Today went to play boomerang with Wing Kin at Tampines Sun Plaza Park. Tat Yeong was supposed to join us but he flew us aeroplane. (Yes TY that's why I told you to read this entry hahaha) Found a big area to throw our boomerangs. KNS the Aerobie Orbiter, which claims to be the "World's Best Boomerang" with a tagline "It really does come back!", didn't even come close to 5m of us. Ok maybe we needed practice. But after many failed attempts, we concluded that the boomerang's claim was bullshit. Then again maybe the wind was too strong. We have to try again some other time at some other place with less trees and less wind. Trees? Of course!
My boomerang got stuck in a tree at almost triple my height. Jialat loh. We tried to throw my sandal at the bmr, which was tucked just nice in between some twigs. Throw my sandal up a few times. WK even tried throwing a palm-sized rock. Then I struck jackpot and now both my bmr and my sandal were becoming Christmas decorations for the tree. Joy to the world! Then I found that the nearby cleaners' shed had many equipment inside with many brooms and stuff. I took one of the poles which was previously part of the broom to throw at my sandal. Tried several times until I think I don't have to join Boon Leong for gym sessions next week. Then WK tried and miraculously he managed to balance the pole amongst the branches on the tree. Happy new year! Now the tree looks more and more like a Christmas tree. I managed to at least get the pole off the branches after throwing some fallen branches from the tree itself. We had already caught the attention of two foreign workers who were working as cleaners at the park. One of them even offered to climb up the tree and use a long stick made up of two bamboo sticks to hook my sandal out from being also nicely hooked on a branch. Ok that's all they could do, because my bmr was really out of reach. So the guy came down from the tree and they then cycled home. WK and I were thinking of asking Tat Yeong to come and help us since he was staying around the area. But he didn't pick up our calls cos he was perhaps busy painting his house. Therefore we gave a last attempt to retrieve my precious brand new bmr from the Christmas tree. I was thinking of using the long stick which the cleaners' had used to try to get my bmr down. I went behind the shed and found an even longer stick. It was made up of two bamboo sticks plus an additional half a metre of metal rod with a hook on it. I was thinking why the cleaners didn't use that stick to get my sandal down instead. Weird... So I then stretched my arms as much as I could to use the stick to reach my bmr. However it was so straining to my neck because I had to keep looking up that WK and I took turns. Damn tiring loh cos the stick was quite heavy and we had to keep tilting our heads up. We managed to hook one of the top branches and tried to shake the branch to attempt to shake off my bmr. We only managed to get more branches and leaves off the tree instead. It seemed that my bmr was neatly hooked right between some twigs, therefore the only way to get it down was to lift my bmr up and over the twigs to get it out. However we were still short of 40 to 50cm of height to be able to do that. Then I found one of those stools with the top ripped off, therefore only left with the metal legs, at the cleaners' shed. Then I balanced myself on the chair and steadily stretched the stick to finally unhook it from the twigs and down fell my bmr! ZZZzzz...
Moral of the story: Never throw a boomerang near trees.
FYI: An Aerobie Orbiter is not the usual L-shaped boomerang, but it is like a triangle. Yes 3-sided boomerang.
Moral of the story: Never throw a boomerang near trees.
