{"id":112,"date":"2007-01-21T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-01-21T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T14:46:00","slug":"a-glipse-to-the-dark-side-part-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/a-glipse-to-the-dark-side-part-2-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glipse to the Dark Side Part 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soon after the pontianak clothing burning performance<\/a>, the spectators headed back into the hall. The crowd waited in the dark room. I stood behind a couple. My nose was getting uneasy as I could smell the body odours of all the impatient folks standing all around me.<\/p>\n

The spot light came on. I could see placed in the middle of the room was a table, covered with what looked like a pink silk cloth. On the table was a glass filled with some white stuff. The “master” then walked in. He announced the performance title, “Keris Angkat Beras” translated “Keris holding the rice”. He took out a “keris”. The “keris” is a knife used by Malay warriors in the olden days. I was confused so I asked the couple in front of me what was agenda of the demonstration. It seemed nobody knew anything. Everyone was puzzled with the title.<\/p>\n

The “master” then mumbled some words and put the “keris” into the glass rice. He lifted the glass with only the “keris”. There you have it, “Keris Angkat Beras”. I was still puzzled, so whats the big deal ? Only later when the “master” seeked a volunteer to come up stage and do the same. The volunteer lifted the “keris” and it came out from the glass. How freaky is that ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soon after the pontianak clothing burning performance, the spectators headed back into the hall. The crowd waited in the dark room. I stood behind a couple. My nose was getting uneasy as I could smell the body odours of all the impatient folks standing all around me. The spot light came on. I could see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thru-my-eyes","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}