Last month, I blogged about the so-called [CLICK HERE TO READ] 'pontianak' of KM 42 Bukit Tinggi, a Youtube video that has been circulating around the Malaysian websphere and Facebook (and goodness knows elsewhere). If you forgot (or don't know) what it is, a 'pontianak' is something like a Southeast Asian vampire. To celebrate the one-month anniversary of that post, I now introduce to you the Malaysian pontianak's sister, the BRUNEIAN pontianak. Watch the video below.
To those of you who don't understand Bruneian Malay dialect, here's the story: Two friends were deep in conversation outside at 4.05 a.m. Another friend (let's call him 'The Narrator'), was bored to death and started filming things around them, complaining the whole time(boring eh! boring eh! surely you understand this part *wink*). After greeting random footwear (hai selipar!), he interrupted the conversation to ask where Boy was ('Boy' is a common nickname here). Turned out that Boy was already asleep somewhere inside the house. The Narrator then continued filming before pausing when he saw a hovering white figure in the background, a few metres away from the conversing friends. At this point he began muttering uncontrollably, even uttering a few religious words before urging his friends to enter the house as fast as they could. When awareness kicked in, the three of them ran with all their might. None of them had enough courage to close the door, and The Narrator still continued filming everything. The video ended with a shot of Boy, soundly sleeping throughout the whole event.
VERDICT: FAKE FAKE FAKE. The whole video looks very innocent when you watch it for the first time, as if the three friends were all caught unawares, sending them into a frenzy. But the thing that alerted me was the fact that The Narrator STARTED his filming from somewhere near the spot the pontianak supposedly appeared. Go ahead and re-watch the whole thing. That means he, possibly with the help of another friend (maybe Boy), had the white figure all set up. And the second thing that alerted me was that The Narrator seemed to be 'expecting' something while filming. You can just feel it.
Language aside, I find the video to be kinda funny, in a sort of dark comedy manner (can't think of any other classification). I love it! This video is actually far older than the video I posted previously, probably three or four years old if I'm not mistaken. Perhaps older. The person who posted this video on Youtube has a disclaimer on the page saying that this is not his video.
Thumbs up for the non-existence of sparkles or glitter.
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