Yesterday there was a fire that burned down our school. The cause, we believed..
Won't it be cool if I wrote this like a novel so it sounds like something out of a movie? But anyways it was pretty awesome and we made it more interesting with our imaginations!!
On the way to school in the morning, I first saw a streak of white in the sky.
It continued stretching across the sky, lead by some distant object. The sky appeared to spilt in that moment as I watched the distant object, believed to be a space shuttle, crawl across the sky. Anticipating its crash-landing, I followed it to the school.
Nearing the junction, I spyed dark clouds in the vicinity. Initially thought to be rain clouds, I immediately dismissed it as I witnessed the trail of coal black smoke. It rose in columns, choking and engulfing the sky. It was menancing yet awesome, like something out of an american movie. For a breif moment, I thought of a campfire and several cheers flashed by my head. I restrained myself from the urge to sing to it, aware of how unsympathetic and sadistic I would appear to be. Fire! Oh fire! How wonderful!!
When I initially saw the trail of dark smoke rising from somewhere behind the railway tracks, I had thought the government merely introduced a new type of train that ran on coal, brought here by the British. Unfortunately it wasn't, and I was upset for a moment because I was hoping that with old trains there might be platform 9 and 3quaters, and that there could be a possible way to enter the school of Hogwarts.
With that bitter thought in the back of my head, I went to school. Again, the smoke was visible, though the teachers appeared NOT to acknowledge it. Together with my friend, Batrisya, we came up with wonderful theories to explain the smoke and fire. The fomulated theories are as follows:
1. A HDB block was on fire (quickly dismissed for being uninteresting and also there was way too much smoke)
2. A few HDB blocks on fire (dismissed for a reason similar to 1.)
3. A plane crashed there (dismissed as smoke from a plane crash site dispersed fairly quickly)
4. A meteor landed there (possible)
5. A factory fire (dismissed)
6. A space shuttle crashed there (highly possible)
Out of the fomulated theories, the most interesting and hence believable one was where a space shuttle had crash-landed at the site, causing a major fire. The trail of white initially sighted at the bus-stop had lead to the school and disappeared behind the smoke, which was why I thought the space shuttle crashed there. We then said the space shuttle was driven by an alien. Then we contemplated the possibility of MORE space shuttles and MORE aliens. It was very exciting.
After school, we went on a journey to look for the crash site and hopefully see bits of the spaceship and hopefully aliens as well. But that was not before we ditched Huda, who refused to assist us with her Google maps application. We embarked on the an adventure, following only out instinct and our knowledge of where the smoke had been.
We went behind the Woodlands community centre, then passed through several HDB blocks. If the fire had been from one of the blocks, we would have seen it already, hence that theory could not be possible. A police truck drove past us at that point, raising our hopes of the crash site being near. We continued walking, until we reached Republic Polytechnic. The students appeared to be completely unaware that aliens had just attempted to invade our earth! The aliens were very sly indeed. They could even be among us now.
We entered a more remote area and eventually, following the commontion and throng of police vehicles, we found the crash site. It was like something our of a movie - the remains were ashen and the police were removing parts of the spaceship. The sliens, however, were nowhere to be found. They must have escaped.
It was a fun day, despite knowing that an alien invasion had just occured.