Spooky experiences

Its friday evening. No lab meeting. Life has never been this nice on a friday evening in a long time now. Reminds me of the statement that Aria had made last week.."Weekend to har week aata hai na" Right now relaxing to Shaan's "Woh pehli baar, jum hum mile".. So well, Haloween is just around the corner..[I dont dare think of diwali..as many of the junta here will bury me alive, if I have another post on food n diwali:p] I have always found the concept of "Halloween" kinda wierd, coz scaring away people is not the best thing to do, as a child.Totally discouraged by parents! But, I was taken aback when my almost 3 yr old nephew Aryan celebrated "Haloween"at his play school, in Bombay!! I had no clue what it meant until I came here. Well, wow..haloween-diwali-christmas..India celebrates it all! When I was a little child and even while I was growing up, I was not particularly good friends with ghosts (bhoots). I somehow used to beleive that ghosts do exist and if I did not study they would take me away:p I would also beleive that they came only at nights! So, at one time, I think when I was in 5th standard or so..me and my cousins were all watching this scary movie by our very old "Ramsay Brothers"..named "Aakhri Cheekh"! Our parents were all gone to some realtives place and we decided that we would watch this movie especially when none was around to watch us. That was a fourth floor apt and a 5 bedroom house. Just the 4 of us..ekdum "sannata".. I still remember that movie just like any other Ramsay movie, as usual started off with a lonely street at night with only a jeep and it somehow always stops at or near a graveyeard!!!! So, well we all sisters tightly clinged to each other, during the movie coz none of us were brave enuf to watch the terrified looking bhoot..with a mask that almost look like an unwashed-face pack. By the end of movie, me and my youngest cousin were in tears and were freaky scared to even go to the bathroom to take a shower (remember, just when the heroine in these movies enters the shower, instead of water, the shower will have all blood) So, all of us decided to sleep in one room for that night! None of us wanted to sleep alone and of course, since no elders were there..who will beat up the bhoot if it enters the house?:) The night progressed and there was an eerie silence. To add to the already grave situation, the window was slightly cracked and it started to rattle in the middle of night. Just outside, we had the "peepul ka tree" Thats it! This episode had occured when I was barely 11 years of age. It was enuf to cause a profound influence on my mind. After that I have never indulged into watching any hindi scary movie, especially coz my sister who was the oldest of us, got a sound bashing from elders. She was supposed to have controlled us against watching that kinda movie. After that, I had resolved not to watch any horror movie and I stuck to that for almost 13 years! I broke my resolve when I watched this "Vaastushastra" movie..One of my friends, Gaurav who can actually beat the life out of you by making wierd faces and actually imitating the bhoot! The movie was absoultely stupid, nevertheless by the end of it, I was crying, coz of the ambience the time of the night. I was scared to even drive alone at 2:00 AM. I reached home and started checking all the closets for presence of any "bhoot" in my house! That was almost 8 mths back or so, and even today, if I reach home on a friday or a saturday night beyond 1:00 AM, I make sure am on the phone talking to someone until I get home, just in case you know! I check all the closets and drawers. Switch on all the lights at home and play the music! I dont know why I do that, but I have no reasoning for that. The peepal ka tree still freaks me out! I still think that "aatma"(souls) talk, that bhoots are always dressed in "white". Even now, I can't be in alone in a gross anatomy lab that has "human skeleton", especially at nights. Of course, if I cant take hindi shows, its next to impossible for me to take any "Silence of the lambs, Evil Death" and movies such as that.. So this year, I have resolved that I am going to visit the "Haunted House"with my friends, just to get over my "bhoo-phobia" Hopefully, I should be able to survive that so that I can come and blog about diwali:D, the next day:)) Anyhow, I am already getting spooked and to top that..I have to go shower as well!