Smoke Signals

The long previous entry was such fun! Sure it took close to 3 hours to finish it, but I thought it was all well worth the time and effort.

Towards the end of of the previous entry, say around 2.00PM, I got the shock of my life!

You see, I was sitting in the living room but with a clear view of the kitchen window. Remember how I rave on and on about the view from the kitchen window?

On a typical day, this is what it looks like:



Yesterday, however, through a flitting glance, I realised that something was amiss. There was somethiing huge, dark and ominous looming in the sky.

I initially dismissed what I saw, but decided to be curious and take a proper look out the window:





WAH! I've never seen thick black smoke this clearly before. In movies, maybe. But right before my eyes? I yelled out immediately. Black and billowing smoke just gushing up into the air.

It's the first time I understood the term 'billowing'. Folds and folds of smoke raged incessantly. For about 5 minutes, my mother and I just stood at the kitchen window gaping. My mother said she heard frequent cackling noises, but I'm not too sure if I'd heard the noises too. I was screaming in my head.

The fire engine sure took quite a long time to come. But when it did arrive, the fire was put out in a jiffy.

I'm just having to assume it was a fire since there can be no smoke without fire. I personally did not see any flames. Just lotsa smoke.





Somehow, it didn't feel too much like anybody died. In fact, it didn't look too much like it was someone's flat on fire. The smoke was so black and thick that it looked like a massive bonfire of rubber tyres, don't you think?

Somebody wanted to be sure he/she was heard.

*BREAKING NEWS* 10.48PM

My mother reading Lianhe Wanbao. Saw the article on the fire.

Just as I deduced, rubber on fire! Specifically the children's playground was set ablaze. You know how all playgrounds have that rubber-pellets-hotpressed ground padding?

The headline a bit cheesy and commercial ar. Said something like 'Nine-year-olds Witness Golden-haired Punks Throw Kerosene Bombs'. However, the photo is kick-ass!

Maybe it was a group of brainy kids playing Pretend. Then they were pretending to be stranded on a (rubber) island; first one to get help wins or something or nothing... Then the smartest of the bunch, sends a smoke signal. @_@"

No one was hurt.