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Saturday, December 29, 2007
polarities
Two days ago was Friday, a day specifically booked by Joel to invite me to his Church's youth activity- "the murder trail". I waited at home for the time to arrive, while I sleep, played, and welcomed my sister home, for some little gatherings. It was only until roughly 1800 that I left home. Joel told me the time of meeting was 1845, but I thought I was late. For a little more assurance, I messaged BoJun and he told me he had just knocked off from work. At the MRT station, I noticed some look-alike of Joel's sister, Joleen. She resembled her so much! But I wasn't bothered much, as I was rushing. Then on the train, I saw another very look-alike of Joel's mum. Such coincidence? Only to realise that they were indeed them and not some look-alike, and Joel was there too. Coincident that we met on the train, and not that two look-alike appeared at the same time. Relief-I wasn't late.
BoJun arrived shortly after, and one of the uncles from the church gave us a ride to some Condo where we had a barbecue. I didn't have much as my appetite wsn't particularly good that day. BoJun asked me if the English-speaking ambiance was bothering me so much that I was so quiet at that point of time. I knew it wasn't. After all, I'm kinda used to English-conversation which I had accumulated from the service provision of a salesperson, rather than the becoming-vague Chinese conversation. In fact, I thought the different frequencies of individuals were building a thick wall in between each of us, eg. me and Ryan. I couldn't really relate myself with him because of the many differences. But talking with him was definitely fun, because I don't have to think much. He talked and talked, while I listened and listened, only to make occasional interruptions to say a few things. The benefits of a listener=P
Night time- roughly 2100, we were ferried to the event's venue- the familiar church of Joel's at Anglican High school. I had been here few times, one of them being the Christmas party we had here last year, and the other being the soccer match we had here last week. It was pretty secluded, otherwise a lovely place. A group of Anglican-ist were having a campfire near the entrance when we arrived.
Ice-breakers were never missing. The first being the wackos and the second being broken telephone line. I would have to say the first one was the more effective one. Then we proceeded on with the actual event, the much anticipated one- the murder trail. We weren't exactly close with church people, so we didn't have a chance to choose, because the others got into groups so quickly. In the end, Me, Bojun, and Joel (the original 3), were grouped together with YanJun (the one guy whom I found to share similar traits with Someone- the self-entertainer-type). Later on, Gabriel and Faith joined in. They were the fun type. I liked them=)
First part of the event started with us arriving at the crime scene, impersonating as investigators. Evidence and suspects were at the scene as well. It's weird to have the suspect at the crime scene though, I mean they should be detained at the station for interrogation, shouldn't they?
Victim-Vicky(played by the church's puppet called Lala or Lily, I not sure.
Suspect one-Samuel, Vicky's boyfriend(played by Jason if I'm not wrong)
Suspect two-Liming, Samuel's buddy(played by forgot who)
Suspect three-Collin, Liming's friend(played by DeQi)
Suspect four- Angel(played by Abigail)
Suspect five-Forgotten (played by Rachael)
Then I noticed some mistake at the crime scene, involving the misleading evidence as well- one of them being the laptop at the entrance. The MSN account was registered under the "forgotten's" name when it was supposed to be Vicky using the computer before she died. Secondly, someone used the laptop in the bedroom to visit Angel's blog AFTER the event of crime, meaning someone was here? This part was a bit clueless though.
Second part of the event was actually a scavenger hunt- this was the most exciting and fun scavenger hunt ever. I love it! I managed to crack a few of the code. Accomplishments!!!
the hat in red donkey flew low over oven r~~ c~~c~~
This was the last code which got a stuck for a while, before Rachael hinted and I cracked it=P.
Answer: third floor counciling centre
In the end we were the winning team because ours was the nearest guess to what actually happened and that we got all the motive etc correct! We stayed for a while at the counciling centre to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle the movie, but actually I was talking with Ryan- the much simpler job=)
Then we proceeded to 2nd floor where we played some passing with the basketball, before going in to join the rest in some card games. That was when where I really get to know some of them-Faith and Abigail. We played Bridge and Daidi. Teased YanJun a bit by not playing the game he wanted to play when he's around, and play it when he went off, and stopped when he came back. Fun=P I got not-too-bad partnership with Faith man. We won almost every game when we partnered=P *Hi-5!*
Then there was some cleaning up, where I didn't help much. I felt bad but some self-comforting, I'm the guest after all=P. I did help out a bit though... Then the group went for breakfast, while I headed home with Joel and Joleen.
Murder Trail was fun!
this was the best I've ever had!
At home, I dozed off and had a ticking off by Mimi for being an hour late for work. My bad, but a night's sleep deprivation was torturing. At the workplace, things weren't better. Serious headache was giving me butterflies in the tummy, and I really felt like fainting. Sufie stayed back to help out a bit because Nazurah was not feeling well, and I was alone. That went without informing Mimi too. Perhaps a slip of mind, but it really didn't occur to me until late at night. This was bad. Until late at night, many omens were already indicating the befalling of great misfortune. Firstly, the closing was never a success. A piece of recycled paper was left printed on both side, and I didn't check the back. Hence, in the end, I was ended up with having printing over another printing, kinda overwrite, but the things weren't clear. Sufie helped me rewrite though. An added workload for her. Apologies. Then there was twice when we had 60cents short in the total some. So we paid. Then there was this fax machine. It just SUCKS! Sorry for the bluntness, but it really sucks. Time and again we tried to fax, and it just didn't get through. Again and again we tried until it was already 2340h, and we gave up, leaving a note behind for the people on duty the next morning to ask her a favor to fax it for us. Sufie missed her last bus, because she was worried that I could not handle, given my health condition at that point of time. I felt bad, so I called Mimi to check out with her if she could claim the money if Sufie took a cab, but to be mercilessly rebuffed with more ticking offs. I understand that it was our fault and she was just being hard on us on the outside, but actually she did arrange for Jenny to fetch her back. She said she owed Jenny a favor, but I thought I should be the one owing Jenny. Thanks Jenny and sorry for the trouble. Mimi still cared for us, I know. But then to be scolded by the same person during the last few days of work simply sucks. I was pretty depressed. Only consolation of the day was that I managed to help the shop to recover slightly from the over-peak sales of the shop after Christmas. Yesterday's sales was a good sign of recovery.
I went home, bathed and turned in almost instantly. The day's events were just too breath-taking. I didn't want to think about it.
After a night's good rest, I'm recuperating well. And thanks to the recounting of the happy memories I had two days ago in the first part of the entry, my mood is finally going uphill again. Polarities of treatment by god, just like a roller-coaster, where I went up up and supposedly away, but to fall from the up up to the bottom of the cliff. So much differences in just a matter of two days...
Labels: A brand new day ahead
Posted by Judah at 12/29/2007 09:05:00 PM
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