CHAPTER VIII
KOREAN BEAUTY AT CASINO
I have visited this beautiful country only once. The country has progressed in last few decades at a lightning speed. But during 2008-09, they faced the heat of recession like many other countries. During that period many of Korean middleclass had to suffer a lot on different fronts. There were many pitfalls for the middle class during turmoil time of a country. I have seen some Korean film on this backdrop. I like Korean cinema and music for its ability to touch one’s heart.
When I visited this beautiful country, I wanted to visit every major city, few villages and a few semi urban places. But due to financial constrain I limited my visit to three major cities and two villages of the country.
Seoul (pronounced as Soul by them) is the soul of the country. It is a very large and busy city with all the infrastructure of international standards. When I visited this city in 2012, I found the city was driven by honesty, cooperation, friendliness, helpfulness despite of language barrier. But for a short period during the height of recession, some of these qualities probably had been faded.
During that dark period a young lady lost everything including her life to some evil persons who had exploited her vulnerability. She was the only child of a small time businessman, studying in Seoul. Due to recession, she had to abandon her college and look for a job. Though she was looking for decent job, she landed to the flesh market. She thought she would come out of that dirty life once business of her father would bounce back. But it did not happen. Somebody advised her to put her hard earned money in betting in a casino. She followed her friend’s advice to earn some easy money. This time also her luck was not with her and lost all her money. The day when her father asked the young lady to send some money, she committed suicide.
On the second day at Seoul, I visited a casino which was at a stone’s throw distance. A beautiful lady escorted me to the reception where tokens were distributed against dollar or Korean Won. I exchange tokens for fifty dollar, a meagre amount for a amateur and almost nothing for a professional. With a smile with an expression of pity for the poor people, the receptionist gave me few low valued tokens.
‘Do not play gentleman, these are cheaters.’ Some female voice came from behind. I turned my face to see who was speaking.
I saw a young Korean lady was talking to me. ‘Why?’I asked her.
Instead of answering my question, she exclaimed, ‘Oh God! Someone at least heard my caution!’
‘Why nobody listens to you? Further, how Casino authority allows you to warn their customers?’I asked her with astonishment.
‘Because they cannot see me and hear me. All the machines are manipulated to show results in their favour.’ After hearing her explanation, I understood who she was. I wanted to talk to her confidentially in an isolated place. So I called her to the toilet.
She told me the story as I have mentioned above. She came to know why she lost money in the casino only after her death. I told her, ‘It is an open secret that always casino owners are the real beneficiaries of the casino business. Further, it is also true statistically that probability of winning by the casino owner is much more compared to any lone player.’ I tried her to see reasons in my statement.
‘I understand that, if I would have lost money in a fair game, I did not have a complaint. But after my death I could see, what they are doing. ‘She said with disgust.
‘Do you want any help from me by playing tactfully, or you want that I should not play at all?’ I asked her categorically.
Her face glowed for the first time. She told like a baby girl, ‘If you can do that, it will be best gift you can gift to me and my family.’
‘What is the amount you have lost? I asked.
‘It is around 50000 dollar. I shall be happy if I get back my money only for my parents.’ She said with a thoughtful mind.
‘That is a small amount in Korean standard. But how can I help you? Is there any plan for it? In many gambling houses in India if a player wins he is not allowed to leave the gambling house till he loses again. Is it here also? If so, how I can transfer money to your parents?’I asked her.
‘Here also the system is more or less similar. But to attract customers, every casino has different policy knowing that they will not going to lose as every machine, every tool used in the system are prone to manipulation. In this casino, every time you win, you can transfer 20% of your winning amount to your account. For rest 80%, either you play or have to purchase something from the shop attached to it where every item is sold at 400% of the market rate, or you have surrender entire amount. For that you have to give a local bank account number.’ She explained the position.
After taking her bank account number, I confirmed the procedures from the receptionist. She gave me a form where all procedures were printed with a surprised look as against 50 dollar, normally nobody asks for that form. However, I filled up the form and to test to procedure I gave them 10 dollar extra. Once the formality was confirmed I went to play.
As per our plan, I lost all my money in the first session. Then I purchased token for 100 dollar.
This time my young friend played the tricks what otherwise the Casino people play. I won 500 dollar. I immediately transfer 100 dollar (205 of 500 dollar) to the account. Next I put all 400 dollar, I won 2000 dollar. I transferred 400 dollar to my account putting another 1600 dollar on the board. This time I won 8000 dollar. By the time, many people surrounded me to see my strategic game. Within one hour I transferred 100000 dollar ( I transferred one hundred thousand dollar as 50000 dollar was her own money which she had lost plus 50000 as compensation to her family) to the account of the poor girl. Now I still have 400000 dollar in my hand. I told in loud voice that, ‘I want to give everyone including the employees of the casino one gift.’
Then I went the gift shop and started giving everyone a gift of his/ her choice. Even after that I had around one hundred thousand dollar with me. I distributed entire amount to the employees including the henchmen who would have after me. When they were in the process of finding out what actually gone wrong for the casino, I left the place.
The spirit of the poor girl accompanied me to the hotel and thanked me for my help.
Next day, there was a small news item in a local morning news paper, how the casino owner was weeping for the highest single day loss of five hundred thousand dollar in matter of one hour or so.
BEAUTIFUL GHOST
CHAPTER IX
CONCLUSION
During last two decades, I have met hundreds of spirits all over the world out of which I have mentioned about only a few. God has given me a power to help some of these spirits with only one restriction; I am able to communicate with the spirits of female only though I can see both male and female spirits. I could not find any specific reason for that. However, I think a plausible reason may be due to my better communicating skill with females than males. May be, my thinking wave lengths are similar to that of the females. My closeness to my mother ( father was more closed to my other siblings), my closest Aunty who provided me the power , my sisters (against only one brother), my daughters (one son versus two daughters and two spiritual daughters) and in-numerable female friends ( against a handful of male friends) may tilt my power to the female spirits. I also enjoy the situation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The author is a Government servant and a man of vivid experiences derived from his official postings across the country, travels across India and numerous visits outside India. He is presently placed at New Delhi. The book is about a fictional story of true love between Aroon Baruah and his two wives, Dorothy and Ramala; a vivid description how Aroon was seduced by Jetuki, Ramala’s own mother; Family bond of Baruah Family and finally emotional sufferings of the protagonist.
His earlier publications are:
1. Random Thoughts through a Coloured Prism
2. Dilemma of a Young Mind
3. Funny Statistics and Serious Statisti
cians
4. Melody of Fragrance
5. Akhadya
6. Few Cities through Lens of Hiranya Borah
7. Guilt: Gift of Winter Spring
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