i'm a big scaredy-cat. i'm not a fan of horror films or any disturbing image that will coincidentally flash in my mind at night, when the lights are out and everybody else is asleep except me. however, there are some things that scare me more than the usual monster that hides under the bed. these are:

1. sadako

for those who've seen "the ring", sadako has been a part of our nightmares which are recalled to reality everytime we hear a sudden phone call or catch a glimpse of a vhs tape or a tv with no signal. no other long-haired, white gown-wearing girl can scare me like this villain-slash-victim who pops out of the tv and then crawls with her nail-less fingers towards the screaming victim. and what scares me the most is that one never really knows what the hell sadako does to the poor victim to end up with an eerie post-mortem face. she just stands in front, maybe show her eyes (yeeep!) and then voila! the next morning, you find the victim with that startled, contorted face that I don't even want to describe right now. and you know what's funny? even if the first installment scared the living daylights out of me, i still watched the entire ring trilogy.

2. the sto. niño

i can't understand why they would make an old-looking kid in a stiff triangular dress with tons of shiny accessories as the icon of the child Jesus. for me there are two types of sto. niños. first is the one with the gaudy triangle dress, crown and holding a scepter or globe with cross on top. this version is usually small in size so that it fits the mini-altars in your homes. the other is the chubby type, dressed in simple top and shorts and bearing a long cross. this version is usually large in size and found in chapels or in commercial establishments (for luck??). but whatever type or size it is, the image of that eerie serene face with its big eyes and curly hair staring at me is one of the things that flash in my mind whenever i lay sleepless and paranoid at night.

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1. any kind of FROG!

okay, so frogs aren't really that dangerous or scary unlike snakes or spiders. they don't bite or sting or do something evil or mischievous. In fact, they really don't do much other than sit still, hop around and blow up their throats to produce those mating noises (which, by the way is like a foreboding signal for me to run away). i don't know. they're just so freakin' creepy! most of them are slimy but what gets me the most is those huge bullfrogs with rough, wart-laden skin. ugh! facing something like that is the ultimate nightmare for me. i'm so freaked out with frogs that the mere sight of them produces goose bumps and would make me scream and jump about like the most embarrassing sissy that I am. everytime i encounter one on the road, i fear that it might jump and stick its slimy, warty body to my leg and if ever that happens (knock on wood), i am certain that i will pass out. give me cockroaches, spiders, rats, even big snakes any day. just not these slimy, warty amphibians.

now i'm wondering why the hell i even pasted images here.