This is a true story of a young college girl, Priya who passed away last month at Shah Alam. She was hit by a lorry. I don’t want to mention the name of the college. She had a boyfriend named Shankar. He lives in Johore. Both of them are true lovers. They are always on the phone with each other. You can never see her without her hand phone.
She spends much of the day talking with Shankar. Priya’s family knows about their relationship. Shankar is very close with Priya’s family (just imagine their love). She used to tell her friends that if she happens to pass away she would like to be cremated together with her hand phone. She also said the same thing to her parents.
When she died, people couldn’t carry her coffin. I was there, many of them tried to do so but still couldn’t , everybody including me had tried to carry the coffin, the result was still the same.
Eventually, they called their neighbour, a “bomoh” from Thailand (Pak Darin), who is a friend of her father. He took a seat and started speaking to himself slowly. After a few minutes, he said “this girl misses something here”. Then her friends told Darin bout her intentions to burn her with her phone. He then opened the coffin and placed her phone together with the SIM card inside the casket.
After that they tried to carry the coffin. It could now be moved and they carried it into the van easily. All of us were shocked. (can you feel the fear? I’m shaking at this moment.)
Priya’s parents didn’t inform Shankar that Priya had passed away (pity Shankar). After 2 weeks Shankar called Priya’s mom.
Shankar: “Atte, I’m coming home today. Please cook something nice for me. Don’t tell Priya that I’m coming home today; I want to surprise her.”
Her mother replied, “You come home first, I want to tell you something very important.”
After he arrived at Shah Alam, they told him the truth about Priya. Shankar thought that they were fooling around. He was laughing and said, “Don’t try to fool me … tell Priya to come out …… I have a gift for her. Please stop this nonsense.”
Then they show him the Priya’s death certificate; they gave him proof to make him believe.
Shankar started to sweat profusely. He said, “It’s not true. We spoke yesterday. She still calls me.
Shankar was shaking so badly when suddenly, his phone rang.”See this is from Priya. See this …….” he showed the phone to Priya’s family. All of them told him to answer. He used the loudspeaker mode.All of them heard this conversation, loud and clear. No cross lines, no humming.
It was Priya’s voice! And there was no way others could use her SIM card as it was nailed inside the coffin!
They were so shocked and asked for pak Darin’s help.
Pak Darin brought his master (Tok Chen) to solve this matter. He and Pak Darin worked for 5 hours ….. then they discovered one thing …….
Learning English by Uncle Teng 