Tourist
Ah Beng went to visit Thailand. He travelled whole day, and now its 9pm. He was so tired he finally prepared to check in to his hotel. He walked to a bus station to board a taxi.
A taxi passed by, and he held his hand to halt the taxi. The taxi speed pass him, and he swears loudly. The taxi then reversed, and slowly scrolling the window while holding a wooden cross, staring Ah Beng with his big bulky eye. Ah Beng thought the driver was crazy, but went in anyway.
After telling the driver his destination, silence filled the air. The air suddenly feels chilly, Ah Beng can even see the clouds of air he breaths out. The taxi driver starts to talk to Ah Beng in Thai language. Ah Beng doesn't understand it, but luckily there was a boy who came out of nowhere helps to translate it. Ah Beng tried to peek from the front mirror, the boy was wearing dirty clothes and dripping all over the back seats. The boy explained that last year there was a lady who found out her husband was cheating on her, after killing her husband with her fatal kiss, the lady commit suicide by jumping with his son on this exact bridge. The boy pointed in front, and the taxi driver continues his story in Thai language as if the boy was not there. They crossed the bridge, the boy thanked the taxi driver for sending him home, then he dissapeared. The taxi driver continued to talks in Thai language. Ah Beng wish the boy was still here to translate it, and he simply sigh.
The taxi driver stopped talking, Ah Beng wonder what's wrong. He then saw a pregnant women not far in front of the road, but the taxi driver speed his car, he did not stop for the pregnant women. Ah Beng scolded the taxi driver, but the taxi driver gestured him to look behind. The pregnant women was chasing the taxi in her white dress covered in blood. The taxi driver pressed the accelerator to 80km/hr, and the women was still chasing, Ah Beng noticed the meter reading went up to 120km/hr, and the women was still chasing not far behind. Ah Beng was impressed and commented that the women should go for olympic, while the taxi driver sweat like shit. The taxi driver started to recite Oppa Gangnam Style in Thai accent, the pregnant women stopped and pressed her stomach as if her baby was kicking her. She stopped chasing and dissapeared from sight.
Ah Beng arrived at his hotel, and thanked the taxi driver. The taxi driver charged him USD 100, but Ah Beng gave him his amulets instead. It was given by Ah Beng's grandma. It is said that the amulets will protect Ah Beng from evil forces lurking in the dark. Ah Beng was forced to wear it by his grandma, but Ah Beng feels that the taxi driver needed it more than him, so he gave it to him. The taxi driver wore the amulet, and gave Ah Beng his wooden cross. Ah Beng put it inside his bag and went inside the hotel.
A black cat passed by and circling Ah Beng's foot in the doorway, Ah Beng wolfed the cat away, he hates cat.
Ah Beng opened the door, and felt a cool breeze, shivered, he saw the window was open, thus he went to close the window and turn on the air condition instead. His room looks like an abandoned temple, with the picture of Thailand King hung on the wall just on top of the bed. Ah Beng put the wooden cross on his bed.
Ah Beng went for bath. He started to sing and closed his eyes while shampooing his hair. He heard creepy disembodied sound accompany his singing. The singing were so bad that he cursed loudly. Suddenly Ah Beng feels like he was being pushed by someone, he slipped on the soap and hit his head. He cursed at the pain, but he is a strong man as his uncle keep telling him to "be a man and don't bring dishonour to our family'' So he stood up despite the pain, when he finally managed to open his eyes, he found the water was bloody red all over his body, he blinked, and the water was soap water once more. He must be too tired, he thought, and he continues his singing. Suddenly he feels slick skinny fingers massaging his scalp, he shivered at its touch, but he let his hand down, allowing those fingers to clean his shampoo from his head. Ah Beng thought to himself "walao, free hair wash service, not bad leh this hotel". When he is done, he collapsed on his bed.
Ah Beng cannot sleep because he missed his imaginary girlfriend back at Singapore. Wait, that's not it. Its the bed side lamp, it keeps flickering. Tick tock...tick tock...as if someone is flickering the switch. "Aiyaa very fan leh" Ah Beng said to himself. He decides to switch off the light, just to realise that the lamp is actually unplugged. He then plugged the lamp to the socket, and the lamp stop flickering. Ah Beng can finally sleep.
Ah Beng feels a chilling presence beside him, pressing him from the left side of his bed. He kept moving rightwards until he fell to the floor. He saw a horrible thing under the bed. It was an abandoned pad thai. He suddenly feels hungry. He tried to grab the food, strangely it smells nice. When he almost brought it to his mouth, he remembered his uncle's advise, to say thanks to god for providing food for him. And so he said his prayers, and the food he was holding turn out to be a chunk of hair. He threw it back in disgust. He heard noises outside, so he opened his door, and saw the black cat again. The black cat jump pass him and went to his room. He just let it be cos he don't hate it so much anymore. He went out to find a bunch of beautiful ladies, holding josstick and inhaling it. A beautiful lady hand him one, and told him it will made him feel good. Ah Beng was reluctant to accept it, he had been a good boy as he never smoked ciggerates before. However, he did feel good when the lady move the josstick closer to him. He no longer feel hungry, in fact he feel happy. He sing and partied with the beautiful lady all night, the josstick made him feels fresh awake like coffee. He must bring the josstick back to Singapore later, he thought.
Finally morning came, and its time for him to check out of the hotel. He sit on a stool waiting for his breakfast, but no waiter respond to him. He was so angry at the waiter he cursed loudly, but the waiter still ignored him. Ah Beng was then distracted by police sirens. The police came to the hotel, and they went upstairs. Ah Beng saw an potential interesting drama and decided to follow suit. The police went to his room, opened the door, and Ah Beng finally see the truth. His naked body was lying on the bathroom floor covered in blood, he broked his skull.
Ah Beng heard a meow, and he turn around to meet the yellow eye of the black cat. A beautiful lady in black dress holding the cat said to Ah Beng "Its time to go".
