Getai

There is much hype surrounding getai these days and it intrigued me so much that I went to see one today. It was mainly in hokkien, a dialect I don't know, but I roughly manage to get the gist of the entire show. There were some very obvious lewd jokes targeted at female singers. Male singers didn't seem to get it so bad from the MC. I thought the front seats were supposed to be reserved for VIPs but there were people sitting on them. As un-superstitious as I am, I wouldn't have dared to seat in the first row in front of the stage.

I wonder why people are afraid of ghosts, when ghosts are people who once existed. I think its due to the negative influence of TV which protray ghosts as rather scary creatures. Perhaps, I prefer to think of ghosts as souls which doesn't dissipate into thin air into non-existence unlike the physical shells of our bodies.

I am constantly at odds with myself regarding issues like this. I believe in karma in the afterlife which is why I try to be a good person yet I don't really believe in reincarnation and stuff like that. I believe souls exist yet i believe that I will completely dissapear into non-existence when I die. I believe in heaven and hell and yet I do not really believe in the traditional concepts of heaven and hell. I think my ideas of heaven and hell are rather weird by the way. I think heaven is being able to go in peace into non-existance, as we were, before we came into this world. Hell is to be condemned to roam the earth as a formless ghost for eternity. I am neither suicidal nor nihilistic about life, but I believe that to exist, with form or no form is to suffer. To wander around earth as a formless soul with no purpose forever, neither dead nor living, is hell more to me than being banished to the 18 levels of hell somehow.

All in all, it was an interesting day out.