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Originally posted by Browneyes at 25-1-2005 12:03 PM:
kau puja dia dtg lah..
tapi jauh jugak pun dorang sanggup datang... |
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masa aku pergi melancung kat bukit tinggi.. kita pergi ke satu pertunjukan tarian orang orang minang.. macam macam yang dorang persembahkan.. tapi yang dapat perhatian masa dorang nak joget tarian kaca.. dorang pilih a few audiences naik atas pentas.. tolong pecah kan pinggan.. cawan.. gelas.. piring yang semua nya buat dari kaca.. then penari penari tu joget atas kaca pecah tu.. mula mula tarian slow lepas tu makin rancak makin rancak.. muka penari tu tak nampak pun rasa sakit.. tersengeh lagi ada.. aku punya guide sorang mamat ni bisik kat aku.. suruh tengok kat tepi stage.. kat situ ada sorang pakcik tua duduk depan tempat bara.. mulut dia komat kamit.. tengah mentera.. niat dihati macam nak baca ayatul Qursi.. tapi tak jadi .. ada aku tak balik s'pore.. penonton orang putih really enjoy the show.. aku pulak tak.. dlm hati aku .. jalan dah.. try ah joget atas kaca kalau pak karto tu takde.. tak berbalut kaki korang memang nasib.. |
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Originally posted by Browneyes at 25-1-2005 12:13 PM:
masa aku pergi melancung kat bukit tinggi.. kita pergi ke satu pertunjukan tarian orang orang minang.. macam macam yang dorang persembahkan.. tapi yang dapat perhatian masa dorang nak joget tarian ...
adehh.. seramnyer...takuttt:nyorok: |
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Originally posted by deaf4ever at 25-1-2005 12:05:
tapi jauh jugak pun dorang sanggup datang...
ni yang di panggil puja.. kau percaya tak saudara terdekat aku ada ilmu di mana dia boleh puja suami dia yang jauh kat luar negeri.. dia cuma pakai semangkuk air atau besin atau baldi.. seru nama suami dia.. suami dia menggelabah nak balik s'pore.. |
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Originally posted by Browneyes at 25-1-2005 12:13 PM:
masa aku pergi melancung kat bukit tinggi.. kita pergi ke satu pertunjukan tarian orang orang minang.. macam macam yang dorang persembahkan.. tapi yang dapat perhatian masa dorang nak joget tarian ...
 lol:lol
Yang audience mat salleh mesti dalam hati cakap...wah terror sey, joget atas kaca takde apa2... |
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Originally posted by chicsee at 25-1-2005 12:17:
lol:lol
Yang audience mat salleh mesti dalam hati cakap...wah terror sey, joget atas kaca takde apa2...
betul kau cakap chic.. dorang terpaku habis.. sampaikan anak aku tanya aku soalan.. mat salleh kat belakang aku marah aku suruh diam.. aku apa lagi jawab balik ah.. "what's your problem".. aku action berani sebab keliling aku wak kang banyak.. |
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Originally posted by Browneyes at 25-1-2005 12:13 PM:
masa aku pergi melancung kat bukit tinggi.. kita pergi ke satu pertunjukan tarian orang orang minang.. macam macam yang dorang persembahkan.. tapi yang dapat perhatian masa dorang nak joget tarian ...
just imejin eh..... worst case scenario...
masa perform tu...
orang tua tepi stage tu kena heart attack mati.
kalo takde back up, aku rasa performers tu smua terus gile seumur hidup dan jadi apa yang dorang tengah merasuk tu jam.
ni la seram nye main2 benda ni, takut tak sempat... aku pernah dengar main mak yong, tukang guru dia mati or something, pompuan tu terus gile, headbanging sorang2.:malu: |
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Originally posted by Browneyes at 25-1-2005 12:15 PM:
ni yang di panggil puja.. kau percaya tak saudara terdekat aku ada ilmu di mana dia boleh puja suami dia yang jauh kat luar negeri.. dia cuma pakai semangkuk air atau besin atau baldi.. seru nama ...
dari segi agama, ok ke benda2 gini?
dah tundukkan laki cam sihir je?? cam dah nasik k*ngk*ng je  |
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Originally posted by deaf4ever at 25-1-2005 12:28:
dari segi agama, ok ke benda2 gini?
dah tundukkan laki cam sihir je?? cam dah nasik k*ngk*ng je
tetap haram apa.. kira dah sihir.. nasik kangkang ni macam mana eh dorang buat.. belum belajar ilmu ni.. |
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Originally posted by Browneyes at 25-1-2005 12:34 PM:
tetap haram apa.. kira dah sihir.. nasik kangkang ni macam mana eh dorang buat.. belum belajar ilmu ni..
senang je..... takde theory...
practical aje... ko pegi carik Sofia Jane's Prumpuan, isteri dan dot dot dot. |
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matz_rockz This user has been deleted
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kat LIFE section straits times page 7..
ada story pasal phuket...this girl kata,abang dia kerja kat lagoon....
malam2 dengar orang crying and wailing.... |
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Originally posted by matz_rockz at 25-1-2005 05:23 PM:
kat LIFE section straits times page 7..
ada story pasal phuket...this girl kata,abang dia kerja kat lagoon....
malam2 dengar orang crying and wailing....
Oh yeah I read about that...mat salleh sampai camp out dengan nite vision cameras konon2 nak ambik gambar of the spirits... |
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kat LIFE section straits times page 7..
ian pun ada baca.....takut jugak seh... |
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alamak..
tapi baca papers tak perasan
now nak baca... sokabar dah kena kebas |
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ni dia....
Jan 25, 2005
Ghost town Phuket
Tour fares are being slashed as Phuket purges the spectre of the Dec 26 tsunami to lure tourists back
By Sandra Leong
IN PHUKET - IT is 2am in Phuket and a Thai TV crew is filming on deserted Patong beach. The group of four is huddled around a tent, fiddling with what appears to be night-vision camera equipment.
A female producer shoos you away, claiming the shoot is 'top secret'.
Remembering the dead and missing through flowers and placards in Phuket's Patong beach last Saturday.
When you persist in asking her what they are doing, she finally says in an ominous tone: 'You fear? Of the spirits?'
You then realise why they are there: To find 'ghosts' of people killed by the Boxing Day tsunami.
Tales of wandering spirits have been making their rounds among superstitious Thais, many still reeling from the Dec 26 tragedy.
Phuket freelance tour operator Cindy Gaidy, 30, shudders as she tells Life!: 'My brother, who works in the boat lagoon, says he has heard wailing and crying in the middle of the night.'
Indeed, while physical recovery in Phuket is well underway - beaches were clean and waters glistening when Life! visited last week - the spectre of the tsunami has yet to be exorcised.
Many tourists, alarmed by media reports of the disaster and 'ghost' sightings, are avoiding the island where the tsunami left 260 dead and injured more than 2,000.
The tourism industry, which contributes over 90 per cent of Phuket's income, is hurting badly.
About 420 out of its 560 hotels are operational but occupancy rates have plunged to 20 per cent at a time that is traditionally peak season.
Phuket usually hosts about four million visitors a year. Now, only a handful are basking on once-bustling Patong beach, which bore the brunt of the tsunami.
With its many hotels and shops, the Patong area is the most popular gathering place for tourists. Though the beach is now cleared, one-third of the 900 beach front businesses have been destroyed.
Business at the night markets has come to a standstill, with many vendors hawking their wares at rock-bottom prices. Pirated DVDs, which usually cost 150 baht (S$6), are going for as little as 80 baht.
The estimated loss from structural damage of tourism products and services in the south, which includes Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi, is $39 billion baht. About 10,000 people have lost their jobs.
Tour guide Nantawan Kosai, 42, used to earn 25,000 baht a month. The single mother of a four-year-old daughter has been jobless since the tsunami struck and is fast running out of savings.
Mr Charn Wongsatayanont, president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents, Upper South Chapter, says: 'It is like a second tsunami.'
Fighting superstition
THE Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a three-phase recovery plan.
'My brother, who works in the boat lagoon, says he has heard wailing and crying in the middle of the night' - Phuket freelance tour operator Cindy Gaidy
Phase One, which ended on Jan 15, involved assessing the damage and tending to injured victims, most of whom have returned home.
Phase Two, now in progress, comprises an aggressive public relations campaign. One of the moves is to get foreign journalists to visit Phuket and see for themselves how efficiently it is coping with the disaster.
Phase Three in March will see an all-out relaunch of Phuket and its surrounding areas as redeveloped tourist spots.
But officials know that much needs to be done to purge the aura of death. Walking around Soi Bangla - the street in Patong lined with bars - one still sees tattered notices of missing people, poignant reminders of the tragedy.
Mr Pattanapong Aikwanich, president of the Phuket Tourist Association, admits: 'A lot of Singaporeans and Malaysians worry about ghosts.
'We have called in specialists from Bangkok to conduct Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religious rites. If the ghosts were really here, they would all have gone by now.'
It is simply the nature of Thai people to worry about ghosts, explains Mr Beat Schwager, branch manager of Swiss-owned Asian Trails, one of Phuket's largest tour operators.
After his office in the Holiday Inn Resort Phuket was destroyed, his staff said they did not feel comfortable returning to work even after it was cleared of debris.
He relocated to Phuket town but three of his employees, traumatised by the incident, have since resigned.
About 50 of his clients died in Phuket and Khao Lak.
As for concerns of corpses washing up on Patong's shoreline, volunteer divers have gone underwater but found no bodies.
Ms Suwalai Pinpradab, TAT's southern office director, says: 'The only things they found were clothes sold by the beachfront hawkers and an A$100 bill.'
The tourism drought has been exacerbated by media accounts of widespread devastation in southern Thailand.
But in comparison to badly-hit Khao Lak, 100km to the north, and Phi Phi Island, 48km to the south-east, the damage to Phuket is mild.
However, many tourists just assume that the damage in Phuket is as bad as in the other two regions, and so have stayed away. It is a misconception that TAT is fighting by inviting the international media to Phuket to assess the situation.
Members of the local business community like Mr John Gray, an American owner of a sea kayaking company, have stepped in to help.
Showing Life! his empty appointment book, he says: 'The Phuket coverage spelt economic disaster.'
Mr Gray, who now has to hire his 17 employees on a freelance basis, has spent the past few weeks sending e-mail messages to contacts worldwide, urging them to return.
He says of the Phuket death toll: 'Having 260 dead is equivalent to the loss of lives in a plane crash. Have people stopped flying? So why should they stop coming here?'
As Phase Three of the recovery plan begins, industry players hope that improved infrastructure, good travel deals and the staging of international events will eventually overcome superstition and jitters.
There are plans to redevelop Phuket into a 'model beach resort' with amenities like bicycle lanes, says TAT governor Juthamas Siriwan.
Architects of the new Patong area have resolved to eliminate the old clutter that blocked escape routes during the onslaught of the killer waves.
About 7,000 umbrellas on the beach will go as many beach-goers were hit by them during the tsunami. The authorities plan to limit the number of umbrellas to about 1,000.
Destroyed icons of Patong beach like the McDonald's and Starbucks outlets will be up in July, says Mr Gerard Tan, a Singaporean and general manager of Ban Thai Beach Resort, which owns the space.
The Association of Thai Tour Operators has come up with new packages to Phuket and Krabi at to 50 per cent less than normal rates.
Singapore-based low-cost carrier Tiger Airways is offering 20,000 one-way tickets to Phuket for $9.98. The usual price is $45.98.
And the Thailand Open golf tournament in March, originally scheduled to be played in Pattaya, will move to Phuket.
'The mood here is optimistic,' says Mr Wolfgang Meusburger, general manager of the damaged Holiday Inn Resort Phuket.
'When you talk to people, they are all thinking of rebuilding. They're saying: 'Let's do it again'.'
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Originally posted by chicsee at 25-1-2005 05:37 PM:
Oh yeah I read about that...mat salleh sampai camp out dengan nite vision cameras konon2 nak ambik gambar of the spirits...
last week punya papers i baca,this taxi driver pick up ang moh passengers...
...as he was driving he looked back...and the passengers vanished.... |
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thank u dep...
aku baru perasan....
dan aku pon perasan jam dah lepas midnight...
insya Allah aku baca besok
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matz_rockz This user has been deleted
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my wife cakap dia phobia...ni yang died banyak sangat...macam eerie gitu.... |
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ni yang teksi driver bawak mat salleh terus dia toleh belakang dah hilang :malu::nyorok:
Ghosts stalk Thai tsunami survivors
By Tony Cheng
BBC News, Phuket
Lek looks nervously at the Patong sea shore as he describes the passengers who climbed into his tuk tuk minivan late at night on 6 January.
"Go to Kata Beach", the seven foreign tourists told him, after agreeing on a 200 baht fee.
The scale of the disaster may have taken time to register
He drove a while, but then felt numb all over his body.
Looking around he saw the cab was empty. He had had what he thinks was an encounter with the ghosts that many say are haunting the beaches and resorts on Thailand's Andaman coast.
And the religious charms he wears around his neck are not helping him overcome his fears.
"I can't get over this. I'm going to have to get a new job. I have a daughter to support, but I'm too scared to go out driving at night," he said.
Lek's experiences are by no means unique.
Other apparitions which have been reported include a foreign woman, whose screams echo through the night from the wreckage of a hotel that was particularly badly hit.
A security guard on the site has already left his job because he could not bear it anymore.
In Khao Lak, a local family say their telephone constantly rings through the day and night. When answered, the voices of friends and relatives cry out to be rescued from the flames of the crematorium.
Such reports, according to psychologist Dr Wanlop Piyamanutham, are signs of post traumatic stress disorder.
He pointed to the fact that many stories started to appear about 10 days after the wave struck.
At such times religion is very important because there is nothing else
The venerable Bhikkhu Sugandha
That was when the real horror of the loss and devastation hit people, he says. Now it is spreading beyond those immediately affected.
"With all of the pictures on the television, and everyone talking about the disaster, it affected many more people, who have reported seeing ghosts and smelling corpses," he said.
And Dr Wanlop has an explanation for why such a large number of "foreign" ghosts have been seen.
"Foreigners make a big impression on Thais," he said.
"They're physically imposing, and often seem rich and powerful. If people like that die in terrible circumstances, it's not surprising they should come back in people's minds as ghosts, especially when they have so far to get home."
Peace of mind
That might provide a logical explanation, but it does not provide much comfort.
For that, many Thais have turned to Buddhism, the majority religion in the country.
Although superstitious beliefs are common in Thailand, with many houses incorporating a spirit house to appease local ghosts, Buddhist scripture has guidance on dealing with the supernatural, much of which is a remnant of previous animist religious practices which pre-date the arrival of Buddhism.
Relatives are turning to traditional practices for help
Local folk beliefs have given monks the power to dispel troubled spirits, and many are prepared to provide "protection" if it is needed.
"We can do nothing to ward off the spirits", says the venerable Bhikkhu Sugandha, "but if it helps make people feel more comfortable, we can be around to comfort them."
He believes that in a period of crisis, monks can provide a very useful counselling service.
"At such times religion is very important because there is nothing else. The service the monks provide is just to listen, to be there, and to let them know that there is someone more grounded to listen."
Other religions are offering more direct help, and Patong beach has seen several "exorcisms" performed by Chinese spiritualists in the last few weeks.
In one, white robed monks from the Pu Ta Gong sect chanted prayers and offered sacrifices of food to the spirits.
Special offerings of pizza were included for foreign 'spirits', and paper clothes and money were burned to help in the passage to the after world.
As clouds of incense drifted down the white sand and over the calm blue waters, the troubled spirits of the dead and missing were urged to return home, for the sake of the peace of mind of the living. |
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Category: Negeri & Negara
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Post time 25-1-2005 12:05 PM
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