Sunday, January 24, 2010
Something unusual happened that day
Uncle Sam and Aunt Susie treated their nephews and nieces: Rachael, Shenise, Royston and I for a vacation to Bangkok during our school holiday in the first week of December in the year 2008. I was feeling very elated as this was the first time going to Bangkok and we were taking an airplane there. On the 1st day, we took a tour around the streets of Bangkok and saw many shops, as we were walking past the shops, something glittering caught our aunt's eye - it was a Red Ruby ring! Though we saw it at first sight, but I was wondering how could it be sold at such a street stall?
The ring was made of real crystal Ruby, and it looks quite ancient like about a decade ago. When Aunt Susie asked about the price of the ring, the seller quoted the price of $30 in Singapore currency. Wow! That was very cheap! Without hesitation, she paid the seller straight away. We then took a good look at the ring that Aunt Susie bought. It looked suspicious and perhaps due to our imagination, it looked like it was dripping with blood. Aunt Susie took the ring and admired it and after doing so, put on the ring. Later in the evening, we went for a buffet in the hotel, and what shocked us was that Aunt Susie actually kept filling up her plate with food which was not what her personal character was, as she always wanted to maintain a good and slim figure, by not eating so much. And she also acts as though she was drunk and kept laughing. Now our aunt we saw before our eyes was a completely different person. But we thought our aunt is just in a good mood after she bought the ruby ring so she had a good appetite. After we finished eating, we went back to the hotel room. When Aunt Susie took off the ring so that she could go to the toilet for a shower, Aunt Susie looked like she just woke up from a daze and started vomiting out all the food she ate at the buffet.
The ring was made of real crystal Ruby, and it looks quite ancient like about a decade ago. When Aunt Susie asked about the price of the ring, the seller quoted the price of $30 in Singapore currency. Wow! That was very cheap! Without hesitation, she paid the seller straight away. We then took a good look at the ring that Aunt Susie bought. It looked suspicious and perhaps due to our imagination, it looked like it was dripping with blood. Aunt Susie took the ring and admired it and after doing so, put on the ring. Later in the evening, we went for a buffet in the hotel, and what shocked us was that Aunt Susie actually kept filling up her plate with food which was not what her personal character was, as she always wanted to maintain a good and slim figure, by not eating so much. And she also acts as though she was drunk and kept laughing. Now our aunt we saw before our eyes was a completely different person. But we thought our aunt is just in a good mood after she bought the ruby ring so she had a good appetite. After we finished eating, we went back to the hotel room. When Aunt Susie took off the ring so that she could go to the toilet for a shower, Aunt Susie looked like she just woke up from a daze and started vomiting out all the food she ate at the buffet. Uncle Sam quickly knocked on our door and told us to come. We saw Aunt Susie vomit as Uncle Sam asked anxiously, "What's wrong, honey?" Our 10 year old cousin, Rachael, said, "Aunt Susie must be under a spell!" The next day, Uncle Sam went to the stall that sold the ring and asked the seller about the ring as he suspected that the ring had something to do with Aunt Susie's vomiting. The seller then told him about the strange origin of the red ring. He said, "This ring was actually from a beggar on the road who was very hungry as he had not eaten for days and he had only this red ring. Until one day, he met a kind woman who traded the ring for some money. Then as the beggar ran across the road to buy food to eat, he suddenly got knocked down by a car. The woman who had the red ring witnessed this tragic accident gave this red ring to me and so this is actually a ring of a dead man." After hearing this story, Uncle Sam brought us to the beggar's tomb and did some rituals for the beggar and returned the ring to him. Thereafter, nothing happened to Aunt Susie anymore.
After we went back to Singapore, I felt it strange that such things can happen in this modern world. After this incident, we cousins learnt a lesson that is not to buy jewelry from an improper shop, especially our female cousins. And of course I don't wear jewelry myself. This was indeed something unusual that happened that day.
