Upon return from Qi's first overseas trip alone, all of us including En'en and Ma-ma went to Changi Airport to receive her. Qi's plane from Shanghai reached Singapore about 9+pm, and there were many parents and family members waiting for the children at the arrival hall in T3.
Alright, the monitor on top updated that Qi's plane has landed. From a distance we saw Qi.. We thought it should be very soon that Qi would come out from the glass door with her luggage. The "very soon" shot past 30 minutes.. We wondered what was taking her so loong??
A teacher who accompanied Qi's group to Shanghai came towards the thinning crowd of family members still waiting for the children to come out.. "Who's Boon Ki's parents?" she asked. She informed the group who gathered around her that Boon Ki and three other boys were detained by the customs, who have called for the airport police to intervene. These students were found with illegal weapons in the luggage - catapults bought from Shanghai on their last day. The teachers had warned that it's illegal to bring catapults back to Singapore and told them to discard. According to the teacher, obviously some of them did, but others like Qi and the other boys juz threw away the rubber band and kept the sticks. Qi had declared her catapult and her luggage was being put under the x-ray..
The police took police statements with Qi and the boys. They were given a very stern warning and told that should they commit the offense a second time, they will surely be punished.
It was midnight by the time we got home.. To think Qi was almost jailed!!
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