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Saturday, 14 November 2009

Mr Bu

Then one night, he gasped loudly, stood up, spun around and exclaimed "When the moon hits three-quarters for the five hundred and twenty third time, I shall be released!"

All the nurses were a shock, of course; after all, this elderly Mr Bu Min Jie had been in a catatonic state for about 40 years now. Watching Mr Bu dance around the ward, even those nurses who had been caring of Mr Bu felt like celebrating with him.

He was admitted to the hospital after being found unconscious in the middle of the road. When he woke up in the hospital, almost one year later, he was catatonic. They thought it might have been a traffic accident which caused him to suffer from some bad trauma to his head. Brain-specialists took turns to target their enthusiasm at him. It seemed like they scanned his brains almost every time the machine was available, but they discovered nothing.

He didn't have any identification, nor anybody missing him enough to identify him, so, they named him Mr B (after his ward). Over the years, the nurses, with the combination of their own inside jokes, extended his name to Mr Bu Min Jie.

Little did anybody know the truth was that he actually belonged to a world, that existed halfway between the ground to the sky, that could not be seen by the psychically-indisposed. He was cursed by a spell-binder, who cut a magic manhole in the ground of that world, from which Mr Bu was kicked out from, with a left foot, into this world. Mr Bu had tried to rob the spell-binder's wife. His real name was Dan (which meant "egg").

(sneak.)

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