Monkey Invasion

Monkey invasion. Monkey invasion.

Yep, it all happened on a peaceful Sunday morning when the Serenade-Walk-dians were just starting their day. 10a.m. to be exact. I was just coming out from the bath when my maid went," Look, Jin, there's a monkey there."

Curious, I went and peeked over my maid's shoulder to find a monkey sitting on the wall of 48 Serenade Walk! It climbed and climbed to number 46! Fighting the urge to laugh, I ran down the stairs, tellling my mum that there was a monkey up to its business. Goodness knows she ran, shrieking to the maid of number 46, who was cleaning the car, who in turn, ran into the house, yelling for her employer. My mum wasn't helping, shouting, yes, at the top of her voice, "Jane! Jane! Come!"

The poor woman dashed out of the house, wondering what the hell was going on, carrying her dazed 2-year-old son: to her utmost horror, a monkey was seen scratching its head, obviously wondering what was the big deal about its presence. Keong, their 6-year-old son, was yelling to number 27, discussing tactics to lure the monkey down. Like:

1)Put the banana on the street and wait for the monkey to get it(or the car to squish it).
2)Put the banana on Keong's head and wait for the monkey to do a performing leap onto it.
3)Place rambutans on Elliot's(number27)head.
I don't know, but truthfully, it wasn't really funny. But Keong was laughing till he hugged his stomach.

Keong's father then gave us a long lecture of monkeys and their diseases. I was wondering if the whole of Serenade Walk would go abuzz because of a poor, confused, monkey. Keong's father even took a video and took pictures of the monkey as it climbed up the atennae of the house, desperate to get away from a murder of crows, which were apparently keen on attacking it.

The monkey then went down the roofs of the houses, as Keong's father reported to the police. The whole procession followed it. I got tired and returned home.

But it was a relief it did not call its troop, or it would be catastrophic.