybe show us a live demonstration between a friendly and unfriendly fire?"
I looked at p.o.r.nsak and her eyes seemed to approve of what I intended to do next but definitely, I won"t be performing the unfriendly fire in such a confined s.p.a.ce and risk incurring thousands of baht in damages. Surely Mr Director would not want to pay for all these damages as it does not cover in its legal advice and such.
"OK pheurn, hand me those bottles of mineral water that had not been opened yet. I"m going to do a live demo of friendly fire and pour it into them. This friendly fire is what we called a Psi energy spheres. This is how we do it..."
A song came to my mind as I rubbed my hands to generate warmth and I started humming.
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I"m kinda buzzed and it"s all because
(This is how we do it)
South Central does it as n.o.body does
(This is how we do it)
To all my neighbours you got much flavour
(This is how we do it)
Let"s flip the track, bring the old school back (This is how we do it)
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Two small marble sized spheres appeared at the centre of my palms. p.o.r.nsak quickly took the three mineral bottles and opened its cap and lay it on the small bedside square table. After I had gathered enough energy and turned its light to a brilliant radiating white sphere, I somehow "dropped" the spheres into one of the bottle and p.o.r.nsak immediately closed its cap.
I repeated in 3 successions into 3 bottles and once I am done, I clapped my hands to disintegrate the two marble sized spheres at the same time and it looked like some sort of glittery sparkles that temporarily lit the small area around my palms.
"Come and take come gla.s.ses with you. I want you to try what is this Psi energy is all about. Only he can do it while I"m only barely even scratch the surface." she said sheepishly while asking the team leader of SPI team to gather cups to share the so-called "energised" drink.
The bottled mineral water was distributed and everyone looked at the content and found that it was fizzing somehow. They put it to their noses and found no changes in scent and sipped once. Upon the lips receiving the energised drink they can"t help but raised their eyebrows and widen their eyes as if it was the most distinguished drink they ever had in their life!
"This is the energised drink? Wow...! It is fizzy like carbonated water. I can feel the water is like a flowing river from on top of a mountain that cascades into a waterfall, foaming at the end before ending calmly like a slow flowing river."
"Yes, I can feel it like a swallow flying into the air upwards at breakneck speed and then broke off from its flight and slowly glides away to a place hundreds of miles away."
"Me too... It is like a molecule in your body that was activated through an antigen and exploded right in front of your eye orifices."
"Nah...it still tastes like s.h.i.tty plain water!"
That last comment was from the Director who also took a gla.s.s and downed it within one gulp. What a BS a.s.s head!
Everyone else was astonished as they drank up and felt a new sense of energy coursing through them and makes them all feel refreshed. Feeling satisfied with the demo, the video cameraman switched off the set and removed the ca.s.sette and broke off the notch on top of it. He then took a permanent marker and wrote Psi Energy on it and kept the whole equipment after he unplugged it from the TV.
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Everyone was feeling refreshed and light-footed as one by one left the room. One member switched off the lights and bade goodnight to us as p.o.r.nsak and I curled up together on the small single bed mattress on the lower bunk.
Holding to her tightly in a spooning position, we soon fell into a slumber by the sounds of the ceiling fan above that slowly challenged our eyelids to shut.
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Next morning we were all eating to go for the last set of this segment and once it is done, they would bring it to their editing room back at SPI headquarters before sending it for broadcasting rights at a time slot they desired according to their budget.
After a hearty breakfast, we moved the equipment back to our van and proceeded this time to an abandoned house at Thawi Watthana, which was around 2 hrs drive or about 107km. We expected to arrive there by lunchtime and do a pullover for gas before that.
We had a stopover at the local market and this time p.o.r.nsak had bought a whole cut of roast pork, a pineapple, some apples and oranges, and a bunch of grapes. She had also bought 2 red candles the thickness of a thumb and 3 joss sticks of about the same size as the former. She bought 2 red coloured plastic bowls and a bottle of white liquor. When asked by the team members of SPI she coolly explained, "Ah, these are for the offerings for the white lady that haunts the place. Maybe she is a guardian or something, we may know yet but be safe rather than sorry, guys!"
She packed everything up in order and handed the package to me which I gathered them as the van zoomed off to its destination.
We stopped at a pushcart food vendor set along some streets just across some local universities and from the sight of us, one of the pushcart food vendors asked curiously, "Khun, where are you heading? Are you from the school across the road?"
"No, Na, we are not from the school across the street but we are here to do a doc.u.mentary."
p.o.r.nsak answered in a calm tone for the rest of the team.
"Doc.u.mentary? Do you mean like a short film? Are you going to that place to do that doc.u.mentary?"
The pushcart vendor pointed to the far end of the road where the asphalt ended and only a dirt trail follows through a rather dense overgrowth.
"Yes, Na. Could you tell us a bit about that place? Something we should avoid or something we shouldn"t do?"
"Khun, be careful of what you intend to do there. Even if you are doing a short film, there are things that your friends may unintentionally offend other spirits there. The lady in white is not the only spirit there and there may be others who are far more dangerous than you think they might be."
p.o.r.nsak thanked the pushcart food vendor and proceeded to grab her bowl of noddle before heading to the group where they were sitting.
"Just as I suspected. Keeps your heads up everyone. This place is off the charts and it"s teeming with evil."
p.o.r.nsak said that while mixing her bowl of noodle with her chopsticks before digging in. The rest of the group nodded while I just smiled at them of their renewed enthusiasm towards this 6/5 ranking of frightness.
It was 1:45 pm when we moved back to the van and waved at the pushcart vendor.