Nite of the First Tattoo. I was assigned to look after selected students who have represented my school in any CCA competition. Be it Netball, Choir, Debate and many more.
Sure enough I was warned that the whole event was going to end around midnight. My colleagues and myself tried to enjoy the whole event but me made it fun by singing along to the lyrics which were on the scoreboard. Plus we, ok I mean 'I' took alot of pictures with the help of Mr Eugene - Mr Alex's sidekick a.k.a Younger Brother. Thanks Gene.
At midnight the Tattoo as everyone knows ended with the Fireworks from Japan. We made our way back and most of the male teachers including myself took the last two vans back to school.
On the ride home all of us in the van were just hoping for the nite to end so we could all go home, while some of us already planned to chill somewhere to fill our hungry tummy's.
So did we manage to do any of the above? NO.
Why?
Because the girl who went missing below was missing again. Her Father was waiting for her at school because she was one of the selected students for taking part in the Police Cadet.
During the Tattoo she came to see me to ask permission to leave early and said her Father was waiting for her outside the stadium and she had to leave early because they had to go to Belait early in the morning. I remember it was around 10ish and I told her, "NO! You came here from school and you will go home from school. If you wanted to leave early you should not have come along in the first place. Plus you just came back from being missing for 4 days. No way! You are not allowed to leave!" I had two other teachers as my witnesses and they confirmed what I had told the missing girl and that is what I had explained to her Father whom I met at school.
Her Father was surprised to her about going to KB in the morning. He was not happy and blamed us for losing her out of our sight. I mean the Stadium was packed, dark and what are we supposed to do? put a leash on every student?
She wasnt the only student gone missing. There was another girl whom I can't really recall her name and again her parents were giving us a hard time.
By One in the morning some of the male teachers offered to go back to the stadium to search for the missing girls while some others tried to make calls to 'supposed' friends of the missing girls while the Father's of the missing girls also went to the Stadium on the look out.
My school had two uniformed personel who did a head count of everyone and was responsible for all of us for the journey to and back from the show. One of the them actually recalled seeing three girls walking out of the stadium at around 10ish. Since he was only our guide he really didnt have the authority to not allow the girls to leave.
So the teachers tried to remember the girls and amazingly enough actually identified another girls who had gone missing which tallies up to three girls.
Around 2 in the morning we made some calls to the other missing girl's mother and found out that her daughter had not arrived home herself.
Twenty to three I told some of the guys to check the Bandar area. Somehow I had this gut feeling they were still around 'lepaking'. We went to the gerai area next to the church, the supposed '24hr' Jalan Sultan, went around Yayasan, the Kianggeh market area and still no sign of them.
Then we headed to Taman Jubilee and *jeng*jeng*jeng* from a distance as we entered the Taman we saw a girl in her school uniform being accompanied by three police officers. The missing girl below was found.
Sure enough I was warned that the whole event was going to end around midnight. My colleagues and myself tried to enjoy the whole event but me made it fun by singing along to the lyrics which were on the scoreboard. Plus we, ok I mean 'I' took alot of pictures with the help of Mr Eugene - Mr Alex's sidekick a.k.a Younger Brother. Thanks Gene.
At midnight the Tattoo as everyone knows ended with the Fireworks from Japan. We made our way back and most of the male teachers including myself took the last two vans back to school.
On the ride home all of us in the van were just hoping for the nite to end so we could all go home, while some of us already planned to chill somewhere to fill our hungry tummy's.
So did we manage to do any of the above? NO.
Why?
Because the girl who went missing below was missing again. Her Father was waiting for her at school because she was one of the selected students for taking part in the Police Cadet.
During the Tattoo she came to see me to ask permission to leave early and said her Father was waiting for her outside the stadium and she had to leave early because they had to go to Belait early in the morning. I remember it was around 10ish and I told her, "NO! You came here from school and you will go home from school. If you wanted to leave early you should not have come along in the first place. Plus you just came back from being missing for 4 days. No way! You are not allowed to leave!" I had two other teachers as my witnesses and they confirmed what I had told the missing girl and that is what I had explained to her Father whom I met at school.
Her Father was surprised to her about going to KB in the morning. He was not happy and blamed us for losing her out of our sight. I mean the Stadium was packed, dark and what are we supposed to do? put a leash on every student?
She wasnt the only student gone missing. There was another girl whom I can't really recall her name and again her parents were giving us a hard time.
By One in the morning some of the male teachers offered to go back to the stadium to search for the missing girls while some others tried to make calls to 'supposed' friends of the missing girls while the Father's of the missing girls also went to the Stadium on the look out.
My school had two uniformed personel who did a head count of everyone and was responsible for all of us for the journey to and back from the show. One of the them actually recalled seeing three girls walking out of the stadium at around 10ish. Since he was only our guide he really didnt have the authority to not allow the girls to leave.
So the teachers tried to remember the girls and amazingly enough actually identified another girls who had gone missing which tallies up to three girls.
Around 2 in the morning we made some calls to the other missing girl's mother and found out that her daughter had not arrived home herself.
Twenty to three I told some of the guys to check the Bandar area. Somehow I had this gut feeling they were still around 'lepaking'. We went to the gerai area next to the church, the supposed '24hr' Jalan Sultan, went around Yayasan, the Kianggeh market area and still no sign of them.
Then we headed to Taman Jubilee and *jeng*jeng*jeng* from a distance as we entered the Taman we saw a girl in her school uniform being accompanied by three police officers. The missing girl below was found.
"My story will end here as the events which followed our finding is
strictly confidential and on a need to know basis. If you know me in person you
may ask me what had happened. If you do not know me personally, well, the lesser
you know - the better."
We all went home around 3ish and I reached home at half past three. What a night to remember.
As of now, my assessment of the whole 'kidnapped - missing' ordeal, being thankful she's safe and all is thrown out of the window. She seems too happy to be someone who has been kidnapped and after asking her classmates, they reckoned she is hiding her boyfriend from this whole 'dramatic' episode. This is how sick the world has become, when young girls dare to lie even to their parents. So sick...........
2 comments:
And here I read your previous blog and wondered what our Brunei was coming to. Now it seems as if it's all just a case of a young (naive) girl doing a 'ninja' with her boyfriend.
I hope she learns that eventhough we live in Brunei there are unsavoury characters that will think of nothing on harming young girls. I just hope she doesn't have to learn it the hard way.
I am shocked but then not so. Most teens do not comprehend the repercussions of their actions. They seem to shrug it off like last week's stale milk.
Why is that?
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