recent happenings…
EDUCATION
What is an education???
I do not have any personal definition to it but I truly appreciate the existence of education in this world. I have always appreciated education. But recently after the incidents that have occurred to me, I appreciate knowledge and education even more…to the extent that I would like to give a proper education to those who robbed and provoked me. I would like them to go back to school or college. And maybe, get into university and get a Degree. It doesn’t have to be first honours. Just as long as they get the right and sufficient knowledge which will get them a job and a good life.
I do not want to hate these guys because I know someone up there is watching. He knows what has happened. And I do believe in karma. Whatever happened was maybe just part of my life. I just have to accept what He has laid on my path. It’s just the circle of life and this is just one of the obstacles I had to face. I wish with all my heart that this obstacle would happen only once. And I do not wish this will ever happen to any of my family members and friends. My mom has been through it. Now me…and this should be the end of it.
Anna kept mentioning a phrase which I can never forget because this phrase is very scary and it is a fact. “I never thought that Ipoh can be more dangerous than KL”.
I have been listening to a lot of robbery cases at my housing area. But it just got more often recently. And somehow, there are many groups of them.
Let’s just talk about this year alone.
First was Yau Kin who accidentally left his laptop in his car. He thought he left it at home. He went for yum cha at Tung Kui. When he got back to his car, his car window was smashed, laptop gone.
Just a few weeks after that when my Hong Kong friends came for a visit; we were all going home after yum cha at Tung Kui. When they were walking to the car, one of their bags was snatched. She did not trip over. All she was holding after that were the handles of her bag. It was as if the robbers cut it. Inside were two cameras and her passport. Getting her passport re-done was hell as the Malaysian immigration was not very helpful at all. We had to get Gerakan politicians for help.
A few months later, Lion Alan’s parents’ house was broken into. It’s on the same road as my house. It was not the first time though. But the frequency of it happening is just too scary.
Last month, when my Hong Kong friends came for a visit again, it happened right outside my house. Eliza invited Anna and me to stay over at her house so that we can spend more time with the Hong Kong Leos and we don’t have to go home alone so late at night. Anna and I went back to our respective homes to pack our things. Anna came and picked me up; the robbers were already waiting to attack me. I was lucky that they only managed to snatch my luggage. The most valuable thing inside was my spectacles. The rest were my toiletries, clothes (inclusive of bra and underwear), comb and my make up bag (because I need to wash off my make up). The robber was probably a bit shaken up because I started screaming my lungs out before he could even touch me. When we were both yanking for the bag, I realised that he had a knife. It was because of the knife that I let go. If he did not have a knife, I could have gotten my luggage back and the whole neighbourhood would be already out to witness the incident. It was nightmare for me. I did not want to close my eyes that night because I kept having flashbacks. And I was also worried of my mom being alone at home.
The next incident was not at my housing area, but near my office. My colleagues were walking to lunch when one of my seniors noticed a guy on a motorbike making a u-turn towards them. That guy went to the front of the group and tried to snatch my colleague’s purse. But he was not fast and accurate enough. So everyone was safe. I was not back yet from client’s office at that time and I had to walk alone. Thank goodness nothing happened to me. After lunch when a few of us took the same road again, we saw the waiter from the restaurant next to our office was with two policemen. And we knew that he might be the victim.
Two weekends ago, Anna and her friends went to Barroom. When they came out, the friend’s car two back windows smashed. Anna’s car keys and another friend’s I-don’t-remember-what keys gone. The back seats were all ransacked. The front was untouch when there was a lot of monies and a mobile phone. Anna had to wait all day to have the spare keys to arrive from PJ to Ipoh on Sunday. Duplication of the car keys will cost her RM 700. And her friend suggested her to change the whole car system to be safer.
My subconscious has been doing a very good job trying to heal me for these past few weeks…until last week. I was not sure but they might be the same people who robbed me. I was going home after work, around 6.30pm. I saw them at the junction leading to my house. They were going out, I was turning in. I saw the looks on one of the guys. It was as if he knew who I was. When I turned into the junction already, I saw in my rearview mirror that they made a u-turn. I pulled in outside my house. When I was assured that they were following me, I put my car in the reverse gear, waiting to reverse if they decided to stop and attack me. But they went pass me. But I kept looking and not getting out of my car. When I saw them making another u-turn down the road, I quickly reversed my car out and drove towards them because I do not want to give them a chance to follow me from behind and that was the only way that I could keep on driving without stopping. But when I was going towards them, they swerved their motorbike left and right trying to block my way. I was about to bang them but they avoided me instead. And I was stupid to not notice their plate number. It was broad daylight for crying out loud. And there was another neighbour who just opened his/her gate and went into the car to drive in. It was just outside that house when these guys made a second u-turn. Why me??? Luckily my mom was on leave and I know she was at home. I immediately called my mom while still driving (I know I was breaking the safety rules but I just had to keep driving). When I went back to my house again, my mom was already at the porch sweeping. She opened the gate for me. After that when I was in my room, I saw the guys coming around again. All these while, I was scared that they would come back for me and it seemed that I was not being ridiculous now. It is real.
What am I going to do? My mom is seriously considering making an auto gate. Anna suggested to install CCTV. I wish to have a bodyguard. I have been listening to similar news around my neighbourhood. Car stealing when a family just got home, old man being whacked on the head during his routine morning walk, girl’s bag being snatched outside her house one or two streets away from my house just like my case… And a lot from my company secretary’s relatives. House broken in with all the jewellery and both husband and wife killed, house broken in and kids taken away, house broken in and serious head injuries, etc etc etc… I’ve heard too much from her it scares me.
WHAT HAS THE WORLD BECOME???
I really don’t know………
