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Friday, July 20, 2012

Ghost Story #1: Ghost Whisper

by Twaddler Boy

Have you ever heard a voice of a ghost? Why do dead people try to speak to the living?

It was back in 2000 and I was still a young teenager. I went to my grandma's house in Mauban Quezon for a summer vacation. Living in the house is my aunt Lynn with her son and daughter.

On the first night of my stay there that summer, my aunt told me that I should sleep in my cousin Paolo's room. That time Paolo was probably 14 or 15 years old and so he usually goes home late nights already. His room is on the second floor of the house. There are three bedrooms on the second floor but only Paolo sleeps there. One of the room is my aunt Lynn and her daughter Glaiza's room and the third is my other Aunt Lucia's room but she always sleeps in the room on the 1st floor near the second living room. While aunt Lynn and Glaiza sleeps in the first living room during that time. I remember my aunt Lynn would prefer to sleep in the living room because she was scared to sleep on the second floor. There were already a few stories from my relatives living there, about the house being haunted specially the second floor. This was probably the reason why I was waiting for Paolo before I tried to sleep.

The lights were turned on and I was lying on the bed. The door is on my left and on my right hand side is an old cabinet with two doors; one side you can see the clothes inside through a glass door and the other is a mirror but it is very blurred that you can't see yourself facing it, your face would look really distorted. My grandma told me that when my mom was still young she loved to clean but she wiped it with wet cloth and during that time if you wipe mirrors with wet cloth you need to wipe it dry because it will turn really blurry. The cabinet looks really creepy and right next to it on the upper right hand side of the bed is a small storage area about 4x4 feet and that time had boxes and other stuff. The bed faces the room to the windows seeing the night view outside. I decided to take a look. There were a lot of people still outside. There was basically nothing to do. So as a normal young teen I decided to masturbate lol (I can't believe I'm telling everyone about this lol). Well I did it because I though I would be sleepy after do it(I'm being defensive ahahaha). Then I was done lol and there was still nothing to do and I still wasn't sleepy. I was too scared to turn the lights off and sleep but I could sleep when lights are on. So I then decided to just wait for my cousin. After several minutes I tried to convince myself that all the scary stories about the house wasn't true and that my aunt was just really jumpy all the time. So even when the lights were still on I tried to close my eyes. Suddenly I heard a sound in the small storage area near the cabinet. It sounded like rats are probably scratching the boxes or something. I even spoke out loud "damn rats". Then tried to close my eyes again convincing myself that I'm not getting scared. Then I was sure that it was just rats. Suddenly I heard a sound, I'm not even sure if it be would be considered a sound. It was not audible like a normal sound. It's as if I heard it but it wasn't a sound at all. I heard it from my right ear, it like some one is whispering close to my ear so it was loud on that ear but I couldn’t understand anything. It was like someone's murmuring "shoowishushwshwshuwhoshshhwhsoosh" and another weird thing is my left ear wasn't hearing anything, it was totally not hearing the weird sound at all. It was nothing like I've ever heard before.  I'm thinking that it was probably just in my head but I really heard it. Right after hearing it, I suddenly got up and was very surprised about the sound. I didn’t know what to think. I stood up but was scared to open the door since it was dark outside. Since I was carrier to stay inside the room I opened the door and went down stairs. There I saw my aunt Lynn and Glaiza sleeping. It was dark but there was a bit of light coming from the street lamp through the windows. I saw a folding bed and decided to sleep there. I couldn’t sleep and kept on thinking about what happened. My heart was still beating fast and then I felt I needed to pee. It was probably because I was scared. I told myself that I should be brave.
There are two toilets on the 1st floor. The fist one is near the first living room where I was at, but it is under the stairs and was too low so I couldn’t really pee there I usually bump my head. I decided to use the other toilet near the second living room. To go there I needed to pass through the kitchen area then the second living room. So I started walking fast because I didn't know were the light switches are and I would just turn the light on when inside the toilet. While peeing I continued to convince myself that nothing happened and that I should be brave. Before I finished peeing I realized that I needed to turn the light off in the toilet and walk back to the 1st living room in darkness, but I gained enough courage and started going back. While in the 2nd living room I heard another Ghost whisper and this time It was on my left ear, exactly the same. On my left was the wall of the room by the second living room. The voice came from nowhere it was a wall and it was really dark. I screamed out loud and started jumping and running back to the first living room. My aunt Lynn woke up and asked what happened. I told her that there were big rats lol. I didn’t want her to get scared too. We will both end up sleepless if I told her. I don’t really remember how I was able to sleep, I was just able to. I was probably exhausted and didn’t even notice when Paolo went home.

The next day I didn't tell anyone about what happened. Basing it on the stories of my relatives. It is my great grandfather who was haunting the house. I don't know why he is haunting the place but I if he was the one  trying to talk to me that night, then I guess he was probably telling me not to masturbate lol or something like that.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Artist of the week: Incognito

by Twaddler Boy


 Incognito is a British jazz funk band that debud 1981. Being in the industry for morethan 20 years there has been a number of short-lived actshad a great success in the International Music industry. The group is lead by Bluey or Jean-Paul Maunickwho is a compose, record producer, guitarist and singer.He formed the group back in 1979. Other notable singer of the group are singers Tony Momrelle, Maysa Leask, Jocelyn Brown, Carleen Anderson, Imaani, Joy Malcom and Kelli Sae. Their official website is http://www.incognito.org.uk

Here are links to some of their videos:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Akny2e_HY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTgxsk_E-Bg







Saturday, July 14, 2012

Featured Photographer Jericho Barao

by Twaddler Boy

Jericho Barao Started getting interested with photography when he found his dad's old school mamiya film camera back in 2002 but had no money to spend for this kind of hobby. When he landed a job he bought a camera phone and started taking pictures about anything he got interested about. He got his first point ad shoot camera when one of his friends gave him on as a gift on his wedding day. It was January 2010 when he bought his first DSLR. Currently he enjoys candid protraits, street photogrphy, landscape and macro shots. You can check his work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericbarao/

Currently Jericko is also into events like; concerts and different parties. For his contact details just post a comment and your email address so we can send it to you.


Here are some of his work


















Thursday, July 5, 2012