Leng Mou's Art of Overcoming Fear of Ghosts

I've just wasted the past week of my life reading ghost stories. And I have to say that I've learn a thing or 2 about scaring people. Now Boss Lepton isn't a person who would normally get scared just by reading ghost stories. I have to say one of my hobby is to watch horror movies.

Part of my thoughts on horror movies:
I don't find movies like Exorcist and Sixth Sense or even some classic horror movie like The Shining very scary. Not to the point where I am scared to sleep at night. So the bottomline is

WESTERN HORROR MOVIES ARE NOT SCARY

Does this scare you???

There!! to all you Hollywood director-wannabe, next time you wanna shoot a horror film, send the script to me 1st and make sure I get really scared after reading it. Niama, now compare it to 1 of my favourite horror movie of all time. I'm pretty sure most of you have watched

Yes Ju-On. How scary is it you ask? Well it does get your heart beating quite often. I'm not gonna post a short clip on youtube here coz it might just scare you. I've heard friends told me that when they(guys n girls) decided to d oa movie night and watch ju-on, they were literally hugging onto each other(ahhh....... guys and girls hugging together..........). Oh btw, an interesting survey shows that generally guys are more afraid than girls on this genre, it's true I tell you, ask yourself deep inside.

Anyway back to the topic, why do I feel that western horror movies are not scary and the asian versions are much much more scary?

The answer is simply easy.

Western movies do this

That is western horror movies make the "ghost" in the movie tangible. You can see it and if *touch wood* you ever come across it you can know it's there or not. You can avoid it.

But Ju-on.........

HuAH!!!

Another habit of Boss Lepton is that I enjoy watching horror movies like this ALONE in the middle of the night, preferably with lights off and the clock shows 3 a.m. BTW, I really watched Ju-on that way ;)

My point is, asian horror movies implies that ghosts can exist everywhere. It's not like some vampire chasing after you, have sex with you then suck your blood dry. The thing I love about ju-on and other horror movies similar to this is that they ALWAYS relate it to your everyday life. Like sleeping........... showering.......... taking a piss..........

Boss Lepton's tip for scarycats

Boss Lepton wasn't always like this, up until form 1 I was a real scarycat. I used to have 4 to 5 pillows and 1-2 bolsters so that I can fill up the space on my bed. Let me illustrate this:

Notes:

• stick your back on the wall, so u are sure nobody's sleeping behind where you can't see.
• the pillows and bolsters are there to serve as your defense, if anything happens USE THEM to whack around.
• Alternatively you could sleep staring at the ceiling so you can see what's going on around your room, assuming that you WANT to see if anything's happening so u can act accordingly.

Well since it's always portrayed that "they" like to visit when a person's asleep, this is 1 of the defense techniques I can remember I had.

If for any reasons you hear something that you shouldn't be hearing, like somebody using the toilet when you're sure that you're alone at home........ then........... please get yourself 1 of these

And blast the music through your head. My personal favourite would be "Dui Ni Ai Bu Wan" by Aaron Kwok. Oh yes, I can do those dance moves, you can too!!!

So the bottom line is if you heard "something", and that "something" hasn't bothered you yet, just ignore it. Dance, Sing, anything that would make you not hear it would do fine :D

What changed my life was this end of the year trip to FRIM. Yea for those of you who don't know this place, it's the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia situated in Kepong. I was attending this course by the Nature Education Centre(NEC) in FRIM, I don't really know if it still exists today but it was a really cool trip. There's this event where we were brought inside the jungle, and 1 by 1 they left us alonefor around 15 minutes, telling us to listen to the various sounds that the jungle made.

Of course if you're a sane person(and a scarycat) like Boss Stewie and me, your senses are going to be clouded by the "those" thoughts. Scary isn't it? Well I don't know what struck me but at that time I was really gonna piss in my pants. I thought if I met this thing I was gonna die, and surely all the horror movies portrayed that.

So, I told myself this

If a ghost comes and kills me, I'm gonna be a ghost and let's fight it out in the other world, you #^%#$%^#@%@# man-killer!~~~!!!!!!!

So that's it, my ultimate weapon that keeps me brave up until now. Trust me everytime I walk alone in a dark alley or a peopleless area at night, or even driving my car back in Malaysia alone, I keep telling myself this same thing. Weird isn't it?

p.s. of coz if you are religious and keep chanting I'm sure it helps calm you down too.

p.p.s. more on the ghost stories I read on my next post :D