The price of carelessness.
Aug. 30th, 2010 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miura_mikaSome people have been wondering what prompted me to write this last Friday as my FB status:
Audrey Mika Leong I have a question for my muslim friends, what is the penalty for damaging other people's property and stealing during the month of Ramadhan? ._.
I had no chance to explain. Not when the incident happened just 5 hours before I was South-bound for Singapore.
I was driving home from Taman Connaught at approximately 3.50pm on Friday and I came to a halt in from the traffic light junction of Bandar Tun Razak's mosque. In a split second, my front passenger side window was smashed and my bag was snatched from my seat. It happened so fast that I didn't spot the motorcycle brand/type/license plate. Heck, I don't even know what color the assailant was wearing.
All I knew was that my window was smashed and my bag has been snatched.
The irony? There was only RM15 in my wallet.
The complete damage:
1) Car window: RM162 (covered by insurance)
2) Wallet: I/C, Driving license and MPSJ saman
3) Student card, University Medical Center card, Meal Plan cash card
4) 2 calculators: One HP financial calculator (RM125) and one Casio scientific calculator (RM70?)
5) 2 Sony M2 memory cards: 4GB and 2GB (I packed them into my wallet cause I was worried I would forget them for my trip ;w; Now my camera is memory card-less. These are shit expensive, original memory cards mind you. Non-original memory cards will apparently 'blow up' in your camera =w= These are about RM200 in total)
6) Pencil case
7) File which contains my meeting logs with my Final Year Project supervisor *headdesks*
8) 2 pairs of keys: One pair to my Serdang house, the other to my home in KL
EDIT: 9) 3 ATM cards (all my accounts are currently non-accessible)
Other things are non-important things like my lip balm... I don't remember what else is missing. Luckily, I took out things like my handphone earphones because I wanted to pack them for the Singapore trip. I am so thankful that I always take out my handphone and leave it at a accessible spot while I drive. If not, my one-month old phone would have been taken as well =w=
All material things can be replaced. Yes, it's heartbreaking for me that things like my financial calculator (which is shit expensive) is gone. Things like my student card has some form of nostalgia to me =/ When I get my student card replaced, it'll be a color scheme that is the same as the juniors =w= Damn.
But the trauma... is a different thing. The scene of my car window breaking keeps playing over and over again on my mind. And my voice shaking when I called my dad to tell him what happened. I keep wondering if only I reacted earlier, would the assailants fail to get my things or would the POLICE 4WD across the road notice that I was struggling?
And most importantly, why is it the one time I was careless, something like this happens?
Oh well. Lesson learned. My bag sits on the carpeted floor now onwards.
Audrey Mika Leong I have a question for my muslim friends, what is the penalty for damaging other people's property and stealing during the month of Ramadhan? ._.
I had no chance to explain. Not when the incident happened just 5 hours before I was South-bound for Singapore.
I was driving home from Taman Connaught at approximately 3.50pm on Friday and I came to a halt in from the traffic light junction of Bandar Tun Razak's mosque. In a split second, my front passenger side window was smashed and my bag was snatched from my seat. It happened so fast that I didn't spot the motorcycle brand/type/license plate. Heck, I don't even know what color the assailant was wearing.
All I knew was that my window was smashed and my bag has been snatched.
The irony? There was only RM15 in my wallet.
The complete damage:
1) Car window: RM162 (covered by insurance)
2) Wallet: I/C, Driving license and MPSJ saman
3) Student card, University Medical Center card, Meal Plan cash card
4) 2 calculators: One HP financial calculator (RM125) and one Casio scientific calculator (RM70?)
5) 2 Sony M2 memory cards: 4GB and 2GB (I packed them into my wallet cause I was worried I would forget them for my trip ;w; Now my camera is memory card-less. These are shit expensive, original memory cards mind you. Non-original memory cards will apparently 'blow up' in your camera =w= These are about RM200 in total)
6) Pencil case
7) File which contains my meeting logs with my Final Year Project supervisor *headdesks*
8) 2 pairs of keys: One pair to my Serdang house, the other to my home in KL
EDIT: 9) 3 ATM cards (all my accounts are currently non-accessible)
Other things are non-important things like my lip balm... I don't remember what else is missing. Luckily, I took out things like my handphone earphones because I wanted to pack them for the Singapore trip. I am so thankful that I always take out my handphone and leave it at a accessible spot while I drive. If not, my one-month old phone would have been taken as well =w=
All material things can be replaced. Yes, it's heartbreaking for me that things like my financial calculator (which is shit expensive) is gone. Things like my student card has some form of nostalgia to me =/ When I get my student card replaced, it'll be a color scheme that is the same as the juniors =w= Damn.
But the trauma... is a different thing. The scene of my car window breaking keeps playing over and over again on my mind. And my voice shaking when I called my dad to tell him what happened. I keep wondering if only I reacted earlier, would the assailants fail to get my things or would the POLICE 4WD across the road notice that I was struggling?
And most importantly, why is it the one time I was careless, something like this happens?
Oh well. Lesson learned. My bag sits on the carpeted floor now onwards.
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Date: 2010-08-29 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-29 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-29 05:04 pm (UTC)at least certain things are replaceable...not your life huns : < oh well /pats pats gives big walrus plushie to hug
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Date: 2010-08-29 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-29 05:02 pm (UTC)*hugs tightly*
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Date: 2010-08-29 05:29 pm (UTC)*hugs back*
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Date: 2010-08-29 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-29 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-29 06:03 pm (UTC)>.< this is the second time I'm hearing of people smashing car windows to take bags... the first was my mum's colleague... damn these people ><
on that note i also always put my school bag on the passenger seat =X time to change I guess cause I can't bear to lose trustworthy my calc, textbooks and notes LOL
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Date: 2010-08-29 06:09 pm (UTC)Yeah damn these people x.x
Yes please change that habit! ;w; I definitely learned my lesson! Luckily no expensive textbooks/notes were lost orz. The notes that I lost, I don't need them anymore...
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Date: 2010-08-29 11:44 pm (UTC)Oh, and I put my bag on the car floor if possible - harder for them to notice.
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Date: 2010-08-30 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 02:30 am (UTC)they usually tail u for awhile till u reach a traffic light or a junction, so be aware of your surrounding >w
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Date: 2010-08-30 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 02:56 am (UTC)These people is just..... sigh.
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Date: 2010-08-30 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 03:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 05:27 am (UTC)And the penalty is batal everything. :s
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Date: 2010-08-30 09:35 am (UTC)Hur. Just spent the whole day settling my I/C and my driving license. 6 more cards to go! 3 ATM cards, 3 Uni cards bleh =w=
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Date: 2010-08-30 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 09:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-30 04:56 pm (UTC)alot of robbery and kidnappingforransom cases these days...
dont u think that the country is getting poorer with more lazy people who only want easy money by going against the law?
>_
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Date: 2010-08-31 09:29 am (UTC)*nodnodnodnodnodnod* ;w;
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Date: 2010-09-01 01:33 am (UTC)Maybe its best to get tinted glass or keep the stuff under the chair/in the trunk area.
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Date: 2010-09-01 04:57 am (UTC)If only I could get bullet-proof/unbreakable glass haha! Yeah, bag sits on the floor now onwards =/