A prank gone bad

The day started normally enough. This of course meant something was going to go wrong later in the day, should my memory serve me well enough.

Just as we were leaving the house, my sister wore her high heels and momentarily towered over my mother.

" Mummy I taller than you le," she smirked, practically swooning over her new-found centimetres.

" Still not taller than me," after which I fished my Digital Camera ,which I entrusted in her care, from her handbag.

Cowering , my mother gave a weak smile.



After taking the shot, I deliberated the wisdom of putting such a huge asset in her care and swiftly made the decision to put it in my own instead, which proved to be a wise choice.

While walking half-way to the MRT station, I commented on something, which was too trivial for me to remember, and promptly received a blow from her handbag, oranges, Hong Baos and should my poor Camera be still there, that as well.

Unimpressed that she should forget that I had placed my camera in her bag only minutes ago( which I had the sense to take out prior to the incident), I gave her a long lecture on responsibility, which lasted the whole of 30 seconds.

She became uncharacteristically bored when she reached the MRT station and extorted my digital camera. Playing with the zoom controls she then zoomed in to try looking at the time on her watch in the above image.

This of course was an exercise in futility.

The Prank

While travelling in the MRT I became mighty bored myself. Luckily, my friend from Army sent me a message wishing me Happy New Year, which served as an inspiration for my joke.

Now, some my army friends were given duties on Chinese New Year to do. Most of them volunteered as incentives were given.

Asking my friend who the Company Orderly Sergeant was, I got down to my prank. I typed in the following message into my handphone and sent it on its way to my company line phone, where the COS was stationed.

Happy Chinese New Year. Relax la, I am not the C S M. Remember to go for your lunch hor!

For those not the know, normal phones you answer calls at home with can receive messages. The only catch? It reads with a mechanical voice akin to those kidnappers who want to extort money.

Click here for a sample.

I think Singnet uses a male voice to read it though.

Maybe it was due to the heavy SMS traffic but I received my friend's reply only about half an hour later.

"Me."

" Hey did you receive the call?" I asked full of anticipation.


"What call? I just came back from lunch."

I later found out he wouldn't have managed to get the call even if he had been around.I called the number got an Indian woman and promptly hung up.