Exorcist

The occupants of the apartments are from various varied background. Some fit very well into this enclosed community while others do not fit well, some are just ‘unsociable’, not in themselves but in reality not knowing how to behave when living in this sort of strange (to them) community. This is especially so to the Malay girls and boys who probably have been raised in remote Malay kampong or a far away felda scheme where the majority ate Malays like themselves. They find that this enclosed community is (they think) easy to fool around with in a way, and they misbehave or misuse the facilities available. They think that by misbehaving or misuse the facilities they are being clever, but they are misfits.

They rent an apartment, with say 6 to 8 of them in one apartment, they may stay out late (or work late) and may come back in the wee hours of the morning, where they (being unsociable) will make a lot of noise making other tenants in the block or in the nearby apartment not able to sleep. That ‘bravo’ behaviour’ makes them feel ‘important’, they get attention. This for the boys but for the girls, well ……… they may even be GRO type, living on immoral earnings some of them do. What they do not realize is that they are being watched by the other tenants or occupants of other apartments.

What had happened, I suppose even the spirits in the building are taking note of their ‘misfit’ behaviour. And on a couple of occasions they get hysteria (disturbed by the spirits) in the middle of the night or even in the early morning hours. In their unconscious behaviour they struggle and break things. And if not restrained by their friends they may even jump off the building (Allah forbid). And of course when they are disturbed by the spirits, an exorcist has to be called. Luckily the security people know an exorcist specialist around this area and so he gets called. Sure, he says, there are spirits living nearby. And he suggests that in order to rid the area of the spirits (may be more than one have disturbed those Malay youths), he will need to slaughter a goat in the apartment area. Well ………………. Would the management allow that? To me, it would be easier to get rid of the misfits rather than the spirits.


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