AH LEK’S GHOST STORIES
Ah Lek, our tour guide in the Bangkok-Pattaya trip, is of Teo Chew and Thai parentage. He is a charismatic guy. At first, I could not comprehend his spoken English as he was not superbly fluent. However, it was easy to catch up with him when he added a few Mandarin words, reading his body language and usage of sound effects when he talked. I guess he deserves some credits for being able to speak Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay and English.
One thing I would always fondly remember about Ah Lek is, his vast collection of ghost stories. I would therefore, blog about them, as they are too good to be true.
Ghost Story #1
When I was young, I lived in a deserted kampong deep in the jungle. Every night, my mother would ask me not to go home too late as there won’t be any transportation after a certain time.
One night, before going home, I ta pao a kueh teow soup for supper. I was late and I waited for the taxi/bus but there was none. I was getting worried as the night was getting darker and darker. So I tried to flag down private vehicles to take me home.
There was no one stopping for me, till one motorcyclist took pity on me and stopped to give me a lift. He was a man with a kind face. I accepted his offer and got onto his motorbike.
On the way home, we would pass by a temple. At night, the temple would look eerily spooky with the dim lights from the candles.
At first, the motorcyclist was warm and friendly. When the temple was approaching, the motorcyclist eyes grown bigger and bigger. His kind face turned to a face of anger. He was muttering something loud but was not audible to me. I was so scared that I closed my eyes in order not to see his angry face.
Then, the motorcylist stopped in front of the temple and then yelled at me.
“Your kueh teow soup is so hot!! It is burning my thigh! Can you please move it away???”
Ghost Story #2
When I was young, I have two friends who were very close to each other. They played with each other everyday. It was like, if you see A, you would see B next to him. They were always together.
A loved fried eggs. Whenever he went out for lunch or dinner, without fail, he would ask for fried egg on top of his noodles, fried rice, etc.
One day, A involved in an accident and died.
B was devastated. B went to the cemetery to pray everyday. He would go to the nearest restaurant and ta pao a box of fried rice with an egg on top to be offered to A when he went to pray to him.
The next day, he opened the box and there was no egg inside! B was petrified. He thought, must be A who came and took the fried egg away.
The same thing happened the next day and the day after that.
B was confused. So, one day, he asked the chef to make the same fried rice with a fried egg again. Then, he went to the cemetery to offer it to A. Curious, he opened the box to check for the egg. He was angry to find that, there was no fried egg in the box after all.
Feeling that he had been cheated, he went back to the restaurant and demanded to see the Chef. “Where is the fried egg?? I told you there must be a fried egg inside!! You have cheated me for a few days now! Gimme back my money!!”
Then, the Chef got really angry and opened the box – the fried egg was inside the box.
The Chef said, “Stupid! You open the box upside down. No wonder you cannot see the egg!!”
Ghost Story #3
When I was young, I went to town to work with a group of friends during our summer holidays of two months. Being young and away from home for the first time, we drank and smoke like nobody’s business.
One night, we were pissed drunk and flagged the last bus down to go home.
Being tired, we slept in the bus.
It had been awhile that I fell asleep. I was awake by the chilly wind. I was shocked to find that there was no one in the bus, and I was the last passenger. I looked in front to check out for the driver. But the driver was no where in sight. Yet, the bus was moving.
I panicked shitless. I rubbed my eyes to make sure that I was not dreaming. The night was dark and cold.
I hysterically jumped out from the bus and tried to run as hard as I could to get away.
Then I heard someone yelled at me from behind the bus.
“Hey! Don’t run away! Come over here and help to push the bus!” yelled the bus driver.
I saw my other friends helping to push the bus, which broke down while I was asleep.
Ghost Story #4
When I was young, I went to work during my summer holidays. I had a girlfriend then. She didn’t want to be apart from me for the whole two months so she wanted to follow me to the town and work.
Instead of staying with my other friends, and we wanted privacy but did not have much money, we rented a house at the end of the cemetery at a cheaper rate.
After work, we would walk fast paced to the house to avoid walking in the dark.
When we reached home, my girlfriend would take a bath while I smoked in front of the house porch.
While she was taking bath, I could hear the creepy sound from the bathroom, went “OOOooooOOOOOoo” like a wolf barking at the moon.
In order not to make her worried, I didn’t say a word to her.
We would go back to sleep early to avoid unnecessary attention from the supernatural.
The sound from the bathroom went on and on for nights. And the weird thing is, the sound only comes out when my girlfriend took her bath.
Curious, one night, while my girlfriend took her bath, I went to investigate the origins of the sound.
There, I saw, three dark figures, peering at a hole, overlooking the bathroom and went “OOooOOOooOO”.
My fellow friends - Peeping Toms.
Ghost Story #5
When I was young, there was a story about a lady who committed suicide by jumping into the river. Next to the river, there was a dark long road. Every night, some people claimed that they saw a lady waving at them by the roadside. Not many people would want to use the road.
One night, a friend who was a taxi driver drove past the road. He was scared but tried not to let the story of the ghost dampen his spirit to earn a living.
Then, a lady with long hair in white, was standing by the dark road and waved for the taxi to stop.
Worrying that this lady might be the most talked about ghost, he didn’t want to stop. But then, he thought, what if this lady were human and not a ghost, he should help the lady instead from letting the ghost harmed her.
So, he stopped and took a look at the lady. The lady has a kind face and smiled warmly at him.
He quickly let her into the rear of his taxi and sped off. He told the lady about the ghost.
Suddenly, a dog appeared out of no where and ran past the road. His car almost skidded after he stepped on emergency brake to avoid knocking down the dog.
He checked his rear mirror to ensure the lady was alright.
To his horror, he didn’t see the nice long smooth hair lady he picked up just now but a lady with unruly hair instead. A stream of blood was dripping off her nose. Her eyes were red and filled with angst.
He quickly opened his car door to run away from his cab.
The lady came out of the cab too and started to curse. “Stupid!!! Why did you brake the car suddenly??”
The lady bumped her head on the seat when he applied the emergency brakes.
One thing I would always fondly remember about Ah Lek is, his vast collection of ghost stories. I would therefore, blog about them, as they are too good to be true.
Ghost Story #1
When I was young, I lived in a deserted kampong deep in the jungle. Every night, my mother would ask me not to go home too late as there won’t be any transportation after a certain time.
One night, before going home, I ta pao a kueh teow soup for supper. I was late and I waited for the taxi/bus but there was none. I was getting worried as the night was getting darker and darker. So I tried to flag down private vehicles to take me home.
There was no one stopping for me, till one motorcyclist took pity on me and stopped to give me a lift. He was a man with a kind face. I accepted his offer and got onto his motorbike.
On the way home, we would pass by a temple. At night, the temple would look eerily spooky with the dim lights from the candles.
At first, the motorcyclist was warm and friendly. When the temple was approaching, the motorcyclist eyes grown bigger and bigger. His kind face turned to a face of anger. He was muttering something loud but was not audible to me. I was so scared that I closed my eyes in order not to see his angry face.
Then, the motorcylist stopped in front of the temple and then yelled at me.
“Your kueh teow soup is so hot!! It is burning my thigh! Can you please move it away???”
Ghost Story #2
When I was young, I have two friends who were very close to each other. They played with each other everyday. It was like, if you see A, you would see B next to him. They were always together.
A loved fried eggs. Whenever he went out for lunch or dinner, without fail, he would ask for fried egg on top of his noodles, fried rice, etc.
One day, A involved in an accident and died.
B was devastated. B went to the cemetery to pray everyday. He would go to the nearest restaurant and ta pao a box of fried rice with an egg on top to be offered to A when he went to pray to him.
The next day, he opened the box and there was no egg inside! B was petrified. He thought, must be A who came and took the fried egg away.
The same thing happened the next day and the day after that.
B was confused. So, one day, he asked the chef to make the same fried rice with a fried egg again. Then, he went to the cemetery to offer it to A. Curious, he opened the box to check for the egg. He was angry to find that, there was no fried egg in the box after all.
Feeling that he had been cheated, he went back to the restaurant and demanded to see the Chef. “Where is the fried egg?? I told you there must be a fried egg inside!! You have cheated me for a few days now! Gimme back my money!!”
Then, the Chef got really angry and opened the box – the fried egg was inside the box.
The Chef said, “Stupid! You open the box upside down. No wonder you cannot see the egg!!”
Ghost Story #3
When I was young, I went to town to work with a group of friends during our summer holidays of two months. Being young and away from home for the first time, we drank and smoke like nobody’s business.
One night, we were pissed drunk and flagged the last bus down to go home.
Being tired, we slept in the bus.
It had been awhile that I fell asleep. I was awake by the chilly wind. I was shocked to find that there was no one in the bus, and I was the last passenger. I looked in front to check out for the driver. But the driver was no where in sight. Yet, the bus was moving.
I panicked shitless. I rubbed my eyes to make sure that I was not dreaming. The night was dark and cold.
I hysterically jumped out from the bus and tried to run as hard as I could to get away.
Then I heard someone yelled at me from behind the bus.
“Hey! Don’t run away! Come over here and help to push the bus!” yelled the bus driver.
I saw my other friends helping to push the bus, which broke down while I was asleep.
Ghost Story #4
When I was young, I went to work during my summer holidays. I had a girlfriend then. She didn’t want to be apart from me for the whole two months so she wanted to follow me to the town and work.
Instead of staying with my other friends, and we wanted privacy but did not have much money, we rented a house at the end of the cemetery at a cheaper rate.
After work, we would walk fast paced to the house to avoid walking in the dark.
When we reached home, my girlfriend would take a bath while I smoked in front of the house porch.
While she was taking bath, I could hear the creepy sound from the bathroom, went “OOOooooOOOOOoo” like a wolf barking at the moon.
In order not to make her worried, I didn’t say a word to her.
We would go back to sleep early to avoid unnecessary attention from the supernatural.
The sound from the bathroom went on and on for nights. And the weird thing is, the sound only comes out when my girlfriend took her bath.
Curious, one night, while my girlfriend took her bath, I went to investigate the origins of the sound.
There, I saw, three dark figures, peering at a hole, overlooking the bathroom and went “OOooOOOooOO”.
My fellow friends - Peeping Toms.
Ghost Story #5
When I was young, there was a story about a lady who committed suicide by jumping into the river. Next to the river, there was a dark long road. Every night, some people claimed that they saw a lady waving at them by the roadside. Not many people would want to use the road.
One night, a friend who was a taxi driver drove past the road. He was scared but tried not to let the story of the ghost dampen his spirit to earn a living.
Then, a lady with long hair in white, was standing by the dark road and waved for the taxi to stop.
Worrying that this lady might be the most talked about ghost, he didn’t want to stop. But then, he thought, what if this lady were human and not a ghost, he should help the lady instead from letting the ghost harmed her.
So, he stopped and took a look at the lady. The lady has a kind face and smiled warmly at him.
He quickly let her into the rear of his taxi and sped off. He told the lady about the ghost.
Suddenly, a dog appeared out of no where and ran past the road. His car almost skidded after he stepped on emergency brake to avoid knocking down the dog.
He checked his rear mirror to ensure the lady was alright.
To his horror, he didn’t see the nice long smooth hair lady he picked up just now but a lady with unruly hair instead. A stream of blood was dripping off her nose. Her eyes were red and filled with angst.
He quickly opened his car door to run away from his cab.
The lady came out of the cab too and started to curse. “Stupid!!! Why did you brake the car suddenly??”
The lady bumped her head on the seat when he applied the emergency brakes.
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Comments
viewtru | Homepage | 09.23.05 – 10:08 am | #
these are not ghost stories leh…
ryuu | 09.23.05 – 10:58 am | #
haha, very funny la gina. i thought they were real ghost stories.
victoria | 09.23.05 – 11:56 am | #
these have to be the funniest “ghost stories” i’ve heard in a long while.
lynnee | Homepage | 09.23.05 – 2:30 pm | #
more like a tale from the past :p
anyway, be cautions, hehe
VJ | 09.23.05 – 3:10 pm | #
laugh until my stomach also want to burst alredi…
i’ll never look at a ghost in the same way anymore..
touchwood..i never want to look at a ghost.
yuin | Homepage | 09.23.05 – 4:23 pm | #
hahaaaa hahaaaaa haahaaaaa
hahaaa hahaaaaa haahaaaa
for No. 3………ROTFLMAO
ahlian | 09.24.05 – 12:04 am | #
viewtru: Is that an amazed WOW? or a sarcastic vow?
Ryuu: Yes, they are.. they are funny ghost stories.
Victoria: Imagine if you see Ah Lek say it himself. He’s da man… wah.. so free ah? Every time also can comment. Ha ha.
lynnee: Yeap. I can’t help laughing.
VJ: VJ.. VJ.. you are the only one who notice these kinda things. Truly an avid fan! The story always start with.. “When I was young…”
Yuin: You should have hear the uproarious laughter in the bus of 45 people!
ahlian: I like no. 1 the best!
Gina | Homepage | 09.24.05 – 3:56 am | #
Amazed wow lah!
viewtru | 09.24.05 – 9:00 pm | #
Hehe.. Ok lah, viewtru. Heh.
Gina | Homepage | 09.25.05 – 2:31 am | #