An unusual guest

This posting has nothing to do with fengshui and before I continue. Let me pre-warned you, what you are going to read next is something got to do with the unnatural phenomenon. Therefore, if you think that you have a weak heart or you are someone who is dreadful of unnatural phenomenon, my advise to you is to give this blog a miss. However, if you choose to continue to read. You are reading at your own risk! Please note that I will NOT be liable for anything that may happen or arise!

Like what I always believe in, thing happened for a reason.

Okay, let me begin......This afternoon my friend msn-ed me, he was sharing with me that his wife's Uncle passed away after a long struggle, this uncle was suffering from a terminal illness. And before he passed away, he "created" miracles despite that he was very sick.

"So what miracles did he create?", you ask. Well, he survived for the last 3 years! Initially, Doctors did not pin too high hope for that kind of terminal illness, they thought that he would not have lived that long but he had proven them otherwise. His strong will to live had made him through for the last 3 years. To cut the story short, during the last 3 years, he had fulfilled so many wishes.

Now, back to the conversation which I had with my friend in the msn chat box. My friend was sharing with me that prior to the news of that uncle passed away, my friend was in his living room and he saw an unwelcome "guest" on top of TV console, it was a praying mantis. He said that the sighting of praying mantis did not make him feel good. In fact, he had an uneasy feeling.

Despite that unwelcome "guest" on top of TV console, my friend caught it and set it free. After that, it did not take him very long to hear the sad news....

Talking about insects, I am going to relate another similar incident which had happened to me. It was 9 years ago, and I was living in Australia back then.

I remember that incident happened sometime near winter period, it was still cold. One afternoon, while I was in my room, I looked out out of my window and I saw an unwelcome guest sticking outside my window panel. It was a HUGE grasshopper! Gosh...I have never seen such a huge grasshopper in my entire life before, it was unusual big, about 4 inches long!

Anyway, I did not pay much attention to that grasshopper as my windows were closed, there was no way that it could make it through my room. I thought it would go away to search for food some time later. So the day passed quickly without me realising that it was already night fall, and before I knew the next thing, it was already morning!

What surprised me was the grasshopper, it was still there sticking onto my window panel. To think that it had survived the cold night out there and the most amazing thing was, it did not even move from it's original position when I first saw it. Strange I thought. And that grasshopper continue to stay put on that position during the second night.

The next morning, the grasshopper was no longer there. I felt good for a while, finally that grasshopper had left! But that good feeling was short-lived. What shocked me was the grasshopper was laying lifeless outside my kitchen balcony. I was speechless for a moment.

Soon, this unusual phenomenon made me felt uneasy. I started to worry for my elderly grandmother whom was back in Singapore. But I did not call back home to check, as I did not want to alarm my family on my unusual encounter. What I could do was to ICQ with my cousin to check everything was alright. Phew, I felt a great relief when my cousin told me that grandmother was good.

Well, for the rest of my stay there, there was no bad news from my family or relatives. When I finally made it home (Singapore) after my graduation. At one of my usual Sundays gathering with relatives, one of my cousins asked me a weird question, "Didn't you realise that someone is not with us?" I was puzzled for a split second and I could not name anyone in particular. What happened next was a shocking news to me, an Uncle passed away during my absence.

And guess what? The time he passed away is believed to be the same time when I saw the grasshopper sticking on my window panel in Australia. Maybe that was him trying to bid farewell to me.