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So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Sunday, October 03, 2004

If you guys havent read Lifestyle in the sunday times today, you've missed out on what i feel is one of the funniest article i've read in the longest time.
Well its about silly tactics asian horror filmmakers employ to scare the shit outta us. They listed 10, i shall now give you my favorite 6.

1. Scare with hair
It is absolutely essential that hair on the ghost is straight, black and very long. The rule is this: Cher is scary, Audrey Hepburn is not. So if your spook has a short crop, forget it. Anything gamine would mean game over.
The long hair allows the face to be covered partially, fractionally and sometimes totally like Cousin It, the kooky hair beast from The Addams Family.
That way, when the face is revealed, usually by turning the head very slowly, there is maximum impact. Every self-respecting Asian horror show from The Ring to Ju-On to The Ghost knows this detail; The spirit world has the worst hairstylists. And remember: Black is the only colour. Blonde would make your work a comedy.

2. Sisters are the scariest.
So far, only Ju-On has employed a little boy ghost who liked to sneak out below the table, hide under the blanket and pop up here, there and everywhere. The reason he has no male buddies is because female spooks are scarier. And if you can have two, better still.
Sisters unnerve people. Like Paris and Nicole Hilton. Twins are even spookier. Like Kimi and Karli from The Amazing Race. The Japanese segment, Box, in Three - Extremes and the Korean chiller, The Tale of Two Sisters, will show you this.

3.Use the floor or the ceiling
Previously, the preferred method of movement was to makie the ghost crawl on the floor, like Russell Crowe searching for his booze. But the in-thing now is to hang the spook upside down from teh ceiling like Osama Bin Laden's beard or unshaven armpit.

4. Try not to keep it too dry
What better than a wet dream is a wet nightmare. Which is why The Ring has a spook coming out of the TV dripping wet like she just stepped out of Baywatch.
The Ghost has a drowning sequence and people vomiting more than the Merlion. Dark Water showcases a flooded apartment, a haunted bathtub and a mysterious water tank.
The great thing about water is that not only does your spook look good dripping wet, she would be a hot contender in a wet nightgown contest.

5.Always take the elevator
The scariest scene in The Eye is the one with a terrified Angelica Lee in the elevator with a ghost lurking behind her. Horror in that enclosed space, which so many viewers are familiar with, always pushes the right buttons. There is no escape and worse, sometimes there is still that urine in there to contend with. For instances hwo frightening a lift can be, see Dark Water.

6. Somebody has to be stupid
Your story us no fun if everybody plays it safe. So you must make someone a natural born idiot who is just begging to be scared to death by the supernatural.
Make the moron go to that dark, terrifying place where even the priest from The Exorcist would not go.
In Wishing Stairs, that would be a basement full of scary, life-size body sculptures. In One Missed Call, it is an abandoned hospital with a vengeful ghost.
Vengeance is the key. Everything is always about revenge. Never ever make your ghost go nuts over an unpaid load, an overdue library book or some guy jumping the silly queue.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 4:56 PM

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