Kuching, the Mysterious Land

Woke up dreaming halfway, it was about 7am. I slept again and presumed my dream until I finally woke up again at 9.

So I was thinking about my former classmates from my private Chinese high school when I read about them in my facebook home wall. I was looking down at them seeing how they end up today. Little did I knew, I dreamed about them in my first dream. So here it is -

I was in a classroom. Seems like my old classroom back in high school. I was in a middle of an exam. Seems like I have to write an essay in Mandarin. Oh Man! Mandarin is my weakest language!

So I barely wrote anything. I was getting really uncomfortable so I move around in the classroom and I was scolded reprimanded my my teacher (my old math teacher). I gave her some excuse which I cannot remember well. I felt really uncomfortable getting back into high school as this was a worse part of my life.

Let's move on to the second dream, the main one.

I was in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak. Seems like I was travelling there with my friends who accompanied me to Lahad Datu a month ago. I cannot remember how many of us are there exactly. I think about 5 of us.

We were in a building, a government building. It was having an exhibition on something. Not sure it is about an animal or a board game. I was happy to be invited together with my friends under the leadership of Shave, one of us.

He was recently invited to organize a workshop in a school in Singapore so maybe that it why I dreamed about him.

It was about afternoon when we walked on a pedestrian bridge to get across the road to reach a small hotel. We stopped in the middle of the bridge to look at the view of the city from up here. I remember crossing this bridge the last time I visited Kuching alone. Which isn't true in real life. I saw two familiar government buildings which have some large beautiful architectural designs. Which I have never seen in Kuching before. 

The buildings reminds me of these buildings in the photo which I have been to. Although the mosque-like building in my dream has a lot of golden arch-like structures outside the windows as decorations. 

I also saw a large bus on the road. It is under the TransTedar transporation company. It has the same black and red color theme of the company buses except that the bus design is different. It was a very strange bus with a unique design. Just imagine that there is this large bus which is very wide so it has more seats inside it. The roof is actually transparent as it is made out of glass but there are some steel bands in between to reinforce its strength. So I can basically see the inside of the bus from up here. However, the bus seems to be empty.

Looks something like this bus

We continued our walk to reach the hotel which is just nearby. The next scene is at the hotel. The hotel is just one small building connected to other shops. It is a simple concrete hotel only about 5 storey tall. It looks white or grey in color too.

It was late at night. I think already past midnight. We were kind of hungry so we went found out that the restaurant is not closed yet, maybe it is even newly opened. We saw that there are a lot of fresh food in there so we looked for a long family wooden table against the wall at the back of the restaurant. It is a very small Malay food restaurant, almost as large as a big sitting room.

We all sat down and realize one of us is missing. One of the girls was not here. We were worried because it can be very dangerous at night where evilness comes out. Her friend told us she was going out to the forest across the road (she named the forest something like 'mystical forest' but I cannot remember well).

We were really worried because that forest is a very dangerous place. Why on Earth she would go there alone in the middle of the night!? I told them I will be going to the forest to look for her.

Before entering the forest, I received a vision. I had a vision of a man with a beak or a crocodile snout in the forest. So I dressed up like a shaman, wearing something over my mouth, making it look like a beak. I crossed the pedestrian bridge again and got to the other side. It was a small forest land where I found a gigantic long boulder with a large gap underneath something like a cave.

I walked into the cave and saw a lot of spirits / ghosts, all dressed colorfully with style. Seems like they are having a party. I cannot remember how I found my friend in there but I do remember that she looks like a ghost, with long hair running down and probably in a trance or sleepwalk. I escorted her out like a shaman. I walked behind her and lead her to the direction back. Nobody seems to suspect me. And I think we have come to the end of the dream.