Oh yeah, yesterday was Merdeka day, aka Malaysia's National Day. To all Malaysians out there, Happy Merdeka!
And it was another special occassion yesterday. Today is teacher's day. All schools are closed today.
And so i make a trip back to BNSS.
The first thing Mr Lea, the OM, told me: welcome back home. BNSS was my 2nd home, and that's where i spend my 5 years of tears and fears, laughter and joy there. Had the opportunity to dine with my teachers, and we had a buffet lunch. Was talking to Mr Yeo, the HOD of Physical Education, and we realised that, 5 years ago, we are talking about health and fun. 5 years later, we are talking about business. And real business.
Sad to say, those guys n gals from my batch did not show their face in the celebration.
While the kids are happily greeting their teachers Happy Teacher's Day, i could sense their innocence the kids had. Well, even though they may not be as mature as we are, but the innocence is still there.
Because they are still young kids to me. =)
And time flies really fast. While the teachers said that, 'oh Taiwei, you are graduating next year, and time flies!', i noticed the additional strands of white hair the teachers had. It sems like everything that took place in BNSS has just happened yesterday.
Met most of my tutors, except my mentor, Mr Goh CH, the HOD of Mother Tongue. He was on training, and it was a question mark where is he?
And Ms Loo? Yeah! She was there. It seems that Ms Loo and I are Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, except that you had an young adult and a adult reaching the middle age adulthood soon. It's Sunrise/Sunset minus the romance. What you get is just purely conversation and interest.
Ms Loo recommended me The Maid, the S'pore horror by Kelvin Tong. And so i go for the show at Empress Screen 1. The bus take it's own sweet time to drive, and thus i missed the opening scene. The moment i step into the hall, the screen shows a set of photograph of the Pinas maids, with a woman asking in Teochew: When was she born?
While some people said that The Maid scare the shit out of them, it seems like i am watching some psycho thriller. Chen Shu Cheng and Hong Hui Fang plays old Mr and Mrs Teo, who employeed a Pina maid named Rosa, played by Alessandra De Rossi. Rosa reaches S'pore on 1st day of 7th Month, aka the Hungry Ghost Festival. She broke the taboos, such as sweeping the burnt joss paper, turning her head when someone called her at night in dark area and blah blah blah...and she sees ghosts in the end.
And why is it so that old Mr and Mrs Teo are psychos? Cos they believed in marriage for the dead. Their only son, who was a mentally retard, raped their previous maid. She runs away to call the police and Mrs Teo begged her not to call the police. She insisted doing so. So, Mr Teo had her tied up and torched her alive. The maid was burnt to death, and their son throw himself down from the rooftop that night.
The maid's body was hidden in a drum, and their son returned on the 1st day of 7th month. As Rosa wore the clothes that belongs to the previus maid, she ended up seeing the dead maid, where she vows to seek revenge on the Teo's. She wants Rosa to bring her back to Pinas City (Phillippines.) and Rosa ended up the next victim for the Teo's. On the last day of the 7th month, they want to have her killed, so as to arrange a ghost marriage for their son. As they were about to hang Rosa, their son's spirit returns to stop the murder.
The son pushed old Mr Teo to the altar and toppled over an oil lamp. The altar catches fire and old Mr Teo was burnt to death. Before he died, he asked his wife to kill Rosa, before the Hell's gate close. The maid's spirit came to Rosa's rescue by burning the ropes that hangs Rosa. Rosa fell onto the ground and runs away from the house. Mrs Teo took a knife and came after Rosa, and she was run over by a lorry in the end.
Rosa took the maid's ashes back to Pinas City and the Teo's spirit came to see her off.
And that's the end of the lame S'pore horror. It doesn't scare the shit hell out of me, but i would rather pay that $5 to watch Hannibal again.
At least Anthony Hopkins did a better job in playing a cannibalistic psycho.