Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Courage, something we have experienced in life.....

I remember once when I was 5 years old, I was REALLY scared of this video that my big sister showed me. The video was actually mean't to be a lyrics video for a song made by the "backstreet boys" ( yes, at the time I used to like the "back street boys" but now I realised how much I DON'T like them ). But as a matter of fact, the video wasn't as I thought it would be. 

When the video starts, its just what I expected, a bunch of lyrics scrolling down the screen and music playing - but 15 mins into the video, the lyrics start to shrink and shrin k and shrink, which makes it harder to read. But that was actually mean't to happen, the trick was to make me look closer at the computer, and that was exactly what me and my brother did, next thing you know......BOOM! A big hideous disgusting and EXTREMELY scary face pops up in the screen and starts making screaming noises, which doubles my shock, and makes me jump out of my chair and I practically crack my head on the ceiling, but me actually cracking my head was at the least of my worries, I need to get out of the room......FAST. 

Don't watch it!
I'm aware that my brother had the same shocked expression as me when he saw the hideous screaming face which made him scream, but I couldn't hear it over my own scream which rattled my eardrums and I think nearly burst 1 of them, but I didn't care, I tried to run but I accidentally tripped and fell on the floor, by then, my arms felt like water which prevented me from standing up, plus, I was to scared to get up and thought that if I spent to much time doing so, the face on the computer would eat me!!!  So just soon as my brother ran right beside me I hooked onto 1 of his legs with my arms, unlike me, he managed to keep his balance and not trip and fall on the floor, and he even kept running! So in just a few seconds, I'm speeding out of the study room hanging on for dear life on my brother's leg, when my mom and dad stop me. 

I explained the entire situation to my mom and also told her about the scary man on the computer that screamed at me. Then she sends my dad to the study room to X out of the screen so that the video is gone, as for my sister, well she got a big lecture on showing scary video's to me and my brother and how its bad to watch them. Well, I didn't exactly hear the conversation because me and my brother was in my room trembling with fear hoping that we'll never watch a video like that for as long as we live. Well later during dinner, me and my brother were discussing about the video and what the picture was. My sister then explained that the picture was from "Scary Movie 2", and that it was edited in photoshop, but my brother said that it looked like Michael Jackson. We all had a good laugh after that. 


2 years later, my brother and I were still scared of the experience that we had, until my brother came  up with the idea that we should face our fears and watch the video again. I refused at first but after a bit of thinking, I agreed to watch the video with my brother. When the video started, it was just the same old thing, 5 mins past, the words start to shrink, my nerves are being extremely strained by now. The words start to shrink even smaller, man, my nerves are killing me! Here it comes.....Boom! Just as I expected, the face comes up, my eyes bulge, I wanted to scream but I couldn't, but as soon as I'm about to run away, the video ends. Wow, now since I think of it, that video didn't seem as scary as I though it would be, thank god it was over, i'm just glad that i've conquered my fears and for me, thats all that matters. 


P.S Just don't tell me to watch it AGAIN, that video gave me nightmares for days and i'm trying to get rid of the memory, if YOU want to watch it, take this  as a warning not to!  


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5 comments:

  1. FUNNY STORY! WHERE DID YOUR SISTER GET THE LYRIC TRICK? IM GOING TO DO IT ON MY SISTER!

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  2. I think your really good at writing and describing. I also like the lol cat pics they are really funny! How old was your brother and sister? Were you living in America and if you were which city? Did you really get dragged by your brother like that or did you put that in for more effect?

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  3. well Gabriel, my sister got the video from a website called funnyjunk.com, when I took a peek of what the video was called, I saw these words "Watch This!". But I was quite stupid at the time so I didn't really ask my sister what it was about, but I really don't encourage people to show it to their siblings, because, when I watched it, It scarred me for LIFE. But maybe I can email a different video to you, actually its not really a video, its this scary slideshow that my dad sent to me and is basicly the same thing except that their is no sound. Its not as scary, but it oughta do the trick.

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  4. What's up Gerald!? I just finished reading your blog post, I was laughing for the whole time! I've also had that experience where my brother showed those kind of videos. I really like your writing because the story has funny details that led me to imagine of what your face expression was looking like in that event. But I think you should be more in your title about courage, I really liked your story but your courage part was very little. So that's it from me, good job!

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  5. Hi Gerald,

    Read your blog post and I was laughing so loud that my parents heard me and thought I was going insane or something. Anyways your blog post was nice, it was descriptive and easy to read, your writing made it seem I was really there. This story is one good examples of showing courage. Oh and yeah I did use your photo in my blog... I didn't steal it... I borrowed it... Anyways good job! =)

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