chi seen

Johnny organized an impromptu housewarming party on Thursday night, where the BODs were pompously showered with tonnes of nutritious food like greasy chickens, carbonized sausages, fried [insert food], beers and many more.

I brought along my camera for that event, you know, just in case anything happens and I will have more stories to impress more girls remember.

Then there comes one particular moment, where PukeMachine and Henry were working their asses off to heat up the charcoal stove, while the rest of us were just having beers. Some of the BODs suggested me to take a photo of them so that their grandkids would remember these barbecue pit heroes.

I took the pic, forgotten about it and continued drinking. But when I got home later in the evening, I discovered that I had captured something more than just my friends PukeMachine and Henry - there were some few hundred ghostly orbs flying around PukeMachine’s smirking face and around the dark sky. I was like - Wooooo !

And because it wasn’t something that people get to see everyday, I went to show the picture around office the next morning to impress my colleagues. All of them were needless to say - thrilled.

One of my colleague - Elliot - even commented that the orbs were probably some ‘Chi‘ energies emanated by the nature to signify that the dragon is getting horny kind of shit (I actually forgot what he said). It usually appears when one’s practicing the ‘Chi Qung’… an ancient Chinese art of controlling the energy flow. (you know, smoke billowing from their heads and laser display) - and Elliot said he used to practice ‘Chi Qung’ a lot.

My respond?
“No shit… you better be right about this, because I’m going tell everyone about this Chi thing”.

Right, I began to distribute the picture to my fellow BODs. I was so into explaining my first paranormal picture, writing it like an X-Files script writer… ending the mail with a phrase about Elliot’s ‘Chi’ description.

But not long after sending it out, my friend Ricky replied with a rather disappointing news - that those orbs are just some very minute detail of lights reflected from the ashes flying off the barbecue pit. That bugger even accompanied his mail with a similar picture he took - and the so called ‘orbs’ looked exactly the same !

It was so embarrassing.

Later that afternoon, I met Elliot again. I decided to tease him about his ‘Chi Qung’.

“Elliot, you said you’re a ‘Chi Qung’ apprentice, right ?”
“Yeah, many years ago”
“Have you cooked a cow before?”
“Huh?”
“You know, those Chi energies that beams out like microwaves - cooking a cow…”
“Oh man, you must have been watching too much movies”
“And your mom probably don’t have to use gas or oven. You just ‘Chi’ everything up”
“Hey! The ‘Chi Qung’ is a good stuff… ok?”
“Yeah, and it emits orbs.”

And I began to mimic some of the sounds from the X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter scene in Star Wars. I picked on him for almost the whole day - each time I see him, I’ll say something like this to him

“Hey Elliot, have you ever flew up a 20 storey building with your ‘Chi’ before ?”

Chi my ass.
Chi Seen.