Not Just Another Pretty Face: I hear dead people!

Thursday, April 19, 2007

I hear dead people!

*BANG BANG BANG!!*

I jolted awake in shock and automatically checked my mobile phone for the time- 4.55 am. WT%&*@#? In my semi-concious state I wondered if someone had really just knocked violently on my door or I had dreamt it.

Then I saw a sliver of bright, flourescent light shining through the crack under my door. My housemate must be awake. Crap, what now, I groaned silently. Groggily, I got out of bed, stumbled through the quasi-darkness and opened my door to see...

My housemate holding a badminton racket with two hands like a baseball bat and looking around our hall like she expected someone to pounce on her any minute! (It seems hilarious now, but I wasn't very amused at that time, what with an important appointment at work the next day)

She claimed she heard some sounds coming from the roof and suspected that there was someone trying to break in/do something funny/practise Tai-Chi on our roof. So she banged on my door to check with me if I had heard anything.

Caught up in her bout of paranoia, we waited for the guards (which she had telephoned) to come and "check" our apartment's roof. Basically they came, walked one round around our hall, told us they didn't have any ladders to do any clambering and claimed the noise was just rats scampering around the ceilingboards. (which quite possibly, they were)

I only went back to bed at 5.45 am and didn't sleep a wink until about 15 mins before my alarm clock went off.

That was yesterday night. Today I'm terribly fatigued and counting the days till I can move out.