94 4.18 Thawi Watthana, Kanchanaphisek Road. (1/2)
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 Pornsak 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 Pornsak 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 Pornsak 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 button 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 Pornsak 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 Pornsak, 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 documentary, the video cameraman took out the Hi8 tape and broke the notch on top of the cassette preventing it from being overwritten and marked in the permanent market of the date, time and location for the documentary.
Subsequently, he inserted a fresh tape and mount the camera on top of the TV and pressed the record button. This piece of evidence was rare and definitely worth an interview so the rest scooted offscreen leaving Pornsak 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?
”Pornsak, 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, Pornsak 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 Pornsak 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 space 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 nobody does
(This is how we do it)
To all my neighbours you got much flavour
(This is how we do it)