TRAGIC! 3 LAPTOPS STOLEN

Today (Tuesday), I woke up in the morning thinking "Gee... now that I am updating my blog regularly, I wonder what eventful event would transpire today to blog about.... "It's probably gonna be a typical day...", I thought to myself... fat chance.

First of all, it took me almost 1 AND A HALF HOURS to get to Subang Tech park for a presentation with my 2 associates from Spore Mr. BL and Mr. T. Round and round I went before I finally found the place. The worse part of it was the refusal of the guard to let anyone in, citing limited parking lots... I had to park my car inn a lot that was about 10 minutes walking distance. Anyway, after the meeting we decided to have lunch in PJ together with one of our business partners.

Well, BL wanted to have lunch at this place called UNIQUE SEAFOOD which is somewhere off Section 14 PJ... HE'S BEEN THERE BEFORE AND HE LIKED IT, so we searched for it with such effort and diligence, making 3 long calls for directions in the process. Alright, fair enough... I parked my car outside the nearby Wisma Celcom... it was a busy area and we went in to have some good dim sum.... We were later joined by our 2 employees of our business partner 30 minutes later and after 1.5 hours of "business conversation", we walked out with full, satisfied stomachs.

Stepping out towards my car with T... I was curious to notice as to WHY my hazard light was turned on. Then T said S**T. My worse fears were confirmed. CAR BREAK IN.

My left front passenger windscreen was smashed in. Thanks to the tinting, the glass wasn't splattered badly... a huge chunk of it was on the ground outside on the grass. I knew, I knew, I knew this was bad and feared the worst.... I immediately rushed to open the boot and ..... ALL GONE.

The loss? The list in no particular order of importance:

1. 3 IBM SERIES COMPANY LAPTOPS
2. 1 rather old K500i Sony Ericsson (with an LCD screen that doesn't light up - no loss except some numbers) as well as my 016 simcard... :( ... now I have lost contact with some people whom I will never ever be able to contact again.... ever)
3. 1 ORGANIZER - which was mine, however the bad news was my CHEQUE BOOK and 2 BANK BOOKS were inside.
4. T's PASSPORT! Gasp. That's gonna a big major problem/headache for him.

Somehow, the 3 of us were rather cool about the entire situation - unbelievably calm. Maybe it was the fact that I had an excuse now not to finish my due powerpoint presentation for my business partner... maybe it was the thought of a spanking new replacement notebook... or maybe it was the joy of the dim sum...

OK, first things first - block the cheque book, sim card and bank book... I called RHB customer service hotline for 15 mins and no one seemed to pick up the DAMN CALL! What kind of service level is this... I finally succeeded to get through by calling the branch instead. Just swell. After blocking all the damn cards, I proceeded to dial 999 and ask the police for the next course of action. "Kereta boleh jalan ke....?", spoke the voice on the other side. I was thus instructed to drive my car to SS2 Police Station. Placed my newspaper on the driver's seat to avoid getting my ass full of glass and then drove with a broken left side window.

Getting to the station - there was already a QUEUE with all front desk officers busy. Wow. So much crime going on, I thought. After filing my report, we proceeded to the nearby mamak to wait for the Sergeant’s questioning session.

In our wonderful conversation with the Sergeant who was more interested in small talk then the matter at hand, he mentioned that my case is the NINTH related case TODAY. Apparently the crime rate in Selangor is the highest compared to even Penang and Ipoh combined, with most of the crime concentrated in the PJ area.... "95% Chinese and orang kaya", he said.

Just swell. My dear dad drop by as he was in the vicinity to see how everything was... and after we all got a copy of the report, I drove my car to Proton Mutiara Damansara to get it fixed up. Ho hum. T had to check in to a hotel and had to sort out his passport issues the following day so he was forced to take a "vacation". BL returned to Spore minus a laptop.

Unbelievable. According to the police, the thieves used a sensor to detect laptops. We had one eyewitness from the opposite UM motor, who said the transgression was committed by 2 Chinese guys in a black Proton Wira.

The funny thing is, just the week before, Devan and I were asking Kevin aka Mr. Mozilla Monster - WHY CARRY YOUR LAPTOP TO THE KARAOKE??? Why don't just leave it in the car like the two of us, relax nothing can happen".... Well, Kevin - why didn't I follow your precautionary measures.... GAAKKK. 2 years of work, all gone down the drain - and for the umpteenth time, as everyone has been asking - I did not back the stuff up.

What a "swell" day. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE EVERYONE AND DON'T LEAVE YOUR LAPTOPS IN YOUR CAR.