Unexpected Guest

I was rushing my last homework assignment (Yap I got enrolled in a programming course which had been driving me hectic-ly crazy for the last 6mths!) on a sunny Sunday morning when we heard some rustling and a soft thud on our patio (or balcony as my country folks call it).

Like I said, I was rushing, cos Sunday was the due date, and I was hoping I could finish it soon enough and make it for another skiing trip. But my curiosity got the better of me, so I got up and peeked through the patio door to see "who" the mysterious guest was:

Boy was I surprised! It looked like a strip of wall board had just landed. I was very curious to venture out and locate where it came from.

My ever-so-cautious hubby stopped me lest his "buddies" decided to join "him" and hit upon us.

So we waited, and nope, his buddies decided to stay put.

It was much later after I finally resigned to my fate that I wasn't going to be able to make it for the skiing trip, and we decided to check it out. We managed to find its "home", which was located at the top floor. Geez, how much it had travelled!

Spot the difference! Could you see how long the strip was?

We figured the culprit could be a small earthquake, or the wind which was pretty strong, or wear and tear of the building. So we checked the Internet for records of the earth moving - nope, no occurrence at the time of incident. So the last 2 factors were more likely.

And we brought it up to the apartment manager, who didn't seem surprised this happened. This MUST have happened before, we concluded silently. She immediately arranged for the maintenance guy to pick it up.

Hope our visitor will find his way home soon, though we wondered how.