BSC

2009-05-27T23:08:00.004+08:00

BSC MAIN COMMITTEE AY09/10

President - Shihui

Vice-president - Eugene

Honorary Secretary - Sylvia

Asst. Honorary Secretary - Hiu Ching

Honorary Treasurer - Jonathan Chong De Zhan

Asst. Honorary Treasurer - Shihua

Welfare Secretary - Zhao lin

Quarter Master - Chelsie
Project Coordinator - Keith

IG Coordinator - Hadi

IG Coordinator - Grace
Public Relations Manager - Johan
External Events Executive - Chester

Sub-Committee Executive - Desmond

Sub-Committee Executive - May

Thanks for all the votes and
do support BSC events throughout the year! =D

ELECTIONS 09/10

2009-05-15T02:25:00.009+08:00

For those who still visit this space,
here are some of the candidates running!

OUR 2 EX MAINCOMMS RUNNING:

SHIHUI AND MAY

Every vote counts, so do vote for your next main committee!
Look out for more pics on facebook as well (:

Publicity Space

2009-05-14T03:03:00.001+08:00

HEY ALL,

The elections are here, and we're opening this up to all candidates! If you wanna use the BSC facebook as a pub space, do let us know, or drop me an email at lohlingyu.bsc@gmail (attach poster if you want to)
Do let me know as well if you want to use the BSC blog!

Good luck to all running! And for those who aren't, please head down to vote 19th to 21st May okay! (:

PROJECT SNAPS!

2009-02-06T02:04:00.004+08:00

y'all know what do;)

the usual: save the posters above,

and spread, the, msg!
and a chance to camwhore?
who's gonna miss out on that boyyyyy, so come on down!

(drag your friends along with you too, heh)

xxxs, lingyu

BUSINESS FTW

2009-02-03T15:40:00.003+08:00

COME DOWN FOR INTERVIEWS FOR

ONE OF THESE POSITIONS

AND JOIN US AT SL CAMP!

SL/PROG/LOG/PROG/FOODMINNNNNN.

3 days of awesome fun guaranteed.

seriously. you won't regret it;)

5 TIMES, LET'S GO!

xxxs, lingyu

PLEASE VOTE!!

2009-01-19T22:10:00.004+08:00

Hey! Please do go vote for these posters! :)

They're around Business Concourse.

All you need to do is to go to the voting booth near HTM/LRM Notice Board, take a slip of paper & vote for these 2 posters! :D

Do grab your friends/classmates/fellow sub comms to go vote as well! As long as you're a TP student, you're entitled to vote!!

Your help will be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED :):)

BSC LOVE HAHAH.

Shihui's :)

Cindy's :)

THANK YOUUU!

2009-01-04T21:39:00.003+08:00

Hi SubComms!

Firstly, BSC wishes you HAPPY 2009! :D

Tomorrow (5th Jan 09) would be the 1st ever Team Temasek Day!
So do support by wearing BSC AY07/08 SubComm Shirt or just any RED shirt to show your support! :)

There will be a human formation of Team Temasek's logo at the Koi Pond around 1230pm, do go if you're available!

Next up will be Open House Briefing for Bguides :):)

Details as follow:

Date: 6th Jan 09 (Tuesday)

Time: 0545pm

Venue: LT 22

Have a great week in school & goodluck for all who are having project submissions! :D

- Shihui

You've been FACEBOOKED!

2008-11-21T11:57:00.002+08:00

ADD US UP ON FACEBOOK!

if you don't already have an account,

GO GET ONE NOW!:D

alternatively, if you don't know how to get one.........

i gueeeeess you can email lohlingyu.bsc@gmail.com for help.

One more, one more! CLICK for the next awesome event,

TALENTIME! its gonna be happening fun so..

come on down 1st dec kids, its gonna be a show not to be missed!

RUN TEMASEK RUN!

2008-11-19T14:05:00.003+08:00

GUYS! Sports Club have invited all of us to join RUN TEMASEK!

Time : EVERY WEDNESDAY! 6.15PM - registration

LOCATION : SPORTS COMPLEX

ATTIRE : sporty attire. wear red if possible!

so those who want to keep fit go run and you'll be representing BSC YO!

KNOW YOUR PC WORKSHOP!

2008-11-18T22:12:00.002+08:00

The folks from PC Magazine (Singapore) are collaborating with the BIT Interest Group to bring to you "Know Your PC" workshop at Temasek Business School on 3rd December 2008!

Event: “Know Your PC” – PC

Magazine Singapore & Business Information Technology Interest Group

Date: 3rd December 2008 (Wednesday)

Venue: Temasek Business School (LT 17)

Time: 3.30pm - 5.45pm

Admission: Free! Register by 26th Nov 2008!

Come by and join us if you are keen to:

Know how to assemble your own Personal Computer!

Learn how to setup a wireless printer at home!

Educate yourself about the latest and coolest in LCD Monitors, Memory chips and Laptop

And on top of that you also get:

- A chance to participate in our luck draw!

- A FREE goodies bag with a full color step-by-step guide to assembling your own PC!

To participate in our very own PC Fair right here in Business School

To avoid disappointment (seats are limited), register NOW by dropping an email to knowyourcomputer@gmail.com stating your Name, Admission Number, Contact Number or leave your name with your diploma interest group representatives.

YAYY!

LETS ALL GO AND LEARN MORE ABOUT COMPUTERS OK! :D

2008-11-09T15:00:00.004+08:00

hey guys! so this is the BIG thing! Its I LOVE BUSINESS WEEK!
there are events going on for you to show your <3>

how many times can you say i love business in one minute - the title explains itself. come take part and see how many times you can say i love business in one minute! attractive prizes to be won!

sale of Business Charity Notebooks - there will be a sale of really pretty Business notebooks outside the library! come down and support it is really cheap too =)

Tell us why you love business school / TP in less then 30 words. Seal points will be given and prizes will be awarded to the best entries!

Business Signature Book - just drop by and sign our Business Signature Book to show your love for Business school. simple and easy right? SEAL points will be awarded!

wear yellow - show us your love for business by wearing yellow and be awarded with seal points! that simple!

so dont wait! come down to the front of library to express your love for business from the 12th - 14th of November. Spread it to all your friends yeah? =)

THANK YOU

2008-11-02T04:45:00.000+08:00

Just wanted to say,
It wouldn't have been awesome awesome without you guys so,

THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR COMING DOWN!

HOPE YOU GUYS HAD FUN @ THE HALLOWEEN PARTYYYY (:

STAY TUNED TO THIS SPACE COS

THERE'S SOMETHING BIG COMING YOUR WAYYY ;D

BSC HALLOWEEN PARTY

2008-10-28T12:40:00.008+08:00

HEY ALL,

HALLOWEEN PARTY THIS FRIDAY, 31st OCT,

ALL BUSINESS STUDENTS INVITED!

Do spread the word, copy-paste the pictures and get everyone to

DRESS UP AND COME ON DOWN!

Look out for the tickets at the booths- they'll be like your admission tickets

and the first 50 gets instant pictures! (:

Any further queries, you can direct them to caleb.bsc@gmail or myself, lohlingyu.bsc@gmail.com

SEE YOU THEREEEE! WOOHOO!

SUBCOMM RETREAT YOOOO! (:

2008-10-20T00:13:00.002+08:00

HEY LOVEEEEEEEEEELY SUBCOMMS! :D

24th October 2008!
THERE WILL BE MOVIE NIGHT FOR YOU GUYS! AND US! :D
it will be at LT21 at 7pm!
BRING A PEN! & YOUR OWN SNACKS!

OR.......
BE NICE AND BRING ALOT OF SNACKS FOR EVERYONE OK? :D

WHEEE!
SPREAD THE WORD!
and SEE YOU THERE! (:

yes yes?

that's what i go to school for

2008-10-19T21:41:00.006+08:00

hey all! so the long hols have ended! i hope everyone enjoyed their holiday! its back to school, back to the books and back to BSC yo! woohoo!!!

anyway, there are a TWO upcoming events to look forward to.

LECTURER'S DAY!

come down and show your love for your lecturers at the entrance of business school from the 21st to the 23rd of october!

AND

BOOKFEST!

BUY or SELL

bookfest allows you to buy or sell your old textbooks!

why just throw it away when you can make a few bucks back right?

so come down during the 28th to 30th of october.

ALSO at the entrance of business school!

hope to see you all there! and have a great sem 2!

COUNTDOWN

2008-09-30T19:21:00.007+08:00

Countdown To BSC SUBCOMM RETREAT CHALET

BEN n JERRY'S DISCOUNT

2008-09-28T19:58:00.014+08:00

BEN & JERRY'S

WOOHOO!

Dear Students of TP, While on your holiday, we have a discount from Ben & Jerry's specially for you!

Simply flash your matrics card to enjoy $1* off your ice-cream!

* Terms and Conditions*

Promotion ends 31st October 2008

* Promotion is only valid at Ben & Jerry's White Sands

* Cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotions or discounts

Have a nice vacation!

Brought to you by, Temasek Polytechnic Students' Union

With efforts from

Applied Science Studies Club

Business Studies Club

Design Studies Club

Engineering Studies Club

Humanities and Social Sciences Studies Club

Informatics and Information Technology Studies Club

Adventure Club

Community Service Club

and Sports Club

so what you guys waiting for? DISCOUNT LEH!!!! go get go get! even if you dont want can tao pao for me and the other main comms! =)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! =))

STANDARD CHARTERED RUN, PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT TOO(:

2008-09-25T14:22:00.008+08:00

BSC has been invited to be part of the
Standard Chartered Marathon 2008 this year!

The company in-charge of Standard Chartered Marathon 2008 volunteers had just confirmed the details for Race-Pack Collection (Pre-event) and the Actual Event.

Race-Pack Collection
Date: 4-6 Dec 2008
Venue: Singapore Expo
Time: TBA
Pay: $20 per day
Shirt: 2 shirt for those attending 3 days(highly recommended) & 1 shirt for those attending 1 or 2 days

Race Day
Date: 7 Dec 2008
Venue: Padang
Pay: Same as Race-Pack Collection
Shirt: Everyone 1 shirt
Time: TBA

Those who are interested please submit your details by tonight 2359!

Full Name
IC Number
Admin Number
Contact Number
Email Address
Date of Birth
Mailing Address
Shirt Size
Dates that you can commit ( Both, Race-Pack only or Race Day only)

Please feel free to clarify any doubts with either LIYI or me! (you know what, better still, call any main comm you know and tell them you're coming! alternatively, you could leave a comment on the subcomm blog/here to let us know!)

love! lingyu (lohlingyu.bsc@gmail.com), liyi (liyii.bsc@gmail.com)

BSC <3 CHALET! (:

2008-09-10T23:11:00.003+08:00

OUHHHHH! :D

OH BTW, the $5 is solely for BBQ.

BBQ will be on the night of 14th October! (:

GET EXCITED YALL! :D

RUN FOR HOPE! (:

2008-09-09T00:00:00.004+08:00

HEY SUBCOMMS!
here is an important notice!
SOME OF YOU have submitted your names to me for GREAT EASTERN RUN!

however, the GREAT EASTERN RUN event has been switched to a new event which is RUN FOR HOPE!
here are the details:

When? 5th October 7.15am - 11.00am
Where? East Coast Park
What? Run for hope T-shirts will be provided for all marshals.
Who? You!
Why? Because it is meaningful and SEAL points will be given as well !

as it is on a NEW DATE, the 5th October,
for those who have signed up and you think you cannot make it anymore.
you may inform me.

AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO JOIN, DROP ME AN EMAIL TOO! :D

HOPE TO SEE YALL SOOOOOOON! :D

& & & & if you have yet to read your email,
SUPPORT BSC BOOTH AT MAGICAL AUTUMN 2008 THIS FRIDAY!
6.30pm @ Triangular Garden.

if you are helping out, WEAR THE SUBCOMM SHIRT! :D

THATS ALL FOLKS! :D

2008-09-07T20:18:00.004+08:00

hey guys! im back!
this time im here on behalf of BSC to thank you guys for pre-registering yourselves for B-guides!
anyhows for those who missed out on the 1st regristration? guess what!!!!
whats better than having one registration?
2 registrations! DUH!
so there will be another registration coming up in November for those of you who haven't registered yet!
PLEASE DO NOT MISS OUT ON A CHANCE TO BE A LEADER FOR BUSINESS SCHOOL! =)
any info needed bout B-guides, you guys can approach
ian - suffian.bsc@gmail.com
or
lou-lin - lou.bsc@gmail.com

see ya'll play hard yo!

2008-09-07T20:11:00.002+08:00

wassup kids!
for those who went nightcycling, i hope you guys enjoyed yourselves =)
anyways, results of exams are gona be out on the 11th of sept
lets pray for each another for awesome results aye
no supp no supp! haha
and and and!
SUBCOMM RETREAT! 13th,14th,15th OCTOBER!
we're having a chalet!
details will be sent to your email soon.
ouh and we have sent out a "confirmation" email
so those of you who went for camp but didnt get it please email yanti or me

see ya'll soon! cheers

yanti.bsc@gmail.com
nic.bsc@gmail.com

GREAT EASTERN LIFE RUN & B-GUIDES! (:

2008-08-19T15:53:00.002+08:00

HELLO BSC! (:

HOW HAVE YALL BEEN? (:
i hope exam prep are going well! (: YES YES? (:

ANYWAYS,

i've sent an email to all of you regarding BSC's 2 upcoming events,
GREAT EASTERN LIFE RUN & B-GUIDES RECRUITMENT! (:
so go check your email ok? (:

if any of you happen to not get the email i sent, tell me ok? (:

& REMEMBER TO REGISTER ASAP!
cos... registration stops on 31st August 2008! (:

YAYY! hope to see yall soon!
& & & ALL THE BEST FOR EXAMS AITE? (:

TWILIGHT TRAIL RIDER- Adventure Club Night Cycling 08

2008-08-10T22:09:00.004+08:00

HEY SUBCOMMS!
how are yall doing? (: GREAT?
HAHA!

LOOKS FUN? (:

thus, i am here to introduce a fun event to all of you!

TWILIGHT TRAIL RIDER- Adventure Club Night Cycling 08

TP's Adventure Club is conducting a Night Cycling event @ Pulau Ubin! :D

here are the details:

5th & 6th September 2008

$8 per pax includes :

- Chartered bus from TP to Changi village Jetty

- bum boat (2 way)

- Rental of bikes

- Supper

Highlights of the event :

-Star gazing

-Field cooking

-Mountain Bike trail

INTERESTED?

if any of you are interested, please submit your name, course, admin number and contact number to YANTI at yanti.bsc@gmail.com

if BSC can send a big group to join,

we might be able to stay as one whole group during the trip! (:

WOOH!

so think about it YO! :D

NATION HI-FIVE! (:

2008-07-31T21:09:00.003+08:00

HELLO SUBCOMMS!

yes that is our next project coming up!

SO DO SUPPORT US!

and bring your friends along!

& REMINDER!

camp is this weekend!

SEE YALL! :D

*those who have yet to submit forms or pay up, DO IT FAST!

thanks! :D

see you in camp!

2008-07-28T20:24:00.003+08:00

wooh.

see yall in camp people! :D

GENTLE REMINDER:

- hand up indemnity form by wednesday, 30th July! (:

- those who have yet to pay, please pay!

camp is this coming SATURDAY AND SUNDAY! :D

SUBCOMM CAMP BRIEFING!

2008-07-24T00:11:00.002+08:00

HELLO YO! :D :D :D

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO GOT INTO BSC SUBCOMM! :D

here's a GENTLE reminder,
BRIEFING on camp this friday, 25th July 2008!
6.30pm at LT21 (:

COME WITH $10 for participation fee ok? :D

YAYYY! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

omg below is something damn cute! :D
watch it! :D

HAHAHA! see ya! :D

RESULTS! :D

2008-07-19T23:35:00.002+08:00

HELLO YOOOOO! :D

results for BSC SUB-COMMS WILL BE OUT ON MONDAY, 21st July!
GO CHECK THE BSC NOTICEBOARD! (beside cargo lift!)

YAYYY!
we, maincomms, cant wait to meet all of youuuu! :D

HAVE A HAPPY SUNDAY! (:

SUBCOMM RECRUITMENT! (:

2008-07-13T20:57:00.004+08:00

HELLO YOOOO! (:

finally the moment you have all been waiting for! :D

SUBCOMM RECRUITMENT IS HEREEEE! (:

For registration, you may go to BUSINESS ENTRANCE!

or go straight to the rooms! :D

16th July - Room 4-40

17th July - Room 4-40

18th July - Room 4-32

if you have any queries, feel free to drop a tag.

or find any of the main committee members!

we'll be more than happy to hear from YOU! :D

WOOOHHH!

SEEE YOU THEREEEEE! (:

BUSINESS STUDIES CLUB AGM! (:

2008-07-05T20:02:00.003+08:00

WOOOOH!

HELLO ALL! :D

YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO BSC AGM 2008! (:

all you gotta do is grab your school uniform,

or your friend's uniform (if you cant fit into yours!)

& turn up at auditorium 2 this coming monday!

7th July 2008, 4.45pm! (:

SEAL POINTS WILL BE GIVEN!

plus, you get to enjoy great performances!

SO, SEEEE YOUUU THEERRRREEE! (:

BSC MAIN COMMITTEE AY 2008/2009! <3

2008-06-29T20:29:00.003+08:00

HELLO ALL! :D

now lets welcome the newly elected Main Comm 08/09!

WE HAVE...

JIA MIN!
MAYBELLE!
CINDY!
LIYI!
SHIHUI!
ROY!
MAY!
JO-AN!
SUFFIAN!
LOU-LIN!
SUNNY!
LING YU!
CALEB!
NICHOLAS!
and YANTI! :D

yayy!
hope to get to know more of yall soon!

&&& SUB COMMITTEE RECRUITMENT UPDATES WILL BE UP SOONN! (:
soooo stay tuned! :D

2008-05-26T00:07:00.002+08:00

VOTE FOR SHIHUI!

2008-05-22T23:51:00.004+08:00

PLS VOTE FOR THE FOLLOWING PPL!

HAHA.

LIYI

MAYBELLE

LOU LIN

JIA MIN

JO-AN

2008-05-21T20:16:00.001+08:00

HELLO!

for those who are running for elections, u may send me your posters and message if u wish to post it in dis blog.

JOANN.BSC@GMAIL.COM

haha. feel free to do so!

2008-05-07T22:16:00.002+08:00

HELLO ALL SLs!

there will be an SL appreciation on next friday, 16 May 2008!

Venue: LT 21
Time: 6PM

it gonna be a relax & fun session

Director will be coming down as well.

Buffet as dinner.

so do try to make it yea?!

SEE YOU GUYS NEXT FRIDAY!

vibrant life and bookfest

2008-05-01T11:55:00.004+08:00

HELLO ALL!

wanna thank those who helped out for VIBRANT LIFE and BOOKFEST!

namely:

GABRIEL
HUIYING
XINYING
XINYI
CAROLI
XINDY
SHIHUI
KANNAN
ALVIN
MARCUS
GAN
JOHAN
LYNETTE
MAY
AMELIA
XIAO ROY ROY
XIAO DA BIAN
NIC
and so on and on.

not forgetting

SERENE
JIAMIN
MAYBELLE
LOULIN
SAMANTHA
RYAN
LIYI
JOYCE

u guys are all love!

sorry nt much photos to provide!

=)

BOOKFEST and VIBRANT LIFE

2008-04-26T00:55:00.002+08:00

hello ppl!

BSC needs helpers for BOOKFEST and VIBRANT LIFE next week!

DATE: 28 TO 30 APRIL 2008
TIME: 12 TO 6PM
VENUE: BIZ ENTRANCE AND OUTSIDE LT 18

BOOKFEST

- buying and selling of old textbooks.

job scope:

- help maintain the regulation of the event.
- handling cash and receipts

VIBRANT LIFE

- carnival

job scope:

- mend stalls
- handling cash

if interested, pls email JO-AN at joann.bsc@gmail.com or can call me ya!

for email, pls send me ur available time slots between 12 to 6pm frm mon to wed.

thanks!

2008-04-20T01:44:00.005+08:00

BUSINESS HAS WON THE WAR!

like YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

we've gotten champion for the 4th year!

SPECIAL THANKS TO

BSC MAIN COMM

Joyce
Maybelle
Liyi
Muhd
Kok Guan
Lou Lin
Din
Samantha
Ming
Jia min
Serene
Ryan
CK
Wesley
Jo-an

ADHLs

Roy
Nicholas
Ling Yu
Kok Sheng
Li Lin
Tat Yi
Iman
Lester
Derrick
Jacqueline

(i'll fill in e rest of the names again!)

PROGRAM

Gerald
Shan
Shawn
Calvin
Daniel
Zhi Xuan
Jolene
Kannan
Keagan
Woon Yah
Denise
Keng Kee
KB
Sharyl
Mei Yan
Kandis
Tracy
Vivien
Samantha
Cheryl
Vanesa
Fuad
Gunawan
Darren

FOODMIN

Zhao Lin
Sheena
Li lin
Pui Wen
Sheng Long
Wai Leong
Jesselyn

LOGISTICS

Edric
Yo Yo
Qing Ying
Karen
Chek Meng
Glenn
Yu Ting
Jeryl

SLs!

and not forgetting FRESHIES!

WELL DONE PPL!

WELL DONE!

dere will be an appreciation dinner next week!

do check out the blog for further details!

photos up soon!

SL CAMP!

2008-03-29T00:01:00.002+08:00

HELLO PPL WHO ARE GOING TO SL CAMP!

REMINDERS! REMINDERS!

Camp dates: 31 Mar - 2 April

Reporting time: 1230pm

Reporting venue: LT 21

Dress code on first day only: any colour shirt EXCEPT white

Those who have not submitted the indem form or pay the $5, please do so when you report for camp on 31 Mar.

If you don't submit indem form, you can't attend camp and have to go home.

Bring extra dark-coloured clothes cause there will be water games during camp.

SEE YOU GUYS AT CAMP YO!

X)

2008-03-15T23:24:00.003+08:00

EH PPL.

im lazy to continue the story alr. haha.

u guys continue reading from http://winglin.net/fanfic/anasazi06/chapter_1.shtml alrite!

haha. OKAY!

SL CAMP IS NEARING!

do pack ur bags soon alrite!

as for ppl who are going for DND, see you guys soon at THE REGENT!

see ya!

THESIS

2008-02-28T14:26:00.003+08:00

Chapter 8

The Interview

******************
The next morning

Grace stretched languidly on the comfortable bed. She had had the best night of sleep since she had seen the tape: no images of Ruby haunting her dreams; no visions of her screams piercing in the night. She snuggled against the pillow, her eyes reluctant to open, as she breathed in the smell of him, the Cookie Monster doll clutched protectively in her arms. Strange. A week ago she wouldn't have been caught dead being alone in the same room with him. This morning, she realized that the reason she had slept so well was none other than Psycho Tse.

So after a couple of minutes, Grace finally opened her eyes.

And screamed. And screamed.

For on the pillow next to hers was the thing she dread the most.

The mask of The Killer Klowns from Mars, complete with a stick on note attached to the head.

"I'm going to kill you, Tse!" she screamed loudly as she tore the note from the mask and jumped out of the bed. Her heart was caught in her throat, and she was breathing so harshly that her lungs started to burn.

'Hey Princess,

Sorry I had to fly
but I had something to do.
There's OJ in the fridge and
a donut that is halfway decent.
I'll see you in Koo's class.

Peace,
Tse.

PS: Don't change the sheets.
I have big plans for them!"

Grace looked at the Felix The Cat clock and realized she was late. No time for breakfast; although she had to admit that a 'halfway decent donut' was kind of appetizing. She quickly changed her shirt to the one she had been carrying in her bag and left the house, not before stuffing the Cookie Monster doll in her bag.

As she rode on the subway train toward the school, she couldn't stop herself as thoughts of Tse, Killer Klowns from Mars, and Professor Koo left her mind only to be replaced by thoughts of Edison.

Could this Edison be Ruby's killer? She tried to concentrate on the statistical impossibility of her looking for Ruby's killer in a city with 9.8 million inhabitants and finding him without any effort. In fact, she hadn't found him, he had found her. That thought alone soothe her a bit. It was improbable, and quite impossible.

If it wasn't Edison, who could it be?

Who else knew Ruby? Who else knew enough about editing and filming to do the snuff film?

Who else could be capable of such a horrendous thing?

Hell, Ruby disappeared two years ago. What was there to say that the killer had not died since then? Anything can happen in two years: a horrible accident� an incurable illness� a murder� a suicide. Maybe she was looking for a person that was already dead.

But then she thought about Ruby's parents. She closed her eyes and saw the picture on the newspaper, the one of Ruby's father holding a picture of their daughter. "Where's our daughter?" the headline said. And the fact that only she knew the answer was eating Grace alive.

She needed to find this murderer.

If he was dead, she could at least bring solace to Ruby's family.

If he was alive, she could stop him from hurting others.

Grace said a silent prayer, and begged God to help her.

With Tse's help, she knew it was only a matter of time.

**********************
Prof. Koo's Class
11:00 AM

Tse walked inside the classroom and toward his desk. Everyone was talking with each other, waiting for Professor Koo to come. He had been busy that morning, but he hoped to catch Grace here.

The moment he sat down, Gia, the girl who sat behind him, tapped him on the shoulder. "What do you want?" he said gruffly. "Is Grace your girl?" Gia asked. It was such a strange question that he turned around to look at her. "WTF" he replied. "I mean, is Grace, the girl that sits two seats in front of you, the one you so lovingly referred to as 'bookworm', 'class leach', 'teacher's pet', yada yada yada Your Girl?"

"No, why?" Tse asked annoyed. "Don't mind her. Gia is jealous and wants to make you jealous too," Leakena said with a snide. "Why the fu*k?" he asked harshly. "Because her dear Professor Koo went on a date last night with Gracie and Gia is mad!" Gloria said as she deflected Gia's slap.

Now, the one that was mad was Tse. So that's why Grace was all so prettied up when she had reached his apartment. And here he was thinking that it was because of him that she had fixed herself up. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid stupid stupid!

At that second, Grace stepped into the classroom in a hurry. "Good, he's late," she whispered as she hastily made her way to her seat. Before she sat down, she noticed everyone that sat around her was staring at her. "Uh... What's going on?" she asked as she put her stuff down.

"We are just waiting to hear the details," Gia said between clenched teeth. "Details� Well, I just came from the bathroom and I think I'm constipated. Is that the details you wanted to know?" Grace answered cynically. "She's talking about the details of your date with Koo," Leakena said.

"How the hell�?" Grace whispered with wide eyes. How the hell did they know she was with Koo last night? There was only one student aside from her in that wake and as Grace looked for her she knew she was the culprit.

"POPPIE! It was a wake! Why did you tell them we were on a date?" she asked her friend Camel. "Sorry, Gracie. I just said that you came with the professor and they drew their own conclusions," Camel said apologetically. "Well, to all of you that seem to care it wasn't a date! It was a freaking wake! Besides, all of you should have been there, he was your professor too," Grace said angrily as she took a sit, not failing to see Tse's accusatory glance a few feet behind.

"The guy is dead. Why would he care?" Gloria said. Grace was going to turn around to give her a piece of her mind when Professor Koo came into the classroom. "Sorry for my tardiness. Now, if you could pass your assignments to the front, because we have a lot to discuss today," Louis said.

Grace didn't listen to anything he said during the entire class. She was just staring blankly at a piece of paper. In it, she had written the questions she would ask Edison. There were pretty normal questions. What's your name? What's your relationship to Ruby? How did you find out about her disappearance? Do you think she was murdered?

The thing that bothered her most was the last question she had written. She had been pretending to pay attention to the class, and she was writing without looking at the page. The next time she read what she wrote, she was shocked beyond belief. Why would she think of asking something like that?

'Are you going to kill me?'

***********************
One hour later.
Lockers

Grace walked slowly toward Psycho. He was in front of his locker, placing some books on it and taking some out. He looked pissed off, and she didn't want to imagine why. "Hey, you okay?" she asked him when she reached him. "Sure I'm okay. Why wouldn't I be?" he said sharply as he slammed his locker door shut.

"Alrighty" she said as she decided to ignore his mood. "Hey, I need your opinion on this," she started saying as she took her notebook out of her backpack. "Why don't you ask for your Professor's help?"he said cynically. And that got her angry. "Why don't you tell me what your fu*king problem is?" she replied.

"My fu*king problem is� ah, forget it!" he said as he started walking away. She walked after him and grabbed him by the backpack. "No, you tell me now! What the fu*k did I do wrong?" she said as she grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him around. "I don't know what the problem is. I just know I'm angry," he said as he avoided her eyes.

She took his chin roughly and made him look at her. "Are you jealous of the professor?" she asked softly. "I don't know� maybe�" he said after a while. She took a deep breath and said, "Well, Tse� first of all, you have no reason to be jealous of the professor because you are not my boyfriend. Second, I am not remotely interested in the professor, not that is any of your business, third..."

"Hi, Grace," she heard a soft masculine voice say. She looked at Tse and noticed his jaw was squarely shut. He looked mad and worried. Dread filled her stomach as she turned around, hoping not to find the person she knew she would find.

"Hi, Edison," she said shyly as she strained a smile. Edison had a lopsided grin, a cute dimple showing on his right cheek. Grace was standing so close to him she realized his eyes weren't truly brown, but hazel. They changed colors depending on the shirt he wore, and today his eyes look a shade of purple. But the most interesting thing about his appearance was the red rose he was holding in his hand.

"This is for you. I want to apologize for scaring you yesterday," he said with his honey-coated voice as he gave the rose to Grace. "Um, thanks, but you didn't really scare me," Grace stuttered, trying to sound casual and failing miserably. She tried concentrating on the rose petals, so red, so incredibly beautiful. She casually smelled the rose and she could smell his cologne in the crimson petals, and couldn't help but smile.

"Ahem," Grace heard Psycho grunt. "Um, I'm sorry. Edison, this is our cameraman, Psy.. umm Tse and Tse this is Edison Chen," she said uncomfortably. She realized that after four years of sharing a classroom, she didn't know Tse's real first name. "Hey, how's it going?" Edison said with a smile as he offered his hand to Psycho. Psycho looked at the hand, and after a while took it and shook it lightly.

"Well, I have classes now, but I'll see you in an hour. Can't wait," Edison said to Grace as he turned around and stepped into a classroom. He didn't leave Grace's sight until he was out of her range of vision.

"Okay, it's definite. I'm not worried about the professor," Psycho said seriously. "Why?" she asked casually as she fiddled with the rose in her hand.

"Cause I'm afraid you are falling for the killer," Psycho said bluntly.

"Shut up! Now, can you help me, please?" she said seriously. He looked straight into her eyes, and after a while, he exhaled loudly and said, "Sure, what does the little princess need?"

"I prepared a list of questions to ask Edison. Tell me what you think?" she said as she opened the notebook on the last written page. "What the fu*k can one ask a murderer?" Psycho asked rhetorically as Grace glared at him to shut up.

Grace: "Was Ruby a normal girl?"

Psycho (mocking): "I'm glad you ask pretty lady, because she was wonderful, full of love and life, until I killed her, of course."

Grace: "Did she mix with strange people?"

Psycho (mocking): "No, she was a saint. Although I think she had a bit of crush on that strikingly handsome guy formerly known as Tse."

Grace: "Did she seem strange prior to her disappearance?"

Psycho (mocking): "She bought a dildo named The Bunny."

Grace: "Do you think she was killed?"

"WOAH! Hold your horses! You can't ask that! Take that one out!" Psycho said with wide eyes. "But it's fundamental to the interview," Grace replied. "You'll fu*k up if you ask him that. That's the equivalent of asking: "did you kill her?""he explained. "If I don't, Edison might think I'm avoiding the issue," Grace said.

"Fu*k! Please stop thinking about what he might think! This interview isn't real! This isn't your thesis, Grace! Come on!" Psycho said angrily. "Fine! I'll take it out! Alright, let me put something in the locker and then I'll treat you to lunch," she said as she gave up fighting with him. She walked to her locker, opening her backpack on the way as she searched her bag for her key chain.

She was already in front of the locker, but she couldn't find her keys anywhere. This was odd. Grace was a control freak. She knew exactly where she placed everything. "Shit, where are they? Have you seen my keys, Tse?" she asked. Psycho looked inside her bag and pulled out a key chain. "These?" he asked. "No. That belongs to my sister! Shit, I never lose my keys!" she said as she closed her backpack, coming empty-handed.

"Well, welcome to the club. By the way, did you like my note this morning? That was for not inviting me to share the bed with you," Psycho said casually.

"Jerk! I'm terrified of clowns," she grumbled.

"I know, now, about that lunch�"

************
C-10
12:59 AM

"Well, he isn't here yet. Let's take a moment to spot the emergency exit in case the man decides to come with a chainsaw to rip us apart," Psycho said as he stepped inside the room they were meeting Edison in. "Haha! Stop it. I'm already a bit freaked out," Grace said as she followed him inside and started arranging the place for her interview.

"Okay, Tse. Keep the camera pointed at him at all times. Try to catch a few close ups, but nothing too dense. By no means will you record me. Is that clear?" Grace instructed. "Why can't I?" he asked amused. "Because I don't like being recorded. If I had any desire to appear on film, I would have studied acting instead of filmmaking," she said as she walked back to where he was standing, keeping her eyes fixed on the closed door.

"Do you think he did it?" she asked Psycho as she looked at the door. "I think he did, yeah." he answered as he looked straight at her. "You sound like you know him," she said casually. "I know of his kind. That's enough for me," he whispered.

Grace nervously glanced at her watch. "1:00 PM. Any minute now," she said nervously. She looked so cute as she bit her lower lip anxiously, adjusting her already neatly positioned eyeglasses. Psycho couldn't resist the urge to stand directly in front of her and wrap his arms around her waist. She was surprised to say the least, as proven by the way she looked at him and said, "Tse, what are you doing?"

"I think it will be best if Edison thinks you are not available. I don't trust him to behave, even if he has a girlfriend. That way he won't get closer than he has to, specially with me around," Psycho whispered. His face was mere inches above hers and she could feel his hot breath on her forehead.

"I don't like this, stop it," she whispered as she tried avoiding his eyes. "Is that why you're trembling?" he asked with a grin as he kept his hold on her.

"Fu*k" she cursed in her mind. She was trembling. "No. I'm hypoglycemic. My sugar is low," she lied. "You ate half an hour ago. Low sugar it ain't," he replied. He took one of his hands from her waist and took off his eyeglasses. "Here. Does this make it better? Do I look now half as handsome as your wonderful Mr. Chen, who I am sure is the one you are dreaming of holding you?" Psycho said mockingly as he hugged her even tighter.

"Tse, this is weird� I hardly know.." she started saying when he placed his finger in her lips and said, "Shh! We are just acting Grace. We are putting up a little show for the psycho killer. It doesn't mean anything. I just don't want him getting close to you."

"What's your name? Your real first name," Grace suddenly asked as she took the courage to look into his eyes. "Promise not to laugh?" he said with a grin. "Promise," she said with a smile of her own. "It's Nicholas, pretty gay name, isn't it?" he joked. "I like it," she said sincerely.

"Well, I think it sounds lame compared to the nickname you kids have given me," he said with a mischievous glint in his eye. "What nickname?" she asked feigning innocence. "You know, Psycho," he replied. "So, you know about that," Grace replied in shock. No one called Tse 'Psycho' to his face. In fact, hardly anyone talked to him. "I'm not stupid. I've heard," he said sincerely. "And you don't mind?" she asked curiously.

"Of course not. It's my favorite movie. It is a privilege to be named after Norman Bates," he joked. "Okay, you have just upped the creep factor," Grace replied. "Why?" he said with a smile. "Cause I spent the night at your place! What if you had gone all Psycho on me? What would have happened to poor little me?" she said with a pout. "Heheh, that's cute. Naw, I'm pretty much a harmless geek. But, for future reference, don't take a shower in my house or I might go all e-e-ee-e-e-ee on you!" he joked as he hummed the familiar Psycho tune.

She suddenly turned very serious. "What's wrong?" he asked worriedly. "I'm afraid, Tse." she said as she looked down, staring into his 'Austin 3:16' shirt. "Of what?" he asked. "That what happened to Ruby might have happened to other girls. That it might still be happening, that it will happen to me," Grace said, her voice breaking slightly. She resisted the urge to wrap her arms around him, to bury her face in his chest and cry away. Instead, she just covered her face with her hands and sighed.

"Grace, I.." Psycho started saying seriously when they heard the door creak. A second later, Edison stepped inside the room. Grace took a step back from Psycho nervously, freeing herself from Psycho's arms, as she gave Edison an apologetic smile. Edison looked surprised at the sight, but didn't say anything.

"I'm sorry if I'm late. Had a small argument with my significant other," Edison said apologetically. "Is that the camera?" Psycho said gruffly as he pointed to the black bag Edison carried and put on his glasses. "Yes, this is it. You know how it works, right?" Edison said. "Yep. Not a problem," he replied as he took the camera off the bag and placed it on his shoulder.

After adjusting the lenses, he gave Edison and Grace a thumbs up. Grace took a deep breath, pointed to a chair and said, "how about we start?" Edison nodded and sat on the chair Grace had instructed. Grace sat on the other chair, knowing she was out of the camera's sight, and took her notebook in her hand.

Psycho pressed the record button and said, "rolling."

Grace: "We are talking with Mr. Edison Chen, a film and media student here at New York University. Edison was a friend and classmate of Ruby.... Edison, can you tell us what happened"

Edison: "Well, she didn't come to class for a few days. Ruby was a very responsible student, so we all got worried. We called her house and they told us she had disappeared. The police, her family and friends looked for her for months but we never heard anymore about her."

Grace: "Do you think she was kidnapped?"

Edison (shaking his head): "Some people think so, but I think it's absurd. You see, after her disappearance, she wrote home saying she had fallen in love with a guy and that she had decided to run away with him. The police confirmed it was Ruby's handwriting, and that she didn't write it under duress. Besides, Ruby's family is quite rich and no ransom money was ever demanded."

Grace: "And you didn't suspect anything? Weren't you informed about her life?"

Edison smiled and said, "Well, she was my friend, but I never spy on anyone." His smile grew wider as he looked directly at Grace and said, "Do you?"

Grace had to take a deep breath before asking, "Do you know who she might have run away with?"

"I have no idea. But knowing Ruby it would have to be someone really special," Edison answered sincerely while looking at where Psycho was standing. "Special in what way?" Grace asked. "In every way. Ruby was truly a special girl. Wherever she was, she would light up the day."

Grace took another deep breath. They were down to their last question. "If you could send a message to Ruby, what would it be?" Grace asked as she concentrated her eyes on the piece of paper in her hands.

Psycho did a close up as Edison looked directly at the camera as if it was Ruby. Edison took a deep breath before saying, "Ruby� I know that two years have gone by and that you have made your new life, but I want you to know that, wherever you are, your friends will never forget you. Please Ruby. Come back to us. I.. we love you."

His voice had break up slightly, and Grace had to look up from her notes to see his face. She was amazed at what she saw. A silent crystalline tear had left his lovely eyes and had traveled softly down his perfect cheeks.

**********
30 Minutes Later

"He was crying," Grace said as she and Psycho walked down the stairs. The interview was over when the last question was answered. Edison and her said their goodbyes, while Psycho merely grunted at him. Now, they were walking down the stairs towards the building's main hall.

"That's bullshit, Grace!" Psycho said angrily. "And what if he's saying the truth? What if he truly believes Ruby ran off with another guy?" Grace said. She didn't understand Psycho's reluctance to believe a guy like Edison could be innocent.

"Please, Grace! Don't go along with his sick little game. He looks at you with his angel face and googoo eyes and you believe every fucking piece of crap that comes out of his mouth. What is it? Do you like him? Is that it?" Psycho said as he stopped and looked back at her.

"Don't be stupid." Grace replied sharply. "No, don't YOU be stupid," Psycho said as he started walking away. Grace took a deep breath and followed. "Well, what about the letter?"

"The letter only shows that Ruby fell in love with a freaking bloke," Psycho said tiredly. "And who is he?" Grace asked. "Who the fu*k do you think? EDISON! That Edison! He probably fu*ked her and then killed her!" Psycho said as he pointed back to where they were coming from.

Grace was a bit mad at his stubbornness. "How can you be so goddamn sure? Besides, Edison has a girlfriend!" she said seriously.

Psycho stopped walking and turned sharply around. "Let's see if you can get this inside that pretty little head of yours. Apart from being a stuck-up little piece of shit, Edison is a fu*king psychopath. And that is it! For goodness sake Grace, can't you see how he looks at you? He's dying to blow your brains out while he fucks you up the arse! He's insane!" he muttered under his breath.

"Wow, sounds like you simply don't like him," Grace said as she held his stare. Psycho looked away first, turned around and kept walking. "Fu*k. If you encourage him, you'll see how right I am. When you finally realize what is going on, he'll come around with a knife and a camera. And you'll definitely be ready for your spread-eagle close up," he said, catching the stares of nearby students.

Grace jogged until she was next to him and whispered, "So� what now?" "What now?" he replied casually. "What do we do now?" she repeated. "Nothing," Psycho answered.

"Nothing?" she asked surprised. "Yeah. We know who it is. We know to steer clear of him. So just go home and avoid him," he replied casually.

"But, can't we tell the police?" Grace asked, feeling totally helpless. Psycho replied, "Like hell we won't! You stole the tape. Remember? Besides, we don't have any proof. We don't even know where Lau got the tape from."

"From the archives," she replied. That made Psycho stopped to look at her. "That's impossible," he replied. "Well, he told me he was going to the archives that afternoon. He was watching the tape on university grounds. That tells me he got the tape here, at NYU. What if he found it on his little trip to the archives?" Grace said logically.

"Interesting," he said as he bit his lip pensively. "What are you thinking?" she asked. After a few seconds, he looked straight into her eyes and said, "I'm thinking that you should go home, take a warm bath, masturbate to my image if that helps you to relax and wait for my call," Psycho said as he winked at her and walked back the way he came from.

"What are you doing to do?" Grace called back to him. "I'm going to do some investigating of my own, Miss Nancy Drew," he said as he kept walking back to the university's hall.

2008-02-26T23:16:00.001+08:00

HELLO PPL!

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IT MAY BE A LITTLE LATE, (some may have finished exams)

BUT WELL, GOOD LUCK FOR UR RESULTS!

HAHA!

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WATCH IT YO!

THESIS

2008-02-26T21:44:00.002+08:00

Chapter 7

The Wake

Edison looked directly at Grace with a lopsided grin before taking the camera bag and leaving.

She did the most stupid thing she could think of. She followed him.

Grace quickly gathered her things and went out of the library just to see him rounding the corner. She quickened her pace and rounded the corner in time to see him in a crowd of fellow students as he went down the stairs in the main hall.

She tailed him for two more minutes. He was now on the basement floor and she was following 20 meters behind. He rounded a corner, and 20 seconds later she followed him.

But he wasn't there anymore. The hallway was empty. "What the fu*k?" she thought as she tried to guess where he could be. Unexpectedly, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around sharply and found him. "Looking for me?" Edison asked seriously.

He was watching her intently, a small smile playing on his lips. She cursed herself mentally as she tried to look nonchalantly and get the hell out of there.

She did the second most stupid thing she could think of. She ran.

"Wait! Stop! I want to talk to you!" Edison screamed as he ran behind her. Grace ran up the stairs, looking for a crowd. Everyone was already in their classes, so Grace decided that the safest place to be right now was to be inside a class. So she entered a classroom that she did not belong to and sat.

Her heart was beating wildly the whole time. She berated herself. How could she be so stupid? What did she hope to accomplish by tailing him? And yet, it had felt good. The thrill of the chase� the fear of being caught� the rush of adrenaline as he realized She was following her. The realization that she had enjoyed the little 'hide and seek' game with Chen fascinated and terrified her.

An hour later, the bell rang. Everyone started to gather their things, and Grace did the same. She looked out of the hallway for a sign of Edison, but finding none, ran to the bathroom. She felt hot and had sweated like a pig from the race. She looked at herself in the mirror, hating what she saw. What was she doing? What was she trying to accomplish by trying to find Ruby's killer herself? What was wrong with her head?

Grace bent over the sink and splashed water on her face. The water seemed soothing and relaxing. "I'm just imagining things, it's just my imagination," Grace thought as she opened her eyes and once again looked at her reflection in the mirror.

Only to find Edison Chen standing behind her.

"FU*K," she screamed. She was about to run out of the bathroom when he pinned her against the sink and put his hand over her mouth. She was terrified when he whispered, "Shh, girl. You are going to get me in trouble! I'm not supposed to be in the ladies room. My girlfriend finds me here and I'll be in big trouble," Edison said with a boyish smile on his face as he took his hand off Grace's mouth.

"What are you doing here?" Grace whispered as she struggled to find her voice. The sink was digging into her back, and Edison realized it, so he took a step back. "Looking for you. Mind explaining me why you were stalking me?" he said with humor. "Stalking you? You were following me!" Grace said with as much courage as she could muster, praying that some girl will come to the bathroom.

"Okay, let's forget about who was following who. here, I was trying to give you this," Edison said as he gave her a folder. Shit. She must have let it fall when she was running away from him. It was Grace's folder with all the news articles about Ruby Lin. Grace took it, but it slipped out of her hand, slipping the contents of her file on Ruby into the floor. He bent down to pick it up like a gentleman, but Grace noticed with apprehension that he took one of the articles with Ruby's picture on it and started reading.

"What's this?" Edison asked as he stood up and showed her the article. Grace said the first thing that came to mind, "I'm doing a short documentary about Ruby's case, about runaway girls." Grace stuttered as she took the article from his hand and put it in the folder, which she quickly tucked inside her backpack.

"Ruby� god," he whispered. Grace looked at his face in time to see his eyes tear up. That raised a flag on her head. Seeing her questioning look, Edison said, "I knew her."

Edison knew Ruby.

Ruby knew Edison.

And he had a XT-500 camera.

Not good. Especially since Grace was trapped in a bathroom with him.

"Really?" was the only coherent thought Grace managed to articulate. "Yeah, she was my girlfriend's best friend. They worked together and even took most of the same classes. I hanged a lot with Ruby. I miss her. We all miss her," Edison said softly. He wiped his eyes before a tear fell out. Grace was shocked that she was almost compelled to soothe him. She knew now why every girl was crazy about Edison; he was downright irresistible.

"Well, we better get out of here," Grace whispered as she walked fast toward the door. She got out of the bathroom and went into the hallway, only to hear Edison's footsteps close on her tail. "You are still following me," she said softly. "Yeah, but I got two good reasons for it," Edison said with humor.

Grace turned around. There were other people in the hallway, she was safe for now. "What do you want?" Grace asked coldly. "First, I want to help you with your documentary about Ruby. It's the least I can do for her," Edison said sincerely.

"I already have everything I need, but thanks," Grace said sharply. "What about an interview? Those types of report need interviews with family and friends� I can get them for you. I can also help you edit. I just want to help," Edison said looking directly at her eyes. God, he had beautiful eyes.

"Who do you have in mind?" Grace found herself asking. "Me," he said sincerely. He knew she was interested, and he couldn't stop himself from smiling at the mysterious girl.
"Why you?" Grace asked. "Well, I knew Ruby well, yet I'm objective about her. I was with her family during her disappearance and search. I kept in touch with the case. I can give you hard info and yet you can use my emotional attachment to the case," Edison said softly. He looked so sincere that Grace couldn't help but nod.

"Alright. I'll interview you," Grace whispered. "Fine, tomorrow at 1. We'll meet in C-10. You can use my camera in case you don't have one," Edison said as he showed her the camera bag. "Good, what was the second thing?"

"What's your name?" he asked with a smile. "Grace. Grace Yip" she said shyly. "Honey, what are you doing?" Grace heard a sexy female voice say. A girl appeared behind Edison. Grace knew who she was. Who didn't! It was none other than Vicki Zhao.

"Hey, Vics," Edison said sweetly as he put his arms around her shoulder. Vicki kissed him passionately, but looked at Grace the whole time. Grace felt chills down her spine with Vicki's stare. Her sister had been right. This woman was not to be messed with.

"Grace, this is Vicki. Vicki, this is Grace. Grace is doing a report on Ruby's disappearance," Edison explained. "Really? Isn't that a bit, old news?" Vicki asked coldly. "It's still interesting. Well, I have to go. I'll see you tomorrow," Grace said as she nodded to the couple. She knew that tonight she had found a new limit to her stupidity.

"See you tomorrow. What does that mean?" Vicki asked Edison, her hands on his hips. She was fuming mad. "Relax, Vicki. I'm going to help her with the report," Edison said a little angry. He was tired of Vicki's jealous fits. So very tired.

"Well, you better behave! I won't have your eye roaming over the little nerd," Vicki said as she took Edison by the hand and walked out of the hallway.

******************
7:00 PM
Yip Residence

"Oh my god, Grace, he's a dream," Lillian whispered as she watched from Grace's window. Professor Louis Koo stepping out of his Audi convertible and walking to house door. Grace was too busy buttoning up her shirt to notice.

"Oh my God, Lillian, he's my teacher! Nothing will be going on between the two so get that stupid grin out of your face and meet him downstairs. I don't want Dad giving him the 'so-you-are-going-out-with-my-baby-cakes' speech," Grace said cynically as she finished preparing.

When Lillian left the room, Grace stopped brushing her hair and just looked at her reflection on the crooked. The truth was that she didn't want to get out of her room at all tonight. The whole deal with Edison Chen had rocked her to her very core. But she knew there was only one reason why she kept her date with Prof. Koo. She didn't want to be alone. She was too afraid to be alone. And the only person she could share her fear with was the same one she was too angry to talk to.

Grace went out of her room and walked downstairs. Louis was on the doorway talking amiable with her father and Lillian. When he heard her coming, he turned his smile toward her. "Gracie, just in time," her father said as he took her hand and gave her a kiss on the cheek. However, Louis didn't take his eyes off Grace's face, and the realization made her blush.

"Our daughter spoke very highly of Professor Lau, Mr. Koo. I'm very sorry for your loss," Jackie said as Grace gave Louis a shy smile. "Thank you, Mr. Yip. He was a good man. it is a loss to all of us. Are you ready, Grace?" Louis said with a sad smile. "Yes, let's go. I'll see you later," she said to her family as she walked with Louis to his car.

Like a gentleman, he opened the car door for her. After that, he jumped inside and they rode off to the funeral home.

"Your family is great, Grace. No wonder you are a good kid. Although I think your father was worried that such an old man had come to pick his little girl," Louis joked. "He always worries. Where's the home?" Grace asked. This was too close to 'date talk' for comfort.

"Just around the corner. It belongs to Andy's cousin," Louis said as he parked the car and got out. Before Grace could get out, he had come to her side and opened the door for her. "Thank you," she said a bit surprised. "What is it?" he asked. "Nothing. I have never met such a gentleman before, Professor," Grace answered sincerely. Louis only smiled and placed his hand gently on her back, guiding her inside.

***************
Lau Funeral Home
8:00 PM

"And that's who Andy was for me. An uncle. A friend. A teacher," a young man said as he stepped out of the podium. Two or three individuals had already given eulogies in honor of the deceased. Now, it was Louis's turn. "Wish me luck," he whispered to Grace. She nodded and smiled softly to him as he got up from his chair and walk to the podium.

"Good night. Thanks for being here. My name is Louis Koo. I was a colleague of Andy in the university, but we actually met when we were together at NYU 15 years ago working on our studies. Andy was a good student, a bright young man, whose life was shortened due to his disease. But his disease never stopped him from living his life to the fullest. Andy was a volunteer mentor for different organizations. He participated in meal rides every weekend. He was a volunteer in his church. We should all learn that from him: He never let his shortcomings stop him from helping others. I know I have learned that from him."

"Andy has changed the life of many. He changed my life when he stopped me from dropping out of school 15 years ago. He changed his students' life with every word of wisdom he shared with them. He changed each and every one of your lives at one point or another. Always remember this, always remember him, as long as we remember him. Andy will live in our hearts," Louis said. Grace watched speechless as a tiny tear left his eye and traveled down his cheek. What amazed her is that he wasn't ashamed or quick to wipe it off. He didn't mind others to see that he was weak that he cared.

Louis walked back to where he was sitting and sat down next to Grace. Without knowing why, she took his hand in her own. She felt she could trust him and she wished with all her heart that he would listen to all the horrors she had witnessed these last two days. He looked at her, his eyes full of tears, and she couldn't help but put her head on his shoulder and cry and cry and cry and cry. She cried for Professor Lau, for Tse, for Edison Chen, and for Ruby Lin, the girl that haunted her dreams, the girl that kept begging for her help. And Louis just held her close to his body, kissing the top of her head. "Shh, it's okay. Everything will be all right," he kept saying over and over.

But she couldn't tell him that nothing was going to be all right. How could she tell him that she had been the one to discover Andy's body, only to steal from him and not telling anyone else about her discovery? How could she tell him that Andy had been watching the murder of Ruby Lin� that she had in her hand the answer to the Lin's question: Where's our daughter? That the answer to that question was the most unspeakable act she had ever witnessed?

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9:30 PM

Louis stopped his car in front of an old building and turned off the engine. He turned to Grace and touched her cheek gently. She seemed to awaken and suddenly realized she was at the address she had told Louis to drop her off.

"Hello there," he greeted. "I'm sorry. I kinda phased out," she said apologetically. "Don't worry about it. I can't think of a better company than you. Thanks for being there," he said sincerely. She smiled. It was nice being with someone that was so pleasant to her; a nice change from Psycho and his incessant teasing.

Louis's face suddenly grew very serious. "Grace, I feel I can trust you. Andy trusted you; he told me so himself. Grace, I think Andy's death wasn't quite incidental." Louis said softly. Grace's heart jumped a bit, and for a moment, she forgot to breath. "Why do you say that?" she asked nervously as she turned around to face him.

"Don't get me wrong, Grace. I saw the body. The coroner declared Andy had died of an asthma attack that had caused a cardiac arrest, and I believe that. I just think there's something more to that story," Louis said seriously.

"I went to that room Grace, after Andy had been discovered by the janitor, but before the police came. He was staring at the screen, Grace. He had been watching something. The VCR was empty, but it was on. I know he had been watching a tape and someone stole that Grace. Someone was in that room with Andy and took that tape and didn't say anything about it! Why would someone do that, Grace? Unless, unless they got something to hide," Louis said very seriously.

Grace gulped down hard, but managed to put the best poker face she had ever mustered in her life. She knew who that someone was, it was her. She had stolen the tape, she hadn't informed the cops about Andy's death. she knew that the tape contained a murder and yet had not gone forth to the police. Instead, she was playing a cat and mouse game with the likely murderer. Instead, she was playing Sherlock Holmes looking for Dr. Moriarty in the big, bad city of New York.

"I, I don't know what to say." Grace whispered. Louis smiled a sympathetic smile and put his hand on her shoulder. "It's okay, Grace. I just wanted you to know so you can keep your eyes open. If you hear any of your students talking about a tape, let me know. I need to find that tape. I need to know if what it contained might be the cause of Andy's attack. I need to know why would someone steal the tape and left Andy to die."

"But he was already dead, there's nothing I could have done," Grace thought. But she just nodded and lied, "I will, Louis."

"Are you sure you don't want me to wait to take you home?" Louis said as he pointed to the building. "Naw, it's okay. This might take a while," Grace said. She was about to get out of the car when once again Louis got up and opened the door for her. "I know this may sound weird, Grace, but I had a good time tonight. I feel that, even when I've lost Andy, I have gained a good friend," he said as he walked her to the building's entrance.

She looked at him straight into his eyes. He seemed so sincere and trustworthy. "I took the tape. I have it. I know what's in it," she wanted to tell him. But something inside told her that it would be a mistake. She would emerge as a thief and a liar. She could get expelled, even arrested. She would put his life in danger. Or she could just keep playing her Agatha Christie game and find out who the killer was before the killer finds the people that have watched the tape. Yes, she will help Louis but in her own way.

"I feel the same way, Louis. I'll see you tomorrow," Grace said as she averted her eyes from his. She just hoped that he would never find out it was her. "See you tomorrow," he whispered. But he took her hand and kissed it softly. With a small smile, he went inside the car and drove off.

She walked up the stairs and rang the bell. No answer. She rang it again and waited a few minutes. No answer. "Shit! Just what I needed. He's not home," she thought as she pondered what to do next. Tomorrow, she was going to meet Edison Chen for an interview. She was going to meet the person she suspected to be Ruby's killer. She wanted his help, needed it. So, Grace decided to sit on the stairs and wait for him.

Not five minutes had passed before Psycho Tse walked up the stairs and found her. "You? I thought you didn't want to talk to me," Psycho said seriously. "I didn't," Grace answered sincerely. "Then what are you doing here?" he said as he pushed his glasses up his nose. "I need help," Grace said softly. "And I'm your best choice? Wow, sad," he said with sarcasm. She didn't say anything, but closed her eyes and lowered her head.

A second later, she felt his hand on her shoulder. Unlike Professor Koo's touch, the touch didn't seem sexual, it seemed more intimate than that. She opened her eyes and look up to find him staring at her. "I'm sorry," he whispered. "I'll help. Just tell me what you need from me," he said seriously. She couldn't help but smile.

**************
Psycho Residence
Five minutes later

"YOU WHAT?" Psycho asked in a mixture of horror and disbelief. "Shh! Keep your voice down!" Grace said seriously. "You followed the guy with the camera? Are you crazy, Grace? What if he had been the killer? You could have been hurt!" Psycho said with a voice full of worry. She was touched and annoyed at the same time.

"Hey, I remember I told you the same thing yesterday, and you said that it was your own fu*king business," Grace hissed. "Yeah, but it's different," he said slowly. "It isn't, you moron! Girl, guy, it's the same thing! When someone stabs us, we both bleed. Doesn't matter who it is," Grace said seriously. "It matters to me," he whispered as he averted her eyes. She immediately knew what truly bothered him. It wasn't the fact that she was a girl, it was the fact that she was Grace Yip, Psycho's favorite bookworm.

"So, who was he?" he asked seriously. He had decided to change the subject; brownie point for him. "Edison Chen," she answered. His eyes were about to drop out of his sockets. "Chen? The Edison Chen?" he asked. "You know him?" Grace asked him. "No, aside from the fact that he is a conceited pretty boy who acts like there's something up his ass," Psycho grumbled. "Hey, that's my description of you!" Grace teased.

"You think I'm a pretty boy?" Tse asked with a small smile. Grace slapped herself mentally. "No, I think you are conceited and you act like there's something up your ass," she replied. Psycho smiled even wider. She had missed his teasing. Ironic.

They stayed silent for a moment, until Psycho grew serious and said, "You know, having the XT-500 definitely doesn't prove he's the killer. I mean, I don't like Edison Chen, but that doesn't make him guilty."

"He knew Ruby. We both know Ruby knew the killer," Grace said seriously. "What? How do you know?" he asked shocked. Might as well tell him of her horrible tailing skills. "He caught me following him. I had dropped some papers I had checked out from the library about Ruby. He found them and asked me what they were for," Grace explained. "Shit, what did you say?" he asked.

"That I was doing a report about Ruby's case. That I was just researching and then he told me that he knew her. That Ruby was his girlfriend's best friend," Grace explained. "Fu*king shit! Then it can be him! That's it, Grace. I won't leave you alone for another second! He now knows you are investigating Ruby! He's going to try to stop you!" Psycho said as he started pacing the room nervously.

"Actually, he's cooperating," Grace said seriously. That made Psycho stop and look at her. "He kinda suggested that my 'report' needed to have interviews with some family or friends. And he kinda offered to be interviewed," she said apologetically. "WHAT? YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THIS GUY AGAIN?" Psycho asked shocked. She nodded.

"Are you out of your fu*king mind, Grace? He might be the one!" he reprimanded. "WHAT WAS I SUPPOSE TO SAY? I couldn't tell him "Hi, I'm Grace and I'm looking for Ruby's killer, a murder that just happened to be filmed with the same type of camera you have in your hand! Did you kill her?" I did the best I could! Besides, what better way to know if he killed her or not," Grace said matter-of-factly.

"Shit, Grace, this is not good, this is not good." he kept whispering over and over again. She thought it was very cute of him to be so concerned.

"That's why I want you to come with me," Grace said seriously. "Run that by me again," he said wide eye. "You are coming with me to the interview! We are going to use his camera, but I need a cameraman to film us. You," Grace said softly. Expecting him to call her a jerk, she was surprised when he said, "Sure. I told you I wasn't going to leave you alone. What time?"

"At, 1:00," she said surprised. "Why so shocked?" he asked. "I thought you were also mad at me. I figure that you'll at least fight with me a bit before agreeing to help," Grace said softly. "Well, I decided to save everyone the time and go straight to agreeing. Tomorrow at 1, I'm going to be the cameraman for Grace 'Connie Chung' Yip," he joked.

"Well, I better get going," she said softly as she got her purse and got up from the bed. "No," Psycho said with authority. "What?" she asked annoyed. "It's past midnight. You either let me walk you home or you stay for the night," he said as he took his pillow and threw it on the floor. "Tse, I don't know who you..." Grace started complaining when Psycho said, "Look! I don't know what's with you and the Wonderwoman complex but this guy knows WHO YOU ARE! What makes you think he's not waiting outside to do to you the same thing he did to Ruby?" Psycho said seriously.

He had a point. It was either that, or he had just gotten her frightened enough to piss her pants. Without another word, he took off his shirt and laid himself on the floor. "Just what are you doing?" she asked surprised. "Going to sleep on the floor. You are lucky. I usually sleep in the buff, but since I have a guest." he said as he took of his glasses and closed his eyes.

"Why do you assume I'm going to spend the night here?" Grace asked annoyed. "Because you probably told your parents you were going to stay the night out or you would not be here so late," he said grumpily. Which to Grace's annoyance was true. She had planned on staying on a motel nearby.

"At least let me sleep on the floor," Grace said softly. "Naw, don't worry about it," he said softly. Grace laid herself on the small bed; it was comfortable. She realized it smelled of him, which made her wonder when was the last time he changed the sheets or what he had done on them. "Besides, tomorrow I can tell everyone you slept on my bed," Psycho said. Without a second thought, Grace threw the pillow under her and it landed straight on his face.

"Tse, if Edison's the one, what are we going to do?" Grace asked softly. "I don't know, we'll see," Psycho answered softly. She opened her eyes and looked at him. He looked like a little boy on the floor, his hair falling over his closed eyes, a tiny crooked smile on his face. But of course, she looked up and saw his collection of horror masks and weapons. A little boy he wasn't. She closed her eyes and said a little prayer for this not to be a mistake.

Psycho opened his eyes and looked at Grace. She was beautiful. She had taken off her glasses and had put them on his night table. Without glasses, she looked younger than she was. He really wished he could join her on the bed, but he knew it was impossible. "Grace, can I ask you something?" Psycho asked. "Yep," she grumbled. "Why aren't you afraid of me? Everyone else is," he asked softly.

She opened her eyes and looked at him. Why wasn't she? She was nervous in his presence. She was anxious when he was with him. But afraid? "I don�t know� I guess� I guess you are like The Nightmare Before Christmas," Grace said softly. "How so?" he asked laughing. "You seem terrifying on the outside. All scary and horrific. But on the inside? You are nothing but a softie," Grace replied sincerely. "A softie? Hey, I've killed people for less than that," he teased. "I'm sure you have," she whispered as she closed her eyes. Somehow, sleeping here with him seemed safer than sleeping alone in her room. Ironic.

"Well, hope you like the honor of being the first girl for a sleepover," Psycho said as he closed his eyes. "First girl? What about guys?" she teased. "Hey, hey, no questioning my manliness," he joked. This definitely felt good. Tse had become the 'girlfriend' she never had, although weirder, and sort of hotter.

"I can't sleep," she whispered after a few minutes of silence. "I got something that might help," the half-naked Psycho said as he got up from the floor and opened his closet. She heard him rummaging in it and after a moment, he came out with something on his hand. He threw it to Grace and said, "he might keep you warm."

Grace was surprised, to say the least. It was a small Cookie Monster stuffed doll. "You like Sesame Street?" she asked surprised. "Not really. I'm more of a Powerpuff kinda guy," he joked. "I, I bought it for you," he said softly.

"What?" she asked shocked. "For your birthday last year," he confessed. "But but, we didn't even know each other back then," Grace stammered. "We had never talked, but I knew of you. We have shared the same classes for four years, Grace. I knew you liked Sesame Street because your pencils and notebooks are of them. Even with the whole Elmo-craze, you had your Cookie Monster eraser. I saw that on a store and I thought of you, but I never had the opportunity to give it to you, might as well do it now," Psycho said softly as he went back to the floor and closed his eyes.

"I, I don't even know what to say," Grace said softly. For a second, she imagined how a room decorated with Sesame Street/Horror memorabilia would look like. "Nothing, just hold it tight and think of me," he joked.

They spent a couple of minutes in silence. Grace clutched the doll in her arms as if her life depended on it. She suddenly opened her eyes and called, "Tse?" "Yes?" he replied.

"Thank you. For everything," she whispered.

"Not a prob, Grace. Remember, I have an ulterior motive," he said with a hint of humor.

"Yeah, and what's that?" she prodded.

"I want to get into your pants," he said with a smile.

"If we survive, I just might let you," Grace said with a cynical smile as she closed her eyes, but not before watching Psycho opened his eyes wide at her remark.

"I'm having a bad influence on you, Gracie," Psycho said with a smile as he closed his eyes and went back to sleep.

"That you have, Tse. that you have."

THESIS

2008-02-25T12:32:00.002+08:00

Chapter 6

The Girl

Grace walked back into the bedroom. She had trouble walking because she couldn't concentrate on it. She could still hear the girl's horrible screams resonating throughout the house.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO PLEASE NO!"

Grace walked to where Psycho was sitting and sat next to him. He barely acknowledged her presence, for the video had all his attention. In his thick glasses, an image was reflected. The torturer in the ski mask took out a gun and pointed directly at the girl's head.

"GOD NO! DON'T! PLE..."

A gunshot resonated loudly. And there was no more screaming.

"Is she dead?" Grace asked numbly. "What the fu*k, Grace. He just blew her brains out. What do you think?" Psycho answered, still looking at the screen.

"What is he going to do now?" Grace asked him. "I think he's going to cut her up," Psycho whispered. As to confirm Psycho's suspicion, the killer took a wood saw and plugged it in.

Grace covered her face with her hands. "Please. switch it off," she whispers meekly. The saw was now blaring loudly. It resembled an engine being started. "I told you so, the bastard is a fu*king butcher," Psycho said in a mixture of horror and awe.

Thru her fingers, Grace opened her eyes. And she watched. she watched the walls in the screen dripping with blood and heavier things. She watched as the saw cut thru skin, flesh, muscle, and even bone. Flesh was hanging everywhere, until she couldn't distinguish between what used to be a human and what used to be cattle meat.

"I think her name was Ruby, Ruby Lin," Psycho said softly. "Why would someone do that to her?" Grace said, her voice slightly breaking either from fear or from shock. "It's a business, Grace, a fu*king business," Psycho answered softly.

"Business?" she asked. "This is what's called a snuff film. You see, there is a difference between this tape and 'Fresh Blood'. In Fresh Blood and films of its kinds, the fact that there is a camera recording the act is coincidental. In a snuff film, the whole purpose of the movie IS to record someone's death or rape. It's not coincidental, it's the one and only reason!" Psycho explained.

"Who would buy that?" Grace asked. "Extremely rich people� You know how much it costs to buy a true snuff film? Anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000, depending on how truly violent the murder is," Psycho answered. Grace was left speechless.

"That looks like a garage. What do you think?" Psycho suddenly asked. He paused the video to inspect it more closely. "Does it?" she asked absently. In the TV, she could see it was a big empty space. The walls were covered with tiles, the lower half blue, the upper half white.

"It's a garage� it's a fu*king garage," Psycho said. "Why the fu*k does it matter? She's dead! She was tortured and then shot!" Grace said frustrated as she got up from the bed and started pacing the room.

"You don't say," Psycho whispered cynically as he kept his gaze on the screen and pressed the Play button.

"How can you still watch that crap?" Grace said with anger. "May I remind you missy that YOU stole that crap!" Psycho said as he pointed to the screen. "I didn't know what it was," Grace said defensively.

"But you suspected, Grace. Don't try to make a fool of me by denying it. Deep down, I'm beginning to think you love this shit!" Psycho said as he turned to her. "What are you saying?" she asked him softly. "What you heard, Grace" he replied.

"Well, it's nonsense. Like everything else that comes out of your mouth," Grace said as she took his pillow and slammed it against his head. But it wasn't a playful action; he knew it was a 'you-are-lucky-it-ain't-a-bat' action. "You love my mouth, don't deny it," he said as he threw the pillow on the floor. He turned his attention back to the screen in time to see something that raised a flag on his brain.

"Fu*k, what is this�" he started saying when Grace, who had her back to the screen, said, "I refuse to look." "I'm talking about the video's texture. Something funny here," he said softly. He paused the image and walked to the TV. He traced the screen horizontally. "Look at these lines, Grace." he whispered.

She did look. And she immediately regretted it. "I only see intestines, Tse," she said softly. "Haven't you learn anything in four years, Grace? The texture is different. It's a digital zoom. The fu*king idiot used a digital zoom!" Psycho explained.

"So what?" Grace asked. "We can find out what camera he used!" Psycho said. "Really? How many cameras have digital zoom? 50? 100? 1000?" Grace said with anger.

"How many had digital zoom two years ago?" Psycho said softly. His simple statement blew the anger out of Grace. She now could see where he was going. "Few�" she whispered. "Very few," he said as he got up and walked to his closet. He searched around and finally pulled out a manila folder, spilling the contents on the floor.

Grace could now see what it was. They were magazine pages, advertisements for different cameras. Only a true buff like Tse would keep this. He sat on the floor and started rummaging thru the dozens of ads. She followed his lead and sat next to him, scanning the articles for something that might help them.

"Auto focus� light control� shake control� shit!" Psycho said as he started reading one of the advertisements that looked promising but realized it had no digital zoom. Grace had one on her hand and said, "Here's one, digital zoom!" Grace said. Psycho took the paper out of her hand and, after scanning the document, sighed. "This is the B-12. It came out this year," he explained as he crumpled the paper and threw it aside.

"Stroboscopic effects, light texturing� shit, I'm sure there was one! T� XT� XT-500! Sony!" he exclaimed suddenly. He took all of the remaining papers and scanned for that model. He finally pulled out a paper and dropped the rest.

"Auto focus� shake control� stereo mike� digital zoom! This functions allows you to perform enhancements of the original image. See? Now we know the camera he used. the XT-500. It's a HI-8 System. This ad is from almost three years ago. I think."

Now that they had found the camera, the little distraction was over. The frustration at what she had seen came back at Grace like a 1000-volt shock. "Fascinating. I'm going home for dinner," she said softly as she got up from the floor and searched for her backpack.

"Are you hungry?" he asked with a cynical smile. "No� I'm afraid," she said seriously. He immediately dropped his smile and looked at her. She felt uneasy with his stare, so she walked to the VCR and pressed the Eject button.

"Hey, what are you doing? I want to watch that again," Psycho said impatiently. "Fine. Do whatever you want. I don't give a fu*k," she said as she put the backpack over her shoulder and walked out of the room.

"Bye, sweetheart. Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite," Psycho said absently as he went to the player and pressed the Play button.

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One hour later
Yip Residence

"Miss Diana Jean Fulgencio's parents say they have no clue as to their daughter's whereabouts. The Police are still looking for a sign in this mysterious disappearance. This is Julia Oh for Channel 6 news," the reporter was saying as Grace opened the door to her home and stepped inside.

She found her family in front of the TV, watching the news. Coqui ran happily toward Grace and waited for the welcoming pat. "Good boy," she whispered as she scratched behind his ears. What she truly meant 'Thank God my family is safe.' After watching the video, she suddenly realized how vulnerable and frail life was.

"Hey baby. Studying late?" her dad asked as he kissed he daughter. "Yeah. I'm beat," Grace said tiredly, although what she wanted to tell him was "Dad, I saw a murder today. And now, I feel frightened enough to die." But she couldn't explain it to her parents or to Lillian. She couldn't share this with anyone but Tse.

"Your food is on the fridge honey. You have to eat. It's meat loaf with my special lamb sauce! Your favorite�" Anita said as he stroke her daughter's back.

Meatloaf with sauce� flesh with blood. Grace fought the urge to throw up once again as the memories of the tape washed over her. "No. it's okay. I already ate. I'm going to bed," Grace said as she ran up the stairs and went right into her room.

Not 10 seconds had passed when someone knocked on her door. "Come in," she said as she started undressing. As predicted, Lillian walked inside. "Are you okay?" she asked worriedly. "Of course, baby. Why do you ask?" Grace said softly. "You know why. These last two days you have acted like a ghost. It's not like you," Lillian said softly.

Grace suddenly realized something. The pencils on her desk were out of order. Although it would have been something small to anyone else, it mattered to Grace. She scanned the room, completely ignoring Lillian's questioning. Another thing- one of her drawers was half-open. Grace was a control-freak and she knew exactly where everything and anything was in her room. And she knew someone had gone thru her stuff.

"Lil, did you go thru my stuff today?" Grace asked softly. "Of course, not! I know what a freak you are for those things. why? What's wrong?" Lillian asked with concern. "Nothing." Grace whispered. She was questioning whether it was paranoia from the tape or if it was real. She had gone out of her room today in a hurry� maybe she was the one that left things like that without realizing.

"So, how's the project going? The one with Vicki Zhao?" Grace asked Lillian in an obvious attempt to change the object of Lillian's questioning. Lillian sighed, but she knew her sister enough to know that she couldn't press the subject. "It's fine, I guess� although she's not as nice as I thought she was," Lillian said softly.

"What do you mean?" Grace asked absently. "Well, she's moody. A little paranoid� a bit neurotic� typical supermodel," Lillian said with a smile. "You are right! That's you!" Grace joked as she poked her sister's stomach. Unexpectedly, the phone rang.

"Grace! Phone call!" her father screamed. Grace ran out of her room and went to the phone. "Grace?" she heard Psycho's voice on the other end of the received. "What are you doing calling here?" she whispered.

"I have something to show you," he said seriously. "I'm not interested, Tse. Get that in your head!" she whispered, trying not to get Lillian's attention. "Tse� I think someone has been in my room," she confessed.

"What? Calm down! Don't get all panicked on me! No one knows about the tape or us! Don't be afraid!" Psycho said anxiously.

"Nothing to be afraid of, right." Grace whispered, cynicism dripping from her voice. "You better check your room too," she said softly.

In his apartment, Psycho checked around the room. His clothes were thrown around the floor, his shoes were scattered around like debris, the video camera ads were crumpled around, and the air smell stale and unhealthy. In other words, no one had been in his room. "No one's been here. Look you have to come here! I have something to show you!" he said seriously.

"I can't," Grace whispered.

"Yes, you can!" Psycho replied.

"I don't want to," Grace replied.

"Yes, you do," Psycho rebutted.

"I won't," Grace said between clenched teeth.

"Yes, you will."

*********************
One hour later
Tse Residence

"You owe me 2.50 for the subway ride," Grace said as Psycho opened the door. The sight of him took her back. He was naked except for a towel wrapped around his waist. He had his eyeglasses off and beads of water still clung to his hair and body. In this attire, he looked normal and downright cute. Not that Grace would admit it. Not in a million years.

"I'll take you out for coffee sometime to make it up," he said as he signal for her to come in. She didn't move. "What?" he asked her amused. "Tse� you are naked," Grace replied matter-of-factly. "You caught me getting out of the shower," he said with a small smile. "I won't go inside of your apartment with you naked," she said as she pointed to his towel.

"Is my nakedness getting you horny?" he said with an Austin Power's voice. She couldn't help but smile. "More like your paleness is making me blind. Tse, I have no time for small talk. Get dress!" she said more seriously. "If you are in such a hurry, then come inside," he replied, mocking her seriousness.

"Alright. But if that towel comes off, I'm going tie you to a chair and beat the crap out of you," Grace said as she followed him inside. "Tempting, but it will have to wait," he said with a sly smile. They entered his bedroom, where she saw the tape was paused.

"At first, I thought it wasn't important. Just a minor glitch in the image," he said as he sat at the edge of his bed. The image in his TV was of the so-called Ruby, sitting down, bound to the chair. He pressed the play button and the image continued.

"PLEASE! DON'T HURT ME ANYMORE! PLEASE DON'T!" Ruby screamed. "Don't hurt me. Please, don't," Psycho mocked in a girly voice. Grace slapped him on the back of the head. "Girl, that hurts." he whispered when the screen flashed what he wanted Grace to see. "LOOK!" he said excitedly as he pointed to screen and pressed the slow-motion button.

And Grace did look. And she realized what he wanted her to see. In the screen, the attacker was walking toward the girl with the intent of beating her face but for a second, the image jumped. It was small, imperceptible to the untrained eye, but undeniable.

"It's been cut! It's been edited," she whispered. "It's only a bit. But the thing is that it is not only here. The film is full of cuts. All small. see the change is minimal. Look, he's almost standing in the same position!" he said as he pointed to the screen and replayed the video in slow motion.

"Doesn't make any sense� why cut there?" she asked rhetorically. "In a film like this, the attraction is to see everything. That's why they are always uncut. The more you see, the better," Psycho replied.

"So why cut it?" Grace asked him. She knew he had a point, but she was getting impatient with his reluctance to get to it.

"So we don't see something� or hear something�" Psycho said as he looked at her. Once again, he pressed the Play button.

"PLEASE� DON'T WHY! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS�" they heard Ruby scream when the image was suddenly cut. Maybe for a fraction of a second, but something was missing from the original recording.

"Oh my god. She was about to say something� something he doesn't want us to hear," Grace whispered.

"What could it be?" Psycho asked rhetorically. Grace already knew the answer.

"His name," she whispered.

"His name! She knew who he was! She knew the motherfu*ker that did this to her," Psycho said as he pointed to the screen.

"What does that change?" Grace suddenly asked. As if she hadn't been afraid before, she was now terrified. "It changes everything Grace! We now know more about him! We know what camera he uses, we know he knew Ruby!" Psycho said. He couldn't understand why she wasn't more excited.

"Whoa! Listen! You are starting to sound like the police," Grace said impatiently as she started pacing his room. "Hey, girl. Slow it with the insults. We've got to know more about who were Ruby's friends," Psycho said with determination.

"Are you crazy?" she asked him as she turned to face him. Psycho ignored her so she continued, "This guy could be one of them!" Once again, he didn't reply.
She grew impatient and said, "Look. I've had enough of this. I don't want to hear anymore talk of this tape!"

"You're scared shitless!" he finally replied, his eyes glued to the screen. Was she? She knew her answer right then and there. Grace turned her wide eyes at him and said, "Yes, I AM! This is no fu*king game, Tse. These people, whoever the fu*k they are, kill for real!"

"Piss off, then. I'll find out on my own," he said as he paused the video and inspected the image. Grace walked until she was standing next to him. She took his chin roughly and made him look at her before saying, "You don't understand, Tse. I said it's over, for you as well."

"Hey, hey hey! You are not my girlfriend nor my mother, so don't tell me what to do," Psycho said angrily as he stood up, looking taller than Grace. However, she wasn't intimated. "I don't want any problems, Tse," she said seriously.

"What do you mean 'problems'? I won't get you in any trouble," Psycho said more calmly. "So what now? Go after everyone that has that camera? What if you find him? What if he finds you? What if he hurts you?" Grace said. She wanted to beat some sense into this guy.

"Then it's my problem. Or is it that you can't live without me, Gracie?" Psycho said cynically. He knew he had made a mistake when he saw her eyes fill with tears, not of sadness, but of anger.

"You said it yourself. It is your fu*king problem. I'm out of here. I've never been here. I don't know you. AND I've never seen that tape!" Grace said as she stormed out of the apartment.

"Wait. Grace! I'm sorry. I didn't mean.." Psycho managed to say as he tried to stop her before getting his door slammed on his face.

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School of Mass Communication
Classroom
12:00 AM

"What is Cinema? Don't fool yourselves. Cinema is an industry like any other. It's about making money. It's about giving the public what it wants," Professor Koo said to his enrapt class.

"That's why cinema fails, when there's no concept of industry, when there's no communication between the audience and the filmmakers. When we don't give them what they want to see. Never forget that."

The bell rang loudly. "He's brilliant," Camel whispered as the whole class, except for Tse, clapped loudly. In her four years as a student at NYU, Grace had never been in a more captivating class. Professor Koo was a very gifted teacher indeed.

"Come on! You are all too kind. Don't forget! I want your assignments by tomorrow," Koo said with a charming smile as he started gathering his papers. "Can we have a partner?" Scott asked as the students gathered their stuff. "Who do you have in mind?" Louis asked. "My girlfriend� Leakena!" Scott said as he pointed at the girl. "Sure, no problem. just make your girlfriend promise me that she won't pinch your ass anymore during my class," Louis said with a smile. Everyone but Tse, Grace and Leakena laughed; they all knew of Leakena's obsessive compulsion to pinch her boyfriend's cheeks.

A very serious Tse walked to Grace, who was still gathering her things. "Grace, listen to me. I'm sorry for.." he started saying. But she ignored him as if he weren't even there. Psycho took her arm and tried to make her look at him, but Grace yanked her arm away and looked at him directly in the eye before saying, "I said: I don't want to talk anymore!"

"Is there a problem?" Louis asked seriously. Grace looked around and realized that, aside from Tse, the professor and herself, they were alone. "No, sir. I actually wanted to show you something," Grace said sweetly to Louis as she gave the death-glare to Tse. Psycho looked angry enough to burst, but left the classroom in silence.

"Guy trouble?" Louis asked when Psycho left. "Something like it. I actually wanted to give you what I have so far of my thesis. I have to apologize, Sir. I haven't had much time to work on it," she said apologetically as he handed him a paper.

"Please don't be so formal. I'm barely older than you," he said with a charming smile. Gia was right; Louis had one of those smiles that made your knees get weak. "But don't worry. I just want to get an idea about your work. I'm sure the final product is going to be fascinating," Louis said as he scanned the document.

"Grace, can I ask you a favor?" Louis said seriously. "What professor?" she asked. "Louis, call me Louis." he said softly. "Alright. What can I do for you, Louis?" Grace asked.

"Tonight, it's Andy's wake. I was planning on going alone, since I don't have many friends, but well, I would prefer to be with someone else. I know most of these kids either hated Andy or couldn't care less about him, but I know you appreciated him. I was wondering if you would go with me to say our final regards," Louis said seriously.

For a second, Grace was under the impression that the new professor had asked her out on a date. But this was a funeral. Besides, she wanted to go anyway. Might as well go with company than alone.

"Sure, Louis. Let me give you my address," she said as she opened her backpack to look for a piece of paper. "Don't worry. I'll look it up in your file," Louis said with a smile. "Do you look in all your students' files?" Grace asked him, but the next second regretted it. This was her professor; she could get in trouble.

"Only the very charming ones, Grace, only the very charming ones," he said as he bowed slightly, took his briefcase and left the classroom.

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NYU Library
3:32 PM

Grace sat on her favorite desk, the one that is next to the library's entrance. She took her Walkman out and played the tape. With the background of the classical music, she opened the file that contained the information she had gathered in the newspaper's archives on the last three hours.

Article #1 - 'College student disappears.' A picture was shown. Grace had no doubt anymore; the girl in the video was truly Ruby Lin, Third-year publicity student at NYU. She had disappeared without a warning on a Sunday. She had left for her morning run and never returned. The police and her family were frantically searching for clues to her whereabouts.

Article #2 - 'Where's our daughter?" Another picture was shown, this time of Mr. Lin holding a picture of his daughter in one hand and a letter they had received, supposedly of Ruby, after her disappearance. In the letter, it said that she had fallen in love with a wonderful young man and, knowing her family wouldn't approve, had decided to run away with him. However, Mr. Lin was still suspicious. He said he knew his daughter very well, that she would never do something like that. So, he pleaded with the readers to submit to the police any clues they might have.

Article #3 - 'Court blocks new inquiry in Lin's case.' The small article, again with a picture of Ruby in all her beauty, talked about how the court blocked Mr. Lin's request to having his daughter's disappearance case re-opened. They stated that the letter he received was proof enough that his daughter had left in her own will.

Article #4 - 'Ruby Lin - the year after.' Ruby had become a poster child for runaway kids. In the article they talked about this phenomenon, making small comments about the Lin case and how her disappearance actually fit a pattern.

Grace closed her eyes. She tried to match the face of the beautiful girl smiling in the picture in the newspaper with the girl that had been screaming and begging for her life. They seemed like two different people; yet Grace knew they were one and the same. Her heart broke when she thought of Lin's parents, worrying all this time about their daughter's fate. The worst was that Ruby had suffered a fate 10 times worst than anything they could have imagined.

With her eyes closed, amongst the sounds of classical music coming from her headphones, she heard Ruby's screams. Over and over again. Begging for her life. Begging for him to stop. Begging for help.

Grace opened her eyes. She once again felt lost and alone. She was trembling slightly, and she remembered she hadn't had anything to eat. She was anemic; she needed to eat regularly. She was about to walk to the soda machine for a quick fix when she saw IT.

She couldn't believe her eyes, and for a moment, she couldn't even breathe. There it was, lying on a desk just next to the soda machine. A Sony video camera. From her desk, she could read the distinct marking on the camera's side: XT-500.

Grace kept looking. She could taste the fear in the back of her throat. She realized that someone was sitting next to the camera. It looked like a guy, but with his back to Grace she couldn't really see who it was. He took the camera and started filming someone in front of him.

Grace definitely recognized the girl in front of him. The girl was smiling flirty to the camera, blowing kisses and waving. It was none other than Vicki Zhao, supermodel extraordinaire.

That could only mean the guy was..

Grace got up from her desk and finally walked to the soda machine. She didn't want to see too obvious; but she couldn't help but look back to them. With fear, she realized that the camera wasn't pointed at Vicki anymore, it was pointed at her.

Without getting any more attention to herself, she quickly took the soda can from the dispenser and walked back to her desk. She sat down. Luckily, the cameraman seemed to ignore her.

She watched as he put the camera in the bag nearby and walked to Vicki. He gave her a passionate kiss, and finally turned around.

Every doubt Grace had about the man's identity dissipated as he looked directly at her before walking away.

It was none other than Edison Chen.

THESIS

2008-02-23T21:28:00.002+08:00

Chapter 5

The Tape

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NYU Media Building
7:15 AM
Basement Floor
Screening Room 11

"Oh, fu*k�" Grace whispered with wide eyes as she looked at the remains of Prof. Lau. She wanted to get out of the room screaming, but her body refused. Instead, she stretched her hand until she touched his cheek. He felt cold and clammy to the touch.

In the dim light projected by the screen, she noticed his face looked a little bluish, and his lips were a tad shade of purple. She followed his outstretched hand. In the floor, underneath his hand, was his asthma inhaler. It was open and looked like it had been taken out of his pocket in haste and accidentally dropped.

Was this what happened to Prof. Lau? Nothing more than a deadly asthma attack? She knew he was a very sick man. He may have been young, but his frailty was evident. He was no more than 38, but he had needed a cane to assist him since he was 20. Was his own frailty what killed him? Or was there something more sinister afoot?

She looked back at the screen. Nothing but static and snow stared back at her. Then she looked back at the Professor's face. There was no mistaking the fact that his bloodshot eyes were glued to the screen. What had he been seeing? Could the image have prompted his untimely death?

Grace remembered the last words Prof. Lau had said to her: "I don't promise anything, but I will try and get them for you." Violent images. Had he been successful in getting it for her? Was the film he was going to get for her the one that had finished playing in the screen? Was that responsible for his death?

She walked toward the console just beside the screen. Grace looked at the VCR as someone look at the electric chair on his execution day.

Without a second thought, she pressed the Eject key.

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NYU Library
10:00 AM

Grace was sitting on the same chair she had been sitting in with Jimmy just yesterday. Her world had changed in less than 24 hours. She was still shock, her mind trying to absorb what she had seen yesterday in Psycho's room; what she had felt when she was trying to sleep� what she had found this morning while looking for Prof. Lau.

Grace had taken the tape and quickly hidden it in her backpack. Without thinking about it, she ran out of the screening room, leaving the screen and the body the way she had found them. No one saw her leave the room; and she told no one of her discovery.

Only now she realized how stupid she had been. Prof. Lau's body will be found soon, if it hadn't been found already, and someone will notice that a tape was missing from the VCR. What if it could somehow be traced back to her? She had not only stolen from school property, she had left the scene of a death the way the killer escapes from the scene of a murder. If she were found to be the thief, she would be thrown out of college. Even worse� she could be in trouble with the law.

So she had skipped her classes and come straight into the library, determined to start working on her thesis. For three hours she had been sitting on this desk, her pencil in her hand and the notebook neatly placed in front of her. Three hours later, the paper was still blank. She couldn't think straight; she couldn't snap out her shock enough to write even one sentence.

She wanted to see the tape she had just taken to find out what really was in it. But at the same time, she was scared and apprehensive. Why did she felt like that? It was nothing more than a tape. Images don't kill people. People kill people. She had nothing to fear from watching that tape�

So, she just stared blankly at the library's entrance, half expecting that at any moment two security guards from the university will come and escort her into the Dean's office. They will take the tape from her before she could watch it and they will expel her from college. And her last four years will be nothing more than a waste, a fitting ending for Professor Lau's favorite student. And some small part of her felt she truly deserved it.

She didn't notice that, instead of the security guards, in came Psycho Tse. He searched around the library, and upon seeing her, walked straight to her. "Hey, bookworm. Did you find the old man?" Psycho asked her. She suddenly waked up from her thoughts and noticed his presence.

"Um� no. I didn't found him." Grace said hesitantly. "Funny. He didn't come to class. You didn't either for that matter. Walking on the wild side now, Grace?" Psycho teased. "Tse, I'm not in the mood," she said squarely. He seemed to be taken back by her words, and dropped his smile. He looked down to the floor and said softly, "Is it something I can help you with?"

She was surprised, to say the least. But she didn't show it. Instead, she just mouthed "No." He just shrugged and said, "Suit yourself. I'm off." Psycho turned around and was walking away from her when she suddenly asked him, "Do you think a film can kill someone?"

"Uh?" was Psycho's reply as he turned around to face her once more. "I mean, like a heart attack, or something like that, caused by the images they are watching," Grace said.

"Shit, Grace! What's gotten into that pretty little head of yours?" he said as he walked back to her. She shushed him, but he continued, "Wasn't yesterday enough for you? You are a real sadist, girl. Keep this up and you'll be fucking me in no time." Psycho then flicked his tongue out as if he was going to lick her face. However, Grace just gave him a blank look coupled with a 'drop-dead' expression. Psycho grew serious, finally realizing that she wasn't in the mood for his teasing.

"Okay. I'll leave now. See you tomorrow. And try to watch some Disney flick to get this bad thoughts out of your pretty head," Psycho said as he pushed his glasses up in his nose and left the library.

Grace watched him leave, wondering when she had changed his view of Psycho from 'lunatic idiot' to 'plain weird friend.'

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8:15 PM
Yip Residence

"Honey, are you sure you aren't coming?" Anita, Grace's mother, asked her. Grace, already in her NY Knicks pajamas, just yawned and said, "Yeah. I'm tired. I was working all day in my thesis and I'm beat. But you all go and have fun!"

"Would you like something, baby cakes?" her father Jackie asked as he put on his coat. "Aside from you not calling me baby cakes in public, a chocolate cake if you don't mind!" Grace said as she kissed her father's cheek. "My baby cakes wants a cake!" he joked. "Coqui! Take care of Gracie! Don't let her trash the house!" Jackie said to the dog. At the sound of his name, Coqui barked.

Her father and her mother left for the car. Just Lillian remained. She put on her coat and was about to walk out of the house when she turned back to Grace. "Are you sure you don't want me to stay?" Lillian asked. "Yeah, go out and have fun! Remind dad to bring me the cake," Grace said as she walked Lillian to the door. Lillian seemed serious, as if she wanted to tell Grace something but was hesitant to. "Lil, what's wrong?" Grace asked her.

"I spoke to Jimmy today," Lillian told her. "Really? That's great! You two are back on speaking terms," Grace said as she adjusted her sister's collar. "He told me you were talking with that weird kid from your faculty. That you two were quite intimate�" Lillian said bluntly as she looked straight at Grace's face. "Fu*king Jimmy and his big mouth," Grace thought as she gave Lillian her best Poker face. "Who the hell are you talking about?" she asked casually. "That freaky kid that was in the subway station. Skinny� tall� big ass glasses� always wears that green overall coat and the WWF shirt inside� Ring a bell?" Lillian said as she went on with her description.

Grace suddenly felt angry. Angry that Tse could be reduced to a description that didn't do any justice to the complex enigma he really was. But this was Lillian and Grace knew that if Lillian had just reduced Psycho to a stereotype, it was probably because she was worried about her. "Oh! You mean Tse! He's helping me with my thesis, that's all," Grace said with a forced smile. "Are you sure?" Lillian asked her. "Of course. He's not my type, you know that," Grace said as Lillian walked out the door. "Thank God! For a moment there, Jimmy made it sound as if that kid was going to be my brother-in-law," Lillian said with relief.

"And talking about brother-in-laws, when are you and Jimbo coming back together?" Grace asked. She wanted Lillian out of the house and she knew that this was the best way to do it. Lillian just blushed and kissed Grace goodbye. Grace just laughed out loud and closed the door when Lillian walked to the car and stepped inside. "Things to do� kick Jimmy's ass," she thought wearily.

Her smile faded as soon as the door closed. She had one reason for not going out to eat with her family, and it wasn't tiredness. She wanted to be alone. She wanted to play the tape she had taken from Screening Room 11.

Grace ran to her backpack, Coqui trailing happily behind her, and took the videotape out. She put in on the player and grabbed the remote control. She then sat on the sofa, Coqui jumping beside her and cuddling against her leg. As she absently stroked his furry coat, she felt hesitant to press the Play button.

But she finally did. The color bars came on, signaling the tape was about to start. When the image was about to start, she shut the TV off. Nervously biting her nails, she was playing in her head the day's events. What she had found in that room had changed her life forever, yet it had triggered in her something quite unexpected: the need to know.

She turned on the TV back again, but before the image started, she changed the TV contrast to 0, effectively darkening the image to black while leaving the sound on.

A scream was heard; deep and gut wrenching. Full of pain and suffering, that scream was something out of Grace's worst nightmares. She opened her eyes wide while Coqui just put his ears up. And she kept hearing it. it must be a minute now� 2 minutes� five� and she kept hearing the screams. the begging. the thuds and grunts of punches and kicks and of beatings.

And the screams echoed loudly in her living room. It was the voice of a woman. That was something Grace was sure of. Those screams increased and subsided in length, pitch and emotion; but they were always there. And Grace knew they would be forever playing in her head.

And yet, she couldn't bring herself to adjust the contrast and watch the image that accompanied those screams. She just couldn't. What was really going on in that tape? Was it a movie? Was it real? Was this what killed Prof. Lau?

"Please! please! don't do this! DON'T DO THIS! WHY� WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SOMEONE! SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH GOD! WHY ARE YOU�"

Grace shut the TV as tears started streaming down her cheeks. Coqui looked at her with big brown eyes, not comprehending what he had heard and waiting for his master to give him a reassuring statement. "It's okay, buddy. It's okay," she whispered as she absently stroked his head.

But it wasn't okay, because that night, long after Mom, Dad and Lillian had come from the restaurant, long after Grace had tucked herself in with her Cookie Monster doll, she kept hearing it. She heard it as loud as if she had been on the living room. But it was in her head. It played only for her.

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The Next Day
8:05 AM

Grace looked at herself in the mirror. She looked as if a truck had ran over her and then shifted to reverse and ran over her again. She hadn't rested at all last night, and she knew why. But she also knew it was no one's fault but hers.

She was dressing in a plain white shirt and jeans, when Lillian's voice suddenly caught her attention. "Mom! Were you watching this tape?" Lillian asked her mother from the living room. "What tape?" Anita asked from the kitchen. "I don't know! It doesn't have a label! It was on the VCR," Lillian replied.

"Fu*king shit!" Grace muttered as she opened the door to her room and ran down the stairs just before Lillian pressed the Play button. She had forgotten to take the tape off the VCR. "Shit, Grace! You scared me to death!" Lillian said as Grace hit the Eject button, took the tape and put it on her backpack. "Sorry, Lil. It's my tape. It's something for my thesis. Some boring article," Grace lied as she gave her sister a half-smile.

"Girls, breakfast ready!" Anita said as she came into the living room. "Sorry, mom. I can't have a breakfast. I'm late for a.. a thing. I'll see you tonight! Love you," Grace said as she took the backpack and ran out to the door.

"Is it me or is your sister acting weird?" Anita asked. "It's not you, mom," Lillian said worriedly as she followed her mother back to the kitchen.

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School of Mass Communication
NYU
11:00 AM

"I heard someone say that they found him with his guts hanging outside his belly and with his cane up his butt," Gia whispered to Judy. "Are you kidding me? This place would be crawling with NYPD! It had to be natural. He wasn't exactly the poster boy for Healthy Living," Judy replied. "Thank God someone found him before he stank up the place!" Blu said and all of them snickered.

"Jesus Christ! Don't you people have any respect? A guy is dead!" Camel scolded. "Yeah� a guy that was going to flunk me," Bon said and all of them, except for Psycho, Camel and Grace started snickering.

"Tse and Gracie are awfully silent. maybe THEY did it!" Gloria said as she gave mocked accusatory glances at them. Grace looked back and was about to give Gloria a piece of her mind when she felt Psycho's deep stare in her face, and she turned back before she said anything.

"Poor Grace. She has spent three months sucking up to Lau just to have him die before he could give her final grade. Tsk. Tsk. That's what I call bad luck," Leakena whispered while snickering. Grace just sank further into her chair, her big eyes fixed on her desk, causing Leakena to laugh out loud. Some of the other students joined in her teasing. That is until Tse said seriously, "Leave her alone. I won't say it a second time." At his words, everyone stopped laughing and just looked at the front of the classroom.

Dean Leung came inside the classroom with a handsome man trailing behind him. "Silence. Silence please. Quiet!" Leung commanded. Gradually, the students stopped talking and paid attention.

"Call me a mare and ride me. I'm in love," Gia whispered dreamingly. Her statement made Grace look up from her desk in time to see the man that had come with Dean Leung. He was around 34, Asian, with black stylish hair and sharp clothing. His deep tan only increased the dimples in his cheeks and his eyes held an edge of intelligence. Leung turned his attention to the stranger and nodded. The stranger then walked to the front of the class and started speaking.

"Hello, everyone. I supposed you have all heard the sad news about Professor Lau. Our esteemed colleague died yesterday morning. He was found on one of the screening rooms of this faculty. Apparently, he had an asthma attack while watching a film," the stranger said seriously.

"Wow. Must have been BioCops. That film will kill anyone," Tse joked, making Judy snicker. Leung heard his snide comment and walked to him. While the stranger talked about the funeral arrangements, Leung asked, "Have you seen the film, Mr. Tse?" "No," Psycho said, surprised by the Dean's reaction.

"You probably took it," Leung said softly. Psycho looked confused. "Well, someone took it from that room," Leung said. "Sir, it wasn't me," Psycho said sincerely. When Leung walked back to the front of the class, Psycho looked directly at Grace and she could feel the weight of his stare as if it weighted a ton.

"Well, my name is Professor Louis Koo. although, I prefer to just be call Louis," the stranger said. "Damn! this is what I call higher learning," Gia said with a small smile, getting a low five from Bon. "I'm definitely not cutting class ever again," Judy whispered to them.

"I'm a professor of Audiovisual Psychology. Some of you probably know me already and have even taken some elective courses with me. I was a good friend of Andy and I'm very familiar with his curriculum. I have been asked to take over my friend's classes until a more suitable replacement is found. So," Louis said with a small smile, "there shouldn't be any problems to carry this class as normal. That reminds me."

Louis took a small note from his pocket. "Grace Yip?" he read out loud. "Damn Grace! You always have all the luck," Gia whispered. Grace raised her hand. Louis just smiled at Grace and said, "I believe Professor Lau was directing your thesis. I'd be more than happy to carry on. I've heard a lot about you, Grace. We can talk whenever you like. That alright with you?"

Grace nodded. "Well, class. That will be all for today. See you tomorrow," Louis said as he walked out of the class with Leung, not before waving goodbye to Grace.

"Shit, Grace! How do you do it? He has here for five minutes and already you are his favorite," Gia said as he gathered her things. "I'm not his favorite. I'm sure that by the end of the semester, he's going to be hell over heels with you," Grace muttered quickly as she took her backpack and walked out the classroom. They all noticed as Tse clumsily gathered his things and followed her outside.

"What's up with those two?" Leakena asked. Everyone just shrugged and went about their normal lives.

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In the hallway

Grace was walking fast, knowing Psycho was behind her. However, he kept increasing his speed until he was side to side with her. So she simply decided to ignore him and keep walking. But Psycho wasn't a person you could easily ignore.

Grace (sharply): "What do you want?"

Psycho (bluntly): "The tape."

Grace (innocently): "What tape?"

Psycho (seriously): "You know exactly what tape I'm talking about, Grace."

Grace (impatient): "You're losing it, Tse."

Psycho: "I'm not. You found him dead and you took the tape."

Grace (angry): "What the fu*k are you talking about?"

Psycho (whispering): "I saw you on the basement. You were looking for him. That day you missed his class. I have known you for four years, Grace, and you have never skipped a class. You didn't go because you knew there wouldn't be a class. His body had not been discovered yet because you didn't say anything. You just found the dead guy and stole from him�"

Grace (angry): "I did NOT!"

As he walked beside her, he smiled and turned to the other people in the hallway. Psycho pointed at Grace and started screaming, "It's her! It's her! She took the tape! She's the thief!"

Grace stopped walking and pushed Tse against a locker, pinning his body with hers, covering his mouth with her hand. Even when it hurt him, he was amused; she looked angry enough to kill him. "Even if I had the tape, why would I give it to you?" she said between clenched teeth. She took her hand off his mouth and allowed him to answer.

"Because I showed you mine, Grace. That's how it works! I show you mine, you show me yours," Psycho said with a sly smile. "You're sick! Why do you want it?" Grace said as she pushed him once again against the locker. "Why do you?" he said amused. "I need it for my thesis," she replied seriously. "That's bullshit and we both know it. What's really on it, Grace?" he asked seriously.

To his surprise, she took a step back and hesitantly said, "I don't know." "What?" he asked. "I said I don't know! I haven't seen it yet!" Grace said softly. She suddenly gazed at the floor and covered her eyes with her hands. To Psycho, she looked as someone that had witnessed something horrible and yet refused to believe it.

He did something very unlike him. With the tip of his finger, he made her look at him and said, "You are so stupid, is cute. Your place or mine?"

**************WARNING: STRONG EXPLICIT DESCRIPTION***************
**************WARNING: READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED**************
1 Hour Later
Tse Residence
Bedroom

"Gimme the tape," Psycho said seriously. Grace was hesitant, but finally gave him the tape. She had come all this way, might as well go all the way. She watched as he put the tape in the VCR and hit the Play button. He sat on the edge of the bed, slightly surprised when she absently sat next to him.

The color bars appeared once again. Grace was waiting for the image with the horror and the dread with which someone waits for his own death.

"I, I can't," she suddenly says as she got up from the bed and gave her back to the TV screen. "Your loss," Psycho whispered as he took a Dorito bag from the floor and started eating.

At that moment, Grace heard once again the scream as horrible as in last night's nightmares. She put her hands over her ears, trying to shut the sounds that seemed to echo in the dark room. And then the beating started.

Psycho, who had dropped his half eaten Dorito on the floor, whispered "Fu*king hell!"

"Turn it off!" Grace screamed. her eyes closed, her hands over her ears, her back to the screen.

"Grace� this� this is real� this is fu*king real," Psycho said slowly.

"What do you see?" asked Grace. She had opened her eyes and was trying to concentrate on Psycho's collection of weapons.

"A girl� she's tied to a chair� naked� she's being beaten by someone wearing black clothes and a ski mask� with a fu*king wrench� He's hitting her head over and over again�" Psycho said, his mouth hanging wide open, in a mixture of shock and curiosity.

"NO! PLEASE! DON'T DO THIS! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Even with her hands over her ears, Grace could hear clearly the woman's sobs and screams, her begging and her fear.

"Fu*k� fu'king shit� son of a bitch� this is awful," Psycho said breathlessly.

"I can't", Grace whispered.

Psycho opened his eyes wide, looking like an owl with his big eyeglasses. "Shit� what's he going to do to her� what's he? Oh MY GOD! Grace! don't look. you better not look." Psycho said, his eyes glued to the screen.

And he kept saying: "Don't look. Don't look." But the more he said it the more Grace felt the irrational part of her brain give in the desire to take a peak. One thing was to hear what was going on, another thing entirely was to see it.

So she did. She dropped the hands covering her ears and slowly turned around.

As Psycho had described, a girl was tied to a chair. The girl had been beaten and cut in multiple places. The image was blurry and was almost devoid of color, except for the blood. The red was so intense it wasn't faded by the lack of film quality. So much red, so much blood.

Someone with a ski mask was holding a knife near the woman's breast. he was slowly using the blade to tickle the woman's nipple. The woman was so afraid that Grace could feel that fear in the back of her own throat. Unexpectedly, the attacker put enough force into the knife to cut her breast. The woman screamed loudly, trashing against her restraints, but the attacker just kept cutting and cutting slowly until he was holding her nipple between two fingers. To further humiliation, he put the nipple he had just extracted on her head.

The camera did a close-up on the girl's face. Grace gazed directly into the girl's eyes, and in those eyes Grace could see the fear and the pain and the suffering of the girl. Grace had never felt so powerless before in her life. She was nothing more than a silent witness to the girl's tragedy, unable to do anything to help her.

Grace absently sat once again next to Psycho, her face a canvas of shock, horror and just plain sadness. Her heart beat wildly, deafening against her own ears. Grace put her hands above her heart, as if her heart would suddenly give in. Her eyes were full of tears, but like Psycho, she was glued to the screen, unable to look away from the horror it showed them.

"I know that girl," Psycho suddenly said.

"What?" she asked, her eyes shifting from the screen to him.

"She was at the university. I think she was a publicity student. She disappeared� two years ago� I think," he said absently as he took the Dorito bag from the floor and started eating.

Grace shifted her attention back to the screen in time enough to see the person in black as he dipped his or her hand between the girl's spread legs. With slippery gloves, the attacker touched the girl's genitalia. He spread her lavia, giving the camera a full view of the girl's womanhood.

Grace squirmed against the bed. This was beyond pain and beyond humiliation. This sadist was not only breaking her body. he was also breaking the girl's mind and spirit.

"Fu*k, what is he going to do?" Grace whispered as she watched the attacker take the knife and touch her organ. Without another second of warning, the attacker plunged the tip of the knife inside the girl, making her scream louder than she had ever screamed before.

Grace couldn't watch any longer. She ran out of the room as if her life depended on it. She ran into Psycho's bathroom and almost didn't have time to open the toilet seat as she emptied her stomach's contents.

Psycho, who was now standing in the doorway, told her, "I told you not to look at it." With that, he left back to his room.

But how could she not look?

She had wanted to push herself, to know what were her true limits.

And she had reached them.

She had just witnessed the most horrible scene she could have ever imagined.

But this time, it wasn't a movie.

This time, the credits won't roll in the end and the makeup artists wouldn't get an Oscar for the marvelous work they did.

This time, she won't be able to go back to her house and sleep soundly, knowing everything was well in the world.

Because this time, it was real.

Prof. Lau had known it.

And now, Grace knew it too.

And she kept hearing the girl.

Asking her why she was doing this.

Asking for her help.

THESIS

2008-02-22T22:17:00.001+08:00

Chapter 4

The Shrine

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5:00 PM
NYU Media Building
Screening Room 11

Professor Lau opened the door to one of the university's screening rooms, located just a few doors from his own basement office. He took a peek inside, happy to find it dark and empty.

He looked around the main hall, making sure it was empty. He didn't want to be caught getting into the screening room. When he knew he was safe, he entered the room.

The room was like a small movie theater. A couple of rows with a total of thirty seats or so, it was usually used to screen student films for class. Now, Professor Lau was determined to use it to find out the contents of the strange tape he had just borrowed from the vault.

He walked to the projector; the only sound in the room was the thud of his cane against the cold floor. Hooked to the projector was an old VCR. He pushed the tape he had just taken from the archives inside. He hit the play button, and he sat down as the color bars appeared on screen.

Finally, the mystery of the tape was going to be revealed.

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Apartment 2-B
NYC
5:00 PM

"Welcome to the Shrine of Pain," Psycho said with a sly smile as he opened the door to his home. Alarms had sounded in Grace's head since she left the university's library with him. 'during the subway ride' 'the three-block ride' She had asked questions about him; about where they were going. Psycho had only answered with the phrases "hmph", "yes", "no". Now, the final of her alarms blared inside her head as she glanced inside the apartment.

There was nothing to see. It was pitch black inside, even when it was only 4:15. Heavy black curtains covered the windows, making it impossible to determine the time of day from the inside. Psycho entered his house, but realized she wasn't following him. He turned a sarcastic smile at Grace as he said, "Don't worry bookworm. I won't bite unless you want me to." Swallowing hard and determined not to let him know her fear, Grace walked inside. The door closed behind her and she heard the lock click in place.

"The TV is that way," Psycho pointed toward the end of the hall. From up close, Grace noted that the walls of the hall were painted black and red. A beheaded mannequin with a hundreds of pins plunged inside the flesh and red paint all over it decorated the hallway. She looked up at the hall's ceiling, only to find the hanging figure of everyone's favorite demon, Pinhead, from the Hellraiser franchise. He looked so damn real that for a moment Grace was scared.

"Don't worry. I just have a unique decorating style. I'm Martha Stewart's public enemy #1,�" Psycho said as he walked to the kitchen and opened the fridge. Grace saw him take an orange juice jug from the fridge and drink from the bottle. "You want some?" he offered the bottle when he finished. "No thank you," Grace said politely. "Alright, just don't tell everyone that I'm a bad host," he said as he left the kitchen and guided her to the room.

After the initial shock of Psycho's loft, Grace realized that the place was actually quite big for a lone student in the world's most expensive city. The place had at least three rooms, one kitchen and hopefully one bathroom. It is a miracle how someone like Psycho could afford it.

"The place belonged to my grannie. She croaked last year and left it to me, so I did a little redecorating," he said as he stepped inside the room. Funny that someone like him says grannie, instead of 'old lady' or 'bag of bones'. Grace followed him, noticing that the curtain dividing the room from the hall was designed to resemble human intestines. "Nice touch," Grace said as she pointed to the curtain. "Hard to find a girl who appreciates the nicer things in life," Psycho said as he threw the backpack on the floor.

Another small alarm sounded in Grace's mind as she inspected what was obviously Psycho's bedroom. Two walls were covered with posters and photographs from the bloodiest horror films of all time: Hannibal Lecter from Silence of The Lambs, zombies from Romero's Night of the Living Dead, the original posters for The Exorcist and Poltergeist. A blown-up picture from the cube of Hellraiser completed the strange wallpaper. In the other wall was a nearly completed collection of masks from horror films: Jason's hockey mask from Friday the 13, Mike Myers mask of evil from the Halloween series, Hannibal Lecter's prisoner mask, and a mask from Killer Clowns from Outer Space that sent shivers down Grace's spine. Her biggest weakness was her unreasonable fright of clowns.

However, she didn't mind any of this. After all, she did have a unique decorating style also since her room was filled with Sesame Street memorabilia. What truly terrified her were the props Psycho had on the last wall. Ranging from Jason's machete to Freddy's scissor gloves to Norman Bates' 9-inch stabbing knife, Psycho's room was full of weapons that could be used against her.

She didn't know why, but she felt compelled to go to that wall and to touch the knife. She touched the blade softly, only to find out it was real. And very sharp. Funny that this little fact brought comfort to her. In case Psycho behaved funny, she knew she could run to this wall, pry the knife from the frame and use it against him.

"Planning to kill me?" Psycho suddenly said behind her. He was standing a few inches from her; close enough for her to feel his breath in the back of her head. She quickly composed herself, turned around and gave him a brave smile. "Not if you behave, I won't," she answered smugly. He smiled at her and said, "You should feel lucky; no one's ever come to my hideaway."

"And to what do I owe that honor?" Grace said as she watched him walk toward the armoire in the far corner. "You are gorgeous. I want to get you into bed," Psycho said blankly. Grace was shocked. The guy that had made her life miserable in every class they shared thought she was gorgeous?

He definitely had a funny way of showing it. And he wanted to sleep with her? At least she knew she could always trust Psycho Tse to tell her things to her face. His sincerity was like a slap to the face. "Well� thank you for the pretty thing, I guess," she stammered. "Don't thank me. Thank your parents. You were born that way," he said seriously. Another slap to the face.

"You know what's the problem with the university's staff and with people like you? You wouldn't know good cinema if it bit you in the ass," Psycho changed the subject. Grace smiled and asked him, "And for you, what is good cinema?"

He pointed to the armoire and said, "what I have here." With that, he opened the armoire's door. Hundreds of videotapes stared back at Grace. "Now, what does Miss 'Thang' want to see?" he asked as he browsed his collection. "What do you have?" Grace asked. "Let's see� I have porn of every type� soft� hard� oriental� European. You name it; I have it. This shit is the hottest you can get!" he said.

Porn, bedroom and Psycho Tse. It wasn't a good combination for Grace. Besides, she didn't come here to see that. "Actually, I'm not interested in porn. It's easy to get. If that's all you got�" she said as she clung her backpack, signaling she might leave if he didn't pique her interest. He smiled wickedly and said, "So, the bookworm wants some action, eh? Let's see."

"I need violent images, Tse. Pure and essential violence," Grace said. Psycho picked a videotape from his collection and said, "Violence? Okay, the baby wants violence. This will make you shit on your pants then." He took the tape, put it on the player and turned on the TV.

"What is it?" she asked. "It's called Fresh Blood, a very beautiful and educational film. You can sit or you can spend the next hour and a half standing up. It's your choice," he said as the title credits rolled in.

She looked around. The only place to sit on was the very messy and undone bed. No other chairs or sofas could be seen. And there were two persons in the room. Two persons, one bed. "It's okay. I'll stand up. I don't mind," she said uneasy as she dropped her backpack to the floor.

Psycho sighed and said, "Look. Don't worry about me jumping your bones if you don't want to. I won't ever touch a woman unless she wants me to, even if I want to fuck her as bad as I want to fuck you." His tone was serious and calm as if he had been talking of something as simple as what he ate for breakfast. It amused and annoyed Grace at the same time.

"You don't have a problem expressing what you think, do you?" Grace asked as she sat on the edge of the bed, not before throwing a pair of black jockey boxers that were on the bed back to him. The boxers hit him right in the face, but instead of being angry, he smiled genuinely. It was the first non-sarcastic smile Grace had seen in Psycho in four years. He took the underwear from his face and threw it on the floor.

"Nope. I don't. I got it from my grandmother. She always told me that life was too short to waste in formalities and pretense," he said as he sat on the floor a few feet away from her. That secretly relieved Grace. And so did the fact that someone seemingly so crazy and psychotic could mention his grandmother twice in less than 5 minutes of conversation. In Psycho's voice, she could feel the love and the respect he had for the old lady and that was a relief.

But of course, her mind always deviated to the paranoid thought. 'Norman Bates from the movie Psycho' he loved his mother to death' and that's what made him crazy,' she thought. But as she watched the back of Psycho's head, she realized that for all the craziness and the freakiness he displayed, he shared nothing else with the movie Psycho other than the nickname.

The first image appeared and the screen suddenly captured Grace's undivided attention.

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Apartment 2-B
90 minutes later

The ending credits rolled, but still Grace couldn't get her eyes off the screen. "Are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost," Psycho asked softly. And indeed, she did look shaken. She was visibly pale; her cheeks seemed to be devoid of color. Her mouth hanged wide open, and her brain refused to process what it had just witnessed.

In 90 minutes, Grace had seen autopsies, brain surgery on a patient without anesthetic. She had watched as that scalpel broke the flesh as the saw divided the bone into two pieces. She had watched in silence as the top of the head was taken and that bleeding, pulsing mass of flesh that was the brain expanded and contracted.

And if that wasn't enough, there came the accidents caught on tape� the executions� the hangings� the Satanic cult ceremony where a woman was gangbang by ten men while they made little cuts with their obsidian knives in her skin and she begged for more. Even the image in the credits, that of a man that had just been shot in the head for stealing a car, affected Grace. She felt numb and dead inside. For a second, she really did wish she had done her Thesis on Mickey Mouse.

"Hey, are you okay?" Psycho said as he got up the floor worriedly and touched her face. His touch made Grace react and she turned her attention from the screen to him. "Yes� yes I am,"
she said as she swallowed hard. "Girl, don't get squeamish on me," he said as he turned off the TV.

"That was all real, wasn't it?" Grace asked, still numb. "Of course it was� I thought that's what you wanted to see," Psycho said. "Yes, that was it, but, I could never have imagined, that, that, I have never seen a dead body before. Well, I've seen dead people, but never someone that had died a violent death and it's� I can't find words to describe how horrible it is," Grace said. She then turned her warm eyes back toward Psycho. "Have you ever seen a dead body?" she asked him.

"Of course. The guy in the subway today," he answered softly. "I had forgotten about that. Funny how stupid his death seems after watching this," she said as she pointed toward the TV.

"Why do people watch this stuff?" she asked more to herself than to him. "I don't know. You just watched it. Why did you?" Psycho asked. "It's different. I don't enjoy it. I'm disgusted by it. Why do you watch it, Tse?" she asked him. "I pledge the Fifth," he said softly.

For the first time, she noticed the Felix the Cat clock he had. It read 8:00. Time had certainly flown in the company of Psycho Tse. "Shit, I have to go. My parents must be worried," she said as she took her backpack from the floor and started walking to the door.

"Are you sure you don't want me to walk you home? You don't look so good," Psycho called from behind. Grace opened the main door and once she was outside, turned to him and said, "Naw, it's okay. I'll get a grip on myself on the way home." The truth was that she didn't felt comfortable with Tse knowing where she lived. She gave him a small smile and was surprised when he smiled back. "Well, the invitation for porn is still open! You can come back here anytime you want," Psycho joked.

"You are something else, Tse, I give you that. Thank you for your help. This definitely helps my Thesis," Grace said sincerely. "Glad I could do something right for once. Who knows? Maybe I still got a chance to get into your pants," he said with a sly smile.

She gave him a quick peck on the cheek, which caught him off guard. "Not in a million years, Tse," she said as she slapped him softly on the cheek and left him standing in the doorway of his apartment.

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Home of the Yip family
9:00 PM

Grace opened the door to her house. Coqui, the family's black Labrador, greeted her on the door. "Hey, buddy. Where's mom and dad?" she asked the dog as she scratched him behind the ears. She had noticed her parents' car wasn't in the garage, and silently thanked God for that small miracle.

"Where the fu*k were you?" someone suddenly asked from behind her. Grace gasped, suddenly scared to death. But it took her less than a second to recognize the voice of her sister, Lillian. "Lil, you scare the crap out of me!" Grace told her sharply. At seeing Grace's face, Lillian's anger turned into concern. "Shit, Gracie! What happened? I was waiting for an hour for you till I finally gave up and came here! And why the hell do you look so frightened? Did something happen?" Lillian asked.

Grace took a deep breath and calmed herself. To tell her sister that she had just spent three hours at the apartment of NYU's most feared guy will be stupid. Lillian will rat her to her parents and Grace would be grounded till her wedding day. "I'm sorry. I just had a visit to the city's library," Grace lied as she ran up the stairs to her room.

"Lil, I'm going to go to bed early. Good night," Grace said as she closed the door before her sister could ask her anything else. "Stop! I have some good news and I can't wait to tell you!" Lillian said from the hall. Grace sighed and opened the door. "Guess what?" Lillian asked happily.

"Mmm, the government admitted the existence of extraterrestrials?" Grace said sarcastically. "Hahaha, I think I heard my bunny slippers laughing their ass off. But since you are obviously not in the mood for guessing, I might as well tell you. Guess who I got as my partner in my final project?" "The gay Teletubbie?" Grace replied.

"Vicki Zhao!" Lillian said happily. "You mean the Versace model?" Grace asked surprised. "Yes, and that's not the cool thing. She told me I could make it in the big leagues and that she would set up an audition for me! Isn't that sweet of her?" Lillian asked. She was brimming with so much happiness Grace couldn't help but be happy also. For a moment, the horrors she had just witnessed were nothing but a fleeting memory.

"I'm so glad for you, sis!" Grace said as she hugged and kissed Lillian. "My sister� a model! I can't believe it!" she said happily. "Well, the first thing I'm going to do when I become super famous is to set you up with the CK male underwear model," Lillian joked. "You mean the one from the Times Square billboard?" Grace asked with a smile as Lillian started leaving the room.

"Yes, the one whose 'merchandise' you are always drooling at," Lillian joked. She ran to her own room and closed the door before Grace could catch her and kick her butt. "Hey, I'm going to get you for that! Good night," Grace said with a smile as she closed the door to her room and locked it.

That night, nothing but restless sleep accompanied Grace. The images she had just seen played over and over in her head like a bad scratched record.

What was so attractive about those films? Why did people like Psycho buy them?

What was so irresistible about violence?

And all the while, she could feel someone was watching her. She dismissed that feeling as nothing more than a paranoid thought that came from the movie she saw.

Yet, she didn't feel any more at ease. For a moment, she felt as if someone was making a movie about her own life.

And like the movie she had just seen, it was just waiting for the inevitable.

Waiting for the end.

Waiting for the final credits to roll and for the final fade to black.

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The next day
NYU Media Building
6:55 AM

"Okay, I'm going to go meet Prof. Lau. I don't know if I'll be able to come back home with you, but don't worry. I just have a lot of catching up for my thesis," Grace told Lillian as they were about to part ways. However, Lillian wasn't paying attention to her. Something behind Grace had caught her attention.

Grace turned around, and sighed as she noticed what was stealing her sister's attention. A young man was standing 20 feet away from them, talking with two other girls. Grace had seen him before around the faculty, and she really couldn't blame her sister for being distracted. The young man was handsome, to say the least. He was like someone you would expect to see in the cover of People's magazine. With his perfect eyes, his full lips, his chiseled nose and chin, and his streaked stylish hair, he looked like someone that belonged to be in front of the camera rather than behind it.

"Edison Chen," Grace said as she turned her attention back to the drooling Lillian. "Oh, you know him?" Lillian asked her excited. "I know OF him. he's rich, charming and cute, and according to some people a great filmmaker. But I have never crossed words with him," Grace said. "Oh, he's dreamy," Lillian said to herself. Grace wanted to laugh out loud, but settled for saying, "Well, you are an up-and-coming supermodel. Why don't you go ask him out?"

"Are you kidding me? Do you know who's his girlfriend?" Lillian asked her shocked. "Mm, I'm afraid I don't,� Grace said casually. "He's Vicki Zhao's boyfriend! They have been going out for like 2 years! Everyone knows that, Grace!" Lillian told her. "Well, I don't. And I don't care. I have to go and meet the professor. See you at home. Be good. And don't go drooling over anymore taken guys," Grace joked as she pinched her sister's butt and walked down the stairs to the basement.

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NYU Media Building
6:55 AM
Basement Floor

"Professor Lau?" Grace called softly as she knocked on his door. Professor Lau had told her to meet him in his office at 7:00 AM sharp. She was looking forward to their meeting, knowing Lau would have done what he could to get her images she could use for her thesis, although after what happened at Psycho Tse's house the afternoon before, she wasn't sure she could stomach them anymore.

"This is odd. He's the living atomic clock. Always on time," thought Grace as she tried the door to his office, surprised that it wasn't locked. She stepped inside, but found no one there. Still, his briefcase and his belongings were scattered around the desk. "He must be in the bathroom," she thought as took the seat in front of the desk and decided to wait for him.

When 15 minutes had passed, Grace decided to search for him around the floor. Maybe someone had seen him. maybe he was in someone else's office or in one of the screening rooms. The truth was that she was impatient by nature; she didn't like waiting on nobody.

She walked outside; only another student was walking around the hall. To her surprise, the student was none other than Psycho Tse. "You? So early?" Grace asked him. "Of course. I always come at this hour looking for girls to grope. Do you know of any?" he asked her smugly as he pushed his glasses up his nose.

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter," she said sarcastically. "Have you seen Prof. Lau?" she added. "Nope. Can't say I have. Man, you do like them mature, don't you?" he asked with a smile as he walked past her.

She gave him the finger, which only made him laugh harder. "I'll see you in class," was the last thing he said as he pushed the heavy doors and walked out of the hall. "Bastard", she whispered amused. She walked on the other direction and heard something out of the ordinary for the deserted hall. A small sound was heard ' hissing' static.

She closed her eyes and traced the sound with her hearing. She identified where the sound came from: screening room 11. She pushed the heavy metal doors and stepped inside.

She noticed the still figure of Professor Lau on the first row of the small cinema. "Professor! There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you," she said as she stepped inside the room. However, she got no reply back. He just kept still, his back to her, his attention seemingly fixed on the projector screen in the front, the source of all the static.

"Professor?" she called, her voice a little worried. Slowly, she walked toward where he was sitting. "Professor Lau, are you okay?" she asked a bit panicked as she stopped next to Professor Lau and turned around to face him.

"Oh my god," she gasped as she dropped her notebook on the floor.

She wasn't a doctor, but she knew what she was seeing.

Professor Lau was sitting on the chair; his eyes wide open staring at the screen. His mouth was hanging open, contorted in a painful gasp. The fingers of his hand were stretched out, as if he had been trying to take something. He looked scared. no, make that terrified.

But there was no other sound in the room but Grace's panic breathing and the sound of the projector's static.

Professor Lau was dead.

THESIS

2008-02-21T16:19:00.002+08:00

Chapter 3

The Vault

Grace left Professor Lau's office just to find one of her best friends, and her sister's ex-boyfriend, Jimmy Lin, flirting with a prospective student in the hall. Grace had to suppress a smile; she loved ruining his conquests and she had the perfect opportunity to do so.

"Hey, handsome," she said as she give him a quick peck on the lips and wrapped her arms around his waist. Jimmy opened his eyes wide, while the girl he had been talking with changed her demeanor from flirty to furious.

"Hi, I'm Grace, Jimmy's girlfriend. And you are?" Grace asked with a sweet voice. "I'm, I'm Justinne and I, I'm late. I have to go," Justinne said as she took her backpack from the floor and left Jimmy and Grace alone. Grace was trying to suppress her laughter, and Jimmy was too shock to stop Justinne from leaving.

"Dude, why you did that for?" Jimmy asked Grace after he conquered his initial shock. Grace fell laughing on the floor. His eyes were wide, but he couldn't help but laugh at his Grace's reaction. "I'm sorry, Jim" but that girl was obviously a minor. Do you want to go to jail, Jimmy Lin? Want to be someone's bitch?" Grace said as she continued laughing.

"A minor? She told me she was 20!" Jimmy said in shock. "J-man, if that girl is 20, I'm already a grandmother," Grace said as she took him by the arm and started walking toward the school's library. "A minor? Man, that sucks! She was fine! Dude, why does this always happen to me? You know what will make it better? Another kiss!" Jim said as he made 'goo goo' eyes at Grace and offered his lips. Grace pushed him and said, "Yuck! Get that filthy mouth away from me!" They kept walking, joking and playing with each other, until they arrived at the library's entrance.

"I was actually looking for you cause I need something from you," Grace whispered more seriously as they walked into the NYU library and sat on a free desk. "Sure, what do you need?" Jim whispered back. "I know you have 'interesting' movies. You know, miscellaneous stuff: porn, S&M, autopsies, bla bla bla," Grace started saying. Jimmy opened his eyes wide and screamed: "Are you looking for porn, Gracie?" The words resounded across the silent library.

All the eyes in the library fell on them. Grace kicked his leg under the desk as she squirmed farther into the chair. "You idiot! If you only let me finish! I'm not looking for porn! I was wondering if you had violent images that I could use for my thesis," Grace said between clenched teeth. "Okay, okay! Besides, who told you I had porn?" Jimmy asked surprised. "Jimmy, I know you better than my sister did. I have been in your room and I have browsed your video collection. I have to say that my favorite title was 'The XXX-Files' and of course, who could forget 'Star Balls'," Grace said with a smirk as she innocently adjusted her glasses.

Jimmy's face was as red as a tomato. "You never told your sister, did you?" he asked sheepishly. "Of course not. now, answer me, do you have the images I need or not?" Grace asked.

"Violent images? I'm afraid that aside from 'Alien Autopsy' my movies are pretty straightforward. I have some S&M, but it's very lightweight. However, I know of someone who can help you. These guy supposedly has a collection worthy of a freak museum," Jimmy said with a knowing smile. He knew Grace would hate him for his suggestion, but Jimmy could give as well as he got. "Who?" Grace whispered.

"The guy four desks behind you. The one with the thick glasses," Jimmy said, unable to suppress a smile. Grace turned around and looked behind her.

"You have to be f*cking kidding me," Grace cursed as she noticed who it was. 13,000 thousand students in the university and the one that could help her was the one that loved to make her life a living hell.

"Nope. Look, I have PE now. Go there and ask him. Or are you afraid?" Jimmy said as he got up from his chair and kissed Grace on the cheek.

'Afraid' wasn't the word to describe how she felt when she dealt with Psycho Tse.

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'Give me the blood.
Give me the life.
Give me the taste
of hell in your eyes.

I am the killer
I am the sin
And I am the beast within.'

Psycho Tse was whispering the song he was hearing on his Walkman as he copied some notes from Anasazi's 'The Art of German Cinema in the 1930's'. Every now and then he would forget that he was in the library and would start banging his pencil on the desk at the beat of the deafening music. A nervous attendant had to come and ask him to stop.

"Excuse me," he faintly heard a female voice saying. No one ever spoke to him, so he ignored it. He felt someone touch his shoulder and he turned around sharply. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you," Grace said with a shy smile.

"Well, if it isn't my favorite bookworm. What are you doing here? Going to give me a hard time about contradicting you in Lau's class?" Psycho said without a trace of a smile. His eyes looked abnormally big with the eyeglasses on, almost deformed. Grace's smile turned to a scowl. "You know, you really make it hard for people to be nice to you," Grace said seriously. At her words, Psycho smiled a sadistic smile.

"I don't need people to be nice to me if they don't want to. Besides, I know you didn't come here to lecture me on my manners. What do you want?" Psycho said. Grace sighed and said, "No beating about the bush, eh? Well, a friend told me you were quite an aficionado of violent films and that you have quite a collection of those types of movies�"

"What types of movies?" Psycho asked crossly. "You know: gore, porn, sadomasochist� that sort of thing," Grace answered. "Well, your friend lied to you. And even if I did have them I wouldn't give them to you," Psycho said seriously. "Look, I know you don't like me but I really, really could use your help," Grace said softly.

"Man, are you sick?" Psycho said loudly, obviously trying to get unwanted attention. For the second time, all eyes in the library turned to Grace. She wanted to strangle him, but kept playing nice. "No, I'm not. The reason I need those images is purely educational. I take no pleasure in violence and gore. I need them for my thesis about 'Audiovisual Violence'. Besides, with the little display of human empathy you put on today in the subway station, you are the person least suitable to lecture me on 'sickness'," Grace said very seriously.

Psycho held her penetrating gaze for a while, but finally looked away. "Look. I'm sorry but I can't help you. You should have done your thesis about Mickey Mouse. Besides, if you really are looking for a turn on I can take you to a nice sex shop or we can go to the back of the stairs and fu*k each other brains out. I certainly wouldn't mind helping you with that," Psycho said smirking as he turned his attention back to his notes. Grace wanted to punch the lights out of him, but she had had enough unwanted attention for the day.

Grace got up from the desk, but leaned into him and whispered in his ear, "Tse, I don't know what's your problem, but you are one f*cking *sshole. Just to make one thing clear, I would rather be a lesbian than be near any position where the probability of fu*king you existed. Thanks for nothing." Grace took a perverse pleasure in seeing him squirm, but couldn't help but to feel a little guilty.

She finally gave up on Psycho. He had never been nice to her, nor to anybody; she didn't know how she could think he might help her. She took a deep breath and went back to her own desk. Grace took from her backpack the things she needed to study: her pen, her notebook, her books and her Walkman. She put on the classic Carmina Burana and started writing the first sketch of her thesis's hypothesis. All the while Grace couldn't help to feel someone's eyes over her.

'O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurate
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.'

She didn't know how much time had passed, but she was already listening to the 6th song when she suddenly felt an unfamiliar hand in her shoulder. She took of her headphones and looked up, only to find Psycho's penetrating gaze on her face.

"Do you really need to see those tapes?" he asked softly. "You told me you didn't have them," she answered crossly. "Do you want to see them? Yes or No," he asked for a second time. He wasn't being cocky or smug. He was simply making an honest question. This was the first time she had seen him like this, and she couldn't stop herself from nodding softly.

"Then come with me," Psycho said seriously. "I would love to but I have to meet my sister when she comes out of.." Grace started saying as she gathered her things when he rudely interrupted, "My house is not a 7-11. It's not open 24 hours. if you want to see those tapes, you come with me now."

Grace thought about it. To go with a stranger, not to mention psychotic, man that has made numerous sexual references to her and go to his home to watch movies of dubious contents, was stupid and dangerous to say the least. But she was desperate. No violent tapes� no thesis� no graduation.

"Alright. Lead the way, Mr. Tse," she said as she put on her backpack and follow Psycho to his home.

********************
NYU
Film and Media Building
Basement Floor

"Excuse me," Professor Lau said to the vault's attendant. "Professor Lau? It's been years since you've been down here," Alec, the attendant, said warmly as he shook Professor Lau's hand.

"I know. been busy with the kids upstairs. However, I recently remembered a very interesting Czechoslovakian film I watched years ago, but I can't seem to remember the title. I was wondering if you could let me into the vault so I could take a look around at the cartons and see if I can find it," Professor Lau said.

"Well, that's not the protocol, but hell� I don't see any problem. Follow me," Alec said as he got up from his chair and guided Professor Lau to the vault's door. He used the heavy key he had on his pocket to open the vault and turned on the light inside. Professor Lau walked with his cane and entered the biggest movie repository in the United States with one thought in mind: find something for Grace to use in her thesis.

"It's funny," Alec suddenly interrupted his thoughts. "What is?" Professor Lau asked. "You are the second professor to ask me to let him into the vault today," Alec replied. Professor Lau was interested; vault's protocol declared that you would give the information of the movie you wished to check out to the attendant and the attendant would search the vault for the movie. At no time were the professors or the students supposed to enter the vault, probably for fear of them stealing the contents or for misplacing them.

"Who was it?" Prof. Lau asked. "Some young professor from the Psychology Faculty. I'm not sure of his name, but he comes into the vault quite often. In fact, he's in there right now," Alec answered. "Well, then I should wait for him to come out. I don't want to disturb him," Prof. Lau said. However, he was more worried of someone finding him browsing thru the movies.

"Nah, don't worry. This vault is so big I'm sure you won't even see each other. Well, I'll be outside. Knock when you finish," Alec said as he closed the door and locked it, leaving Prof. Lau in a dimly lighted warehouse. Beside the door was posted a list of the movie categories and their location in the warehouse:

'Action' 1A
'Comedy' 1B
'Drama' 2A + 2B
'International' China' 3A
'International' Denmark' 3B
'International' Germany' 4A
'International' Hong Kong' 4B
'International' Japan' 5A
'International' Latin America' 5B
'International' Spain' 6A
'International' Others' 6B
'Art House' 7A
'Science Fiction' 7B
'Anime' 8A
'Cartoons' 8B
'Miscellaneous' 9

"Shelf 9," Prof. Lau whispered as he limped toward the shelf. He was nervous. He couldn't let the other professor see him in the miscellaneous section. The section was famous for its Adult's contents: hardcore and soft porn from every country imaginable, terrorist manifestos and incredibly violent and real images. He knew if he was found there, the title 'Freak' was going to be branded on him forever.

He finally arrived at Shelf 9. His face got redder and redder as he browsed all the offending tapes. Unexpectedly, he heard a heavy iron door open. He walked to the main hall and saw that the vault's door was still closed. "Is anybody out there?" he called out, but got no answer. "Professor?" he called again, thinking it might have been the other professor in the vault.

Prof. Lau thought he heard footsteps coming from the far side of the vault. He walked slowly toward the footsteps, but he didn't find anyone. What he found was an open door, heavy and old, probably belonging to the universities first constructions. He peaked inside the door and a musty odor hit his senses. The air smelled stale and full of fungus. He felt his lungs contract and he started coughing violently. He took his inhaler from his pocket and took a mouthful.

Prof. Lau's curiosity won over his hesitation as he walked inside. Behind the door, he found a tunnel, filled with iron tubes. He knew the university had been built around the First World War, and air raids shelters had been built throughout the basements. He concluded he must be inside one of those rarely used shelters. "Hello, is anybody there?" Prof. Lau asked, but again got no replied.

He kept walking the dark tunnel until he arrived in a small room. He searched the wall for a light switch and finally found it. Boxes piled the room, filled with cameras and unused equipment. On the left corner, there was a shelf filled with videotapes. He walked to the shelf and inspected the tapes; they had no marking other than a number on a label. The numbers read from '1' to '214'. This was, to say the least, weird. All tapes had to be inside the vault. Who could have brought this inside the tunnel?

"Professor Lau? Professor Lau, it's time to close," he heard Alec's voice calling for him. Alec was obviously looking for him in the vault. Professor Lau quickly grabbed one of the tapes at random and left the dark tunnel, careful to shut the light after him.

He found Alec searching for him in the vault. "Did you find what you were looking for?" Alec asked. "No. I'm afraid not. I will have to get more information on the movie before I try looking for it again," Prof. Lau answered nervously.

Alec didn't notice that Professor Lau had slipped the strange videotape inside his jacket pocket.

THESIS

2008-02-20T17:34:00.004+08:00

CHAPTER 2

2 WEEKS EARLIER
Near Subway Station B

"Attention. Ladies and Gentlemen. Due to an accident in the subway line we've stopped the train. As you may have already noticed, we're only half way into the station. The doors will now open so you can step out the train. Please, follow the officer's instructions", the speaker blared as the lights inside the subway flickered on and off.

"What happened" Lillian asked Grace worriedly. They had taken this same train every day for five years, and never had encountered any problem. The automatic sliding doors opened and a man in uniform stepped inside her subway car. "Ladies and Gentlemen. We need you to walk down to train cars and go out thru your right. Stay to the side until you reach the station's exit" , the officer said.

"Officer, what happened" Lillian asked him. "A man committed suicide by throwing himself in front of the train. It's a terrible mess. I suggest no one here looks at it", the officer said as he walked toward the other remaining car.

Death. Someone had just died a horrible death. Grace felt her heart quickened and her breath shorten as she got up from her seat and walked in line with the other passengers, her sister Lillian behind her. They stepped out of the train, where another line had been made of the unloading passengers. The passengers were pressed against the wall, trying to get as far away as possible from the battered piece of meat grilled against the train's face. Some were even holding their hand in front of their eyes to block the view. Who knows? Maybe they thought if they didn't see the man's body, the man wouldn't really be dead�

Grace joined the other passengers who were being directed by another officer. "Keep walking. Keep walking. Nothing to see. Come on, don't be morbid and keep walking", the officer said over and over again as he stood between the line and the train. "That's so cool, man! It's like a bomb exploded inside him! Look at all the body parts", she heard a male voice say.

She looked to the front of the train to find a crowd of onlookers had already gathered where the body was. She recognized the one that had spoken the morbid words; he was also another student at NYU. His name was 'Psycho' Tse, and he did his name justice. With his big eyeglasses, his Jack The Ripper shirt, his military pants and dusty green jacket, Tse was the epitome of everyone's weirdest nightmare.

Everyone around him was looking at him with wide eyes; they couldn't believe that he was actually excited. "You're one nasty motherf*cker", one of them said to him. "Hey, at least I'm saying what all of you are thinking", Psycho said as he casually walked away, as if what he had just watched was nothing more than a wad of gum in the street.

"Keep walking. Hurry up. Nothing to see", the officer said over and over again. But the more he said it, the more Grace wanted to take a look. Grace left the line and slowly walked toward the front of the train. "Grace, what are you doing? Come back here!" Lillian whispered to Grace, but Grace ignored her sister. Grace had never considered herself a morbid person. She didn't browsed the video place looking for blood and gore entertainment. What was so morbidly attractive in death? Like the other onlookers that were gathered around the body, she was disgusted by the mayhem. Yet, she couldn't help herself to take a glance.

But before she could see the mayhem, somebody grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her away. "Hey, lady. Don't be gory and go back in line", a huge officer said as she pushed Grace back to the line. "Are you crazy, Grace? Why the hell did you want to see that for?" Lillian asked her. "I don't know, Lil. I don't know", Grace answered.

When they left the station, Grace felt something that scared her and fascinated her.

She felt disappointed.

************************
4 Hours Later
School of Mass Communication
New York University

"So, we have to ask ourselves: How much is too much?" Professor Lau said to his class. He started coughing violently, and took his inhaler from his pocket and used it. Professor Lau was handsome and relatively young, but he had been born prematurely. He had a bad congenital disease, and his heart and his lungs had grown weak.

"Man, I think that thing has weed", Judy, the girl sitting behind Grace, said. Grace had to stifle a laugh, but Professor Lau noticed. "Something funny, Ms. Yip? Something you want to share with me?" Professor Lau said seriously. "Busted Grace!" Judy snickered.

"Um� nothing sir. I just" Grace stammered. "It was actually about what you had just said. How much is too much" Grace said at the top of her head. "Well, care to share your thoughts with the class?" Professor Lau said with a smile as he walked with his cane toward the front of his desk and sat on it.

"Well, adult themes, like sex, violence, incest, drugs. In cinema, when do those themes cross the line between entertainment and statement? For example, the movie Natural Born Killers. An extremely violent. The problem was that the movie glorified violence without never really stating the consequences of that violence. In that way, it crossed from entertainment to a statement: murder can be fun and can be something you get away with", Grace said seriously. She was Professor Lau's number one student, and he confirmed it with a smile.

"Can someone remind me what was the buzz in the media when Natural Born Killers premiered?" Professor Lau asked the class. No one raised their hand, nor gave any indication that they had an answer. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence, Grace spoke.

"The brutal murder of an elderly woman by three teenagers that had just come out of the theater from watching the movie. When the media asked them why, they said that the movie made them want to kill someone to see what it will be like to be a murderer like the characters in the movie", Grace said.

"That's right. Now I ask all of you, was Natural Born Killers too much? Did it really influence these kids to perform this heinous act? Was it entertainment? Or did it became a statement in behalf of violence?" Professor Lau asked.

"I'm sorry to contradict the bookworm here, but that's just plan stupid", a male voice said a couple of seats behind Grace. Grace turned around and watched Psycho Tse refute her answer. "First of all, Mr. Tse, next time please refer to your classmate by her proper name. Second, what is your reason for contradicting her?" Professor Lau asked. He knew Tse had a lot of potential, but the guy was just plain scary sometimes.

"Images don't make people kill. Movies are nothing more than thousands of still pictures running at high velocity. Anger and hurt and rage it's what drives others to kill. Those kids wanted to kill someone long before they watched NBK", Psycho said cockily. Grace wanted to slap the smile off his face.

"They may have wanted to kill someone, but what made them choose that date? Why not Thanksgiving or Christmas? Why not Sunday after coming from church? Why not when they watched Episode I? Hey, I wanted to kill someone after watching Episode I. But they picked NBK because it was the last piece in their fantasy world. A confirmation that what they wanted could become reality", Grace replied.

"That's stupid. According to your theory, if you and I watch a porn movie together, you are going to start fu*king me, because the movie might drive you to it", Psycho said with a smile. Everyone started snickering. Grace face reddened as she bit her lip in anger and embarrassment. "Tse! Another outburst like that and you are out of my class!" Professor Lau said seriously.

"Sorry, professor", Tse said as he winked at Grace. She would have probably punched him if Judy had not been in her way.

"Well, we have two very distinct point of views here. Want to know who's right? Both! And neither! The truth lies somewhere in between", Professor Lau said. And that moment, the bell signaling the end of the class rang loudly. "And we will be discussing this tomorrow. Have a good day kids. If you go to the movies, I recommend Memento. It's what good cinema should be like. Grace, I want to see you in my office. Now, " Professor Lau said with a smile as he slowly gathered his things.

"In his office? That explains your grades," Psycho said as he got up from his chair and started gathering his things. "Hey, at least I didn't get a hard on from the mangled body in the subway station today," Grace said seriously as she followed Professor Lau outside. She didn't get to see Psycho smile.

************************
10 minutes later

"It's just the outline," Grace said as Professor Lau read her 10-page thesis statement. Professor Lau had been kind enough to volunteer to be her counselor for her thesis, but that required Grace to prepare status reports for him. She was nervous, cause this was their first meeting.

Professor Lau smiled as he closed the document. "I love your approach, Grace. It's a very delicate subject. With a subject like this, you are exposed to outrageous morbidity or to moral crusading. Yet, you are not being morbid or overly critical. You're being very objective," Professor Lau said as he handed her folder back. "Well, Grace. I'll see you tomorrow in class," he said with a smile.

"Actually, sir. I wanted to ask you for one more thing. It's about Section 8. My thesis main core," Grace said as she opened the folder and pointed at Section 8.

"Audiovisual Violence," he read the caption out loud. "I'm looking for documentation," Grace said. "Documentation? What kind of documentation?" Professor Lau asked.

"Extremely violent images� never before seen images too violent for broadcasting on TV or cinema. You have access to the university's vault archives. Maybe you could get me some interesting images," Grace said with a pleading smile.

"Does violence seem interesting to you?" Professor Lau asked, his voice dead serious. "Not personally. But for my thesis," she said nervously, afraid to sound like a psychopath in front of her favorite teacher.

"Violent images?" he asked again. "As violent as possible," Grace repeated. She watched the professor deep in thought. He grimaced and clutched at his heart, and she got nervous. "Professor, are you okay?" Grace asked worriedly. He nodded and searched his desk drawer for a pill bottle. He took a pill out and put it under his tongue. After a few moments, his face was calmer and he could breath normally. "Want me to call the nurse?" Grace asked.

"Don't worry, Gracie. It's my heart. It happens quite often. well, back to the project. The truth is it will be embarrassing for me to ask the vault keeper for those types of movies. God knows they'll think I'm some crazy lunatic," Professor Lau said.

He looked at Grace's hopeful face. She reminded him so much of his younger sister, than he couldn't help but say, "But come tomorrow morning around 7:00 AM. I don't promise anything, but I will try and get them for you." "Thanks professor! You're the best!" Grace said with a big smile as she gathered her things and left the office.

"Violent images?" he repeated to himself as his smile faded. He was a film professor, but he hated violence, fictional or otherwise. He will have to have a good plan to get those images for Grace.

Professor Lau would have never guessed he would get more than he bargained for.

THESIS

2008-02-19T14:23:00.003+08:00

hello people!

SL CAMP IS NEARING!

those who did not collect ur indem form or haven paid the $5 pls do so this week at BSC room!

The room will be open from 1 to 6pm!

okay. side-tracking!

i found this story amazing.

wanna share with you guys!

there are a total of 22 chapters.

i'll divide into 22 posts to share with u guys. haha.

READ ON OKAY.

ITS REALLY NICE.

here goes.

CHAPTER 1

The Close Up

She opened her eyes gradually, her sight adjusting slowly to the sudden wash of light from the room. The pain in the back of her head came like a head-on collision. She felt something sticky and warm around the nape of her neck, and correctly assumed that it was her own blood.

She realized she was sitting down. She tried to get up but to no avail. She looked at her legs and saw her ankles were painfully bounded together by electrical rope. She tried moving her hands, but her hands were also bounded by rope on each side of the chair. She struggled to free her right hand, the cord cutting into her wrists until the armrest was stained with her blood.

She could feel her heart in her throat. She had never been so scared in her life. She looked around the garage for something she might use, but nothing was within reach. For a moment, her nervousness was lost by the sight of the white and blue tiles in the garage wall. She had seen this place many times before, even when tonight was the first time she ever set foot in it. This garage was the source of all her nightmares.

She heard footsteps coming down the staircase and into the garage. She gulped down hard when she saw her captor, all dressed in black, rubber gloves placed neatly on its hands.

"Why are you doing this?" she asked her subjugator as she kept struggling to free her arm.

The person just smiled and walked to a closet. As the closet door opened, she saw the body of a very familiar woman on the floor. It was ominously still, and by the way her face was twisted in a painful grimace, it had not been a pretty death.

Out of the closet her attacker took a camera, a Sony XT-500 Hi-8 model, and set the tripod three feet away from the woman in the chair. She watched the person turned on the camera and adjusted the focus. Her captor was smiling while looking at her thru the camera lenses. Her assailant walked back to the closet and came out with a 9-inch knife, licking the blade reverently.

At that moment, she realized what was going on. She was going to star in one of her worst nightmares. She should be panicked, but she knew it was too late for that. Instead, numbness set in her mind and in her heart, steadying her spirit. She took a deep breath and fixed her chocolate eyes in the camera. She concentrated in the red signal light that signaled the tape was rolling. Somehow, the familiarity of it helped her say her next words.

My name is Grace Yip.
and I'm going to die?

OKAY. THIS IS CHAPTER ONE. MORE ON THE SUMMARY OR CLOSE UP OF THE WHOLE STORY.

IF U CANT WAIT FOR ME TO POST THE NEXT FEW POSTS UP, U CAN GO TO:

http://winglin.net/fanfic/anasazi06/chapter_0.shtml

THE WHOLE STORY IS THERE. HAHA.

HAPPY NEW YR!

2008-02-08T01:13:00.001+08:00

HAPPY NEW YR PPL!

GET MANY MANY HONG BAOS AND SHARE OKAY!

HEH HEH HEH!

SEE YOU PPL SOON YO!

SL camp!

2008-01-21T01:55:00.000+08:00

Dinner and Dance

2008-01-17T02:30:00.001+08:00

Dinner and Dance is on 27 March!

Tickets at $50 are available now!

for more details,

Contact Liyi at 93363199 or email her at liyii.bsc@gmail.com

or visit the poster at the noticeboard at Business Entrance!

or u can log on to www.tpdnd.blogspot.com.

Don't miss it yo!

while stocks lasts!

x)

OPEN HOUSE

2008-01-14T23:40:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

open hse is OVER!

and yea! WELL DONE TO ALL BGUIDES!

firstly would like to thank the subcomms and bguides who helped in the spraying of shirts and preparations for OPEN HOUSE!

really thanks many many. your efforts are appreciated.

these people are mainly NAAZ, MAY, AMELIA, WEIDA, etc.

(tag the board if i missed ur name! heh heh)

and wanna thank all bguides for fufilling your duty for the three tiring days!

we look forward to working with you guys in other projects eh!

you guys have been a great help and support!

esp when we are super shorthanded, you people still stood by and helped.

not forgetting the main comm!

To TEAM RAH RAH:

you guys cheered the loudest and are the most rah rah team BSC had ever met!

you guys hyped up the whole OPEN HOUSE with a blast!

without u guys, the whole open house will not be as lively as it is.

and thanks for helping out the tour booth when we are shorthanded.

TO TOUR GUIDES:

you guys have been the greatest help and support throughout the whole OPEN HOUSE.

without u guys, the visitors will be damn lost!

and thanks many many from JIA MIN and JO-AN to all tour guides.

you guys are great =)

TO LT GUIDES:

the LTs will be different without u guys ard.

thanks for guiding the visitors to the LT and hyping up the entrances!

and thanks to those who helped the tour booth!

TO RECEPTION:

u are the main guides to the whole business open house.

without u guys at the info booth, the tour booth will be super busy with lost souls!

AWWWWWW. really thanks many okay =)

photos will be up very very soon!

STAY TUNED! x)

2008-01-03T01:15:00.000+08:00

HELLO PEOPLE!!!

Our beloved MR. WESLEY POTATO is coming back on 25 JANUARY!

heard dat he had lost 2 belt holes of waist length!

HOHOHO!

we shall see him soon alrite!

STAY TUNED PEEPS!

HOHOHOO!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! x)

2007-12-26T15:41:00.000+08:00

HEY PPL!

rmb yo!

we are having an outing this friday!

Date: 28 December Friday!
Time: 11am
Venue: Harbourfront MRT

do pass the msg ard alrite!

rmb! you can bring ur frens along! x)

CHEERS!

Standard Chartered Marathon & BGUIDES!

2007-12-20T19:10:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

here to post pics!

check it out yo!

thanks all who made it and contributed to the events!

LOVE YOU GUYS MANY MANY! x)

photo credits to MAYBELLE!

STAND CHART!

BGUIDES WORKSHOP!

More photos coming yo! stay tuned! x)

Sub comm Outing!

2007-12-04T01:19:00.001+08:00

HELLO SUBCOMMS!

We are havin an outin on 28 December 2007!

it is to celebrate Christmas! (although its over). haha.

and also a good time to catch up with one another!

Date: 28 December Friday!
Time: 11am
Venue: Harbourfront MRT

Tentatively we will be going to SENTOSA!

and after this we will go for DINNER together!

interested peeps can email me at joann.bsc@gmail.com or msg me to confirm attendance alrite!

u can bring your frens who are non-subcomms as well! bud u have to inform me okay!

lookin forward to the outing! x)

Thank You Subcomms!

2007-11-30T20:14:00.001+08:00

Hello!

Here to thank all subcomms who have helped out for Bizshield and Standard Chartered Pre-event!

Really appreciated your help!

Appreciation dinner is still withheld as there is no chance by which everyone is free. haha.

bud i still owe u guys alrite!

We have a BIMBO squad now!

President: Maybelle!

haha. let the pictures do all the talking.

Once again! Thanks!

See you guys at Stand Chart actual event!

OH! as for those who backed out last min, Im sorry to say, Im disappointed.

you not only have showed your irresponsible attitude, you have also caused alot of problems for us.

so in future, if u have promised to help or take part in any event, pls fufil it.

no offence bud ya. TAKE NOTE.

we will keep the list of people and it is served as a reminder to all.

LOVESS!

sTANDARD

2007-11-19T13:52:00.000+08:00

Hi all,

Standard Chartered Marathon Race-Entry Pack Collection (Pre-event) is next week! Hence, here are the details for the Pre-event.

Date: 23rd - 25th Nov 2007 (Fri-Sun)

Time: 8.30am - 9pm (Must reach by 8.30am)

Venue: Suntec Convention Centre Hall 603

Attire: Jeans and Shoes (Shirt will be provided)

Role: Counter Support Staff

*Lunch and Dinner will be provided

Please email or sms me(93363199) or serene(966668101) if you are unable to attend on any days. If not you will be dismissed immediately.

Thanks

BIZ SHIELD HELPERES NEEDED.

2007-11-17T14:29:00.000+08:00

Hello!

i need Biz shield helpers for this comming monday to friday, after 6pm everyday!

anyone free pls call me soon okay!

u can choose to reply dis email as well! ASAP!

And let me know your available timings as well!

Helpers mainly Timekeepers and referees for street soccer, basketball and captain's ball.

Your duty will be sent to u once you reply me.

THANKS!

Standard Chartered Marathon

2007-11-04T18:09:00.000+08:00

Standard Chartered Marathon Briefing.

When: 10th Nov, Saturday.

Time: 4pm - 5.30pm.

Venue: National Stadium West Entrance (Room: Theatrette)

Attire: anything they want.

Your leaders will be contacting you by friday.

Please try to make it as its important to know what you are doing.

If happens that anyone is lost on that day, we can meet at the West entrance together at 3.45pm. Then all go in tgt.

There will be 85 of us.

2007-11-03T00:16:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

FIRSTLY,

i want to thank

MAIN COMM
WEIDA
SUNNY
CHERLIE
GABRIEL
HERMAN
MAY
AMELIA
YANTI
CALEB
JJ

(and a few others that i've nt mentioned)

FOR HELPING OUT AT THE BOOTH!

greatly appreciated.

there will be an appreciation dinner from the main comm to sub comms!

ON THE LAST DAY OF BIZSHIELD!

which is on 23 NOV. haha!

do try to make it okay!

other subcomms are also welcomed!

BUT! haha!

we'll onli be treating the helpers okay!

non helpers have to pay for food urselves!

HOHO!

im evil.

SO!

pls come okay. even if u did nt help out at the booth.

HAHA.

bye! shall update soon.

Standard Chartered Marathon

2007-10-25T00:37:00.000+08:00

Hello!

BAD NEWS.

For people who have signed up for volunteers for the pre event, we are sad to say that the organisers are only taking in 48.

As we have 100 over volunteers, we are giving priority to SUBCOMMS!

For subcomms who are really interested in pre event, do mail serene (serene.bsc@gmail.com) or liyi (liyii.bsc@gmail.com) to confirm.

As for those who had signed up for actual events, NO WORRIES EH!

organisers are taking in ALL of you. HAHA!

take note. this only complies to subcomms who have alr signed up for volunteering.

For those who did not have a chance to sign up, SORRY! next year eh! x)

Information!

2007-10-17T17:08:00.000+08:00

OKAY OKAY!

take note, i need helpers to nmend the booth.

for those interested in takin part in the events, do come down to the booth to sign up personally.
as for those who have alr send me mails and msges, i've taken note. i'll save spaces for u all. bud u still need to sign up personally at the booth. Thanks!

FOR BOOKFEST!

Date: 29 Oct to 2 Nov 2007
Venue: outside LT 18

basically we are selling used textbooks that students wans us to help them sell.
i need helpers to help mend the booth and take down the particulars of sellers and money collectors.
students will hand us their books then dey will quote a price. we will sell according to the price they state. They will also need to leave their particulars down.
Particulars namely NAME, HP NUMBER, ADMIN NUMBER.
once the book/s are sold, we will call the seller to come collect their money.
if happens that we have unsold books by the end of bookfest, we will call the seller back to collect their books. if they don't, it will be BSC property ok!

For BIZSHIELD!

Recruitment Date: 29 oct to 2 Nov 2007
Recruitment Venue: outside LT 18
Actual event Date: TBA
Actual event Venue: Basketball court, netball court and soccer court

This is FUN! It is a sports competition among cool students in business school!
The sports involved are soccer, basketball and captain's ball.
we have two different dates. namely recruitment and actual.
For recruitment, students have to form up teams to take part in the comp.
Helpers will need to take down the groups' particulars, naming the leader.
Particulars namely NAMES, ADMIN NUMBERS, HP NUMBERS, EMAIL ADD, COURSE.
For actual event, the sports are split into different days.
I need referees and timekeepers. (subcomms do help k!)
subcomms can form up a team or two to take part in the comp as well. (warmly welcomed!)
admin number is very important for seal points! HAHA!

for OPEN HOUSE BIZ GUIDES!

Recruitment date: 29 to 31 October
Recruitment venue: outside Lt 18
workshop date: 15 dec 2007
workshop/camp venue: TBA
open house date: 10 11 12 Jan 2008
open house venue: Business School

Having biz guides is important.
during open house, business school needs biz guides to bring sec school students and visitors ard various stations allocated in business school.
subcomms are highly recommended to take part in this project ok. LOL!
BUT! before open house, we need to train business students to become B guides.
selected students will go through a workshop before the actual date.
SEAL POINTS, SHIRT AND LOA GIVEN!

OKAY! so these are the information dat i have got so far. any changes or updates i'll post in blog again!

email me at joann.bsc@gmail.com if u are interested in helping out at any of the events!

THANKS! loved very much x)

UPDATES

2007-10-11T01:05:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

dis blog is like so dead! hah! like e onli subcomm visitin left is SUNNY!

ok. here to update on upcoming events alrite! so do come down to help out and participate! x)

On the second week of the new school term...

1) Bizshield recruitment
2) Bookfest
3) Open House Biz guides recruitment
4) Standard Chartered Marathon pre- event

Few more events are coming up too! so STAY TUNED!

Do email me at joann.bsc@gmail.com if u are interested in helping to mend the booth for any of the events! MENDING ar! nt SITTING dere chit chat play and use laptop k!

And to remind the people who have signed up for standard chartered event...

For pre event...

Item: Briefing
Venue: TBA
Day/Date: Saturday, 3 Nov 07
Time: 10am

Item: Race Entry Pack Collection
Venue: Suntec Convention Centre, Hall 603
Day/Date: Friday, 23 Nov 07 to Sunday, 25 Nov 07
Time: 9am to 9pm

For actual event...

Item: Briefing
Day/Date: Sat, 10 Nov 07
Time: 4pm to 530pm

Item: Event Day
Day/Date: Sun, 2 Dec 07
Time: 3am to 3pm

to let u all know, we cannot recruit any more volunteers for standard chartered event as the application has closed. so yea. SORRY! pls do nt add names or bring ur friends who did nt sign up along on the pre event or actual day!

SO YEA! do leave a mark on the tagboard when u visit k! LOVES!

TPAC Tribal Camp!

2007-10-07T19:23:00.000+08:00

Hi all!

TPAC will be having their Tribal Camp on 8 to 11 October 2007! If there are more than 3 people in a group of friends, they will try to group all of you together so all of you can have fun in this camp together! :D Please help support Adventure Club!

Highlights of the camp:

Laser Challenge
Urban Topography
Campfire
Sleeping in tents at Tembusu Groove

For enquiries, pls email or call the numbers in the poster!

in case u cant see, heh heh heh.

Wen Qiang 81638462

ac_wen_qiang@yahoo.com.sg

DEsmond 94515974

ac_desmond@yahoo.com.sg

sub comm chalet

2007-09-24T13:14:00.000+08:00

Date: 25 to 27 September
Time: 4pm
Venue: Downtown east Costa Sands
unit number: B1213

hey people! we meet at downtown east costa sands entrance at 4pm!

pls bring along games and stuff so we can play. haha!

u are also allowed to bring your friends.

To let everyone know, everyone may need to pay $10 - $20 for the food and drinks k?

2007-09-23T15:25:00.000+08:00

OK! for those going for the chalet!

lets meet at 4pm at downtown east costa sands entrance!

see u people dere! =)

anything call me or ur FA k!

82462811 =)

2007-09-23T15:20:00.000+08:00

The picture tells the story! Last week's Run For Hope was a huge success and from 'The Regent Singapore & The Four Seasons Hotel' we would like to say A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL TEMASEK POLY VOLUNTEER MARSHALLS.

All of you must be proud, contributing your time, sleep, soaking up the rain and having your feet stuck in mud to make this event a success, but what's more important is we all had fun.

The Run attracted 7,000+ sign-ups, most of which came on the day to join in the event. Although the weather brought some heavy rain pre-race it cleared up by the start and it turned out to be fine, yet overcast, throughout the run - cool and pleasant!

Although it was a major logistical event with more than 500 people volunteering on the day, everything was exceptionally well planned, coordinated and executed which ensured that the event ran smoothly and safely - the participants had a great time.

The word is that we raised $310,000 for the Singapore Cancer Society to distribute locally for cancer research. Once again, a great success for Temasek Marshall Team!!

Thank you again for all those hours of support and yesterday in particular - there are too many people to name, however we must recognize Jimmy Hung and his Team Leaders for their leadership throughout!

Great job everyone!!!

sub comm chalet

2007-09-17T16:06:00.000+08:00

PEOPLE who are interested and can make it for the chalet, do confirm wif me by sending a mail to

joann.bsc@gmail.com k?

haha! only have to pay for food and ur own games. chalet fee have been settled.

so do come and enjoy k!

LOVE YOU GUYS! x)

sub comm chalet

2007-09-15T12:38:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

SUB COMM CHALET IS HERE!

date: 25 to 27 sept 2007
venue: to be announced
time: to be announced

ITS TIME TO MEET UP AND HAVE FUN!

so see u guys soon!

those who are working do take leave and make urselves free k!

LOVESSS! x)

Standard Chartered Marathon 2007

2007-09-05T13:06:00.000+08:00

Hi all Business Students,

Event name: Standard Chartered Marathon 2007
Deadline: 13th September (Thursday)
Number of officials needed: 120 (limited spaces)

Please send your particulars to us in this format:
Name:
NRIC no:
Admin no:
Address:
Contact (Home):
Contact (Hp):
Email Add:
Date of birth:
Citizenship:
T-shirt size:
Pre-event/Actual/Both:

Send to: serene.bsc@gmail.com or liyi.bsc@gmail.com

Do check back http://www.bsc-tp.blogspot.com/ for further information at a later date.

The following is the time commitment for pre-event.
Item: Briefing
Venue: TBA
Day/Date: Saturday, 3 Nov 07
Time: 10am

Item: Race Entry Pack Collection
Venue: Suntec Convention Centre, Hall 603
Day/Date: Friday, 23 Nov 07 to Sunday, 25 Nov 07
Time: 9am to 9pm

The following is the time commitment for the actual day event.
Item: Briefing
Day/Date: Sat, 10 Nov 07
Time: 4pm to 530pm

Item: Event Day
Day/Date: Sun, 2 Dec 07
Time: 3am to 3pm

Volunteer benefits & entitlements include:
-Volunteer apparel sponsored by Adidas
-Token allowanceA certificate of appreciation
-Meals and drinks
-Community Involvement Programme Hours (if applicable) / SEAL points.

More information will be posted on http://www.bsc-tp.blogspot.com/. Stay tuned. :)

Wesley's farewell dinner.

2007-09-04T12:47:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone.

our beloved WESLEY is leaving for his OSIP on monday 10 sept!

he will only be back in 5 mths time.

SO... a thoughtful one has come up wif a farewell dinner for him with the main comms, sub comms and programmers.

here are the details as follows...

Date: 7 Sept 2007 ( that is dis friday!)
Time: 6pm
Venue: eski bar

since WESLEY had been wanting to go dere, we shall fufil his last wish. HAHAHA!

do try to make it k?

SECRET SHAOLIN STUDY FORMULA

2007-08-27T09:55:00.000+08:00

THIS IS THE SHAOLIN WU LIN MI JI of Studying.

Please don't spread this around, it is for the benefits for my dear sub comms only, so that you guys can pass with flyign colours*

Firstly - THE POWER OF MEMORY
Making an Effort to Remember

Interest--The brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance. To have meaning, you must understand what you are learning. In order to remember something thoroughly, you must be interested in it and think that it has value and relevance in your life.
Intent to Remember-- Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember something or not. A key factor to remembering is having a positive attitude that you get it right the first time. Attention is not the same as learning, but little learning takes place without attention.
Basic Background--Your understanding of new materials depends on what you already know that you can connect it to. The more you increase your basic knowledge, the easier it is to build new knowledge on this background.
Controlling the Amount and Form

Selectivity-You must determine what is most important and select those parts to begin the process of studying and learning.
Meaningful Organization--You can learn and remember better if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.
Strengthening Neural Connections

Recitation--Saying ideas aloud in your own words strengthens synaptic connections and gives you immediate feedback. The more feedback you get, the faster and more accurate your learning.
Visualization--The brain’s quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images. By making a mental picture, you use an entirely different part of the brain than you did by reading or listening.
Association--Memory is increased when facts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you. Memory is essentially formed by making neural connections. Begin by asking, “What is this like that I already know and understand?”.
Allowing Time to Solidify Pathways

Consolidation--Your brain must have time for new information to establish and solidify a neuronal pathway. When you make a list or review your notes right after class, you are using the principle of consolidation.
Distributed Practice--A series of shorter study sessions distributed over several days is preferable to fewer but longer study sessions.

Secondly - THE DRAGON TEST TAKING SKILLS

1. PREDICT QUESTIONS FROM YOUR NOTES.
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
If your notes list a group of people or things, the kind of essay question to predict is a short answer question.
Short answer questions usually include one of the following words: list, name,define, or identify.
TRACE QUESTIONS
If your notes show the steps in a process of the listing and development of something, you should predict a trace question.
Some key words or phrases usually found in trace questions are: "Describe the stepsin..."; "Outline the history or..."; "Trace the events leading up to..."; "Trace and development of...."
COMPARE AND CONTRAST QUESTIONS
If your notes describe two or more things that have some features which are similar and others which are different, predict a compare and contrast question.
Words or phrases found in these questions might be: "Compare and contrast..."; "Show the similarities and differences..."; "Tell how two things are alike and different...";"Weigh the advantages and disadvantages..."
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
If your notes describe the effects of one thing on another, or the significance of a particular event, or the role of a specific individual or institution, predict a discussion question.
These questions often begin: "Discuss the significance of..."; "Discuss the role of..."; "Discuss the effect of..."; "Discuss the relationship between...."

2. PRACTICE WRITING ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS YOU PREDICT.

3. PLAN YOUR APPROACH TO ANSWERING THE ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS.
Note points assigned to each question and allot your time accordingly.
If you have a problem with a question, go on to the next one and come back to the first one later, if possible.
Make brief, concise notes for each essay question.

With this two most powerful study kungfu in the world, you may now leave the shaolin mountain to kill or the devils.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
May I Pass My Exams Too

Anyway Just Wanna Wish You Guys All The Best, Remember Don't Be Too Stress, Relax And Study.
Anything Can look For Wesley*
24-hr helpline please call 1800 112 3635

Those who don't have exam, DON'T BE TOO HAPPY, I KILL YOU AFTER MY PAPER ERRRRRR...............

* terms and conditions applies

2007-08-20T21:46:00.000+08:00

study session for tues is cancelled!

sorry for the last min notice.

cos e classrooms are closed for exam preparations.

do pass ard in case there are people going for the session tmr.

and SORRY for today.

haha.

Study sessions

2007-08-18T01:00:00.000+08:00

HELLO PEOPLE!

do remember on dis coming MONDAY and TUESDAY!

we will be opening classrooms for study sessions!

venues: BS26- 03- 19/20
time: 11am to 6pm

do turn up to study!

remember! we are here to study. not to have fun!

* for people who has not collected their cert and sub comm shirt, dis is your last chance to collect alr.

after the study week, there is no more collecting of shirts and certs.

THEY WILL BE DISCARDED AND BURNT!

do take note.

Mid autumn festival

2007-08-17T00:02:00.000+08:00

CO, CSC and SU will be organizing a Mid-Autumn event.

25 September 2007 (Tuesday), 7.30pm at Triangular Garden.

On this special night, there will be special performances by the Arts Groups and festivity activities such as traditional tea appreciation, mid-autumn riddles & lantern making competitions, games etc. There will be free refreshments and door gifts for the 1 st 500 participants too. Students can also participate in the lantern-making competition and their lanterns will be displayed during the actual event.

Do visit the booth outside Library this week to register for the event!

Thanks!

BSC Sub Comm Retreat

2007-08-15T01:14:00.000+08:00

Hey guys here's a reminder and more updates on our retreat.

REMEMBER:
our retreat is
This Friday 17th of AUG
LT 17
5pm

Remember to bring a gift of at least S$2 (any gift will do, food or product anything also can as long as its ineresting and more importantly worth at least two bucks)
ALSO BRING YOURSELF
Please come down and collect your shirt too.

After the retreat, we will be going down to ESKI BAR @ Holland Village.
Lets go down and chill out at ESKI BAR, have a drink relax and chit chat.
Join us in a cold envirnoment listening to all cold jokes that will freeze us.

Not much too worry, a simple drink there won't cost much, the experience is unforgetable
A simple drink - $10
Cab Fare Down - $8
A unforgetable cool experience

Priceless
For anything else there is BSC

*Please note that the dollar value there are not real, just for advertising purpose.

Some OUT OF BSC Events

2007-08-15T00:55:00.000+08:00

Belows are some outside events from different organisation. You may want to join personally.

Event One - OKTOBERFEST
OKTOBERFEST is held this October in the Swiss Club. This event targets approximately 6000 crowd and it'll definitely be a impressive thing to be written in your resumes upon participation. You will basically do serving and training will be provided so don't worry if you have no experience.

Here are the details;
Date: 11th- 15th of October 2007
Location: Swiss Club ( Transport would be arranged to pick you up at designated locations)
Salary: $8/hr

*any questions pls contact Joel @ joellowqh@gmail.com Thank you : )

Event Two - Terry Fox Run
Here are the details for the Run for Hope 2007.

Date: 16th Sept 2007, Sunday
Venue: Sentosa

Meeting place for marshalls:Seah Im carpark, opposite the Harbourfront MRT, it's the big Carpark beside the Bus Interchange.
Meeting time 6.30am
Ending Time: 11am

Marshalls will be given a T-shirt, a free breakfast and seal points

Their registration booth will be outside library.
*any questions pls contact your htmig contact person, jimmy @ htmig_jimmy@yahoo.com.sg.

Event Three - 88.3 Jia FM AT TP
88.3 Jia FM will be launching an island-wide contest entitled "Campus Reporter" to scout for 10 campus reporters from the tertiary institutions in Singapore.

The radio station will be here at TP next Friday, 17 Aug from 12 – 1pm . They'll be doing an on-the-spot song dedication thingy next to the LIB, and at the same time invite students to register to take part in the "Campus Reporter" contest. It's a sure win for every tertiary institution as the radio station will select one winner from each poly/uni to be a campus reporter.

The winner from TP will be part of the 883 Jia FM crew for half a year (around Dec 07 onwards) as an anchor Campus Reporter to report news happening in TP over a weekend programme.

Reminder:
TP Campus Reporter Roadshow:
Date: 17 August (Friday)
Time: 12noon - 1pm
Venue: Outside Library
DJs: Toshi & Zhang Ying

ENJOY YOURSELF..............................
Wesley reporting from BSC Sub Comm Blog

HAPPY HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL

2007-08-13T22:10:00.000+08:00

WE WANT TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL

Some interesting advertisment to share. Please max the volume if not the sound cannot hear.

ok ok something more relax, but very funny and interesting. Cute...

This particular one is very interesting...... Ths video it called the "7th GIRL". it will explain why after the video

this advertisement is very popular in hk cos most of the ppl has seen something extra in this adv. when the director of the ads review the ads in midnight,he discovered that supposed 6 of the children playing game but there is extra 1 person at the back.
Soon, the kid who been tapped on the shoulder has dead. The ads was immediate stop published but it's has already become very popular in hk. a lot of ppl talking abt it. very eerie!!!
on 25sec - 27sec,the last person on is a fat boy,his shoulder was tapped by a gal who nodding down the head. (she tied 2 pony tail) When every 1 of the kid's face close up,u can see the little gal who is nodding down the head. muz watch it very carefully cos it's just only 1 sec. at the last scene, the fat boy is the last 1,then who is she?

Top Ten Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks

2007-08-13T00:08:00.000+08:00

Let me bring you guys somewhere out of the BSC World.

Its quite interesting seeing these drinks that are being sold in japan.
Look on the bright side, though: they may not be good to drink, but you can't say they're not good for a laugh.

Find out more: http://inventorspot.com/ten_bizarre_japanese_soft_drinks

*Drink number 7 sound interesting ............. it's CLOSE TO THE HEART

I LOVE MY TEACHER.... LOOKOUT

2007-08-11T00:51:00.001+08:00

Dear SubComms,

In order to celebrate Lecturer's Day (aka Teacher's Day), BSC has decided to do a little things for the lecturers and the tutors.

A booth will be set up for Students to send their dedication messages on heart shape cards and through song dedications.

Venue: Business School Entrance (SAA Board)
Date: 13th-17th August 2007 (Next Monday to Friday)
Time: 11am-6pm daily.

In order to make this event a success, we are requesting help from you guys for this event to mend the booth as well as publicizing.
So if you have no lessons, please come down to the booth to help us out for this event.
(We will tell you more details when you come down to the booth.)
Please publicise this event to all your Business Friends and ask them down to dedicate their message for their lecturers and tutors.

So lets all show our appreciation to your lecturers and tutors!

P.S. To all teachers out there, its Wesley Goh here, if you see this remember to close one eye when marking my paper, thanks ar

SUB COMM RE-TREAT

2007-08-10T00:04:00.000+08:00

Hi All Dear ones,

This Friday 17th of AUG
LT 17 once again
5pm......

Please do come down as this is YOUR RETREAT
This will also me OUR LAST TIME to gather this sem BEFORE EXAM START
You will be COLLECTING YOUR CERT as sub comm
also for those who never collect your shirt, this is YOUR LAST CHANCE
to collect it too.

Please bring along a gift that is worth at least 2 dollar for our activity.
Please note that without the gift YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER.
so please bring a small gift and enjoy yourself.

DON"T CHEAT AR, GIFT MUST BE AT LEAST 2 DOLLAR.

COME DOWN AND HAVE THE LAST FUN BEFORE EXAM START.

More updates will be given in this blog.

HAPPY 42th BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE

2007-08-09T23:55:00.000+08:00

YEA, BSC is the last to wish SINGAPORE their 42th Birthday.

Some videos to share to make this day more enjoyable.

MAY SINGAPORE BE A HAPPIER PLACE TO BE, YEA

Sub comm camp videos

2007-08-07T14:19:00.000+08:00

HEY ALL!

our long awaited camp videos!

*BEAMS (x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpiG02u3VUU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1mg846Dxl4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfeYqkWaXpg

i did not load it here is cos e page will take a long time to load.

so....

ENJOY!

This Wednesday!

2007-08-07T14:15:00.000+08:00

As everyone know national Day is coming and me and you guys
who love our nation so much.

Lets wear our red sub comm tee on
wednesday and show the world how united we are.

As for the hair spray, me and joan after buying all the prizes and
food and drinks for you guys, we realise we have some money constrain
within two of us.

therefore the hair spray idea will be off from our
side. But of course, i will be bringing one myself and for those who
had some national day related items liek falg and stuff, do bring
along and also if you have hari spray of national day tatoo, also
bring lets share our joy. YEA.

See you guys soon.

Remember its this wed.

NDP Human Flag

2007-08-07T14:12:00.000+08:00

Hey subcomms who are taking part in human flag event on thurs, details are as follows!

Time: 1.45p.m till 7.45p.m.

Venue: The empty space linking city link to esplanade, the place where people breakdance. (instructions to go: go citylink, then go down the escalator next to Adidas, its the empty space there)

Attire: Participants - Yellow Business T-shirt (MUST), shorts & slippers.

Bring:
- Food & Drinks (Important! 5hours and F&B is NOT provided. Water is a MUST)
- No need bring umbrellas (provided)

Participants who did not attend the rehearsal can go as well.

so see you guys on thurs!

*BEAMS. (x

Movie Mania

2007-08-01T23:13:00.000+08:00

This friday 3rd of AUG, is our first Sub Comm Gathering, MOVIE MANIA.
6pm at LT 17 (THE PLACE WHERE WE WERE DURING CAMP..... SO BORING)

To make our gathering more interesting, i got some internal info

Shhhhhhhhhhh..................

....

Hey Gorgeous is coming to TP. they will be here from 10am to 6pm.

LET'S SUPPORT OUR BUSINESS CANDIDATES.

We will decide who to vote on that day but for now, lets all wear our
ang bao sub comm shirt and gather at business school entrance at 1pm.
The voting time will be around that time too.

Lets do free publicity and show ourselves on TV the ANG BAO BSC.
"hardly go on tv especially people who look like me no chance to go on
tv one, this is our only chance"

So wear your red shirt on this friday, gather at business entrance at
1pm and we WOW the business school. Then all our sub comm oei cheer
will come out. Anyway i heard one of the finalist is our very own sub
comm from TARZION, so we vote for her if she get in ok.

WE WILL BE WATCHING TRANSFORMERS at 6pm, tentatively. So ask all your friends
in sub comm, pull your whole group down to have fun.

Games and prizes are all waiting for you.

Then we shall have our first sub comm dinner.... we shall discuss where later.

So just come down have fun for the night.

Don't come and you will regret it.

For those who yet to collect your shirt, the collection booth will be
set up for you.

SO COME DOWN AND "WE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER", your favourite song

See You There

Sub Comm Camp

2007-07-31T02:31:00.000+08:00

SUB COMM CAMP WAS A BLAST!

esp wif e help of main comm and sub comm! x)

Hope that everyone has enjoyed the camp.

we look forward to seeing all sub comms in events!

LOVES!

Lyion

Goofay

Mikaz

Tarzion

Tiggo

Best Group- GOOFAY!

Night Walk

Breakfast

Memorable cup of wonders

More photos can be found at

http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c293/mingen/BSC%20SubComm%20Camp%200708/