Lao Voices

I saw my younger sister last week and she told me that my GI Joe sister is raising Pee Heih (ghost) now a day; Salat thought it was odd when she released fish on her birthday. What she does doesn’t surprise me anymore, but this is an odd one to me, who would have thought that she’d raise a ghost inside her home. My younger sister giggled, and she said, “she has it sitting on her dining room table, she has to pat, rub his mouth, feed, and talk to it everyday.” Crazy I thought to myself, I knew my GI Joe sister is into all these stuff, she even has Jatukarm Ramathep amulet, but this is a bit extreme, this I have to see.

I went to visit her yesterday, also visited my younger sister to see her new water lily/fish pond on her deck, which is really pretty, her deck was somewhat high, above head level, and I’m sure her pond is heavy. After the visit with my younger sister, I walked over to my GI Joe sister’s house; they live right near each other, backyard joined.

My GI Joe sister was at home, so she led me to her kitchen. The Pee Heih was two statues. They look somewhat like a strange creature, she has two of them, and I guess in pairs to keep each other companies incase that she is not there to talk to them. So I asked, “Why did they call it Pee Heih, they don’t look like any ghost that I’ve heard about?” She looked confuse, she said, “what are you talking about?” I then told her about what my younger sister said, she started to laugh and said, “I’m not crazy!” I looked at her and thought to myself, really, and what do you call this?

She called it Pei Shir (not Pee, or ghost), and she got them from the man on the Thai TV that she watched, the same man that told her about the releasing of fish on her birthday. She has to treat them as if they were alive and as her pet; which means that she has to pat them on their heads and tails, and also has to feed them with water and money (coins), but can’t touch their mouths because they’ll suck all your money, it was too late for me, because I already touched their mouths. The man also told her that she has to talk to them, the happier that they are the more positive energy that they’ll radiant and will make her happy and also very, very rich.

I’m smiling at this, you have to understand that my GI Joe sister also has the Jatukarm Ramathep lucky charm, I’m not sure if it’s the edition that would make her enormously rich, but she truly believes that it’ll bring her lots of good luck, and she believes in fortune telling as well, lets just say that her life revolves around this, and she lives according to this. Below are the photos of her Pei Shir, and also her Jatukarm Ramathep lucky charm and posters.

I found something that looks very similar to what she has, it’s called Fo Dog/Chi Lin, there are four designs of of Chi Lin Products by different for Feng Shui. In Chinese Feng Shui, these magnificently standing Kei Loons are deigned to be guardians of the home. Legend has it that they were originally guardians of the gates of heaven. Possessing the head of a dragon and the body of a horse, the carp like scales on its body holds a mythical tale. Traditionalists refer to this creature as the Chinese Unicorn. The one that she has look like Double Fuzhou Lions.

She is my sister, what can I say, she likes odd stuff, and I like to write about odd stuff, I think we get along just fine, don’t you think. I then asked her, “Have you talk to them yet?” she said, “No, I just got it and have been busy so I didn’t have time to talk to them yet.”, so this is her story, what do you think of it?