Tues 13 May
Maybe SPI might want to bring their measuring counters & stuff there. Or maybe these instruments won't be able to measure a thing.
Prior to entering into such things, I always think positively & realistically & walk calmly as though I don't know it's there. There is no need to run.
At about 9.30pm tonight, we just finished buying stuff from the NTUC @ ARC & were on our way to the Labrador MRT. I felt a bit bloated from the spaghetti dinner I made & saw that the full moon was beautiful & bright.
Been wanting to go up to the nearby Berlayer Creek roof top for a while now, but every time some students or people will be there. Tonight, saw that there was nobody. Perfect to view the moon.
Bro was reluctant as we made our way to it after coming down from the overhead bridge to the MRT.
There was a smell as we approached. Probably the decomposing vegetation around. It smelled of urine so I guessed maybe some people come here at midnight & hang around. But I said nothing while glancing around the dark area with the vegetation behind & some plants around. Best to say nothing.
Bro said it was smelly just as we stepped into the area from the MRT.
The place really needs some proper lighting. The darkness is unacceptable & dangerous. The lamp post at the side don't even work.
I looked up & the moon was so bright like a halogen light with four shots of light around it. Very clear & cloudless sky tonight.
My idea was to go up to the rooftop & splat myself on my back on the wooden floor to relax looking up at the night sky & moon.
As we approached the ramp, bro was talking about Bestway having 3 storeys in the past & I told him jokingly to stop talking about Bestway coz he had been talking about it earlier. He said, "Happy time mah.".
As we went up the ramp, he said they sold very excellent top quality wood furniture unlike the Ikea now. I said, "Orh, like Pine like that?". He said, "Yeah.". Then he suddenly didn't say anything anymore.
I was also preoccupied with something while walking.
These tendrils of overgrown plants on the right wall kept sticking out top & bottom. Quite annoying. Don't they prune them? They are completely overgrown. Not only that, the wall was emitting heat from having absorbed the heat during the day. Quite warm on our right side. We were on the longest ramp section & it seemed a rather long way more to go even though I could see the end.
More than that, the more I walked up, the greater the sense of foreboding ahead. Something was in front & the feeling grew stronger with every step. This is not the first time I have felt this way about a place. I preferred to think that it was caused by the wall of overgrown plants along our right.
Just as I was considering whether to continue, Bro said, "Got funny feeling.".
Straightaway, no questions asked, I turned around (with sudden weird & brief goosebumps) & we proceeded to get down.
If he had not said it, I might still have ignored my feeling & continued to the top. But that is a big Maybe because the feeling was quite strong. I may have turned back anyway without him saying it.
When we turned around, Bro said, "Walk faster.". So we did. I got that sudden, brief goosebumps again. He bumped against me & I could feel him hurrying beside me, practically almost going to run if I wasn't there. I chuckled because it was funny even though I understood how he felt (although I didn't feel it).
As we reached back to the start of the first short ramp, he exclaimed with a relief-releasing chuckle that it was a "Clementi re-enactment" (referring to our grandmother's Clementi block in the past where separately as kids, we used to feel there was something pursuing behind us every time we used the stairs alone. Only recently when we talked about it, did we realize we had felt the same thing, except I was calmer at that time because I was older & same as now, preferred not to show my fear. I was able to control my reactions better than bro who said he had flown down the staircases at that time and didn't care if he scraped his small hand on the railings.).
When we returned to the MRT, he said he had felt a presence behind along a part/turn of the ramp, but when he turned, there was no one there. He dismissed it but the feeling returned at another part & again there was no one there.
I said I had felt nothing behind, but it was in front.
But either way, we both agreed the feeling was rather strong & disturbing. He said he wasn't even thinking of anything about the place at the time while happily recounting the happy times of the Bestway emporium.
I said, I had already considered there might be something there when there was that urine smell when we approached, that's why I didn't mention it. He said, "Then you still want to go??!". I said, "Aiyah. Just calmly walk, it's Ok.".
Back home, I said I turned back with him no questions asked when he said "got funny feeling". He agreed it was the first time there was no protest from me. I said, coincidentally when he said it, I was also feeling the same thing.
We both agree there is something there. He said even that one time when we went in the hot afternoon, he also didn't feel good about it. Hmm... well, I admit it wasn't great at that time (too hot weather), but... it didn't feel the way it did tonight. Maybe it's the wall of overgrown plants tonight? He denies it's the plants. He said he wasn't even thinking of the plants. He had dismissed the plants since it's no big deal during army. It was something following behind.
When there are such feelings when we go to a place, I always tell bro that people buying new houses should hire us (I said so on our way walking back home). But they hire Fengshui "masters". But we can charge cheaper. But then these days, it's BTO apartments. Don't even get to see or choose the houses they buy even though spend more than half a million. Absurd. It's worse than buying beauty boxes.
Just now, Bro explained clearer than we were just going up the last longest ramp when he felt a presence coming up the ramp below us. He turned to look back but there was no one there. He dismissed it since I didn't show any notice of it and continued walking behind me.
But suddenly, the presence was just behind him as we went up the ramp. He turned back again to look but again, nobody there. That's when he said, "Got funny feeling.".
At that point, he thinks the presence must have then gone in front of me. That's when I felt a strong/stronger sense of foreboding in front the more I went up. That presence was trying to prevent us from going up. Perhaps, it was on ground level, but saw us coming closer & it rushed up to stop us.
That would be the only explanation that matches with what we were feeling at that time.
Bro thinks it's better not to disobey that feeling. Perhaps there is something wrong along that ramp. Better to stop & turn back.
I said I didn't feel anything behind us. I agree there is something there, but perhaps, he had heightened the feeling that it was chasing us out from behind? Well, he admits perhaps he had heightened his feelings although he doubts it. On my part, I also think perhaps, he has keener senses than me regarding such things because I shut such things out.
I told him about the stone steps of a Japanese castle. I said if he thought the Clementi stairs were horrible, these stone steps are much worse. If he were there, he would feel like wanting to run up those steep stone steps at the risk of falling off. The feeling is very strong that there is something behind (waiting for you to fall while you climb). He said I had never mentioned it before. I said I just ignore it. (It's not something of importance compared to the overall beauty & experience & probably just my imagination. It actually took a lot of will power to just ignore it at that time).
I don't know whether the stone steps are the originals or reconstructed, but there is definitely something there. It was bad enough that I told myself at that time, that I don't want to be going down those steps again when I go down. There has to be another way down.
