LEopard

From: Gali (Original Message)

Sent: 4/13/2002 1:44 AM

Okay, I know u must be wondering whats with me and leops. Well this is different. Do you remember the day a leop supposedly came into mess and caused a stampede. I was there but I do not wanna spoil that storro. I know everyone that went thru it has it as one of their top Budo memories. Well, if you feel u got the best view of it...go ahead and narrate it:):)

From: BALA

Sent: 4/13/2002 2:33 AM

THE LEOPARD!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a Teusday-ish night during prep in the Mess. All guys were seriously banging katabo. It was one of those times when everyone (icluding the juniors) were literally absorbing katabo by osmossis, all gazes tightly fixed onto the books. By this time I was one of the guys in trowies... so there was a level of seriousness and confida expected of me by default.

Even up to now, I have never found out exactly what happened. The graveyard silence was abruptly pierced by guys roaring, screaming and shouting as though for their lives. I felt the intense shock-wave of energy that swept from the junior side (where it originated) towards the senior side. Although I knew nothing about the origin of the noise, it was obvious that this was time to Do or Die... a time to fight or flee. Ba guy... what I saw, I have never seen again in my entire life. At that moma, all the confida that seniors assumed evaporated. Guys (including seniors) were litterally lining behind the mess windows (facing the quads), waiting to jump out through the windows. Exiting through the door itself was a rulled out option.... There was a mega stampede at the door to the extent that almost no one was getting out (through the door). Man... I witnessed solid seniors like Mu-car-sir (the guy who chonged wholehertedly..hehehe) standing on top of our table... stepping on our books as though they did not exist... looking aroung, quickly mapping out an escape rout.. Mhh... Jombas were runing on top of the tables.... I can hardly describe the commotion that charged the air.

As for me... I had no time to fool around. The least I could imagine was a cow-size Lion that was slaughtering jombas by the tens each second. Like pavlov's dogs, my reaction was conditional. I lost control of my actions... my Mental Emergency Management Agency had taken charge. You guys know that the mess window that faced Australia was steep!!! Consequently, guys had not considered it as an escape route. I headed for that window (which was closed, by the way) and dove right through it into the barbed wire down below. I immediately scrambled onto my feet and started runing aimlessly in the direction of Sydney. This was when I regained my consiousness. Noticing that there was nothing chasing me, I stopped running and slowly but carefully walked back into the Mess, this time through the door. I could not stop laughing at myself.... I rested assured that all guys were to busy running for their own lives to notice what I had done. How did you guys react? Can anyone tell me what exactly happened?

From: Gali

Sent: 4/13/2002 10:42 AM

Mwana for me I remember that the Prep P those days...he was solid...mobbu solid...but member was broke the Budo record for the marathon from mess to the games field that nite. I wonder what he was there for. Then I remember Seruma's sister activated her ninjistu and jumped thru the mess windows forgetting all her points as an S5 lady. Even Nkin-zee managed to break her personal record and run instead of jogging(On interviewing her she insists that the real record broken that day was the fact that she jumped her highest when she jumped over Jumba who was lying flat on the floor). As for me, I can not recall what happened in btwn..it was all instict..one minute I was studying and the next I was out of mess. How? I have no idea. When I studied psychology here, I found out that in danger we do many magical things...thank God for that.

From: azmah

Sent: 4/13/2002 4:27 PM

Bala this is what happened, we were burning, i think it was the S6 England table. anyways we heard some peculiar sound above us. we looked up and i wear i never saw a huger rat. it was trying to balance on one of those bars. Unfortunately or fortunately it couldn't handle so it fell on the table where we were studying. Ofcourse being in the midst of people like Mu-car-sir and Car-sole-lay, this was a perfect opportunity for chaos. we got onto our feet, of coure startled at what this huge rat was going to do next. It started to move towards Sebwuufu. all he had to do was shout a bit, by the time we turned round to look at the rest of the mess, we were practically tthe only guys not in motion. so we joined the band wagon and run a bit.

The best part was when we had to write statements because Ki-gong-oh thought we had made up. Sebwuufu said the rat was a little dog!!! so you can imagine the bitterness this guy had. I donot remember how we actually paid for this but am pretty sure we did.