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October 24, 2006Psychological test
This is a genuine psychological test.
It is a story about a girl. While at the
funeral of her own mother, she met
this guy whom she did not know. She thought
this guy was amazing, so much
her dream guy she believed him to be, that
she fell in love with him there
but never asked for his number and then……
A few days later the girl killed her own sister.
Question: What is her motive in killing her
sister? Give this some thought
for a while before you click more….
(you can post your answer in the comment 
)
Answer: She was hoping that the guy would
appear at the funeral again.
If you answered this correctly, you think like
a psychopath. This was a test
by a famous American psychologist used to test
if one has the same
mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial
killers took part in this
test and answered it correctly. If you didn’t
answer correctly - good for you.
If your friends hit the jackpot, may I suggest
that you keep your distance.
If you got it correct, please let me know so I
can take you off my Blog list! 
An officemate asked me to answer the quiz before and I was able to answer it correctly. I was amused by her reaction. She said that I was the only one among those she asked who got it right. She said “nakakatakot ka naman.psycho ka ba?” I then laughed maniacally and stabbed her repeatedly with the tip of my ballpen. Hahahaha of course I’m kidding.
I love it when the author leaves clues all over the book that is staring right at you in the face and keeps you guessing.I love it even more when I can’t guess right.It challenges me and totally distracts me from reality. Great escapist material. Here are my top 3 favorite authors.
1. Patricia Cornwell I love her series about a medical examiner/ lawyer Dr. Kay Scarpetta. At first I was grossed out by the autopsies she performs, cutting up those bodies in a Y-section and checking those organs. Ew! But later on I learned to blur the details and stick to the story. Her novels are somewhat like the CSI series, totally dependent on forensics to solve a crime.
2. Jeffery Deaver I’m sure many have seen the movie The Bone Collector featuring Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme and Angelina Jolie as Amelia Sachz. There are other great stories such as the movies which features the two detectives. I like their team up and Lincoln’s analysis of a crime scene.
My favorite of them all. I discovered James Patterson’s Alex Cross by serendipity. I found the title familiar so I bought it. The character of Alex Cross is described as “the Sherlock Holmes of America”. Two of his Alex Cross Novels was already made into film, Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls(that’s why the title seemed familiar). However, as the usual case the movie is entirely different from the book esp. cause it casted Morgan Freeman when in fact the book depicts Alex Cross as somebody younger and errr-good looking. Patterson is really a master story teller. His books are real examples of “can’t put me down”. I just finished reading Mary, Mary(His Ales Cross novels have children’s rhyme as their title like Roses Are Red, London Bridges and etc) and was beginning to hate the ending and wasn’t really hopeful coz there are only a few pages left. And then the twist came in and I was totally blown away. Patterson also writes other books such as The womens murder club series, the “angels” and other great books written with the same fervor as his Alex Cross Novels.
Sometimes after reading these books, going inside the mind of a psychopath, leaves me a bit disturbed and unhinged that I read Sweet Dreams books(ooopss I still have a few of them,forgot to throw them away) to cool me down and so I can sleep thus there might be some truth about the “I might be a psycho” bit 
Previous Comments
@jervis:hahaha should i start reading the bible then? thanks for the visit.
i suspect she was the one who killed her mother? well, i really can't think of any reason why she killed her sister, so i just clicked the "more" button na lang! hehe… i guess i've heard this test before.
hilig diay ka crime mysteries… nag detective na lang unta ka, i think it's a cool job.
the psych test is pretty creepy.
Posted by chelsea at October 25, 2006, 1:38 am@carey:yeah its cool if our forensics here has the same capability as other countries(CSI)
@chelsea: yeah it's not for the faint hearted LOLS
Posted by floraine at October 25, 2006, 4:35 pm
one of the things I learned in old school is that, "we are what we read!"
Posted by >>jervis at October 24, 2006, 12:14 pmhmmm. my head nods in agreement with your hypothetical conclusion. cheers!