Archive for June 25th, 2008


Hello Stranger

The Stranger visits my apartment once in a while.  We have never see him, or is it her?  We don’t know.

The only indication that The Stranger is around is the creaking of my parents’ bed, like someone sitting down very hard on it.

I think The Stranger visits my room too, but that is always the time between waking and sleeping when I feel him bouncing on my bed.  Maybe The Stranger is a kid?  Who knows.

The parents talk to him, mostly asking for 4D.  Sigh….punters!

Personally, I’ve never heard The Stranger before but when I hear a funny noise coming the parents’ room, I’ll grab my camera, yell "Cheese!" from the doorway before snapping a picture.  Hey, it works for those paranormal investigators we see on TV :p

But till today, The Stranger remains camera shy.  He seems to be extremely shy where I’m concerned.

Is The Stranger real or the figment of our imagination?

Baby never had a problem with him when she was around.  Dogs are extremely sensitive to these things but she never made a peep or acted funny.  Perhaps The Stranger only started visiting after Baby went to heaven?

Still, the last time Mom asked for 4D it seemed like The Stranger actually did grant her request. Third price, no less, but she didn’t buy it.

Sigh, Mom, TAKE MASSIVE ACTION to get what you want.  That is the link to success that a lot of people are missing.

Anyway, as usual, the bed creaked so she asked for numbers again, but since The Stranger doesn’t do any direct communication, she asked him to give it to her in a dream.

As soon as her head hits the pillow, she started dreaming of stars.  The next morning she consulted the dictionary.

*I’ll tell you more about the dictionary in another post.

Well, stars wasn’t in our dictionary, so she asked a colleague of hers, also an avid punter, and he said it is actually listed in another edition of the dictionary.  He will look up the number for her.

Unfortunately for Mom, she got caught up with work and forgot all about it until after the time of drawing.  The next day her colleague told her that her number had been drawn as third price.

I consoled her by telling her that the next time The Stranger shows up, she can ask him again.  But he might just think that it is useless to give her any leads because she doesn’t take action on them.  So to prove her sincerity, I suggested that she go get the other edition of the dictionary as well.

The Stranger didn’t come back for a while but when he made his next visit, it seemed like he didn’t only sit down on the bed very hard, he rolled all over it, judging by the sounds Mom heard.

The Stranger is definitely a kid.

Story

I remember quite clearly now when this story happened
The autumn leaves were floating and measured down to the ground
Recovering the lake where we used to swim like children
Under the sun was there to shine

That time we used to be happy
Well, I thought we were
But the truth was that - you had been longing to leave me
Not daring to tell me
On that precious night watching the lake vaguely conscious
You said, our story was ending

There’s more to this song but it’s too long to be posted here.

I used to hear it over the radio long ago.  It will play during the late night hours.

It’s a haunting melody, sad, mysterious, nostalgic, yet beautiful.  I never knew what it was called or who sang it.  When I tried to search for it using what vague memory I had of its lyrics as keywords, the results returned mostly sites with Chinese characters.

I’m very sure it was an English song.

From my research I discovered that the lyrics were mainly from "Lake Of Autumn" by 秋之湖.

Disclaimer: I assume that the Chinese characters are the author’s name.  My apologies if they are not because I have no idea what the Chinese characters say :p

Anyway, I found out that that the song is called "Story" and sang by Chyi Yu.  Found a video of it in YouTube.  Have a listen and fall in love.

Would love to download a copy of the song but unfortunately, it’s not available at Limewire.  Looks like I’m gonna have to dig out where I stored the FLV convertor software so that I can download the video from YouTube then convert the file to MP3.